Project Description

I’ve created a number of pages collecting plants together taxonomically. Partly its for my own interest, but hopefully it will interest someone else as well, otherwise I’ll be rather lonely. This gallery collects together all of the family collections. there is another gallery showing you the next tier up, the orders.

Cold Harbour Nursery

It has recently come to our attention that another nursery in Dorset, Cold Harbour Nursery has created itself a web presence under the url dorset-perennials.co.uk. Quite apart from the appalling spelling, the site is very [...]

Coronavirus

CORVID-19   Thank you to all our customers for their support during these difficult times. At present we are well and reasonable well isolated as far as is possible. Other than trips to buy food [...]

  • Violet flower comparison

Violets – Botanical Style Photographs

Flowers of cultivars of Viola odorata (mainly), from top left to bottom right odorata 'Mrs R.O.Barton', 'Clive Groves', 'Queen Charlotte' 'Sulfurea', 'Elizabeth Bailes', odorata 'Empress Augusta', 'Cordelia' ‘Baronne Alice de Rothschild’, 'Reine des [...]

Epimedium leaves

Here's a selection of the lovely foliage patterns you can get with this genus Click Here to return to Comparison page

Awards given to Siberian Irises

This first list of medals is ranked from the highest award to lowest. This list is largely the award structure of the American Iris Society which is voted on exclusively by its registered judges. [...]

  • Lucretia Hasseltine Kendall Clark - 1931

Mrs Kendall Clark

Lucretia Hasseltine Kendall Clark (1853-1937) photos by courtesy of the Alfred Gillett Trust Lucretia Hasseltine Kendall (1853-1937) Most references record that the identity of the woman honoured by the cranesbill, Geranium [...]

  • Scabious flowers

Scabiosa – Botanical Style Photographs

Scabious flowers Left hand picture, From top left to bottom right Succisa pratensis, Succisella inflexa 'Frosted Pearls', Knautia 'Red Knight' Knautia 'Melton Pastels', Scabiosa 'Moon Dance' Cephalaria alpina, Scabiosa 'Vivid [...]

  • Crocosmia compared

Crocosmia – Botanical Style Photographs

Crocosmia flowers compared - from the top left to bottom right 'Buttercup', 'Norwich Canary', 'George Davison', 'Solfaterre' 'Carmin Brilliant', 'Constance', 'Red King', 'Venus' 'Star of the East', 'Dusky Maiden' 'Zambesi', 'Emily McKenzie', [...]

  • Eryngium pandanifolium ‘Physic Purple’

Eryngium – Botanical Style Photographs

Eryngium-flowers From Top left to Bottom right   zabelii 'Big Blue', zabelii 'Violetta' zabelii 'Pen Blue', bourgatii, zabelii 'Jos Eijking' planum 'Blue Glitter', bourgatii Graham Stuart Thomas selected

  • Anemone hupehensis ‘Bowles’s Pink’

Anemone – Botanical Style Photographs

Anemone flowers compared   In columns from top to bottom then left to right 'Margarette', 'Prinz Heinreich', 'Rotkappchen' 'Honorine Jobert', 'Bowles's Pink', 'Whirlwind' 'Queen Charlotte', 'September Charm' 'Andrea Atkinson', Hadspen [...]

  • Sedum ‘Munstead Red’

Sedum – Botanical Style Pictures

Sedums Compared diagonally from left to right, top to bottom : 'Indian Chief', 'Joyce Henderson', erythrostichum 'Mediovariegatum', telephium subsp. roprchtii 'Munsted Red', 'Matrona', erythrostichum 'Frosty Morn', 'Ruby Glow' 'Carl', telephium [...]

  • Geum 'Beech House Apricot'

Geums – Botanical Style Pictures

Geum flowers compared [/fusion_builder_column_inner] Left Hand Picture, from top left to bottom right. Lemon Delight, Lemon Drops, Beech House Apricot, Mai Tai Can-can, Golden Joy, Fancy Frills, [...]

  • Tricyrtis formosana Stolonifera Group

Tricyrtis – Toad Lilies

A Page of those curious beauties, the Toad Lilies Tricyrtis 'Empress' Tricyrtis 'Empress' This variety has larger, showier flowers than other varieties, white with very [...]

  • Tiarella 'Pink Skyrocket'

Tiarella – The Foam Flowers

The Foam Flowers make lovely ground cover for shady positions. There has been a flurry of breeding and there are a great number of varieties that vary only by degree. Hopefully by putting them [...]

  • Thalictrum aquilegifolium 'Thundercloud'

Thalictrum in comparison

Thalictrum aquilegifolium 'Thundercloud' Thalictrum aquilegifolium 'Thundercloud'. Sturdy thalictrum with delicate double pinnate blue-green foliage and dusky pink-purple fluffy flowers crowded into a flattened pom-pom and carried on dark stained stems. The darkest [...]

  • Sedum 'Matrona'

Sedums – Ice Plants Compared

Below are all of  the Sedums we grow all in one place alongside their desriptions. I've arranged them approximately from small to large Botanical Style Pictures Sedum hidakanum [...]

  • Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'

Rudbeckias – cone daisies compared

The Rudbeckias come with impeccable credentials - named by Linnaeus after his predecessors and mentors at Uppsala. here they are placed side by side for comparison. I've set them out shortest to tallest. Botanical Style [...]

  • Crambe cordifolia

High and Mighty

This is a page where I can collect together plants that are unashamedly tall. All those marvellous flowers for adding height at the back of a planting scheme. Crambe cordifolia Crambe cordifolia [...]

  • Tanacetum vulgare 'Isla Gold'

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 clothes moths (and other pests) Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort) (Sweet Woodruff) [...]

  • Papaver 'Mrs Perry'

Poppies – in all their forms

Papaver rupifragum 'Flore Pleno' Papaver rupifragum 'Flore Pleno'. A lovely evergreen perennial poppy for the cottage garden. All through the summer the rosettes throw double flowers of tissue thin petals in tangerine [...]

  • Primula veris (cowslip) and myosotis

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 with the text which Dawn has added we hope you can find the Primula to [...]

  • Papaver 'Raspberry Queen' & Semiaquilegia

Plant Associations – Poppies

Wonderful Blousy Poppies   Papaver Oriental Poppies are a real hit of blousy extravagance for the early season, but need careful placement to work in the garden. They have an unusual seasonal growth [...]

  • Phlox maculata 'Delta'

Phlox Compared

See all of our Phlox compared on one page. To explore further try the buttons below. Ericales Phlox Violet Flame ('Barsixtyone') One of a new wave [...]

  • Nepeta nervosa & Anthemis 'Sauce Hollandaise'

Plant Associations – Nepeta

Pictures of Nepeta in garden situations and in association with other plants. You may also like  Nepeta and Salvia   ‘If you set it, the cats will eat it, If you sow [...]

  • Aruncus 'Horatio'

Rosales – the Rose Order

A large order containing many important fruit crops and also families containing the Elms, Mulberries, Nettles and Cannabis. Filipendula vulgaris 'Multiplex' Rosaceae A very important [...]

  • Linaria purpurea (Purple Toadflax)

Linaria – Toadflaxes compared

Here are the Toadflaxes all set out side by side. Linaria purpurea 'Springside White' Linaria purpurea 'Springside White' Linaria purpurea 'Springside White',  Startling white tiny snapdragon flowers crowd [...]

  • Kniphofia 'Tawny King'

Kniphofia Compared

One page with all of our Ret Hot Pokers together so you can see them and their descriptions without constant page turning. Botanical Style Photographs Kniphofia triangularis subsp triangularis 'Light of [...]

  • Asarum europaeum

Piperales

The only family that we grow from this order is the Aristolociaceae - The Birthwort Family Asarum canadense - Wild Ginger Aristolochiaceae Asarum [...]

  • Matteuccia struthiopteris

Ferns for Moist Sites

On the whole most ferns will grow in moist conditions, though only some are suitable for conditions that are properly wet. I've set out some notes below which I hope will help you sort them [...]

  • Polystichum setiferum Plumosomultilobum Group - ('Plumosum Densum')

Ferns for Dry Shade – a comparison

One of the most commonly asked questions asked about ferns is 'which ferns are suitable for dry shade ?' In general, ferns are all suitable shade, but vary in their tolerance for dry conditions. However, [...]

  • Iris 'Blue King' (sibirica)

Iris – a Comparison

Here are our range of Iris on a single page for comparison. I have grouped them by colour. Click on any image to be redirected to the variety in our shop. Iris 'Sparkling Rose' (sibirica) [...]

  • Viola odorata 'Mrs R Barton'

Malpighiales

This Order is named after the Italian physician Marcello Malpighi who is widely regarded as the father of microscopy and histology. It contains in excess of 1400 species. Malpighia is a tropical genus of [...]