Annuals for picking
One of the great luxuries of gardening is collecting armfuls of cheerful flowers for filling vases to overflow with colour and scent for the house. Some of the best flowers for picking are easy-going annuals, and we've picked our top ten from the wide range available in our garden centre.
- Bupleurum: lime-green flowers and foliage, contrasting perfectly with brighter colours
- Cosmos: graceful daisy-like flowers on 90cm tall stems: 'Purity' is exquisite white, and 'Dazzler' is vivid pink
- Ammi majus: frothing umbels of pure white flowers, like an elegant cow parsley
- Tobacco plant (Nicotiana): tall, airy flowers in colours from white to pink to lime green
- Snapdragons (Antirrhinum): pretty cottage-garden flowers with generous blooms
- Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus): blue is the classic colour, but they come in the white, pink or darkest purple
- Sweetpeas (Lathyrus odoratus): choose Spencer types for scent, and Grandifloras for big, blowsy flowers
- Love-in-a-mist (Nigella): exquisite starry blue or white flowers are followed by architectural seedheads
- Larkspur (Consolida): a rich royal blue flower with tall spikes produced till the first frosts
- Bells of Ireland (Molucella laevis): curious curving spikes of vivid green bell-like flowers veined with cream
Visit our webshop for a wide variety of Gardening Products. Please ask the staff in our garden centre in Athlone for more information and advice about the annual flowers you can pick for the house.
