Individual Flower Pages

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Antirrhinum'Lucky Lips' from Seed The Fleuroselect award-winning bicolour snapdragon — crisp white with a bold purple-magenta lip, on tall 60cm stems perfect for...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Antirrhinum'DoubleShot Peach' from Seed The F1 snapdragon that rewrites the rules — open-faced double flowers in warm peach-apricot on strong, heavily branched stems,...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Antirrhinum'Crown Mixed' from Seed The classic cottage garden snapdragon — a rich mix of traditional colours on self-supporting intermediate stems, flowering from June...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Anchusa'Blue Angel' from Seed One of the most vivid, saturated blues you can grow from seed — clusters of gentian-indigo flowers that glow...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Ammi majus(Bishop's Flower) from Seed The finest white filler in the cutting garden — floating clouds of lace-cap blossom on tall strong stems,...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Amaranthus'Love-Lies-Bleeding' from Seed The most theatrically dramatic annual you can grow — cascading crimson tassels up to 60cm long, hanging like velvet ropes...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Alyssum'Royal Carpet' from Seed Deep violet-purple ground cover that holds its rich colour all summer long, fills the air with honey on warm...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Alyssum'Carpet of Snow' from Seed The most honey-scented border edging you can grow — a spreading mat of tiny pure white flowers that...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Ageratum'Timeless Mix' from Seed The florist's secret weapon — tall, long-stemmed, non-shattering fluffy flower clusters in powder-blue, lavender, pink and white, flowering continuously...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Agastache'Liquorice Blue' from Seed Tall violet-blue bottle-brush spikes that smell of aniseed, flower from July to October in their first year from seed,...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Agapanthus'Big Blue' from Seed The most architectural summer perennial you can grow — great spherical umbels of deep violet-blue on stems reaching 100–150cm,...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Achillea'Rubra Red' from Seed Rich ruby-red flowerheads that glow in the summer border, fade beautifully to warm terracotta, and dry to a soft...