
Hosta 'Aureomarginata'
Two toned gold and lime green green leaf that darkens as the season progresses. Attractive contrast with other varieties.
White lace cap variety, flatter flowers with lilac centre buds; stable colour and lovely.
White lace cap variety, flatter flowers with lilac centre buds; stable colour and lovely.
Data sheet
Two toned gold and lime green green leaf that darkens as the season progresses. Attractive contrast with other varieties.
Vigorous form with pale flowers and larger leaves than other varieties. Vertical upright growth, suitable for specimen or hedging.
Prolific cascading groundcover phlox with rich pink flowers in early summer; great plant amongst rocks, bedding.
White double flowers. Strongly clumping variety useful as a cut flower or cottage garden background infill perennial; easy and prolific. Stake in windy areas or cram in between miscanthus and eupatorium.
Temperate plant for dry shade with attractive silvery felted leaves, and ground covering habit. Best in well drained soil near trees, also a fine container plant.
Cushion-forming plant from Chile for the rockgarden or trough. Great around stones, spreads horizontally to form a tight mat.
Wonderfully exotic looking temperate plant from the Chatham Islands with large glossy leaves and blue flowers. Easily grown in woodland settings but needs good drainage.
Spreading species from Korea with large white bells speckled pink. Attractive glossy foliage.
I love helianthemums for their abundant flowering, and superb ground covering abilities in poor growing conditions. We found this as a chance seedling and thought it was worth naming and propagating.
The 'wood anemone' is useful as a ground cover in shade. Treat as a bulb, dry off after flowering, summer deciduous, good amongst Hosta and Helleborus. This is the traditional form with single white flowers.
Perennial wallflower, winter flowering, forms a small shrub. Attracts birds and butterflies, fragrant.
Herbaceous variety with deep purple foliage through summer into autumn.
Dark-blue flowered shrubby species with attractive dimpled leaves like Viburnum rhytidophyllum. Pinch out new tips in the first year to encourage bushy growth.
Woolly thyme, useful as a lawn thyme or amongst stones in a rockery or gravel garden. Tight compact habit and pink flowers. Dry tolerant.
Superb purple foliage plant for warmer areas. Combine with heleniums, echinaceas and rudbeckias.
Attractive mauve colour distinct from the usual pinks and blues, cultivation as per other nemorosa varieties, will repeat flower on good soil if trimmed hard after first flowering.
White lace cap variety, flatter flowers with lilac centre buds; stable colour and lovely.