Ornamental plants

code: 790 One of the essential flowers for a hot rockery Family: Cruciferae Common name: Golden-dust, Golden-tuft Alyssum Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 23 cm One of the essential flowers for a hot rockery, this perpetual favourite produces bright sheets of yellow flowers over clumps of grey-green leaves. Will self-seed […]

code: 788 it could have a radio-protective role Common name: Elephant-head Amaranth Plant Classification: Hardy annual Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm This spectacular annual has convoluted heads of massed crimson flowers. In Bangladesh, it has been used as a leafy vegetable with scientific study suggesting that it inhibits calcium retention. Another study

code: 787 This plant gets better with age Family: Apocynaceae Common name: Threadleaf bluestar. Arkansas blue star Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 8 Delicate, willow-like foliage is topped with beautiful, pale powder-blue star-shaped flowers in spring, the light green foliage looking good all summer long before turning a beautiful golden-yellow

code: 786 All will prefer a well-drained position in the garden Family: Various Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Wild collected plants from the foothills of the Central and Southern Chilean Andes. Many not identified by the botanist who collected them. A few will flower the first year. All

code: 785 A rarely-seen alpine… Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm Packet Content(approx.): 8 From small, rounded basal rosettes of hairy pointed leaves, arise thin stems holding aloft bunches of rounded, yellow-eyed white flowers. A rarely-seen alpine that will do best in the alpine house or sheltered

code: 784 selection of these aristocratic rockery plants Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm We offer a valuable selection of these aristocratic rockery plants, including Androsace carnea, armeniaca, chaixii, lactea, salicifolia, daurenica, halleri, villosa and pyrenaica. We have included one or two annuals which will come up

code: 783 An exceptionally beautiful flower from China Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Windflower Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 40 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm This is one of the easiest and long-lived of the clump-forming anemonies which improves with age, bearing dense sprays of white waxy-petalled flowers with a blue reverse. An exceptionally beautiful

code: 782 displaying large opulent up facing saucers in a glorious shade of pale lemon Family: Ranunculaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 38 cm This plant, displaying large opulent up facing saucers in a glorious shade of pale lemon and buttermilk, so far outshines many similar ones, that we cannot

code: 780 very much like Angelica hispanica Family: Apiaceae Common name: Shiny-leaved Angelica, Archangel Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Hardy biennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 75 cm A striking specimen, very much like Angelica hispanica, but larger overall, bearing impressive, thick, glossy ternate leaves. Enormous sprays of yellow-green flower heads appear in early summer.

code: 777 It is also utterly hardy Family: Campanulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy climber Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 2.4 meters This attractive climbing/scrambling plant will cover a small shrub in the rockery or peat garden with bright blue, flared, Periwinkle-like flowers in summer. It is also utterly hardy and perennial making deep tubers. Sowing advice: Seeds

code: 776 It comes from the Gansu region of China Family: Campanulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.2 meters Maximum Height: 1.8 meters Packet Content(approx.): 10 This easy to grow perennial has beautiful green and yellow bell flowers with purple veins. It comes from the Gansu region of China, and will bloom the first

code: 775 A very hardy long-lived plant Family: Commelinaceae Common name: Commelina tuberosa, “Sleeping Beauty” Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 A very long succession of dazzling, vivid sky-blue flowers appear from early summer until autumn on this quite exceptional flower. A very hardy long-lived plant

code: 773 It is happy either in containers or in warm soil Family: Colchicaceae Common name: Gloriosa Lily Plant Classification: Greenhouse climber Half hardy climber Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 1.5 meters Packet Content(approx.): 15+ This beautiful, slender, tuberous climber opens exquisite, exotic lemon-yellow-green flowers, which are solitary, on long pedicels in leaf axils

code: 772 A truly spectacular conservatory plant Family: Liliaceae Common name: Climbing Lily, Gloriosa Lily, Flame Lily Plant Classification: Greenhouse climber Packet Content(approx.): 10 A new, rare and very lovely variation on the normally red-flowered climber. Large, golden flowers with reflexed petals adorn the numerous vigorous multi-branching stems in midsummer. A truly spectacular conservatory plant.

code: 770 This is an ideal plant for a sheltered garden or conservatory Family: Liliaceae Common name: Gloriosa Lily, Glory Lily Plant Classification: Greenhouse climber Packet Content(approx.): 10 This easily grown and superlative climbing lily bears very large, reflexed, frilled yellow and crimson flowers. Twining stems carry thin leaves which terminate in a clinging tendrils.

code: 767 The whole family of plants has irritating stinging hairs Family: Loasacea Plant Classification: Half hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 40 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 From dry open places in South America comes this truly delightful flower with pendulous carmine-red bonnets dangling from its dividing stems which are clad in hairy

code: 766 This tiny alpine plant comes from Chile and Argentina Plant Classification: Hardy shrub Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 2 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm Packet Content(approx.): 12 This neat mat-forming perennial is covered in a dense mixture of short down, tiny glochids, and longer coarse and brittle spiny hairs. The rather lovely white-centred yellow

code: 765 These lovely flowers will grow equally well in dry Family: Campanulaceae Common name: Lobelia cardinalis, Lobelia siphilitica Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 60 cm Spires of clear blue, snapdragon-like flowers open in succession on strong stems bearing thick, crinkly leaves. These lovely flowers will grow equally well in dry or wet conditions

code: 764 It will grow huge in a sheltered spot Family: Campanulaceae Common name: Tupa rosada Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 1.8 meters This rare, semi-shrubby plant from the foothills of the Chilean Andes bears spectacular, bright pink, trumpet-shaped flowers on thick stems which carry toothed and pointed leaves. It will grow huge in

code: 763 It is one of the most easily-grown annuals Family: Campanulaceae Plant Classification: Half hardy annual Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm A compact variety renowned for its excellent garden performance with clear sky-blue flowers set above narrow, airy foliage on compact plants. It makes a sparkling addition to beds, containers, and