Ornamental plants

code: 844 evenly moist soil and full sun or partial shade Family: Cruciferae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm This very distinctive species from Spain and the Pyrenees makes a tiny hard rosette of shiny green, toothed foliage with heads of disproportionately large white flowers. A diminutive, cushion-forming alpine […]

code: 843 it is native to the mountainous regions of the Iberian Peninsula Family: Cruciferae Common name: Draba frigida Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 6 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm From May to July cross-shaped white flowers open on diminutive stalks which in time make up small shiny-leafed cushions. First described in 1802 by

code: 842 grow in the rocky grasslands in the Eastern Alps, Carpathians and Balkans Family: Cruciferae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm Usually densely tufted hummocks consisting of spiny rosettes produce racemes of yellow flowers in early spring. These tiny treasures grow best in full sun in gritty, sharply

code: 841 From the cold wastes of Patagonia comes… Family: Cruciferae Common name: Patagonian Whitlow Grass Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm From the cold wastes of Patagonia comes this dwarf alpine with short stem bearing snow-white flowers above clumps of tiny pointed leaves. Sowing advice: Seeds can be

code: 840 It is ideal for a pot or container or small rock-garden Family: Cruciferae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm This rare and beautiful Japanese high alpine plant makes a solid rounded cushion covered with sheets of almost stemless, golden-eyed white flowers. It is ideal for a pot

code: 839 It lives, as a rule, above 2200m in France, Italy Family: Cruciferae Common name: Whitlow Grass, Draba zahlbruckneri Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 4 cm Maximum Height: 6 cm This dwarf plant resembles a dwarf dense form of D. aizoides, and forms compact mats bearing racemes of deepest yellow cruciform flowers from

code: 838 rose-pink flowers in mid and late summer Family: Geraniaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10+ This magnificent, newly discovered plant from South Africa, produces large, darker-veined, rose-pink flowers in mid and late summer, over a deep billowing carpet of finely divided silvery-grey leaves making

code: 837 it is credited with the power to drive away evil spirits Family: Roscaeae Common name: Wood avens, Herb Bennet, Colewort , St. Benedict’s herb Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Sprays of yellow flowers open in shady places (such as woodland edges and near hedgerows) usually between

code: 836 native to Mongolia, eastern Siberia Family: Liliaceae Common name: Lilium tenuifolium Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Reflexed, sweetly-perfumed, nodding flowers, brightest red in colour, are sometimes but not always, delicately spotted with black. Named pumilum for its relatively small size, this

code: 835 This excellent garden plant is happy with both lime Family: Liliaceae Common name: Pyrenean Lily, Yellow Turk’s-cap Lily, Yellow Martagon Lily Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 75 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Heavy heads of glorious, bright, vivid yellow flowers, with, exotic, rather musty perfume, and rust-speckled

code: 834 Sow seeds at any time covering them with compost or grit 5mm deep Family: Liliaceae Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 1.5 meters Packet Content(approx.): 30+ This is an excellent value bag of numerous lily species grown both by ourselves and some very keen lily collectors. Includes the following

code: 832 purple-green inflated flowers Family: Aristolochiaceae Common name: Fox ear, Virgin Mary’s herb Plant Classification: Half hardy climber Packet Content(approx.): 10 An extremely lovely and unusual climber. Boomerang-shaped leaves on twining stems carrying strikingly beautifully marked, purple-green inflated flowers. Sowing advice: Sow seeds at any time onto a good soil-based compost covering seeds with

code: 829 This form is exceptionally long-flowering in the garden Family: Araceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 23 cm Maximum Height: 30 cm Packet Content(approx.): 8 Large, shiny, broad, spear-shaped leaves, surround the sizeable green to purplish-brown infused spathes with a white centre which are exceptionally decorative, with their deep purple-brown spadices. This form

code: 828 Discovered as recently as 1987 Family: Araceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 4 large seeds An enormous spathe of deep rich purple-black surrounds a spadix of almost jet black. Large, polished, deep-green leaves lay below, and in addition, this plant allegedly does not have

code: 827 In June, low clumps of fresh green leaves as finely cut as parsley Family: Rosaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 60 cm In June, low clumps of fresh green leaves as finely cut as parsley, support a forest of wiry flower stems carrying tiny astilbe-like heads of small creamy-white flowers. By September

code: 824 It is native to Korea and the region of the Amur River Family: Ranunculaceae Plant Classification: Hardy climber Packet Content(approx.): 10 A seldom-seen species clematis with vigorous climbing stems carrying pendent purple or blue-purple, urn-shaped flowers with distinctive white lips. It is native to Korea and the region of the Amur River which

code: 823 It prefers a well-drained sunny Family: Campanulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy climber Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm This rarely seen scrambling/climbing plant has the the most exquisite, nodding, bell-shaped flowers in palest ice blue, with the bell-shaped blossoms being veined darker blue on the inside, and sumptous black, orange

code: 822 Broad fleshy leaves grow on twining stems which carry large Family: Campanulaceae Common name: Climbing bellflower Plant Classification: Hardy climber Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 70 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm This is the most attractive climbing perennial you could wish to see. Broad fleshy leaves grow on twining stems which carry large, fabulous,

code: 821 These climbers bear the largest flowers of all codonopsis Family: Campanulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy climber Minimum Height: 2.0 meters Maximum Height: 3.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 20 These climbers bear the largest flowers of all codonopsis, each flared sky-blue star having a central eye, delicately pencilled in violet and mauve, and being up to

code: 819 it thrives in wet meadows and similar damp situations Family: Iridaceae Common name: Marsh gladiolus, Sword Lily Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 40 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 This charming, relatively small Gladiolus open bright spikes of rose-wine flowers with delicately-marked, noticeably split-apart petals, in spring and