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ACANTHUS mollis Hollard's Gold
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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Large, bold, golden-green glossy leaves appear in spring and are followed by large spikes of persistent pink and white hooded flowers.
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| ACHILLEA |
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| Yarrow or milfoil. A large family of easily grown garden perennials, particularly suitable for cutting and for drying. Plants range in colour from pure white through cream, lemon, gold, straw, terracotta, cerise, to scarlet. Most have tight heads or clusters of tiny flowers making broad flat heads most of which change colour as they age giving a multicoloured effect. Foliage is usually from grey to bright green and finely cut feathery leaves. All except some of the small alpine species are easily grown in an open sunny spot. Excellent plants for flower arranging. |
ACHILLEA Coronation Gold
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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An old variety but still outstanding for its large, bold lemon yellow flower heads over smart grey-green filigree foliage. Easy in sun or light shade. Good for cutting and drying.
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ACHILLEA Fanal
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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An older variety equal to the best with dense flat heads of dark crimson-red flowers and grey-green finely divided leaves.
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ACHILLEA Inca Gold
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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A distinct variety with flowers on many levels in subtle shades of marmalade, terracotta, sandstone, and cream over low feathery grey-green leaves. More robust than other varieties of this colour.
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ACHILLEA Lilac Beauty
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 70cm |
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Mats of fine feathery foliage and above on strong stems, broad flat heads of rosy-lilac. Cut back for a second flowering.
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ACHILLEA Moonshine
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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A superb plant with showy flat heads of clear lemon yellow flowers held well above the silvery filigree foliage.
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ACHILLEA Terracotta
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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Strong branching, upright stems carry broad flat heads of peachy-orange flowers which fade to creamy-yellow giving a rich tapestry effect. Grey-green filigree foliage makes a perfect foil. Cut back for re-blooming.
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| ACONITUM |
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| Monkshood or aconite. A large plant family of 300+ species only a few of which are in general cultivation. The garden forms range from 50cm up to 200cm and all have clustered pyramidal heads of distinctive hooded flowers usually blue or violet-blue but also white and bi-coloured. All make good garden plants with bold leaves usually of dark glossy green. Plants respond to good feeding with compost, manure or leaf mould. The roots if eaten are poisonous. |
ACONITUM Bressingham Spire
L. Summer on • Part Shade • 100cm |
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A strongly upright variety with five lobed glossy dark green leaves and large tapering heads of intense violet blue flowers.
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ACONITUM Ivorine
E. Summer • Part Shade • 60cm |
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Spikes of tightly clustered, cool ivory-white hooded flowers on strong stems of soft green, deeply lobed leaves. Part shade.
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| ACTAEA |
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| A genus which now includes cimicifuga and consists of medium to large perennial woodland plants grown for their attractive delicately cut green or purple divided foliage, round or bottlebrush fluffy flowers and in some forms very attractive white, red or black, glossy berries. All plants grow well in humusy retentive garden soil in woodland garden or open border. The berries are toxic if eaten. |
ACTAEA rubra ssp. arguta
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 50cm |
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Fluffy white pom-pom flowers and in autumn red berries. Wild collected seed from red and white berried forms.
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ACTAEA simplex Brunette
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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Dark purple-maroon foliage and rising above arching plumes of scented white flowers from pink buds. A taller form.
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| AGAPANTHUS |
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| African lily. Ten or more plant species from South Africa which have been used to produce many outstanding garden hybrids. All have clumps of arching strap like leaves and rounded clusters of blue, purple or white bell-shaped flowers which are good for cutting. Evergreen forms are usually quite tender and resentful of poor drainage. The deciduous hybrids, loosely called the Headbourne Hybrids, are completely hardy and adaptable to most garden situations though the ideal is a well drained soil in full sun. All garden forms lean strongly toward the sun. All do well in large pots but form large roots systems - use a tapered or straight pot. |
AGAPANTHUS Black Buddhist
Summer on • Full Sun • 80cm |
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A recent hybrid with cambridge blue flowers with a dark central band forming large heads on contrasting, purple flushed stems.
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AGAPANTHUS Dark blue seedlings
Summer • Full Sun • 50cm |
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Seed raised plants from the very darkest blues including Midnight Blue. A little smaller than the usual types and excellent for pots or sunny well drained place in the garden.
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AGAPANTHUS Lilliput
L. Summer • Full Sun • 40cm |
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A robust, clump forming, dwarf form with rounded clusters of deep blue flowers. Excellent for small pots or border edge.
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AGAPANTHUS Midnight Star
Summer on • Full Sun • 75cm |
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Tight eye catching heads of rich, dark, purple- blue buds open to mid blue flowers with dark violet blue anthers held on strong upright stems. Deciduous and hardy.
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AJUGA Black Scallop
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 15cm |
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An excellent groundcover with glossy deep purple rounded leaves and in spring dense spikes of dark blue flowers worth close examination to see the orchid like flowers marked with violet blue.
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AJUGA reptans Grey Lady
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 15cm |
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A small leaved variety with glossy, grey, evergreen leaves, marbled with purple in spring and autumn. Spikes of pastel blue flowers. Sun or shade.
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ALLIUM caeruleum
E. Summer • Full Sun • 60cm |
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Small clasping leaves disappear early and leave a forest of tall, wiry stemmed lollipops of brightest blue. Good for cutting and drying. Increases well.
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ALLIUM oreophilum
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 20cm |
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Loose globular heads of bright, cheerful, rosy pink flowers last for many weeks and are followed by rustling papery white seed heads. Easy in a sunny position where it increases well. Pot full.
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ALSTROEMERIA psittacina Royal Starr
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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Neatly variegated white edged lanceolate leaves below elegant stems carrying exotic lily like flowers of scarlet red, tipped with green and flecked maroon within. Long lasting cut flower.
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ANAPHALIS triplinervis Summer Snow
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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An excellent foil for other plants this grayling quickly makes a dome of lance shaped leaves and is smothered with tiny white everlasting flowers. Not for very dry soil.
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ANEMONE blanda White Splendour
Spring • Full Sun • 20cm |
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Large, pristine, starry white flowers cover the plant from March into April. Stunning on a sunny spring day. Containers or well drained soil in sun. Potful.
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ANEMONE hupehensis Ouverture
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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A scarce early flowering form which establishes quickly and produces masses of single, lilac-pink flowers, each petal with a paler edge giving a noticeable bi-colour effect. Shorter growing than most.
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ANEMONE hybrida Honorine Jobert
L. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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A beautiful old variety having pure white flowers with a golden centre. Equally good in sun or part shade.
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ANEMONE hybrida Lorelei
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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Semi-double flowers of platinum-pink each petal lighter toward the edge. A reliable variety in cultivation for over 100 years and still going strong. How many of us can claim that.
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ANEMONE hybrida Prinz Heinrich
L. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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A fine vigorous variety with semi-double flowers composed of narrow quilled petals of rich deep pink. Sun or part shade.
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ANEMONE hybrida Richard Ahrens
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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A scarce taller variety with striking long lasting semi-double, deep pink flowers which fade to blush. Dense weed smothering foliage.
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ANEMONE hybrida Serenade
L. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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Large, open, saucer shaped, semi-double pink flowers on this taller variety. Looks well in shade and will make effective ground cover in time.
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ANEMONE nemorosa Blue Eyes
E.Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 15cm |
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A double white form in which the centre of the flower turns blue as the flower ages.
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ANEMONE nemorosa Green Fingers
E.Spring • Part Shade • 15cm |
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Broad white rounded outer petals and a central ruff of green. Choice and unique.
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ANEMONE nemorosa Mart's Blue
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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A superb, vigorous dark blue form from Estonia which keeps its foliage until late summer. Better ground cover than other forms.
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ANEMONE nemorosa Robinsoniana
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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A large flowered vigorous form with upward facing soft lavender blue flowers.
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ANEMONE nemorosa Vestal
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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An outstanding pristine white double form which increases well.
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ANEMONE ranunculoides
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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An unusual 'wood anemone' with delicate yellow flowers over carpets of dark green foliage. Part shade. Retentive soil.
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ANEMONELLA thalictroides
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 30cm |
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A slowly spreading unique gem for dappled shade. Soft green 'maidenhair' foliage and loose umbels of white flowers. Choice.
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ANTHEMIS E.C.Buxton
Summer on • Full Sun • 60cm |
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A low wide mound of ferny dark green leaves topped by a profusion of clear lemon yellow, darker centered flowers. Fresh flowers from mid-summer to the frosts.
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ANTHEMIS Sauce Hollandaise
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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A recent introduction with the palest creamy yellow flowers over dark green filigree foliage. A good cut flower.
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AQUILEGIA pumila Atlantis
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 20cm |
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A neat dwarf plant producing blue-green leaves and large flowers of deep cambridge blue and a white corolla. Excellent for rockery pot or border edge.
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AQUILEGIA viridiflora
E. Summer • Part Shade • 50cm |
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A dignified Siberian native with delicate grey green white pointed foliage and fragrant green and maroon-brown flowers. Part shade.
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ARISAEMA amurense
E. Summer • Part Shade • 35cm |
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A Chinese species which produces one large 5 times divided, purple stemmed leaf and a white striped green or purple spathe followed by orange berries.
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ARISAEMA candidissimum
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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A beautiful 'Jack in the Pulpit' with sweetly scented pink and white striped spathes followed by broad three lobed leaves. Part shade. Late to emerge!
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ARISAEMA ciliatum
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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An easily grown hardy plant which produces an umbrella of narrow leaves and a spathe of lime green overlaid with maroony-brown stripes.
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ARISAEMA consanguineum ex CLD 1519
Summer • Part Shade • 50cm |
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Exotic white striped, brown hooded spathes forming below a large divided palmate leaf. Hardy here but best with a mulch. Part shade. Leafy soil. Late to emerge.
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ARISAEMA flavum
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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The flower are green flushed yellow outside and yellow with a red-brown patch inside and emerge with the palmate much divided leaves. A choice easily grown woodlander. Will self seed if happy.
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ARISAEMA griffithii
E. Summer • Part Shade • 60cm |
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Two large 3 lobed, copper edged leaves on marbled stems and below a large broad hooded flower, purple striped at the base and netted purple and green above. Easily grown when planted deeply in woodland shade.
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ARUNCUS dioicus Kneiffii
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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A choice Goats beard with large, elegant, finely divided lacy leaves and open plumes of feathery white flowers.
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ASTER amellus Blue King
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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A reliable, mildew free, long flowering aster producing open airy heads of large violet blue flowers each with a yellow centre.
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ASTER amellus Sonia
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Large, clear pink daisy flower cover the plant from late summer into autumn. A very 'clean' looking plant and one of the best amellus asters.
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ASTER amellus Violet Queen
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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An old and reliable cultivar flowering longer than other forms. The arresting intense violet flowers are held on self-supporting dark stems. Disease free.
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ASTER ericoides Pink Cloud
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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The thousands of small, pale lilac-pink flowers, produce a delicate frothy effect. Self-supporting and disease free. Good for cutting. Best in full sun.
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ASTER frikartii Monch
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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An excellent mildew free large flowered Aster of rich lavender blue giving a long display. One of the finest asters ever raised. Full sun or light shade.
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ASTER Little Carlow
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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A healthy, trouble free, hybrid aster which in late summer produces branching heads smothered in vibrant purple-blue flowers. Loved by butterflies.
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ASTER N.A. Andenken an Alma Potschke
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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Clumps of soft apple green foliage give no hint of the eye popping luminous salmon-pink daisy flowers to come. The antithesis of subtle planting but superb in a hot late summer border.
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ASTER pyrenaeus Lutetia
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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An elegant satisfying aster with loose mounds of branching stems is completely covered with narrow petalled pale lilac-blue daisies for weeks on end. Mildew free.
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ASTILBE arendsii Irrlicht
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 70cm |
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An excellent, perennial, clump forming, white flowered variety. The dense plumes of pure white flowers look particularly well above the very dark green foliage.
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ASTILBE Cattleya
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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An elegant open headed astilbe sporting dark bronzed green leaves and plumes of carnation-pink elegant flowers. Astilbes make excellent ground cover in moist soil.
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ASTILBE Fanal
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Handsome dark green, glazed, divided leaves and dense, dark crimson red spikes of fluffy flowers. A superb early flowering red variety.
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ASTILBE Jo Ophorst
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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A tall upright plant with erect plumes of rich rosy purple flowers held well above the mound of finely cut foliage.
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ASTILBE Sprite
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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Plumes of arching candy-floss pink flowers over a hummock of ferny dark glossy green foliage and in autumn russet red seed heads. Excellent as a border edge or feature plant in a large shady rockery.
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ASTRANTIA Bloody Mary
E. Summer on • Part-Deep Shade • 60cm |
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A bold, upright hybrid carrying dark tipped skyward pointing, blood red flowers over many weeks. A new variety with a distinctive form and better constitution than most of the red forms.
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ASTRANTIA Gill Richardson
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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A recent introduction with black tipped, wine-red flowers on strong almost black stems. This plant is more robust than other red forms and is sure to be an outstanding garden plant.
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ASTRANTIA major Roma
Summer on • Part-Deep Shade • 90cm |
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An easy, graceful, new, long flowering perennial plant producing flowers and bracts of clear rich pink throughout the summer. This plant has a special quality and is far more eye-catching than its pink colouration would suggest.
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ASTRANTIA major Ruby Wedding
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Altogether the richest glowing dark red flowers of any astrantia, intensified by purple-black stems and dark green purple tinted foliage. Rich soil and part shade. Pot grown divisions of the original plant.
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ASTRANTIA major Sunningdale Variegated
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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One of the most beautiful of variegated plants looking fresh from spring to autumn. The large palmate leaves are dipped along the edge in shades of white and primrose yellow. The papery, pin-cushion flowers are subtle shades of pink and green.
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ASTRANTIA Queens Children
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A very new variety producing dark red flowers over many weeks. Re-blooms when cut back in late summer. Time will tell if it is an improvement on the other reds.
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BAPTISIA australis
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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This sought after plant is a joy from the time the blue green leaves emerge in spring to the frosts when it turns jet-black. Rich indigo blue flowers top the plant in early summer. For deep soil in sun where it can be left undisturbed.
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BAPTISIA australis Purple Smoke
Summer • Part Shade • 90cm |
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A hybrid plant showing blue-green trefoil leaves and greyish stems carrying masses of pea like flowers of deep violet with a purple centre. Awarded perennial of the year in the USA.
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BRUNNERA Hadspen Cream
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 60cm |
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Soft pastel green heart shaped leaves with bold irregular margins of creamy yellow and in spring sprays of forget-me-not blue flowers.
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BRUNNERA Looking Glass
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 60cm |
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Large green veined, silvered leaves, becoming more metallic as they age and elegant, arching sprays of true blue forget-me-not flowers. Excellent ground cover in shade.
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BRUNNERA Mr Morse
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 60cm |
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Stunning large silver marked leaves with only the leaf veins showing dark green and sprays of elegant pure white flowers. Excellent ground cover in shade. Repeat flowers in autumn.
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CALAMAGROSTIS acutiflora Overdam
Foliage • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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An imposing upright grass with clean, bright, vertically white striped leaves and persistent purple flushed seed heads.
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CALTHA palustris Flore Pleno
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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Kingcup. A showy, long flowering, fully double form producing brassy yellow flowers over glossy weed smothering rounded leaves.
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CAMPANULA glomerata Caroline
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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An early flowering form making stout, weed smothering, leafy stems covered in rounded heads of darker tipped rose-pink flowers. Excellent ground cover and good on chalky soil.
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CAMPANULA glomerata Joan Elliot
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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Tightly clustered heads of rich violet blue, bell-shaped, flowers over weed smothering lanceolate leaves. Easy decorative groundcover.
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CAMPANULA pers. George Chiswell
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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A fine robust and beautiful cultivar with blue rimmed white flowers on strong self-supporting wiry stems. Evergreen. Do not overfeed.
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CAMPANULA Sarastro
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A bushy dome of almost evergreen leaves and standing proud many stems carrying large, pendant, rich violet-blue bells over a long season. Cutting back in late summer extends the season into autumn.
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CAMPANULA trachelium Bernice
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A beautiful form with fully double, soft lilac-blue flowers over clumps of narrow, lanceolate mid-green leaves. Best in full sun and retentive soil. Grows well on neutral or limey soil.
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CEPHALARIA gigantea
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 200cm |
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A tall elegant plant displaying large primrose yellow scabious flowers on strong self supporting wiry stems. The dark green basal foliage remains low enabling it to be planted in the middle of a border.
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CHRYSANTHEMUM Clara Curtis
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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An old variety which has stood the test of time and reliably makes a dome of clear, candy-floss pink single flowers, whiter at the centre and with a yellow pom-pom middle. Usually flowers until the first frosts. Excellent for cutting.
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CIRSIUM rivulare Atropurpureum
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 110cm |
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Dense ruby-red thistle heads on erect self supporting branching stems. Large rosettes of broadly divided dark green leaves. Not spiny. A classy plant.
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CLEMATIS eriostemon Hendersonii
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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A non-clinging herbaceous clematis that can be allowed to scramble between shrubs or grown up supports. The nodding 2" indigo-blue flowers are borne on long stalks. Prune to 12".
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CLEMATIS recta Velvet Night
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 400cm |
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An herbaceous clematis displaying velvety wine-purple foliage which will gently twine amongst other plants and display its clusters of starry white flowers throughout the summer.
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COREOPSIS verticillata Moonbeam
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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Pale primrose-yellow, dark centred starry daisies of unusual hue and aromatic, bronze tinted, ferny foliage. Any soil in full sun. Good for cutting.
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COREOPSIS verticillata Zagreb
Summer on • Full Sun • 35cm |
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A shorter, drought resistant form with flowers of clear golden yellow held above the feathery dark green foliage. Self-supporting. Any soil in full sun.
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CORYDALIS Berry Exciting
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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Bright yellow green tinged foliage and masses of dark tipped, fragrant, purple flowers. If it starts to fade in summer cut it back to continue flowering.
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CORYDALIS buschii
Spring • Part Shade • 25cm |
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Lush, leafy clumps of bright green ferny leaves emerge from very thin, wiry, yellow tubers and in early June dense clusters of soft red flowers.
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CORYDALIS malkensis
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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Showy, broad lipped white flowers in dense spikes. Grows well in the open garden on a rockery or raised bed in humusy soil.
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CORYDALIS paczoskii
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 12cm |
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Fine dark green pinnate leaves close to the ground and stems carrying compact spikes of purple tubular flowers. Humus rich soil. Sun or part shade.
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CORYDALIS solida Beth Evans
L. Winter on • Sun-Part Shade • 20cm |
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A very hardy, easily grown plant, flowering from February on and producing many flowered heads of coral-pink and white flowers.
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CORYDALIS solida G.P.Baker
L. Winter on • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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Soft ferny sage green leaves and many flowered spikes of bright red flowers. A real joy early in the year.
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CORYDALIS solida Mixed Shades
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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Seedlings from named forms including reds, whites, pinks and bi-colours.
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CORYDALIS solida Red Shades
L. Winter on • Part Shade • 20cm |
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Selected seedlings from a very dark red form, which are better than many of the named forms.
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CROCOSMIA Carmin Brillant
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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A fine form producing stems of dark red buds which open to paler dusky rose-red flowers with a small yellow centre. Good for cutting.
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CROCOSMIA Emily Mckenzie
L. Summer on • Full Sun • 60cm |
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Vigorous and hardy, this is a superb plant with very large open burnt orange flowers strikingly marked with large mahogany splashes on the inside.
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CROCOSMIA John Boots
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 70cm |
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A recent introduction from Holland with large outward facing, clear peachy-yellow flowers. A strong growing and hardy form.
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CROCOSMIA Mistral
Summer on • Full Sun • 100cm |
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A new large flowered cultivar with cheerful rose red upward facing flowers in profusion. Seems fully hardy and increases well. Full sun.
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CROCOSMIA Norwich Canary
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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A reliable, refined perennial with medium sized flowers of a rich peachy- yellow over pale green leaves later in the season. Full sun and retentive soil. Hardy.
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CROCOSMIA Saracen
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Grey bronzed leaves look well in early summer and perfect with the dark stemmed bright tomato red nodding flowers. An easy graceful plant.
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| Cyclamen are far hardier and easier to grow than most gardeners assume. Years of selling dried dead tubers garden centres have given them a reputation of being difficult. Both C. coum and C. hederifolium are very hardy and easily grown in a lightly shaded well drained position. An annual dressing of leaf mould or compost is all that is required. Tubers do not divide but plants will set seed and if care is taken not to disturb the young seedlings large colonies can be built up in time. All plants are pot grown in 7cm. pots. |
CYCLAMEN coum
Winter • Part-Deep Shade • 15cm |
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Often in flower before Christmas, this hardy species produces graceful rounded pink to magenta flower above kidney shaped dark green leaves.
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CYCLAMEN coum album
L. Winter on • Sun-Part Shade • 12cm |
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White flowered form of this hardy cyclamen.
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CYCLAMEN coum Maurice Dryden
L. Winter on • Part Shade • 8cm |
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A smaller form with silvered leaves edged with green and broad white flowers with a deep maroon blotch on the nose. Hardy. Humusy soil.
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CYCLAMEN coum Pewter Leaf
L. Winter on • Part-Deep Shade • 15cm |
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A tough hardy cyclamen with bold rounded pewter washed leaves and bright pink button flowers. Flower stems are flattened by heavy frost and snow but as soon as the thaw comes up they pop bright as ever.
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CYCLAMEN hederifolium
E. Autumn • Part-Deep Shade • 15cm |
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Large rose pink to magenta flowers emerge before the infinitely variable silver marked leaves which remain until May. Ideal for naturalising.
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CYCLAMEN hederifolium Silver Cloud
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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Silver washed leaves occasionally with darker netting and pink flowers.
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DARMERA peltata Nana
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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A dwarf form of darmera making flat heads of pale pink flowers in spring, followed by broad scallop-edged dark green leaves which turn vivid red in autumn. Waterside or retentive ground.
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DIANTHUS alpinus Joan's Blood
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 10cm |
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The neat cushions of narrow glossy green leaves are smothered in large vivid, magenta-pink flowers each with a contrasting dark purple eye.
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DIANTHUS India Star
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 20cm |
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A compact form with a long succession of red centred, bright rose pink, frilled flowers. Long flowering in a well drained sunny position.
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DIASCIA Blackthorn Apricot
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 35cm |
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One of the hardiest diascias flowering prolifically throughout the summer with a display of apricot-pink flowers on upright stems.
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DICENTRA Bacchanal
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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Very free flowering form with many dusky red clusters of flowers and ferny, finely lobed, lush green leaves. Good ground cover.
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DICENTRA canadensis
E.Spring • Part Shade • 20cm |
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Glaucous finely cut foliage and short racemes of white pink tinged flowers. For well drained soil in part shade.
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DICENTRA cuccularia Pink Punk
Spring • Part Shade • 15cm |
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A mat of finely dissected grey-green foliage and in spring spikes of shell pink flowers.
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DICENTRA King of Hearts
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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Worth growing for its blue-grey filigree foliage alone this form goes on to produce masses of nodding heart shaped flowers red-black in bud opening to deep pink.
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DICENTRA Luxuriant
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 45cm |
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This award winning plant has succulent grey-green filigree foliage and masses of bright cherry- red nodding heart shaped flowers. A tough reliable plant belying its delicate appearance.
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DICENTRA spectabilis
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A cottage garden favourite, the Ladies Locket bears long arching stems of dangling rosy-pink and white heart shaped flowers above elegant ferny foliage. Retentive soil sheltered position.
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DICENTRA spectabilis Alba
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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The white form of Ladies Locket is one of the most elegant of spring flowers. Pale green, delicately cut foliage and arching stems of purest white, locket-shaped flowers. Retentive soil.
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DIERAMA pulcherrimum
Summer • Full Sun • 120cm |
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Angel's Fishing Rod. Upright grassy foliage from which emerge tall arching wiry stems weighted with graceful rose pink to purple bells. Full sun. Retentive soil.
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DIGITALIS parviflora Milk Chocolate
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Shiny narrow linear leaves clothe the bottom of the stem and above are closely tiered chocolate brown tubular flowers with bright yellow anthers. May last 2-3 years but easily raised from seed.
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DODECATHEON jeffreyi
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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Shooting Star. This robust species forms a basal clump of smooth lanceolate leaves and bronzed upright stems carrying heads of reflexed, bright, shell-pink flowers. Goes dormant in midsummer.
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DODECATHEON meadia Queen Victoria
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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A robust, taller Shooting Star with basal clumps of smooth broad lance shaped leaves and clusters of pointed cyclamen like bright pink flowers held high on strong dark stems.
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DODECATHEON meadia Reds
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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Rosettes of leathery, spatulate leaves and dark stems carrying umbels of cyclamen like pointed flowers in shade of red. Seed raised plants from a rich red form.
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DODECATHEON redolens
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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Clumps of long linear leaves and tall stems carrying six or more lavender to violet flowers each with a yellow mouth and dark filament tube. Plants from wild collected seed.
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EPIMEDIUM Akakage
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 50cm |
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The young deep green leaves have a clear dark band around the leaf perimeter and early in the season many flowered sprays of pure white columbine-like blooms. A strong growing form making good ground cover in a shady spot.
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EPIMEDIUM perralchicum Frohnleiten
Spring • Part Shade • 30cm |
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A very neat form showing beautifully bronze-red marbled leaves in early spring and soon after, sprays of butter yellow flowers. Good autumn colour.
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EPIMEDIUM rubrum
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 45cm |
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Bronze-red flushed young foliage, turns pale green in summer and back to vivid shades of red in autumn. Sprays of crimson and pale yellow flowers in spring. Fine groundcover.
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EPIMEDIUM Sasaki
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 30cm |
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A dainty natural hybrid with soft purple-pink elfin spurless flowers over apple green leaves. Colours well in autumn.
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EPIMEDIUM versicolor Sulphureum
Spring • Part Shade • 30cm |
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Beautiful emergent bronze tinted leaves and airy sprays of soft yellow flowers. Good autumn colour.
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EPIMEDIUM warleyense
Spring • Part Shade • 40cm |
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A slowly spreading hybrid producing sprays of nodding yellow centred, orange flowers above pinnate leaves which colour well in spring and autumn.
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EPIMEDIUM youngianum Merlin
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 30cm |
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Purple flushed tawny-brown foliage emerges early in the year and is quickly topped with sprays of nodding white centred, purple-pink flowers. Excellent low ground cover for shade.
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ERANTHIS hymmalis
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 12cm |
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Winter Aconite. One of the earliest flowers to show producing bright yellow goblet flowers above a ruff of down turned dissected leaves. They always look as if they are about to be launched into space. Pot grown.
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ERYNGIUM alpinum Blue Star
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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The largest flowered sea-holly with broad, finely toothed, smooth, grey-green leaves and strong branching blue stems carrying bold metallic-blue cones surrounded by a soft lacy ruff. An excellent cut and dried flower. Good for bees.
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ERYNGIUM planum Fluela
Summer on • Full Sun • 75cm |
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An evergreen plant with leathery dark green leaves and blue stained stems carrying many branching heads of intense violet-blue cone shaped flowers and bracts. Full sun.
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ERYNGIUM zabelii Donard Variety
Summer on • Full Sun • 90cm |
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This form has large, freely produced, silvery blue cone shaped heads with a spiky collar. The grey green foliage is suffused with violet-blue.
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ERYSIMUM Bowles' Mauve
Spring on • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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Grey leaves and rich purple flower spikes. One of a very few plants which can be found in flower the year through. Flowering peaks in early summer. Will grow in light shade and seems to thrive longer.
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ERYSIMUM Golden Jubilee
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 20cm |
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A floriferous perennial wallflower that covers itself with bright lemon yellow crucifer flowers throughout the early summer. Trim back lightly for a second flowering. Troughs walls and rockeries are all suitable.
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| ERYTHRONIUM |
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| Dog's tooth violets or trout lilies. Over 20 species and a rapidly increasing number of beautiful hybrids. All except a few rare species are easily grown, early flowering bulbs ideal for part shade in humus rich soil. Many have beautifully marbled foliage and all have elegant nodding turkscap flowers. Foliage dies back by mid summer when a dressing of leaf mould or compost is beneficial. Ideal for under planting deciduous shrubs. Divide clumps in late summer and replant straight away. All plants are potted in 1/2 and 1 litre pots. |
ERYTHRONIUM californicum
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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The glossy leaves become more mottled in older plants and elegant nodding ivory white flowers usually with white anthers and a pale lemon centre. Seed raised.
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ERYTHRONIUM californicum White Beauty
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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Exquisite large pale cream flowers, yellow in the centre with a red throat ring and lustrous brown marbled leaves.
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ERYTHRONIUM dens canis
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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Heavily mottled oval leaves pink to purple flowers. Seed raised plants from the best named cultivars.
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ERYTHRONIUM dens canis Lilac Wonder
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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Dog's Tooth Violet. Broad oval leaves strongly marbled with purple-brown and flowers of rich purple each petal with a brown spot at the base forming central ring.
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ERYTHRONIUM dens canis Rose Queen
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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Broad, greyish green leaves are beautifully marbled with reddish-brown and clear pink reflexed flowers with a small maroon flecked white centre.
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ERYTHRONIUM dens canis Snowflake
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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Broad purple-brown marbled green leaves and reflexed white flowers suffused green and lightly speckled with red in the throat. A choice but easily grown form.
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ERYTHRONIUM Jeannine
Spring • Part Shade • 30cm |
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An excellent robust hybrid with glossy marbled leaves and large bright yellow flowers emerging from pink flushed buds. Increases well.
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ERYTHRONIUM multiscapoideum
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 20cm |
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Glossy, brown mottled, olive green leaves and branching stems of 4-7 sweetly fragrant flowers creamy white with a clear lemon yellow blotch within.
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ERYTHRONIUM Pagoda
Spring • Part Shade • 45cm |
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A robust vigorous form with brown marbled, dark green leaves and sulphurous yellow flowers.
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ERYTHRONIUM tuolumnense
E.Spring • Part Shade • 40cm |
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Vigorous species with green veined acid-yellow flowers. This is the true plant from wild collected seed.
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EUPHORBIA amygdaloides Craigieburn
Spring on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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An evergreen plant with slaty, deep green leaves and new growth of intense claret red in spring. The yellow and green flowers appear from spring to summer. Cut back for bright new growth.
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EUPHORBIA Blackbird
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A tight clump of deep pewter-green leaves and tip rosettes of bright maroon. From spring on light green red flushed flower heads top each stem. An evergreen plant providing colour through a mild winter.
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FESTUCA glauca Blue Fox
Foliage • Full Sun • 30cm |
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Eye catching clumps of bright blue-grey narrow leaves and upright spikes of blue-green flowers which fade to straw. Plants may be cut back to promote fresh growth. Border edge rockery or gravel garden suit well.
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FILIPENDULA rubra Venusta
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 200cm |
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A tall, stately plant with bold vine-like three lobed leaves and from mid-summer on large fluffy heads of fuchsia pink flowers. Darker in bud and paler centred petals give a pleasant bicolour effect on closer inspection.
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FILIPENDULA ulmaria Variegata
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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The desirable variegated form of our native meadowsweet which will produce bold, serrated cream variegated, dark green leaves throughout the summer. Heads of frothy sweetly fragrant white flowers held well above the foliage.
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FRAGARIA Red Ruby
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 20cm |
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An exceptionally long flowering strawberry with masses of bright cherry red flowers throughout the summer. Excellent for groundcover or trailing from a pot.
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FRANCOA sonchifolia Rogerson's Form
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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Tall erect stems of rose-purple flowers spotted with maroon and basal clumps of evergreen lobed leaves. An elegant airy plant for sun or part shade.
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FRITILLARIA acmopetala
Spring • Full Sun • 40cm |
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In well drained soil in sun this is an easy species which bulks up well. Pendant bell-shaped pale green flowers are flushed with maroon. For pots or troughs or well drained rockery.
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FRITILLARIA affinis
Spring • Part Shade • 40cm |
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A very variable frit. with whorls of broad grey green leaves and 8 or more striking semi-pendant large green flowers streaked and spotted with maroon.
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FRITILLARIA camschatcensis Aurea
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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The scarce yellow form with nodding bell shaped flowers in clusters, top the succulent stems of whorled glossy leaves. Rich woodland soil in part shade and constant moisture for best results.
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FRITILLARIA camschatcensis multiflora
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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Fully double purple-black nodding bell shaped flowers in clusters, top the succulent stems of whorled glossy leaves. Rich woodland soil in part shade and constant moisture for best results.
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FRITILLARIA meleagris
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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The native Snake's Head Fritillary. Beautiful nodding flowers in chequered patterns of dark purple to white. Retentive clay/silt soil. Pot grown.
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FRITILLARIA meleagris alba
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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Seed raised plants from the cultivar 'Aphrodite'. Pure white nodding flowers with the faintest green chequering. Retentive clay/silt soil. Naturalises well. Pot grown.
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FRITILLARIA michailovskyi
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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One of the easiest fritillaria for rockery or trough producing box-shaped nodding flowers of velvety maroon with a broad gold lip. Protect from winter wet. Several bulbs per pot.
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FRITILLARIA pallidiflora
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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In a well drained but not dry spot this is an easy to grow species producing lemon-yellow square topped flowers lightly speckled with red.
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FUCHSIA Overbecks Ruby
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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A small, hardy form suitable for growing in part shade, or sun. Throughout the summer it shows a succession of narrow pendant red and purple flowers.
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FUCHSIA Whiteknights Blush
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 150cm |
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A very hardy erect shrub which produces clear shell pink pendant flowers throughout the summer. Excellent in part shade. Can be cut back at any time.
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GALANTHUS S. Arnott
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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A tall, robust, large flowered Snowdrop with honey scented flowers which are usually open by mid-February. If you grow only one this is it. Sold in the green.
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GERANIUM Alan Mayes
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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A strong growing hybrid geranium with rich upward facing violet blue flowers held just clear of the foliage. Good autumn tints of red and orange.
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GERANIUM Chantilly
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 45cm |
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An Alan Bremner hybrid making a neat dome of leaves emerging soft yellow and turning green as the elegant soft lavender-pink flowers emerge. Repeat flowers if cut back.
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GERANIUM cinereum Giuseppii
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 15cm |
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Ash-grey rounded leaves form a broad mound which is covered for many months in bright magenta-pink dark centred flowers.
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GERANIUM cinereum subcaulescens
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 15cm |
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Startling flowers of intense crimson magenta each with a velvety black eye. Small grey-green scalloped leaves. Superb with any silver or grey companions. Well drained soil.
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GERANIUM clarkei Kashmir Purple
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 50x60cm |
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An outstanding ground cover geranium with finely cut filigree leaves and masses of boldly veined, white centred, rich violet-purple flowers.
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GERANIUM Elke
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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A low mat of small dark green filigree leaves and freely borne, strident purple-pink flowers softened by a white edge and centre to each petal. Long flowering and ideal for rockery border edge or gravel garden.
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GERANIUM himalayense Derrick Cook
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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An impressive new geranium forming mounds of weed suppressing foliage and masses of 5cm white flowers heavily 'eyelashed' with purple. In rich well fed soil makes much bigger plant. Good groundcover.
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GERANIUM Jean Armour
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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An oxonianum x traversii hybrid which makes 1m wide mats of silver green foliage and an endless succession of silver pink, white eyed flowers.
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GERANIUM macrorrhizum White-Ness
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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A compact, low growing, pure white flowered form of this excellent ground cover plant. Evergreen fragrant foliage. Sun or shade. Easy.
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GERANIUM Orion
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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A new cultivar with large open-faced bright hyacinth-blue flowers, paler toward the centre and veined with indigo blue. Easily grown and sure to become popular.
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GERANIUM oxonianum Thurstonianum
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A pleasing oddity with soft purple-brown blotched foliage and bright reddish-purple, white eyed flowers composed of narrow, strap like petals.
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GERANIUM Patricia
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 45cm |
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A long flowering psilostemon hybrid retaining the bright magenta pink petals and purple-black eye. Growth at first upright becomes more lax later. Excellent under plant or groundcover.
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GERANIUM renardii Tcschelda
Spring on • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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Very neat mounds of rounded, felted, grey-green softly hairy leaves and open faced, soft blue flowers heavily veined with violet blue.
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GERANIUM sanguineum Glenluce
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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A distinctive form with large rose pink flowers. Found by A.T. Johnson on the coast near here. Any soil . Sun or part shade.
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GERANIUM sanguineum Max Frei
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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A newer variety making neat mats of small rounded deeply divided leaves and masses of dark magenta crumpled silk flowers. Good autumn colour.
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GERANIUM sinense
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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An unusual geranium making a mound of dark slightly marbled leaves and deep maroon reflexed flowers surrounding a scarlet beak. Subtle and intriguing.
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GERANIUM Sue Crug
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50x80cm |
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A clump forming long flowering plant with many dark eyed magenta-pink, purple veined flowers. Good non-spreading ground cover.
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GERANIUM sylvaticum Amy Doncaster
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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Stunning intense pure blue flowers with a contrasting clear white eye over bold broadly segmented leaves. The best and bluest form of sylvaticum. Retentive soil in part shade.
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GERANIUM sylvaticum Mayflower
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 70cm |
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A beautiful early flowering plant with intense violet-blue flowers each with a clear white eye. This upright makes good ground cover in part shade and retentive soil.
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GERANIUM Westray
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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An excellent new hybrid from Alan Bremner producing masses of bright coral-pink flowers over almost evergreen foliage. Orange and red autumn shades. Good low ground cover. Sun or shade.
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GERANIUM wlassovianum
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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A scarce species providing bronzed foliage in spring, velvety dusky green leaves in summer then purple veined violet flowers and rich autumn colour. Perfect.
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| GEUM |
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| A group of robust, long flowering perennials with dense clumps of downy fresh green leaves and branching stems of five petalled brightly coloured flowers held well above the foliage. Sun or part shade, not too dry. Divide every 3-4 years. |
GEUM Blazing Sunset
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 65cm |
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Very large, fully double flowers of vivid scarlet red on strong branching stems hover over weed suppressing basal leaves.
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GEUM Karlskaer
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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A neat compact geum making mounds of softly hairy scalloped leaves and masses of upward facing peachy-orange flowers.
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GEUM Nordek
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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Bright orange red flowers are produced profusely from early in the year and a second flush in late summer especially if cut back after flowering.
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GEUM Prinses Juliana
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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New robust stock of this long flowering, double, peachy-orange flowered old variety. Divide regularly.
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GEUM Red Wings
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 45cm |
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A long flowering plant with semi-double open faced scarlet flowers on branching wiry stems. Cut back in late summer for a second flowering.
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GILLENIA trifoliata
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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A refined plant showing red flushed stems and olive-green trifoliate leaves below sprays of hovering snow white starry flowers.
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HELENIUM Rubinzwerg
Summer on • Full Sun • 60cm |
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A compact variety with large dusky maroon-red daisy flowers with a chocolate brown central cone surrounded with yellow stamens. A good cut flower.
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HELENIUM Wyndley
Summer on • Full Sun • 80cm |
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Excellent for a late summer display, this form has bold flowers of bronze and yellow surrounding a chestnut brown central boss. Good cut flower.
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HELIANTHEMUM Highdown Apricot
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 20x30cm |
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This Rock Rose produces masses of papery pale apricot flowers each with a dark peachy centre to complete the fruit salad. Repeat flowers in autumn. Trim back after flowering.
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HELLEBORUS atrorubens
E.Spring • Part Shade • 45cm |
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A deciduous species producing large, circular, divided, finely toothed leaves and open flowers purple outside, flushed with jade-green inside. Sun to part shade.
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HELLEBORUS dumetorum
E.Spring • Part Shade • 30cm |
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A choice diminutive species showing its pale edged green flowers before the narrowly divided leaves emerge. Deciduous. Shade and humusy soil.
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HELLEBORUS purpurascens (WM9644)
L. Winter on • Part Shade • 40cm |
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Clusters of 4 or more pendant purple flowers, green, or purple-green on the inside. Much divided palmate leaves. From true wild collected seed.
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HELLEBORUS sternii Boughton Beauty
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Strongly marbled grey-green leaves flushed pink on the reverse and flowers of creamy-green and pink . Superb. Full sun.
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HELLEBORUS torquatus
E.Spring • Part Shade • 45cm |
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This is the true species. Circular finely divided leaves and flowers in shades of purple and brown hopefully with the sea-green centre that is so desirable. Deciduous.
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HEMEROCALLIS Alaqua
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 65cm |
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Almost evergreen linear leaves and branching stems carrying creamy pink flowers painted with a dark maroon eye and picotee edge to the petals. Full sun in the north.
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HEMEROCALLIS Amadeus
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A robust form with large 14cm rounded flowers of velvety, scarlet red each with a small yellow-green throat. A forerunrer of many red forms but still out in front in British gardens. Reblooms.
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HEMEROCALLIS Baby Talk
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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Broad petaled open flowers of delicate creamy-pink and a purple-rose halo and green throat. A smaller long flowering classy cultivar.
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HEMEROCALLIS Corky
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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A classic daylily of unique colour. Mahogany backed golden yellow flowers emerging from mahogany buds on self supporting wiry stems.
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HEMEROCALLIS El Desperado
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Large sulphur yellow flowers with a deep purple picotee edge and large purple eye. A variety which does well anywhere in the U.K.
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HEMEROCALLIS Frans Hals
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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A classic older, bicoloured variety with open faced starry flowers of bright rust red with creamy yellow midribs and yellow bracts. Robust and easy.
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HEMEROCALLIS Gentle Shepherd
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 65cm |
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Very fine almost evergreen leaves and rounded, gently ruffled, ivory white flowers with a pastel green throat. Not as vigorous as some but the whitest daylily yet.
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HEMEROCALLIS Golden Chimes
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 45cm |
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Masses of dainty bell shaped golden yellow flowers from mahogany buds and stems. A graceful variety flowering well in any situation.
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HEMEROCALLIS Happy Returns
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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A smaller form with ruffled petals of clear light yellow shading to green in the throat. Excellent in containers.
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HEMEROCALLIS Moonlit Masquerade
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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Stunning warm white, ruffled, overlapping petals with a bold purple-black eye and small green throat. A beautiful exotic flower on a robust easy plant.
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HEMEROCALLIS Neyron Rose
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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Like all daylilies this plant is early into leaf quickly forming bold clumps with broad petalled flowers of raspberry-red centrally banded with creamy-white.
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HEMEROCALLIS Penelope Vestey
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 70cm |
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Large tapered lily-shaped flowers of deep pink with a deeper halo & orange throat.
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HEMEROCALLIS Stella De Oro
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 35cm |
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The most prolific of evergreen daylilies producing brassy yellow rounded flowers from early summer to the autumn.
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HEMEROCALLIS Whichford
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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A taller elegant plant displaying large, fragrant, recurved flowers of primrose-yellow with a green throat.
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HEPATICA Gyousei
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 10cm |
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A distinct type with luminous deep magenta red flowers and dark bronze green foliage. Good in a trough, spectacular in the cold greenhouse.
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HEPATICA nobilis var. japonica
E.Spring • Part Shade • 10cm |
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Only marginal differences from the type. Slightly smaller plants with more pointed flower petals but a rich variety of colours, white, blue, purple or pale pink.
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HEUCHERA Rachel
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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The leaves emerge a beautiful pinky-purple and darken to a metallic purple as they age. Airy tall spikes of small bright pink flowers on strong purple stems.
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HEUCHERELLA alba Bridget Bloom
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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A prolific hybrid displaying an endless succession of starry pink and white flower spikes on reddish stems held high above clumps of light green mottled leaves. The dainty flowers are composed of sets of white and deep pink petals.
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HOSTA Brim Cup
E. Summer • Part Shade • 40cm |
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A classy smaller hosta with broad rounded quilted leaves having a broad outer edge of creamy white and the centre third of avocado green. Spikes of pale blue flowers in early summer.
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HOSTA Frances Williams
E. Summer • Part-Deep Shade • 80cm |
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One of the finest Hostas ever, with large, textured, glaucous blue-green leaves overlaid with beige and butter yellow. Part shade retentive soil. Choice and unique.
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HOSTA Halcyon
Foliage • Part-Deep Shade • 40cm |
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A smaller growing tardiana hybrid with silvery blue-grey leaves, covered with a waxy bloom. The profuse dark lilac flowers look well with the foliage.
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HOSTA Patriot
Foliage • Part-Deep Shade • 60cm |
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A stunning sport from Francee and the 'cleanest' variegation on any we have seen. Large sumptuous dark green leaves and an irregular, clearly defined, white margin.
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HYPERICUM olympicum Citrinum
E. Summer • Full Sun • 25cm |
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A dome of small linear blue-green leaves and in early summer masses of disproportionately large acid lemon flowers and a starburst of long anthers. Rockery or pot or any sunny well drained spot.
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INCARVILLEA delavayi Bees' Pink
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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An easily grown exotic looking plant with dark glossy green pinnate leaves and heads of large gloxinia-like clear pale pink flowers. Full sun and retentive soil.
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IPHEION Alberto Castillo
L. Winter on • Sun-Part Shade • 20cm |
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Narrow linear grassy leaves appear in autumn and throughout the winter upward facing clean white starry flowers. Rockery or well drained border.
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IPHEION Charlotte Bishop
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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Six petaled soft pink starry flowers appear over the glossy grass like leaves, from late winter on peaking in early spring. Well drained soil.
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IPHEION Jessie
L. Winter on • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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This form has the darkest most penetrating blue of all. New to us and hardy so far.
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IPHEION Rolf Fiedler
L. Winter • Sun-Part Shade • 20cm |
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A clump forming bulb which starts into growth in early winter and starts to produce its open star shaped vivid blue flowers from December on. Fully hardy in well drained soil.
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IRIS chrysographes Black form
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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Almost black, dark velvety purple flowers with a bright splash of gold on the falls. Very free flowering. For an open border or part shade.
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IRIS ensata Dramatic Moment
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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Large rounded white flowers variably suffused with palest pastel blue. Retentive soil in sun or part shade.
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IRIS ensata Moonlight Waves
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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A high impact plant showing very large pure white flowers each petal with a central lime-green brush mark. Moist or even wet soil.
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IRIS ensata Rose Queen
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 70cm |
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Erect branching stems carry large distinguished flowers with broad drooping falls in a warm dusky rose. For retentive soil not boggy.
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IRIS Green Spot
E. Summer • Full Sun • 30cm |
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An unusual dwarf bearded iris with broad white waxy petals blotched with emerald green on the horizontally held falls. Sweetly scented.
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IRIS Hocus Pocus
E. Summer • Full Sun • 30cm |
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A very unusual iris with flowers of lavender to purple above and falls of copper-bronze with a violet-blue beard. How's that for unusual.
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IRIS Katharine Hodgkin
L. Winter on • Full Sun • 20cm |
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A hybrid iris flowering early in the year. It has distinctive flowers with blue veined creamy standards and pale yellow falls spotted and veined with royal blue. Trough or rockery.
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IRIS Orange Caper
E. Summer • Full Sun • 30cm |
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A dwarf bearded iris producing large flowers of bright brassy yellow and an orange beard. Easy even in northern gardens. Well drained soil.
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IRIS p. Argenta Variegata
E. Summer • Full Sun • 60cm |
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Grown principally for the grey-green white variegated leaves the soft blue flowers are a bonus. A striking foliage plant for a sunny well drained position.
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IRIS Pogo
E. Summer • Full Sun • 30cm |
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An unusual and understated iris with soft yellow flowers marked with red-brown on the falls. Like all dwarf bearded irises does well north and south.
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IRIS pseudacorus Variegata
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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A choice plant with broad linear creamy-yellow variegated leaves in spring and in early summer bold yellow flowers.
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IRIS robusta Gerald Darby
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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Arresting violet stained leaf bases and purple tinted flower stems carrying up to four violet blue blooms. For retentive or even moist soil.
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IRIS setosa var arctica
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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A dwarf form with large flowers of rich purple-blue and narrow grey-green leaves. Easy in any soil, full sun. Rock garden or open border.
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IRIS sibirica Cambridge
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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A much admired iris with richly pigmented cambridge blue flowers with a golden splash on the falls.
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IRIS sibirica Ego
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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Sheaves of linear dark green leaves topped by large wavy edged flowers of rich oxford blue.
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IRIS sibirica Moonsilk
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 70cm |
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This is an award winning cultivar with elegant creamy yellow flowers. Distinctive and easy in moist soil.
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IRIS sibirica Persimon
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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Large substantial flowers with rounded petals of purple-blue above neat tufts of bright green linear leaves.
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IRIS sibirica Silver Edge
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 70cm |
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A robust form with elegant royal blue flowers beautifully edged with glistening white and enhanced by clumps of blue green leaves.
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IRIS versicolor Kermesina
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 65cm |
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Grey green upright leaves stop just short of the strong branched stems each carrying 4 or more open flowers rich claret in colour. Long flowering and easy in moist soil.
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KIRENGESHOMA palmata
L. Summer on • Part Shade • 80cm |
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A distinctive woodlander with long, waxy, butter yellow, shuttlecock flowers and maple like leaves on purple flushed stems .
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KNIPHOFIA Bee's Lemon
L. Summer on • Full Sun • 90cm |
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Broad, dense heads of clear citrus yellow, opening from bright green buds and clumps of narrow, toothed, dark green leaves. Very hardy.
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KNIPHOFIA Drummore Apricot
Summer on • Full Sun • 100cm |
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Bred locally by John May this outstanding form has large peachy-yellow flowers, darker at the tip and held on bronzy stems. Hardy and robust.
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KNIPHOFIA Green Jade
L. Summer on • Full Sun • 120cm |
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A strong growing cultivar with narrow keeled leaves and strong bronzed stems carrying large twice tapered flowers shading from green through cream to white.
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KNIPHOFIA Jenny Bloom
Summer on • Full Sun • 85cm |
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Very narrow dark green leaves and slender flowers opening from peachy-red buds and shading to cream.
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KNIPHOFIA Nancy's Red
Summer on • Full Sun • 60cm |
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A shorter, vigorous, narrow leaved variety with flowers of bright coral red. Long flowering and easy.
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LATHYRUS vernus
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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An upright, bushy, clump forming plant with dark stemmed fresh green foliage and many purple-blue or pink spikes of pea flowers. One of the first border perennials to flower and deserving of a place in any garden.
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LAVANDULA Peter Pan
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 50cm |
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A dense compact variety with silvery grey foliage and fragrant flowers, purple- black in bud, opening to deep purple. Prune or pick regularly to keep the plant compact. Good drainage in winter is important.
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LEUCANTHEMUM x superbum T.E.Killin
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 70cm |
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Invaluable for late colour in the garden this variety makes broad mound of dark green leaves and a profusion of semi-double anemone centred white flowers around a yellow disc.
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LEUCOJUM aestivum Gravetye Giant
Spring • Part Shade • 50cm |
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An easy robust perennial making clumps of glossy dark green leaves and in spring strong stems carrying six or more white, flared, pixie hat shaped flowers, each with a bold green tip.
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LEUCOJUM vernum
E.Spring • Part Shade • 20cm |
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This snowflake produces its broad, bell shaped, green tipped white flowers in early spring and is best in a damp soil. Can be naturalised in short grass.
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LIGULARIA Zepter
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 150cm |
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Big bold glossy green leaves and towering vertical spires of closely spaced orange-yellow flowers on chocolate brown stems.
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LILIUM Dark Red (asiatic)
Summer • North Facing • 60cm |
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A superb vigorous form for which we have no cultivar name. The dusky, dark red, open, cup-shaped flowers are upward facing and are produced over many weeks.
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LILIUM lancifolium flaviflorum
L. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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Tiger lily. A vigorous clump forming Japanese lily which in this form makes a pyramid of 20 or more clear pale lemon recurved flowers with raised violet-purple spots.
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LILIUM Marhan
Summer • Full Sun • 150cm |
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An award winning lily cultivated for over 100 years and still as good as ever. Wide open heads of elegant, recurved, chestnut-orange spotted flowers. Easy in well drained retentive soil.
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LILIUM martagon v cattaniae
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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A scarce form with dark purple-black glossy turks cap flowers.
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LILIUM medeoloides
Summer • Part Shade • 75cm |
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Wheel Lily. A Japanese species producing whorls of stalkless lance shaped leaves and clusters of 3-7 reflexed, purple spotted, amber to orange nodding blooms. Acid soil.
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LILIUM nepalense
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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A stunning species producing 2 or 3 enormous, flared, lime green flowers heavily stained with maroon inside. Acid humusy soil. Sheltered spot or cold greenhouse.
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LILIUM superbum
L. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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A graceful, robust, North American species showing 20 or more large recurved rich orange-red flowers spotted with maroon. Easy in retentive humusy soil. Naturally small bulbs.
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LOBELIA Bee's Flame
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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Dark green bronzed leaves and strong upright spikes of rich scarlet flowers. One of the hardiest varieties.
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LOBELIA siphilitica
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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An easy, hardy lobelia with upright spikes of long lasting, two lipped cambridge blue flowers opening from purple striped buds.
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LOBELIA Tania
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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The spear shaped leaves and stems are a bronzy burgundy-green and above this rise long spikes of vivid magenta purple flowers.
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LYSICHITON camtschatcensis
E.Spring • Part Shade • 90cm |
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Very early in the year the fragrant, waxy snowdrop-white spathes emerge giving a superb display and followed by huge stately leaves.
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LYSIMACHIA Candella
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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A new compact variety with lush, fresh green foliage and nodding spires composed of hundreds of small, five petalled, clean white flowers.
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LYTHRUM salicaria Robert
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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Purple Loostrife. An upright branching perennial ablaze with many spikes of rosy-purple flowers from summer into autumn. Happy in any good soil even boggy
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MACLEAYA cordata Flamingo
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 200cm |
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Plume Poppy. A very unusual tall perennial with large grey-green leaves (buff beneath) and huge plumes of elegant buff-pink flowers. Long flowering non-running.
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MAIANTHEMUM canadense
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 25cm |
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A woodland plant making gentle ground cover in shady spots. Pairs of shiny pointed oval leaves and spikes of fluffy pure white flowers. Red berries are occasionally produced in autumn.
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MAIANTHEMUM stellatum
E.Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 35cm |
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Arching stems carry pairs of glossy leaves and in early spring clusters of starry white flowers followed by red berries in autumn. Good ground cover for shady even dry spots.
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MECONOPSIS Lingholm
E. Summer • Part Shade • 120cm |
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This is the classic Blue Poppy which is worth every effort to grow well. Enormous gracefully nodding electric blue flowers and sumptuous rich green leaves. Rich retentive soil (not wet) in cool shade.
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MISCANTHUS sinensis Variegatus
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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An elegant slow growing grass with self-supporting stems clothed with arching, billowy, leaves variously striped with creamy-white. Long lasting silky, tassel flowers appear in midsummer. Makes a pleasing rustling sound in the breeze.
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MONARDA Earl Grey
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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A new monarda with the upper leaves red tinged and whorls of hooded flowers in dusky crimson red. Deadhead if possible to prolong flowering into autumn. Moist well watered soil prevents mildew.
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MORINA longifolia
Summer • Full Sun • 90cm |
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Glossy, thistle-like fragrant leaves form a wide rosette and strong, self-supporting stems carry whorls of hooded white flowers which nod, and blush to pink and crimson after fertilisation. Dries well. Good drainage in sun.
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MUSCARI Valerie Finnis
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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A classy muscari starting growth in mid-winter and in early spring producing conical heads of powder blue flowers. Potful. Excellent for naturalising.
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NEPETA faassenii Kit Cat
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 50cm |
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A very neat small catmint showing petite grey-green crinkled oval leaves and throughout the summer a long succession of bright blue flowers on strong spikes held well above the foliage.
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NEPETA racemosa Walker's Low
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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This tough, drought resistant perennial has neat aromatic grey-green leaves and open sprays of vibrant violet-blue flowers. Cut back to maintain flowering. Ignored by cats.
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NEPETA sibirica Souvenir d' Andre Chaudron
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 45cm |
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A very large flowered catmint with spode blue flowers over a long period. The flowers are carried on erect stems above grey-green foliage. Full sun.
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OMPHALODES verna Alba
Spring • Part Shade • 25cm |
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Choice ground cover for a shady position. Mats of pale green heart shaped leaves and sprays of pure white forget-me-not flowers in early spring.
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ORNITHOGALUM magnum
E. Summer • Full Sun • 75cm |
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A robust plant for a hot sunny site in well drained soil. Strong upright stems carry elongated heads of scented, six petalled, starry, pristine white flowers. Several bulbs per pot.
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ORNITHOGALUM nutans
E. Summer • Full Sun • 30cm |
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Slightly nodding green centred satiny white flowers in scapes of eight or more. Excellent for naturalising below shrubs or in grass. Pot full.
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OXALIS articulata
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 20cm |
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A free flowering south American species with pastel green clover like leaves and a long succession of bright candy-floss pink flowers. Exceptionally long flowering but not invasive.
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PAEONIA Bowl of Beauty
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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A robust reliably flowering peony with a large bowl of coral pink petals filled with hundreds of creamy white narrow petals.
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PAEONIA lactiflora Sarah Bernhardt
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 85cm |
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An upright perennial bearing large, candy-floss-pink, fully double peony flowers, the inner petals are frilled with silver margins.
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PARAHEBE Porlock
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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A mat forming shrublet with dark, glossy evergreen foliage and loose sprays of lavender blue, red whiskered, flowers each with a red eye. Ideal for rockeries, gravel garden or border edge.
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PENSTEMON Hewell's Pink
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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An old hybrid which has stood the test of time producing spikes of flared tubular flowers blossom pink outside paler inside with a splash of red. Hardy if well drained. Evergreen in a mild winter.
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PENSTEMON King George V
Summer on • Full Sun • 60cm |
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Clusters of scarlet red flowers with red striped white throats, giving an overall red and pink effect. Full sun and good drainage.
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PENSTEMON Stapleford Gem
Summer on • Full Sun • 50cm |
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This is the plant often sold as 'Sour Grapes' but whatever it's name it is a beautiful plant having flowers of pale amethyst blue and cream. Full sun.
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PEROVSKIA Blue Spire
L. Summer on • Full Sun • 100cm |
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Upright grey stems and aromatic silvery-grey leaves, white beneath, and in late summer clouds of small violet-blue flowers in tall open panicles. Full sun, poor soil.
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PERSICARIA amplexicaulis Alba
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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Clump forming, weed smothering, almost evergreen plants with masses of narrow white tapered flowers on tall stems. Long flowering.
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PERSICARIA amplexicaulis Inverleith
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Large wavy edged heart shaped leaves make excellent groundcover and in summer long tapering heads of deep brick-red flowers. Long flowering late into autumn.
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PERSICARIA v. Painter's Palette
Foliage • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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A mounding plant with dramatic cream and green elliptic leaves each with a bold maroon chevron and pink tinges through the leaf and stem.
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PHLOX adsurgens Wagon Wheel
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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A prostrate phlox producing mats of small shining leaves covered with clusters of starry shrimp-pink flowers. Best in cool acid soil. Pot, trough or shady spot on a rock garden.
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PHLOX arendsii Luc's Lilac
Summer on • Full Sun • 80cm |
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A hybrid phlox with deep green leaves and richly perfumed, large heads of small, bright lilac pale eyed flowers over many weeks.
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PHLOX carolina Miss Lingard
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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A scarce plant with cylindrical heads of fragrant, elegant pure white flowers on strong purple spotted stems. The glossy rich green foliage is mildew resistant.
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PHLOX Chattahoochee
Spring on • Sun-Part Shade • 30x50cm |
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A desirable plant with lax stems of narrow linear leaves and broad petalled flowers of deep lavender and a purple eye. Part shade and humusy soil but a challenge to grow well.
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PHLOX d. Clouds of Perfume
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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A semi-evergreen woodland phlox which produces loose panicles of flat faced powder blue flowers over a broad mound of downy foliage. True to name it is very fragrant.
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PHLOX maculata Alpha
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Elegant self supporting stems carry well spaced heads of soft lilac-rose flowers over many weeks. Sun or part shade.
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PHLOX maculata Natascha
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A new and choice variety with bi-coloured, outward facing flowers of rose pink overlaid with a white star. Mildew free.
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PHLOX maculata Omega
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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Cylindrical heads of outward facing, fragrant, pure white flowers each with a small pink eye. Mildew free and easily grown.
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PHLOX maculata Rosalinde
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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An elegant upright self-supporting phlox with very richly coloured, purple-pink fragrant flowers in large cylindrical heads. Easy in any soil in sun.
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PHLOX paniculata David
L. Summer on • Full Sun • 110cm |
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A self supporting robust variety with large heads of scented pure white flowers. Seems mildew free. Early and long flowering.
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PHLOX paniculata Nicky
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 100cm |
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An unusual phlox whose colour changes throughout the day. The large magenta-purple heads gradually darken to purple as the sun goes down.
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PHLOX paniculata Starfire
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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Large heads of intense scarlet flowers set off beautifully by the purple flushed foliage.
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PHLOX paniculata Tenor
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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An early flowering variety producing large heads of showy scarlet flowers from midsummer on. Retentive soil in sun is best.
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PHYGELIUS rectus Salmon Leap
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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A vigorous evergreen sub-shrub with dark green glossy leaves and a long display of coral-orange pendant, tubular flowers held in large open panicles.
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PLEIONE formosana Oriental Splendour
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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Surprisingly hardy Orchid for a well-drained, humusy, sheltered spot or cold greenhouse. Five stunning lilac-pink linear petals behind a frilled white tube marked inside with reddish brown.
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POLEMONIUM reptans Pink Dawn
Spring on • Sun-Part Shade • 45cm |
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A low growing Jacob's Ladder with bronze tinted leaves and a long succession of mauve-pink flowers in terminal clusters. Excellent early perennial for border edge or shade garden.
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POTENTILLA Arc-en-ciel
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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Large semi-double orange-red flowers irregularly suffused yellow on the petal tips and a contrasting dark eye. Long flowering and easy in most soils.
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POTENTILLA Emilie
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A larger potentilla with fully double bright cherry-red flowers and yellow highlights on some of the petal tips. Excellent for ground cover in a large border.
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POTENTILLA Esta Ann
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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A low growing trailing variety with cheerful bright yellow flowers splashed with red at the base of each petal. Best in sun.
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POTENTILLA Etna
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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Almost evergreen this perennial produces semi-double bowl shaped dusky crimson flowers with a dark centre. An easy long flowering perennial.
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POTENTILLA Flambeau
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Grey, silver edged strawberry leaves are the perfect background for the intense dark red velvety flowers. Full sun or part shade.
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POTENTILLA Helen Jane
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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A beautiful long flowering Potentilla with masses of pure pink flowers over low wide mats of small strawberry leaves. Does well in sun or part shade.
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POTENTILLA Volcan
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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A long flowering variety producing brooding, dark dusky-vermillion double flowers looking velvet-black in the centre before they fully open.
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PRIMULA Dark Rosaleen
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 15cm |
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The lustrous bronzed leaves have a pink mid-rib and go perfectly with the claret red flowers, each petal having a white splash down the centre. A choice primula sure to become very popular. Not for wet soil.
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PRIMULA David Valentine
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 10cm |
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A neat polyanthus type with small heavily veined dark green leaves and large heads of flat-faced lavender-purple flowers. From John Richards.
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PRIMULA Inverewe
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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One of the most sought after candelabra primula producing whorls of intense burnt orange-red flowers. Vigorous plants from virus free stock.
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PRIMULA japonica Miller`s Crimson
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A robust candelabra primula with rosettes of large broad leaves and whorls of dark eyed crimson flowers arranged in tiers up the strong stems.
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PRIMULA Peter Klein
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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A small choice P. clarkii hybrid with rosettes of dark green leaves and masses of bright pink flowers.
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PRIMULA Sir Bedivere
Spring • Part Shade • 20cm |
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A scarce variety with clusters of plum purple velvety flowers and spoon shaped, maroon tinted dark green leaves. Free flowering.
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PRIMULA vulgaris Sibthorpii
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 12cm |
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The Turkish subspecies of our native primrose which in this form has large clear lilac flowers with a bright yellow eye.
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PULMONARIA Blue Ensign
E.Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 40cm |
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The purple tinged, unspotted foliage, emerges very early in the year and a month later clusters of the richest, cobalt blue flowers of any Pulmonaria. Part shade.
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PULMONARIA Diana Clare
Spring • Part Shade • 40cm |
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Rich violet-blue flowers and almost evergreen silver washed leaves with just a few darker green spots on the leaf edge.
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PULMONARIA Little Star
E.Spring • Part Shade • 25cm |
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A smaller lungwort with dark green heavily spotted leaves and exceptional ultraviolet dark blue flowers.
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PULMONARIA rubra Redstart
E.Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 45cm |
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Large, weed smothering lanceolate apple-green leaves and from early spring clusters of coral-red tubular flowers. In a mild year flowering can start in mid-winter.
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PULMONARIA saccharata Dora Bielefeld
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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A vigorous weed smothering form making lightly spotted leaves and pleasing
soft roswers, opening from darker pink buds. A plant of great appeal.
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PULMONARIA saccharata Leopard
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 35cm |
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The brown flushed foliage lightens as it ages to a rich dark green, heavily marked with large silver spots topped by clusters of good pink flowers.
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PULMONARIA Sissinghurst White
E.Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 35cm |
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Well displayed eye catching pure white flowers and white spotted dark green leaves reflecting the flowers.
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RAMONDA myconii Dark Form
E. Summer • Part Shade • cm |
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Rosettes of evergreen quilted leaves and clusters of large, deep violet-blue flowers each and a beak of yellow anthers. Plant sideways to avoid winter wet in walls rockery or raised border edge.
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RANUNCULUS ficaria Wisley Double Yellow
E.Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 10cm |
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Bright yellow double flowers and dark bottle green glossy leaves marked with grey. Woodland garden or naturalising in grass.
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RUDBECKIA fulgida var.deamii
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Coneflower. Dark grey-green mounds of long pointed leaves and rich orange-yellow daisies with a black central cone. A shorter longer flowering form.
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SALVIA sylvestris Viola Klose
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 60cm |
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Dense early flowering plants with grey green textured leaves and richest dark violet-blue flower spikes. Well drained soil in full sun. Cut back for a second flowering.
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SALVIA verticillata Purple Rain
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 80cm |
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A low mound of softly hairy dark green leaves and rising above vertical branching stems with close whorls of violet and purple flowers. Deadhead or cut back in late summer for a second flush of flowers.
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SANGUINARIA canadensis Plena
Spring • Part Shade • 15cm |
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Sumptuous, fully double, glacial white flowers emerge before the grey-green, heart-shaped leaves which persist until late summer.
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SANGUISORBA obtusa Alba
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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Attractive finely toothed, oval, pinnate leaves and strong wiry stems carrying arching finger length, bottle-brush white flowers which dance and sway with the wind.
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SAXIFRAGA Cuscutiformis
L. Summer • Part Shade • 40cm |
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An exotic looking carpeting saxifrage making mats of dark olive green, white veined leaves, red on the reverse. Dancing sprays of white flowers with two large white petals below and three smaller red spotted petals above.
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SAXIFRAGA fortunei Wada's Variety
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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Mahogany stems carry a snow storm of white starry flowers held above glossy bronzed green leaves, pinky red on the reverse.
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SCABIOSA c. Clive Greaves
E. Summer on • Full Sun • 80cm |
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A robust floriferous perennial producing large soft lavender-blue, frilly flowers on strong self-supporting stems. Grey-green foliage completes the picture. Excellent cut flower.
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SCHIZOSTYLIS coccinea Mollie Gould
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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A distinctive 'Kaffir Lily' with bowl shaped carnation pink flowers lightly streaked with darker pink.
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SEDUM cauticola
L. Summer • Full Sun • 20cm |
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Blue-grey mat-forming succulent leaves are covered in dark red flowers in autumn. In full sun the whole plant turns bright red in autumn.
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SEDUM Frosty Morn
L. Summer • Full Sun • 60cm |
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A beautiful Japanese sedum with grey-green and cream variegated leaves and in late summer clustered heads of small, pink centred, white starry flowers.
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SEDUM Indian Chief
L. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 60cm |
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An outstanding late season plant displaying broad rounded heads of fuchsia-pink starry flowers over succulent glaucous foliage. Outstanding butterfly plant.
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SEDUM Purple Emperor
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 45cm |
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Upright, self-supporting stems of succulent purple-red leaves make a fine feature from spring on and in summer crowded domed heads of starry, red centered, pink flowers. Good autumn colour.
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SIDALCEA Elsie Heugh
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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Wonderful fringed, satiny, pale pink Mallow like flowers held above the downy soft green foliage, on strong self supporting stems. Cut back for a second flowering
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SIDALCEA William Smith
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 90cm |
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A taller plant forming upright stems crowded with dusky dark pink mallow flowers. Cut back as flowers fade for a second flush.
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SISYRINCHIUM E. K. Balls
Summer on • Full Sun • 20cm |
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An evergreen perennial with fans of narrow firm upright leaves and horizontally held purple-blue flower with a yellow eye. Rockery pots or trough suit best.
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SMILACINA racemosa
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 80cm |
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Deliciously scented large heads of frothy ivory white flowers on arching stems of broad strongly veined oval leaves. translucent red berries in autumn. Shade.
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SOLIDASTER luteus Lemore
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 65cm |
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A welcome burst of soft lemon yellow in large frothy heads of tiny daisy flowers. Very long flowering and good for cutting.
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STIPA gigantia
L. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 200cm |
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An impressive large grass with clumps of evergreen arching leaves and strong stems of purple green flowers maturing to large golden oats.
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SYMPHYTUM uplandicum Variegatum
E. Summer • Part-Deep Shade • 100cm |
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An exceptional foliage plant making bold clumps of sage green quilted leaves broadly margined with cream. Cut back after flowering for fresh new growth.
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SYNTHYRIS missurica stellata
Spring • Part Shade • 25cm |
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Conical heads of violet-blue down turned bell-shaped flowers each showing prominent anthers and fleshy scallop edged leaves, bronze tinted in spring. A choice N. American alpine easily grown in retentive soil in shade.
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THALICTRUM delavayi Hewitts Double
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 110cm |
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A choice plant for a sheltered position in part shade. Dainty grey-green ferny foliage and airy sprays of fully double lilac pom-poms. Needs support or grow into other plants.
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THALICTRUM Elin
Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 150cm |
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A superb new hybrid with steely blue foliage on red flushed stems and towering above airy sprays of cream and lavender.
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THALICTRUM flavum glaucum
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 120cm |
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A robust plant showing glaucous-blue pinnate foliage and towering above upright stems carrying frothy lemon yellow flowers. Cut back after flowering and the foliage is beautiful until the frosts.
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TIARELLA cordifolia
Spring on • Sun-Part Shade • 40cm |
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A charming evergreen woodlander producing pointed light green leaves and tapering heads of fluffy white flowers. Gentle groundcover under shrubs or woodland edge.
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TIARELLA Spring Symphony
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 25cm |
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A tight dome of neat, mottled, palmate, deeply lobed leaves disappear below masses of refined bottle brush flowers deep pink in bud and opening pale pink. The strongest colour form we have seen.
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TRICYRTIS Dark Beauty
L. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 70cm |
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A new hybrid with upward facing dark lilac flowers heavily and boldly spotted with deep maroon-purple.
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TRICYRTIS Empress
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 80cm |
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Upright stems of lustrous, pleated leaves and branching heads of large, open, six petaled, white flowers boldly spotted and blotched with maroon.
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TRIFOLIUM Green Ice
Foliage • Sun-Part Shade • 20cm |
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A beautiful clover grown principally for its three petalled leaves which are steely grey-green with a neat central triangle of jade green. White clover flowers are more than necessary. Excellent in pots cut back regularly for fresh foliage.
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TRILLIUM erectum
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 40cm |
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Burnished maroon red flowers above broad bright green leaves.
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TRILLIUM flexipes x erectum
Spring • Part Shade • 30cm |
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An excellent cross which gives rise to a wide range of colour forms including creams, pinks, purples, bicolour and more mostly with a purple centre.
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TRILLIUM hibbersonii
Spring • Part Shade • 15cm |
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A rarely offered, easily grown trillium carrying neat soft pink flowers which can darken or fade depending on the weather. Takes more sun than most.
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TRILLIUM luteum
Spring • Part Shade • 30cm |
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Broadly elliptical leaves are mottled with bronze and darker green and the stalkless upright primrose yellow flowers are citrus scented.
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TRILLIUM rivale
Spring • Part Shade • 15cm |
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A dwarf early flowering trillium with broad white or pale lilac petals often spotted with purple. Naturally small tubers. May take time to establish.
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TRILLIUM rugelii Askival hybrids
Spring • Part Shade • 40cm |
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A robust rugellii x vaseyi cross which has produced an excellent mix of superb pinks, bi-colours and heavily veined flowers. Part shade. Humusy soil.
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TRILLIUM sessile
E. Summer • Part-Deep Shade • 15cm |
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Wake Robin. Clumps of broad marbled leaves and flowers of red-maroon. These plants from wild collected seed.
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TRILLIUM sulcatum
Spring • Part Shade • 35cm |
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Desirable showy erectum type with broad outward facing rich maroon reflexed flowers and dark green foliage.
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TROLLIUS cultorum Alabaster
Spring on • Sun-Part Shade • 50cm |
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A desirable plant of exceptional beauty displaying large many petalled, barely open globes of ivory-yellow held high on strong graceful stems. Needs good rich moist soil.
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TROLLIUS cultorum Helios
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 85cm |
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A robust variety with finely divided bright green foliage and held high above globular flowers of showy butter yellow. Needing a moist soil and looking at home at the waterside.
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TROLLIUS Goldquelle
E. Summer • Sun-Part Shade • 75cm |
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A scarce globe flower with large eye catching mid yellow flowers held well above the foliage on strong stems.
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TROPAEOLUM polyphyllum
Summer on • Full Sun • 10X90cm |
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A spectacular plant making trailing stems of small blue-green 6 lobed leaves and long spurred rich yellow flowers. Plant as deep as possible. Well drained soil. Choice and scarce.
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UVULARIA grandiflora
Spring • Part-Deep Shade • 60cm |
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Merrybells. A slowly spreading N. American woodlander with unusual pendant furled leaves and flared, bell shaped, hanging soft yellow flowers. Part shade.
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VERBENA bonariensis
Summer on • Full Sun • 110cm |
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Tall elegant stately plants with dark green basal leaves and branching angular stems topped with clusters of lavender-purple flowers giving a unique airy effect.
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VERONICA gentianoides
Spring • Sun-Part Shade • 45cm |
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Low basal rosettes of dark green lustrous foliage and arching wands clothed in dainty four petalled pale blue flowers veined with gentian blue.
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VERONICA spicata Heidekind
Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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A choice form always in demand with compact grey-green foliage and dense tapered spikes of coral pink flowers. Full sun. Border edge or rockery.
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VERONICASTRUM virginicum Pink Glow
L. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 110cm |
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Elegant upright plants with horizontal whorls of narrow pointed dark green leaves and long terminal tapering spires of soft pink flowers. Retentive soil.
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VINCA minor Bowle's Purple
Spring on • Sun-Part Shade • 25cm |
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Excellent groundcover in shady places this periwinkle produces rich purple white eyed flowers over many weeks.
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VIOLA Rebecca
E. Summer on • Sun-Part Shade • 30cm |
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The frilled ivory white flowers are splashed with pastel blue and the strong fragrance, make it ideal for picking.
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