December 2021

code: 853 summer on this unusual member of the poppy family Family: Papaveraceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 45 cm Large numbers of heavily doubled cup-shaped tiny yellow “poppies” are massed in branching sprays. Finely divided leaves make a substantial sprawling mass during spring and summer on this unusual member of the poppy family.

code: 852 From a tightly packed clump of darkest green Family: Gramineae Common name: Red Tussock Grass Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 1.4 meters From a tightly packed clump of darkest green, thick arching blades, arise long flowering stems holding terminal spikes of mahogany seed heads. This valuable, extravagant, flamboyant

code: 851 This spectacular plant does best in a hot Family: Cistaceae Common name: C. ALBANICUS Plant Classification: Hardy shrub Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 1.0 meter Packet Content(approx.): 10 Very large, golden-eyed, frilly white flowers open on bushes of coarse rough leaves. This spectacular plant does best in a hot, well-drained spot where

code: 850 It makes a superb cloak for anything less beautiful Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Sweet-scented virgin’s bower Plant Classification: Hardy climber Packet Content(approx.): 12 This highly desirable, vigorous, deciduous climber bears a very heavy crop of very fragrant, pure white flowers in panicles up to 12 inches long, and which open over the whole

code: 849 It will quickly cover any unsightly fence or shrub Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Virgin’s Bower Plant Classification: Hardy climber Packet Content(approx.): 8 This fairly vigorous Japanese climber bears from spring to early autumn intriguing urn-shaped flowers, the four fleshy petals staying almost closed, and covered on the outside with brown hairs, resembling a

code: 848 The flowers are made up of urn-shaped cups of deep silvery-purple-blue petal-like sepals Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Scott’s Clematis, Hairy Clematis Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Packet Content(approx.): 5 This rare plant, native to much of the western United States, from Washington to Nebraska, has hairy

code: 847 A close relative of Clematis tangutica Family: Ranunculaceae Plant Classification: Hardy climber Packet Content(approx.): 10+ A close relative of Clematis tangutica, this relatively new and quite rare flower differs as its sepals are considerably more greenish-yellow rather than lemon-yellow, and are densely pubescent inside and glabrous outside rather than the other way round

code: 846 It erects slim, tall, hairy stems Family: PRIMULACEAE Common name: SIERRA SHOOTING STAR, TALL MOUNTAIN SHOOTING STAR Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15+ Jeffrey’s shooting star is native to western North America from California to Alaska to Montana, where it grows in mountain meadows

code: 844 evenly moist soil and full sun or partial shade Family: Cruciferae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm This very distinctive species from Spain and the Pyrenees makes a tiny hard rosette of shiny green, toothed foliage with heads of disproportionately large white flowers. A diminutive, cushion-forming alpine

code: 843 it is native to the mountainous regions of the Iberian Peninsula Family: Cruciferae Common name: Draba frigida Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 6 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm From May to July cross-shaped white flowers open on diminutive stalks which in time make up small shiny-leafed cushions. First described in 1802 by

code: 842 grow in the rocky grasslands in the Eastern Alps, Carpathians and Balkans Family: Cruciferae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm Usually densely tufted hummocks consisting of spiny rosettes produce racemes of yellow flowers in early spring. These tiny treasures grow best in full sun in gritty, sharply

code: 841 From the cold wastes of Patagonia comes… Family: Cruciferae Common name: Patagonian Whitlow Grass Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm From the cold wastes of Patagonia comes this dwarf alpine with short stem bearing snow-white flowers above clumps of tiny pointed leaves. Sowing advice: Seeds can be

code: 840 It is ideal for a pot or container or small rock-garden Family: Cruciferae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm This rare and beautiful Japanese high alpine plant makes a solid rounded cushion covered with sheets of almost stemless, golden-eyed white flowers. It is ideal for a pot

code: 839 It lives, as a rule, above 2200m in France, Italy Family: Cruciferae Common name: Whitlow Grass, Draba zahlbruckneri Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 4 cm Maximum Height: 6 cm This dwarf plant resembles a dwarf dense form of D. aizoides, and forms compact mats bearing racemes of deepest yellow cruciform flowers from

code: 838 rose-pink flowers in mid and late summer Family: Geraniaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10+ This magnificent, newly discovered plant from South Africa, produces large, darker-veined, rose-pink flowers in mid and late summer, over a deep billowing carpet of finely divided silvery-grey leaves making

code: 837 it is credited with the power to drive away evil spirits Family: Roscaeae Common name: Wood avens, Herb Bennet, Colewort , St. Benedict’s herb Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Sprays of yellow flowers open in shady places (such as woodland edges and near hedgerows) usually between

code: 836 native to Mongolia, eastern Siberia Family: Liliaceae Common name: Lilium tenuifolium Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Reflexed, sweetly-perfumed, nodding flowers, brightest red in colour, are sometimes but not always, delicately spotted with black. Named pumilum for its relatively small size, this

code: 835 This excellent garden plant is happy with both lime Family: Liliaceae Common name: Pyrenean Lily, Yellow Turk’s-cap Lily, Yellow Martagon Lily Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 75 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Heavy heads of glorious, bright, vivid yellow flowers, with, exotic, rather musty perfume, and rust-speckled