Since 1868 de Jager has been producing top quality, top sized bulbs. The large sizes do make an enormous difference, providing bigger flowers, stronger stems, and better naturalisation. Choose from over 720 varieties and transform your garden with scent and colour. Spring Flowering Bulbs now available to order.
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The King's Collection
SD139
We are delighted to feature the King’s Collection, to celebrate our friends at Pictorial Meadows winning the highly prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development.
This set includes five 6g packets of the following mixes: Classic, Cornfield, Dragonfly, Kingfisher and Patriotic. These seed mixes are designed by specialists to be vibrant, high-impact and attract wildlife.
They show waves of colour from summer right up to the first frosts and provide a rich nectar source for bees and other pollinators. The benefit of an annual meadow is that it is quick and easy to grow, and perfect for any skill level.
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Annual Classic Mix
SD111
Pictured here at The Eden Project, our ‘Classic Annual Mix’ will create a diverse, abundant wildflower meadow in your garden. This selection is carefully balanced for a continual succession of flowering, with varying colours throughout the season. From an early summer display of vivid blue, pink and white to a rich autumnal tapestry of deep red, orange and yellow, the ‘Classic Annual Mix’ offers a spectacular show right through until November. With a height of up to 1m, this exuberant collection incorporates Shirley Poppy, Californian Poppy, Cornflower, Fairy Toadflax, Tickseed, Red Orache and Larkspur.
Flowering Height up to 1m (39’’).
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Annual Cornfield Mix
SD141
A cheerful flush of bright, primary colours, our ‘Cornfield Annual Mix’ offers a mass of picturesque blooms, peaking in July and August. These species were once commonly found growing amongst crops like wheat or hay, colouring the British rural landscape with splashes of blue, yellow and red. With the increase of herbicides to suppress unwanted ‘weeds’, these varieties have sharply declined. Create your own wildlife-friendly idyll and help to increase plant diversity by sprinkling this mix throughout your garden. Providing impact from the first year of sowing, this pretty collection reaches a height of up to 1m and includes Field Poppy, Cornflower, Scentless Mayweed and Corncockle.
Flowering Height up to 1m (39’’).
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Pixie Mix
SD161
Experience the enchantment of wildflowers on a petite scale with our ‘Pixie Annual Mix’. Especially well-suited to more restricted situations, this collection reaches a height of 50cm. Brimming with compact, vibrant, textural blooms with a long flowering window, varieties include Fairy Toadflax, Red Flax, Shirley Poppy, Love-in-a-mist, Candytuft and Blue Flax. Highly recommended by the RHS as part of the ‘Plants for Pollinators’ scheme, wildflowers hum with life, animated by the buzzing of bees, the darting of hoverflies, and the fluttering of butterflies. Bring your garden to life by filling even the smallest crevices with this beautiful assortment of vibrant blooms.
Flowering Height up to 50 cm (20’’).
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Perennial Cottage Garden
SD261
A tall, dramatic, colourful, and long season meadow. It was initially designed to be sown over pure brick rubble on housing demolition sites, but finds itself equally at home in garden soils. This meadow offers fantastic variety and is jam-packed full of species that work wonderfully together, providing drama and colour from early Spring, right through to late Autumn. On very low fertility soils, an annual cut and collect is not always necessary.
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Perennial Persian Carpet Mix
SD251
Enhance your garden with the richly woven, jewel-bright intensity of our ‘Persian Carpet Perennial Mix’. A living work of art, this collection entwines an opulent range of varieties for complex and subtle colour combinations over a long season. Contrasting forms of fine-leaved species, upright spires, and open-faced blooms create a sumptuous array of textures and silhouettes. Such a diversity of blooms provides a vital habitat and food source for wildlife and is recommended as part of the RHS ‘Plants for Pollinators’ scheme. Returning year after year, this selection includes: Dianthus carthusianorum (Carthusian Pink), Festuca longifolia (Hard Fescue), Lychnis chalcedonica (Maltese Cross), and Echium vulgare (Vipers Bugloss).
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Perennial Tuscan Hills Mix
SD211
Taking its name from the sun-drenched slopes of Tuscany, our ‘Tuscan Hills Perennial Mix’ captures the essence of balmy summer days. This warm, radiant collection combines glinting gold and blazing yellow varieties, enlivened by highlights of white and later flashes of purple. The glorious array of blooms attracts a broad range of beneficial wildlife, including bees, butterflies, hoverflies, moths, and birds. Our most popular perennial mix performs best in a sunny location on free-draining, light soil, and can tolerate higher fertility soils. This selection contains: Rudbeckia hirta (Blackeyed Susan), Eryngium planum (Sea Holly), Achillea millefolium (Yarrow), and Buphthalmum salicifolium (Yellow Ox Eye).
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Perennial Moody Blues Mix
SD221
Dive into a cool sea of beautiful, elegant blues with our ‘Moody Blues Perennial Mix’. Like the rolling waves of the ocean, this wistful collection is a combination of misty mauve, sparkling sapphire, inky indigo, and billowing white. On the colour spectrum, blues and purples are amongst the most appealing, easily perceptible shades to pollinators, acting as a beacon to bees and butterflies. Specially selected to tolerate normal fertility soils and light shade, this versatile mix reaches a height of 50cm and combines Michaelmas Daisy, Greater Knapweed, Field Scabious, Wild Carrot, Perennial Flax, Purple Coneflower, Ox-eye Daisy and Columbine.
FH: up to 50 cm (20’’).
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Perennial Turkish Delight Mix
SD231
A summer treat of gorgeous, airy blooms, our ‘Turkish Delight Perennial Mix’ is a feast for the senses. This collection gives the impression of an informal herbaceous border, lending your garden a relaxed, romantic air. Flowering for months on end, the tall blooms dance and sway on wiry stems, adding structure, movement, and texture to your display. These specially selected varieties are a magnet for beneficial wildlife, attracting the avid attention of pollinators, insects, and garden birds. Suitable for normal fertility soils, this collection features a star line-up of Knautia arvensis (Field Scabious), Sanguisorba officinalis (Great Burnet), and Geranium Pratense (Meadow Cranesbill).
FH: up to 50 cm (20’’).
