Evergreen plants

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: 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:611 It prefers a shady position Family: Rosaceae Common name: Goat’s Beard Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 90 cm Maximum Height: 1.2 meters This large, flowered form of this popular plant bears impressive plumes of cascading white flowers in early and mid-summer. It prefers a shady position but will tolerate sun provided the soil

code: 609 It has long been preferred Family: Asparagaceae Common name: Mediterranean Wild Asparagus Plant Classification: Half hardy perennial Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 1.5 meters Packet Content(approx.): 5 This desirable plant is the Mediterranean wild species of asparagus, and is a gourmet’s delight with scrambled eggs, being even tastier than asparagus

code: 608 The beautiful ferny foliage stays green Family: Asparagaceae Plant Classification: Hardy climber Packet Content(approx.): 5 This newly-discovered, rare, bone-hardy to Zone 3 (USA), bizarre and absolutely amazing climbing asparagus, (to 15feet/5m tall), has glossy green foliage covered in fragrant white flowers in late spring, and in late summer it is smothered with 1/2″

code: 606 it is quite similar to Giant Sequoia and is a deserved RHS AGM Winner Family: Cupressaceae Common name: Cupressus japonica, Japanese Cedar, Sugi Plant Classification: Hardy tree Minimum Height: 3.0 meters Maximum Height: 15.0 meters This large ornamental, evergreen tree, revered in its native Japan where it is the National Tree, was introduced

code: 602 It grows from a tuber and is native to pine, juniper Family: Primulaceae Common name: Alpine Cyclamen, Cyclamen trochopteranthum Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm Packet Content(approx.): 8 This perennial has pendulous pink flowers with widely-spaced petals, rather like propellers of a plane. It grows from a

code: 601 A dwarf and exceptional species from Southern France Family: Primulaceae Common name: Wild Cyclamen Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Very fragrant flowers with twisted white petals veined with pink, appear in spring and have decorative bluish-grey leaves marbled with silver. A dwarf and

code: 600 it enjoys decayed pine needle litter incorporated Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 13 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 Pale to rose pink flowers with a magenta blotch at the nose, and smelling noticeably of honey, bloom in autumn above rosettes of deep green oval leaves with silvery

code: 597 on top of farina dusted stems … Family: Primulaceae Common name: Sredinskya grandis Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 35 cm Maximum Height: 40 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 In May, on top of farina dusted stems, this rare curiosity opens clusters of narrow, hanging, pale yellow flowers, whose slender petals do not open

code: 596 one of the world’s biggest and most impressive primulas Family: Primulaceae Common name: Primula prolifera Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Whorls of bright yellow fragrant flowers are held on tall strong stems above shiny, toothed leaves. One of the easiest Asiatic primulas, this one is long-lived

code: 567 Pyrenees at heights up to 12,000 feet Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 12 cm Purple-pink flowers open on short stems above rosettes of fleshy, hairy, sharply-toothed leaves in early spring. These lovely primulas grow in the Alps and Pyrenees at heights up to 12,000 feet. This

code: 566 The basal rosettes make the most spectacular Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 40 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm These lovely candelabra-type plants shoot up numerous strong stems bearing tiers of deepest crimson flowers. The basal rosettes make the most spectacular, cabbage-like giants when well fed or in moist soil, and

code: 561 The true strain and very rarely offered Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Traditionally, this is the most desirable and sought after of all of the large primulas. (So valuable in fact that much of a sizeable bed was dug up and stolen, from our

code: 551 In the wild it occurs down the east coast of Africa from the Red Sea to the Transvaal Family: Cynodonteae Common name: Giant star grass, Ethiopian dog’s tooth grass, Nakuru grass Plant Classification: Half hardy perennial Minimum Height: 40 cm Maximum Height: 1.0 meter This perennial, mat forming grass makes a solid sward

code: 550 They live in the wild in woods and shaded banks in Mediterranean countries Family: Primulaceae Common name: Wavy-edged cyclamen Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 10 cm Packet Content(approx.): 8 Late spring-blooming, showy, fragrant rose-pink flowers, deeper coloured at the base of the petals, open above wide, heart-shaped leaves, which are often coarsely

code: 546 This one really is first-come-first-served! Family: Umbelifers Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Packet Content(approx.): 5 Discovered in 2016 here at Plant World, this astrantia has the largest and most impressive flower heads we have ever seen! The name ‘Supernova’ is inspired by the huge maroon, dome

code: 536 A spectacular, scented foliage, evergreen shrub from Australia Family: Labiatae Plant Classification: Half hardy perennial Minimum Height: 90 cm Maximum Height: 1.8 meters Delicate, fragrant, purple-spotted, pale lilac, orchid-like flowers adorn the “Christmas Bush” for six months. Do the flowers look like angels or does it flower at Christmas in Oz? A spectacular,

code: 535 it lives in the foothills of the Andes and ascends to more than 2,000 metres Family: Asteraceae Common name: Tola blanca Plant Classification: Half hardy shrub Hardy shrub Minimum Height: 1.5 meters Maximum Height: 3.0 meters Looking rather like an escallonia, but is no relative, this lovely evergreen shrub bears numerous pink flowers

code: 534 The small black cherries which appear in autumn in bunches Family: Lauraceae Common name: CHERRY LAUREL Plant Classification: Hardy tree Hardy shrub Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 3.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 10 large seeds The common name “cherry laurel” refers to the similarity of foliage and appearance to the true laurel, Bay