If you want to get a jump start on next spring sow some biennial seeds now. Biennials are plants that grow in one year and flower in the next. As they are going to overwinter the biennials tend to be hardy and many have good scent to attract pollinating insects when they flower in spring.
Try These Varieties
- Sweet William – Dianthus ‘Tuxedo’ with dark chocolate flowers and matching deep leaves or for contrast ‘Alba’
- Wallflower – Erysimum ‘Orange, Primrose or Scarlet Bedder’, the taller ‘Ruby Gem’ or ‘Giant Pink’ have less scent but grow to about two foot or the smaller Tom thumb mixes. Or cheap offer
- Foxgloves – Digitalis ‘Albiflora’ is a statuesque white or one of the mixes that have purples, apricots and mixed spotted throats
- Honesty Seeds give pleasure as flowers then again as seed heads for dried flowers arrangements. Try a mixture or Lunaria ‘Munstead Purple’ or the white ‘albiflora’
- Iceland Poppies – Paperver nudicaule in pastel colours
- Canterbury Bells ‘Cup and Saucer’ in blue, white and rose
- Pansy – many varieties from the Viola family
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