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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 ! 75cmLinks
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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. 75cmDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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A cracking variety which has earned the accolade of a RHS Award of Garden Merit. The broad heads open a soft pastel salmon-orange and gradually fade to cream and pink. This is one of the Galaxy series, a group of Achillea produced from crosses between Achillea millefolium and Achillea taygetea. 60-70cm.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Achillea 'Marmalade'. This variety has a kinship with A. 'Terracotta' in its colouring, although it is leans more towards brick reds at times whereas 'Terracotta' is more ochre. It is a vigorous taller grower with ample foliage in a muted green.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Achillea 'Pretty Belinda'. An excellent strong-pink achillea with broad heads of flowers and fine dark green foliage. Flower colour strengthens as the flowers age giving a pretty two-toned effect. Plants have a compact habit and good ability to stay upright. 50cm. Summer. Repeat flowers if cut back.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Achillea 'Summerwine'. Intense dark cerise flowers crowd in dense flat heads. This is a variety that has fine green foliage and spreads well making an open clump. Grows well in variety of soils, but will be longest lived in a well drained soil that is on the dry side, especially in winter. Full sun. 75cmDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Drooping Agapanthus. The flowers of the inapertus Agapanthus are all long and tubular, rather than the more usual flared trumpets, and hang downwards. They are fully hardy provided that the bulbs receive a good mulching in the Autumn once the leaves have all withered. 130cm in flower. Flowers are a good sky blue in this variety.Links
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A smaller form of the otherwise similar Alchemilla mollis with beautiful scalloped, serrated edged foliage which often takes on a blueish-grey hue. Typical chartreuse sprays of flowers are produced in Summer on purply stems and act as a lovely foil to other blooms. Grows about 6 inches high and 8 inches wide and, apart from needing sun for at least part of the day, is very undemanding.Links
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Anchusa azurea 'Dropmore' is a large perennial prized for its abundance of flowers of a bright gentian blue which only seem to intensify in Summer's evening light. The flowers are quite long lasting and loved by bees. The tallest of the Anchusas. Full sun, drought tolerant . The roots of all the Anchusas yield a resinoid colouring compound called alkanet-red or more properly anchusin Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
This is a great form of Hart's Tongue fern that is little seen. It was given to us years ago by Mike and Dilly Smith and it has been brightening the garden by our back door ever since, getting better by the year. It is a fine member of the Crispum Group with deeply ruffled edges to the leaves that are worthy enough on their own. However, given sufficient light, the leaves are a rich yellow for most of the Spring, only darkening to green late in the Summer. The light is essential to get the golden colour, but direct sun will cause the leaves to burn. In shade it will be entirely green, but somewhere in-between it can show partial yellowing or even variegated stripes. Asplenium Scolpendrium 'Bolton' is very similar. 30-40cm tall. It is sterile and difficult to propagate.Potsize - 1L
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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 drainageLinks
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A pure white, green-tipped, large flowered Astrantia from the 'Star' breeding program. We have examined this closely this year and it looks for all the world exactly like 'Shaggy', the excellent old variety selected by Margery Fish. It is a fine plant but we are as yet unsure why it merits its own name and PBR status.Links
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A little known Chinese member of the Ranunculaceae which is rarely offered. It has beautiful dark green shining orbicular leaves on long thin, but stiff petioles. The leaves have substantial texture and an overlay of dark peaty-brown staining which varies in intensity with the time of year. At its best it rivals a piece of well patinated bronze. Named calthifolia after the resemblance to the shape and arrangement of leaves in our native Marsh Marigold, but Beesia is a lot classier, indeed my brother's wedding buttonholes were set off with these lovely leaves. The flowers are starry, a little like an enlarged tiarella on stiff stems, creamy white and produced continuously. For moisture retentive, humus rich soil in shade. This plant was introduced to cultivation by Dan Hinckley, a fact for which he is deservedly proud. -
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Bergenia 'Bressingham White'. Praised for its robust stature and the freedom with which it produces both flower and leaf. Slowly spreading to form a good clump of large leaves with fine trusses of pure white flowers from March until May. Raised by Blooms and happy in both sun and part shade.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Bergenia 'Eric Smith'. A handsome variety originally bred by Eric Smith at Hadspen House in Somerset and given to Beth Chatto who then named it in his honour. It has large, wavy edged crinkled leaves which take on plum and crimson tones in Winter. Sprays of bright mid-pink flowers top the foliage in Spring. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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This is a compact form of Bergenia but one that punches above its weight when it comes to flowering. Flowers are bright rosy-pink, carried on bright red stems and produced abundantly in March and April. Foliage is green for the growing season and turns deep beetroot in the Winter. 15-30cm tall. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Bergenia 'Silberlicht'. A relatively new addition to the Bergenia family having been raised in 1982 by H.Klose. It thrives in sun or shade even in quite dry conditions and produces valuable ground cover of handsome bronze tinted leaves. Its real beauty is shown when in flower late in the Spring. Flowering stems are tall and pink carrying flowers in a sugar pink hue. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Whilst the heart shaped leaves make good muted green ground cover, it is the flowers are remarkable. In shape and colour they are very like the heads of betony, if a little paler, but they are borne on short stalks and are of a large size quite out of proportion with expectations. A first rate plant for the front of the border. No where near as rampant as its cousin, Stachys lanata. Plant in sun for good flowering. 30cm Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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A pretty quaking grass with tidy mounds of soft glaucous leaves with handsome white edges and striping. In Summer, dainty wands of little dancing lockets are produced which sway in the breeze. Green-white at first and often tinged with pink, the seed heads become golden with age. Semi-evergreen clumps of leaves. Not a very long lived plant but careful regular division can extend its life. Seedlings do not come true. 50-70cm in flower, 30cm in leaf.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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In late Oct this tight 2-3ft mound is smothered in 1in pom-poms; shaded apricot to maroon. Very welcome so late in the year. Any soil in sun. Cut to ground in winter.Links
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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.Links
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A particularly strong growing variety that is very late into flower, regularly flowering from October and into December. The 6cm flowers are fairly well double, even when fully open the centre has a yellow glow, but no central disc. The petals are a rich burnt orange with enough of an incurve to show a pale apricot reverse. Very similar in tone to Paul Boissier.Links
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Chrysanthemum 'Clara Curtis' (Korean: single 21d). Very free flowering and hardy chrysanthemum. with 3in clear sugar pink flowers produced profusely from August to October. Cut to ground in Winter. Any soil. 60cm. MAY CAUSE SKIN ALLERGYLinks
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Chrysanthemum 'Cottage Apricot' has single, but full flowers which shade from an apricot edge to a burnt orange centre. As the flower ages, the colour becomes stronger, being far more a coppery red than the apricot of its name. It has a rich heady honey scent.Links
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Intensely magenta pink single blooms with a distinctly pale ring surrounding the bright yellow central boss. Reminiscent of a dark red Pyrethrum but flowering in October-November. About 60-70cm tall. Lovely Chrysanthemum scent.Links
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A very old, beautiful and distinctive cultivar. After the first frosts, before the flowers open in September the leaves colour a rich ruby red setting off the silvery pink quilled double flowers beautifully. It's habit is to rather open with a tendency to sprawl. Tie it early if you are a tidy gardener or alternatively let it snake its way through its neighbours to pop out in unexpected places. Looks really good with the silvers of Artemisia We recently had the pleasure of sending this plant to Annabel Watts at Munstead Wood and she kindly sent us copies of 2 articles written about this Chrysanthemum for the Garden, Sept 29, 1888, by Gertrude Jekyll. I have copied these into the gallery of photographs.Links
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Very free flowering and hardy chrysanth. with 3in soft apricot flowers produced profusely from August to October. Cut to ground in Winter. Any soil. 60cm. MAY CAUSE SKIN ALLERGYLinks
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Very welcome in late Oct this tight 2-3ft mound is smothered in 1in pom-poms; shaded light to dark pink. Any soil in sun. Cut to ground in winter. MAY CAUSE SKIN ALLERGYLinks
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Sunshine yellow buttons at the end of the season are the mark of this variety. It flowers early in the Chrysanthemum season and forms a low 60cm bush that is absolutely covered in bright yellow fully double buttons that deepen in colour from the edge to the centre.Links
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Chrysanthemum 'Paul Boissier' has double flowers in a glowing rich copper, beginning with classic Japanese painted regularity, later opening further to reveal a central eye. It is just the perfect embodiment of the subtle beauty of golden Autumn sunshine on freshly fallen beech leaves. Nice honey scent. Will probably require stakingLinks
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A really distinctive variety that has a great charm. The petals are quilled with a slightly broader tip. The shafts of each petal are red with the exposed upper surface at the tip a bright yellow.Links
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Convallaria majalis. Lily-of-the-Valley. One of those perennials that really needs no introduction. It is native to Britain and is particularly common on Lime rich soils, growing thick tangled mats of root in woodland situations. Each node produces two broad leaves in the middle of which nestle the stiff little spikes hung on One side with little fragrant white bells, Each with a narrowed frilly opening like an old-fashioned maids bonnet. Lily-of-the-Valley is easily grown and adaptable and particularly suited to leaving alone in difficult dry situations where It will happily carpet and provide fragrant little posies Each SpringDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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This is the pink flowered form of Lily of the Valley. I recently read it described as 'a stunning new variety' but I'm going to resist such hyperbole. It is pleasant and different with a subtle, if a liitle dull, pink shading on the outside of each bell. The leaves are a little bluer in shade as well. Its a great addition to a collection and I don't want to denegrate its charms, just don't ecpect to have your socks blown off and you'll be well pleased.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Cyclamen coum is the other cyclamen commonly grown out of doors in Britain. It is a little fussier than Cyclamen hederifolium but essentially requires quick drainage, good winter light with a little shade in the hottest part of the day come Spring and shelter from cold drying winds. It is very hardy but dislikes freezing or wet winds. Its marbled kidney-shaped leaves appear in September and persist until late Spring when higher temperatures and sunlight force the into a protective dormancy. The flowers are more dumpy and rounded than typical cyclamen flowers and come in a range of colours from white through pink to deep magenta, always with a darker blotch at the mouth of the paler eyes. They liven up the Winter garden, appearing as they do from Christmas onwards, being remarkably cold tolerant. Excellent for naturalising in sunny banks at the foot of trees, even conifers providing the branches don't come too close to the ground. They only require good drainage, some shelter and a little shade in late Spring which can be provided by deciduous shrubs and tress or even herbaceous plants or bulbs. Discount of 25p for 3-9 plants, 30p for 10 or more Our plants have been grown from seed collected around the garden and are therefore various shades and have varied leaf patterns. They are not wild collectedLinks
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This lovely group covers forms with a fully silvered leaf. Just as easy as the more commonly encountered green leaf varieties just with more striking foliage. Flowers are pale pink with a darker eye, occasionally white. Excellent to grow in a shady dry spot where the foliage makes excellent ground cover.Links
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These are plants we have selected out from the main batch which we know are pure white. Cyclamen hederifolium heralds the onset of Autumn when its charming pink or white reflexed flowers push their way above ground in late August. Cyclamen hederifolium is the easiest species to grow as it will withstand extreme cold and frozen conditions but also high summer temperatures when it is protected by its dormancy. They thrive in poor soil, make good companions to bulbs and will thrive anywhere that offers quick drainage and reasonable light (not overshadowed) when in leaf through Winter. The leaves make wonderful ground cover in many situations but especially in difficult dry areas under trees. They have wonderful marbled patterns and form close knit mats of thick textured ivy-shaped leaves, often with lovely purply reverses. The leaves arrive shortly after the flowers (in September) and persist through the dullest months until Summer heat drives them into dormancy. Discount of 25p for 3-9 plants, 30p for 10 or more Our plants are grown from seed collected from a variety of plants in the garden, (they are not collected from the wild), and are therefore contain a mixture of leaf patterns.Links
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Digitalis ferruginea 'Gelber Herold' (Yellow Herald) . Immaculate evergreen glossy rosettes of long, narrow dark green leaves are a feature all year. The flowers spikes are tall, stiff and densely crowded with charming ochre, yellow-lipped flowers arranged all around the stem in perfect regularity. More yellow in the flowers than the species. 4ft CAUTION- TOXIC IF EATENDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Hungarian Globe Thistle. An intensely blue selection of this species, said to be far superior to forms of Echinops ritro. Large too, flowering at 120cm tall. Flowers from July to October. The species originates from Central to Eastern Europe through to Asia Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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Echinops tenuifolius. This species was singled out by William Robinson as the most magnificent in its family. The foliage is the finest, being more finely divided than other and it is a stark white on the reverse. The stems also are white woolly. Flower heads start off as spiky silver balls, becoming brilliant bright blue when the flowers are fully open. On the shorter side at 60cm and flowering from July to September. The species from Southern and Eastern Europe across to Russia and China. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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Erigeron karvinskianus. Crazy Daisy. This is that sweet little candy and white daisy you see clinging for dear life from stone walls and amongst paving. I say clinging on, but it positively thrives in these conditions, finding a home in places where nothing else would. Given a well drained position this daisy will thrive, seeding itself around with gay abandon. The flowers begin a ruddy pink, soon fading to pure white. carried on long stalks they make a lovely colourful daisy cloud, softening the edges of walls and paving alike.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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This is really a very fine Sea Holly indeed in more than one sense of the word. Eryngium 'Pen Blue' is in the x zabelii family with sea-green tripartite leaves. The flowers are borne on 60cm violet stems and are a picture of beauty. The collar is particularly wide in comparison to the central cone and its segments, radiating like the spokes of the devil's chariot are narrow, spiky and a striking electric Blue. Further adding to the effect, the flowers are beautifully arranged and composed with the secondary flowers slightly smaller and held a little lower. Altogether a class act and a magnet for the bees. Found by Jane Edmunds in her garden in Penselwood, Somerset.Links
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This new form of Miss Willmotts Ghost was discovered in the wild near Trabzon in Turkey in 1982 by Martyn Rix, Jimmy Smart and Dick and Ros Banks. It has flowers that are large with bracts that are narrower and more spiny than the species, in some ways a little more like a zabelii type. The leaves are also distinctive, being narrower with a wavier edge. It has the further advantage of a reputation for being more persistent and less reliably biennial than the species.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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(Eryngium descaisneum) If you are looking for a real talking point then this is the one for you. Eryngium pandanifolium 'Physic Purple' is bold, architectural and takes no prisoners. The foliage is a narrow 2cm wide and can be 1.5m long, evenly spiky all along its edge. It forms a dense grassy fountain, from the centre of which rises the star of the show. The flowering spike can rise 2.5m high or more, branched all the way up like a small tree to form a cylindrical cage of small deep maroon cones. Quite the show-stopper. The species grows naturally in South America, being found in marshes and wet fields. 2-4m. Hardy to -10C . Has a reputation for being less hardy but should be OK if grown in sun and not left to sit too wet in winter.Links
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A lovely cross between E.alpinum and E.bourgati. This form has particularly richly coloured bracts which are very long lasting. It is vigorous in growth and has large long-lasting heads of a bright metallic blue. Likes a position in full sun in not too rich a soil and not too wet. 75cmLinks
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