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  • Potentilla 'Scarlet Starlit'

    Potentilla atrosanguinea var argyrophylla ‘Scarlet Starlit’

    £6.00

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    Potentilla atrosanguinea var argyrophylla 'Scarlet Starlit'. This is a compact, neat potentilla which really packs a punch. The foliage is an asset all thorugh the year being silvery on account of a covering of silken hairs. The flowers are a deep blood red, produced on lax, branching stems. This is the sort of plant that is really easy to squeeze in at the front of border and well worth the effort. For full sun. 30cm
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  • Potentilla atrosanguinea var. argyrophylla Potentilla atrosanguinea var. argyrophylla

    Potentilla atrosanguinea var. argyrophylla

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    This is a compact, neat potentilla which really packs a punch. The foliage is an asset all thorugh the year being covered in silky hairs and looking for all the world like silvery strawberry leaves. This wild form has flowers that are yellow-orange with a red eye, produced on lax, branching stems. This is the sort of plant that is really easy to squeeze in at the front of border and well worth the effort. For full sun. 40cm
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  • Potentilla nepalensis 'Helen Jane' Potentilla nepalensis 'Helen Jane'

    Potentilla nepalensis ‘Helen Jane’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Brilliant pink strawberry-like flowers with cherry red eyes produced in profusion from May to July over mounds of rich green, fine fingered foliage. More compact and softer coloured than Potentilla 'Miss Willmott'. 30 x 45cm
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  • Potentilla nepalensis 'Ron Mcbeath'

    Potentilla nepalensis ‘Ron McBeath’

    £6.50

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    Potentilla nepalensis 'Ron McBeath'. This potentilla is unlikely to be overlooked when it produces its mass of carmine pink flowers in mid summer. With dense foliage this is a real showstopper for the front of a sunny border. A more compact form than 'Miss Willmott'. 30cm x 45cm
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  • Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'

    Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii ‘Goldsturm’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Rudbeckia triloba 'Prairie Glow' Rudbeckia triloba 'Prairie Glow'

    Rudbeckia triloba ‘Prairie Glow’

    £6.50
     

    Potsize - 1L

    Rudbeckia triloba 'Prairie Glow'. A real beauty for the Summer and Autumn garden. A mass of small, black-eyed daisies are well spaced out all over a bush 3-4ft tall like a warm glowing sunset. The new flowers are reddish with yellow tips but as they mature the red bleeds until no two flowers are alike. A plant that manages impact without being over dense. July-September. This Rudbeckia can be so floriferous that it frequently flowers itself into an early grave. Hence it can be best to treat it as potentially annual.
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  • Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna' Salvia 'Caradonna'

    Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Salvia pratensis ‘Sky Dance’ - pratensis Ballet Series Salvia pratensis 'Haematodes'

    Salvia pratensis ‘Sky Dance’ – pratensis Ballet Series

    £6.50
    Bee Friendly

    Bee Friendly

    Potsize - 1L

    Bee Friendly

    Bee Friendly

    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) with bumblebee Salvia sclarea 'Turkestanica' (Clary)

    Salvia sclarea ‘Turkestanica’ (Clary)

    £6.00

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Sanguisorba officinalis 'Shiro-fukurin' Sanguisorba officinalis 'Shiro-fukurin'

    Sanguisorba officinalis ‘Shiro-fukurin’

    £7.50

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Scabiosa caucasica - white Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfecta Alba'

    Scabiosa caucasica ‘Perfecta Alba’

    £6.50
    Butterfly Friendly

    Butterfly Friendly

    Potsize - 1L

    Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfecta Alba' is an excellent modern hybrid scabious, bred to be good in the border and as a cut flower. The large blooms are a creamy white with typical central creamy 'pincushion' decorated with a sprinkling of pink stamens. loves a little added lime and loved by the butterflies.
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  • Scabiosa perfecta Blue with 'Clouded Yellow' Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfecta Blue'

    Scabiosa caucasica ‘Perfecta Blue’

    £6.50
    Butterfly Friendly

    Butterfly Friendly

    Potsize - 1L

    Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfecta Blue' is an excellent modern hybrid scabious, bred to be good in the border and as a cut flower. The large blooms are of a good mid blue with typical central creamy 'pincushion' decorated with a sprinkling of pink stamens. loves a little added lime and loved by the butterflies.
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  • Scabiosa columbaria 'Misty Butterflies' Scabiosa columbaria 'Misty Butterflies'

    Scabiosa columbaria ‘Misty Butterflies’

    £6.00

    Potsize - 1L

    This is cultivated form of our native Small Scabious, a plant to be found growing on chalky hills in Britain. When grown in the garden, free of grass competition and well fed it can grow up to 40cm, but generally below 30cm, with lovely pale lavender blue flowers produced throughout late Summer. Loved by butterflies
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  • Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca 'Moon Dance'

    Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca 'Moon Dance' Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca 'Moon Dance'

    Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca ‘Moon Dance’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    ('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' Sedum 'Joyce Henderson'

    Sedum ‘Joyce Henderson’

    £6.50
    Bee and Butterfly friendly

    Bee and Butterfly friendly

    Potsize - 1L

    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 Red'

    Sedum ‘Munstead Red’

    £6.50
    Bee and Butterfly friendly

    Bee and Butterfly friendly

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Sedum spectabile ‘Stardust’ Sedum spectabile ‘Stardust’

    Sedum spectabile ‘Stardust’

    £6.50
    Bee and Butterfly friendly

    Bee and Butterfly friendly

    Potsize - 1L

    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 telephium ‘Karlfunklestein’ (Atropurpureum Group) Sedum telephium ‘Karlfunklestein’ (Atropurpureum Group)

    Sedum telephium ‘Karlfunklestein’ (Atropurpureum Group)

    £6.50
    Bee and Butterfly friendly

    Bee and Butterfly friendly

    RHS AGM

    RHS AGM

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Sedum telephium 'Purple Emperor' (Atropurpureum Group) Sedum telephium 'Purple Emperor' (Atropurpureum Group)

    Sedum telephium ‘Purple Emperor’ (Atropurpureum Group)

    £6.50
    Bee and Butterfly friendly

    Bee and Butterfly friendly

    RHS AGM

    RHS AGM

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Stokesia laevis 'Blue Star' Stokesia laevis 'Blue Star'

    Stokesia laevis ‘Blue Star’

    £6.50
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    Potsize - 1L

    Stokesia laevis 'Blue Star' possesses large cornflower-like flowers of clear lavender blue with a pink tinge towards the centre. Combine this with evergreen leaves and you have an attractive and unusual perennial for a warm well drained spot. The flowers cut extremely well for flower arrangements. Looks best when you allow it to flop at the edge of a bed. 60cm
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  • Succisa pratensis - Devil's Bit Scabiouson Holwell Drove Succisa pratensis - Devil's Bit Scabious

    Succisa pratensis – Devil’s Bit Scabious, Blue Buttons

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Succisa pratensis - Devil's Bit Scabious, Blue Buttons. Good for any damp planting and useful in meadow schemes where a Spring meadow management regime can be applied. The flowers are dusky blue buttons held on stifly branching stems. Particularly effective en masse. Grows on slightly acid to calcareous soils. A wildflower that can holds its own in the border. The curious common name, Devil's Bit Scabious has two roots. Scabious derives from the use of the plant to cure skin ailments such as scabies and even those from the bubonic plague, (Scabere is the Latin for scratch). 'Devil's Bit' derives from folk tales of the Devil biting off the short black roots in his anger at the plants medicinal abilities.
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  • Succisa pratensis 'Buttermilk' Succisa pratensis 'Buttermilk'

    Succisa pratensis ‘Buttermilk’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    An unusual form of our native Devil's Bit Scabious with buttermilk yellow, buttton-like pin-cushion flowers. For a moist soil in sun or partial shade. July to October. 80cm Good for any damp planting and useful in meadow schemes where a Spring meadow management regime can be applied. The flowers are cream buttons held on stiflfy branching stems. Particularly effective en masse. Grows on slightly acid to calcareous soils. A wildflower that can holds its own in the border. The curious common name, Devil's Bit Scabious has two roots. Scabious derives from the use of the plant to cure skin ailments such as scabies and even those from the bubonic plague, (Scabere is the Latin for scratch). 'Devil's Bit' derives from folk tales of the Devil biting off the short black roots in his anger at the plants medicinal abilities.
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  • Thalictrum delavayi (dipterocarpum) Thalictrum delavayi (dipterocarpum)

    Thalictrum delavayi (dipterocarpum)

    £6.50
    RHS AGM

    RHS AGM

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Tradescantia 'Blue Stone' Tradescantia 'Blue Stone'

    Tradescantia ‘Blue Stone’ (Andersoniana Group)

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Tradescantia 'Blue Stone' (Andersoniana Group) demonstrates spreading mounds of neat grassy foliage amongst which nestle the cheery triangular blue flowers. A reliable and colourful addition to the front of the border. Best in full sun. 30cm
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  • Tradescantia 'Charlotte' Tradescantia 'Charlotte'

    Tradescantia ‘Charlotte’ (Andersoniana Group)

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Spreading mounds of neat grassy foliage amongst which nestle the cheery triangular pink flowers. A reliable and colourful addition to the front of the border. Best in full sun. 30cm
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  • Tradescantia 'Innocence'

    Tradescantia ‘Innocence’ (Andersoniana Group)

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Tradescantia 'Innocence' (Andersoniana Group). has spreading mounds of neat grassy foliage amongst which nestle clean white triangular flowers. Lacks the blue coloured stamens of tradescantia 'Osprey' A cheerful addition to the front of the border. Best in full sun. 30cm
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  • Tradescantia 'Little Doll' Tradescantia 'Little Doll'

    Tradescantia ‘Little Doll’ (Andersoniana Group)

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Tradescantia 'Little Doll' (Andersoniana Group), nestling amongst mounds of short neat grassy foliage grows abundant sprays of three petalled pale blue flowers. A short and very dense variety which always looks neat. A cheerful addition to the front of the border. Best in full sun. 30cm
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  • Tradescantia 'Red Grape' Tradescantia 'Red Grape'

    Tradescantia ‘Red Grape’ (Andersoniana Group)

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Tradescantia 'Red Grape' (Andersoniana Group) has spreading mounds of neat grassy foliage amongst which nestle the cheery triangular bright cerise flowers. The sepals are well coloured so that the hanging finished flowers keep adding and adding to the effect. Touching the flowers leaves a red stain on your hand just like red wine. A reliable and colourful addition to the front of the border. Best in full sun. 45cm
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  • Tricyrtis 'Pink Freckles' Tricyrtis 'Pink Freckles'

    Tricyrtis ‘Pink Freckles’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Veronica spicata 'Glory' ('Royal Candles', 'Ulster Dwarf Blue') Veronica spicata 'Glory' ('Royal Candles', 'Ulster Dwarf Blue')

    Veronica spicata ‘Glory’ (‘Royal Candles’, ‘Ulster Dwarf Blue’)

    £6.50
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    Bee Friendly

    Potsize - 1L

    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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  • Veronicastrum ‘Adoration’

    Veronicastrum ‘Adoration’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    The flower spikes on this variety are particularly eye-catching on account of the rich colouring. Rich pink buds give way to lilac-pink flowers all enhanced by darkened stems. A Piet Oudolf selection which is self-supporting and multi-branched.  Flowers July to September. 1.6m 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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At Dorset Perennials you will find a husband and wife team, Dawn and Martin, who have been plantsmen and nurserymen for nearly 25 years. Our nursery, situated in the North of Dorset close to the Somerset border, is full of the plants we love. There’s no overall theme, just an eclectic mix of perennials that, for one reason or another, we consider well worth growing. We have plants for shade, plants for sun, plants for wildlife and a few more just because. In short all the perennials you would ever need to make a garden full of colour throughout the year and full of the plants you need to make it hum with wildlife. We’ve tried to make this website full of inspirational colour and easy to use. The shop page has a nifty plant selector sidebar which can be used to filter our plants by size, colour season and so forth to help you quickly pin down the right plant for a particular spot. We’ve added picture pages showing plant associations to inspire you, or if you need a little advice just give us a call.
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