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Epimedium x perralchicum ‘Frohnleiten’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Epimedium x perralchicum 'Frohnleiten'. Beautiful tough evergreen ground cover, thirving even in the dry beneath trees. The leaves open an attractive pale ochre-green, beautifully netted with russet tones, colouring well in Autumn (more coloured than 'Wisley' on both occasions). Flowers are like strings of glowing small bright yellow daffodils held upright and above the foliage. A German cultivar selected by Heinz Klose, it has slightly more pointed leaves with a more toothed margin and large flowers held well up. 45cm. Easily grown in any good soil. ( E.perraldianum x E. pinnatum subsp. colchicum ).
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Epimedium x warleyense ( Ellen Willmott )

£6.50

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Epimedium x warleyense ( Ellen Willmott ). E. alpinum x E. pinnatum subsp. colchicum. The upright stems of delicate coppery orange flowers set this hybrid apart from most epimediums. They are held well up above the foliage in a warm orange haze. The leaves are apple green in a mildly spreading clump that is a little less dense than most species. Height 20-40cm in flower. Originally sent from Warley Place, the Garden of Ellen Willmot, to Professor Stearn as E.perraldianum when he was writing his monograph. Subsequently identified and named by Professor Stearn. for any good soil in partial shade. spring.
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Euphorbia cyparissias ‘Red Devil’

£6.00

Potsize - 1L
Euphorbia cyparissias 'Red Devil'. Pretty little Euphorbia with deep red new growth which fades a deep sea green, the perfect foil for the bright acid yellow flowers produced in profusion in spring. It's only 20cm tall but a great assest anywhere. The fine thread-like foliage is lovely in its own respect, but the brightness of the flowers punch well above their weight and persist for so long, fading into rich autumn tones before they depart. Any soil. Will run. HARMFUL IF EATEN. SKIN/EYE IRRITANT
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Ficaria verna ‘Collarette’ (Ranunculus ficaria)

£3.75

Potsize - 9cm
An anemone centred celandine . Bright golden yellow with widely spaced rounded petals around a tight central boss of curved petaloid stamens. The leaves are a joy for they are variously marbled and splashed with green, black and pewter. Sterile. Probably selected at Myddleton House, the garden of EA Bowles. Propagated by P Corbis in Yelverton in the 1960's as Beamish Double

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Ficaria verna ‘Green Petal’ (Ranunculus ficaria)

£3.75

Potsize - 9cm
This curious little variety produces fully double blooms of shiny green flowers, streaked with yellow. Definitely a curiosity for the collector who likes to 'have the set' !

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Ficaria verna ‘Montacute’ (Ranunculus ficaria)

£3.75

Potsize - 9cm
Lesser Celandine. Gold-edged, bronze buds open to a typical celandine colour, the difference being that Ficaria verna 'Montacute' (Ranunculus ficaria) has 4 ruffs of petals, prettily incurved to reveal the contrasting bronzy reverse. The petals are neatly square-ended, almost as if they have been trimmed. Unlike 'Flore Pleno' the centres of the flowers are open revealing a green eye surrounded by a boss of orange anthers. The leaves are arrow shaped, green flecked with silver. A favourite of mine and one of the earliest to flower. Said to have been rescued from a verge in Montacute, Somerset in 1994 just prior to being destroyed in roadworks.

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Ficaria verna Randall’s White’ (Ranunculus ficaria)

£3.75

Potsize - 9cm
Lesser Celandine. Glossy Buttermilk petals, shaded purplish on the reverse set off by a central boss of double-cream stamens. A nice contrast to the other cultivars or where the bold yellows are a bit too strident. Plain green leaves. This selection comes from Allan Robinson, former Rock Garden Superintendent at Wisley, who named it after his cat.

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Galium odoratum – Sweet Woodruff (Asperula odorata)

£6.00

Potsize - 1L
Galium odoratum (Sweet Woodruff). (Rubiaceae) . Sweet Woodruff. A british native that really earns its place in a shady spot. It will quickly form an open carpet of bright green whorled foliage, enlivened in Spring with brightest white starry flowers. The leaves when crushed are said to smell of newly made hay. Its an undemanding plant that performs brilliantly in the sort of dry shaded situations that can be troublesome to fill. Honey produced by bees feeding on the nectar of this plant has been reported to have effects similar to Manuka Honey, but as to what evidence there is to back this up I cannot say.
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Geranium maculatum ‘Beth Chatto’

£6.50

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Geranium maculatum 'Beth Chatto'. G.'Chatto' is distinguished by the most lovely clear, pale sugar pink flowers that it shows off to great effect in outward facing clusters above the pale green foliage. Larger and more deeply coloured than ‘Shameface’. Geranium maculatum is a variable moisture loving species; the best of the North American species. Flowers appear April to June (and often again in Autumn) with clusters of upward facing flowers well above the deeply cut leaves. Best in damp shade
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Geranium maculatum ‘Espresso’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Geranium maculatum 'Espresso'. Impressive leaves which are deeply fingered and coloured brown, a colour which lasts well into the Summer. Flowers are produced early and are pale pink. The whole plant is a little smaller than ‘Elizabeth Ann’. Geranium maculatum is a variable moisture loving species; the best of the North American species. Flowers appear April to June (and often again in Autumn) with clusters of upward facing flowers well above the deeply cut leaves. Best in damp shade, but needs some sun to develop the leaf colour . Raised by Dale Hendricks of North Creek Nurseries, USA.
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Geranium phaeum ‘Album’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Geranium phaeum 'Album'. The pure white form of the Mourning Widow. Good clean white flowers which are relatively large for the type and lack any central ring. More or less evergreen mounds of foliage and upright stems topped with outward facing flowers. Good in dry Shade. Originally collected in the wild in Switzerland by Dr Roger-Smith and Miss Savory, part ofan AGS party in 1940.
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Geranium phaeum ‘Lisa’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Handsome foliage especially in Spring and Autumn when the hearts of the leaves are cool cream, gradually mottling out towards the edge. The deeply incised leaves are further decorated by strong black spots at the deepest points of the lobes. 50cm. Flowers are silvery purple, highly reflexed, with pink tipped anthers. They are produced over a long period from April to July. Easy and rewarding. Introduced by Coen Jansen.
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Geranium phaeum ‘Springtime’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Golden Spring foliage becomes suffused with green and is marbled with a maroon, roughly heart-shaped ring at the depths of the lobes. The flowers are the deepest, richest royal purple. Like all the phaeums it positively thrives in dry shade, though the yellow tones of the leaves may be less strident. A chance seedling found by Piet Oudolf.
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Geranium phaeum ‘Wendy’s Blush’

£7.50

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A distinctively marked G.phaeum with pretty almost white petals surrounding a central violet ring. Flowers take on a slight pink blush as they age. Good, vigorous clumps of bright green foliage send up leafy stems topped with small but showy flowers from late April. 45cm. Phaeums enjoy a semi-shaded position and provide a valuable source of pollen and nectar for early insects. Raised by Andre Ekkleboom in Holland and named for his wife. fusion_separator style_type="single solid" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" sep_color="" top_margin="" bottom_margin="" border_size="" icon="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_color="" width="" alignment="center"][/fusion_separator]
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Geum ‘Beech House Apricot’ (not)

£6.50

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Geum 'Beech House Apricot'. The tightly crowded clump of fresh apple- green foliage forms a perfect foil for the wide open rich apricot flowers. For a moist soil in sun or shade. 25cm. Very reliable colour for early season at the front of the border. We've had this plant for years and can't remember where we bought it. Recently at a plant sale we met with Angela Whinfield who introduced us to Peter Hale, the man who originally introduced Beech House Apricot. he found it growing in his mother's garden at Beech house in Edington and at the time of introduction was a significant colour break. As the true 'Beech House Apricot' is half the height of ours and much paler ours is clearly wrongly named. Its probably a seedling, un-named, but non-the-less a strikingly good orange.
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Geum ‘Can-can’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
A fitting name for this lovely Geum. It has 5 rows of frilly petticoat-like petals in a warm soft yellow, all suffused with peach. The centre of each flower has a big boss of yellow stamens tipped with brown anthers all ringed around with the red styles in the middle. Flip the flower over and you find it is washed over in a lovely apricot shade with a dark red calyx and stem. All in all its enough to get you grabbing your skirt and bursting into song.
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Geum ‘Flames of Passion’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
I think this is a slow burner rather than a red hot Latin lover, but it's certainly a Geum to fall in love with. Geum 'Flames of Passion' is relatively short and neat at a foot high. The flowers are 2cm across and look down in a rather coy fashion. They are strawberry pink, slightly ruffled with 3 rows of petals and a charming yellow centre with a green eye. The dark maroon buds and stems round off the effect nicely. So if you are feeling coy yourself, perhaps it's time to give passion a try.
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Geum ‘Lemon Delight’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
When it first opens this reminds me of the simple cotton caps worn by maids in years gone by with frilly edges all gathered together with a band. At first nodding and a fresh lemon in colour the flowers open flatter and fade to a rich buttermilk, looking out with two rows of petals. A good clumping variety.
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Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Introduced by Hardy's in 2010, this Geum has built up a great reputation for reliability and impact. It is a sterile hybrid that will hold its zingy semi double orange flowers on stems up to 90cm tall and keep on producing them over an extended season. The flowers can vary in shade from a rich orange back towards a more mellow shade. From a distance it reminds us somewhat of Geum 'Hilltop Beacon' but the growth habit is much more upright and tighter packed.
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Geum rivale ‘Snowflake’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
This is one for those of you that like something a bit more subtle - a bit of a symphony in cream and green. There are up to 3 rows of petals, each one long stalked giving a gap at the flower base. They are white, deliciously green shaded in the bee lines and the throat, especially as they first open. The flowers hang down so you need to get down to appreciate the fluffy green styles. It is a good clumper and short at 12 inches
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Helleborus orientalis (Lenten Rose) – Alppleblossoms

£10.00

Potsize - 1L
Helleborus orientalis (Lenten Rose) - Appleblossoms These plants are selected forms of Lenten Rose, grown from our own collected seed. They are white with a blush of pink. These could be pure or spotted. The plants we sell here have been previously flowered so that their colour is known. If you are really choosy about colour, speak to us in February and we can email a picture of plant in flower. The photos are as representative as we can be. Helleborus orientalis (Lenten Rose). Hellebores are so welcome as they bloom soon after Christmas at a time when flowers are so scarce. They come in such a wonderful variety of colour; whites through to pinks and blue-black purples, with some in shades of green and yellow. Many are beautifully spotted inside, but no two are ever identical. Nowadays there are a bewildering array of doubles to add to the mix. Anyone taking the time to stop and lift up a bloom is always well rewarded.
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Helleborus orientalis (Lenten Rose) – mixed colours

£10.00

Potsize - 2Ldeep
Helleborus orientalis (Lenten Rose). Seed grown stock grown from our own seed, harvested from a wide selection of choice varieties collected over the last 20 years. They could be single, anemone centred or double in any colour. Pictures show a sample of the plants we collect seed from. These are unflowered plants. As they flower we will offer them as coloured varieties under the specified colour products. If you are looking for a particular colour that is not listed just ask and well see what we can do. Hellebores are so welcome as they bloom soon after Christmas at a time when flowers are so scarce. They come in such a wonderful variety of colour; whites through to pinks and blue-black purples, with some in shades of green and yellow. Many are beautifully spotted inside, but no two are ever identical. Nowadays there are a bewildering array of doubles to add to the mix. Anyone taking the time to stop and lift up a bloom is always well rewarded.
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Hesperis matrionalis var. albiflora

£3.75

Potsize - 9cm
Dame's Violet, Sweet Rocket. Tall slender stems, 100 to 120cm, with 4 petalled flowers. Heads of highly perfumed flowers reminiscent of willowy stocks. Much loved by pollinating insects. An old Cottage Garden favourite. Short lived, but good for naturalising in damp, shady or grassy places.
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Heuchera ‘Binoche’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
One of the best black Heuchera for growing in shade. Leaves are dark (becoming more so in subsequent years ) and have a distinctive matt hairy texture. A vigorous clone.
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Heuchera ‘Sugar Plum’

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A fine new Heuchera with broad burgundy leaves, silver washed with contrasting dark veins, becoming more silvered in Winter and often carrying an overall pink sheen. Flowers pinky-white in May to September.
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Lamium maculatum ‘Pink Pewter’

£6.00

Potsize - 1L
Lamium maculatum 'Pink Pewter'. Just the plant to bring a bit of life into a troublesome dry spot in the garden with its easy habit and lovely richly silvered foliage. Flowers are a rich pink. Useful for ground cover in a wide range of soil and light conditions, growing in all but the wettest conditions and excelling in dry shade .The silvering on the leaves of these plants is caused by air filled blisters just below the surface.
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Lamium orvala

£6.50

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Lamium orvala. This is the Big Daddy of the deadnettle world. The leaves are large and rough, set well off the stems on long stalks. The flowers are produced in a ring of half a dozen around each node up the stem. They are ruddy pink with wide open mouths and shaggy lips and more than a passing resemblance to a guard of Chinese dragons. It doesn't spread around like so many of its cousins, preferring to make a statement where it stands. 30-45cm. Spring flowering, for shade.
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Lamium orvala ‘Alba’

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Lamium orvala 'Alba'. This is the pure white flowered form of this stately deadnettle. Rather than the usual ruddy pinks of the species, the dragon-mouth flowers are clean white, shading a little green from the leaves. The leaves and stems also lack the pink pigments giving the whole plant a greener, cleaner look than the species. Non invasive clumper for a nice leafy spot in moist shade. 30-45cm. Thought to have occurred in the Betws y Coed garden of E.C.Buxton.
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Lathyrus vernus – Spring Vetchling

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Lathyrus vernus (spring vetchling) is a beautiful little treasure for the spring garden that is both dainty and robust Dense lush foliage makes a 30 cm high hummock which is covered with many small pea flowers in shades of pink, fading blue. 30cm. WIll grow in a wide range of conditions, but happiest in a little moist shade. Thrives on our heavy clay. There are a variety of colour variants, some of which we offer seperately.
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Lathyrus vernus – Spring Vetchling (purple-flowered)

£6.50

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Lathyrus vernus (purple-flowered) - Spring Vetchling. Lathyrus vernus (spring vetchling) is a beautiful little treasure for the spring garden that is both dainty and robust Dense lush foliage makes a 30 cm high hummock which is covered with many small pea flowers in shades of pink, fading blue. 30cm. WIll grow in a wide range of conditions, but happiest in a little moist shade. Thrives on our heavy clay. There are a variety of colour variants, some of which we offer seperately.
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Lathyrus vernus ‘Alboroseus’ – Spring Vetchling

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Lathyrus vernus 'Alboroseus' - Spring Vetchling. Lathyrus vernus (spring vetchling) is a beautiful little treasure for the spring garden that is both dainty and robust Dense lush foliage makes a 30 cm high hummock which is covered with many small pea flowers. In this variety the flowers are two-toned pink and white with a rosy red base to each one. 30cm. WIll grow in a wide range of conditions, but happiest in a little moist shade. Thrives on our heavy clay. There are a variety of colour variants, some of which we offer seperately.
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Milium effusum ‘Aureum’ – Bowles Golden Grass

£6.00

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A gorgeous grass for the early Spring garden; lovely with bulbs but retaining its pale yellow foliage until Autumn. Best in shade. 12 inches

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Omphalodes cappadocica ‘Cherry Ingram’

£6.50

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Omphalodes cappadocica 'Cherry Ingram'. Another treasure for the Spring garden with the brightest blue forget-me-not like flowers held in short sprays, 20cm high, over clumps of smooth, crumpled, lanceolate leaves. For a shady spot in good soil. This beautiful little plant will brighten any shady spot in spring and provide good, if not vigorous, ground cover. The attractively ridged foliage is evergreen. Named for Collingwood Ingram, nicknamed 'Cherry' for his great love of Japanese Cherries.
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Omphalodes verna ‘Alba’

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This is the pure white form of Blue Eyed Mary. Much more of a creeper than its cousin, cappadocica and earlier to start flowering in the year. Omphalodes verna 'Alba' will spread quite freely in any cool leafy soil that is not too wet producing a wide mat of rich green foliage dotted here and there withpur white flowers. Very good to bring a sparkle of white into a dark corner. A lovely creeping species form Eastern Europe. Grows best in bright shade in humus rich soil, but relatively adaptable.
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Parahebe perfoliata – Digger’s Speedwell

£9.00

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Parahebe perfoliata - Digger's Speedwell. (Veronica perfoliata) Attractive glaucous leaves are produced on trailing stems from a central mound. Evergreen and especially attractive in spring as the young stems are produced with a curve like a cobra. Spikes of blue flowers with dainty long stamens in spring and summer curved like the emergent foliage.
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Polemonium reptans ‘Stairway to Heaven’

£6.00

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Polemonium reptans 'Stairway to Heaven'. Bright creamy margined fern-like foliage that emerges in Spring strongly pink tinged, remaining pink edged for some time. Flowers come later and are a clear pale sky blue produced in a long succession on lax stems. A most attractive and stable variegated Jacobs Ladder. New introduction.
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Polygonatum curvistylum

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Potsize - 1L
A delicate unusual Solomon's Seal discovered in Yunnan in China where it grows wild in rock crevices in full sun. It produces low arching stems, rarely more than 15 inches high, clothed with elegant whorls of narrow lanceolate leaves with unusual cirrose leaf tips. Cirrose means that the apexes of the leaf blades are elongated and coiled. This property arose as an aide to supporting itself as it clambers up through undergrowth. In late Spring 2-8 flowers are produced in the upper leaf axils, followed by by coral-red fleshy fruits Grow it in cool, humus-rich well drained soil. It is rhizomatous and if you want to grow it from seed, the seed has a double dormancy.

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Polygonatum kingianum

£8.00

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This a very tall and slender solomon's seal growing anything from 1 to 3m in height. The willowy stems are whorled with narrow leaves with curling tips. Below these come clusters of small bells. Whilst some strains come with rich red-pink flowers, our strain is a much more muted white with flared petals with purple edges. In the wild this plant can be found in forests and rocky slopes growing in shady situtions at altitudes of 700m up to 3600m. It is found in E.China down through Myanmar to Vietnam. It was named honor of Captain Phillip Parker King, 19th century surveyor of the Australian coastline. Flowers March-May.

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