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Alyssum Saxatile

Alyssum Saxatile

code: 790 One of the essential flowers for a hot rockery Family: Cruciferae Common name: Golden-dust, Golden-tuft Alyssum Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 23 cm One of the essential flowers for a hot rockery, this perpetual favourite produces bright sheets of yellow flowers over clumps of grey-green leaves. Will self-seed […]

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Alyssum Tortuosum

Alyssum Tortuosum

code: 789 This curiously attractive flower is perfect for a raised bed or rockery Family: Brassicaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm Packet Content(approx.): 12 This curious flower looks just like any dwarf alyssum with yellow flowers over a tight, woody green cushion in early spring, but then the

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Amsonia Hubrichtii

Amsonia Hubrichtii

code: 787 This plant gets better with age Family: Apocynaceae Common name: Threadleaf bluestar. Arkansas blue star Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 8 Delicate, willow-like foliage is topped with beautiful, pale powder-blue star-shaped flowers in spring, the light green foliage looking good all summer long before turning a beautiful golden-yellow

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Androsace Mixed Species

Androsace Mixed Species

code: 784 selection of these aristocratic rockery plants Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm We offer a valuable selection of these aristocratic rockery plants, including Androsace carnea, armeniaca, chaixii, lactea, salicifolia, daurenica, halleri, villosa and pyrenaica. We have included one or two annuals which will come up

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Anemone Leveillei

Anemone Leveillei

code: 783 An exceptionally beautiful flower from China Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Windflower Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 40 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm This is one of the easiest and long-lived of the clump-forming anemonies which improves with age, bearing dense sprays of white waxy-petalled flowers with a blue reverse. An exceptionally beautiful

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Anemone Multifida

Anemone Multifida

code: 782 displaying large opulent up facing saucers in a glorious shade of pale lemon Family: Ranunculaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 38 cm This plant, displaying large opulent up facing saucers in a glorious shade of pale lemon and buttermilk, so far outshines many similar ones, that we cannot

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Angelica Archangelica

Angelica Archangelica

code: 781 This compact form makes basal rosettes of divided leathery leaves Family: Apiaceae Common name: Garden Angelica, Holy Ghost, Wild Celery, Vossakvann angelica, and Norwegian angelica Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Hardy biennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm This is the genuine, true wild “Norwegian Angelica”, collected from the shoreline in northern

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Angelica Pachycarpa

Angelica Pachycarpa

code: 780 very much like Angelica hispanica Family: Apiaceae Common name: Shiny-leaved Angelica, Archangel Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Hardy biennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 75 cm A striking specimen, very much like Angelica hispanica, but larger overall, bearing impressive, thick, glossy ternate leaves. Enormous sprays of yellow-green flower heads appear in early summer.

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Codonopsis Pilosula

Codonopsis Pilosula

code: 779 Native to Northeast Asia and Korea Family: Campanulaceae Common name: Poor Man’s Ginseng, Dang Shen Plant Classification: Hardy climber Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 2.4 meters Maximum Height: 3.0 meters Native to Northeast Asia and Korea, this very vigorous ornamental vine produces heart-shaped leaves and unusual-coloured bell-shaped, yellow-olive green flowers, delicately shaded on the

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Codonopsis Tangshen

Codonopsis Tangshen

code: 778 This beautiful and unusual hardy climber from Western China makes long Family: Campanulaceae Common name: “Climbing Bellflower” Plant Classification: Hardy climber Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 3.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 10 This beautiful and unusual hardy climber from Western China makes long, hairy, ascending stems from which dangle unusually large, delicate, yellowish-green bells, soft

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Commelina Coelestis

Commelina Coelestis

code: 775 A very hardy long-lived plant Family: Commelinaceae Common name: Commelina tuberosa, “Sleeping Beauty” Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 A very long succession of dazzling, vivid sky-blue flowers appear from early summer until autumn on this quite exceptional flower. A very hardy long-lived plant

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Commelina Dianthifolia

Commelina Dianthifolia

code: 774 In well-drained soil this plant can self-seed making stunning drifts with time Family: Commelinaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Stunning gentian-blue flowers are produced on short stems, daily from midsummer onwards. The dazzling flowers fade by afternoon but are replaced by fresh ones

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Gloriosa Greenii

Gloriosa Greenii

code: 773 It is happy either in containers or in warm soil Family: Colchicaceae Common name: Gloriosa Lily Plant Classification: Greenhouse climber Half hardy climber Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 1.5 meters Packet Content(approx.): 15+ This beautiful, slender, tuberous climber opens exquisite, exotic lemon-yellow-green flowers, which are solitary, on long pedicels in leaf axils

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Gloriosa Lutea

Gloriosa Lutea

code: 772 A truly spectacular conservatory plant Family: Liliaceae Common name: Climbing Lily, Gloriosa Lily, Flame Lily Plant Classification: Greenhouse climber Packet Content(approx.): 10 A new, rare and very lovely variation on the normally red-flowered climber. Large, golden flowers with reflexed petals adorn the numerous vigorous multi-branching stems in midsummer. A truly spectacular conservatory plant.

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Gloriosa Modesta

Gloriosa Modesta

code: 771 Keep the pot moist at a temperature of between 18 and 22 degrees C Family: Colchicaceae Common name: Climbing Lily, Littonia modesta Plant Classification: Half hardy climber Maximum Height: 1.8 meters Packet Content(approx.): 5 This beautiful climbing lily opens its waxy orange flowers over a very long period over the summer, usually growing

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