Ornamental plants

code: 922 A lovely variety with pale Family: Asparagaceae Common name: Armenian Grape Hyacinth Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 A lovely variety with pale, powder-blue flowers with white rims flowering from March to April. Although this variety is reputed to be sterile, we received this […]

code: 921 One of the most beautiful of the passion flowers Family: Passifloraceae Common name: Giant Granadilla, Giant Tumbo, Badea Plant Classification: Hardy climber Maximum Height: 15.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 6 One of the most beautiful of the passion flowers, this beauty opens its large, fragrant flowers with deep red petals and a centre crown

code: 920 purple-blue flowers open over a long period Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: Cardwell’s Penstemon Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Amongst the easiest penstemons to grow, these plants form a dwarf evergreen shrub with long, oval, leathery leaves, which in the winter turn purplish. The relatively large, purple-blue

code: 919 This beautiful new and very hardy plant Family: Scrophulariaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 Stubby, flared white trumpets, delicately brushed purple on top, open over a very long season. This beautiful new and very hardy plant was collected in Mexico below the summit

code: 918 One of the very choicest of all penstemons Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: Smooth Blue Beard-Tongue, Wax leafed Penstemon Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm Packet Content(approx.): 12 unusually-large seeds. One of the very choicest of all penstemons and a challenge to grow, this fabulous semi dwarf plant

code: 916 It is excellent as an edging plant Family: CARYOPHYLLACEAE Common name: Tunic Flower, Tunica saxifraga Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm The “Tunic Flower” is a low-growing alpine or rock garden plant, which forms a mound of fresh-green leaves, bearing a cloud of tiny white or pale

code: 915 A rare plant, native to open woodlands in China Family: RANUNCULACEAE Common name: False Columbine Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 38 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm This delightful and graceful plant forms a mound or tuft of finely divided, ferny-looking leaves, bearing upright stems with graceful nodding flowers in shades of deep

code: 914 It is cold-tolerant Family: Fabaceae Common name: Buttercup Bush, Adipera corymbosa, Cassia corymbosa, Cassia crassifolia, Cassia falcata, Chamaefistula corymbosa Plant Classification: Half hardy shrub Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 3.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 8 This attractive, fast-growing South American shrub bears racemes of bright yellow flowers on a bush which forms a

code: 913 This rare British native bears seriously large umbels of white flowers Family: Apiaceae Common name: Moon Carrot Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 60 cm This rare British native bears seriously large umbels of white flowers, on pink-flushed stems throughout the summer, above very finely divided, almost carrot-like, dark green foliage. It is

code: 912 This grass is usually grown as an annual Family: Gramineae Common name: Large-spike Bristlegrass Plant Classification: Hardy annual Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Thick clumps of attractive foxtail-like flower heads, perfect for cutting, grow on long stems clad in broad leaves. If planted in a hot, dry spot, or in

code: 910 This is one of the most distinctive and best-known of the old fashioned Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Magpie Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Dense clouds of puckered deepest blue and white flowers open over a long season, especially if plants are dead-headed. This is one of

code: 909 the leaflets being large and round with long, pointed tips Family: Araliaceae Common name: American spikenard, Life-of-man, Petty more Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 90 cm Maximum Height: 1.8 meters Packet Content(approx.): 10 This tall, bushy plant, a member of the ginseng family from the United States and Canada, has large compound

code: 908 This totally hardy alpine is native to high places Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Turkish Sandwort, Eremogone drypidea Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 8 cm Sprays of white flowers open on thin stems over small cushions of blue-green, needle-like leaves. This totally hardy alpine is native to high places in western Asia including

code: 905 It is claimed that they have ‘more omega-3 Family: Lamiaceae Plant Classification: Half hardy perennial Minimum Height: 50 cm Maximum Height: 70 cm One of the new ‘superfoods’ to arrive, Chia seeds are antioxidant rich, rather like Goji Berries. It is claimed that they have ‘more omega-3 and dietary fibre than any other

code: 904 En masse it makes an unforgettable sight Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: Digitalis purpurea Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 1.5 meters One of the best new foxgloves to be found in recent years. Stout, strong spires of creamy white flowers with their throats almost solidly painted in deepest burgundy. En masse it makes

code: 903 This distinctive, striking… Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: ‘Chocolate Soldier’ Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 90 cm Slender spikes hold numerous densely massed chocolate brown tubular flowers. This distinctive, striking and lovely completely perennial plant is appropriately also called ‘Chocolate Soldier’. Sowing advice: For best results, sow seeds immediately onto a good soil-based

code: 902 It has five reflexed sepals in shades of magenta or white Family: PRIMULACEAE Common name: MOUNTAIN SHOOTING STARS, BONNEVILLE SHOOTING STAR Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20+ In mid spring, the “Bonneville shooting star” erects slim, tall stems which are dark in colour and

code: 901 It makes a dense spike of large Family: Iridaceae Common name: Turkish Marsh Gladiolus. Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 This is probably the hardiest of all gladioli, down to Zone 3 it is claimed, and also strangely, one of the rarest!

code: 900 It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit Family: Liliaceae Common name: Leopard Lily, Panther Lily Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Minimum Height: 1.5 meters Maximum Height: 2.1 meters Packet Content(approx.): 8 This famous and robust lily forms clumps of erect stems bearing whorled leaves and several nodding, dark-spotted, orange-red flowers

code: 899 This exceptional back-of-border Family: Asteraceae Common name: MIDNIGHT LADY Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 80 cm Maximum Height: 1.2 meters Three inch wide, bright orange flowers on branching purple stems, stand above glossy, beetroot-coloured, heart-shaped leaves. This exceptional back-of-border or even bog plant attracts countless butterflies and moths, such as the Painted