Evergreen plants

code: 811 It is long-flowering and e excellent for rock gardens Family: PLUMBAGINACEAE Common name: SEA LAVENDER Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 23 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm This evergreen perennial has a compact dome-forming growth habit. It is long-flowering and e excellent for rock gardens or even for cutting and drying. Pale lavender […]

code: 803 It displays its evergreen blue-green tufts Family: Roscaeae Common name: Rock Spiraea Plant Classification: Hardy shrub Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 This delightful, bone hardy, extremely dwarf shrub is native mainly to California and is confined to rocks and crevices in the mountains of the

code: 802 especially in a sheltered spot in full sun Family: LAMIACEAE Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 90 cm Maximum Height: 1.8 meters Packet Content(approx.): 10 With strong heads of golden yellow flowers amidst thick, evergreen, sage-like, silver-grey leaves, this compact, low growing, sun loving, frost hardy, drought tolerant, seaside friendly shrub will flourish

code: 793 found wild in just a few locations in the Southern Italian Alps Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Elizabeth Campion Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 seeds A lovely semi-evergreen perennial, with tufts of open, glossy-leafed rosettes, bearing unusually large dianthus-like flowers, which are dark reddish-purple,

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

code: 769 This is a perfect choice for the sunny rock garden Family: Globulariaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm A seldom-seen but very easy little alpine, producing a low, shrubby, trailing mound of leathery, evergreen leaves. In late spring, shortish stems bear soft lavender-blue, shaggy daisy flowers over

code: 754 its evergreen leaves irregularly edged with creamy white Family: Pittosporaceae Common name: Garnett’s pittosporum Plant Classification: Hardy tree Minimum Height: 1.8 meters Maximum Height: 3.6 meters This shrub or small tree is a form of Pittosporum tenuifolium, but this variety has its evergreen leaves irregularly edged with creamy white, which often later turn

code: 747 It produces a strong stem bearing umbels of yellow flowers Family: Umbelliferae Common name: ALEXANDERS Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Hardy biennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 1.2 meters Packet Content(approx.): 6 large seeds This beautiful, completely new, and possibly unique variegated form of the old English-Garden plant, “Alexanders”, was discovered here at

code: 740 SOW SEEDS AS SOON AS THEY ARRIVE ABOUT HALF AN INCH DEEP IN GOOD Family: Araucariaceae Common name: MONKEY PUZZLE, CHILE PINE Minimum Height: 2.0 meters Maximum Height: 20.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 4 Leathery, spine-tipped leaves clad long spidery branches, which are geometrically arrayed around the trunk like spokes of a cartwheel. One

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: 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: 703 Trees are slow growing in most of Britain Family: Cupressaceae Common name: Himalayan cypress, Bhutan cypress, Plant Classification: Hardy tree Minimum Height: 5.0 meters Maximum Height: 20.0 meters This attractive evergreen conifer is found on limestone terrain in the western Himalaya from 300–2,800 metres (980–9,200 ft) although in cultivation it will adapt to

code: 701 It grows as neat clumps of stiff green leaves … Family: Juncaceae Common name: Dwarf Woodrush Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 10 cm This choice little New Zealand dwarf is ideal to incorporate into a trough or the rock garden as long as it doesn’t dry out. It grows as neat clumps

code: 691 The bright pink flowers appear throughout spring Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: RED CAMPION, MELANDRIUM RUBRUM Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm This lovely flower is often found in the wild growing in woodlands and on the verges of country roads, where it shows its rich green leaves

code: 690 It has been observed that these are reminiscent of miniature Lilium nepalense flowers! Family: Iridaceae Common name: Yellow Blue-Eyed Grass Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Delicate, bright primrose to golden-yellow flowers with reflexed petals and a deep brown or garnet-purple throat open in early spring, above

code: 689 Ideal for naturalising Family: Iridaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Slender spikes bear numerous yellow-eyed palest buttermilk flowers, with purple veining on the reverse. Attractive iris-like clumps of grey-green foliage. Ideal for naturalising. Easy with this large packet. Sowing advice: Seeds can be sown at any

code: 669 This is certainly the best of all the cornus species growable Family: Cornaceae Common name: Bentham’s cornel, Himalayan flowering dogwood, Evergreen dogwood Plant Classification: Hardy shrub Minimum Height: 1.5 meters Maximum Height: 3.5 meters This outstanding shrub or small tree bears long-lived “flowerheads” of enormous, impressive, buttercup-shaped flowers, consisting of waxy, creamy butter-coloured

code: 664 In the wild it grows in mid western & eastern North America Family: Iridaceae Common name: White Blue-eyed Grass Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 23 cm This is the rarer pure white-flowered form of this dwarf iris relative that could easily be mistaken for a clump of grass.

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