Illustrated List: Ideal as Cut Flowers

Acanthus hungaricus

Erect flowering spikes. Acanthus hungaricus has more compact ornamental foliage making it an ideal cut flower.

Achillea filipendulina Cloth of Gold

Free flowering, Achillea Cloth of Gold is an indispensible border plant, with flat, plate-like 4-6 inch mustard yellow flower heads of easy culture and ideal for mixed borders or cutting. The flat flower heads of Achillea Cloth of Gold can also be dried and used as "everlastings". Flowers mid to late summer. Height: 5ft.

Achillea millefolium Cassis

Many stems with masses of attractive, intense cherry red flowers, over a very long period. Achillea Cassis is a first year flowering perennial, making an excellent border filler and cut flower.

Achillea millefolium Summer Berries F2 Hybrid

An easy to grow, first year flowering perennial, Achillea Summer Berries is ideal for adding a sumptuous mixture of fruity colours to borders.

Achillea Summer Berries makes an excellent cut or dried flower, as well as attracting bees and butterflies to your garden.

Height: 60-75cm (24-30in).

Achillea millefolium Summer Pastels F2

A completely new concept in hardy perennials. Achillea Summer Pastels is easy to grow, flowering in just 4 months from sowing and producing lots of flowers from spring to first frosts. The colour range of Achillea Summer Pastels is too wide to describe but includes cream, butter, lemon, all imaginable shades of salmon, orange, red, plus mustard, ochre, bronze, grey and beige, in fact, almost the complete spectrum of pastels. Suitable for border, pots, containers and even windowboxes, or as a flowering pot plant. Flowers can be used fresh or dried. Flowers spring to summer. Height: 60cm (2ft).

Adenophora hybrida Amethyst

The large, pendulous amethyst-blue, skirt-like flowers of Adenophora Amethyst are packed in symmetry on many tall, erect stems. A gorgeous unusual colour for Adenophora.

Agrostemma githago Ocean Pearl

A really unusual and easy to grow annual. Bred by Thompson & Morgan, the tall erect plants have lots of extra large, pure white flowers with distinctive black speckled markings. Best suited as a border filler but can be used as a short-lived cut flower.

Alstroemeria Dr Salter's Hybrids

One of the loveliest hardy perennials. Once established, the plants multiply to become a strikingly beautiful colony with vividly coloured blooms which are excellent for cutting. Flowers early-mid summer.

Carmines, flame, yellow and pink, all whiskered, veined or mottled in darker colours in lily-like fashion. Less inclined to sprawl and a little earlier than Ligtu Hybrids.

Alstroemeria Ligtu Hybrids

Invaluable long-lived border plants in numerous shades of pink, orange and scarlet with distinctive, contrasting stripe. One of the worlds' most popular cut flowers.

Amaranthus Autumn Palette

Attractive, tall, feathery spikes of cream and biscuit shades will gently ruffle in the slightest breeze. Quick and easy to grow, adding height and interest to summer displays right through to the autumn, or used as an intriguing cut flower.

Height 90-120cm (36-48 inches)

Amaranthus caudatus Fat Spike

Highly attractive erect fat spikes in deep purplish red, from 3 inch thick tapering to 1 inch, as if standing guard. Ideal as a border filler, and for flower arranging.

Height: 90-100cm (3-4ft)

Amaranthus caudatus Loves Lies Bleeding

Showy and exotic plants for beds, borders etc. Excellent as accent plants with their tall, erect branching stems and long ropes of flower which cascade right to the ground. They also make very effective cut flowers and as "everlastings" they keep their colour for quite some time. Flowers summer. Height: 60-120cm (2-4ft).

Amberboa muricata

Easy to grow annual which produces tall stems clothed with large, attractive, purple-mauve flowers, adding height to borders and ideal for cutting. Spectacular sown en-masse in drifts and will flower all summer long until the first night frosts of autumn.

Ammi majus Graceland

Elegant, large flat umbels of lacy white flowers grace strong uniform stems of dark green fern-like foliage all summer.

Stunning in the border or as a cut flower.

Height: 100- 140cm (40-56in).

Ammi visnaga

A charming border filler with beautiful, lacy white flower heads with a gentle green tinge, above soft, ferny foliage. Recommended for mixed borders and summer bedding, also makes an excellent cut flower for bouquets.

Anemone japonica Mixed

Elegant, late summer flowering perennials, producing their gorgeous, well shaped blooms mainly in rose to pink shades for many weeks and providing the perfect end to the summer. Happy in sun or light shade. Flowers late summer/autumn, Height: 60cm-1.2m (2-4-ft).