The wild Strawberry is an easy to grow alpine which rewards with lots of small sweet berries in summer. Although small, they are packed with flavour and it's always a joy to pick a few walking around the garden. As a bonus, bees love the flowers.It's...

Narcissus poeticus, the Pheasant's Eye Daffodil, is excellent for extending the daffodil flowering season. It typically flowers when regular daffodils have finished, often still flowering in late May.The 'Pheasant's Eye' centres stand out well agains...

The beautiful native Cornflower, also called Batchelor's Buttons, which traditionally grew in meadows and verges across the country is now sadly fairly rare due to modern farming methods and land use. It's easy to grow in the garden, in a wildfl...

Anemone 'Mr Fokker' has long-lasting wide, violet-blue with black eye, bowl-shaped flowers which rise above mounds of fine, fern-like foliage in spring. It's known as the Florists Anemone due to the blooms making excellent cut flowers which are used ...

These white Grape Hyacinths, which are flowering now and will do so for another month at least, are ideal for edging paths, containers or even in lawns. They are pretty indescructable plants and will self seed so you'll never be without them. Like ma...

Viola 'Etain' is a wonderfully strong-scented perennial Viola which grows happily in the ground or container. It has masses of creamy-yellow flowers edged with lavender-purple from spring to autumn. Perennial Violas last for several years, are r...

The 'Sea Campion' is an ideal perennial flower for a rockery, bank or wall, where it will display its disproportionately large, white frilly flowers, nestling on cushions of silver-grey leaves for a long period in spring and early summer.This very ha...

'Night Skies' is a beautiful and unusual pink perennial wallflower whose peachy-pink flowers gradually darken purple as they age. The blooms have a strong scent and bees love them.It's a nice compact form which flowers for weeks on end from early spr...

The origin of Chicory is described in a German folk tale. A young woman sat down at the side of a road to weep for her dead lover. None could console her, and so great was her grief that she resolved never to stop weeping unless she was turned i...

Corydalis 'Beth Evans' is an easy to grow Fumewort with eye-catching spires of coral-pink blooms in late spring. It's an excellent plant for a shady spot where its 25cm flower stems enliven a dark area.The attractive foliage is tinged with silver and...