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This is one of those plants that has really surprised us by how much we like it. It comes from a fairly robust genus where elegance is not usually the order of the day, but it really is a thing of great refinement. In habit it is fairly open and quite large growing at least 1m in each direction. The stems branch widely with each node bearing a long tapered leaf whose edge colours red, a colour that repeats into the long tapering flowering stems which are narrow and carry small starry white flowers which point and twist like those fireworks that whizz as they are sent skywards. An undemanding plant for a moist to wet soil and a must for the flower arranger. Good with Euphorbia 'Fireglow' or Schizostylis coccinea ''Major' Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Long spikes of Rose Madder buds, opening in narrow sections to a salmon pink flower to give a striking banded effect. A little earlier than some into flower from mid summer onwards into Early Autumn. Bred by Belgian Persicaria breeder Chris Ghyselen. 120cm in height. Good in a wide variety of soils providing it doesn't get too dry. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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This is one of the many varieties bred by the Belgian Landscape designer Chris Ghyselen. It is like a shorter, more floriferous form of P.amplexicaule Alba, growing 90-120cm in height. The leaves are long and pointed, forming an attractive feature on their own. July to October. for sun to part shade. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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This variety was a chance seedling identified by Alan Bloom. It is shorter than the species with an extended flowering season all the way from July through to November. The flowers are a rich magenta pink with electric blue stamens. Height 100cm (sometimes more) by 70cm wide. Very drought tolerant. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Persicaria microcephala 'Red Dragon'. This is a really excellent foliage plant if you want to add a dramatic splash of burgundy foliage into a scheme. You can either leave it to grow to its full height of about 1m with terminal clusters of white flowers or regularly trim it to the base to produce fresher stronger coloured growth. The leaves tend to be coloured in 3 patches, a dark triangle at the base, followed by a silvered 'V' and finally the red main part of the leaf. They can be rather changeable in colour. New growth in good light is rich burgundy, but later in the season it tends more towards brown and can be quite green in low light or shade. Don't worry if the early growth gets frosted off, which it often does, it soon recovers.Links
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An exceptionally pure white Phlox with large dense heads of flowers (6-9") of good substance. Grows to 3' (1m) and from its initial flowering in July it is capable of repeat flowering until September if dead-headed and well cared for. Superb, heady, rich fragrance. Nice apple-green foliage is resistant to powdery mildew and even spotting providing conditions are good. This variety was discovered in its native America as a chance seedling. For full sun to partial shade in a moist fertile soil with plenty of organic matter. 36-40". Native Phlox paniculata are reserved and nurtured by the Brandywine Conservancy Volunteers at Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania. In August 1987, the Phlox seedlings were inspected by the coordinator and Richard Simon of Bluemount Nurseries. Together they selected a white fragrant form with clean foliage and it was named 'David' by Mrs FM Mooberry, the project coordinator, for her husband. 'David' may well be a direct descendant of the original Phlox sent to Europe in 1930 by John Bartram. It was 'Perennial of the Year' in America in 2002 Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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This a particularly striking cultivar with a broad creamy white edge to the leaves. Despite the lack of chlorophyll it is a fine vigorous clone which will make a strong clump. The flowers are white with a pink central stain. Darwin's Joyce / Choice is synonymous with Norah Leigh, but is a particularly robust. Named for the mother of Mrs Joan Elliott, the Elliots being a well known nursery family. 90-100cm Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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I've had this plant for at least 20 years. It was originally spotted by Carol Klein at Glebe Cottage in Devon but seems to have largely passed out of cultivation. This is a pity because it's a real favourite of mine. It produces soft clusters of delicious pale lilac flowers, which open paler and sport lovely orange stamens. It is sterile and so is very long flowering and non seeding. It is prone to mildew later in the season, especially in hot weather, but it soon bounces back if trimmed off. Late Spring to early Summer. for moisture retentive soil in sun or part shade. 60cmDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Polemonium 'Lambrook Mauve' is a beautiful short growing Jacob's Ladder with fine filigree foliage and an abundance of mauve flowers, enhanced by the darker stems. Every shoot that emerges divides and divides with terminal flowers appearing on every branch. If you keep cutting back spent flowering shoots, this Jacob's Ladder will go on and flowering for months in a lovely warm lavender tone. Excellent at the edge of any bed. best in sun Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Polemonium yezoense var. hidakanum 'Purple Rain'. Beautiful Jacob's Ladder with fine filigree foliage, tinted purple and surmounted by an abundance of cobalt-blue flowers. Excellent at the edge of any bed. Grows best in sun. 50cm. The colour of the foliage is stronger in cooler weather and in brighter locations. Cut the spent flower stems hard back to rejuvenate the plant and enjoy a second flush of flowers. Avoid very dry locations which will leave the plants more vulnerable to mildew.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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. 30cmDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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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. 40cmDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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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 45cmDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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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 Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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Primula florindae (himalayan cowslip). A primula that combines great poise and charm with stalwart reliability. From a stout clump of rounded leaves come 60-90cm stems from which hang an ever increasing number of pale lemon fragrant flowers dusted on the outside with a pale yellow farina. The scent is the most delicious and complex of any of the primulas, rich and heady like a sweet nose full of Pears soap. I think it ranks as one of the best perfumes of the year - right up there with the best of the roses and so easy to grow as well. Any moist to soggy soil. Discovered by Frank Kingdon-Ward and named by him after his 1st wife, the tall blonde Florinda. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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This variety is a cross made between R.aesculifolia and R.podophylla by Eric Smith and Jim Archibald at the Plantsman Nursery. The leaves are like R.podophylla except that they are longer in each segment relative to the width and larger overall. The ends of the leaves escecially will take on red tones during the Summer months, more so than R.podophylla under the same conditions. The impressive flower spike is tall, creamy white and columnar.Links
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As its name suggests, the leaves of this Rodgersia are like the Horse Chestnut. Like podophylla, they are palmate, with all the leaflets arising from a central point but unlike it the leaf ends are much more rounded with the whole leaf outline being round too. They can be up to 50cm across. The flowers are white and are carried in a lax arching panicle on rusty stems up to 2m long. Farrer, who first saw this in Western China described it as a magnificent sight with huge clumps of large metallic leaves. There are many forms of this species in cultivation. -
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A fantastic foliage plant for a moist position in plenty of space. Each leaf is palmate, up to 30cm plus across, with 5 leaflets that end in a squared off apex with three pointed drip tips. In Spring the leaves emerge beautifully bronzed, a colour that fades to a fresh apple green as the season progresses. Given time it will spread to a substantial clump. Flowers creamy white in an impressive fluffy looking column. The only species native to Japan and Korea and also the first to be introduced into cultivation by an expedition lead by Admiral John Rodgers.Links
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Salvia pratensis 'Swan Lake'. Good, reliable perennial sage for the front section of any border. Upright spikes carry relatively dense heads of pure white flowers. 50cm. Summer flowering. reblooms if cut back after first flowering. Originally a sage of meadows and hence quite amenable to naturalising.Good for Bees
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Sanguisorba 'Chocolate Tip'. All the wow factor of 'Arnhem' and its smart little flowers but on a more modest scale of plant. The foliage still makes a luxurious mound but is finer in all its aspects than either 'Arnhem' or menziesii and shows a red midrib. The flowers are perhaps a shade darker and the flowering stems are plentiful and rise about 3 feet. It manages to make a statement in the border without adding too much weight.Links
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Sanguisorba 'Pink Tanna'. This is delightful member of an increasingly trendy genus. Each flower is a tight pink cheese puff, made fluffy with an all round coating of black tipped, white stamens. The flowers waft in the wind making a see-through haze of pink and white. One of those plants that is lovely from a distance and intriguing on close inspection. A magnet to insects and needs no staking. Attractive foliage, with leaves that are pinnate like a Rowan tree, form spreading low clumps. This is the pink member of the 'Tanna' series of sanguisorba, being about mid height in the range that sanguisorba grow at 60-80cm. Great Burnet, Burnet Bloodroot Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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A very useful dwarf selection of these interesting perennials. Mounds of finely divided attractive foliage are covered with dark burgundy cone flowers, all carried on wiry stems 30cm high in mid-summer. Makes a great edging plant or architectural vertical accent in short planting schemes. Super cut flower. Sun to Partial shade, any soil that is not too dry. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Sanguisorba menziesii. An unusual and rather special plant for the summer border. Lovely mounds of dissected and smartly toothed grey-green leaves emerge early and act as a valuable foil for Spring bulbs. Then in June it sends up lots of long wiry self-supporting stems, each crowded with neat, almost cone-like flowers, each tightly packed with dried blood red florets which then erupt into shaggy pink foxtails. Makes an interesting focal point and especially good as a cut flower.Links
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This is a fairly new variety. What distinguishes it is its dense, rounded habit and particularly large flower heads which are long and narrow and a deep rich congealed blood red. 100cm in flower, July to September.Links
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Like a half sized, shorter version of Sanguisorba 'Arnhem', this lovely sanguisorba sports waving heads of raspberry red cone-like flowers on stiff stems above pinnatifid foliage. For full sun but not too dry borders. Flowering in mid Summer. Korea. 4 feet high.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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.Links
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I keep wanting to call this one 'Beaujolias' rather than 'Bordeaux', but then again after a glass or two of either what does it matter, the plant is still lovely. It sits about mid height amongst the Sanguisorbas, half way between 'Arnhem' and 'Chocolate Tip' and about in the middle for colour as well. It is a deep burgundy, (there goes another), less red than 'Arnhem' and less sombre than 'Chocolate Tip' and flowers in late summer on stiff swaying stems up to 1.5m tall.Links
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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 butterfliesDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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. 80cmDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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A superb plant for the edge of a sunny border where its bright rosy-pink flowers will attract your eye and those of all the local butterflies too. Its compact domed bushy habit tops off at 35-40cm and is less likely to break apart and flop like some of its bigger cousins. Originally introduced by Monksilver Nurseries from Cambridgeshire. It has a brighter colour and tighter growing habit than its foreign cousin Autumn Joy (Herbstfreude). It is the first of the border Sedums to flower, beginning in August. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Sedum 'Indian Chief' (Herbstfreude Group) A strong growing sedum with extra large dark pink-red flower heads. This is the classic Autumn flowering sedum. Originally sold as a larger clone of 'Autumn Joy' ('Herbstfreude'), less prone to splitting apart than the type, it is now sometimes included within the cultivar description of 'Autumn Joy'. A magnet to butterflies in early Autumn. 60 cm tall. Sunny position in any soil Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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 Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Sedum erythrostictum 'Mediovariegatum'. ( Sedum alboroseum 'Medio-Variegatum' ) The beautiful variably, medially golden variegated leaves make a striking clump and a perfect foil for the pink-eyed starry white flowers. Tends to produce a greater number of thinner stems than some of the Sedum spectabile hybrids. Excellent for butterflies. 60cm. Full sun Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Autumn Moor Grass. As semi-evergreen grass which is native to South-Eastern regions of Europe. It is chiefly grown as a foil for other perennials on account of the pale yellow-green tint of its foliage which provides a bright accent in any scheme. Growth tends to be in the cooler seasons of Spring and Autumn with the Summer showing little foliage growth. However Summer does bring flowering with a flush of short silvery white brushes. Will grow in sun or semi-shade. 60cm Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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Prairie Mallow. A lovely mid-border plant which forms a small clump from which rise 60cm plus flowering stems set with palest pink, fringed saucer blooms. One of the prettiest of all the Sidalceas. A fairly trouble free plants, but will perform best in a soil which is well drained but with constant moisture available, disliking very dry sites. Also known as checkerblooms, they come from the Central and Western United States.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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Silene dioica 'Firefly'. Double flowers in the most shocking pink imaginable makes this a plant that is sure to be noticed. Can be grown in a sunny border, where it will make a substantial clump, or in a wilder setting in dappled shade. 60cm tall by as much wide if space and nutrition allows. Will flower on and on from early summer onwards.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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Pale Yellow-Eyed Grass, Satin Flower. From each wide fan of grey-green leaves a central flowering stem rises in June dotted up its length with pale upwards facing yellow flowers. It can look particularly effective at the edge of a path where it can lounge out from the edge. May need support if you tend towards the tidy. Needs a relatively dry, sunny position to perform well as too much dampness at the root can lead to basal rots.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over