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Lilium Pardalinum Ssp Shastense

Lilium Pardalinum Ssp Shastense

code: 870 It flowers in summertime Family: Liliaceae Common name: Leopard Lily, Panther Lily, Shasta Lily Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.8 meters Maximum Height: 2.4 meters Packet Content(approx.): 8 This is a very robust lily forming a clump of erect stems bearing whorled leaves and several nodding, dark-spotted, orange-red flowers, shading […]

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Lilium Pardalinum Ssp Wigginsii

Lilium Pardalinum Ssp Wigginsii

code: 869 tall-growing North American species Family: Liliaceae Common name: Panther Lily, Leopard Lily, Wiggins’ Lily Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.8 meters Maximum Height: 2.4 meters Packet Content(approx.): 10 This is a strong, tall-growing North American species, producing stems of whorled foliage in a pleasant shade of apple-green. On each stem

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Lilium Pomponium

Lilium Pomponium

code: 868 This rare lily is now found only in a few isolated populations Family: Liliaceae Common name: Turk’s Hat Lily, Lilium tenuifolium Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Packet Content(approx.): 6 Reflexed, good-sized, sweetly fragrant, nodding, sealing-wax red flowers, finely spotted in black, and with amazing

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Peucedanum Verticillare

Peucedanum Verticillare

code: 866 A regal plant for the back-of-the-border Family: Umbelliferae Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Minimum Height: 1.8 meters Maximum Height: 2.1 meters A regal plant for the back-of-the-border. Broomstick-sized, but hollow, ruby red stems ageing black, clad with triangular leaves, bearing great umbels of purple and white seedheads. Hugely impressive. Sowing advice: For best results,

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Phacelia Bolanderi

Phacelia Bolanderi

code: 865 This astonishing tough perennial Family: Hydrophyllaceae Common name: Blue-flowered grape-leaf, caterpillar flower, Bolander’s scorpionweed, Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 12 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm This is probably the first ever offering of this rare plant. Flared lavender-blue trumpet flowers with bright blue pollen, and loved by bees and butterflies, open on

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Silene Dioica 'Graham's Delight'

Silene Dioica ‘Graham’s Delight’

code: 862 It also makes an attractive early pot plant! Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: “Silene dioica variegated”. Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 45 cm Another Plantworld Seed introduction. The fascinating variegated ornamental foliage comes reasonably true from seed. Green seedlings often germinate first, so reject these as they will not variegate later. Leaves are

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Silene Latifolia

Silene Latifolia

code: 860 germination can sometimes be quicker if kept at 15 to 20 degrees C Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: White Campion, Melandrium album, Grave Flower Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Long stems hold dividing sprays of pure white flowers. For such a pretty plant it also has some

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Silene Multiflora

Silene Multiflora

code: 858 A Japanese nurseryman friend waxed ecstatic over this plant in full flower Family: Caryophyllaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm A quite spectacular new plant we have never seen before with thick, blue-grey foliage resembling that of a carnation. Many tall thin stems carry countless wavy, convoluted,

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Silene Purple Rim

Silene Purple Rim

code: 855 golden leaves beautifully edged in shades of purple! Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Silene dioica Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 40 cm Another new discovery from Plant world! The busy bees carried pollen from a Silene Purple Prince onto Ray’s Golden Campion which has golden leaves. Who would have

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Aquilegia Chrysantha

Aquilegia Chrysantha

code: 854 It is a perennial herbaceous plant native to the south western United States Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: ‘Yellow Queen’ Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm A delightful clump-forming herbaceous perennial with finely-divided foliage, from late spring to early summer it bears large, long-spurred, fragrant, nodding, pale lemon

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Chionochloa Rubra

Chionochloa Rubra

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

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Cistus Sintenisii

Cistus Sintenisii

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

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