Wisps and crowns, plumes and spikes, pendulous and cloud like - they are all here in one embracing mixture. Invaluable if you never have enough material available for your arrangements. Ideal for bedding, border, everlasting flowers.

Packet should contain: Agrostis nebulosa, Agrostis pulchella, Briza maxima, Briza gracillis, Brome macrostachys, Brome uniloides, Festuca glauca, Panicum violaceum, Sorghum nigrum.

Best sown where they are to flower in spring. Sow very thinly 6mm (¼in) deep in rows 30cm (12in) apart in well cultivated soil which has been raked to a fine tilth.

Thin out the seedlings to 23cm (9in) apart and transplant the thinnings. They prefer a sunny site and well drained soil. Gather when the heads have changed colourbut before they start to break up, and hang them in bunches, heads down in a cool, dry, airy place.