flowers and plants

code: 677 Sow seeds IMMEDIATELY you receive them Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Grape leaf Anemone Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 1.5 meters This lovely Chinese species gives a valuable late summer and autumn display of large rose pink flowers in profuse clusters on long stalks, which make perfect cut flowers.

code: 676 It flowers from early till late summer Family: Ranuculaceae Common name: Tall anemone, Tall Thimble-weed Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 75 cm This easy-to-grow perennial has numerous greenish-white to citrine-yellow cup shaped flowers on strong upright stems high above the green, deeply cut and clustered vine like leaves,

code: 674 is completely trouble-free, improving yearly Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: European Columbine, Rose Granny’s Bonnet, A. vulgaris ‘Burnished Rose’ Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Selected here many years ago, sprays of icing pink pom-poms hover gracefully above the burnished, bright golden foliage. This lovely form looks fabulous

code: 673 A selection from the range … Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Granny’s Bonnets Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm A selection from the range in our catalogue plus other colours and forms collected from our cottage garden. This well-filled generous packet must surely be the biggest ever offered

code: 672 It will be best grown in a very gritty soil Family: Tecophiliaceae Plant Classification: Half hardy bulb Hardy bulb Half hardy perennial Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 23 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 A new, rare and exquisite relative of tecophilaea the “Chilean Crocus”, from the Andes and very rarely available.

code: 971 clump-forming plant has leaves which are simple and lance-shaped Family: Compositae Common name: Maiden’s Eye Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 90 cm A popular cottage garden plant bearing red-eyed, brightest yellow, single flower heads, up to 2.5 inches across, consisting of ray florets with uneven cut margins, and orange disk florets. This

code: 670 It grows with a semi-prostrate habit quite low to the ground Family: Coriariaceae Plant Classification: Half hardy shrub Hardy shrub Minimum Height: 90 cm Maximum Height: 1.2 meters Packet Content(approx.): 6 This rare deciduous sub-shrub, originating from E Nepal, is notable for its striking fruit and foliage. Red arching stems bear opposite pairs

code: 668 seedlings will be all green when young but variegate later Family: Cruciferae Common name: Honesty ‘Alba Variegata’ Plant Classification: Hardy biennial Minimum Height: 60 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 This lovely spring-flowering plant is the much sought after, but seldom offered, white flowered and white-splashed foliage form of “Honesty”. When

code: 667 This little gem looks exotic and tender Family: Papilionaceae Common name: Chamisso bush lupine Plant Classification: Hardy shrub Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 6 From a low dome of tiny, silky, silvery blue-green “lupin” leaves, arise short, stumpy spikes of blue and white flowers. This little gem looks

code: 666 This is amongst the brightest foliage in the garden Family: Caryophyllaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 25 cm Maximum Height: 50 cm Another absolutely NEW form of the “Red campion” which produces in late winter incredible spikes of strikingly bright cream foliage. This is amongst the brightest foliage in the garden until

code: 665 This is one of the most popular plants for a rockery Family: CARYOPHYLLACEAE Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 15 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm A long-lived dwarf forming a neat tuft of bright green pointed leaves, covered in late summer and into autumn with bright magenta flowers with deeply cut petals. This

code: 664 swarm of small greenish-cream flowers Family: Caryophlaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm A striking plant producing a swarm of small greenish-cream flowers which have curiously swept-back petals growing thickly over a mass of thin, continuously branching, sticky stems. From a distance, much resembles the gypsophila so

code: 663 It is extremely hardy and also heat Family: Rosaceae Plant Classification: Hardy shrub Minimum Height: 30 cm Maximum Height: 45 cm Packet Content(approx.): 50+ This compact flowering shrub grows into a neat slowly expanding ball of golden foliage with masses of dainty, light pink flowers in June and July. It often reblooms sporadically

code: 662 “Greybeard grass” Family: Poaceae Common name: Greybeard Grass, Frost Grass, Silver Spikegrass Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 90 cm Maximum Height: 1.2 meters A very decorative grass with many names including “Greybeard grass”, “Frost Grass”, and “Silver Spike grass”. Stiff, white-centred broad leaves, turn burgundy in autumn, and plumes of purple spikelet’s

code: 661 slowly-expanding plant that every gardener should possess Family: Asparagaceae Common name: Whorled Solomon’s-seal Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 60 cm Packet Content(approx.): 8 In spring many strong curving stems clad in thin pointed leaves upwards, and hold all along their ends numerous, small, dangling, greenish-white, fragrant bells with

code: 660 This rarely-seen native of the Roggeveld in South Africa Family: Hyacinthaceae Common name: Lachenalia longituba Plant Classification: Half hardy bulb Hardy bulb Half hardy perennial Hardy perennial Delicate ice-blue flowers with short stalks and a very long tube, have a violet central stripe on each petal, and arise from a central rosette of