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code: 910 This is one of the most distinctive and best-known of the old fashioned Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Magpie Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Dense clouds of puckered deepest blue and white flowers open over a long season, especially if plants are dead-headed. This is one of […]

code: 909 the leaflets being large and round with long, pointed tips Family: Araliaceae Common name: American spikenard, Life-of-man, Petty more Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 90 cm Maximum Height: 1.8 meters Packet Content(approx.): 10 This tall, bushy plant, a member of the ginseng family from the United States and Canada, has large compound

code: 908 This totally hardy alpine is native to high places Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Turkish Sandwort, Eremogone drypidea Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 8 cm Sprays of white flowers open on thin stems over small cushions of blue-green, needle-like leaves. This totally hardy alpine is native to high places in western Asia including

code: 905 It is claimed that they have ‘more omega-3 Family: Lamiaceae Plant Classification: Half hardy perennial Minimum Height: 50 cm Maximum Height: 70 cm One of the new ‘superfoods’ to arrive, Chia seeds are antioxidant rich, rather like Goji Berries. It is claimed that they have ‘more omega-3 and dietary fibre than any other

code: 904 En masse it makes an unforgettable sight Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: Digitalis purpurea Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 1.5 meters One of the best new foxgloves to be found in recent years. Stout, strong spires of creamy white flowers with their throats almost solidly painted in deepest burgundy. En masse it makes

code: 903 This distinctive, striking… Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: ‘Chocolate Soldier’ Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 90 cm Slender spikes hold numerous densely massed chocolate brown tubular flowers. This distinctive, striking and lovely completely perennial plant is appropriately also called ‘Chocolate Soldier’. Sowing advice: For best results, sow seeds immediately onto a good soil-based

code: 902 It has five reflexed sepals in shades of magenta or white Family: PRIMULACEAE Common name: MOUNTAIN SHOOTING STARS, BONNEVILLE SHOOTING STAR Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20+ In mid spring, the “Bonneville shooting star” erects slim, tall stems which are dark in colour and

code: 901 It makes a dense spike of large Family: Iridaceae Common name: Turkish Marsh Gladiolus. Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 This is probably the hardiest of all gladioli, down to Zone 3 it is claimed, and also strangely, one of the rarest!

code: 900 It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit Family: Liliaceae Common name: Leopard Lily, Panther Lily Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Minimum Height: 1.5 meters Maximum Height: 2.1 meters Packet Content(approx.): 8 This famous and robust lily forms clumps of erect stems bearing whorled leaves and several nodding, dark-spotted, orange-red flowers

code: 899 This exceptional back-of-border Family: Asteraceae Common name: MIDNIGHT LADY Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 80 cm Maximum Height: 1.2 meters Three inch wide, bright orange flowers on branching purple stems, stand above glossy, beetroot-coloured, heart-shaped leaves. This exceptional back-of-border or even bog plant attracts countless butterflies and moths, such as the Painted

code: 897 sow seeds immediately onto a good soil-based compost Family: Umbelliferae Common name: Scottish Licorice-root, Scottish Lovage Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 We acquired this plant resembling an extremely lovely dwarf angelica some years ago, and called it Angelica ‘Summer Delight’ but have finally

code: 895 A justifiably popular native of former Yugoslavia and the Slovenian Alps Family: Liliaceae Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Spikes of richly-coloured, soft yellow-orange to tangerine turkscap flowers open on shortish crystal-frosted stems in July. This beauty is easily grown in a

code: 893 Sourced from the damp coastal areas of South Africa Family: Caryophyllaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 23 cm This scarce and diminutive plant with a rosette of daisy-like foliage forms low, spreading stems carrying white flowers with prominently inflated pouches. Sourced from the damp coastal areas of South

code: 892 It bulks up quite readily whether in a scree or a pot Family: Iridaceae Common name: Freesia Joan Evans, Lapeirousia Joan Evans Plant Classification: Half hardy bulb Hardy bulb Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 This tiny bulbous plant, now sometimes called Freesia and once known as Laperousia,

code: 891 It is a visual delight on sunny days … Family: Liliaceae Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 70 cm A haze of starry, pure white lily flowers, with prominent yellow anthers, opens from June through August, over tidy, firm, basal foliage that is handsome in its own right. This