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: 728 The bright green leaves are deeply slashed Family: Liliaceae Common name: LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY VARIEGATA Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm Packet Content(approx.): 5 large seeds The beautiful, sweetly-perfumed lily-of-the-valley needs little description. But the variegated-leafed form is absolutely magnificent. The bright green leaves are deeply slashed and striped
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: 723 It is Endemic to Chile Family: Fabaceae Common name: Wide-bannered Lupin, Chick Lupine Plant Classification: Hardy biennial Hardy annual Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 This delightful, rarely offered, diminutive annual bears purple or blue and white lupin-type blooms. A charming little plant, it is very floriferous with
code: 722 Few plants offer such dramatic form or presence Family: Xanthorrhoeaceae Common name: Common flax lily, Flax bush, New Zealand hemp, New Zealand Flax Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.8 meters Maximum Height: 3.6 meters Upright fans of broad, robust, spear-like, grey-green leaves, glaucous on the reverse, just seem to explode out of
code: 721 red-orange tubular flowers Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: River Bells, Cape Figwort Plant Classification: Hardy shrub Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 2.0 meters Tubular, pendent, red-orange tubular flowers which are arranged around the stem on long stalks, open over a long period in summer. Vaguely similar to fuchsias, but unrelated, they
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: 719 it is easily cultivated in any rich Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Zawadski’s Catchfly Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm A rarely-seen dwarf perennial with an evergreen basal leaf rosette which forms dense cushions in time, above which arise, on short stems, several inflorescences of quite large, pure
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
code: 716 native to South America Family: Solanaceae Common name: Naranjilla, Lulo Plant Classification: Half hardy shrub Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 These attractive orange fruits have a refreshing citrus flavour, sometimes described as a combination of rhubarb and lime, and the bright green juice is often used as
code: 715 The attractive sprays of leaves Family: Fabaceae Common name: West Coast Kowhai Plant Classification: Half hardy tree Hardy tree Half hardy shrub Minimum Height: 3.0 meters Maximum Height: 9.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 6 Golden flowers open in Spring on this lovely tree which is almost considered New Zealand’s national flower. The attractive sprays
code: 714 Seeds should ideally germinate in between 2 and 6 weeks Family: Lamiaceae Common name: Korean Mint Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm This fragrant aniseed-perfumed perennial from the Korean mountains displays six inch swollen spikes of blue-mauve flowers throughout summer and autumn. Sowing advice: For best results,
code: 713 It is a very hardy and long-lived plant Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: White Fan Columbine, Granny’s Bonnets Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm This outstanding dwarf aquilegia from Japan bears disproportionately large, ivory-white flowers on short dividing stems, all carried just above thick blue-green leaves. It is
code: 712 This lovely North American plant is often found growing in damp to wet soils Family: Acanthaceae Common name: Swamp Milkweed, Rose Milkweed, Swamp Silkweed, White Indian Hemp Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 1.2 meters The large, bright, terminal blossoms of this showy flower are made up of small, rose-purple flowers which are
code: 711 Crowded umbels of waxy-orange flowers Family: Asclepiadaceae Common name: Butterfly Weed, Milkweed, Pleurisy Root Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 8 Crowded umbels of waxy-orange flowers, with reflexed petals, are held on strong stems giving three months or more of tangerine orange blooms. They make
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