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    Acanthus mollis . This is the classic Bear's Breeches that is so used in Classical decoration. Handsome deeply lobed leaves and stiff spikes densely packed with four rows of purple shrouded white flowers. This species is more open than its variety 'Latifolius' and paler in colour. Well drained soil in full sun; Height between 90 & 150cm
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    A new form of Acanthus mollis with beautiful, bold broad shining golden foliage, particularly in Spring and Autumn, but also goldy in Summer if grown in the shade. Typical white slipper shaped flowers with strong purple hoods grow on 90cm tall stems, persisting for a long time from June to September. Perhaps not quite as hardy as the type but still good to -10 degrees especially if protected with a mulch, a course that is essential for the first Winter.

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    (Acanthus caroli-alexandri) . Handsome plants with large shining ornamental foliage. This species has deeply divided glossy dark green leaves. Spires of hooded foxglove-like flowers in a two-toned purple and white. Height 4-5 feet. The foliage of Acanthus spinosus represents a midpoint between the less divided of Acanthus mollis and the extreme of spikiness, Acanthus spinosus Spinossissimus Group.

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    Acanthus spinosus 'Lady Moore'. Handsome plants with large shining ornamental foliage. This species has deeply divided glossy dark green leaves, which in 'Lady Moore' are splashed and spotted cream in Spring when the plant is growing vigorously. Spires of hooded foxglove-like flowers. Height 4-5 feet. the cream variegation does not show up in potted plants.

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    The spiniest, prickliest form of Acanthus spinosus. The leaves are so finely cut that they are reduced to a veinal framework with every part of the leaf a handsome silver spike. It thrives in hot dry conditions although it flowers less precociously than the type. Still the foliage is amazing with its combination of dark green ground almost completely silvered over. It's ferocious mind - our neighbour grows it in his plant jail alongside his golden stinging nettle ! 75cm

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    Dense clumps of feathery leaves extending right up the stems to the heads of Pale lemon flowers. An easily pleased & rewarding perennial Full sun. Succeeds well on poor soils. 75cm
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    Achillea 'Rougham Salmon'. A lovely subtle variety that provides a great compliment to a wide range of other colours. The flat heads of flowers are a gentle salmon pink, displayed over a long period above dense ferny foliage. June to September. A good cut flower. For a sunny, adequately drained position. Height in flower 90cm

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    Actaea simplex 'Pink Spike' ( Cimicifuga simplex var. simplex 'Pink Spike' ). Autumn Snakeroot. This variety comes with the exquisite black leaves of the Atropurpureum Group with cylindrical flower heads that have a pink tinge owing to the pink colour of the stamens.  The deeply divided rich purple black leaves and tall waving wands of pink budded white flowers produced as late as Oct are very distinguished. Best with moist soil. No need to stake. Immune to slugs. Western China to Korea. 1.2m

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    Agapanthus 'Windsor Grey'. A subtle and very beautiful cultivar which is very easy to grow. Flower heads are large and dense with distinctly trumpet shaped flowers that point down at an angle. The colour is softest lilac, fading to pink as the flower ages. 85cm, Late Summer. Deciduous and very tough

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    Bee and Butterfly friendly

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    Fat plumptious spikes crowded with lavender-blue tubular flowers surrounded by a pretty haze of exerted anthers all erupting from dark purple buds and calyces. These are a favourite of bees and butterflies and produce plenty of flowers all Summer into Autumn. Requiring good drainage and sunny positions, Agastache are hardy in milder Winters. This variety is vigorous and upright achieving 3 feet with fresh green minty leaves and stems.
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    Ageratina altissima 'Chocolate' ( Eupatorium 'Chocolate' ). A useful plant in many respects, growing in a wide range of soils, providing there is moisture. Richly coloured leaves are an attraction throughout the season, whilst the fluffy white flowers, produced late in the summer are a magnet for bees and butterflies. 100cm. Looks particularly fine with the pastel blues of Nepeta and Eryngium
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    Not a big blousy primadonna, but nevertheless a useful plant full of its own charms. Useful as it is late flowering with compact heads of small white snowballs which are just full of nectar. The leaves are fresh apple green with stems that will colour up mahogany if the plant is in sun. Tones in well with other plants and a good clean colour for a white scheme. Equally at home in the border of wild garden. 100-150cm
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    A very distinctive grass, notable for the range of colour in the foliage which is striped in shades of orange and brown, more so as the season goes on and best when the plant is a little stressed. The flower heads are really airy , starting like a long delicate arching fly-swish and gradually branching into a very light cloud.
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    Anemone x hybrida 'Andrea Atkinson'. Pure white saucers with a central green button, ringed with egg yolk anthers. A beautiful site as the abundance of flowers dance in an Autumn breeze - an accent of purity amongst the fading colours of Autumn. One of the most vigorous of the Anemones, an improvement of Anemone 'Honorine Jobert'. 90cm, Late Summer.
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    Anemone x hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'. Pure white saucer flowers with golden centres on strong tall stems make this a gem for early Autumn. Grows in a wide range of soils; flowering best in sun providing it isn't too dry at the root. 150cm. Apt to spread. This must be a first rate variety, it was bred over 150 years ago in 1858 and it is still one of the most popular.
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    A real beauty with semi-double very large flowers of lovely shape and form. It is almost white suffused with soft rose-pink, becoming stronger flushed and edged on the reverse. Each flower has 12 individual petals which are arranged with great fineness, particularly beautiful when viewed from behind as the rich colouring is most apparent and you can best appreciate the way the petals curve and arch a bit like a waterlily. Tall and robust. Loreley was a Siren who sat on a granite outcrop near the town of St. Goarshausen in the Rhine Valley. From there she would lure passing sailors with her song. So bewitched they would ground their ship and perish 'neath the waters.
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    Angelica sylvestris 'Purpurea' . Starting remarkably early in  the year this plant pushes up fascinating glossy purple foliage, soon becoming an imposing architectural feature topped with a dense spherical head of pink flowers. In appearance not dissimilar to a more sturdy cow parsley, but with less air and more presence. Will seed about mildly. Likes a good moist spot.
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    Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing'. Near black foliage in a dense ferny mound rising to dainty umbels of tiny white flowers. A striking form of Queen Anne's Lace with great poise and grace. 100cm. Any soil. Great to add a little fluff to the middle of a perennial planting or as a specimen plant with plenty of space so you can appreciate the beautiful form.
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    Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Black Barlow' (Barlow Series). One of the spur-less Barlow series based around the plant originally found in the garden of Nora Barlow. This form has flowers that are a deep dusky maroon. Would look good in a mixed cottagey border, hanging above paler mounds of flowers. Best in light shade.    HARMFUL IF EATEN
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    A beautiful form of Aquilegia clematiflora with exquisitely shaped, completely spurless flowers reminiscent of its name-sake. The flowers are shaded green in bud and retain green tips when open pure white. The leaves are fresh apple-green and erupt as early as February making a lovely foil for Spring flowers. 60cm
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    A fitting name for this richly claret coloured, very double. Spurless Aquilegia. A tall elegant variety with strong stems. 60-90cm
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    One of the spur-less Barlow series based around the plant originally found in the garden of Nora Barlow. This form has flowers that are a fully double, white with green tips. Would look good in a mixed cottagey border, hanging above paler mounds of flowers. 80cm. May-July. Best in light shade. HARMFUL IF EATEN
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    Artemisia ludoviciana 'Silver Queen'. Creeping rootstock with upright stems of finely divided silver foliage and matching silver flowers. Beautiful compliment to pastel planting schemes. 2ft.Will tend to look untidy once in flower - simply trim to the ground for  fresh crop of foliage within no time. Compare with 'Valerie Finnis' which is similar, but with broader foliage
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    This Aster opens a myriad of small (2cm) single lilac-pink daisies on a short twiggy bush. Although classified as a novi-belgii hybrid it leans quite heavily in both flower shape and branching habit towards the style of a lateriflorus. As the flowers mature, the central grey-yellow boss becomes much elongated to a prominent bun the colour of crushed strawberries and the petals begin to reflex. Whatever the classification, with the lovely warm pink colouring I just couldn't resist it. 80cm, October. Some mildew resistance.
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    This is an Aster that fits in with cultivars such as 'Little Carlow' and 'Primrose Path'. It forms a generous frothy cloud of small pale blue flowers on a bush 1m plus tall. It forms a lovely foil to compliment more strikingly coloured hybrids A hybrid of Aster cordifolius produced before 1920 by Ernest Ballard, this variety can be slow to establish.
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    Aster 'Lye End Beauty' falls somewhere in-between 'Harrington's Pink' and 'Alma Potschke' in the colour stakes. The narrow petals are a rich, but not strident cerise on their inner surface and a silvery pink on the reverse. With a dark ruff of narrow bracts and rose tinted stems it was certainly well named. Like most novae-angliae types it is relatively tall with long straight stems which may need staking. Grow it well back in the border where it can hide away all summer, revealing its full glory in Autumn as those in front fade and are cut back. A chance seedling which occurred at Lye end in Woking in the 1950's along with several others that are named after the garden. 130-175cm
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    One of the first to bloom. These Aster blooms open as perfectly domed sugar pink powder puffs. As they mature the petals reflex to reveal a golden eye surrounded by a frilly tutu of sugary pink with silver highlights - A real girly delight ! Flowers 3.5cm wide. Height 90cm. A relatively early Michaelmas daisy flowering from early September.
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    The Michaelmas daisies are such a welcome flourish at the end of the year with their glowing profusion of rich tones. This variety is a strong deep crimson semi-double with a bright golden button. 90cm. Quite similar to Winston S. Churchill

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    I recently visited the National Collection of Aster novi-belgii held at the Picton Gardens, and with a collection of around 50 already I was told by him indoors that I didn't need anymore. However this small flowered (2cm wide) mid pink semi-double Aster with dark eyes had me dribbling. A lovely colour and such a mass of blooms. I wasn't surprised that it was the last one left. A beauty that had to go home with me ! 90cm, September to October.
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    A beautifully shaped fully double bloom crammed with so many petals it creates a perfect lavender-blue powder-puff a whole 5cm across. 90cm Mid to late September onwards. Sturdy stems. This variety came out of 'Ada Ballard', which was one of the first really double Asters raised by Ernest Ballard, but which lacked the intensity of blue of its parents. It is also known for producing a forest of stems from a relatively compact root run. 'Marie Ballard' was selected just before Ernest died in 1952 and released in 1955. It combines the shapely, completely double flowers on sturdy stems with the intense lavender-blue Ernest was trying to capture.
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    Always distinguished by its very upright growth, forming a columnar plant rather than a rounded bush. Flowers are 4.5cm wide a lovely clean white opening rather flat with a pincushion centre that is small, a subtle brick red brightened by the golden yellow stamens that poke out. 90cm
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    MICHAELMAS DAISY. Carrying the Ballard name is always a great recommendation and this variety doesn't disapoint. Aster 'Patricia Ballard' is a medium growing aster with semi-double flowers that are bright clear pink and beautifully formed. The petals come in multiple rows all beautifully neatly arranged into a very even flat daisy with a bright golden centre. 90cm high plants with broad glossy mid green foliage. Will thrive in sun or part shade. September-October
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    A lovely Aster with a really full skirt of petals which are a pale blush-pink, flecked darker on some of the tips. Bred by George Chiswell. Worked for Aster breeder Percy Picton, then started his own nursery at Midsommer Norton - Priory Nursery. Did a lot of his own Aster breeding
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    A very distinctively coloured michaelmas daisy with single medium sized (4cm) purple flowers with a burgundy sheen, becoming even darker on maturity. Golden yellow eyes become tawny with age. Late September onwards. 150cm
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    I was delighted to come across this Aster recemtly as it is one of the short series of Aster raised by the late George Chiswell, who was well known to friends of ours. Timsbury has semi-double soft rose pink flowers and flowers in October at around 1m high. George Chiswell was born in Colwall in Malvern, the home of the famous Ballard Asters. He started his career working in the gardens of Old Colwall House near Malvern for Mrs Raynor-Wood. After WWII he moved on to Midsommer Norton in Somerset and in the 1960's ran his own nursery at the Priory there. Perhaps he had a fondness for the Asters he must have remembered from his youth in the Ballard trial grounds in Malvern, as he began a breeding programme of his own, producing a series of Asters, based on the Ballard strains, named after the mining villages of Somerset.
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    The Michaelmas daisies are such a welcome flourish at the end of the year with their glowing profusion of rich tones. This variety is a rich carmine-red semi-double with a bright golden button. The 5cm flowers keep a relatively flat shape with a double row of long narrow petals. 90cm. Aster 'Winston Churchill' has a reputation for having greater mildew resistance than most. Forms a stiffly branching bush with relatively pale foliage. Bred by R.Lindsey of Gayborder Nursery.
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    Aster schreberi (Eurybia schreberi) is one of those plants that has a deserved reputation for excelling in dry shade where it will produce a gracefully arching mound covered in late Summer with 3.5cm white daisies with reflexed petals. The leaves are large serrated and stay fresh even in dry shade. 1-1.5m across. In many ways like a more beefy (some would say coarser) version of Aster divaricatus.
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    A recently selected large flowered dark red masterwort. Tight clusters of maroon flowers are surrounded by beautiful ray florets. An interesting & beautiful plant happy in sun or part shade with some drainage

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    We've seen it written that Astrantia 'Ruby Wedding' makes it inferior to some of the clonally propagated ones out there, but we've not found that the case at all. The ones we have are every bit as rich in colour as Ruby Wedding and Hadspen Blood. They don't have the dark staining leaves of the Gill Richardson Group, but for flower alone they are a lovely deep red with flowers of a very decent size. Ruby Wedding has its origins at the RHS Wisley where it was selected as a superior seedling in a sowing of Astrantia major subsp. major. Its bracts are of a good size and are strongly red to purple in hue. It is the parent of the seed strain known as Claret which may or may not live up to its parents reputation. It i svery similar to Hadspen Blood which has a similar bloodline but was selected by Nori Pope of Hadspen Gardens.

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    Blue False Indigo. Baptisia carries tall, straight open spikes of really blue pea flowers followed by decorative seed pods which dry well for Winter decoration. Whilst most of the species in this genus grow on sandy, dry woodland soils, Baptisia australis is a native of riverbanks. It enjoys drainage but likes moisture and a deep root. Best planted in a lime free soil in a place where it can be left undisturbed. It is slow starter and disappointing to start with, but give it time as once established it will gradually build over a number of years to a plant that can flower to 75cm tall and be quite showy and a real talking point.
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    Brunnera macrophylla 'Silver Heart'.  A new introduction (2012) by Spilsbergen-Willemsen from the Netherlands. Superficially like a more silvered version of the popular Jack Frost, but generally considered to be a tougher more sun resistant variety on account of the thicker character of the leaves, which can also grow larger in size. Coarsely hairy, heart-shaped leaves are heavily silvered and picked out by dark green margins and veins, making fascinating patterns not unlike an intricate cathedral window. A picture from Spring to Autumn especially when given shade and adequate moisture to prevent scorching in high Summer. The Spring display is further enhanced by an airy cloud of icy-blue forget-me-nots on stems decorated with smaller but similarly marked leaves. 50cm plus

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    Very similar to the ever popular Brunnera 'Jack Frost' except that it is a little whiter and has an elongated pointed tip to the leaf. Leaves are a lovely silver with the veins picked out in green forming a dense mound in any situation that is out of direct sun. Clouds of blue forget-me-not flowers in Spring.

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    A real upright accent. Tall and narrow with variegated foliage and generous heads of feathery flowers.
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    Campanula lactiflora 'Prichard's Variety' is a strong coloured short growing milky bellflower. 50cm stems with large heads that branch and branch to create a dense head of starry cupped mauve flowers. Equally good in the border or naturalised in grass. Cuts well for the house. Milky Bellflower. Forms a compact, dense clump with stiff flowering stems. Cut back to the ground after flowering.
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    Campanula persicifolia 'Grandiflora'. Like a large version of a harebell Dense clumps of foliage and a succession  of sky blue bells. Height 80cm Excellent cut flower. Good on chalk
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    Campanula persicifolia 'Alba'. The large bells of this variety are a pure glistening white. A real elegant flower that associates well with greens and blues, lifting any scheme it is planted in. Height 80cm Excellent cut flower. Good on chalk. Can be grown in shade.
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    Cephalaria gigantea . Giant Yellow Scabious. A magnificent sight in early summer with its large mound of roughly hairy, pale green, deeply pinnatifid foliage and 6ft branching stems generously furnished with 3in pale lemon flowers which sway in the slightest breeze. You can use Cephalaria at the back of any scheme or alternatively further forward as the flowering stems are not dense, allowing you to see through to sights beyond.
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    To me, this Chrysanthemum shows the same qualities as C.'Innocence' in that it is so weatherproof. It puts up with wind, rain and even the first frosts without becoming scruffy. It puts on a show of its single pink blooms from October until as late as December in a good year. About 60cm high and with the usual lovely Chrysanthemum scent. reliable and long-lived.

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