Flower Seeds
Growing flowers from seed is a rewarding and cost-effective way to fill your beds, borders and containers with beautiful blooms. Their nectar-rich flowers are perfect for attracting beneficial insects such as bees, butterflies and hoverflies into your garden and they make a fun and interesting way to engage children with the outdoors. We stock a wide range of flower seeds in bright and pastel colours with something suitable for every garden, whether you’re looking to create an informal, cottage garden display or something a little more formal.
Popular Flower Seeds
Our range includes all of your favourites, like cosmos, marigold, nigella, pansy, sunflower and sweet peas. Cosmos are ideal for producing masses of frilly, textured flowers in a variety of colours on just a small patch. Marigolds are a favourite, no-fuss annual that bring the colour of sunshine into your garden. Nasturtium are fully edible flowers in bright yellows, reds and oranges. Nigellas (love in a mist) are a cottage garden classic with fabulous cut flowers and foliage that makes a perfect vase filler. Pansies and violas (their smaller cousins) provide a splash of much-needed winter colour when little else is in bloom. Poppies produce eye-catching summer displays, traditionally red with blotched throats but now available in a wide range of colours. Sunflowers are a favourite for growing with children who will marvel at their bright faces while providing a feast for birds when the seeds mature. Sweet peas are the archetypal cottage garden flower with a climbing habit and fabulous scent, while wildflowers encourage and support all kind of wildlife and beneficial insects into your garden.
Flower Seeds by Type
Some important considerations when growing flower seeds is how long you want them to last and how well they’ll stand up against frost and cold temperatures. Annuals are plants that last one year, performing their entire life cycle from seed to flower to seed within a single growing season with all roots, stems and leaves of the plant dying annually. Hardy annual seeds will stand up to the cold, meaning they can be sown outdoors straight into the site where you want them to flower. Half hardy annuals must be sown indoors, for example in a greenhouse, and planted out later in the year when the risk of frost has passed. Biennials last for two years, tending to develop a small rosette of leaves in the first year before flowering and producing seeds in the second year. Perennials are plants that survive for many growing seasons. Most perennials are herbaceous, meaning their top growth dies back to the ground each winter but their roots survive and will burst back into life again in the spring. Some plants may behave as an annual or a perennial depending on the local climate and growing conditions.
Shop Flower Seeds by Brand
We currently stock the full range of Unwins flower seeds, including their “Little Growers” range for kids and “Nature’s Haven” range for attracting wildlife. We hope to extend our range to include Mr. Fothergills and Suttons seeds soon.
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