Plant Associations
- Plants growing together including garden shots to show habit
- Wildlife the plants attract
- Advice pages to help you select the right plant
Violets – Botanical Style Photographs
Flowers of cultivars of Viola odorata (mainly), from top left to bottom right odorata 'Mrs R.O.Barton', 'Clive Groves', [...]
Caltha – Botanical Style Photographs of Kingcups
Clockwise from top left Caltha polypetala Caltha palustris 'Bronze Age' Catha palustris 'Multiplex' [...]
Sapindales
Rutaceae - The Rue Family Dictamnus
Poales – The Grasses ( and Rushes and Reeds and Restios and Similar )
Whilst the Poales contains all the grasses and grass-like families such as the rushes, we are only concerned with [...]
Zingiberales – The Ginger Order
Zingiberaceae Roscoea
Umbellifers – Botanical Style Photographs
This page contains photographs of all of the typical Umbellifers, ie those with a resembalnce to Cow Parsley. If you [...]
Anthemis – Botanical Style Photographs
From Top to Bottom, Left to Right 'Sauce Hollandaise', punctata subsp. cupaniana, 'Susanna Mitchell'EC Buxton dwarf, 'EC Buxton' [...]
Omphalodes – Botanical Style Photographs
Omphalodes From top left to bottom right: 'Starry Eyes', cappadocica verna 'Alba, 'Cherry Ingram' [...]
Polygonatum – Solomon’s Seal – Botanical Style Photographs
Polygonatums From left to right x hybridum 'Striatum' x hybridum 'Flore-Pleno' x hybridum odoratum var. pluriflorum [...]
Vinca – Periwinkles – Botanical Style Photographs
Vinca minor varieties Left Hand Photograph. Top left to bottom right Argenteovariegata, Ralph Shugert, Gertrude Jekyll Atropurpurea, double, [...]
Ajuga – The Bugles – Botanical Style Photographs
Left hand picture Catlin's Giant, Pink f. albiflora 'Alba', Black Scallop Right hand picture Pink Elf, Pink, Catlin's Giant f. albiflora [...]
Brunnera – Botanical Style Photographs
From top left to bottom right Looking Glass, Silver Spear Hadspen Cream, Dawson's White, Jack Frost [...]
Mrs Kendall Clark
Lucretia Hasseltine Kendall Clark (1853-1937) photos by courtesy of the Alfred Gillett Trust Lucretia Hasseltine Kendall [...]
Arum – Botanical Style Photographs
Top right - Arum italicum subsp. Italicum ‘Marmoratum’ (‘Pictum’) Bottom left - Arum 'Chameleon' [...]
Pulmonaria – Botanical Style Photographs
From top Left to Bottom Right Raspberry Splash, Lewis Palmer, Blue Ensign Opal, Blake's Silver, Majeste Diana Clare, [...]
Phlox – Botanical Style Photographs
Phlox compared Clockwise from the top Blue Paradise, Franz Schubert Rosa Pastell, Monica Lynden Bell [...]
Scabiosa – Botanical Style Photographs
Scabious flowers Left hand picture, From top left to bottom right Succisa pratensis, Succisella inflexa [...]
Succisa and Succisella – Botanical Style Photographs
Succisa and Succisella flowers Left hand picture, clockwise from top right Succisella inflexa 'Frosted Pearls', [...]
Salvia – Botanical Style Photographs
Salvia pratensis flowers Salvia pratensis cultivars, From the Left : Twilight Serenade Sky Dance [...]
Penstemon – Botanical Style Photographs
From top left to bottom right Plum Jerkum, King George V Laura, Czar, Garnet [...]
Persicaria – Botanical Style Photographs
Late Flowering Persicaria Top row left to right 'Blackfield', amplexicaule 'Alba', 'Taurus' Bottom row [...]
Liliales – the Lily Order
Alstroemeriaceae Alstroemeria Botanical Style Photographs Colchicaceae Disporum [...]
Solanales – The Potato Order
Solanaceae - The Potato Family An important family in terms of food crops, containing Potatoes, Tomatoes and [...]
Malvales – The Mallow Order
Malvaceae - The Mallow Family Alcalthaea Alcea Althaea [...]
Gentianales – The Gentian Order
Apocynaceae Amsonia Vinca Botanical Style Photographs [...]
Polypodiales – The Fern Order
This is the place that all of the Ferns live Aspleniaceae Asplenium [...]
Helianthus – Botanical Style Photographs
Helianthus flowers compared
Helenium – Botanical Style Photographs
Helenium flowers from top left to bottom right 'Kanaria', 'Butterpat', 'Sahin's Early Flowerer' 'Moerheim [...]
Crocosmia – Botanical Style Photographs
Crocosmia flowers compared - from the top left to bottom right 'Buttercup', 'Norwich Canary', 'George Davison', 'Solfaterre' [...]
Rudbeckia – Botanical Style Photographs
Rudbeckia flowers compared - clockwise from the top 'Herbstsonne', 'Goldsturm', paniculata [...]
Aster – Botanical Style Photographs
Aster amellus ( and x frikartii ) flowers compared Left hand photograph from top left 'Monch', [...]
Nepeta – Botanical Style Photographs
Nepeta compared From top left to bottom right : x faassenii, 'Chettle Blue', [...]
Eryngium – Botanical Style Photographs
Eryngium-flowers From Top left to Bottom right zabelii 'Big Blue', zabelii 'Violetta' zabelii 'Pen Blue', bourgatii, [...]
Ferns – Botanical Style Photographs
Adiantum Asplenium Athyrium Dryopteris Matteuccia [...]
Cirsium – Botanical Style Photographs
From left to right 'Trevor's Blue Wonder' 'Atropurpureum' heterophyllum
Hesperantha – Botanical Style Photographs
Hesperantha compared Clockwise from top left (left hand photo) or bottom left (right [...]
Anemone – Botanical Style Photographs
Anemone flowers compared In columns from top to bottom then left to right 'Margarette', [...]
Diascia – Botanical Style Photographs
Diascia personata
Sedum – Botanical Style Pictures
Sedums Compared diagonally from left to right, top to bottom : 'Indian Chief', 'Joyce Henderson', [...]
Tiarella – Botanical Style Pictures
Tiarellas Compared
Geums – Botanical Style Pictures
Geum flowers compared [/fusion_builder_column_inner] Left Hand Picture, from top left to bottom [...]
Epimediums – Botanical Style Pictures
versicolor varieties On the left, from left to right Cuprea, Discolor, Sulphureum pinnatum, perraldianum [...]
Geraniums – Botanical Style Pictures
cantabrigiense and macrorrhizum varieties - From Top left to Bottom Right: c. St Ola, c. [...]
Hare Sculptures and Other Sites of Interest
This page is a bit of an indulgence. I've created it purely to showcase other sites that I like [...]
Who needs flowers !
A collection of photographs of beautiful leaves - barely a gaudy flower in sight.
Delicate Patterns in the Frost
With the frost heavy on the ground there's still beauty if you care to look closely.
Sweet Violets – A Comparison
We've collected together pictures of the violets we grow and ranked them by scent, (it's a dirty job but someone [...]
Woodlanders – plants for a cool position
This page contains a group of plants that all like to grow in the cool conditions created by a little [...]
Veronica – lots of different speedwells
The speedwells come in many different forms from ditch loving wild flowers to sub-shrubby candidates for the herbaceous border. [...]
Plant Associations – Valeriana
Valeriana looking good with other plants.
Tradescantias Compared – Moses in the Bulrushes
Here's a page to allow you to see all the Tradescantias side by side. I've arranged them in a rough [...]
Tricyrtis – Toad Lilies
A Page of those curious beauties, the Toad Lilies Tricyrtis 'Empress' [...]
Tiarella – The Foam Flowers
The Foam Flowers make lovely ground cover for shady positions. There has been a flurry of breeding and there [...]
Classification of the Plant Kingdom ( some of it anyway !)
I've created this page just because its the sort of 'anorak' information that appeals to me. I think it's [...]
Thalictrum in comparison
Thalictrum aquilegifolium 'Thundercloud' Thalictrum aquilegifolium 'Thundercloud'. Sturdy thalictrum with delicate double pinnate blue-green foliage and dusky pink-purple [...]
Who is that Plant ? – The people behind the name
Just out of interest this page collects short biographies of the people who plants are named after. If you have [...]
Salvia, Nepeta and some of their Allies
This is a page devoted to Salvia, Nepeta and a couple more Genera that I think sit well with them. [...]
Scabious – A comparison of Scabiosa and similar perennials
This is a collection of all the perennials with scabious like flowers, those with showy outer petals and those without. [...]
Sedums – Ice Plants Compared
Below are all of the Sedums we grow all in one place alongside their desriptions. I've arranged them approximately [...]
Rudbeckias – cone daisies compared
The Rudbeckias come with impeccable credentials - named by Linnaeus after his predecessors and mentors at Uppsala. here they are [...]
High and Mighty
This is a page where I can collect together plants that are unashamedly tall. All those marvellous flowers for adding [...]
Moth and Insect Repellent Plants
Moth and Insect repellent plants All of the following plants have been used in the past to repel insects and [...]
Pulmonaria – Lungworts – A Comparison
Pulmonaria - Lungworts - A Comparison There are a huge variety of leaf and flower colours and within the [...]
Poppies – in all their forms
Papaver rupifragum 'Flore Pleno' Papaver rupifragum 'Flore Pleno'. A lovely evergreen perennial poppy for the cottage garden. [...]
Primulas – Ordered and compared
On this page you'll find all of the Primroses we grow gathered together and then sorted by section botanically. Along [...]
Polemonium – Jacob’s Ladder through Charity to Sweatroots
Simple, undemanding, but excellent garden value - here are the Jacob's Ladders all lined up. If you want to [...]
Penstemons – A catalogue of varieties
I've collected together our full range of Penstemon for you to scroll through with ease. Clicking on a variety [...]
Plant Associations – Poppies
Wonderful Blousy Poppies Papaver Oriental Poppies are a real hit of blousy extravagance for the early season, [...]
Phlox Compared
See all of our Phlox compared on one page. To explore further try the buttons below. Ericales [...]
Plant Associations – Nepeta
Pictures of Nepeta in garden situations and in association with other plants. You may also like Nepeta and Salvia [...]
Saxifragales – saxifrage order
Here you'll find some plants you'd expect, like the saxifrages and the sedums, and some you wouldn't, like the [...]