code: 632 This is the rarely seen Family: Rosaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Dense sprays of palest lemon flowers over a very long season. This is the rarely seen, but much more desirable form of the bright yellow variety. Sowing advice: For best results, sow seeds immediately […]
code: 631 very high alpine pastures at 4000-4700m Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm This rare plant has compact heads of small, flared-tubular, purplish-blue, fragrant flowers on thin stems above rosettes of small, deeply wrinkled leaves. It comes from China, Yunnan and Sichuan, where it thrives in
code: 630 It does especially well in waterside environments Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 45 cm This extremely vigorous and hardy candelabra primula thrusts up numerous strong stems bearing bright orange flowers with darker eyes. It does especially well in waterside environments where it will self-seed generously making fabulous clumps! Sowing advice:
code: 629 wet meadows and the sides of streams in Yunnan and Burma Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Rather resembling Primula beesiana, this plant opens its fuchsia-coloured flowers on strong stems that can be up to nearly 3 feet tall. It prefers moist to even wet
code: 628 Strong stems hold heavy heads of bright flowers arranged in whorls Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 60 cm A generous packet (containing the equivalent of 10 normal retail packets) of this popular flower suitable for growing a large crop or for sowing in situ in a damp spot. Strong stems
code: 627 Its foliage is green in summer while the flowers Family: Poaceae Common name: Feather grass, European feather grass, Orphan maidenhair Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Stipa pennata, common name European feather grass, or Orphan maidenhair is a flowering ornamental grass in the family Poaceae,it is grown
code: 626 A perfect plant for mass plantings in stately homes Family: Gramineae Common name: Angel’s Hair, Pony Tails, Mexican Feathergrass (Syn: Nassella/Stipa tenuissima) Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm One of the most graceful and delicate of all grasses with delicate, feathery, fog-like plumes which move with the
code: 625 beauty and elegance all rolled into one Family: Cruciferae Plant Classification: Hardy biennial Half hardy annual Maximum Height: 30 cm One of the most beautiful annuals with dense, showy spikes of sweetly-scented flowers. Ideal for beds, borders, and cut flowers and good for winter flowering in the greenhouse or conservatory. Perfume, beauty, and
code: 624 These plants are selectable for 100% doubleness Family: Cruciferae Common name: Mathiola incana Plant Classification: Half hardy annual Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm An extremely early and long-flowering variety with unique, silvery-blue flowers with a sweet and spicy scent on magnificent multiple spikes. These plants are selectable for 100% doubleness.
code: 623 The trigger stays cocked until an insect probes the flower Family: Stylidiaceae Common name: The Grass Trigger plant Plant Classification: Half hardy perennial Maximum Height: 90 cm From a basal rosette of radiating, long, thin, prostrate pointed leaves arises a strong stem holding attractive pink flowers. “Trigger plants” are so called because of
code: 622 A superb formula mixture of Spencer sweet peas Family: Leguminosae Plant Classification: Hardy annual Packet Content(approx.): 25 A superb formula mixture of Spencer sweet peas, including some of the new introductions from the world’s best breeders. Sowing advice: Sow autumn in cold greenhouse or late winter/early spring in warm greenhouse, propagator or windowsill
code: 621 Ideal for exhibition or garden use Family: Leguminosae Plant Classification: Hardy annual Packet Content(approx.): 25 The best long-stemmed, fragrant pure white sweet pea available today. Awarded Certificate of Merit by the Scottish National Sweet Pea Society. Ideal for exhibition or garden use. Sowing advice: Sow autumn in cold greenhouse or late winter/early spring
code: 620 A profusion of rose/white bicolor flowers Family: Leguminosae Plant Classification: Hardy annual Packet Content(approx.): 25 A lovely old-fashioned heirloom variety dating back to 1737. A profusion of rose/white bicolor flowers which are smaller than those of modern forms, but this is more than compensated for by their entrancing perfume. Sowing advice: Sow autumn
code: 619 great dignity and elegance Family: Leguminosae Common name: Lathyrus odoratus Plant Classification: Hardy annual Packet Content(approx.): 25 This grandiflora type is a wonderful, highly-scented, old-fashioned, true navy blue, as you might expect, with a wonderful rich perfume, and is the result of Henry Eckford’s work in the late 19th century. It has what
code: 618 It is best grown alone as its gorgeous Family: Leguminosae Common name: Lathyrus odoratus ‘Cupanii’ Plant Classification: Hardy annual Packet Content(approx.): 25 This famous old heirloom is a striking, very strongly scented, bi-coloured Peruvian sweet pea. It is best grown alone as its gorgeous, velvety, deep colours, which appear until late in the
code:617 It will do of its best if grown in a moist Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Rocky Mountain columbine, Granny’s Bonnets Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 3 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm An exquisite dwarf from the Rocky Mountains, having irregular and surprisingly large for its size, long-spurred, showy, blue-violet flowers with one inch
code: 616 In early summer, this new plant is an arresting talking point Family: Ranunculaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 This is a completely unique form of aquilegia leaf variegation on an Aquilegia flabellata hybrid! Many years ago we noticed a plant which produced striking
code: 615 This attractive and ever popular selection of Arabis alpina Family: Cruciferae Common name: Rock Cress Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm This attractive and ever popular selection of Arabis alpina, the “alpine rock cress”, produces masses of sizeable, snow white flowers above a compact grey carpet of
code: 614 It is excellent in a pot too Family: Cruciferae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm This gem is like but smaller than Arabis cyprium and has much smaller seeds. We discovered it high in the alpine ski-zone of the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus where it is the
code: 613 Cruciform flowers of bright purple open on compact Family: Cruciferae Common name: Koehler’s Rock Cress Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm This very rare, tough, tufted endemic lives only on a few dry hills, high above the rushing Umpqua River on the Pacific coast of Oregon. Cruciform
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