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 [...]
Stokesia – Botanical Style Photographs
Stokesia Flowers compared Top Left - Klaus Jelitto Right - Purple Parasols (partially open) Bottom - Blue Star
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 [...]
Ficaria – Celandines Compared
Below are all of our Celandines arranged for easy comparison Single Yellow Brazen Hussy Lesser Celandine. Perfect heart-shaped shiny black leaves that show [...]
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
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 the true grasses in the ones family. This is a huge family containing all plants [...]
Zingiberales – The Ginger Order
Zingiberaceae Roscoea
Data Security, Privacy and Nuisance Emails
Privacy Policy Who we are : Whilst we trade online as Dorset Perennials, we are a partnership, registered as Berkely Perennials and comprise a husband and wife team, Dawn and Martin Preston (please [...]
Umbellifers – Botanical Style Photographs
This page contains photographs of all of the typical Umbellifers, ie those with a resembalnce to Cow Parsley. If you would like to look at Astrantia or Eryngium then click on their pictures to the [...]
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. [...]
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 'Variegatum'
Vinca – Periwinkles – Botanical Style Photographs
Vinca minor varieties Left Hand Photograph. Top left to bottom right Argenteovariegata, Ralph Shugert, Gertrude Jekyll Atropurpurea, double, Bowles' Variety Right Hand Photograph, Left to Right V.difformis 'Jenny Pym' V.difformis [...]
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 'Alba', reptans, Black Scallop [...]
Brunnera – Botanical Style Photographs
From top left to bottom right Looking Glass, Silver Spear Hadspen Cream, Dawson's White, Jack Frost Langtrees, Betty Bowring
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 [...]
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, Roy Davison
Phlox – Botanical Style Photographs
Phlox compared Clockwise from the top Blue Paradise, Franz Schubert Rosa Pastell, Monica Lynden Bell (grown indoors)
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 [...]
Succisa and Succisella – Botanical Style Photographs
Succisa and Succisella flowers Left hand picture, clockwise from top right Succisella inflexa 'Frosted Pearls', Succisa pratensis, Succisa pratensis 'Buttermilk' Right hand picture, From top left to bottom right Succisa [...]
Salvia – Botanical Style Photographs
Salvia pratensis flowers Salvia pratensis cultivars, From the Left : Twilight Serenade Sky Dance Rose Rhapsody Sweet Esmerelda
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 left to right 'White Eastfield', campanulata, 'Pink Elephant'
Liliales – the Lily Order
Alstroemeriaceae Alstroemeria Botanical Style Photographs Colchicaceae Disporum Uvularia Liliaceae [...]
Solanales – The Potato Order
Solanaceae - The Potato Family An important family in terms of food crops, containing Potatoes, Tomatoes and Aubergines Physalis
Malvales – The Mallow Order
Malvaceae - The Mallow Family Alcalthaea Alcea Althaea Malva Sphaeralcea [...]
Gentianales – The Gentian Order
Apocynaceae Amsonia Vinca Botanical Style Photographs Rubiaceae Galium
Polypodiales – The Fern Order
This is the place that all of the Ferns live Aspleniaceae Asplenium Athyriaceae Athyrium [...]
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 Beauty', 'Indian Summer' (poor), 'Wyndley'
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', [...]
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', 'Violet Queen', 'King George', 'Pink Zenith' Right hand photograph, from top left 'King George', [...]
Nepeta – Botanical Style Photographs
Nepeta compared From top left to bottom right : x faassenii, 'Chettle Blue', grandiflora 'Bramdean', govaniana 'Six Hills Giant', 'Walker's Low', sibirica 'Souvenir d'Andre Chaudron', grandiflora [...]
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
Ferns – Botanical Style Photographs
Adiantum Asplenium Athyrium Dryopteris Matteuccia Polypodium Polystichum
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 hand photo 'Fenland Daybreak', 'Jennifer' 'Major', 'Wilfred H. Bryant' (Pink Princess) Centre of left hand [...]
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 [...]
Diascia – Botanical Style Photographs
Diascia personata
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 [...]
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 right. Lemon Delight, Lemon Drops, Beech House Apricot, Mai Tai Can-can, Golden Joy, Fancy Frills, [...]
Epimediums – Botanical Style Pictures
versicolor varieties On the left, from left to right Cuprea, Discolor, Sulphureum pinnatum, perraldianum and crosses On the right, from left to right Frohnleiten, pinnatum subsp. colchicum perraldianum, Wisley [...]
Geraniums – Botanical Style Pictures
cantabrigiense and macrorrhizum varieties - From Top left to Bottom Right: c. St Ola, c. Biokovo, c. Harz m. Bevan's Variety, c. Hanne, c. Westray, m. Ingwersen's Variety [...]
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 and that I think might be of interest to you. To confirm that spirit of [...]
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 has to do it)., so that you can compare them side by side. [...]
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 bit of shade. I've included some individual plants and, where the numbers are greater, links [...]
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. Here's the lot of them collected together for you to take your pick. I've tagged [...]
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 size order, shortest first. Tradescantia 'Bilberry Ice' Tradescantia 'Bilberry Ice' [...]
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 – 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 [...]
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 fascinating to know which plants are related to which. Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes quite the [...]
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 [...]
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 anything to add to these biographies, or can fill in a story behind a plant [...]
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. What they all have in common is that they all belong to the Lamiaceae and [...]
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. I have ranked them approximately shortest to tallest. Succisia pratensis – Devil’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
Pulmonaria – Lungworts – A Comparison
Pulmonaria - Lungworts - A Comparison There are a huge variety of leaf and flower colours and within the Lungworts, so the easy way to choose which one is right for your garden is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 know a little bit more about where they sit in the Plant Kingdom then click [...]
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 will link you back to the entry in our shop. I've grouped the varieties sort [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Paeonies. Small Copper on Sedum albo-roseum 'Mediovariegatum' [...]
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 [...]
Lysimachia – Loosestrifes, friends of the Oxen
Loosestrife is a name you can find applied to both Lysimachia and Lythrum. Here they all are compared in no particular order. Lysimachia punctata 'Alexander' Lysimachia punctata 'Alexander'. Young shoots emerge in spring [...]
Ranunculales – The Buttercup Order
This is the order where you will find Buttercups, Delphiniums, Epimediums and all of the Poppies. Berberidaceae This family is split between shrubby members such as Berberis [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Ferns – Deciduous or Evergreen ?
Ferns - Deciduous or Evergreen. I've set out below the ferns we grow and a note as to whether they keep their leaves or not over winter. Adiantum - deciduous Adiantums reliably loose [...]
Myrtales – Myrtle Order
The Myrtle order holds a couple of families that have in them the Fireweeds and Evening Primroses amongst others Brimstone on Lythrum Lythraceae Lythrum [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]