Illustrated List: Perennials Flowering in First Year

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).

Agastache anisata

Silvery-green foliage which is scented unmistakenly of Aniseed. Flower spikes of blue appear during summer. Bees, butterflies and goldfinches love it!

Agastache aurantiaca Apricot Sprite

Never before has flower power been experienced from a border plant of this kind. A staggering display of apricot spikes of tasselled florets, erupting like flames from the laced, richly fragrant foliage. Very quick growing, excellent in bedding, borders and containers. Bred and selected by T&M for its dwarf, compact habit, and was awarded a Fleuroselect Quality Mark. All this and it also flowers in its first year from seed.

Agastache aurantiaca Fragrant Mixed

A truly amazing display of tall, brightly coloured spikes of tasselled florets appear to burst out like flames from the lanced and highly perfumed foliage. Very quick and easy to grow, this lovely perennial will enhance your borders and containers, whilst its balmy fragrance will attract insects away from your summer patio! Excellent first year flowering variety.

Height: 50-60cm (20-24in).

Agastache cana

A very lovely, choice order plant and entirely "at home" in the cottage garden. Plants are quick to establish and produce many branched stems with dense spikes of rosy-pink, 1in.long flowers during mid to late summer. Flowers in its first year but really does become stunning from the second year onwards, and being an Agastache, it possesses wonderful aromatic foliage. Loved by bees and butterflies

Agastache foeniculum Golden Jubilee

Attractive, golden-green foliage with a distinct aniseed fragrance, making a vibrant contrast to the compact lavender-blue flower spikes. Adds interest to borders and containers, as well as attracts wildlife to your garden. Fragrant and excellent in borders or containers.

Anchusa leptophylla Blue Shower

Attractive showers of powder-blue flowers smother mounds of foliage all summer continuing into autumn, creating a long lasting border display from this outstanding perennial.

Height: 45-60cm (18-24in) first year up to 90cm (3ft) in second year.

Anoda dilleniana Candy Cups

Bushy, lax habit plants, quickly get established and will soon become clothed in a mass of very attractive, candy-pink, cup-shaped flowers.

Spectacular in cottage garden borders over a long flowering period.

Height: 120cm (4ft).

Asarina scandens Jewel Mixed

Sophisticated climber, masses of 1½in indigo to violet blue, pink or pure white flowers. Quick to bloom from an early sowing. Ideal for the cold greenhouse or conservatory. One of the longest flowering annuals, in bloom untill Christmas if there is no hard frost or in the greenhouse during winter.

Climbs to 120-240cm (4-8ft).

Aster Composition

Michaelmas Daisies

Bright colours of Aster novi-belgi and novae-angliae composed for a contrasting rich colour range of long stemmed autumnal flowers for cutting.

Begonia semperflorens Options Mixed

The various flower and foliage combinations include white and rose bicolour, vermilion, white and scarlet with bronze foliage, carmine, pink and geranium red with dark foliage. Seeds are dust-like and need careful handling. Flowers summer. Height 17-23cm (7-9in).

Begonia x tuberhybrida Midnight Beauty Orange

An amazing achievement from seed! Dark chocolate, almost black foliage crowned with masses of fully double rich orange blooms. Stunning in containers.

Begonia x tuberhybrida Non-Stop ® Mixed F1

Nine different colours, put these in a class of their own for impact with 7-9cm (3-3½in) blooms.

Height: 20-25cm (8-10in)

Begonia x tuberhybrida Nonstop® Rose Petticoat F1

Without doubt, a fantastic new colour to the 'Non-Stop®' series. Large,10cm (4in) eye-catching, deeply frilled, fully double blooms of white with a deep rose picotee.

Height: 20-25cm (8-10in)

Begonia x tuberhybrida Pin Up Flame F1 Hybrid

This stunning begonia produces many large 10-12cm (4 -5 inch) single hibiscus-like flowers, in a glowing colour combination of rich yellow, painted with scarlet and orange edges. Ideal for creating an explosion of color in borders or containers.