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code: 927 Large violet blue flowers are produced all summer Family: Geraniaceae Plant Classification: Hardy biennial Maximum Height: 45 cm A fascinating plant from Sicily. Large violet blue flowers are produced all summer, followed by remarkable, enormous corkscrew seeds which are commercially used for making hygrometers (to measure dampness) – wet one and watch what

code: 926 It is most desirable in the garden Family: Umbelliferae Plant Classification: Hardy biennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Eryngium giganteum, also know as Eryngium Miss Willmott’s ghost, is a robust biennial or short-lived perennial forming a rosette of heart-shaped basal leaves, and spiny stem leaves, with cone-like umbels of tiny

code: 925 It makes long-lasting cut flowers, and can indeed also be dried Family: Apiaceae Common name: Sea Holly Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Erect, much-branched, violet-blue stems, carrying cone-like purple heads surrounded by narrow, dark blue bracts, arise from basal rosette of grey-green leaves on this sun-loving

code: 924 easy to grow Family: ASPARAGACEAE Common name: Armenian Grape Hyacinth Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm The stubby clusters of flowers of this lovely plant are purple, blue (with a white fringe), or white, and it is hardy, easy to grow, and has long-lasting blooms, and no

code: 923 The “Tassel Hyacinths”, at 40cm Family: ASPARAGACEAE/LILIACEAE Common name: Tassel Hyacinth, Edible Muscari, Hairy Muscari, Leopoldia comosa Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 Originating in south-east Europe to Turkey and Iran, and described by Polunin as “a striking plant”, these are the most unusual

code: 922 A lovely variety with pale Family: Asparagaceae Common name: Armenian Grape Hyacinth Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 A lovely variety with pale, powder-blue flowers with white rims flowering from March to April. Although this variety is reputed to be sterile, we received this

code: 921 One of the most beautiful of the passion flowers Family: Passifloraceae Common name: Giant Granadilla, Giant Tumbo, Badea Plant Classification: Hardy climber Maximum Height: 15.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 6 One of the most beautiful of the passion flowers, this beauty opens its large, fragrant flowers with deep red petals and a centre crown

code: 920 purple-blue flowers open over a long period Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: Cardwell’s Penstemon Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Amongst the easiest penstemons to grow, these plants form a dwarf evergreen shrub with long, oval, leathery leaves, which in the winter turn purplish. The relatively large, purple-blue

code: 919 This beautiful new and very hardy plant Family: Scrophulariaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 Stubby, flared white trumpets, delicately brushed purple on top, open over a very long season. This beautiful new and very hardy plant was collected in Mexico below the summit

code: 918 One of the very choicest of all penstemons Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: Smooth Blue Beard-Tongue, Wax leafed Penstemon Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm Packet Content(approx.): 12 unusually-large seeds. One of the very choicest of all penstemons and a challenge to grow, this fabulous semi dwarf plant

code: 916 It is excellent as an edging plant Family: CARYOPHYLLACEAE Common name: Tunic Flower, Tunica saxifraga Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm The “Tunic Flower” is a low-growing alpine or rock garden plant, which forms a mound of fresh-green leaves, bearing a cloud of tiny white or pale

code: 915 A rare plant, native to open woodlands in China Family: RANUNCULACEAE Common name: False Columbine Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 38 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm This delightful and graceful plant forms a mound or tuft of finely divided, ferny-looking leaves, bearing upright stems with graceful nodding flowers in shades of deep

code: 914 It is cold-tolerant Family: Fabaceae Common name: Buttercup Bush, Adipera corymbosa, Cassia corymbosa, Cassia crassifolia, Cassia falcata, Chamaefistula corymbosa Plant Classification: Half hardy shrub Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 3.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 8 This attractive, fast-growing South American shrub bears racemes of bright yellow flowers on a bush which forms a

code: 913 This rare British native bears seriously large umbels of white flowers Family: Apiaceae Common name: Moon Carrot Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 60 cm This rare British native bears seriously large umbels of white flowers, on pink-flushed stems throughout the summer, above very finely divided, almost carrot-like, dark green foliage. It is

code: 912 This grass is usually grown as an annual Family: Gramineae Common name: Large-spike Bristlegrass Plant Classification: Hardy annual Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Thick clumps of attractive foxtail-like flower heads, perfect for cutting, grow on long stems clad in broad leaves. If planted in a hot, dry spot, or in