Wildflowers in pink, purple, and white bloom in a sunny meadow, featuring Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden’s Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix. Green grass covers the foreground with trees and a clear blue sky in the distance.
Wildflowers in pink, purple, and white bloom in a sunny meadow, featuring Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden’s Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix. Green grass covers the foreground with trees and a clear blue sky in the distance.Tall pink, yellow, and purple wildflowers from the Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix by Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden bloom in a garden with a wire fence and trays of potted plants in the background under a cloudy sky.Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix by Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden features tall yellow and pink wildflowers blooming in a sunny field, like baby snapdragons, with green grass and trees beneath a clear blue sky.A vibrant garden bed features colorful blooms from Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden's Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix—mostly baby snapdragons in purple, yellow, pink, and white—amid green leaves, with a wire fence and trees in the background.Close-up of Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix by Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden, featuring tall purple and white blossoms in sunlight amid green foliage, with softly blurred trees and sky in the background.A vibrant field of Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix, with baby snapdragons and clusters of purple, pink, yellow, and white blooms set against a cloudy sky and wire fence.Tall stalks of Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix from Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden, with pink, white, and yellow blooms and slender leaves, grow in front of large black containers holding leafy green plants in a garden.Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix by Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden features delicate yellow and purple blooms growing amid lush green foliage beside a white wooden wall.Bright purple, white, and lavender flowers—including baby snapdragons from the Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix—bloom by a white wooden wall and lush green vines, showcasing varied shapes and vibrant foliage.
Annual Pollinator

Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix

Linaria maroccana Fairy Bouquet Mix -- toadflax

£1.95approx. 500 seeds

A rainbow in weeks — masses of tiny snapdragon-like flowers in every cottage colour on tidy 25–35cm mounds. The fastest hardy annual you can sow.

Sowing months
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Height
20-30cm
Spread
15cm
Position
Full sun
Soil
Well-drained position and light, moderately fertile soil
Grow guide
How to grow Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix
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About this variety

A rainbow in weeks. Masses of tiny snapdragon flowers barely a centimetre across, in cream, yellow, pink, rose, magenta, purple and white, many with contrasting throats, all on slim wiry stems above narrow grey-green leaves.

It is the fastest hardy annual you can sow — eight to ten weeks from seed to a full flush of colour — which makes it the one to give a child or a beginner. Nothing builds confidence like a packet that delivers that quickly.

At 25 to 35cm it forms tidy mounds that suit the front of a border, a window box, a container, or a crack between paving. Grow it lean; rich ground gives you leaf and fewer flowers. Shear it back by half when the first flush fades and it will come again into autumn.

Plant alongside

Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix pairs beautifully with these cottage garden classics

Alyssum Carpet of Snow
Alyssum Carpet of Snow
£2.20
Calendula Oopsy Daisy
Calendula Oopsy Daisy
£2.30
Erigeron karvinskianus Profusion
Erigeron karvinskianus Profusion
£2.85

RHS Plants for Pollinators

This plant has been assessed by the Royal Horticultural Society and recommended as especially beneficial to bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Growing plants like this directly supports UK pollinator populations — something close to our hearts at Salle Moor Hall Farm, where we see the difference a cottage garden full of the right plants can make.

Learn more at RHS.org.uk →