Wildflowers

  • Potsize - 9cm

    An anemone centred celandine . Bright golden yellow with widely spaced rounded petals around a tight central boss of curved petaloid stamens. The leaves are a joy for they are variously marbled and splashed with green, black and pewter. Sterile. Probably selected at Myddleton House, the garden of EA Bowles. Propagated by P Corbis in Yelverton in the 1960's as Beamish Double
  • Potsize - 9cm

    At least 4 rows of incurved petals that are pale cream with a violet flush on the reverse. The centre of the flower glows yellow from the stamens. Leaves are a dark green with paler flecks. Discovered at Wisley by RHS gardener Graham Joseph Luerden.
  • Potsize - 9cm

    This curious little variety produces fully double blooms of shiny green flowers, streaked with yellow. Definitely a curiosity for the collector who likes to 'have the set' !
  • Potsize - 9cm

    The fully double flowers are orange, with the centre of young flowers flushed both darker and with green. The reverse of each flower in flushed red. Deep rich plum purple leaves. Raised by Joe Sharman. Almost all the flowers are sterile.
  • Potsize - 9cm

    Lesser Celandine. Gold-edged, bronze buds open to a typical celandine colour, the difference being that Ficaria verna 'Montacute' (Ranunculus ficaria) has 4 ruffs of petals, prettily incurved to reveal the contrasting bronzy reverse. The petals are neatly square-ended, almost as if they have been trimmed. Unlike 'Flore Pleno' the centres of the flowers are open revealing a green eye surrounded by a boss of orange anthers. The leaves are arrow shaped, green flecked with silver. A favourite of mine and one of the earliest to flower. Said to have been rescued from a verge in Montacute, Somerset in 1994 just prior to being destroyed in roadworks.
  • Potsize - 9cm

    Lesser Celandine. Glossy Buttermilk petals, shaded purplish on the reverse set off by a central boss of double-cream stamens. A nice contrast to the other cultivars or where the bold yellows are a bit too strident. Plain green leaves. This selection comes from Allan Robinson, former Rock Garden Superintendent at Wisley, who named it after his cat.
  • 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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  • 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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    Scabious Compared

    Botanical Style Photographs (Scabiosa)

    Botanical Style Photographs (Succisa / Succisella)

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    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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    Scabious Compared

    Botanical Style Photographs (Scabiosa)

    Botanical Style Photographs (Succisa / Succisella)

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