FERNS

A selection of pretty and often handsome ferns to add interest to any garden. Give your ferns a little attention…water and feed and in 2 or 3 years you will have specimens to relish and show off. As I look around the early spring garden, the wintergreen ferns are looking splendid and are a wonderful companion for emerging snowdrops.

ASPLENIUM trichomanes Maidenhair Spleenwort The attractive small fern, found on old walls. Small leaflets, black midrib...£3.75

BLECHNUM penna marina…Falkland Island Little Fern. Leathery leaves that grow well in dry stone walls and in short grass. A good foil to bright grasses and alpine plantings…£3.50

Cristata… is a heavily crested variety. .£4

BLECHNUM Spicant British Hard fern. 40cm Tongues of wavy-edged leaves, wintergreen. Found under trees, on earth walls…£4.50

DRYOPTERIS erythrosora 50cm A neat, pretty fern. Bronze young fronds open glossy green.....£4

ONOCLEA sensibilis 50cm Sensitive Fern. Arching fronds, never lots, just enough. Mobile stems segmented leaves and wavy edges.... £4

ONOCLEA regalis 50cm Royal Fern. coppery young fronds and handsome big fronds; great autumn colour. Needs a damp spot.... £5

POLYPODIUM vulgare Native Polypody 25cm A splendid fern for dry positions. Neat ladder rung leaves; black stems. Wintergreen..£4

FILIPENDULA

rubra Venusta 2m Splendid miodsummer perennial. Pink froth of flowers on handsome tall stems ...£3.50

ulmaria aurea Golden leafed, ground cover form. White flower plumes...£4.00

FRITTILARIA

Fantastic, sophisticated bulbs.

Camischatensis 40cm Amazing black flowers ...£4.00

Meleagris Snakes head fritillary. Chequered ...£2.00

Pallidiflora 30cm Pale yellow, grey leaves...£2.50

Pontica 30cm Green flowers, tipped brown Pale yellow, grey leaves...£2.50

Pyrenaica Recurved bells chequered red and lime green ...£4.50

GALANTHUS …Snowdrops

Atkinsii Very distinct a taller type with lovely slender petals. One of the first to flower …..£3

Benhall Beauty Tall elegant snowdrop; green crescent shape, marked exceptional scent…..£10.00 SORRY SOLD OUT

Brenda Troyle Large outer petals and well marked inner petals. Early and fragrant …..£4.50 SORRY SOLD OUT

Caucasicus Handsome grey leaves and well marked flowers. Beautiful…..£5.00

Dionysus Early flowering double. Outer petals with green horseshoe mark …..£6.00 SORRY SOLD OUT

Finale Large leaves and a beautiful large flower. the last to flower and in a cool spring it hangs on and on. Name unsure….. SORRY SOLD OUT

Hippolyta A neat late flowering double. Outer petals curve under the inner green rosette …..£5.00

Lady Beatrix Stanley Very early flowering. Upright glaucous leaves and neat double form, white double petticoats edged green…..£5.00

Magnet Taller snowdrop. Large flowers, crescent shaped mark, arching pedical. Favourite…..£3.00

Plicatus Very vice larger variety; handsome upright leaves. Increases well …..£3.00

Ophelia Large double flowers. Perfect green edged hooped petticoats…..£5.00

Sam Arnott Substantial lovely variety. Rounded petals delightfully fragrant …..£3.50

Warham Large leaves with an attractive central silver stripe. Large flowers; late flowering …..£4

Galanthus nivalis Common snowdrop in pots of 10 …..£3 SORRY SOLD OUT

GENTIANA The Gentians.

Gentians speak of alpine slopes and cool Himalayan valleys.

asclepiadea Willow Gentian 30 cm A splendid perennial which, improves year on year. Willowy stems with large deep blue gentian flowers along their length…..£3.50

asclepiadea Pink swallow Seed raised pink flowering variant...£3.50

lutea 1m Giant Yellow Gentian. Large lily-like leaves; tall stems with whorls of yellow flowers nestling in green bracts.Distinct...£4

Cairngorm Compact autumn gentian. Bright green foliage and mid blue flowers...£3

Inverleith Clear bright blue, vigorous...£3

Sino ornata Brilliant blue, low neat mats...£3

Strathmore Wonderful Autumn Gentian As autumn colours warm up these pools of pale, cool blue are wonderful . Grow with autumn flowering Sedums for a necklace of colour. Lovely filling a trough or in a gravel bed…£3.00

GERANIUMS

The hardy Geranium species are an asset to any garden. Some are glamorous; others are workmanlike, doing the job when nothing else will. Some make elegant specimens; others look good in a crowd. Discover one or two and experiment with 3 or 4.

albanum Makes good strong clumps…trails of startling pink flowers, veined magenta….£3.75

Ann Thomson 60cm A very good new variety. Vivid magenta with a black eye. Long season... £4

Brookside 40cm. Clumps of fine leaves and bowls of blue flowers for months. Splendid ...£4.00

x cantabrigiense Cambridge A neat attractive variety; soft mauve/pink flowers over pretty evergreen leaves. Good in dry situations under shrubs and trees, …£3.75

x cantabrigiense Westray 20cm bright pink blooms over compact evergreen foliage ..£3.75

endressii 30cm A, compact selection with good blossom pink flowers. One of the best ground coverers of all and several months in flower....£3.75

endressii Beholders Eye 30cm An excellent form; pink with a white eye. Good garden plant,...£4.00

Johnson’s Blue 40cm A fine variety and deservedly popular. Blue flowers flushed red-pink. Their special character is the lightness of their form and how they move in the breeze…as a host of butterfly wings….£4

macrorrhizum Bevans Variety All the macrorrhizum plants have attractive scalloped , aromatic leaves and make excellent ground covering plants. Sun or shade. ...£3.75

m. Ingwersen’s Variety 30cm The nicest. . Fresh, green, apple-scented leaves and soft pink flowers. Lovely with London Pride….£3.75

m. Pindus 20cm half the size of the other varieties; red bracted magenta flowers…£3.75

orientalitibeticum 20cm Marbled foliage, no one leaf the same as the next; pink flowers.....£3.75

x oxonianum Julie Brennon 80cm rich pink with good dark veining.....£3.75

x oxonianum Rebecca Moss 50cm Large palest pink flowers. Strong and lovely.....£4.00

pheum The Mourning Widow. Soft zoned leaves with darkest puple flowers. great in shade …£3.75

Phillipe Vapelle Gey leaves, textured and puckered, with dark blue black veined flowers …£4.00

pratense Cluden Summer Skies Lovely sky blue double. Neat plant…£4

pratense violacea plenum 20cm Lovely violet blue double. Exquisite with roses…£4

psilostemon Bressingham Flair 75cm Much softer in colour than the species type and blends rather than dominates. soft magenta; black eye …...£4

pyrenaicum 25cm spreading. One of the fastest spreading plants I know, but it never seems to be invasive. Neat scalloped leaves erupting into a foam of small purple flowers all summer. Great in new borders….£3

pyrenaicum albiflorum 25cm White form…£3

Renardi Tcschelda 40cm Pale blue red vened flowers on handsome grey/green foliage ……£4.00

Russell Pritchard 30cmNeat grey-green leaves and striking magenta pink flowers……£3.75

Sanguineum 20cm Pleasing smaller variety great on edges and walls; bright magenta pink..£3.00

Sanguineum album A satisfying white form...£3.00

Sylvaticum Amy Doncaster 40cm Deep blue, white edged flowers; very nice plant..£4.00

Tanya Rendell 5cm Dark leaved variety; bright pink flowers. Lovely mat, full sun..£3.00

versicolor 30cm This native species scrambles through a border. Masses of tiny white flowers exquisitely veined purple. Wonderful…£3

GEUM Avens Most in litre pots

Over the last 2 years we have aquired some lovely new varieties to complement older classics

Bell’s Bank A Geoffrey Smith hybrid. Large fat double bright pink flowers fading to stripes..£4.00

borisii 25cm x 40cm Early orange/red flowers. Often repeats in autumn. Neat clumps….£3.75

Dingle Apricot Compact. Apricot yellow..... £4.00

Dolly North 30cm strong clumps of rough green leaves with splendid tangerine flowers..£4.00

Mandarin 15cm Large coppery orange..... £4.00

Marmalade New marmalade orange.….£4.00

Mrs Bradshaw Old fashioned double red…...£3.75

Mrs W Moore Cream, flushed pink semi double. Lovely…...£4.00

Nordek Open cups of brick orange…...£4.00

Primrose Pretty primrose yellow …….£4.00

Pink Frills Lovely pink; ruffled petals….£4.00

Prince of Orange 80cm excellent flowers; lovely soft orange with a green eye. Scarce…..£4.50

• Use in a mixed border, they are a great change of texture and a cooling colour.

e.g. Miscanthus; Pennisetum; Millium

• Grasses look great in “designed plantings “among rocks and large gravel.

e.g Stipa; Miscanthus; Cortaderia; Carex

• Some grasses look fantastic as potted specimens e.g. Stipa arundinacea; Hakenochloe ; Carex
• Try some annual grasses with poppies .Fabulous e.g. Hordeum jubatum

CAREX Snowline Strong white edge to the leaves, gives a good silver/ white effect…£3.60

CAREX pendula 2m Elegant wands of brown brush-like heads from tussocks of foliage. Very effective by water with Irises and candelabras....£4

Chionochloa conspicua 2m in flower. An impressive tussocky grass from New Zealand, with airy, elegant plumes….large pots....£4.50

ELYMUS magellanica 20cm Silvery blue icicles of leaves colour best when hot and dry...£3.60

LUZULA nivea 25cmA graceful small woodrush with many pretty ivory white flowers…..£3.60

MILLIUM effusum aureum Bowles Golden Grass. 40cm Soft straps of golden leaves opening into golden oat like flowers. All parts are golden . Amazing with Meconopsis …£3.60

Miscanthus sinensis Morning Light Wonderful upright grass, that catches the low light of autumn beautifully. Silver striped... £5.00

Ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens 25cm Technically in the lilly family, but the black leaves are grasslike with purple berries, turning black. Wonderful for painting garden pictures. Eden Court Theatre in Inverness has a 'river of Ophipogon' amidst large white pebbles. Wonderful.....£4.50

STIPA arundinacea 90cm A very glamorous grass. A fountain of richly streaked leaves; red, yellow, bronze; the colours intensifying in drought and cold. Makes a fantastic large pot….£3.60

Stipa gigantea 2m one of my desert island plants. Imagine lying, looking at blue sky through the wonderful oat-like flower heads....£3.60

Stipa tenuissima 60cm. Sometimes called pony tail grass, with the swirl and texture of a long soft tail. Lovely to stroke. It lasts as a feature all year and can be cut down in spring….£3.60

GUNNERA

hamaltonii Handsome small ground cover. Leathery bronzed leaves…£3

magellanica A favourite memory. The flat ground covering Pig Vine from the Falkland Islands . Crinkled leaves on a matt of stems....£3

manicata The Big One that people often call the giant Rhubarb. Large rough textured leaves and cones of amazing red flowers. Nothing like it. 2 litre pots …£8.50 Sorry Sold OUT

tinctoria Rather smaller, around 2-3m with huge knobbly red flower heads. Classical....£8.50 Sorry Sold OUT

HELIANTHEMUM Rock roses

*We are short on numbers this year due to propagation problems, but will build up stocks and give updates in due course*

Please name some alternatives to your order

The Helianthemums are second to none for rapid foliage in a dry, poor soil; ever-grey and evergreen. Midsummer gives a great display of primary colours or soft pastels. Excellent value.

Amabile Plenum An excellent double red

Ben Fhada Good bright yellow, orange eye.

Ben Lomond Rich, dark pink.

Ben Macdhui Rich single red. Rare

Broughty Beacon Vibrant brick red

Cerise Queen Fine double red.

Cornish Cream Lovely cream flowers.

Double Apricot – a pretty double apricot

Firedragon (Mrs Clay) Brilliant flickering orang/red

Georgeham Large rich pink, yellow centre

Golden Queen Good, large golden yellow

Henfield Brilliant Vibrant orange, Excellent grey foliage.

Highdown – rich apricot

Honeymoon Yellow

Jubilee Excellent double yellow

Kathleen Druce yellow semi double

Laurensons Pink vigerous rose pink, green foliage

St John’s College Yellow Good old yellow variety, grey foliage

ALL HELIANTHEMUMS ......£2 EACH.

Helianthemums are second to none for fast growth and early flower; hence great for new plantings. Particularly useful for dry soils.

To encourage you to try some new varieties

We are offering the following collection.

(collection may have 2or 3 of a type )

MIXED Ten of our choice - Always contains some special gems.

All collections or 10 mixed (our choice) at the exceptional price £16.00 plus postage

HELLEBORUS

argutifolius 80cm Hamdsome evergreen; prickly green grey leaves and apple green cup flowers. Good in full sun,well drained soil...£4

ericsmithii 40cm It is good to offer this excellent hybrid. Large white flowers, flushing pink as they age, which last from mid-winter until May. Dark pewter foliage. fantastic plant...£6.50

Orientals hybrids Some marvellous new Lenten Roses. Single colours and doulbles. Absolutely fabulous

Dark Pink; Blue Lady; Blue Metallic Lady, Red Lady and Mixed Doubles.

ALL £5.00 GREAT PRICE

Dark Pink

Blue Lady

Blue Metallic Lady

Red Lady

Double Queen Mixed

All Helleborus Orientalis hybids £5.00 each or £12 for any 3

(Please specify by e-mail info@lochnessgarden.com the name you are ordering under and which Three Helleborus Orientalis Hybrids you would like- we will do our best to give you what you request, but may have to substitute suitable alternatives)

Sternii Blackthorn Strain 40cm beautiful marbled foliage and cups of apple green pink flushed flowers from late winter through to summer. Compact and classy ….£5

HEPATICA

nobilis Gorgeous little blue plants in early spring. They are passed from generation to generation, that precious....£4.50

HEUCHERA

Recent breeding work has produced some fabulous foliage plants in the Heuchera family. Good in the garden, but fabulous potted.

Creme Brule Undulating caramel coloured foliage. Good in pots and in shade...£4.00 SORRY SOLD OUT

Obsidian Dark purple black shiny foliage. Neat and well presented...£4.00

HEUCHERELLA

Kimone Metallic silver/green with veining and a dark central mark. Pink flowers...£4.00

HOSTAS It is a great shame that many people don’t grow Hostas because they fear slugs will eat them. Our experience is that slugs are a minimal problem, even with our late, wet springs. Hostas settle well and by their 3rd year, are wonderful garden features, their bold leaves giving interest and structure, especially in shade. Do discover or rediscover them. We grow several in stylish terracotta pots to show them off. Masterpiece.

Blue Mouse Ears 25cm Lovely little blue leaves. Curves in and looks just like ears. Cute....£6.50

Brim Cup 30cm Neat Hosta, cupped heart shapped leaves with a white border; white flowers; increases well and a good pot specimum…£5.00

Love Pat The bluest of leaves, heavily puckered medium sized.…£6.50 SORRY SOLD OUT

Patriot Excellent hosta for a pot; shiny olive green leaves. Irregular white margins..£5.00

Red October 30cm Small to medium Hosta with unusual red stems on grey/green leaves. Tall lavender flowers with red scapes…..£6.50

Tokudama True Blue I first saw this as a fine specimen at Inverewe. An excellent blue, corrugated leaves, medium clump. .. £6.50 SORRY SOLD OUT

Wide Brim 40cm Good clump forming plants. Green with irregular cream/yellow rim…£4.50

Wolverine 30cm Very smart narrow leaves, green edged cream. Good lilac flowers..£6.50

As an introduction to Hostas Our selection of 3 Hostas….£15