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    This is a species that is critically endangered in its native Armenia, being under pressure from expanding arable lands. It is naturally similar in many ways to its more often encountered subspecies peringii. One of the main differences is that the leaves are barely toothed rather than the deeply cut form of the subspecies. The leaves are long and narrow and have a slightly hairy texture. In flower they are again similar but with more of an emphasis on pink rather than pinky purple. For a warm sunny site if you want it to flower well.

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    Acanthus dioscoridis var. perringii. A short really spiky acanthus for growing in a spot that is warm and dry. Full sun will bring the best flowering when the highly unusual short spikes of hooded flowers can best be appreciated. Differs from Acanthus dioscoridis in the divided nature of the leaves. Flowers pale to deeper pink covered by pink veined hoods. 40cm. A good alternative to the larger species where space is limited.

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    Acanthus mollis . This is the classic Bear's Breeches that is so used in Classical decoration. Handsome deeply lobed leaves and stiff spikes densely packed with four rows of purple shrouded white flowers. This species is more open than its variety 'Latifolius' and paler in colour. Well drained soil in full sun; Height between 90 & 150cm
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    A new form of Acanthus mollis with beautiful, bold broad shining golden foliage, particularly in Spring and Autumn, but also goldy in Summer if grown in the shade. Typical white slipper shaped flowers with strong purple hoods grow on 90cm tall stems, persisting for a long time from June to September. Perhaps not quite as hardy as the type but still good to -10 degrees especially if protected with a mulch, a course that is essential for the first Winter.

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    (Acanthus caroli-alexandri) . Handsome plants with large shining ornamental foliage. This species has deeply divided glossy dark green leaves. Spires of hooded foxglove-like flowers in a two-toned purple and white. Height 4-5 feet. The foliage of Acanthus spinosus represents a midpoint between the less divided of Acanthus mollis and the extreme of spikiness, Acanthus spinosus Spinossissimus Group.

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    Acanthus spinosus 'Lady Moore'. Handsome plants with large shining ornamental foliage. This species has deeply divided glossy dark green leaves, which in 'Lady Moore' are splashed and spotted cream in Spring when the plant is growing vigorously. Spires of hooded foxglove-like flowers. Height 4-5 feet. the cream variegation does not show up in potted plants.

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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 ! 75cm

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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. 75cm
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    Achillea millefolium 'Paprika'. Short and stocky Achillea with deep cherry red, yellow-eyed flowers packed in broad flat heads. Easy to grow adaptable perennial which forms Dense ground cover. 60cm. Full sun. Any soil

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    Achillea 'Rougham Salmon'. A lovely subtle variety that provides a great compliment to a wide range of other colours. The flat heads of flowers are a gentle salmon pink, displayed over a long period above dense ferny foliage. June to September. A good cut flower. For a sunny, adequately drained position. Height in flower 90cm

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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. 75cm
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    Aconitum carmichaelii 'Arendsii' is a rare flowering treat in September. This magnificent monkshood with its dense heads of deep blue flowers on stout 5ft stems makes a real statement at a time of the year when much else is fading in the garden. The foliage is glossy dark green and attractively cut and lobed, an asset in itself. (Sun or shade) CAUTION - ALL PARTS OF THIS PLANT ARE POISONOUS
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    Extremely handsome plant of great distinction with its deeply divided rich purple black leaves and tall waving wand of pink budded white flowers produced as late as Oct. Dark colour becomes more apparent on older plants. Best with moist soil. No need to stake. Immune to slugs

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    Actaea simplex 'Hillside Black Beauty' - Atropurpureum Group (Cimicifuga simplex var. simplex 'Hillside Black Beauty'). Autumn Snakeroot. Possibly the best selected black leaved form of an already extremely handsome plant. The deeply divided rich purple black leaves and tall waving wand of pink budded white flowers produced as late as Oct are very distinguished. Leaves fade to a dark brownish green by Autumn. Best with moist soil. No need to stake. Immune to slugs. Western China to Korea. 1.2m

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    Actaea simplex 'Pink Spike' ( Cimicifuga simplex var. simplex 'Pink Spike' ). Autumn Snakeroot. This variety comes with the exquisite black leaves of the Atropurpureum Group with cylindrical flower heads that have a pink tinge owing to the pink colour of the stamens.  The deeply divided rich purple black leaves and tall waving wands of pink budded white flowers produced as late as Oct are very distinguished. Best with moist soil. No need to stake. Immune to slugs. Western China to Korea. 1.2m

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    Adiantum aleuticum 'Imbricatum'. Hardy Maidenhair Fern. A delicate little gem with fine fronds branched like the fingers of a splayed hand making a rich lacy tapestry on wiry black stems. 30-40cm. Best in a moist soil in partial shade. Fully deciduous. Plant where there is adequate air flow to prevent humid condition. Delicate in appearance, but bone hardy, coming from the far north west of American across to Japan. Like subsp. aleuticum, but shorter and more upright.

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    Agapanthus 'Blue Umbrella'. Tall (140cm) strong stems with large spherical heads crammed with rich cobalt-blue flowers. They are a beautiful sight to behold in full flower in Summer and have become particular favourites for larger pots in the English Country Garden. They have handsome dark green, broad strap-like evergreen leaves which can form impenetrable ground cover in milder Counties. Their evergreen nature makes them less robust in cold Winters and in pots they are best brought under cover (no heat is required, just hard frost protection). Flowers June-August. A. praecox subsp. Orientalis, A. africanus, A. umbellatus
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    Agapanthus 'Enigma'. The first bicolour agapanthus to be bred in the UK by Ken Rigney. This lovely Agapanthus is neither blue nor white but a beautiful combination of both. Lots of trumpet shaped flowers are borne by reddish bronze pedicels and from white buds become more and more stained at the bases with purple-blue. When fully open the insides and main section of the petals are pure white but the tube and a stripe on the reverse of the petals is violet. The white stamens are tipped with dark anthers. Altogether something really different and a real eye-catcher. 75cm. July-August. Evergreen

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    Agapanthus 'Glacier Stream'. Produces a profusion of soft white flowers from green buds. Each flower is tinted slightly purple outside and has a subtle purple stripe. The anthers are grey and the flower stems are flushed purple, making a soft dusky white effect which sits more comfortably in some schemes than a bright white. One of the earliest to flower, blooming from July - August on relaxed, gently arching stems. deciduous and very hardy. 45cm

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    This is an old variety with a very good heritage. It was selected by Lewis Palmer, the breeder of the Headbourne range of Agapanthus. It is a strong growing variety with a distinctive pale pinkish grey-purple flower colour. The stems are brown and the pedicels ruddy. Despite having a broad leaf, usually indicating a degree of tenderness, this variety has proved to be relatively hardy, especially with leaf cover.

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    A very refined looking variety with more than a nod towards A.'Windsor Grey'. It is fairly short in flower at around 45cm with well shaped flower heads, each carrying flowers of a pale powder blue wash, striped in a diffuse cobalt. The green of the buds and red stain to the flower stalks creates a very classy looking flower.

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    A variety with particularly large dense heads of purest white flowers. Exceptionally large heads with up to 80 blooms per head. 100cm tall, Evergreen

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    Agapanthus 'White Umbrella'. Tall (140cm) strong stems with large spherical heads crammed with glistening white flowers. They are a beautiful sight to behold in full flower in Summer and have become particular favourites for larger pots in the English Country Garden. They have handsome dark green, broad strap-like evergreen leaves which can form impenetrable ground cover in milder Counties. Their evergreen nature makes them less robust in cold Winters and in pots they are best brought under cover (no heat is required, just hard frost protection). Flowers June-August. A. praecox subsp. Orientalis, A. africanus, A. umbellatus
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    Agapanthus 'Windsor Grey'. A subtle and very beautiful cultivar which is very easy to grow. Flower heads are large and dense with distinctly trumpet shaped flowers that point down at an angle. The colour is softest lilac, fading to pink as the flower ages. 85cm, Late Summer. Deciduous and very tough

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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.

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    Fat plumptious spikes crowded with lavender-blue tubular flowers surrounded by a pretty haze of exerted anthers all erupting from dark purple buds and calyces. These are a favourite of bees and butterflies and produce plenty of flowers all Summer into Autumn. Requiring good drainage and sunny positions, Agastache are hardy in milder Winters. This variety is vigorous and upright achieving 3 feet with fresh green minty leaves and stems.
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    Ageratina altissima 'Chocolate' ( Eupatorium 'Chocolate' ). A useful plant in many respects, growing in a wide range of soils, providing there is moisture. Richly coloured leaves are an attraction throughout the season, whilst the fluffy white flowers, produced late in the summer are a magnet for bees and butterflies. 100cm. Looks particularly fine with the pastel blues of Nepeta and Eryngium
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    Not a big blousy primadonna, but nevertheless a useful plant full of its own charms. Useful as it is late flowering with compact heads of small white snowballs which are just full of nectar. The leaves are fresh apple green with stems that will colour up mahogany if the plant is in sun. Tones in well with other plants and a good clean colour for a white scheme. Equally at home in the border of wild garden. 100-150cm
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    Bugle. A good dark leaved variety with scalloped edged foliage. Lovely ground cover for a shady spot where the leaves will carpet. Flowers in short spikes above the foliage in Spring. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over

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    Ajuga 'Catlin's Giant' is just like all the other bugles except it has been at the steroids. Everything about it is twice as big as all the rest with big rounded leaves that are coloured with a good bronze overlay to the green base colour. Despite its large size it doesn't usually make such good ground cover as its smaller brethren. It tends more towards wandering about, popping up here and there and fading where it once was. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over

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    Bugle. Lovely ground cover for a shady spot where the green leaves will make a dense carpet above which will stand dense, short spikes of pink flowers in the spring. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over

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    If you want something a bit brighter than the native bugle then this is the plant for you. Not only are the flowers a good clean white but the foliage is a nice fresh green as well. Has the same ground-covering ability as all of its kin. Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over

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    A very neat, refined version of Ladies' Mantle with small neat foliage shaped like a rounded seven point star. The leaf edges are picked out in silvery hairs. The sprays of pale green flowers have distinctive calyces, lending the flowers a spherical texture. Smaller and less rambunctious than its cousin Alchemilla mollis but with similar charming flowers that make such a lovely foil to other flowers, both in the garden or in a vase. Easier to grow than the similar Alchemilla alpina, under whose name this is often sold, which really demands alpine conditions with perfect drainage.

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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.

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    Alchemilla mollis. Scalloped hairy leaves form a dense clump and are a delight when bejewelled with dew or raindrops. The flower heads are like a dense limey green gypsophila. A fantastic tough and rewarding plant that will grow happily in all but soggy sites, thriving in dry shade. It assorts remarkably well with so many other plants as well. The colour of the flowers of Alchemilla is derived from two rows of sepals, the flowers lack petals. Medieval alchemists believed the water droplets that collected in the centre of alchemilla leaves possessed magical and medicinal properties. The plant has a long tradition of being used to cure  women's ailments and the plant was consequently named in dedication to the Virgin Mary. The leaves were seen as resembling a mantle (cloak). Alchemilla derives from the Arabic word 'alkimiya' = alchemy
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    This is a compact form growing just 35-40cm high with the deepest lavender-blue flowers of any Amsonia. It arose in a seedling batch of Amsonia tabernaemontana on a nursery in Connecticut and is thought to possibly be a hybrid with Amsonnia hubrechtii. It pays its way all year with neat shiny green leaves on a compact easy care plant, topped with flowers in June to July which emerge from long dark buds. It takes on lovely yellow Autumn colours in Autumn. Perfect as an edging plant. It does start off slowly but builds up stature year on year, rarely needing dividing. Good for butterflies and Deer resistant.
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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
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    A very distinctive grass, notable for the range of colour in the foliage which is striped in shades of orange and brown, more so as the season goes on and best when the plant is a little stressed. The flower heads are really airy , starting like a long delicate arching fly-swish and gradually branching into a very light cloud.
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    Anemone hupehensis var. japonica 'Rotkappchen' ('Little Red Riding Hood'). A really short variety which punches well above its weight. The cupped flowers are a rich dusky pinky-red with numerous narrow petals, intensifying the yellow of the anthers at the centre.  A variety of the Japanese form of Anemone hupehensis and part of a short series that also includes Cinderella and Pocahontas.
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    Anemone x hybrida 'Andrea Atkinson'. Pure white saucers with a central green button, ringed with egg yolk anthers. A beautiful site as the abundance of flowers dance in an Autumn breeze - an accent of purity amongst the fading colours of Autumn. One of the most vigorous of the Anemones, an improvement of Anemone 'Honorine Jobert'. 90cm, Late Summer.
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    Anemone x hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'. Pure white saucer flowers with golden centres on strong tall stems make this a gem for early Autumn. Grows in a wide range of soils; flowering best in sun providing it isn't too dry at the root. 150cm. Apt to spread. This must be a first rate variety, it was bred over 150 years ago in 1858 and it is still one of the most popular.
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    A real beauty with semi-double very large flowers of lovely shape and form. It is almost white suffused with soft rose-pink, becoming stronger flushed and edged on the reverse. Each flower has 12 individual petals which are arranged with great fineness, particularly beautiful when viewed from behind as the rich colouring is most apparent and you can best appreciate the way the petals curve and arch a bit like a waterlily. Tall and robust. Loreley was a Siren who sat on a granite outcrop near the town of St. Goarshausen in the Rhine Valley. From there she would lure passing sailors with her song. So bewitched they would ground their ship and perish 'neath the waters.
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    Angelica sylvestris 'Purpurea' . Starting remarkably early in  the year this plant pushes up fascinating glossy purple foliage, soon becoming an imposing architectural feature topped with a dense spherical head of pink flowers. In appearance not dissimilar to a more sturdy cow parsley, but with less air and more presence. Will seed about mildly. Likes a good moist spot.
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    Anthemis 'Susanna Mitchell' is a lovely English hybrid perennial marguerite, between A. cupaniana and A. tinctoria, with creamy coloured single daisies with primrose yellow centres over a mass of silvery ferny foliage. Its cupaniana parentage gives it the lovely weed smothering mound of silvery filigree foliage and its ability to flower from as early as April, whilst A.tinctoria gives it the subtle creamy yellow hue and a bit more height (up to 50cm). A perfect plant for early insects with its rich nectar source, it enjoys a sunny spot in well drained, even a bit dry soils. It was found as a chance hybrid in the mid 1980's in the garden of Susana Mitchell and introduced in the 1990's by Blooms. Susanna planted Anthemis tinctoria, a plant that had been handed down in the family from her great Grandmother, next to Anthemis cupaniana. A chance seedling grew up and was admired, prompting her to deliberately make the cross subsequent times. Her daughter Susie Mitchell still grows the same Anthemis tinctoria and uses her Mother's lovely cross as her signature in all the gardens she creates and tends as Cotswold Garden Creations. Please note, if you are looking for the pure white Anthemis, it is A.cupaniana you want. Susanna Mitchell is cream, fading from lemon.
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    Anthemis tinctoria 'EC Buxton'. Late summer sees this perennial smothered in pale yellow daisies with darker centres. A classic reliable summer daisy selected by EC Buxton from his garden in North Wales. Attractive evergreen ferny foliage Plant in sun. Cut back after flowering
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    Anthemis tinctoria 'Sauce Hollandaise'. Late summer sees this perennial smothered in pale cream daisies with rich yellow centres Attractive evergreen ferny foliage. Paler than EC Buxton with greyer foliage and a slightly more open habit. Plant in sun. Cut back after flowering
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    Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing'. Near black foliage in a dense ferny mound rising to dainty umbels of tiny white flowers. A striking form of Queen Anne's Lace with great poise and grace. 100cm. Any soil. Great to add a little fluff to the middle of a perennial planting or as a specimen plant with plenty of space so you can appreciate the beautiful form.
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