flowers and plants

code: 799 Native to the Himalayas Family: Polygonaceae Common name: Rose-carpet knotweed Plant Classification: Hardy shrub Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm This valuable, gregarious, low trailing, ground-cover plant, valuable for its early autumn flowering, will scramble over rocks and wall edges quite happily, quickly covering ground and rocks, the spikes […]

code: 798 autumn in British gardens Family: Iridaceae Common name: Hesperantha Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 50 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm This white form of has narrower petals than the coloured varieties and flowers slightly later. This adaptable variety flowers in autumn in British gardens before dying back to reappear in the spring

code: 797 It is ideal outside in a well-drained sunny spot Family: Asparagaceae Common name: Squill, Hyacinthoides reverchonii Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 20 cm Maximum Height: 25 cm These flowers open very early, between February and April, displaying short conical spikes of deep blue flowers, that hang to one side of

code: 796 easy-to-grow plant Family: Asparagaceae Common name: Chinese Squill, Barnardia japonica Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Although this exceptional, rarely-seen plant has a name that tells us that it is the scilla that looks like a scilla, which is true, it is

code: 795 compact and very easy to grow! Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Sticky Catchfly, Wild pink, Carolina Pink Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 30 cm This “catchfly” is a densely mounded herbaceous perennial producing profuse, brilliant pink, carnation-like flowers from early May into June and July. It is an ideal substitute for Dianthus, and

code: 794 native to high meadows and mountain slopes in Europe Family: Caryophyllaceae Common name: Alpine catchfly Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm Neat, compact grassy tufts, massed into open cushions are covered with long-lasting white flowers on 6″ stems all summer long. This seldom-seen alpine plant is native

code: 792 this is probably the most attractive yellow sisyrinchium obtainable Family: Iridaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm This very showy plant has some of the largest flowers in its genus, producing large cups of bright yellow, with a beautifully contrasting purple-brown ring inside. Coupled with short stems,

code: 791 Family: Alliaceae Common name: broadstemmed onion, flat-stem onion Plant Classification: Hardy bulb This superb, easy, alpine, or garden species has bright, hot-pink to magenta flowers with the stamens sticking out from each flower making the flower ball look fluffy. Thick, flattened, sickle-shaped, blue-green leaves persist until well after flowering. It is native to

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.