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Scabiosa

  • Cephalaria gigantea Cephalaria gigantea

    Cephalaria gigantea

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Cephalaria gigantea . Giant Yellow Scabious. A magnificent sight in early summer with its large mound of roughly hairy, pale green, deeply pinnatifid foliage and 6ft branching stems generously furnished with 3in pale lemon flowers which sway in the slightest breeze. You can use Cephalaria at the back of any scheme or alternatively further forward as the flowering stems are not dense, allowing you to see through to sights beyond.
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  • Knautia macedonica 'Red Knight' Knautia macedonica 'Red Knight'

    Knautia macedonica ‘Red Knight’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Knautia macedonica 'Red Knight'. Over dense clumps of softly hairy foliage come a mass of arching stems, widely branching, bearing dense pincushion flowers of a deep rich crimson. The colour is intense, but the flower head is quite airy so this lovely plant can ease its way into all sorts of planting schemes without dominating. An easily grown and rewarding plant for full sun. 80cm. A shorter variety than the species.

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  • Knautia macedonica 'Melton Pastels' Knautia macedonica 'Melton Pastels'

    Knautia macedonica Melton Pastels

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Over dense foliage clumps come a mass of arching stems bearing dense pincushion flowers in a rich range of pastel pink shades. An easily grown and rewarding plant for full sun. 2-3ft
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  • Scabiosa 'Vivid Violet' Scabiosa 'Vivid Violet'

    Scabiosa ‘Vivid Violet’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Large, vivid violet (well mauve really) pincushions dance above a compact mound of foliage. Very free flowering from Spring until the first frosts. 25cm. May-September. Relatively mildew resistant.
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  • Scabiosa caucasica 'Fama Deep Blue' Scabiosa caucasica 'Fama Deep Blue'

    Scabiosa caucasica ‘Fama Deep Blue’

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    Bee Friendly

    Bee Friendly

    Potsize - 1L

    Fama Deep Blue' has the usual beautiful Scabiosa caucasica form, just a darker, richer blue colouring than is usual with a paler region towards the base of each petal. Good for a sunny border, especially where the soil tends towards limey.
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  • Scabiosa caucasica - white Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfecta Alba'

    Scabiosa caucasica ‘Perfecta Alba’

    £6.50
    Butterfly Friendly

    Butterfly Friendly

    Potsize - 1L

    Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfecta Alba' is an excellent modern hybrid scabious, bred to be good in the border and as a cut flower. The large blooms are a creamy white with typical central creamy 'pincushion' decorated with a sprinkling of pink stamens. loves a little added lime and loved by the butterflies.
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  • Scabiosa perfecta Blue with 'Clouded Yellow' Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfecta Blue'

    Scabiosa caucasica ‘Perfecta Blue’

    £6.50
    Butterfly Friendly

    Butterfly Friendly

    Potsize - 1L

    Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfecta Blue' is an excellent modern hybrid scabious, bred to be good in the border and as a cut flower. The large blooms are of a good mid blue with typical central creamy 'pincushion' decorated with a sprinkling of pink stamens. loves a little added lime and loved by the butterflies.
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  • Scabiosa columbaria 'Misty Butterflies' Scabiosa columbaria 'Misty Butterflies'

    Scabiosa columbaria ‘Misty Butterflies’

    £6.00

    Potsize - 1L

    This is cultivated form of our native Small Scabious, a plant to be found growing on chalky hills in Britain. When grown in the garden, free of grass competition and well fed it can grow up to 40cm, but generally below 30cm, with lovely pale lavender blue flowers produced throughout late Summer. Loved by butterflies
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  • Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca 'Moon Dance'

    Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Rosettes of finely cut foliage push up tall wiry, richly-branched stems topped with a multitude of small 15-25mm light yellow pin-cushion like flowers with short pale yellow ray florets. The flowers mature into very attractive seed heads that dry very well. For a well drained soil in full sun. Attractive to insects. june-October. 80cm
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  • Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca 'Moon Dance' Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca 'Moon Dance'

    Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca ‘Moon Dance’

    £6.50

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    ('Pixie Yellow'). An outstanding selection by the University of Georgia. A compact dwarf habit and an abundant and free flowering tendency producing a cloud of pale creamy yellow pincushion flowers throughout the season. 40cm. The pistils are clean white.
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  • Succisa pratensis - Devil's Bit Scabiouson Holwell Drove Succisa pratensis - Devil's Bit Scabious

    Succisa pratensis – Devil’s Bit Scabious, Blue Buttons

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Succisa pratensis - Devil's Bit Scabious, Blue Buttons. Good for any damp planting and useful in meadow schemes where a Spring meadow management regime can be applied. The flowers are dusky blue buttons held on stifly branching stems. Particularly effective en masse. Grows on slightly acid to calcareous soils. A wildflower that can holds its own in the border. The curious common name, Devil's Bit Scabious has two roots. Scabious derives from the use of the plant to cure skin ailments such as scabies and even those from the bubonic plague, (Scabere is the Latin for scratch). 'Devil's Bit' derives from folk tales of the Devil biting off the short black roots in his anger at the plants medicinal abilities.
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  • Succisa pratensis 'Buttermilk' Succisa pratensis 'Buttermilk'

    Succisa pratensis ‘Buttermilk’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    An unusual form of our native Devil's Bit Scabious with buttermilk yellow, buttton-like pin-cushion flowers. For a moist soil in sun or partial shade. July to October. 80cm Good for any damp planting and useful in meadow schemes where a Spring meadow management regime can be applied. The flowers are cream buttons held on stiflfy branching stems. Particularly effective en masse. Grows on slightly acid to calcareous soils. A wildflower that can holds its own in the border. The curious common name, Devil's Bit Scabious has two roots. Scabious derives from the use of the plant to cure skin ailments such as scabies and even those from the bubonic plague, (Scabere is the Latin for scratch). 'Devil's Bit' derives from folk tales of the Devil biting off the short black roots in his anger at the plants medicinal abilities.
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  • Succisella inflexa 'Frosted Pearls' Succisella inflexa 'Frosted Pearls'

    Succisella inflexa ‘Frosted Pearls’

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    Good for Bees

    Good for Bees

    Potsize - 1L

    Succisella 'Frosted Pearl'. This is Balkan species, a relative of our own native Devil's Bit Scabious, and like it an inhabitant of wet meadows. It flowers earlier than Succisia, usually by early August and tends to be denser and less airy than its British counterpart. 60cm. The flowers are pearly white with just a hint of pinkish lavender and are a great nectar source for all sorts of insects.
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