A cottage garden favourite with the sweetest perfume33 clusters of flowers in shades of white pink and mauve are produced in summer on stiff upright stems the fragrant blooms of sweet william 39messenger39 are particularly attractive to bees and make a superb cut flower for a vase indoors often grown as a biennial this short lived perennial is ideal for cottage garden borders beds and containers height 60cm 4024amp343941 spread 30cm 4012amp343941