Ornamental plants

code: 737 it will resow automatically each year only growing in spots Family: Papaveraceae Plant Classification: Half hardy annual Minimum Height: 40 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm This Chilean plant is quite new to cultivation and is a most imposing annual plant. It very easy to grow, and spectacular to watch with its big yellow […]

code: 735 similar to a “Dragon Tree” or dracaena Family: Agavaceae Plant Classification: Hardy tree Half hardy tree Minimum Height: 50 cm Maximum Height: 3.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 20+ “New Zealand Tie-Palm”. A long lived ‘palm’ producing a slowly thickening trunk, carrying at the top a rosette of long, purple, strap-shaped leaves. This tree is

code: 734 its fine foliage with lightly hairy stems makings a nice transition between various textures Family: Compositae Common name: Coreopsis ‘Cutting Gold’, Coreopsis auriculata Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 In early summer, single flower heads open, of a vivid golden yellow, each up to

code: 732 It is found in Central Europe down to the Balkan peninsula Family: Fabaceae Common name: Scorpion Vetch Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 23 cm Maximum Height: 38 cm Packet Content(approx.): 12 This unusual herbaceous perennial has compound leaves and bright yellow pea-flowers borne from mid-spring to late summer and could be described

code: 731 It will do the same in the garden provided Family: Primulaceae Common name: Alpine Bells Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 23 cm This delicate, dwarf, and rarely offered primula relative bears umbels of deeply cleft, purple bells on delicate stems in early spring. In the wild it grows in moist damp woodlands

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 709 From large tufts of hollow, onion-like Family: Asphodeloideae Common name: Onionweed, Onion-leafed asphodel, Pink asphodel Plant Classification: Half hardy bulb Hardy bulb Half hardy perennial Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 50 cm Maximum Height: 70 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 From large tufts of hollow, onion-like, rounded leaves arise strong spikes holding starry flowers which

code: 708 This attractive dwarf species performs well in a pot Common name: Mediterranean Meadow Saffron Plant Classification: Half hardy bulb Hardy bulb Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Pink to purple, untessellated flowers, each with a tiny white star in the throat are produced in abundance in the autumn

code: 706 It is found in meadows and rocky slopes in Spain Family: Colchicaceae Common name: Merendera montana, Bulbocodium montanum, Sowy Colchicum, False Autum Crocus Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 One of the most lovely of the “autumn crocuses”, this one has noticeably

code: 704 Impressive sprays of dark purple Family: Lythraceae Common name: “Blue Waxweed”, “Bat Face”, “Bunny-Ears” Cuphea viscossissima Plant Classification: Half hardy annual Minimum Height: 38 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm “Blue Waxweed”, “Bat Face”, “Bunny-Ears”. Impressive sprays of dark purple, orchid-like flowers open in progression along strong stems over a very long period from