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    Kniphofia 'Painted Lady' is an easy to grow variety with extra long pokers which fade from a glowing salmon bud through yellow to a cream flower. Unusually the pokers can branch like a candelabra. 110cm. Full sun with moisture in summer. Bred by Eric Smith
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    Kniphofia 'Timothy'. Easy to grow variety with flowers in shades of soft salmon, peach and cream, made all the prettier by the flared ends on the trumpets. Bronze flower stems. 70cm. Full sun with moisture in summer.
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    A form of Lily turf with the more unusual attribute of having pink flowers rather than the usual purple. The flowering stems are a rosy pink with flowers that open out a paler sugar pink. 40cm
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    Liriope muscari 'Big Blue'. (Liriope platyphylla, Liriope graminifolia densiflora, Ophiopogon muscari). US nickname, Lily Turf or Big Blue. This is a good all rounder for every garden. Useful for ground cover, for edging or as a flowering plant in its own right. Neat, arching shining green rush-like leaves are evergreen and in their prime in Winter. They are happy in sun or shade but flower bestin sun. In the US they have earned the name 'Lily Turf' as the arching grass like foliage produces spikes of densely packed violet-blue grape hyacinth-like flowers in late Autumn. Easily grown they are both hardy and drought tolerant, only requiring reasonable drainage to succeed. Foliage to 40cm, flowers to 45cm. Named after the Greek nymph Liriope, one of the Naiad.
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    A good solid variety of Liriope of  dark violet hue. 30cm in flower, 40 in leaf. It is much like the species but in a slightly more compact form. Like all Lily Turf, this is an excellent plant for growing in dry shady places.
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    Liriope muscari. (Liriope platyphylla, Liriope graminifolia densiflora, Ophiopogon muscari). US nickname, Lily Turf or Big Blue. A shorter form, growing to 35cm with a reputation for flowering very freely with spikes of violet blue. This is a good all rounder for every garden. Useful for ground cover, for edging or as a flowering plant in its own right. Neat, arching shining green rush-like leaves are evergreen and in their prime in Winter. They are happy in sun or shade but flower best in sun. In the US they have earned the name 'Lily Turf' as the arching grass like foliage produces spikes of densely packed violet-blue grape hyacinth-like flowers in late Autumn. Easily grown they are both hardy and drought tolerant, only requiring reasonable drainage to succeed. Named after the Greek nymph Liriope, one of the Naiad.  
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  • Lysimachia punctata 'Alexander'. Young shoots emerge in spring an eye catching shrimpy pink. As they mature they become cream and green variegated. From June to September it produces heavily crowded stems of a mass of clear yellow flowers. 75cm 2'6''. A very reliable plant for planting in a moist soil. Will run, but not to the extent of the green species.
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    Quite distinct for a Nepeta in that it forms a dense upright bush rather than a lax mound of foliage, standing up well despite the elements. The flowers appear in a dense terminal cluster, quite large and standing proud above the foliage. The flowers are more in the style of Nepeta 'Souvenir d'Andre Chaudron' or a Dracocephalum, long like a Salvia and a strong mauvy-blue. This is a hybrid between N.yunnanensis and N.nervosa, a recent cross made by Janet Egger (Terra Nova Nurseries). 80cm

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    Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' is a must for the front of any sunny border where it produces with great reliability a 3-4ft wide mound of soft grey green foliage and a hazy cloud of lavender blue flowers which the bees and butterflies adore. Trim to encourage second flowering. Easy to grow and divide. A useful alternative to lavender for short hedging. This variety is more hardy combined with better damp tolerance than Nepeta faassenii.
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    This is perhaps the stoutest of all the Nepeta, standing a metre or more tall with broad heads of large purple-blue flowers emerging from dark calyces. It is long in flower and great for bees. It grows best in full sun.

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    Nepeta nervosa is a dense shrubby perennial flowering in late summer with short dense spikes of pure blue flowers. Best in well drained soil in full sun. Cut back after flowering. 30-60cm. Leaves are narrow and much greener than most Nepeta with darker flowers in denser heads. A pretty addition to the Genus. Runs a little more underground than other species.
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    Densely packed racemes of intense pink catmint flowers on long, fat bottlebrushes stand upright above nice, pointed creased green leaves. Bees just love it ! June to September. 40 x 30 cm. dense and intense pink
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    This fairly recent introduction has at least three things to recommend it. To start with the flowers are a much richer shade of mauve than the usually found catmint and this plant has gained a reputation for being even freer in its reblooming also. The growth is a little more compact than normal as well, up to 30cm tall and twice as much wide. An ideal plant for edging along paths or beds.
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    A useful edging plant, especially in warm dry borders, with soft curving stems providing an almost continuous display of white catmint flowers on mounds of soft silver-grey scented leaves. 30cm, pure white. May to September.
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    Nepeta x faassenii (mussinii of gardens, N.racemosa, N.mussinii x N.nepetella) Nepeta x faassenii produces sprays of lavender blue flowers from mid Summer until Autumn over short mounds of grey green foliage. An excellent alternative to lavender as a short hedge, brilliant below roses and good at the front of any border. Catmint deserves its popularity as a cottage garden stalwart. Trim to keep tidy and encourage a second flowering. 50cm. Excellent for the bees. Many plants grown in the trade as Nepeta racemosa are in fact this hybrid.
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    SUNDROPS. Always interesting with pink and red stained young shoots that arch and drip with bright sunshine yellow flowers in summer. Autumn colour is a deep glowing red. Best in full sun. 50cm
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    A sweet little plant for edging off all sorts of different areas. Neat spreading clumps of narrow grassy leaves that are evergreen. In Summer the flowers appear in short spikes amongst the foliage, pure white followed by occasional berries.
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    Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm' is one of the last flowers of Summer with rich glowing yellow daisies each enhanced by its black central cone. There is a warmth to the tone of this plant that assorts so well with all the other colours of late Summer Autumn. Reliable cheerful colour for the late season. 1m. Any soil in full sun. Leave the spent flower stems on for a winter decoration and to provide food for the birds - Goldfinches love the seeds.
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    Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna'. A cultivar bred by Beate Zillmer of Zillmer Pflanzen in Uchte, Germany. Lovely salvia with an upright bushy habit. The flowers are a rich violet blue, carried on narrow spikes and enhanced by the purple black stems and blue green foliage. Best grown in full sun. 90cm. Taller than East Friesland and much darker.
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    A sky blue version of these lovely large flowered, perennial salvias. First flowering starts in june and July, but if dead-headed flowers for a second time in September. 50 cm. Border Ballet series.
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    Salvia sclarea 'Turkestanica' (Clary) is a  magnificent show-stopping biennial to add impact to the garden. Large attractive rosettes of blue green foliage develop a branching flower head to 75cm tall in the second year. The flower are lavender with a white lip but the real stars of the show are the large showy white & pink bracts. Clary has been long cultivated both for ornament and flavour, having been used as a substitute for hops and to flavour wine. The names 'Clary' and 'sclarea' both derive form the Latin 'clarus' = clear; a reference to the use of the mucilaginous seeds to clear eyesight. The essential oil is often used in perfumery. Salvia sclarea – Clary, Horminum, Gallitricum, Clear Eye, See Bright
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    Whorled Sage. Similar in habit to 'Purple Rain', this sage has attractive lyre shaped grey-green fuzzy leaves which forma nice mound and decorate the arching flower spikes. These terminate in whorls of grey-green calyces from which peep out pure white nepeta-like blooms over a long period, many weeks if they are regularly dead-headed. 45cm, for full sun, drought tolerant. Easy and undemanding.
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    The leaves are sea-green, very like the leaves of our native Rowan in shape, with delicately crimped edges picked out in a bright cream. It isn't an in-your-face variegation, its just enough to pick out the leaf shape and lighten the foliage effect. The cone-like flower heads are carried on stiff widely branched stems standing up to 6ft tall Each one is 3cm long, consisting of dozens of tiny burgundy flowers. Ruddy brown stems add to the whole effect.

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    Rosettes of finely cut foliage push up tall wiry, richly-branched stems topped with a multitude of small 15-25mm light yellow pin-cushion like flowers with short pale yellow ray florets. The flowers mature into very attractive seed heads that dry very well. For a well drained soil in full sun. Attractive to insects. june-October. 80cm
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    ('Pixie Yellow'). An outstanding selection by the University of Georgia. A compact dwarf habit and an abundant and free flowering tendency producing a cloud of pale creamy yellow pincushion flowers throughout the season. 40cm. The pistils are clean white.
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    Sedum 'Joyce Henderson' has strong upright growth combine with glaucous foliage and large heads of pale pink flowers, making a very desirable pretty sedum. She is quite similar to 'Matrona' in many ways but paler in the flower and less coloured in the leaf. 60cm A magnet to butterflies in early Autumn.
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    Sedum 'Munstead Dark Red' is a beautiful compact growing sedum originally seleted by Gertrude Jekyll from the garden at Munstead Wood. Dense head of deep red-maroon flowers and glaucous foliage that tinges purple.Plants are relatively short. Thought originally to be seletion of our native Orpine - Sedum telephium. height 45cm Excellent nectar source for butterflies
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    Stardust is a pure white sport of Sedum spectabile and produces heads crowded with creamy white flowers which are a magnet to bees and butterflies alike. It has a stocky compact habit to 45cm and nice pale glaucous green fleshy leaves. It needs full sun and well drained soil and makes a great border edge as the foliage looks great from earl Spring and the flowers from August onwards.
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    Sedum 'Karlfunkelstein' is a superb ice plant from the Atropurpureum Group which gives it lovely dusky purple foliage and smoky stems. It is a strong growing upright variety, reaching about 40cm, with large heads of soft rose flowers with a red centre. the flower colour and pretty icing-like buds really compliment the dark foliage.
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    A superb Sedum with smoky beetroot coloured foliage. Spotted by Graham Gough of Marchants Nursery in his parent's garden in East Sussex. Bees adore this plant, spending weeks visiting the mass of rosy pink flowers stary flowers. It has a compact habit, growing 35-50cm tall, flowering in July to September. Lovely as a foliage plant or to observe the insects that are drwn to the flowers - this year we had the pleasure of watching hornets (native) hunting bees over our sedums. They take time selecting a victim and once they pounce they wrestle it until they can bite it behind the head, flying off with the bee held facing forward.
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    Thalictrum delavayi (dipterocarpum) is a delicate and charming addition to any planting scheme, all air and grace on tall waving stems. The foliage is deeply divided like a maidenhair fern, coming from a narrow clump and then climbing up the tall stiff stems. The flowers are an airy pink cloud of tiny hanging buttercups with contrasting hanging yellow stamens. 120cm. Cool position
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    Tricyrtis 'Pink Freckles'. This is a variety which leans towards Tricyrtis formosana. It is earlier flowering than most with compact habit. The flowers are relatively broad in the petals with a bas colour of pink stained white, moderately spotted with burgundy. Height 60cm
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    A neat, bushy, dwarf Veronica with deepest sapphire blue flowers from wonderful limy-green tips. Branching flower spikes to 30cm. Very long season. June to October
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    A special Vinca from the Western Mediterranean. At first impressions it looks a lot like Vinca major with its large fresh green foliage; that is until mid October, when it is studded with large, palest pearly blue periwinkle flowers which appear throughout Winter into early Spring. The flowers age to pure white. Its Mediterranean roots do make it somewhat tender. It is reliable in the South West but in less favourable climates it requires the shelter of a warm wall. It appreciates some sun. A charming Winter plant. 30 x 60cm, spreading. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over

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    A special Vinca from the Western Mediterranean. At first impressions it looks a lot like Vinca major with its large fresh green foliage; that is until mid October, when it is studded with large, pure white periwinkle flowers which appear throughout Winter into early Spring. Vinca difformis can look identical at times when its flowers are white, but difformis is at certain times pearly blue. Its Mediterranean roots do make it somewhat tender. It is reliable in the South West but in less favourable climates it requires the shelter of a warm wall. It appreciates some sun. A charming Winter plant. 30 x 60cm, spreading. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over

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    Vinca difformis 'Jenny Pym'. This Vinca grows two sorts of shoots, hence its name difformis. One shoot is long and barren, the other much shorter, upright up to 30cm tall and bears the flowers. These upright shoots are clustered and in this form carry pink flowers with a distinct white central region. Vinca difformis is quite similar to Vinca major in many respects, differing most significantly in its habit of flowering right from Autumn, through mild Winter spells to Spring. Vinca difformis is not as hardy as the more common species but is reliable in the South West and good elsewhere with the shelter of a wall. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over

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