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Our A-Z list of perennial flowering plants : find what suits your individual garden style and climate. Whether your garden is hot and dry, frosty, cold, too shady, or whatever your soil type, you will find plants here to suit your environment. Amongst our offerings you will find both easily grown plants which can be planted in masses for landscaping effect, and rare exotic treasures which require careful cultivation. Use our search function to find specific plant names, or choose the filter function in our menu to search for plants by size, drought tolerance, light requirement.

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  • Height range: large (81 - 120cm)
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Allium sphaerocephalum

A useful border allium, flowering in mid summer, producing tall stems topped with spherical heads, about the size of crab apples. These begin green, then as the season progresses, burgundy colouration gradually extends down until the balls are entirely coloured. Best planted closely as a clump for good effect.

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Artemisia schmidtiana 'Nana'

Tiny grey foliage ground cover for the rock garden which will tolerate dry conditions. Easy and long lasting, good with saxifrage and auricula.

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Astelia nervosa 'Westland'

The usual form is silver but this variety has purple tinted leaves. Great in a large pot or tub, alternatively in the rock garden or border. Prefers well drained soil.

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Aubretia 'Rose Cascade'

Prolific carpeting ground cover flowering in spring, along with phlox, auriculas, and pulsatilla. They look best tumbling over a wall or in a rock garden where they get good sun and drainage. 

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Campanula glomerata 'Nana'

I found this little treasure at Woodbank nursery several years ago. It is a very compact, low plant with impressive large clusters of purple trumpets. Non-invasive and perfect for the rock garden or trough.

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Cistus 'Bennetts White'

A wonderful variety with large white flowers like Romneya coulteri, unfortunately difficult to propagate so only a few.

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Covolvulus sabiatus

A useful tough cascading groundcover for dry banks and difficult areas once its established. Stays low and has a long flowering period  

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Dianthus 'Irene Shipp'

An old fashioned cottage garden variety, long in circulation but now at the risk of disappearing along with so many other varieties. Cushion forming clumper, for border or rock garden, attractive two toned semi double flowers in crimson and pink.

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Digitalis parviflora

An attractive species with glossy leaves and an showy leaf rosette. Amber flowers clustered tightly on tall stems.

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Iris sibirica 'Pink Haze'

Pink Siberian iris which combines well with white colour schemes. Useful for in-fill between roses or in the mixed border.

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Iris sibirica 'Summer Skies'

An unusual bi-coloured iris with beautiful light blue flowers quite unlike anything I have ever seen. Imported from Cotswold Garden Flowers in 1999.

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Kniphofia 'Shining Sceptre'

The deep orange pokers appear in mid summer with gaillardias, heleniums and rudbeckias. A shorter manageable variety that forms an evergreen mound of foliage. Easy to grow on most soil types.

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Phlox 'Emerald Cushion'

A brilliant cushion forming plant, abundantly flowering in spring and early summer. We like to use these for path edgings and foreground plantings with dianthus and armeria. Best in friable soil.

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Phlox 'Fort Hill'

Prolific cascading groundcover phlox with rich pink flowers in early summer; great plant amongst rocks, bedding.

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Phlox 'Purple Beauty'

A terrific subulata ground covering variety, hundereds purple flowers in spring an a good groundcovering habit, likes some drainage but not overly fussy and can tolerate drying out in summer..

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Phlox subulata 'Amazing Grace'

Low mounding perennial for foreground colour, useful ground cover when mass planted at 25cm spacings under roses and along pathways. White form with pink eye, long flowering. Combine with dianthus helianthemum and miniature bulbs.

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Primula auricula 'Dark Eyes'

Semi double almost black from our own breeding, vigorous and strong grower compared to others. Gravelly soil and full sun with some lime.

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