Ornamental plants

code: 610 Self-seeds without ever becoming a nuisance Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: Trailing Snapdragon Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 8 cm The spreading arms of this delightful prostrate trailing plant have small soft hairy grey leaves. Large yellow and red blotched, white “snapdragons” are produced for many months throughout the summer. Self-seeds without ever […]

code: 607 They are also magnets for any insects that may be active so early in the year Family: Iridaceae Common name: Woodland Crocus, Tommies Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 13 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Perhaps the easiest of crocuses to grow, these lovely blue flowers which are

code: 605 It is now naturalised in the Caribbean, East Africa Family: Asclepiadeae Common name: Rubber Vine Plant Classification: Greenhouse climber Half hardy climber Packet Content(approx.): 25 This woody, perennial climbing vine, which is native to south-west Madagascar has attractive, quilled pinkish purple flowers. It is one of the fastest growing plants in the world,

code: 604 it is reputedly a strengthening tonic Family: Apiaceae Common name: Perennial purple parsley. Mitsuba, Purple-leaved Japanese Wild Parsley, Purple-leaved Japanese hone Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 Recently arrived from Japan is this exciting new foliage (and food!) plant related to parsley but much

code: 603 this mound-forming plant is a most unlikely member of the dianthus family Family: Caryophyllaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm This intriguing, rare and beautiful curiosity from the hills of Japan has creeping, straggling stems, which are covered with small pointed leaves and frilly greenish-white flowers, which

code: 599 An attractive variation on these rare old plants Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 15 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 Heavy trusses of small, pillar-box red flowers delicately edged with golden yellow arise on strong stems in early spring. These originally appeared here as chance seedlings more than 20 years ago and

code: 598 Surrounding each flower is a ring of tiny leaves producing … Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 12 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 + Compact trusses of pillar-box red flowers delicately edged with golden yellow, open in early spring. Surrounding each flower is a ring of tiny leaves

code: 597 This European species has very long Family: Primulaceae Common name: Primula longiflora Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm This European species has very long, narrow tubes holding the bright, lilac-pink flowers, which open in clusters on long stems. They do well on the rock garden as long

code: 595 It is one of the only candelabra primulas Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 38 cm Maximum Height: 50 cm This selection of the vigorous Primula japonica opens layered whorls of red-eyed, bright pink flowers in late spring and early summer, all above strong leafy rosettes of toothed leaves. It is

code: 594 The basal rosettes make the most spectacular Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 50 cm This is an especially generous packet of these lovely candelabra-type plants that shoot up numerous strong stems bearing tiers of blossoms in all colours from white to red. The basal rosettes make

code: 593 These long-lived Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 33 cm Maximum Height: 38 cm Dense umbels of light sulphur-yellow flowers bloom from July to Sept over rosettes of toothed, bright green foliage. These long-lived, easy-to-grow plants are natives of the damp regions of the Caucasus Mountains and are very tolerant to

code: 592 Seeds can be sown at any time but are best sown in winter Family: Campanulaceae Common name: CAMPANULA WANNERI Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 23 cm Maximum Height: 38 cm This lovely campanula relative makes a naturally compact mound covered in masses of long and slightly tubular, violet bell shaped flowers. On

code: 591 viable seeds being very few and very difficult to collect! Family: Boraginaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Packet Content(approx.): 5 Early rosettes of bright golden leaves brighten up the spring garden with snowdrops and crocuses. Later appear the pale blue and pink flowers. This form comes

code: 589 This pretty Bosnian campanula relative should gently self-seed Family: Campanulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 38 cm From a basal rosette of toothed leaves rises a dividing system of branches, heavily hung with large cream bell-shaped flowers. This pretty Bosnian campanula relative should gently self-seed, giving glorious drifts in future years. Sowing

code: 588 It needs good rich soil Family: Gentianaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 25 An imposing newcomer from the mountain meadows of the eastern Himalayas, this beautiful gentian relative bears a marked resemblance to a lily, with exquisite star-shaped greenish-white flowers which are delicately pencilled

code: 587 Sow autumn in cold greenhouse or late winter/early spring Family: Leguminoseae Plant Classification: Hardy annual Packet Content(approx.): 25 A truly ‘stylish’ Spencer variety sweet pea with very fragrant and full-bodied flowers on long stems and all of the guaranteed performance and breeding you might expect from this stable. Sowing advice: Sow autumn in

code: 585 These lovely plants … Family: Asphodelaceae Common name: WHITE ASPHODEL Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10+ These lovely plants, which surprisingly are completely frost-hardy, produce clumps of linear basal leaves, and leafless stems bearing racemes or panicles of star-shaped, white or pink

code: 584 it makes a valuable addition to any enthusiasts rock garden Family: Compositae Common name: Alpine aster Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 23 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 viable seeds This lovely yellow-eyed, blue alpine daisy grows in alpine meadows and is often seen tucked between rocks on high mountains.

code: 583 it makes a valuable addition to any enthusiasts rock garden Family: Compositae Common name: White Alpine Aster Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 13 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 viable seeds This is the very rare pure white form of the lovely alpine daisy so often seen tucked between rocks

code: 582 It makes a distinctive, slow-growing cushion Family: Compositae Common name: Aster alpinus Pinkie Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm Beautiful pink daisy flowers with yellow eyes open from late spring to early summer on this delicate alpine daisy. It makes a distinctive, slow-growing cushion on your rock