RANUNCULUS

acontifolius Batchelor's Buttons 30cm Scarce old variety. white, tigh button heads on brancing stems. Very special and rarely offered.....£6.85 SORRY SOLD OUT

RODGERSIA

Superb architectural foliage plants.

pinnata Chocolate Wings 80cm Foliage changes colour through chocolate brown and bronze. Flowers open pink and darken red...£5

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 great autumn colour. A great focal point….£5

RUDBECKIA

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

fulgida deamii 75cm Mounds of good rough textured foliage and yellow daisies…..£3.50

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. Black Ruby Small black leaves in summer, turning very dark red in autumn. Ruby flowers.…£4

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

Encrusted saxifrages

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

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

SCHIZOSTYLIS coccinea

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

coccinea The small red species, dainty...£3.50

alba 30cm Good clean white. Compact.£3.50

Jennifer Perhaps the nicest; satin pink flowers that give a glow to an autumn bed….£3.50

Major Large, satiny red flowers. Great....£3.50

Mrs Hegarty Rose red flowers in Oct/Nov..£3.50

Professor Barnard Dusky red, vigorous..£3.50

Red Dragon Large vivid red flowers on taller stems. A cracker ....£3.50

Snow Maiden A newer great performing white....£3.50

Sunrise Vital satiny rose-pink. Lovely ....£3.50

Tambara Blossom pink; lovely and late...£3.50

Zeal Salmon Salmon pink.........£3.50

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

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

Blood Tip A good grey tipped red. Good in winter

Blue Boy Grey/green rosettes, more blue in winter

Brunette Attractive brown of course

Dark Cloud A many leaved symmetrical rosette, dark

Degenianum Large rosettes, purple/grey, turning blue in summer.

Director Jacobs Flat rosettes; red, silver hairs.

Green Apple Open pale apple green rosettes.

Hall’s Hybrid Dark shiny purple/green rosettes.

Hirtum Neat green with brown tips.

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.

Lilac Time Large rosettes that take on a paler lilac colour in summer.

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.

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

Pittonii Very attactive small hairy green leaves with a small apical spot; yellow flowers.

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

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.

Silver Jubilee Grey/green rosettes, covering of silvery hairs

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

Spring Mist Purple/Red,rapidly produces rosettes

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

Vanbaelan Large attractive variety pink/red shading into green.

Virgil Bluish purple leaves with darker tips.

Whitening Pale green leaves with a heavy cover of white hairs.

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

All Sempervivums ….. £2each

To tempt you to try a range...

£18.00 for 10 Sempervivums (plus carriage) - our selection Click Below

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SYMPHYTUM Bocking 14 COMFREY

We catalogue this, as 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 …herbal medicine and so much more

A big pot of root pieces to grow on…. £4

TIARELLA

Cordifolia Included because it is essential. Marbled leaves that give good steady ground coverage and a lovely foam of white flowers in spring....£3.00

Mint Chocolate Maple-shaped leaves with dark chocolate markings; white, pink tipped flowers....£3.00

THALICTRUM

Aquilegifolium 1m Tall airy perennials, voiet powder puff flowers through summer. Worth growing well....£3.85

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

TRICYRTIS Toad Lilies

Fascinating autumn flowering plants. Arching stems clothed in a ladder of oval leaves, often spotted, The small orchid-like flowers present well. They are proving good garden plants; always noticed

Affinis 60cm White flowers spotted purple....£4.00

Hirta 90cm Tall lovely woodlander, white flowers heavily spotted purple...£4.00

Taipei Silk 50cm Lovely pink flowers spotted purple. Attactive bronze flushed leaves....£4.00

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

It takes a season or two for them to settle and grow away. I like to give thm a liquid feed when in leaf, to encourage then to bulk up. Elegant of form and leaf, beautiful of flower and colour. Worth every effort,

Cuneatum 30cm Sessile. Three maroon petals on upright stems. Leaves marbled and marked....£5.00

Erectum 30cm The red trillium. Bright green leaves, clumps well...£5.00

Flexipes x Erectum Waxy creamy white flowers held upright; prefers some lime....£5.00

Grandiflorum Wake Robin 30cm. Perhaps the easiest to settle and grow away. Lovely white 3 petalled flowers, plain leaves....£5.00

Rugelii Southern Nodding Trillium A robust variety. Leaf stems to 30m and white reflexed flowers; long, dark puple anthers....£5.00

Simile Sweet white trillium Very attactive; huge creamy white flowers and large leaves....£6.00

Sulcatum Southern red trillium. Robust stems and leaves; outward facing darlk red blooms...SORRY SOLD OUT

Vaseyi SThe largest nodding trillium. large rhombi leaves backing large maroon flowers....£5.00

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…£3

minor alba White flowers, glossy foliage..£3

minor atropurpurea Unusual dusky purple flowers on the same neat trails of leaves….£3

minor aureavariegata slender gold edged leaves….£3

minor Double Blue . A lovely double flowered blue. tiny rosettes….£3 SORRY SOLD OUT

minor Illuminations. A glamorous Vinca. Gold centred leaves with a dark olive rim. Looks good in pots all year, unruffled by frost….£2.50

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