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Nigella Kalonji

Nigella Kalonji

Code:513 The fruit is a large Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Nigella sativa, fennel flower, black seed, black cumin. Plant Classification: Half hardy annual Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm This pretty annual flowering plant is native to south and southwest Asia where it bears finely divided, linear leaves with delicate, starry flowers which […]

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Orange_Satsuma

Orange Satsuma

Code:512 There are several groups of mandarins Family: Rutaceae Common name: Mandarin Plant Classification: Greenhouse perennial Half hardy perennial Minimum Height: 2.0 meters Maximum Height: 4.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 6 These trees make attractive pot plants in colder climates and will actually set fruit if kept warm. In hotter countries they can be planted outside

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Muscari Aucheri

Muscari Aucheri

Code:511 it is often grown as an ornamental plant Family: Asparagaceae Common name: Aucher-Eloy grape hyacinth, Botryanthus aucheri Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm This dwarf bulbous perennial forms clumps to 15cm in height, with narrow grey-green leaves, and erect stems with dense spikes of small, globose,

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Lychnis Flos-cuculi

Lychnis Flos-cuculi

Code:510 Cuckoos are also getting sadly thin on the ground Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Ragged Robin, Cuckoo flower Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Also known as “Ragged Robin” and “Cuckoo Flower”. This graceful plant carries jagged, deeply cleft red flowers on slender stems in early summer. This plant,

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Lychnis Flos-jovis

Lychnis Flos-jovis

Code:509 A beautiful and long-lived, clump-forming flower Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Flower of Jove, Jupiter’s flower Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm This excellent herbaceous perennial bears clumps of grey-green, hairy, lance-shaped leaves which in early summer push up stems bearing terminal clusters of deep pink, salver-shaped flowers. A

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Lychnis Viscaria

Lychnis Viscaria

Code:508 This is the dark purple form of the exceedingly rare British native Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Red Catchfly, Clammy campion, Lychnis viscaria atropurpurea Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm This is the dark purple form of the very rare British native which is both soundly perennial and beautiful.

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Digitalis Stewartii

Digitalis Stewartii

Code:507 this plant will perform trouble-free for many years Family: Scrophulariaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.2 meters Maximum Height: 1.8 meters This impressive foxglove is amongst the tallest we have ever seen. Several long thin spires arise, clad along most of their length with large-lipped, dark-veined orange flowers. Soundly perennial and bone hardy,

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Dodecatheon Meadia

Dodecatheon Meadia

Code:506 It gets flowers in the spring Family: Primulaceae Common name: Pride of Ohio, Shooting stars Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20+ This attractive herbaceous plant has white or pink petals which nod from an umbel, protruding from a scape 8 to 20 inches tall. It

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DRABA_DENSIFOLIA

Draba Densifolia

Code:505 it is found in rocky crevices Family: Cruciferae Common name: Denseleaf draba, Alpine Whitlow-Grass Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm This tiny plant forms hard cushion-like mats of small fleshy, hairy, pointed leaves smothered in bright yellow flowers in early spring. Native to western North America, it is

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ERYTHRONIUM REVOLUTUM

Erythronium Revolutum

Code:504 A valuable and very long-lived plant that will self-seed Family: Liliaceae Common name: Trout lily Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Maximum Height: 30 cm The fabled “trout lily” is perhaps the choicest of all erythroniums. Lily-like, palest peach, spring flowers open for a long period above leaves beautifully mottled in purple, brown and white. A

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EUCOMIS COMOSA

Eucomis Comosa

code: 503 It is easy to keep going if allowed to remain dormant Family: Asparagaceae Common name: Pineapple flower, Wine Eucomis Plant Classification: Half hardy bulb Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 12 One of the most extravagant and impressive forms for the garden, this variety makes

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EUPHORBIA PITHYUSA

code: 503 sow seeds immediately onto a good soil-based compost Family: Euphorbiaceae Common name: ‘Grey Hedgehog’ Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 38 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 New to us is this superlative dwarf. Like a big silver-grey beach-ball cut in half, then studded with countless golden flowers. Non-running, non-dying (seems

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EUPHORBIA PASTEURII

Code:502 A new and extremely beautiful hybrid between E Family: Euphorbiaceous Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.2 meters Maximum Height: 1.8 meters Packet Content(approx.): 15+ seeds A new and extremely beautiful hybrid between E. mellifera and the very rare E. stygiana which is now almost extinct in its home on the Azores Islands. Broad

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EUPHORBIA POLYCHROMA

code: 501 Very few good individual seeds are ever collected Family: Euphorbiaceae Common name: Chrome Spurge, Cushion Spurge. Euphorbia epithymoides Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 25 cm Maximum Height: 40 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Making a compact dome, this clump-forming herbaceous gem pushes up leafy stems and dazzling terminal clusters of acid-yellow flowers, which

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