Many flowers are now available all year round – at a price. The following is a guide to which flowers are most readily available and abundant at different times of the year.

SPRING: Wax flower (Chamaelaucium), lily of the valley, lilac, broom, snowball tree (Viburnum opulus ‘roseum’), guelder rose (Viburnum opulus), some early flowering peonies, cherry, apple, lemon and orange blossom, African corn lily, cow parsley (from late spring) and bulb flowers such as daffodil, narcissus, tulip, hyacinth, bluebell and grape hyacinth.

SUMMER: Lemon and orange blossom, cow parsley, meadowsweet, honeysuckle, jasmine, peony, phlox, stock, sweet william, marguerite, sweet pea, clarkia,  Alchemilla mollis, campanula, goldenrod, lilies, allium, poppy, lavender, sunflower, tuberose, monkshood, hydrangea, agapanthus, passion flower, euphorbia, ranunculus and a host of other flowers in a palette of shades and colours.

AUTUMN:  Goldenrod, love-lies-bleeding, hypericum (St John’s wort), yarrow, late-flowering honeysuckle, red-hot poker, crocosmia, dahlia, gladiolus, globe thistle, Chinese aster, globe amaranth, scabious, sedum, stonecrop, late-flowering sunflowers, zinnia, godetia, montbretia and a range of berries, attractive twigs and seedpods.

WINTER:  Hellebore, snowdrop, early bulb flowers such as hyacinth, daffodil, tulip, narcissus and amaryllis, protea, kangaroo paw, winter jasmine, holly and other berries and twigs.

AVAILABLE ALL YEAR: Rose, iris, arum lily, calla lily, other lily varieties, lisianthus, lysimachia, freesia, carnation, gerbera, baby’s breath (gypsophila), iris, alstroemeria, anemone, chrysanthemum, September flower, snapdragon, orchid, ornamental pineapple, bird of paradise (strelitzia), statice.