Cool Flowers seeds for an early display from autumn or spring sowings
Cool Flowers bring colour at a time of year when many classic summer flowers have yet to get properly started. This seed kit contains nine hardy summer flowers that can be sown in autumn or early spring, depending on variety, location and weather conditions. Producing early flowers for beds and borders, natural plantings and home-grown bouquets.
What makes this flower collection special is that it gives your garden a head start: Cool Flowers develop into tough young plants during the cold months, which means they can produce flowers earlier in spring. This kit combines delicate orlaya, dark cornflowers, fragrant sweet pea, airy larkspur, vibrant snapdragons, filigree love-in-a-mist and other decorative plants for fresh or dried bouquets.
The kit contains these nine flower varieties
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Orlaya (Orlaya grandiflora): elegant white umbel flowers for an exquisite natural effect in beds, borders and bouquets.
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Dark purple cornflower 'Black Ball' (Centaurea cyanus): an unusually dark cornflower for striking contrasts and early cut flowers.
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Bicolour sweet pea 'Matucana' (Lathyrus odoratus): heirloom sweet pea with intense colours, sweet fragrance and a climbing habit.
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Blue larkspur 'Blue Bell' (Consolida ajacis): tall spikes of azure summer flowers for height and lightness in borders.
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Orange snapdragon 'Orange Wonder' (Antirrhinum majus): a vibrant colour highlight for early beds and borders and colourful bouquets.
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White love-in-a-mist 'Miss Jekyll White' (Nigella damascena): filigree flower with white flowers and decorative seed pods.
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Annual honesty (Lunaria annua): a traditional garden favourite with pretty flowers and shimmering-silver seed-heads for dry arrangements.
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Hare’s ear 'Griffithii' (Bupleurum rotundifolium): a special structural plant with yellow-green flowers for natural floristry.
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Mixed poppy 'Shirley' (Papaver rhoeas): a mixture of delicate, silky flowers in soft, romantic colours.
Early flowers for borders, vases and Slow Flowers gardens
Cool Flowers are a wonderful option for gardeners who don’t want to wait until late spring to get their flower season going. Many of these plants can be sown in late summer or autumn, and will survive the winter as young plants. Alternatively many of these varieties can also be sown in early spring. As soon as the days start to get longer and warmer these plants make the most of their head start and produce early flowers in your garden.
This selection works especially well in cut-flower gardens, cottage gardens and naturalistic beds and borders for a flower display early in the year. Cornflower, larkspur, sweet pea, love-in-a-mist and Shirley poppy produce a light, natural floral abundance, while orlaya, hare’s ear and honesty add exquisite structures for bouquets and dry flower arrangements.
Not a ready-made flower seed mix but individually packed varieties
This kit is not a ready-made flower seed mixture. Each variety is packaged individually and can be sown according to its individual growing needs. This is especially relevant for Cool Flowers because the varieties have different germination requirements, growing habits and needs in terms of direct sowing, indoor sowing and protection.
This also means you can decide specificially where each plant will grow: climbing sweet peas on supports, larkspur and snapdragon for vertical flower rows, poppy and cornflower for casual colour accents, orlaya and hare’s ear as delicate companions among more characterful flowering plants.
Beautifully packaged as a gift for flower lovers and gardeners
The seed comes packed in a high-quality gift box designed in the style of vintage botanical illustrations. Individual seed packets make it easy to plan and create your garden project. It’s the perfect gardening gift for people who love early flowers, natural bouquets, Slow Flowers, home-grown cut flowers and special summer flowers.
Sowing and growing
Depending on the variety, Cool Flowers are sown in late summer, autumn or early spring. Hardy species like cornflower, larkspur, poppy and love-in-a-mist can often be sown directly where you want them to grow. Slightly more sensitive plants like orlaya and snapdragon will benefit from sowing indoors, under cover, or with light winter protection – depending on the location.
A bright location, well prepared soil and sufficient spacing will help your young plants get the season off to a flying start. Precise sowing times and growing instructions vary according to variety. A detailed sowing guide can be downloaded via the QR Code on the box. It includes instructions for sowing, growing and harvesting all the varieties and is available in five languages.
Who this kit is suitable for
This Cool Flowers seed kit is designed for gardeners looking to create a display of flowers early in the year. It’s great for cut flower fans, Slow Flowers growers, cottage garden lovers, floristry fanatics – in fact for anyone who’d love to sow and grow early flowers, natural bouquets and glorious seasonal abundance.
Hardy summer flowers for an early start to the flower season
With this kit you don’t have to wait for the traditional spring sowings for your flower season to get under way. These nine varieties bring lightness, colour, fragrance and structure to borders and bouquets, showing how amazing summer flowers can be when they’re planned in advance and sown at the right time.
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