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, but you can buy plug plants from Thomson & Morgan - their Shasta Collection includes one of the varieties you're seeking http://www.thompson-morgan.com/flowers/flower-plants/perennial-and-biennial-plants/shasta-daisy-collection/p90752TM i bought some

attractive to bees, and later to goldfinches. This is a snap I took last year...   Teasel is available from most seed suppliers as seeds, and also as small plants from garden centres in Spring. It's a biennial plant, so seed sown right now should make little

plant is tall and slightly ungainly (like a new-born giraffe) with acid yellow flowers on tall (almost leafless) stems. Jekka has used them in conjunction with Angelica archangelica (a fabulous biennial that reaches over 2m in height and looks great

Did you get any corn cobs? I'd not save seed from beetroot that had bolted (seeded in the first year) they're biennials that sometimes flower and seed in the first year but this is not advantageous and may be related to the woodiness you mention. It

results. I'm just hoping this year we won't have quite as much rain! (Also hoping there isn't a drought now!) Some  euphorbia - the charcais wulfenii lot (pretty sure I have spelt that wrong, but you get the gist) - have biennial stems, so they produce

didn't want and ants seemed to like living in the roots of these, so now I pull them up when over and weed out any I'm not sure about. They are very hardy. I just let them get on with it now like a lot of other annuals/biennials. I do agree with B

Last spring I found a foxglove seedling in a pot, which had presumably self-seeded from a neighbour's garden. Excited, I potted it on and nurtured it in anticipation of seeing it flower this year. (Foxgloves are biennial, so flower in their second

suggests the caterpillar is that of the angel shades moth. Reply to InsaniD - sorry I just don't feel the same about apricot foxgloves as I do white and purple. The pink ones sound lovely though dreamer.Reply to Sarahs pondlife - foxgloves are biennial so

years growth if you cut them back hard after flowering and before they go to seed...    although in my local garden center i notice that foxgloves are all labled as bienneial... Digitalis purpurea is a hardy biennial mentalmellor. These are the standard

to end up with useless plants/onions. If you want to experiment, fine, but it may be better to buy good quality seed or sets. If you plant onions that are growing roots, of course they bolt.  Onions are biennial and always produce flowers in their second