December 2021

code: 734 its fine foliage with lightly hairy stems makings a nice transition between various textures Family: Compositae Common name: Coreopsis ‘Cutting Gold’, Coreopsis auriculata Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 In early summer, single flower heads open, of a vivid golden yellow, each up to […]

code: 732 It is found in Central Europe down to the Balkan peninsula Family: Fabaceae Common name: Scorpion Vetch Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 23 cm Maximum Height: 38 cm Packet Content(approx.): 12 This unusual herbaceous perennial has compound leaves and bright yellow pea-flowers borne from mid-spring to late summer and could be described

code: 731 It will do the same in the garden provided Family: Primulaceae Common name: Alpine Bells Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 23 cm This delicate, dwarf, and rarely offered primula relative bears umbels of deeply cleft, purple bells on delicate stems in early spring. In the wild it grows in moist damp woodlands

code: 730 A focal point in the spring garden Family: Papaveraceae Common name: Siberian corydalis Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 38 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 Clumps of blue green, dissected, ferny foliage are the perfect backdrop for the clustered primrose yellow, purple-brown tipped flowers that open from huge clusters of

code: 729 greenish-yellow and white flowers Family: Papaveraceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 20 cm This lovely compact plant is somewhat similar to Corydalis lutea, but has greyer foliage in spring and for most of the summer, below a long succession of striking, bicoloured, greenish-yellow and white flowers. Sowing advice: Seeds can be sown

code: 727 cottage garden plant can make an impressive statement Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Lychnis Dusky Salmon Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 75 cm This palest pink form of the popular, normally deepest red, cottage garden plant can make an impressive statement in the herbaceous border. Long-lived and reliable! Sowing

code: 726 A lovely long-lived cottage garden plant Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Angel’s Blush Bloody Mary. LYCHNIS CORONARI OCULATA Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm The pink-eyed white-flowered form of the woolly, grey-leaved Lychnis coronaria comes quite true from seed but the pink eye varies quite bizarrely with the

code: 725 It makes a long-lived Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Flower of Jove Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 23 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm This scarce and most delightful dwarf form of this lovely garden plant has woolly leaves and stems and generous heads of crimson flowers in early summer. It makes a long-lived

code: 724 it will make trouble-free colour for many years Family: Primulaceae Common name: Pelletiera verna. Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 A seldom-seen plant making a slowly spreading cushion of small leaves, which is studded with small, starry, yellow flowers seemingly all the year long.

code: 720 including British Columbia and Alberta in Canada Family: Brassicaceae Common name: Common Twinpod Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 This uncommon alpine makes compact rosettes of silver-grey leaves from which radiate several thin, prostrate stems carrying terminal bunches of fragrant yellow flowers. When these

code: 718 grow thin stems carrying numerous yellow star-like flowers Family: Iridaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm From tufts of grass-like leaves grow thin stems carrying numerous yellow star-like flowers. A very welcome self-seeder and colonist which will produce its tiny “irises” where little else will grow, even

code: 717 holding umbels of greeny-gold flowers Family: Umbelliferae Plant Classification: Hardy biennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm “Perfoliate Alexanders”. Old cottage gardens and flower arrangers have known of this curious plant for ages. The stems, holding umbels of greeny-gold flowers, grow straight through the middles of the shiny leaves, kebab-style. Rarely