Jasione montana
An annual or bi annual with narrow leaves and blue flowers in summer.
Lunaria annua variegata
A biennial with attractive leaves of green, margined creamy white. Purple or purple-red flowers followed by flat seed pods.
Lysimachia atropurpurea
A bi annual with grey, crinkle-edged leaves with pale veins and attractive burgundy flowers. Self-seeds.
Nicotiana sylvestris
A pretty bi-annual with large basal leaves and nodding, sweet-scented, long tubed white flowers in summer.
Onopordum acanthium
A basal rosette of grey-green spiny leaves producing branched stems of thistle-like flowers in the second year.
Silybum marianum
A rosette-forming bi annual with spiny, glossy, dark green leaves with pretty white veins and marbling. In the second year bears thistle-like purple-pink flowerheads.
Smyrnium olusatrum
An upright biennial with dark green leaves and clusters of greenish yellow flowers. Good in a coastal garden.
Verbascum blattaria
A biennial with rosettes of green leaves. Erect stems of yellow flowers in summer.
Verbascum blattaria f. albiflorum
A biennial with rosettes of green leaves. Erect stems of white flowers in summer.
Verbascum thapsus
A robust biennial with rosettes of mid-green leaves. Produces erect densely woolly stems of saucer-shaped yellow flowers in the summer of the second year.