FILIPENDULA (Meadow sweet) |
kahome
30cm |
Ferny purple flushed foliage and airy pink heads. For a moister area. |
£5 |
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ulmaria Rosea
50cm |
A smashing pink flowered form. |
£4.50 |
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FOENICULUM ( Fennel) |
vulgare
Bronze
( Bronze Fennel)
2m |
A great plant for the general garden as well as any herb border. Large, smoky clouds of bronze filigree foliage followed by majestic umbelliferous seedheads. Sculptural in winter with the huge dry seed heads. Birds love it too.
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£3.50 |
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FRAGERIA |
Pink flowered form 20cm |
A real eye-catching pink flowered strawberry plant. Always noticed. |
£4 |
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FRANCOA ( Bridal Wreath ) |
sonchifolia
80cm |
Pale pink flowers, darkening over a long season |
£4.50 |
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GALANTHUS (SNOWDROPS) |
Snowdrops give wonderful garden value. They last for 2 to 3 months often well into April with us.
They are the loveliest of flowers, hope, strength and beauty all in one. The following are a selection a varieties doing well in our woodland garden. |
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atkinsii |
Slender glaucous leaves; long outer petals and inner petals nicely marked with green horseshoe mark. Good garden plants and beautifully scented |
£4 |
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caucasicus |
A tall handsome plant with well rounded large flowers and grey leaves. A strong growing clone, characteristic green horseshoe on inner petals. |
£4 |
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Galatea |
Large shapely single; inner petals marked by a green inverted V |
£4 |
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Magnet |
Large flowered single. Unique for its slender long pedicles; strong, distinctive and beautiful. |
£4 |
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nivalis |
The common and beautiful snowdrop. These are divisions from our garden, where they are steadily clothing slopes and ditches becoming more of a spectacle each year.
Pots of 10-12 bulbs |
£3.50 |
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Ophelia |
Large double flowers with perfect green edged hooped petticoats |
£5 |
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Plicatus |
Blueish grey inward folded leaves, Strong gowing habit, multiplys well. 6 petals the inner ones notched and marked. |
£5 |
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plicatus Warham |
Later flowering; broad grey/green leaves and strong rounded flowers |
£5 |
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Pusey's Green Tip |
Fully double, outer petals green tipped. grows and settles well. |
£5 |
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Sam Arnott |
Lovely strong snowdrops; perfect symmetry; wonderful fragrance. |
£5 |
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viridapice
20cm |
Another good garden variety, distinguished by a green mark on the tip of the outer petals. |
£5 |
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woronowii |
Late flowering species; upright green leaves and good shapely flowers. |
£4 |
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GENTIANA (The Gentians) |
asclepiadea 20cm
(Willow Gentian) |
Superb, elegant plants from late summer into autumn. Willowy arching stems studded with glorious blue gentian flowers along their length. Once seem ever coveted. |
£5 |
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lutea 1m
(Giant Yellow Gentian) |
Handsome plants; whorls of yellow florets on a strong stem. |
£4.50 |
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verna
(Spring Gentian) |
A wonderful brilliant blue gentain of chalk meadows. To see it as ' the show in town' go to the Burren area in Ireland. Having said that it is fairly straight forward to grow. |
£4 |
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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. All of these are tried and tested in our garden. |
x cantabrigiense Cambridge 40cm |
Shining leaves and lovely soft lilac flowers; excellent ground cover |
£4.50 |
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macrorrhizum
Ingwersen’s Variety 30cm |
The nicest fresh, green, apple-scented leaves and soft pink flowers. Lovely with London Pride |
£4.50 |
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x oxonianum
Claridge Druce |
Vigorous and great ground cover; mid pink flowers for many months. |
£4.50 |
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x oxonianum
Rebecca Moss
60cm |
Great ground covering geranium.
Olive leaves and white flowers, flushing pink in summer |
£4.50 |
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x oxonianum
Southcombe Star |
Slender magenta petals making a star shaped flower; vigorous. |
£4.50 |
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Orion
60cm |
Terrific upright blue geranium. Large flowers with blue petals veined pink, and a small green eye. Flowers for months on end and really deserves it stellar name. |
£5 |
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phaeum |
Nicely marked leaves and sombre purple flowers. Great for shade. |
£4.50 |
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phaeum
Samobor
40cm |
Striking foliage plant for shade. The leaves are heavily marked with chocolate brown. Purple phaeum flowers |
£4.50 |
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procurrens
20cm
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A unique scrambler, It begins the year small and neat and then as the season goes on the plant shoots away and scrambles over acres of space . The plant does not root as it goes, so is really easy to cut back in spring. Tell me there is no place for a plant like that in all gardens. Flowers great, magenta with a bold black eye. |
£4.50 |
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pyrenaicum
spreading
25cm |
One of the fastest spreading plants I know, but it never seems to be invasive. Neat scalloped leaves erupting into foam of small purple flowers all summer. Great in new borders |
£4 |
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pyrenaicum
albiflorum
25cm |
Pretty white form |
£4 |
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Russell Pritchard
30cm |
Grey green leaves and lovely contrasting chalky pink flowers. |
£4.50 |
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sanguinium |
Neat small clumps and magenta flowers |
£4.50 |
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Sanguineum
New Hampshire Purple |
Bushy mounds of fine foliage and exceptional purple flowers. Foilage colours red in autumn |
£4.50 |
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versicolor
30cm |
This native species scrambles through a border. Masses of tiny white flowers exquisitely veined purple. Wonderful |
£4 |
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GEUM (The Avens)
Bright herbaceous perennials early and cheering. |
Bell Bank
25cm |
A Geoffrey Smith hybrid. Large fat double bright pink flowers fading to stripes |
£4.50 |
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Dingle Apricot |
Compact. Apricot yellow |
£4.50 |
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Mrs W Moore
30cm |
Cream, flushed pink semi double. Lovely. |
£4.50 |
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Nordek
30cm |
Open flower cups of bright brick orange. |
£4.50 |
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Pink Frills
30cm |
Think 'Can-Can' and you have it; pink ruffled petals. |
£4.50 |
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Prince of Orange
80cm |
Branching heads of soft orange with a green eye.
Unique. |
£4.50 |
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rivale
Leonard's Form
30cm |
A variant of our native water avens. Nodding flower heads of copper rose in summer |
£4.50 |
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GLADIOLUS |
byzantinus
40cm |
A June flowering Gladiolus. Hardy with us and very atractive in large containers, increasing well. Elegant stems, magenta blooms. |
£4.50 |
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GUNNERA
An amazing genus of plants, from the biggest herbaceous plants in the garden to small, ground covering plants to some very odd individuals. Here is our current selection. |
hamiltonii |
Scale like bronzed leaves, overlapping and spreading slowly. A weird one. |
£4 |
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magellanica 20cm
(Falkland Island pigvine) |
Scallop shaped, crinkled leaves and spikes of red berries if both sexes present. Useful ground cover in wet places. Our memories are of lots of wet areas near steams. |
£4 |
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HAKENOCHLOA |
macra aureola
25cm |
An elegant bright grass; Light green with a golden stripe; lovely in shade or as a potted specimen.
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£4.50 |
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HACQUETIA |
epipactis |
Surprising and welcome early colour; a plant that draws the eye; lime green flowers with a yellow centre arrive before the leaves. |
£4.50 |
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HEBE |
Mrs Winder |
Good evergreen shrub, very good on sunny slopes. very nice spikes of flowers in August/September. |
£7.50 |
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rakiensis
1m
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One of the most popular hebes, clusters of large, white flowers in early and mid-summer and glossy, fresh, green leaves. This tough, rounded, evergreen shrub forms a neat hummock. |
£7.50 |
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ramosissima
10cm |
Dwarf carpet of red/green foliage with white flowers in summer. |
£4 |
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HELENIUM |
I saw them elsewhere and wondered why I was not using many more Heleniums. So I started again, fed them well and they are terrific. |
Sahins
Early Flowerer
90cm |
Begins after mid summer and flowers well into autumn. The flowers are well petalled daisies with a rich yellow bronze streaked petals . |
£4.50 |
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HELIANTHEMUM (Rock roses)
Helianthemums are second to none for fast growth and early flower; hence great for new plantings. Particularly useful for dry sunny sites.
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Amabile Plenum |
Scarlet red, double |
£3.50 |
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Ben Heckla |
Rich copper with rusty centre |
£3.50 |
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Ben Ledi |
Rich cherry rose, darker centre |
£3.50 |
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Ben More (Mhor) |
Rich bright orange |
£3.50 |
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Ben Nevis |
Rich warm yellow with copper orange centre |
£3.50 |
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Cheviot |
Combination of warm orange and salmon pink |
£3.50 |
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Cornish Cream |
Creamy white |
£3.50 |
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Cupreum |
Yellow ochre with orange ring around centre |
£3.50 |
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Georgeham |
Large crimson pink with pale centre |
£3.50 |
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Henfield Brilliant |
Vibrant brick orange |
£3.50 |
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Wisley Pink |
Vigorous; grey foliage and masses of pink flowers. |
£3.50 |
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HELIANTHUS (Perennial Sunflower) |
Lemon Queen
1m |
Strong, good border plants, late summer. Excellent bright lemon yellow Sunflowers. |
£4.50 |
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HELLEBORUS
Orientals hybrids Some marvellous new Lenten Roses. Single colours and doubles. Absolutely fabulous |
Blue Metallic Lady (Single Slate) |
Fantastic shiny metallic blue flowers |
£6.50 |
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Single Gold Red Star |
Very attactive Primrose yellow with a red marked and spotted centre |
£6.50 |
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White Picotee |
Anemone centred. white flowers, edged and veined with dark pink |
£6.50 |
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Double White |
A lovely pure double white |
£6.50 |
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HEPATICA One of the glories of the spring garden. lovely simple blooms often before the leaves. Leaves neat and with a marble-like surface. |
nobilis alba
10cm |
Glorious white blooms in early spring before attractive, lobed pale green leaves. |
£4.50 |
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HOSTAS
Hostas are wonderful garden features, their bold leaves giving interest and structure, particularly in shade. They are a real feature of our garden at Abriachan.
Discover or rediscover them, and you will find they work well as focal points and give structure top plantings.
Wonderful in shade. We grow several in small & large, stylish pots where they also look splendid. |
Blue Mouse Ears |
Tiny little blue ears; rather sweet |
£7 |
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Brim Cup
30cm |
Excellent medium sized Hosta; olive green leaves with broad white edges, good growth and very good in the border or pots. Lilac bloom. |
£7 |
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Devon Gold
25cm |
Butter yellow heart shaped leaves. A classic. |
£7 |
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Dress Blues
50cm |
A handsome plant. Oval tapered blue leaves with a white edge. |
£7.50 |
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First Frost
40cm |
Another of the wondeful new Hostas. such show offs. This one has good blue leaves and a wide gold edge that fades to cream. Lilac flowers. |
£7.50 |
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fortunei
Twilight
40cm |
Strong, thicker leaves with golden edges. Handsome and hardy |
£7 |
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Gold Standard |
An elegant and excellent hosta. Chartreuse gold with irregular green margins. |
£7 |
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Golden Tiara |
Dainty green leaves with a broad golden rim, Bulks up well. |
£7 |
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Krossa Regal
1m |
Strong upright vase shaped habit; blue/grey wavy edged leaves. A good foundation stone for any planting. Magnificent in a large pot |
£7.50 |
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Patriot
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Excellent hosta for the garden or a pot; shiny olive green leaves, white margins |
£7 |
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Sum and Substance
1.5m |
Large mounds of corrugated yellow-green leaves. The plant can be huge...depends on soil, but very tolerant of different conditions. Slug resistant |
£7.50 |
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Tiny Tears
10cm |
Tiny, tiny satin green leaves; purple flowers. A valued specimen |
£7 |
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HYLOTELPHIUM |
Cauticola
20cm
(Cliff stonecrop) |
Like me you probably knew this as a Sedum, I do wish they would not do this unless essential. That said this is a lovely fleshy leaved clump former, grey leaves and lovely violet pink flowers. |
£3.50 |
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