RODGERSIA

Superb architectural foliage plants.

Chocolate Wings Excellent new variety. Leaves emerge chocolate brown, maturing bronze green in summer. Attractive pink flowers ...£5.50

pinnata superba 1m x 1m. Division of a fine plant we grow. Textured, handsome leaves of beautiful purple/bronze; flowers bright pink..£5

pinnata white form White flowered form….£5

podophylla 1.5m. Broad, bronze-tinted leaves with the appearance of huge horse chestnut leaves. Creamy white plumes of flower, and excellent autumn colour. A great focal point, one of those plants that pull a border together….£5

RUDBECKIA

Indispensable late-flowering daisies that catch the sunlight and lift a planting of grasses into something extraordinary.

fulgida speciosa 60cm Orange-yellow daisies with a black eye, on neat mounds…….£3.50

Goldsturm 75cm An outstanding performer. Rich yellow daisies with a dark eye. Wonderful with grasses & kniphofia .£3.50

SAXIFRAGA

fortunei Japanese Saxifrages. Exquisite plants. Fine leaves and attractive autumn flowering. Recent breeding programmes have produced some first class plants. Good in the garden too, hardy and showy

f. Blackberry and Apple pie Attractive red marked , bristly leaves and biscuit coloured autumn flowers …£4

f. Crystal Pink Beautiful leaves; cream, green and pink marked, white autumn flowers..£4

f. Mount Nachi Dark copper leaves with intriguing red bristles. White flowers …£4

f. Wada. Coppery green leaves with a most beautiful red underside. White foam of flowers...£4

ENCRUSTED SAXIFRAGES

These neat alpine saxifrages have year round appeal, the leaves encrusted with silver. Superb.

Francis Cade Neat silver rosettes and white flower sprays. A lovely specimen in a pot …£2.50

Longifolia Monarch Wonderful rosette and very floriferous; airy sprays of white blooms. £3

Kolentiana atropurpurea Noted for its unusual red sprays of flowers. Excellent specimen….£3

Southside Seedling 25cm Wonderful sprays of red spotted white flowers on silver leaves. £2.50

Tumbling Waters The ultimate encrusted Saxifrage. Large silver rosettes which are a fabulous feature themselves…but the crowning glory is the cascade of white flowers. A glorious horticultural moment..£4

Saxifraga Elliot’s variety Remember London pride? This is a neat rather sweet version. Fills corners beautifully…£2.50

SCHIZOSTYLIS coccinea

Kaffir Lilies Autumn flowering bulbs that do well in a rich, sunny spot. Increasingly popular.

coccinea The small red species, dainty...£4

c. alba 30cm Good clean white. Compact.£4

Jennifer Perhaps the nicest; satin pink flowers that give a glow to an autumn bed….£4

c.Major Large, satiny red flowers. Great....£4

Professor Barnard Dusky red, vigorous..£4

Red Dragon Large vivid red flowers on taller stems. A cracker ....£4

Snow Maiden A newer great performing white....£4

Sunrise Vital satiny rose-pink. Lovely ....£4

Tambara Blossom pink; lovely and late...£4

Zeal Salmon Salmon pink.........£4

SEMPERVIVUM The Houseleeks

I greatly admire the architecture of these obliging succulent plants. We grow most of them in terra-cotta pots and then group them together to make a display. I only grow and propagate exciting or interesting varieties; so read on.

SEMPERVIVUMS ..... £2 each

Aldo Moro Brown/red with wide pointed leaves

Alluring Flat rosettes of short succulent leaves, shades ranging through green, brown and red

arachnoideum The leaf tips are all connected by a fine white cobweb of hairs

Black Mini purple/black tipped leaves

Blood Tip A good grey tipped red. Good in winter

Blue Boy Grey/green rosettes, more blue in winter

Bronco beautiful red leaves, colour all year

Brunette Attractive brown of course

Calcareum Extra Blue green, brown tips; large symmetrical rosettes. Distinct

Cantabricum Leitariegos Pale green, flushed red

Cantabricum Riano Large pale green, dark tips

Cantabricum San Glorio Dark grey green, tipped purple.

Carmen Large yellow/green leaves, red-brown tipped. Good cream flowers

Dark Cloud A many leaved symmetrical rosette, dark

Dyke Large rosettes of intense red

Elvis Attractive dark red. Offsets well

Green Apple Open pale apple green rosettes.

Hall’s Hybrid Dark shiny purple/green rosettes.

Irazu Silver edged violet leaves, changing later to a faded grey/pink

Kramers Spinrad Dense cobwebs. Red outer leaves with green rims - Distinctive

Lavender and Old Lace Very beautiful lavender leaves edged with silver hairs. A lovely specimen.

Lynns' Choice Large velvety leaves, a brown/green colour

Mercury Bright red rosettes. Good AYR

Moerkerk's Merit Grey/green densely cobwebbed. Choice

Mrs. Guiseppii Neat mid-green rosettes with bright red tips. Red flowers. Very good.

Octopodes var apetalum Small green hairy rosettes offset on long stolons. Eye-catching..

Ossetiense very succulent leaves; pale green, dark tips. Offsets on long stolons

Othello Purple rosettes, leaves aging red.

Palissander Brilliant red with long, white, marginal hairs.Wide, pointed leaves.

Proud Zelda brown/green leaves with dark tips, offsets on long stolons

Purdy’s 50-6 Sharp; green flushed brown

Roseum fimbriatum Lots of attractive cob-webbed leaves; red with red flowers.

Rosie The rosettes shade from green to pink to red. It soon makes a good sized attractive clump.

Sheila Named for our good friend and great gardener Sheila Burnett. An outstanding Semp. Large rosettes that redden in summer and are a glowing sultry ruby red through winter, responds well to feeding.

Sioux Pink orange rosette. Attractive

Skrocki’s Beauty Grey with pink flushed, hairy . VG

Stolonifera Neat green, dark tipped rosettes that throw out trails of new rosettes. Very attractive.

Virgil Bluish purple leaves with darker tips.

Zenith Small yellow green leaves. Rapid production of a ring of rosettes.

All Sempervivums ….. £2each

To tempt you to try a range...

£18 for 10 Sempervivums (our choice) - our selection Click Below

or £9 for 5 Sempervivums (our choice)- our selection Click Below

SYMPHYTUM Bocking 14 COMFREY

We are one of the few suppliers now. Large vigorous comfrey, selected at Boking by the late Lawrence Hills. Wonderful mulch between potatoes…great for making your own liquid manure.

A big pot of root pieces to grow on…. £5

TIARELLA

Cordifolia Included because it is essential. Marbled leaves that give good steady ground coverage and a lovely foam of white flowers in spring....£3

THALICTRUM

Aquilegifolium 1m Tall airy perennials, voiet powder puff flowers through summer. Worth growing well....£4

dipterocarpum A stately plant; the largest thalictrum. Airy stems of lilac flower. Wonderful in shade above Hostas or ferns..£4.50

Hewitt's Double The fabulous tight pick double. In flower for months on end....£4.50

TROPAEOLUM speciosum Flame of Scotland

Good pots full of growing roots of the wonderful climbing plant that stops most visitors to Scotland in their steps. Wonderful twining through evergreens or over a classic Yew hedge. It can be difficult to get going, which is why we lift it early in the year, in substantive pieces and sell them when they start to grow away. Might be the chance of a lifetime....£6.50

TRILLIUM

The wonderful American Wake Robins. Elegant plants, all parts in 3, leaves, sepals, petals. Does best in deciduous woodland.

Cuneatum 30cm Sessile. Three maroon petals on upright stems. Leaves marbled and marked....£5

Erectum 30cm The red trillium. Bright green leaves, clumps well...£5

Grandiflorum The white wake Robin 30cm. Perhaps the easiest to settle and grow away. Lovely white 3 petalled flowers, plain leaves....£5

Rugelii Southern Nodding Trillium A robust variety. Leaf stems to 30m and white reflexed flowers; long, dark puple anthers....£5

Sulcatum Southern red trillium. Robust stems and leaves; outward facing dark red blooms...£6

VINCA Periwinkles

Perfect plants for woodland floors amongst shrubs or over walls. Wherever you need an attractive, hardy evergreen carpeter.

minor Lovely early periwinkle blue flowers…£4

minor alba White flowers, glossy foliage..£4

minor atropurpurea Unusual dusky purple flowers on the same neat trails of leaves….£4

minor Double Blue . A lovely double flowered blue. tiny rosettes….£4

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