Late Summer

Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora ‘Buttercup’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora 'Buttercup'. A lovely compact Montbretia with good sized warm apricot-yellow flowers, 35mm across, which open flat. They are borne on shorter stems to 60cm. A rich shot of colour for the late summer garden. For sun or part shade. Introduced in 1995. A robust grower. Compare this to C.'Lady Hamilton' and you will see they are similar with C.'Buttercup' being green in stem and calyx.
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Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora ‘Carmin Brilliant’

£6.50

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Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora 'Carmin Brilliant'. A relatively short montbretia (40cm) with crimson starry flowers with yellow centre. Good clump forming variety. Hot sunny spot; moist but with good winter drainage. Introdued in 1950. AGM. This variety was previously wrongly sold by the Dutch trade as ‘James Coey’
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Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora ‘Constance’

£6.50

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Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora 'Constance'. This variety has large warm orange flowers with lovely yellow centres. Each flower flares good and flat with broad petals, each darker on the reverse. Growth is vigorous with flowering stems to 2' (60cm) high. They enjoy full sun and moisture retentive but well drained conditions. Introduced 1993
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Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora ‘Dusky Maiden’

£7.50

Potsize - 1L
1989. One of the shorter varieties at just 60cm tall. The overall effect is muted and sober with sombre dark bronze leaves that set off beautifully the flowers which are orange, stained with distinct rust spots at the throat and lightened with yellow veins down the centre of the petals and bright yellow stamens. Darker buds complete the picture.
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Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora ‘George Davison’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora 'George Davison'. A relatively short and lovely montbretia (40cm) with yellow starry flowers. It is also one of the first to flower.. This plant, carrying the name of the first significant breeder of Crocosmia in England, has a confused history. The plant we now grow is actually the original ‘Norwich Canary’, a short cultivar in a warm rich orange yellow, opening from apricot buds. It is vigorous and free to flower. The original cultivar, now possibly lost, was introduced in 1900 ‘Golden Sheaf’ x (crocosmia x crocosmiiflora ‘Golden Sheaf’) and was Large, early, golden yellow, 8-10 branched. Vigorous. 90cm. The plant now sold as ‘George Davison’ are actually the original ‘Norwich Canary’, a shorter cultivar in a warm rich orange yellow
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Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora ‘Lady Hamilton’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Named after Lord Nelson's lover, this is one of the varieties bred by George Davison, the first breeder of Crocosmias. It has a similar colouring to C.'Buttercup', with the main difference being the red calyces and coloured stems. The spikes are very upright and tightly packed with outward facing blooms in a rich warm yellow, very much enhanced by the red calyces and apricot buds. 60cm
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Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora ‘Red King’

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Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora 'Red King'. One of the shorter montbretia (50-70cm) with smaller flowers, in a two tone red and warm yellow, produced in great profusion. Hot sunny spot; moist but with good winter drainage. 1926
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Digitalis ferruginea ‘Gelber Herold’

£6.50

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Potsize - 1L
Digitalis ferruginea 'Gelber Herold' (Yellow Herald) . Immaculate evergreen glossy rosettes of long, narrow dark green leaves are a feature all year. The flowers spikes are tall, stiff and densely crowded with charming ochre, yellow-lipped flowers arranged all around the stem in perfect regularity. More yellow in the flowers than the species. 4ft CAUTION- TOXIC IF EATEN
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Digitalis lanata – (Cafe Creme) – Woolly Foxglove

£3.75

Good for Bees

Potsize - 9cm
Digitalis lanata - (Cafe Creme) - Woolly Foxglove. One of the more unusual foxgloves, mabe not instantly recognisable as such. The flowers are carried in a typical foxglove spike, but instead of the usual hanging bells, each flower is very rounded, white with dense brown netting, a broad white lip and a glowing yellow inside. They are reminiscent of a column of curious, comical, gaping mouths. A reasonably perennial species. Light shade 60 cm CAUTION- TOXIC IF EATEN
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Eupatorium fistulosum f. albidum ‘Ivory Towers’

£6.50

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Potsize - 1L
A really big, bold statement of a plant for the back of large borders. Great clouds of ivory coloured, almost white, soft fluffy flowers sway on grey green stems which are richly clad in handsome whorls of fresh green foliage. A handsome architectural plants which can top 2m and is irresistible to insects. Flowering from July-September. Please don't expect to receive it in flower in Summer !
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Foeniculum vulgare ‘Purpureum’ – Bronze Fennel

£6.00

Potsize - 1L
Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum' - Bronze Fennel. Clumps of beautiful feathery bronze leaves build up to make impressive mounds that are a perfect foil for bold leaves such as Hostas. The stems grow 5-7 ft high and are topped with delicate yellow umbels that are equally ornamental. dead-head to prevent seeding. The strongly aromatic foliage, which smells of aniseed, has a long history of medicinal and herbal use being noted for its restorative powers on vision and to make more gaunt those '..that are grown fat.' These powers might be of some doubt, but it is reliably great in a ratatouille. Florence (vegetable) fennel is derived from the annual variety F.vulgare var.dulce
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Gaura lindheimeri ‘Cool Breeze’

£6.50

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This is a valuable new addition to Gauras. Building on the success of 'Summer Breeze' which is proving to be reliable and persistent comes this pure white form. If you want all that airy, wafty charm of a Gaura with the endless stream of late Summer flowers, but want a pure clean white with no hint of red in the buds, then this is the plant for you. Reminiscent of the white Rosebay Willowherb for bringing a purity of green and white. Excellent for hot dry beds. If you came by this plant via Oenothera, you may think it odd, but some now place all of Gaura within Oenothera.
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Gaura lindheimeri ‘Summer Breeze’

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Gaura lindheimeri 'Summer Breeze'. (Oenothera lindheimeri 'Summer Breeze'). Lindheimeri's Beeblossom. Pure white flowers opening from deep reddy pink buds create a long-lasting & graceful cloud. Valuable for its liking of hot dry positions and for its late flowering. 1m; spreading rootstock. Selected in 2008 by Christine Kress of Sarastro Nursery, Austria If you came by this plant via Oenothera, you may think it odd, but some now place all of Gaura within Oenothera.
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Geranium ‘Bertie Crug’

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Great value throughout the year. Bertie Crug forms a low spreading mound of dark bronze-tinted shiny green leaves over which a long succession of pale pink flowers is produced. Good at the edges of beds or in a rock garden planting this is a reliable doer for full sun. Cooler Autumn winter brings a rich cherry red colour to the foliage. 15cm spreading.
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Geranium ‘Brookside’ (Geranium clarkei ‘Kashmir Purple x Geranium pratense)

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Geranium ‘Brookside’ (Geranium clarkei ‘Kashmir Purple x Geranium pratense). Geranium 'Brookside' is a lovely new hybrid which combines strong growth and beautiful finely divided foliage with amply produced large deep clear blue flowers; each paler in the centre. forms a tight crown from which arise stiff branching stems with a long stalked flower produced from each axil. 60cm tall and a little wider. Long flowering season. Originated at Cambridge University Botanic Garden in 1970. Sets very little seed. This is the seed parent of Geranium 'Orion'.
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Geranium ‘Dreamland’

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Geranium 'Dreamland'. Sumptuous greyish foliage with a sagey quality is topped with large silvery pink flowers of charming gradated colour, each veined cerise. Bred as a ground covering variety by Alan Bremner in the Orkney Isles and selected back in 1998. May to September. 40cm high by a greater spread. A prolific and long season flowerer and also very hardy. G.traversii x G.oxonianum.
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Geranium ‘Mavis Simpson’ (Geranium x riversleanum ‘Mavis Simpson’)

£6.50

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Geranium ‘Mavis Simpson’ = (Geranium x riversleanum ‘Mavis Simpson’) (Geranium endressii x Geranium traversii) From a dense crown come innumerable trailing, branching stems that mound and scramble to form a close mat of silvery grey-green foliage. All summer until the frosts this mat produces clear, pale sugar pink flowers with fine purple lines. Lovely to edge a bed or scramble around the base of shrubs. Long flowering period from May to the frosts in September. Originally occurred at Kew Gardens by the Gardens Supervisor, Mr Cook. He named it after a member of the Alpine Staff. Originally placed under G.x riversleanum, but subsequently moved. Best in full sun.

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Geranium ‘Tiny Monster’

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Geranium 'Tiny Monster'. (Geranium psilostemon x Geranium ‘Ankum’s Pride’) This cultivar has the benefit of a growth habit and leaf like a G.sanguineum, but with flowers on branching flower stems. It is long flowering with large flowers for its size, each Purplish red with darker veins. Leaves redden well in the Autumn. Raised by Rolf Offenthal at Grethem, Germany.
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Geranium clarkei ‘Kashmir Pink’

£7.00

Potsize - 1L
The flowers of Geranium 'Kashmir Pink' are particularly nicely shaped with petals in a clear rosy baby-pink. Each has translucent veins and paler, almost green eye. Combined with the very fine foliage, this is a Geranium of very fine overall effect . Raised by Robin White of Blackthorn Nursery, a seedling from 'Kashmir Purple'.

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Geranium nodosum ‘Blueberry Ice’

£7.00

Potsize - 1L
Something new and quite remarkable in the Geranium world, especially amongst the nodosum types. 1 inch wide rich purple petals, each with a distinct pale lilac edge, are overlaid with a shimmering indigo lustre and enhanced with 3 strong magenta pink veins. The orange style and lilac anthers complete the effect. Typical Geranium nodosum foliage (colouring well in Autumn) and very long flowering. Tolerant of shade, including very dry shade. We've lost count of how many times we have told people 'No, you can't buy my stock plant !' . Bred by Jenny Spiller of Elworthy Cottage.

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Geranium nodosum ‘Hexham Feathers’

£6.50

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Mauvy-pink, typical Geranium nodosum flowers but with an almost ragged edge formed by lobes of differing lengths. Strong purple bee-lines and a paler eye finish the effect. Nice green foliage and good in dry shade. From Robin Moss, Hexham, Northumberland
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Geranium nodosum ‘Hexham Lace’

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Pinky-mauve flowers with purple rays. Each petal is heavily notched into 3 lobes giving it the effect of a scalloped collar. Nice green leaves and very good for naturalising in dry shade. From Robin Moss, Hexham, Northumberland
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Geranium nodosum ‘Whiteleaf’

£7.00

Potsize - 1L
Don't be confused by the name of this Geranium, it is named after a house, not one of it's characteristics. The flowers are some of the darkest of the group, being a rich pinky purple at the centre fading out towards pink at the edge with a white edge. Strong bee lines complete the design. Not quite as striking as Blueberry Ice, but still very nice indeed. Good for growing in dry shady situations where many plants would struggle. Raised by repeated selection of seedling forms by Lionel Bacon, past President of the Alpine Garden Society. Named after his garden.

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Geranium sanguineum – (bloody cranesbill)

£6.00

Potsize - 1L
Geranium sanguineum - bloody cranesbill. . A cheerful little cranesbill producing wide soft hummocks of foliage covered in summer in deep magenta blooms. Spreading by underground rhizomes, sending up thin leafy stems to form low mats. Trim back to the ground as the flowering fades to regenerate the clumps freshness. Foliage colours vivid red in autumn. 30cm tall by 60cm wide. May to August. British Native.
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Geranium sanguineum ‘Glenluce’

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Geranium sanguineum 'Glenluce' (bloody cranesbill) A Large flowered variety with flowers in a distinctive pale rose-pink. The foliage has a certain indefinable quality that makes it look softer than other cultivars. Altogether a cheerful little cranesbill producing wide soft hummocks of foliage covered in summer in clear, pale pink blooms. Spreads by underground rhizomes. Foliage colours vivid red in autumn. May-August. 30cm tall by 60cm wide Discovered at Glenluce, Scotland by AT Johnson in 1937.
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Geranium sanguineum ‘Max Frei’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
A cheerful little cranesbill producing low soft hummocks of tight foliage covered in summer in rich magenta blooms. The foliage is tidy and a good deep green and overall the plant maintains a neat appearance. Foliage colours vivid red in autumn. 15cm tall by 60cm wide A variety produced in Germany. May to September. A form discovered in the Alpine garden of Max Frei in Wildensbuch, Switzerland.
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Geranium x johnsonii ‘Johnson’s Blue’

£6.50

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Geranium x johnsonii 'Johnson's Blue' (Geranium himalayense x Geranium pratense) An old variety and still one of the bluest and best, it is a deservedly popular hardy geranium Rich pure blue flowers are produced in endless succession throughout summer, a consequence of being a sterile hybrid..The effect is further enhanced by fine slightly silver washed foliage. A lovely accompaniment to Roses. Sun. 30cm. Selected from one of A.T. Johnson’s seedlings by B.Ruys in 1950 in Holland and named in his honour.[separator top="3" bottom="3" style="single"][fontawesome icon="thumbs-up-alt" circle="no" size="medium" iconcolor="#81d742" circlecolor="" circlebordercolor="" animation_type="0" animation_direction="down" animation_speed="0.1"]Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over

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Geum ‘Golden Joy’

£6.50

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Like Can-can this neat little Geum has warm yellow petals tipped and suffused with coppery peach tones. It has 3 rows of petals which are not only ruffled but also beautifully frilly at the edge. The effect is neat, delicate and quite charming. The centres of new flowers are fresh pale green with a big boss of yellow tipped anthers whilst the stigmas are so many they are twisted together. The nodding buds are wrapped in pomegranate red calyces with similirly coloured stems.
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Hesperantha coccinea ‘Major’ (Schizostylis)

£6.50

RHS AGM

Potsize - 1L
Kaffir Lily. This one just lights up the garden in Autumn with its generous spikes of bright pillar-box red flowers. As the name 'Major' suggests, the flowers are of generous size. Also known as 'Crimson Flag'.
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Hesperantha coccinea ‘Salome’ (Schizostylis)

£6.50

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At times 'Salome' can look like a slightly pinker version of H.coccinea 'Major', but later on the petals can reflex beyond flat and the petals take on a satiny coral red colour, streaked with red and also revealing a pale eye. 6.5cm across. Useful if Major is too strident a red for your taste.
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Knautia macedonica ‘Red Knight’

£6.50

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Potsize - 1L
Knautia macedonica 'Red Knight'. Over dense clumps of softly hairy foliage come a mass of arching stems, widely branching, bearing dense pincushion flowers of a deep rich crimson. The colour is intense, but the flower head is quite airy so this lovely plant can ease its way into all sorts of planting schemes without dominating. An easily grown and rewarding plant for full sun. 80cm. A shorter variety than the species.

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Knautia macedonica Melton Pastels

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Over dense foliage clumps come a mass of arching stems bearing dense pincushion flowers in a rich range of pastel pink shades. An easily grown and rewarding plant for full sun. 2-3ft
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Kniphofia ‘Little Maid’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
A lovely little Poker grown originally by Beth Chatto from seeds sent to her by Cedric Morris. Probably half the size of most Kniphofias with narrow flowers spikes that are green in bud, opening a soft yellow before maturing cream. It will continue producing its tasteful flowers well into the Autumn. less than 60cm tall.
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Kniphofia ‘Painted Lady’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
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’

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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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Kniphofia ‘Wrexham Buttercup’

£6.50

RHS AGM

Potsize - 1L
Kniphofia 'Wrexham Buttercup'. A cracking Poker with broad heads that change in colour from lime green buds, through shades of warm apricot, finally ageing lemon. A shorter variety at 1m high. Good, easy and floriferous. AGM
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Leucanthemum vulgare

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Potsize - 1L
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum. This is our native Ox-eye Daisy, distant cousin to the Schasta Daisies to which it is similar but more delicate and refined in all it's parts. This one evokes childhood memories of walking behind the finger mower in Summer meadows, collecting armfuls of daisies and knapwed flowers as they were cut down with the hay. The flowers are the epitomy of cheerful simplicity; butter-yellow centres and glistening white petals on undemanding plants. It is happy to grow in quite wide ranging conditions, sun or partial shade, in a variety of different soil types from chalk to clay.
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Leucanthemum x superbum ‘Horace Read’

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Potsize - 1L
Leucanthemum x superbum 'Horace Read' is a fully double Shasta Daisy that stands up well in the garden and cuts well for the house. It was bred by Horace himself as an improvement on 'Esther Read' his hugely successful variety named after his daughter. Esther's failing was a tendency to flower in flushes. Horace opens more in the centre and is less shaggy. Plant in any reasonable garden soil preferably in sun. 1.5m
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Leucanthemum x superbum ‘Shapcott Summer Clouds’

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Potsize - 1L
Leucanthemum x superbum 'Shapcott Summer Clouds'. A lovely very frilly Schast Daisy like a creamy white tu-tu around a yellow centre. Very easy to grow in any sunny site, producing lots of flowers from mid Summer into Autumn. Only 50cm high. Flowers are clotted cream in bud. Bred by Anita Allen in Devon.
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Leucanthemum x superbum ‘Sonnenschein’ (‘Sunshine’)

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Leucanthemum x superbum 'Sonnenschein' ('Sunshine') is a large flowered Shasta Daisy with uniquely coloured blooms that open a cheerful pale sunshine yellow and fade buttermilk. Flowers are single and a good 10cm across. Plant in any reasonable garden soil preferably in sun. 1.5m. cuts well. Looks lovely amongst blue flowers
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Linaria purpurea ‘Springside White’

£6.50

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Linaria purpurea 'Springside White', Startling white tiny snapdragon flowers crowd up elegant spikes, continuing all summer with its display. Evergreen. Suits wide ranging sites. 60 - 90cm. A form of Toadflax
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Lobelia siphilitica

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
Great Blue Lobelia, Blue Cardinal Flower. This is quite a tough, hardy and reliable Lobelia which, although not long lived, will cheerfully seed itself around any bit of wet ground. The flower spikes are relatively dense, up to 3 feet tall and are crowded with flowers of a really intense sky blue. It comes from moist to wet soils in Canada and North America and will grow in sun or shade. Its specific epithet 'siphilitica' comes from its supposed efficacy in curing the disease Syphilis, for which it was prescribed by the North American Indians. However all parts of the plant are in fact rather toxic if eaten and really quite dangerous in large quantities.
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Nepeta ‘Blue Dragon’

£6.50

Potsize - 1L
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’

£6.00

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Potsize - 1L
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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Nepeta kubanica

£6.50

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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

£6.00

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Potsize - 1L
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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Nepeta nervosa ‘Pink Cat’

£6.50

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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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