Reliable, long-flowering cut flowers for Pick Your Own enterprises
Carefully designed for UK Pick Your Own (PYO) flower farms, visitor attractions, and cut-flower growers looking for reliable colour, strong stems, and an extended picking season.
This vibrant annual mix produces excellent cut flowers ideal for bouquet making.
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Long flowering period for an extended PYO season: This mix typically begins flowering around 10 weeks after sowing; timing may vary depending on weather conditions. In most UK seasons, we see flowering from late June, with blooms continuing right through to September, providing a long and consistent picking window.
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Excellent vase life: Once cut, flowers generally last up to 10 days in a jug or vase of water. We recommend changing the water every few days for an extended life.
- Drought-tolerant once established: Plants are considerably drought-tolerant, making this mix well suited to UK summers and lower-input growing systems.
This mix offers growers a dependable combination of long flowering, drought tolerance, strong vase life, and customer appeal — helping you create a Pick Your Own experience that looks beautiful in the field and lasts once taken home.
This mix is the same as our Hardy Annuals Mix
| Lifecycle | Annual-only mix |
| Height | Various |
| Soil Type | •Well-draining •Loam •Sandy •Neutral |
| Sunlight | ✔Full sun |
| Sowing Rate | 3g per square metre |
| Best Time to Sow | •March •April •May •September •October |
| Flowering Season | •May •June •July •August •September |
| Paper Daisy | Helipterum (Acroclinium) roseum |
| Pheasant's Eye | Adonis aestivalis |
| Pot Marigold | Calendula officinalis |
| Cornflower | Centaurea cyanus |
| Cosmos | Cosmos bipinnatus |
| Corn Poppy | Papaver rhoeas |
| Painted Daisy | Chrysanthemum carinatum |
| Dwarf Morning Glory | Convolvulus tricolor |
| Chinese Forget-Me-Not | Cynoglossum amabile |
| California Poppy | Eschscholzia californica |
| Fineflower | Gilia leptantha |
| Farewell To Spring | Clarkia (godetia) amoena |
| Baby's Breath | Gypsophila elegans |
| Baby's Breath | Gypsophila elegans Carmine |
| Candytuft | Iberis amara |
| Candytuft | Iberis umbellata |
| Love-In-a-Mist | Nigella damascena |
| Zinnia | Zinnia elegans |