Individual Flower Pages

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cornflower'Red Boy' from Seed The warm cornflower — ruby-red flowers that bring cornflower form and pollinator value to the hot border of reds,...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cornflower'Polka Dot Mixed' from Seed The container cornflower — a compact dwarf mix bred in 1960 specifically for amateur gardeners, producing the widest...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cornflower'Pink Ball' from Seed The unexpected cornflower — visitors who see it always say the same thing: "I didn't know cornflowers came in...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cornflower'Mauve Boy' from Seed The quiet, understated cornflower — a soft dusty lavender-purple closer in character to the wild species than the fully...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cornflower'Blue Ball' from Seed The definitive cornflower — the blue that gives its name to 'cornflower blue' in every paint chart, crayon box,...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cornflower'Black Ball' from Seed The darkest cornflower — not truly black but a deep, varnished maroon-chocolate the colour of crushed blackberries, of vintage...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cornflower'Black & Mauve Mix' from Seed The vintage pair — deep velvet maroon-chocolate 'Black Ball' and soft dusty mauve-lavender together on tall silver-green...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Corncockle'Bianca' from Seed The white form of the lost cornfield wildflower — pure luminous white trumpets on slender silver-grey stems that seem to...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Corncockle(Agrostemma githago) from Seed The lost cornfield wildflower — once one of the most beautiful sights of a British summer among wheat and...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Coriander 'Slow Bolt'from Seed One plant, two completely different crops — citrusy, divisive cilantro leaves and warm, nutty coriander seeds are produced by...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Coreopsis'Early Sunrise' (Tickseed) from Seed The double Fleuroselect Gold Medal and All-America Selections Winner — golden ruffled globes from a North American prairie...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Comfrey(Symphytum officinale) from Seed The organic garden's superplant — a native perennial with a 2-metre taproot that mines potassium from subsoil unavailable to...