flowers and plants

Arabis Purpurea

code: 614 It is excellent in a pot too Family: Cruciferae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm This gem is like but smaller than Arabis cyprium and has much smaller seeds. We discovered it high in the alpine ski-zone of the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus where it is the

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Arabis Koehleri

code: 613 Cruciform flowers of bright purple open on compact Family: Cruciferae Common name: Koehler’s Rock Cress Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 10 cm Maximum Height: 20 cm This very rare, tough, tufted endemic lives only on a few dry hills, high above the rushing Umpqua River on the Pacific coast of Oregon. Cruciform

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Aquilegia 'Woodside Blue'

Aquilegia ‘Woodside Blue’

code: 612 sow seeds immediately onto a good soil-based compost Family: Ranunculaceae Common name: Woodside Blue Columbine, Granny’s Bonnets Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 60 cm Deepest blue or violet flowers contrast vividly with the fabulously mottled leaves. Sowing advice: For best results, sow seeds immediately onto a good soil-based compost. Cover the seeds

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Asarina Procumbens

Asarina Procumbens

code: 610 Self-seeds without ever becoming a nuisance Family: Scrophulariaceae Common name: Trailing Snapdragon Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Maximum Height: 8 cm The spreading arms of this delightful prostrate trailing plant have small soft hairy grey leaves. Large yellow and red blotched, white “snapdragons” are produced for many months throughout the summer. Self-seeds without ever

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Asparagus Acutifolius

Asparagus Acutifolius

code: 609 It has long been preferred Family: Asparagaceae Common name: Mediterranean Wild Asparagus Plant Classification: Half hardy perennial Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 1.0 meter Maximum Height: 1.5 meters Packet Content(approx.): 5 This desirable plant is the Mediterranean wild species of asparagus, and is a gourmet’s delight with scrambled eggs, being even tastier than asparagus

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Asparagus Verticillatus

Asparagus Verticillatus

code: 608 The beautiful ferny foliage stays green Family: Asparagaceae Plant Classification: Hardy climber Packet Content(approx.): 5 This newly-discovered, rare, bone-hardy to Zone 3 (USA), bizarre and absolutely amazing climbing asparagus, (to 15feet/5m tall), has glossy green foliage covered in fragrant white flowers in late spring, and in late summer it is smothered with 1/2″

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Crocus Tommasinianus

Crocus Tommasinianus

code: 607 They are also magnets for any insects that may be active so early in the year Family: Iridaceae Common name: Woodland Crocus, Tommies Plant Classification: Hardy bulb Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 13 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Perhaps the easiest of crocuses to grow, these lovely blue flowers which are

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Cryptomeria Japonica

code: 606 it is quite similar to Giant Sequoia and is a deserved RHS AGM Winner Family: Cupressaceae Common name: Cupressus japonica, Japanese Cedar, Sugi Plant Classification: Hardy tree Minimum Height: 3.0 meters Maximum Height: 15.0 meters This large ornamental, evergreen tree, revered in its native Japan where it is the National Tree, was introduced

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Cryptostegia Grandiflora

code: 605 It is now naturalised in the Caribbean, East Africa Family: Asclepiadeae Common name: Rubber Vine Plant Classification: Greenhouse climber Half hardy climber Packet Content(approx.): 25 This woody, perennial climbing vine, which is native to south-west Madagascar has attractive, quilled pinkish purple flowers. It is one of the fastest growing plants in the world,

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Cryptotaenia Japonica Atropurpurea

Cryptotaenia Japonica Atropurpurea

code: 604 it is reputedly a strengthening tonic Family: Apiaceae Common name: Perennial purple parsley. Mitsuba, Purple-leaved Japanese Wild Parsley, Purple-leaved Japanese hone Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 45 cm Maximum Height: 90 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 Recently arrived from Japan is this exciting new foliage (and food!) plant related to parsley but much

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Cyclamen Alpinum

Cyclamen Alpinum

code: 602 It grows from a tuber and is native to pine, juniper Family: Primulaceae Common name: Alpine Cyclamen, Cyclamen trochopteranthum Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 10 cm Packet Content(approx.): 8 This perennial has pendulous pink flowers with widely-spaced petals, rather like propellers of a plane. It grows from a

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Cyclamen Balearicum

code: 601 A dwarf and exceptional species from Southern France Family: Primulaceae Common name: Wild Cyclamen Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 5 cm Maximum Height: 8 cm Packet Content(approx.): 10 Very fragrant flowers with twisted white petals veined with pink, appear in spring and have decorative bluish-grey leaves marbled with silver. A dwarf and

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Cyclamen Cilicium

Cyclamen Cilicium

code: 600 it enjoys decayed pine needle litter incorporated Family: Primulaceae Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 13 cm Packet Content(approx.): 15 Pale to rose pink flowers with a magenta blotch at the nose, and smelling noticeably of honey, bloom in autumn above rosettes of deep green oval leaves with silvery

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Primula Grandis

code: 597 on top of farina dusted stems … Family: Primulaceae Common name: Sredinskya grandis Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 35 cm Maximum Height: 40 cm Packet Content(approx.): 20 In May, on top of farina dusted stems, this rare curiosity opens clusters of narrow, hanging, pale yellow flowers, whose slender petals do not open

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Primula Halleri

code: 597 This European species has very long Family: Primulaceae Common name: Primula longiflora Plant Classification: Hardy perennial Minimum Height: 8 cm Maximum Height: 15 cm This European species has very long, narrow tubes holding the bright, lilac-pink flowers, which open in clusters on long stems. They do well on the rock garden as long

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