Six shades of pink for a garden full of flowers
Rose, pink and carmine bring lightness, warmth and an almost fairytale-like mood to the garden. Depending on the combination, the colour effect can be delicate and romantic, lively and playful or surprisingly modern. Together with white, especially soft planting schemes are created, while violet, blue or strong shades of green provide exciting contrasts.
The “Pink Garden Dream” seed gift set brings together six carefully selected flowering plants with very different growth forms and shades of pink. From delicate wildflowers to abundantly flowering summer flowers, it creates a varied collection for beds, natural-style garden areas and colourful flower patches. Each variety is supplied in its own seed packet, so the plants can be sown selectively and combined with one another.
Six pink-flowering flowers for varied garden displays
Red valerian (Centranthus ruber)
Native to the Mediterranean region, red valerian forms loosely branched flower heads in strong shades of pink to red and brings colour to the bed over a long period. It is robust, copes well with sunny and rather dry locations and is readily visited by various insects. Young leaves can be used in a similar way to lamb’s lettuce.
Garden cosmos / Cosmos 'Pink' (Cosmos bipinnatus)
This classic summer flower grows loosely and bushily and reaches about 80 to 100 cm in height. From June onwards, numerous large, daisy-like flowers appear in bright rose to pink shades. The delicate foliage and long flowering period make cosmos a particularly airy and elegant bedding plant.
Carthusian pink (Dianthus carthusianorum)
This native wild perennial bears intense rose to purplish-red flowers on slender stems and is especially well suited to sunny, rather dry locations as well as rock gardens and natural-style plantings. Its fragrant flowers are visited by various insects, and the plant can be valuable for butterflies such as the European peacock.
Pink evening primrose (Oenothera speciosa)
Pink evening primrose originates from the prairie regions of North and Central America. From June onwards, it produces numerous large, soft pink flowers and can develop into loose carpets of bloom in suitable locations. With its rather low growth, it is well suited to sunny bed edges, natural-style plantings and open garden areas.
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus)
This traditional cottage garden flower forms dense flower umbels and brings strong shades of pink to the set. Its flowers appear in early summer, are edible and are also very well suited as cut flowers. Sweet William combines nostalgic garden charm with a long and striking flowering period.
California poppy 'Carmine King' (Eschscholzia californica)
'Carmine King' is a particularly colour-intensive California poppy variety with bright carmine-pink to pink petals. The golden-yellow flower centre creates a strong contrast and makes the open cup-shaped flowers a special eye-catcher. This robust summer flower prefers sunny, well-drained locations and also copes well with rather dry conditions.
Flower diversity for bees, bumblebees and butterflies
The six species included differ not only in colour and growth, but also in flower shape and flowering time. This creates a varied offer for different garden insects over a longer period. Bees, bumblebees, hoverflies and butterflies find nectar and pollen on the open or tubular flowers, depending on the species.
Especially in natural-style gardens, the set combines well with other wildflowers and perennials. This creates not only a harmonious bed in terms of colour, but also a varied habitat with different flower structures and food sources.
Sowing and care of the Pink Garden Dream
As the set contains six different plant species, sowing time, germination behaviour and site requirements vary. Many of the summer flowers included can be pre-cultivated indoors or in the greenhouse in spring and planted outdoors after the last stronger frosts. Other species are well suited to direct sowing in their final location.
In general, most of the plants included prefer sunny places and loose, well-drained garden soils. During the germination phase, the seedbed should be kept evenly moist without waterlogging. Once established, red valerian, Carthusian pink and California poppy in particular are comparatively drought-tolerant.
The individual seed packets make it possible to sow each species according to its own needs and then combine them in the bed. The enclosed sowing instructions contain the most important information for successfully growing the six flower species.
A flowering gift for garden lovers
The seed gift set contains one seed packet each of red valerian, cosmos 'Pink', Carthusian pink, pink evening primrose, Sweet William 'Sweet William' and California poppy 'Carmine King'. The six seed packets are supplied together with detailed sowing instructions in German and English in decorative gift packaging.
This makes the “Pink Garden Dream” a sustainable gift for garden fans, flower lovers and everyone who enjoys sowing plants themselves. Put together by gardeners for gardeners, the set combines romantic flower colours with varied plant species and the joy of seeing a whole garden dream grow from tiny seeds.
