Organic Flamboyant Tree Seeds (Delonix regia)

Prefers open sunny areas, but tolerates slight shading, is frost-resistant, grows in any garden soil.

A very old favourite for the rock garden, or even the front of the border or in a container, this plant produces a succession of wide-open, upwards-facing, blue and white cup-shaped flowers from July to September.

The young leaves of this tree or shrub peony are flushed burgundy and in late spring, lustrous, single, white flowers appear among the handsome dark green foliage. This magnificent tree peony is ideal for a sunny border.

A perennial plant, grown as a biennial, up to 150 cm tall, flowers up to 5 cm long, collected in racemose inflorescences up to 80 cm long, used for sowing against the background of tall bushes, for decorating walls, for cutting and forcing.

An annual plant with branched, creeping shoots 15-20 cm tall, flowers are light blue, white with light purple spots and dark.

This wonderful, ancient tree from China dates back at least 200 million years. Its distinctive, fan-shaped, bright green leaves turn bright gold when a warm autumn follows a warm summer. Mature male trees have thick, yellow catkins in late spring.

You will smell Purple King before you see it, the huge, lightly cupped violet leaves releasing a spicy clove aroma. Fabulous for cooking or in fresh dishes, Purple King is a generous producer, with good branching on plants that reach 18 inches high.