The Autumn Seed Collection
10 hand-picked seed varieties
Autumn is the cottage gardener's secret season. While the borders are quietly winding down, the most romantic work of the year begins — and this collection is your head start on next summer's display.
Inside you'll find ten hardy annuals chosen to be sown now and overwintered, for stronger, earlier and more abundant flowering than a spring sowing could ever give. There's the frothy white lace of Orlaya grandiflora, the smoky blue-grey foliage and nodding, bee-loved bracts of Cerinthe, and the quiet drama of Antirrhinum 'Night & Day', its deep crimson-black throat lit by a flash of white. Larkspur 'Giant Imperial' brings the tall cottage spires, while Calendula 'Sherbet Fizz' softens it all with antique peach and buff tones.
The full collection:
- Orlaya grandiflora (white lace flower)
- Antirrhinum 'Night & Day'
- Nigella hispanica (Spanish love-in-a-mist)
- Corncockle 'Bianca'
- Calendula 'Sherbet Fizz'
- Cerinthe major purpurascens (honeywort)
- Cornflower 'Polka Dot'
- Malva 'Zebrina'
- Linaria
- Larkspur 'Giant Imperial Mix'
Every variety has been hand-picked by Sophie Valentine of @lookinsidemygarden, chosen to be sown now and to flower beautifully together come spring and summer.
A note on pre-ordering: This is a pre-order collection. Your seeds will be posted in time for Sophie's Grow-a-long, so you'll be sowing right alongside her. Ordering a few other bits at the same time? There's no need for a second delivery — anything you add to your basket with this collection will be held and sent out together with it.
- 10 full-size seed packets, each with detailed growing notes
- Seasonal varieties chosen to complement each other
- Eco-friendly compostable packaging throughout
🌱 This is a pre-order.Your collection will be dispatched from In time for Sophies Grow-along — order now to secure yours before stocks sell out.
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📦 What’s in the collection
📬 Delivery & packaging
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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Orlaya Grandiflora
Large lacy white umbels with elongated outer petals — the cottage garden's most sophisticated white umbel and the florist's premium cut flower for romantic wedding bouquets.
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Antirrhinum Night & Day
Spikes of deep, velvety crimson flowers each cut through with a sharp, pure white throat, rising above unusually dark bronze-green foliage in a bicolour combination of extraordinary richness that earns its name with every flower it opens.
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Nigella hispanica
Larger, dramatic Spanish Love-in-a-Mist with intense royal violet-blue star flowers and burgundy stamens — followed by magnificent "jester's hat" architectural seed pods.
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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 Sherbet Fizz
Designer pot marigold in soft buff and pale yellow with red-maroon petal undersides — the sophisticated calendula that glows rather than shouts. Edible.
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Cerinthe major Purpurascens
Architectural hardy annual with silver-blue leaves shading to purple, crowned with drooping tubular bells of midnight purple — the bumblebees' favourite cottage garden flower.
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Cornflower Polka Dot Mixed
A compact dwarf cornflower mix in seven cottage colours on bushy 30–50cm plants — the container-friendly polka-dot palette bred specifically for amateur gardeners.
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Malva Zebrina
Soft lilac-pink saucer flowers painted with deep dark purple veins — the Zebra Mallow that flowers in its first summer from seed. Vintage cottage character, bee magnet.
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Linaria Fairy Bouquet Mix
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.
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Larkspur Giant Imperial Mix
Tall sturdy spires packed with double ruffled flowers in violet, blue, pink, carmine and white — the basal-branching Larkspur giving multiple cutting stems per plant.
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