
Cosmos atrosanguineus
Native to Mexico where it is now extinct in the wild. Otherwise known as chocolate cosmos, the flowers have a scent like chocolate. Best in fertile, well drained soil in a perennial border.
Beautiful Japanese species with tall stems and large speckled pink bells. Best in the border where it can ramble freely between other perennials. Good cut flower.
Beautiful Japanese species with tall stems and large speckled pink bells. Best in the border where it can ramble freely between other perennials. Good cut flower.
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Native to Mexico where it is now extinct in the wild. Otherwise known as chocolate cosmos, the flowers have a scent like chocolate. Best in fertile, well drained soil in a perennial border.
Terrific new variety from our own breeding, lower growing than most other varieties at around knee high, but larger than usual flowers in a good rich plummy colour. Good foliage too, likes moist rich soil.
A terrific compact form of artemesia popular in mediterranean gardens, similar to 'Powis Castle' in silver foliage effect but finer and less shrubby, more suitable amongst perennial plantings.
A nice variation of Campanula latiloba with lilac flowers and upright flower spikes, showy but can be very spreading.
Beautiful grey foliage variety with musk pink flowers in early summer. Trim as lavenders and salvia.
This is the traditional "red hot poker" with bright upright orange pokers in summer and evergreen foliage. Easily grown and prolific.
Tall summer flowering perennial sunflower, combine with dahlias, rudbeckias and salvias.
Lower growing to waist high with soft foliage and improved autumn colour, one of the better panicums. A nicely clumping contained grass that looks good in groups amongst echinacea and summer perennials, wont self seed and lasts a long time. However needs decent fertile soil to flourish.
The old fashioned fragrant yellow primrose. A delight on a warm spring evening when the delicate perfume wafts around the garden.
Ground cover creating a mossy bright green mounds. Useful for border edges, paths, between rocks with succulents and thyme.
Shade loving plant with interesting mottled foliage and pink spotted flowers. Multiplies easily in part shade on moist leafy soil, associates well with hostas and epimediums.
A dwarf variety with a groundcovering habit and sprays of coral flowers in spring. Long flowering.
Rose pink form of Viola odorata, use as ground cover in shade under trees amongst Dicentra and Hostas.
Perennial wallflower, winter flowering, forms a small shrub. Attracts birds and butterflies, fragrant.
Our own variety which we have multiplied from division, flame orange fading into chesnut brown.
Long flowering plant with vibrant deep red flowers during summer. Easy in meadow plantings or cottage garden.
Beautiful Japanese species with tall stems and large speckled pink bells. Best in the border where it can ramble freely between other perennials. Good cut flower.