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  • Crambe cordifolia Crambe cordifolia

    Crambe cordifolia

    £7.00

    Potsize - 1L

    Crambe cordifolia . One of the largest and most impressive of perennials with huge glossy leaves and an 8ft tall gypsophila-like cloud of scented white flowers. Well drained soil. full sun. Ok for chalk Whilst Crambe needs good drainage it doesn't follow that they want to be dry. In fact it is quite the opposite. In order to get the best out of them they actually like a rich soil with plenty of moisture during the growing season. They do suffer flea beetle damage almost routinely. However the pinprick holes in the leaves are inconsequential to a well grown plant.
    Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over

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  • Eupatorium fistulosum f. albidum ‘Ivory Towers’ Eupatorium fistulosum f. albidum ‘Ivory Towers’

    Eupatorium fistulosum f. albidum ‘Ivory Towers’

    £6.50

    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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  • Onopordum acanthium Onopordum acanthium

    Onopordum acanthium

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Onopordum acanthium. (Scotch Thistle). A stately architectural plant with attitude ! The large Acanthus-like leaves are densely woolly silver and tipped with real thistle barbs. At first forming an impressive evergreen rosette, during the second year, in April it mounts its advance skywards. A very stout, silver 'trunk' is winged, well clothed in woolly silver leaves and terminates in a broad candelabra bearing a succession of the big mauvey-pink and nectar-rich silver thistles that are depicted on tins of shortbread and which are beloved by the bees and butterflies. Usually monocarpic, this impressive plant wants lots of room and sun but is unbeatable to add structure to the border. usually self seeds very modestly so you can relocate the offspring to appropriate positions whilst small; although I have moved enormous plants in high Summer for safety's sake (they were very prickly by the path) and gotten away with it. Planted young and well fed they can top 2.5m tall.
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  • Rheum palmatum 'Atrosanguineum' Rheum palmatum 'Atrosanguineum'

    Rheum palmatum ‘Atrosanguineum’

    £7.00

    Potsize - 1L

    Rheum palmatum 'Atrosanguineum'. A most dramatic plant with huge rhubarb leaves that unfurl darkest maroon from scarlet buds and then are topped by a 7-11 ft spike of pink fluffy flowers. Best grown in a damp site where the roots can find water. Our own selection, propagated clonally from a plant we selected out of seedlings many years ago - as deep a colour as we have seen anywhere.

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  • Rudbeckia paniculata Rudbeckia paniculata

    Rudbeckia paniculata

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Rudbeckia paniculata . Lovely rich-yellow daisies sway gently on 2m high branched stems, perfect to accompany the warm tones of Autumn. Equally suited to modern prairie planting schemes or to the traditional mixed border. Makes a genreous spreading clump that throws numerous flowering stems. Similar to R. 'Herbststonne' but with more smaller flowers to the head, each of which is flatter with more pointy petals. Plant in full sun.
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  • Stipa gigantea Stipa gigantea

    Stipa gigantea

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Spear Grass, Feather Grass. Airy, oat-like flowers sway gracefully on tall stems above a dense hummock of foliage. Flowers 2.5m; foliage 1m. Prefers a well drained warm spot. A lovely specimen grass
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  • Thalictrum 'Elin' Thalictrum 'Elin'

    Thalictrum ‘Elin’

    £7.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Thalictrum 'Elin'. A fine cross between T.rochebrunianum and T.flavum glaucum which makes the most striking of all the tall Thalictrums. A sterile hybrid, it produces stiff tall 2.6m dark stems which carry steely blue foliage below and a branched cloud of yellow and lavender flowers above. Despite its size, it rarely needs staking.
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Dorset Perennials – plants direct from the heart of Dorset.

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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