Individual Flower Pages

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cobaea scandensPurple (Cup and Saucer Vine) from Seed The Cup and Saucer Vine — a Mexican perennial grown as an annual in UK...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cleome'Cherry Queen' (Spider Flower) from Seed The Spider Flower — vivid carmine-rose spherical flower heads topped with extraordinarily long curling stamens that extend...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Clary Sage'Oxford Blue' from Seed The longest-lasting blue in the cutting garden — saturated indigo bracts on sturdy architectural spikes that last seven...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Clary Sage'Crown Bouquet Mixed' from Seed The leaf flower — where all other annuals produce coloured petals, Clary Sage produces colour from bracts...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Clarkia 'Crown Double Mix'(Mountain Garland) from Seed The Mountain Garland — long upright spikes packed with double blooms in salmon-pink, royal purple, carmine-red...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Chrysanthemum'Painted Daisies' from Seed The tricolour cockade daisy — concentric rings of crimson red, golden yellow and deep purple that look painted by...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Chives(Allium schoenoprasum) from Seed The perennial herb that gives three things at once — mild-onion hollow leaves to snip year after year, beautiful...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Chervil 'Plain'(Anthriscus cerefolium) from Seed The fourth fines herbe — the subtle anise-flavoured French culinary herb that thrives in shade where other herbs...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Chard'Rainbow Mixed' from Seed The vegetable that is also an ornamental — vivid stems in ruby red, crimson, scarlet, orange, yellow, and white...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Chamomile'German' (Matricaria chamomilla) from Seed The earth-apple herb — masses of small white daisy flowers with golden domed centres releasing the sweet apple...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cerinthe major'Purpurascens' from Seed The Blue Shrimp Plant — a sculptural, architectural hardy annual like nothing else in a UK garden, with glaucous...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Carrot'Paris Market' from Seed The round French heirloom carrot from nineteenth-century Paris — golf-ball-sized globes of exceptional sweetness that grow in containers, heavy...