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The Biennial Seed Collection individual packets

  • Biennial Seed Collection 2025

    The Biennial Collection is now out of stock as a whole collection.

    However the seed packets can be bought individually 

    See below for the full list of contents:

    Sowing biennials in mid-summer will give you a head start in the flower garden and will provide you with blooms from early spring onwards.

    Biennials are fabulous! Beautiful, nostalgic, often scented and invaluable for bees who are about early in the year.

    Sow in the summer, plant out in the autumn.....and then gorgeous flowers in the spring!

    This beautiful collection contains 9 wonderful varieties of flower seeds to sow this summer and is for use alongside Sophie's ( @lookinsidemygarden ) amazing online FREE Grow Club grow-a-long. 

    Please be aware when you are pre-ordering that any other items added to your basket will be shipped at the same time as your seed collection 

    Some items in the collection may differ depending on current stock.

    Happy sowing! 🌱

  • Hesperis (Sweet Rocket) Purple

    Hesperis (or Sweet Rocket as it is commonly known) is one of my favourite biennials. Tall, sweetly scented and filling the garden with beautiful purple clouds of flowers, gently swaying in the breeze.


    Sowing biennials is such a worthwhile thing to do as it will give you wonderfully early blooms the following year when the garden is crying out for a bit of colour again….and make the most gorgeous cut flowers. They look amazing in a vase alongside tulips, alliums and irises.

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  • Clary Sage Oxford Blue

    Clary Sage is a stunning cut flower. Producing masses of deep blue, almost purple blooms, is a must for the cutting garden. The flowers have a long vase life and make an impact in any bouquet. They're a favourite among florists for their beautiful colour and long-lasting durability.

    It is easy to grow, beautiful to look at, has a long flowering season and lasts well in a vase. You really can’t ask for much else! Clary Sage Oxford Blue will bring long-lasting beauty to your garden year after year. Plus, it's easy to take care of and can withstand harsh weather conditions.

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  • Aquilegia Columbine Blue

    Columbine Blue is a large upright variety of Aquilegia.

    Pretty light green foliage with white petals and beautiful powder-blue spurs. 

    Deadhead regularly if you don't want them to self-seed.

    Germination can be erratic and slow. Sometimes a period of cold stratification is needed, so it can help to put the seeds in the fridge for a week or so before sowing.

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  • Foxglove Excelsior Mix

    A beautiful mix of tall foxgloves in gorgeous shades of purple, pink, rose, cream and white 

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  • Hollyhock Bishy Barnabee Mix

    I have a love affair going on with Hollyhocks, I can never, ever have too many of them. Majestic spires and beautiful colours…. a true country cottage favourite to me, the butterflies and the bees  

    This mix contains various shades of pink, black, peach, burgundy and  rose. You never quite know which colours you'll grow!
    All utterly gorgeous and statuesque….the perfect nostalgic flower.

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Foxglove Excelsior Mix in bloom showcasing shades of purple, pink, cream, and white, ideal for garden planting.
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  • Wallflower Ruby Gem

    This gorgeous wallflower is a deep ruby colour and produces clusters of fragrant blossoms on sturdy stalks. Each flower head is composed of a large number of separate blossoms, which contributes to the overall attractiveness of the flowers. Early in the year, at the same time when tulips are coming into bloom (March through May), blooms are produced on this plant. Ruby Gem has dark buds that open to reveal magnificent flowers that range from brilliant crimson to violet. They are attractive as a cut flower in addition to being very useful in the garden, where they can be planted in a border with tulips and other spring flowers like forget-me-nots.

    The finest results can be achieved by cultivating these in a row in the cutting patch, as bedding plants, or in bold groupings in a mixed border when they are exposed to direct sunlight. All wallflowers are quite simple to cultivate and very productive, meaning that you will get a lot of flowers for a relatively small investment of time, money, and effort.

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  • Forget-me-not Blue

    Beautiful and dainty, Forget-me-nots are a classic springtime cottage garden flower.

    Filling your garden with gorgeous and vibrant clouds of blue, these little flowers symbolise remembrance, and love and are said to bring protection and luck.

    Equally happy in a window box, against a backdrop of colourful tulips or wallflowers in the garden or even in a wildflower meadow; the humble Forget-me-not is easy-going and trouble-free but no less glorious for it.

    They are great self-seeders….once you have Forget-me-nots you’ll never have to buy the seeds again!

    Once they have flowered, leave the plants in place and allow the seeds to fall naturally. Leave to overwinter and then relocate the new little seedlings to where you want them early the following spring.

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  • Rose Campion

    An old-fashioned cottage favourite. Rose Campion has bright pink flowers, silvery stems and beautiful soft pale green-grey leaves.

    A hardy (but short-lived) perennial it will produce leaves and a sparse amount of flowers in its first year but numerous flowers in its second year. Rose Campion needs a period of cold to stimulate germination so I find putting them into the fridge for 2 weeks before sowing helps with this.

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  • Honesty (Lunaria Annua) Mixed

    Honesty is a joy……that statement can be taken in two ways!

    This wonderful biennial plant will be one of the first to flower in your cutting garden and it is just gorgeous. This mix has beautiful, tall, white, and purple flowers with a wonderful scent. The bees love it and it brings a much-needed burst of colour to the garden in April and then the stunning, translucent, moon-like seed pods start appearing in June.

    So you can get cut flowers from April and then dry the seed pods for flower arrangements later in the year and….help the bees. That’s a pretty good deal I think!

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Honesty (Lunaria Annua) flowers in bloom with a symbol for bee-friendly gardens

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