flowers and plants

Phyllanthus Emblica

Phyllanthus Emblica

code: 759 The tree has a crooked trunk and spreading branches Family: Phyllanthaceae Common name: Indian gooseberry, Emblica officinalis, Amla Plant Classification: Greenhouse perennial Minimum Height: 4.0 meters Maximum Height: 18.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 20 Indian gooseberry fruit eaten raw is quite sour and astringent, and in India it is common to eat gooseberries sweetened […]

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Phyteuma Hemisphaerica

Phyteuma Hemisphaerica

code: 756 tidy little herbaceous alpine is perfect for the rock garden or scree Family: Campanulaceae Common name: Rampion Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 22 cm Spiky, violet-blue pom-pom flowers open with curious, shiny-blue claws protruding from them. The lanceolate, deep green leaves unfurl in early spring forming a neat

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Platycodon Grandiflorus

Platycodon Grandiflorus

code: 752 germination can sometimes be quicker if kept at 15 to 20 degrees C Family: Campanulaceae Common name: Japanese bellflower, common balloon flower, balloon flower. Campanula persicifolia grandiflora, Peach Leaf bellflower, Chinese Balloon Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 40 cm These popular relatives to the bell-flowers form a mound

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Sisymbrium Luteum

Sisymbrium Luteum

code: 751 A back-of-border ‘mystery plant’ Family: Cruciferae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.2 meters Maximum Height: 1.5 meters A spectacularly tall member of the wallflower flower from the Himalayas with bunches of countless, fragrant, bright yellow flowers on tall, branching, cane-like stems of shiny leaves throughout spring and summer. A back-of-border ‘mystery plant’.

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Sisyrinchium Bellum Album

Sisyrinchium Bellum Album

code: 749 One of the smaller sisyrinchiums Family: Irdaceae Common name: White-eyed Grass Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 15 cm Packet Content(approx.): 25 One of the smaller sisyrinchiums with short stems holding sprays of golden-eyed,pure white starry flowers. These plants may gently self-seed but very rarely become a nuisance! Sowing advice: Seeds can be

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Smyrnium Olusatrum Cream Variegated

Smyrnium Olusatrum Cream Variegated

code: 747 It produces a strong stem bearing umbels of yellow flowers Family: Umbelliferae Common name: ALEXANDERS Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Hardy biennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 1.2 meters Packet Content(approx.): 6 large seeds This beautiful, completely new, and possibly unique variegated form of the old English-Garden plant, “Alexanders”, was discovered here at

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Solanum Mammosum

Solanum Mammosum

code: 746 A truly amazing-looking plant producing positively inedible Family: Solanaceae Common name: Nipple Fruit, Sodom’s Apple, Titty Fruit, Cow’s Udder, Super Duper Titty Fruit, Fox Face, Five Fingered Eggplant Plant Classification: Greenhouse perennial Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 2.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 8 A truly amazing-looking plant producing positively inedible, ornamental fruits which

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Soldanella Montana

Soldanella Montana

code: 745 famous plant is perhaps THE classic alpine plant Family: Primulaceae Common name: “Snow-Bells” Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 10 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 This famous plant is perhaps THE classic alpine plant, epitomising spring, as the delicately fringed purple bells push up through the snow with leathery dark green rounded leaves. This

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Sonchus Arboreus

Sonchus Arboreus

code: 744 sow seeds immediately onto a good soil-based compost Family: Compositae Plant Classification: Half hardy perennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm This rare and amazing giant tree-daisy comes from the high mountains of Madeira where it makes thick trunks. Huge rosettes of serrated leaves grow on the end of stout branches,

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Arabis Soyeri

Arabis Soyeri

code: 741 It does best in poor soil or perhaps even on or in a dry wall Family: Cruciferae Common name: Arabis Jacquinii, Rock Cress Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm Originally found high in the Pyrenees , the Alps and the Western Carpathians, this atractive and rather rare high alpine bears shiny,

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Araucaria Araucana

Araucaria Araucana

code: 740 SOW SEEDS AS SOON AS THEY ARRIVE ABOUT HALF AN INCH DEEP IN GOOD Family: Araucariaceae Common name: MONKEY PUZZLE, CHILE PINE Minimum Height: 2.0 meters Maximum Height: 20.0 meters Packet Content(approx.): 4 Leathery, spine-tipped leaves clad long spidery branches, which are geometrically arrayed around the trunk like spokes of a cartwheel. One

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