Perfect for Pressing Seed Box plus Wooden Flower Press
10 hand-picked seed varieties
A complete journey from soil to silhouette. This bundle combines a wooden flower press with ten seed varieties chosen specifically because they press beautifully — paper-thin petals, flat faces, and low moisture content. Everything needed to grow your own art garden, harvest the blooms, and preserve them forever as botanical keepsakes.
The Press
A standard wooden flower press with heavy-duty bolts, wingnuts, cardboard dividers, and blotting paper — everything needed to start pressing immediately.
How to Use Your Press
Pick on a dry sunny afternoon — moisture from rain or morning dew causes mould. Layer inside the press: cardboard, blotting paper, flower, blotting paper, cardboard — then repeat. Screw the wingnuts down tight for even pressure. Leave for 2–4 weeks in a warm dry room without opening — patience is what guarantees the best colour retention.
Arrives ready to gift — the rustic charm of a press combined with the promise of a garden in a box. A truly sustainable gift that lasts a lifetime.
- 10 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 in the collection
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What’s inside your collection
10 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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Wooden Flower Press - Standard
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Poppy Californian Golden West
Silky golden-yellow cup-shaped flowers with deep-orange hearts on mounds of silver-blue foliage — the drought-tolerant solar-powered hardy annual that thrives on neglect.
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Forget-me-not Blue
A nostalgic spring carpet of intense clear blue with yellow eyes — the classic English Forget-me-not for cottage borders, woodland edges, and tulip underplanting.
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Pansy Swiss Giant Ullswater Deep Blue
Large velvety deep indigo-blue pansies with characteristic darker face markings — the Swiss Giant Ullswater selection for classical English spring and autumn-winter colour.
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Ammi majus
Floating, airy clouds of pure white lace-cap flowers on tall stems — the indispensable cutting-garden filler that has transformed British summer bouquets.
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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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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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Calendula Oopsy Daisy
Creamy-white petals tipped in tangerine on dwarf, bushy 25–30cm plants — the playful paint-splashed pot marigold made for window boxes and patio containers.
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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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Nigella 'Miss Jekyll' Blue (Love-in-a-mist)
Clear sky-blue semi-double flowers nestled in a "mist" of fine ferny foliage — the classic cottage Nigella named after Gertrude Jekyll. RHS AGM. Decorative dried pods.
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Osteospermum Sky and Ice - African Daisy
Pure white daisy petals with cool sky-blue undersides creating a "frosted" effect — the sophisticated cool African Daisy for sunny borders, containers and Mediterranean schemes.
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