Hieracium, Spotted Hawkweed 'Leopard'

The real attraction this plant has to offer is the leaves, which come true from seed. It doesn't have a showy flower - it looks like a...Read More smaller, daintier dandelion. Like the dandelion, the seeds blow everywhere, and you will find this plant popping up all over your garden. If you don't want volunteers, cut off the flower before it goes to seed.

This is a perennial grown for its rosettes of very eye-catching deep grey-green foliage mottled with purple-bronze patches. In summer it ...Read Moreproduces yellow ‘hawkweed’ flowers on its thin stems.

Seed collecting: these flower heads produce seed very sinilarly to the dandelion, ie like 'dandelion-clocks'. collects seed quickly before it blows away!