
A Year in a Cottage Garden - Flower Box (24 Packs)
24 hand-picked seed varieties
Twenty-four packets of our favourite cottage garden flowers, chosen to give you a full year of colour and something to sow in every season. This is the collection built for abundance — succession sowing, fuller borders, and a rolling display from the first warm days of spring right through to the autumn frosts.
The range is what makes it work. Hardy annuals carry the first summer: Cosmos, Cornflower 'Pink Ball', Corncockle 'Bianca', Calendula 'Wintersun', Gypsophila, Nigella, Scabious, Phlox and Swan River Daisies. Biennials fill the following spring and the June gap when most borders go quiet — Honesty, Rose Campion, Sweet William, Sweet Rocket, white Forget-me-not and Hollyhock 'Nigra'. Perennials such as Achillea 'Cerise Queen', Echinops, Oxeye Daisy and Gaura 'The Bride' settle in and return for years. Two sweet peas, 'Swan Lake' and 'Old Spice Starry Night', cover the scent.
Sowing Across the Seasons
Sow the hardy annuals in spring for flowers the same summer, the biennials in June or July for the year after, and the perennials any time from spring once you know where they are going. Sow a few at a time rather than all at once and you keep the display rolling instead of getting one flush and then a gap. Full instructions are printed on every packet.
Due to seasonal availability, we occasionally swap a variety for another equally beautiful cottage classic.
Our most substantial gift box. Whether for a wedding, a retirement, or a new home, it provides years of joy and a garden full of memories.
- 24 full-size seed packets, each with detailed growing notes
- Seasonal varieties chosen to complement each other
- Eco-friendly compostable packaging throughout
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What’s inside your collection
24 seed packetsEvery variety below is included in this collection. Click any packet to read the full growing guide and see more photos.
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Echinops ritro Metallic Blue
Perfect steel-blue geometric spheres on rigid silvery stems — the architectural globe thistle that thrives on poor dry ground. Outstanding cut, dried and bee plant.
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Honesty Mixed
Spring purple-and-white flowers transform into silvery translucent "moonlight" seed pods — the magical two-act cottage biennial and the most prized everlasting dried stem.
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Oxeye Daisy
The original British wildflower — pure white petals around a vibrant yellow eye, swaying on tall wiry stems. Tough native perennial, foundation of any meadow project. RHS Pollinators.
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Rose Campion
Neon-bright magenta-pink flowers above soft woolly silver-grey foliage like felt — the RHS AGM cottage perennial with genuine winter foliage interest. Prolific self-seeder.
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Scabious Imperial Mix
Honey-scented pincushion flowers in deep blackcurrant, crimson, lavender, salmon pink and white on tall wiry stems — the jewel-toned cottage Scabious for cutting and butterflies.
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Sweet Pea Swan Lake
The exhibitor's and florist's pure white sweet pea — Hardy Annual H3; RHS AGM; Spencer type; solid, creamy-dense pure white petals (not papery or translucent); clean, fresh fragrance — not overpowering; perfect for dining tables near food; the palate cleanser that breaks up hot colours and reflects moonlight; vigorous; sow Oct–Nov (best) cold frame or Jan–Mar at 15°C; TOXICITY: all parts mildly toxic
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Cobaea scandens Purple
Vigorous climbing annual to 4–6m with huge bell flowers transforming from lime-green to deep purple over days — the architectural cup-and-saucer vine. RHS AGM.
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Bells of Ireland
Tall architectural spires of lime-green bell-shaped calyxes — the florist's most prized green filler, with exceptional vase life and beautiful drying qualities.
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Achillea Cerise Queen
Flat-topped plates of deep cerise-pink that hold their colour through summer, age to vintage tones, and dry beautifully. A drought-tolerant cottage garden classic.
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Cosmos Sensation Mixed
The benchmark cottage Cosmos — large pink, white and carmine daisies on tall stems from July to November. RHS Award of Garden Merit. The most productive cut flower in the patch.
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Swan River Daisies Mixed
Masses of tiny star-like daisies in mauve, blue, white and pink above a cloud of feathery grey-green foliage — the unsung Australian cottage daisy for containers, baskets and borders.
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Hesperis White (Sweet Rocket)
Tall luminous white Sweet Rocket spikes that release violet-and-clove fragrance at dusk — the moon-garden hero filling the gap between spring and summer.
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Cornflower Pink Ball
Soft, shaggy, fully double cornflowers in warm rose-pink and salmon — the romantic blush cornflower for cottage borders and cutting bouquets.
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Sweet William Auricula Eyed Mixed
Dense clusters of crimson, purple and pink bicolour florets with characteristic pale "auricula eyes" — the cottage biennial classic with intense clove fragrance and 10-14 day vase life.
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Corncockle Bianca
Pure white form of the British cornfield wildflower — large silky trumpet flowers on slender silver-grey stems, glowing in low evening light. Perfect for moon gardens.
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Calendula Wintersun
Bright golden flowers through November, December, January and February — the rare cottage annual that brings genuine winter colour from late summer sowings.
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Gypsophila Covent Garden
Frothy mist of pure white open-faced blooms — the florist's secret tall annual Gypsophila that lifts every summer arrangement. Fast-growing, 6–8 weeks to flower.
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Hollyhock Nigra
The legendary heritage Hollyhock with near-black maroon-purple single flowers and small yellow eyes — rising 2m against walls. Continuously cultivated since the 1600s.
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Nigella 'Miss Jekyll' White (Love-in-a-mist)
The pure snowy sister of classic blue Love-in-a-Mist — semi-double white flowers in a misty ruff of fine foliage. Romantic cottage classic for cutting, weddings and moon gardens.
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Gaura 'The Bride'
Clouds of pure white starry blooms on slender arching stems — the white Whirling Butterflies that bring magical dancing movement to moon gardens and cottage borders.
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Forget-me-not White
The crisp white form of the classic English Forget-me-not — pure starry flowers that glow in shade and make a luminous neutral backdrop for spring bulbs.
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Sweet Pea Old Spice Starry Night
Velvety bicolour blooms in deep violet, indigo, maroon and purple — the heritage Old Spice Sweet Pea with double the perfume of modern types and superior heat tolerance.
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Phlox Sugar Stars
Star-shaped almond-scented flowers in violet-blue and indigo with crisp white star centres — the Fleuroselect-Medal Phlox that looks like constellations landed in your garden.
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