Individual Flower Pages

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Lemon GrassEast Indian from Seed The culinary lemon grass of Thai and South Asian cooking -- Cymbopogon flexuosus, the East Indian variety...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Lemon BalmMelissa officinalis from Seed The heart-gladdening herb -- crinkled mint-like leaves releasing a cloud of pure sherbet-lemon fragrance on contact; a...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Leek'Musselburgh' from Seed The leek that has stood in Scottish gardens since 1834 -- very thick stems (5-7cm diameter) with a mild...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Leek'Blue Solaise' from Seed The heritage French winter leek -- deep blue-green leaves that turn vivid blue-violet in cold weather; a 19th-century...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to GrowLavatera arborea Tree Mallow from Seed The toughest plant you can grow from seed -- a Hardy Biennial H4 that rises to 2m...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Larkspur'Limelight Mix' from Seed Tall elegant spires packed with double, ruffled cottage-garden flowers in a generous mix of carmine, dark blue, light blue,...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Larkspur'Giant Imperial Mix' from Seed The cut flower workhorse -- fully double branching spires of violet, deep blue, rose pink, carmine, and...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Larkspur'Giant Hyacinth Mixed' from Seed The architectural column larkspur -- massive single dense spires packed with flowers like giant Hyacinths in violet,...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Larkspur'Fancy Purple Picotee' from Seed The hand-painted cut flower -- fully double white blossoms delicately edged in violet-purple on 1m vertical spires;...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Kale'Nero di Toscana' from Seed The Italian winter delicacy from a single seed packet -- dark grey-blue-green savoyed leaves on an architecturally...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Ipomoea'Heavenly Blue' from Seed The finest blue climber for UK gardens -- pure azure-blue trumpet flowers 8-10cm across with a white star...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Honesty MixedLunaria annua from Seed Two harvests from one sowing -- fragrant purple and white spring flowers (cut-and-come-again from April to June)...