Plant a little colour this autumn with The Organic Blooms Gardening Club. This month's trio of hardy annuals arrives well rooted and ready for the garden, so you can tuck them in now and look forward to some of the very first flowers of next year.
What makes me special?
- A cheerful trio. You'll get one cornflower, one clary sage, and one calendula, bringing inky blue, soft lilac, and sunny orange to your border or patio.
- Flowers you can eat. All three are edible, so you can scatter the petals over salads, cakes, and summer drinks.
- The earliest blooms. An autumn planting gives you the earliest flowers, with cornflower and calendula appearing in March and April, and clary sage following in May.
- Roots before the cold. Plant them out while the soil's still warm and they'll settle in and put down roots before winter arrives.
- Happy in a frost. They're hardy plants that'll shrug off a chilly night, and they don't need any staking or support.
- Border or patio. They're garden ready, so they can go straight into a flower bed or a patio tub.
- A longer season. Cutting the flowers regularly keeps them coming for longer, which means plenty for a jug on the kitchen table. Follow with a spring planting and you'll have flowers for months.
- Seeds for next year. Let a few flower heads go over and you can save the seed to grow new plants next year.
- Biodegradable pots. Each plant comes in a biodegradable pot.
- A gentle welcome. Unpack your plants as soon as they arrive, give them a good water, and pop them somewhere light to recover from their journey.
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