Individual Flower Pages

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Foxglove 'Excelsior Mix'from Seed The foxglove that flowers all the way around — the Excelsior strain holds its speckled bells horizontally around the...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow White Forget-me-notfrom Seed The luminous alternative to the classic blue — white Myosotis sylvatica produces a glowing carpet of pure white flowers that...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cucumber'Marketmore 76' from Seed The heritage slicer with a story — an open-pollinated heirloom developed at Cornell University in 1976, still one of...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cucumber'Burpless Tasty Green' F1 from Seed The outdoor cucumber for UK summers — crisp, sweet, and genuinely bitter-free (the "burpless" quality means no...

How to Grow Common Cress Microgreens | Bishy Barnabee's Cottage Garden Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Common CressMicrogreens The fastest food you can grow — scatter seeds on...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Craspedia'Drumstick' (Billy Buttons) from Seed Modern art in the garden — perfectly spherical sunshine-yellow pompom heads on poker-straight wire stems; an Australian native...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cosmos'Purity' from Seed The definitive white Cosmos — pristine silky white petals 8–10cm across, each surrounding a small sunny golden disc; the neutral...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cosmos'Fizzy Rose' from Seed The sophisticated Cosmos — pale mauve semi-double flowers with each petal delicately edged in a deeper tone, creating a...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cosmos'Double Click Rose Bon Bon' from Seed The Cosmos that became a peony — fully double pompom blooms in rich vintage rose-pink, each...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cosmos'Daydream' from Seed The watercolour Cosmos — pure white petal edges that melt gradually into soft blush pink towards the centre, with a...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cosmos'Apricotta' from Seed A completely new colour in Cosmos — soft apricot, peach, and cantaloupe melon tones blending within each petal, with a...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cornflower'Snowman' from Seed The white cornflower — pure, ruffled double Ball blooms with a discreet blush-pink centre visible through the petals like a...