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Large. Thick corrugated texture. H.'William Lachman' x H.'Golden Waffles'.K.Vaughn. Forms a dense fountain of leaves which begin life yellow-shaded chartreuse and gradually age a much brighter lemony yellow-green with a white edge. One of the earlier varieties out of the ground. Lavender flowersDiscount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Small. Kanzashi Giboshi. From Southern and central Korea and Japan. A form that can attain a height of 30cm, but is also very suitable for bonsai use. The leaves are a classic heart shape in a mid green. Flowering is very free with each flower a rich mauve in a nice flared trumpet on relatively tall scapes. The scapes are noticeably ridged.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Ranolph Perry Medal
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A vigorous I.pseudacorus, I.sibirica cross with its excellent vigour deriving from its hybrid nature. The falls are well rounded spoon shape, palest creamy lemon-yellow with a marvellous highly intricate pattern of veining picked out in Wedgewood blue. A bright yellow flash with dark veining, pale blue standards and styles make this a variety of great class well deserving of its many medals. Distinctive yellow early foliage. Early to mid season. An interspecies cross with I.sibirica as the pod parent. 18 inches, 45cm. Award of Merit : 2007, Randolph Perry Medal : 2010, Introduced : 2002 Dana BorglunRead MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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Wonderful broad petals of rich deep purple-blue with deeply ruffled edges. Standards also goffered in style and slightly paler in colour. Falls held quite flat. Mid season and will rebloom. 80cm AGM : 2008, Morgan-Wood Medal : 2004, Award of Merit : 2002, Honourable Mention : 2000, Introduced : 1997 Bob HollingworthRead MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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Intense dappled blue, paler and silvery along the edges of the ruffled falls. Lovely lemon yellow signal suffuses into the blue picked out in the veins. The standards are dappled paler denim blue. Along blooming variety. Floriferous, mid season and reblooming. Clive Russell regards it as slow and not a patch on 'Mr Peacock' for colour,. However an American Iris blog chooses it as a favourite. 70cm Award of Merit : 2016, Honourable Mention : 2012, Introduced : 2009 Marty Schafer/Jan SachsRead MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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Wonderful, extravagant fully double blooms. A fully double hose-in-hose with 6 or more falls and 6 standards. Layers of ruffled petals in rose-violet. Pinky lavender falls with a suggestion of a paler edge. White signals with intricate purple veining becoming yellow in the throat. Mid season.76cm Introduced : 2005 Bob Bauer, John CoblesRead MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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A quite distinctive colouring and contrast making a fantastic bloom that is quite large. The standards are like parchment, the style arms quite pearly, mostly white but shaded to the base in lavender. The falls have the most intricate patterning, overall yellow but with the veins picked out in purple , each very striking, bold and single near the throat, paling and branching towards the sepal edge so that the fall has a strong yellow margin, surrounding a soft lilac-brown haze and bold yellow throat. Fall colour start more ink stained and fades out with age. Early Mid season. 71cm Morgan-Wood Medal : 2010, Award of Merit : 2008, Honourable Mention : 2006, Introduced : 2002 Marty Schafer/Jan SachsRead MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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A mid height variety that produces a fine show of pale lilac-pink blooms over a long season. Early through to Late Season. 60cm, Honorable Mention: 1976, Introduced : 1975 D.Steve VarnerRead MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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There is something of the frilly knickers about this one. The Standards and falls are mottled with strawberry pink over a pale ground with all parts having a pronounced wave. The style arms are pale with just a hint of blue. Compare this with I.'Mesa Pearl' which is similarly coloured on a different shape of flower. Early Mid Season. 75cm Introduced : 2007 Marty Schafer/Jan SachsRead MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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Rich magenta falls of good shape with a pleasing wave. The standards are a paler lavender as are the style arms, the latter being like 2 fused with a crest so that they add greatly to the centre on the bloom. Mid season. 90cm Morgan-Wood Medal : 1999, Award of Merit : 1997, Honourable Mention : 1995, Introduced : 1992 Marty Schafer/Jan SachsRead MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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A really good performer. Very flat flowers in midnight blue with a prominent white flash. The standards are absent, having been replaced by an extra set of falls. Stronger than the similar I.'Kita-No-Seiza' and broader in its roundness and a really intense colour. Mid season. 70cm Introduced : 2012 Hiroshi Shimizu, JapanRead MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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Bred by Jennifer Hewitt and named in honour of her son-in-law. A cracking variety with rich glowing magenta falls, deepening to purple as you move towards the richly marked throat. The waved edge is accentuated by the fact it is paler. The standards are a paler lilac-pink. The whole flower has a lovely form with the horizontally held wavy edged falls. Mid late to Very late season. 70cm Dykes medal : 2011, Introduced : 2003 Jennifer Hewitt ( I. sibirica ('Reddy Maid' × 'Harpswell Happiness') × I. sibirica 'Shall We Dance' )Read MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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Mid season. 90cm Introduced : 2000 Bob Bauer/John Cable. This variety is classified as having blooms of a rich rose-wine, but I think the words rosy-violet would be more descriptive. The blooms are very full and a little chaotic in their arrangement, but the splash of rich colour they produce is not to be ignored. The falls are well marked in the throat with white, yellow and red netting.Read MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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A lovely tetraploid form of our native flag Iris whose beauty has been rewarded by several awards. The flowers are a lovely shaded pale lemon yellow with a signal that is picked out boldly in deep red. In the garden it really stands out like it has its own light. It is both vigorous and floriferous. Mid season. 60cm Founders of SIGNA Medal 2008, Award of Merit : 2006, 2003 Honourable Mention, Introduced : 1997 Jill CopelandRead MoreOur Exciting New Range of Siberian Iris
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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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. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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A first rate architectural foliage plant for moist or boggy soils. Leaves are rounded, ruffled and deeply cut and of a beautiful shade of green. Large heads of coarse bright yellow-orange daisies produced in late summer which the bees just adore. 120cm -
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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 Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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Liriope muscari 'Big Blue'. (Liriope platyphylla, Liriope graminifolia densiflora, Ophiopogon muscari). US nickname, Lily Turf or Big 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 bestin 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. Foliage to 40cm, flowers to 45cm. Named after the Greek nymph Liriope, one of the Naiad. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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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. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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Great Blue Lobelia, Blue Cardinal Flower. This is quite a tough, hardy and reliable Lobelia which, although not long lived, will cheerfully seed itself around any bit of wet ground. The flower spikes are relatively dense, up to 3 feet tall and are crowded with flowers of a really intense sky blue. It comes from moist to wet soils in Canada and North America and will grow in sun or shade. Its specific epithet 'siphilitica' comes from its supposed efficacy in curing the disease Syphilis, for which it was prescribed by the North American Indians. However all parts of the plant are in fact rather toxic if eaten and really quite dangerous in large quantities.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over Loosestrifes compared -
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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Omphalodes cappadocica 'Cherry Ingram'. Another treasure for the Spring garden with the brightest blue forget-me-not like flowers held in short sprays, 20cm high, over clumps of smooth, crumpled, lanceolate leaves. For a shady spot in good soil. This beautiful little plant will brighten any shady spot in spring and provide good, if not vigorous, ground cover. The attractively ridged foliage is evergreen. Named for Collingwood Ingram, nicknamed 'Cherry' for his great love of Japanese Cherries. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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Sensitive Fern. I really like this fern. Its quite different in that the fronds are quite simple with broad wavy edged pinnules. It is always a pale yellowy green, often with a red edge. The fronds stand upright from the ground coming from a creeping, running rhizome. It has an absolute requirement fro a moist to wet soil. Very hardy and fully deciduous. The fertile fronds are both persistent and very different from the main fronds. 45cmMore About Ferns
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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. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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This is our splendid native Royal Fern. Whilst the frond are a little simpler than many ferns, being just bi-pinnate, their scale makes this a very fine site. A well grown specimen can easily, if slowly, reach 1.5m in height for which it really needs a position next to water. It has a desire for a wet position, but will tolerate an ordinary site, though with consequent lack of stature. Sometime this fern is called the flowering fern, a name it gets from the fact that the fertile fronds are quite different from normal, being reduced and held erect in the middle of the crown. Said to be intolerant of lime, but this is not always borne out. The fronds can take on lovely autumn tints. DeciduousMore About Ferns
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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.Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over -
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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. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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' Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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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. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or overLinks
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