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    A lovely little Poker grown originally by Beth Chatto from seeds sent to her by Cedric Morris. Probably half the size of most Kniphofias with narrow flowers spikes that are green in bud, opening a soft yellow before maturing cream. It will continue producing its tasteful flowers well into the Autumn. less than 60cm tall.
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    Lamium maculatum 'Pink Pewter'. Just the plant to bring a bit of life into a troublesome dry spot in the garden with its easy habit and lovely richly silvered foliage. Flowers are a rich pink. Useful for ground cover in a wide range of soil and light conditions, growing in all but the wettest conditions and excelling in dry shade .The silvering on the leaves of these plants is caused by air filled blisters just below the surface.
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    Lamium orvala 'Alba'. This is the pure white flowered form of this stately deadnettle. Rather than the usual ruddy pinks of the species, the dragon-mouth flowers are clean white, shading a little green from the leaves. The leaves and stems also lack the pink pigments giving the whole plant a greener, cleaner look than the species. Non invasive clumper for a nice leafy spot in moist shade. 30-45cm. Thought to have occurred in the Betws y Coed garden of E.C.Buxton.
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    Lathyrus vernus (purple-flowered) - Spring Vetchling. Lathyrus vernus (spring vetchling) is a beautiful little treasure for the spring garden that is both dainty and robust Dense lush foliage makes a 30 cm high hummock which is covered with many small pea flowers in shades of pink, fading blue. 30cm. WIll grow in a wide range of conditions, but happiest in a little moist shade. Thrives on our heavy clay. There are a variety of colour variants, some of which we offer seperately.
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    Lathyrus vernus 'Alboroseus' - Spring Vetchling. Lathyrus vernus (spring vetchling) is a beautiful little treasure for the spring garden that is both dainty and robust Dense lush foliage makes a 30 cm high hummock which is covered with many small pea flowers. In this variety the flowers are two-toned pink and white with a rosy red base to each one. 30cm. WIll grow in a wide range of conditions, but happiest in a little moist shade. Thrives on our heavy clay. There are a variety of colour variants, some of which we offer seperately.
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    Chrysanthemum leucanthemum. This is our native Ox-eye Daisy, distant cousin to the Schasta Daisies to which it is similar but more delicate and refined in all it's parts. This one evokes childhood memories of walking behind the finger mower in Summer meadows, collecting armfuls of daisies and knapwed flowers as they were cut down with the hay. The flowers are the epitomy of cheerful simplicity; butter-yellow centres and glistening white petals on undemanding plants. It is happy to grow in quite wide ranging conditions, sun or partial shade, in a variety of different soil types from chalk to clay.
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    Leucanthemum x superbum 'Shapcott Summer Clouds'. A lovely very frilly Schast Daisy like a creamy white tu-tu around a yellow centre. Very easy to grow in any sunny site, producing lots of flowers from mid Summer into Autumn. Only 50cm high. Flowers are clotted cream in bud. Bred by Anita Allen in Devon.
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    A form of Lily turf with the more unusual attribute of having pink flowers rather than the usual purple. The flowering stems are a rosy pink with flowers that open out a paler sugar pink. 40cm
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    A good solid variety of Liriope of  dark violet hue. 30cm in flower, 40 in leaf. It is much like the species but in a slightly more compact form. Like all Lily Turf, this is an excellent plant for growing in dry shady places.
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    Liriope muscari. (Liriope platyphylla, Liriope graminifolia densiflora, Ophiopogon muscari). US nickname, Lily Turf or Big Blue. A shorter form, growing to 35cm with a reputation for flowering very freely with spikes of violet blue. This is a good all rounder for every garden. Useful for ground cover, for edging or as a flowering plant in its own right. Neat, arching shining green rush-like leaves are evergreen and in their prime in Winter. They are happy in sun or shade but flower best in sun. In the US they have earned the name 'Lily Turf' as the arching grass like foliage produces spikes of densely packed violet-blue grape hyacinth-like flowers in late Autumn. Easily grown they are both hardy and drought tolerant, only requiring reasonable drainage to succeed. Named after the Greek nymph Liriope, one of the Naiad.  
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    A dark leaved selection of a North American native which forms spreading mounds in any soil with enough moisture. The leaves are rounded and coloured a dark purple-brown, more intensely so earlier in the year, but still coloured well when the flowers arrive in Summer. The flowers, which are bright yellow stars, hang in loose array atop the 60-75cm high flowering stems, interspersed with pointed stem leaves. A great plant to add a little delicacy and contrast into a hot colour scheme. Clumps spread but are easy enough to control. Will grow well in clay soils in the open border.
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    (Pectiantia breweri) mitrewort or bishop's cap. Very much along the lines of Tiarella and Heuchera, to which Mitella is related, this is a creeping clump former or considerable charm. Everything about it is small and tidy with close clumps of dark, shiny evergreen scallop edged leaves and numerous upright wands of pale limey green flowers enhanced by the red stems. Its never going to outshine your herbaceous border, but it will provide charm all year in the sort of dark spot that can be difficult to fill. A native of damp woodland in North America, it is particularly happy in heavy clay soils in shade. 15-20cm. Will seed around if happy.
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    Purple Moor Grass is a British native, to be found on damp peaty sites where it grows rough, tough tussocks that are a nightmare to walk through. However, as a garden plant it has many merits. In its taller subspecies, subsp. arundinacea, it produces tall airy plumes of purple tinted flowers that are light and see through. The plants are tough and in Autumn they turn rich buttery tones that last well into the Autumn. Transparent lives up to its billing with particularly airy flowers in spikes up to 5ft high. It is particularly persistent into the Winter. Molinia like plenty of moisture and will tolerate a wide range of soil types from peaty to a reasonable amount of lime.
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    To me, this variety is distinguished by the contrast of the pale sugary-pink flowers against the dark purple ruff of bracts below the inflorescence. It is a long established variety which has gained itself an AGM, having a long flowering period and being a little less spreading than some. However when trialled in America alongside many other Monarda it scored poorly, especially in mildew resistence, but then again mildew is very much in the variety description of most Monarda. I refer you to my comments under Monarda 'Marshall's Delight'.
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    An excellent introduction from White Flower Farm. Said to have excellent mildew resistance this variety has flowers that stride that middle ground between pink and red. In bud the flower heads have more than a passing resemblance to raspberries. It is undemanding, growing in a wide range of conditions. It is tolerant of quite wet sites and will grow where it is much drier, but somewhere in the middle is best. Give it full sun for best flowering and to best get the scent of the leaves. It is highly attractive to pollinating insect but apparently loathed by deers who clearly have no taste. 60-90cm
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    Quite distinct for a Nepeta in that it forms a dense upright bush rather than a lax mound of foliage, standing up well despite the elements. The flowers appear in a dense terminal cluster, quite large and standing proud above the foliage. The flowers are more in the style of Nepeta 'Souvenir d'Andre Chaudron' or a Dracocephalum, long like a Salvia and a strong mauvy-blue. This is a hybrid between N.yunnanensis and N.nervosa, a recent cross made by Janet Egger (Terra Nova Nurseries). 80cm

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    This is perhaps the stoutest of all the Nepeta, standing a metre or more tall with broad heads of large purple-blue flowers emerging from dark calyces. It is long in flower and great for bees. It grows best in full sun.

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    This fairly recent introduction has at least three things to recommend it. To start with the flowers are a much richer shade of mauve than the usually found catmint and this plant has gained a reputation for being even freer in its reblooming also. The growth is a little more compact than normal as well, up to 30cm tall and twice as much wide. An ideal plant for edging along paths or beds.
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    SUNDROPS. Always interesting with pink and red stained young shoots that arch and drip with bright sunshine yellow flowers in summer. Autumn colour is a deep glowing red. Best in full sun. 50cm
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    This is the pure white form of Blue Eyed Mary. Much more of a creeper than its cousin, cappadocica and earlier to start flowering in the year. Omphalodes verna 'Alba' will spread quite freely in any cool leafy soil that is not too wet producing a wide mat of rich green foliage dotted here and there withpur white flowers. Very good to bring a sparkle of white into a dark corner. A lovely creeping species form Eastern Europe. Grows best in bright shade in humus rich soil, but relatively adaptable.
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    Onopordum acanthium. (Scotch Thistle). A stately architectural plant with attitude ! The large Acanthus-like leaves are densely woolly silver and tipped with real thistle barbs. At first forming an impressive evergreen rosette, during the second year, in April it mounts its advance skywards. A very stout, silver 'trunk' is winged, well clothed in woolly silver leaves and terminates in a broad candelabra bearing a succession of the big mauvey-pink and nectar-rich silver thistles that are depicted on tins of shortbread and which are beloved by the bees and butterflies. Usually monocarpic, this impressive plant wants lots of room and sun but is unbeatable to add structure to the border. usually self seeds very modestly so you can relocate the offspring to appropriate positions whilst small; although I have moved enormous plants in high Summer for safety's sake (they were very prickly by the path) and gotten away with it. Planted young and well fed they can top 2.5m tall.
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    A sweet little plant for edging off all sorts of different areas. Neat spreading clumps of narrow grassy leaves that are evergreen. In Summer the flowers appear in short spikes amongst the foliage, pure white followed by occasional berries.
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    This cultivar is quite distinctive as the flower heads are exploded into a bright pink cloud rather than the dense cluster more usually found. The longer stalks show off well red stems and calyces. Use this variety when you want a lighter effect. Equally as good as the other cultivars for attracting the bees and butterflies. 45cm for full sun and reasonab;e drainage. Will seed around, especially into gravel.
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    This is the only British representative of this mainly Himalayan branch of the poppies. Clear bright lemon yellow crepe paper poppies nod over lush pale green foliage. Not a plant to place in the herbaceous border, instead one to allow to settle itself in amongst ferns or any informal planting of shade lovers. It is happiest in moist to damp conditions where it will seed about freely. 30cm. Mecanopsis is one of the few Genera that do all 3 primary colours with aplomb. M. cambrica is bright yellow, M. paniculata is clear blue and M.punicea is as red as they come. All strong clear colours - quite unique.
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    A fabulous imposing poppy, taller than most at 120cm with large blood-red flowers with petals like crinkled tissue paper. Each petal has a black spot at the base and a ruff of black stamens surrounds the urn of an ovary with its maroon lined felty cap. Beauty of Livermere stands taller and stiffer than most Papaver orientale varieties and has handsome and conspicuous leafy bracts below the flowers.
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    (Penstemon digitalis 'Purpureus') This herbaceous Penstemon has much to recommend it. The foliage is richly beetroot stained, forming an evergreen clump in Winter. The flowers are white, stained with lavender and pink, rising up to 1m on dark stemmed panicles. Penstemon digitalis is native to the East of Canada, stretching down into the USA. Naturally it grows in moist sandy soils in full sun. Husker Red was created in 1983 by Dale Lindgren at the University of Nebraska and named in honour of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, an intercollegiate Athletic team. Named perennials of the year for 1996 by The Perennials Plant Association. Penstemon digitalis 'Dark Tower' (also one of Dale Lindgren's) is taller and darker in the foliage.
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    Himalayan fleece flower. (Polygonum affine 'Darjeeling Red') This is an excellent and very undemanding ground cover plant for almost any situation that isn't to dry. It forms a low mat of semi evergreen foliage that turns a lovely red in the autumn. From mid Summer through to Autumn it produced an abundance of crowded little spikes of flowers that begin a pale blush pink and gradually darken to a deep brick red, creating a nice mixed tapestry of colour. 30cm in flowers, July to October. Originates in a region from Afghanistan across to Nepal.
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    This is one of those plants that has really surprised us by how much we like it. It comes from a fairly robust genus where elegance is not usually the order of the day, but it really is a thing of great refinement. In habit it is fairly open and quite large growing at least 1m in each direction. The stems branch widely with each node bearing a long tapered leaf whose edge colours red, a colour that repeats into the long tapering flowering stems which are narrow and carry small starry white flowers which point and twist like those fireworks that whizz as they are sent skywards. An undemanding plant for a moist to wet soil and a must for the flower arranger. Good with Euphorbia 'Fireglow' or Schizostylis coccinea ''Major'
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    Long spikes of Rose Madder buds, opening in narrow sections to a salmon pink flower to give a striking banded effect. A little earlier than some into flower from mid summer onwards into Early Autumn. Bred by Belgian Persicaria breeder Chris Ghyselen. 120cm in height. Good in a wide variety of soils providing it doesn't get too dry.
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    This is one of the many varieties bred by the Belgian Landscape designer Chris Ghyselen. It is like a shorter, more floriferous form of P.amplexicaule Alba, growing 90-120cm in height. The leaves are long and pointed, forming an attractive feature on their own. July to October. for sun to part shade.  
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    This variety was a chance seedling identified by Alan Bloom. It is shorter than the species with an extended flowering season all the way from July through to November. The flowers are a rich magenta pink with electric blue stamens. Height 100cm (sometimes more) by 70cm wide. Very drought tolerant.  
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    Persicaria microcephala 'Red Dragon'. This is a really excellent foliage plant if you want to add a dramatic splash of burgundy foliage into a scheme. You can either leave it to grow to its full height of about 1m with terminal clusters of white flowers or regularly trim it to the base to produce fresher stronger coloured growth. The leaves tend to be coloured in 3 patches, a dark triangle at the base, followed by a silvered 'V' and finally the red main part of the leaf. They can be rather changeable in colour. New growth in good light is rich burgundy, but later in the season it tends more towards brown and can be quite green in low light or shade. Don't worry if the early growth gets frosted off, which it often does, it soon recovers.

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    Phlomis russelliana. This is a very useful, robust perennial. Not only is it reliable, but its overlapping leaves and gently running form make particularly useful weed-smothering mats, especially useful as it is happy on dry limey soils. The leaves are an attractive felty sagey green and the flower stems are stiff and upright, carrying densely packed whorls of downward curved flowers, each paler on top and rich lemon yellow on the lip. to 1m in flower.
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    An exceptionally pure white Phlox with large dense heads of flowers (6-9") of good substance. Grows to 3' (1m) and from its initial flowering in July it is capable of repeat flowering until September if dead-headed and well cared for. Superb, heady, rich fragrance. Nice apple-green foliage is resistant to powdery mildew and even spotting providing conditions are good. This variety was discovered in its native America as a chance seedling. For full sun to partial shade in a moist fertile soil with plenty of organic matter. 36-40". Native Phlox paniculata are reserved and nurtured by the Brandywine Conservancy Volunteers at Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania. In August 1987, the Phlox seedlings were inspected by the coordinator and Richard Simon of Bluemount Nurseries. Together they selected a white fragrant form with clean foliage and it was named 'David' by Mrs FM Mooberry, the project coordinator, for her husband. 'David' may well be a direct descendant of the original Phlox sent to Europe in 1930 by John Bartram. It was 'Perennial of the Year' in America in 2002
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    This a particularly striking cultivar with a broad creamy white edge to the leaves. Despite the lack of chlorophyll it is a fine vigorous clone which will make a strong clump. The flowers are white with a pink central stain. Darwin's Joyce / Choice is synonymous with Norah Leigh, but is a particularly robust. Named for the mother of Mrs Joan Elliott, the Elliots being a well known nursery family. 90-100cm
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    I've had this plant for at least 20 years. It was originally spotted by Carol Klein at Glebe Cottage in Devon but seems to have largely passed out of cultivation. This is a pity because it's a real favourite of mine. It produces soft clusters of delicious pale lilac flowers, which open paler and sport lovely orange stamens. It is sterile and so is very long flowering and non seeding. It is prone to mildew later in the season, especially in hot weather, but it soon bounces back if trimmed off. Late Spring to early Summer. for moisture retentive soil in sun or part shade. 60cm
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    Polemonium yezoense var. hidakanum 'Purple Rain'. Beautiful Jacob's Ladder with fine filigree foliage, tinted purple and surmounted by an abundance of cobalt-blue flowers. Excellent at the edge of any bed. Grows best in sun. 50cm. The colour of the foliage is stronger in cooler weather and in brighter locations. Cut the spent flower stems hard back to rejuvenate the plant and enjoy a second flush of flowers. Avoid very dry locations which will leave the plants more vulnerable to mildew.
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    A delicate unusual Solomon's Seal discovered in Yunnan in China where it grows wild in rock crevices in full sun. It produces low arching stems, rarely more than 15 inches high, clothed with elegant whorls of narrow lanceolate leaves with unusual cirrose leaf tips. Cirrose means that the apexes of the leaf blades are elongated and coiled. This property arose as an aide to supporting itself as it clambers up through undergrowth. In late Spring 2-8 flowers are produced in the upper leaf axils, followed by by coral-red fleshy fruits Grow it in cool, humus-rich well drained soil. It is rhizomatous and if you want to grow it from seed, the seed has a double dormancy.

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    This form of Polypody is quite close in appearance to P.cambricum but is larger with broader fronds up to 40cm in size. It is slow to increase but will form reliable adaptable ground cover in time. Evergreen, producing the new fronds in late Summer which persist through to Spring.
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    Makino's Holly Fern. A lovely evergreen, modestly sized fern with a real tidy beauty to it. The fronds are a rich deep green with a nice shine. for a humus rich soil. 45-75cm tall. I think of this as the mid sized member of 3 similar ferns (P.tsus-sumense, P.makinoi and P.rigens)
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    The Divisilobum group represent the forms of Soft Shield Ferns where the frond segments are reduced to their narrowest, producing a very fine lacy frond. All along the midrib of each frond can be found little bulbils - new ferns in the making. This is a feature found largely, but not exclusively in this group. A dense crown produces a spiral of soft pale green fronds the segments of each of which is congested and overlapping creating an effect is like a feather. The newly emergant fronds, reddy-brown with a dense covering of translucent scales, are an absolute delight - well worth the effort of trimming away the old foliage. Easily grown and adaptable and one of the lovliest ferns. Tolerates quite dry soils. 100cm
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    Potentilla atrosanguinea var argyrophylla 'Scarlet Starlit'. This is a compact, neat potentilla which really packs a punch. The foliage is an asset all thorugh the year being silvery on account of a covering of silken hairs. The flowers are a deep blood red, produced on lax, branching stems. This is the sort of plant that is really easy to squeeze in at the front of border and well worth the effort. For full sun. 30cm
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    This is a compact, neat potentilla which really packs a punch. The foliage is an asset all thorugh the year being covered in silky hairs and looking for all the world like silvery strawberry leaves. This wild form has flowers that are yellow-orange with a red eye, produced on lax, branching stems. This is the sort of plant that is really easy to squeeze in at the front of border and well worth the effort. For full sun. 40cm
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    Brilliant pink strawberry-like flowers with cherry red eyes produced in profusion from May to July over mounds of rich green, fine fingered foliage. More compact and softer coloured than Potentilla 'Miss Willmott'. 30 x 45cm
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    Primula beesiana. One of the smaller growing Chinese species of Candelabra Primulas. From a rosette of leaves reaching 8-15cm rise strong silver-dusted stems to about 25cm which carry several whorls of rich mauve pink flowers each picked out with a yellow eye. Lovely in drifts by water or for a moisture retentive soil in sun to part shade
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