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Available end of SeptemberSuch a floriferous and pretty thing, that is also easy and spreads. Divide it up every couple of years.Light lavender pink flowered form of common primrose that is incredibly floriferous and long blooming. Each pale flower has a bright yellow center, from mid winter to spri...

Spanish Columbine. This is a sweet little plant with large flowers Large blooms on a dwarf plantSpanish Columbine. This dear little dwarf blooms prolifically from spring into summer.A compact clump of pretty, grey-green scalloped foliage. It is hardy and evergreen. Fine in full sun. Frost and very h...

Ready at the end of SeptmeberA choice primula for coniseuers, delightful and not too tough either.Primula whitei and are members of Section Petiolares whose members have a crumbling seed capsule (rather than the seed capsule opening by valves like most species), and often have dimorphic leaves, that...

Available end of SeptemberA precious easy long lasting delicate primula.Small fragrant cream flowers, lightly flushed pink on ageing. A miniature polyanthus with typical juliae foliage of bottle-green. So just a little thing.A compact, semi-evergreen perennial perfect for naturalised areas, cottages...

From Iran, this lovely saxifrage likes lime but not too hot (perhaps ironically) and not too wet in winter. Easy to grow, although a little slow. On the up side the flowers are large and impressive, especially against a foil of such tiny leaves. In the photo below, the first bud has opened in July...

Larger form than the white 'Tinkerbell', but smaller than the one called 'Captain Hook' Not sure if this has a name. If it does iIdon't know what.But a medium sized clump that you notice with dense leaves.Long flowering, low-growing, evergreen perennial dense cushions of small, emerald green, lobed...

So pretty, easy it will be with you for years with a bit of care.Beth's poppy. Normally this species is orange. This is Beth's selection. (Chatto I assume, but Beth's website says she knows nothing about it except that she likes to use it). Seed from Great Dixter. Hardy annual with striking red flow...

An easy winter treasureCoralberry or Indian Current A woody plant in the honeysuckle family. In winter they look fabulous with their winter deep pink berries. They show up so well as the plant is deciduous with shredding bark on older wood and brown to purplish branchlets. Prefers some sun, but part...

Tall and vivd for later on in summer.A rarely found plant. With strong pink-purple flowers bourne aloft on strong stems. The leaves are olive green and rough and pleated. The whole lot is set off with the purple stems and midribs. The native range of this species is SE. Europe. 1.8m tall. Prefers th...

A dwarf beared from Hokonui.

A miniature lemon yellow iris from the Balkan countries. These can bloom from mid October with a flourish and sporadically over summer. Ideally grown in a sunny free draining soil with rhizomes visible on surface. Grown in an alpine rock garden, border or container this plant benefits from rhizome c...

Connoisseurs' bulb.The Chocolate Lily is a showy bulb with sturdy stems clothed in lance-shaped, glossy deep-green leaves. They are campanulate, brown-blackish blooms. These are borne in multiples at the stem tips with as many as 20 flowers some say, opening in rapid succession until all are open. I...

Spring simplicity itself.The natural range of this species is Europe to West Caucasus and Lebanon. Not English meadows, but it has made itself at home there and looks lovely with snowdrops and winter leaves. Flowering as it does from mid winter to spring.A compact, semi-evergreen perennial bearing m...

Compact cushions or small mats of bright green leaves, covered with masses of magenta/purple flowers in spring and summer. Sun and well-drained soil. A little lime appreciated. H10cm x W30cm. Ideal for walls, rockeries, troughs, rock garden, crevices and gravel, front of border and hanging baskets.T...

So early, so much pleasure in winter, June!Hoop petticoat daffodil to 20cm tall, easy to naturalise in rockeries troughs or in paving, hardy, sun to part shade, potash to help flowering.Several bulbs per pot.Photo from wiki commons

A miniature bi-color daffodilA dutch bred form featuring dainty white petals (perianth) and a lemon-yellow trumpet. Reaching a petite height of about 15 cm, it blooms very early in the season. This year the beginning of August in Canterbury.Several bulbs per pot.

A lovely shaped jonquil type. lovely shaped jonquil Introduced in 19193. It is compact and very pretty produces 2 to 4 sweetly scented, bright greenish-yellow flowers per stem with tiny, bowl-shaped, darker yellow cups. Named after the flute-playing fertility god, it grows 15-20 cm tall and blooms i...

Related to Aquilegia Pyrenaica, but distinctly taller, with deep purple-blue flowers in January and February, this gem is quite suitable for the border. In the wild it is found in stony grass, scree or boulders, on limestone. Will cross with ordinary Aquilegias. You can be ruthless and get rid of al...

Rare in the wild and to buy, a lovely native white forget-me-notEndemic to the North Island, this small perennial herb features grey-green rosette leaves and white flowers. It is classified as Nationally Critical and typically grows in high-altitude rocky or limestone areas. Native. Great in a pot o...

A special looking but easy plant.A fabulous easy perennial native to Chile and Argentina. It forms low, compact flat rosettes of hairy leaves, whose size depends on the conditions and features vibrant yellow inflated flowers resembling slippers. The plant thrives in moist but well-drained soil, part...

One of the very choicest of this unusual group of flowers, this variety has unusually tall stems, slightly bending at the top, holding truly exceptional, large, bright blue, spiky looking, powderpuff flowers. Even the foliage is attractive consisting of thick, leathery, spathulate leaves, deeply vei...

Japanese Black pine. Broadly conical, evergreen. Rigid dark green needles in 2's, 10cm long. Egg shaped cone 7cm long. A coastal tree tolerating salt winds and poor sandy soils. Performing well as shelter on high exposed cold sites.None available anywhere that I can find. Useful to train in the Japa...

A rarely seen, delightful creeping phlox that looks most like a wood phlox, but could be for drier spots in the sun!Southeastern United States. Hairy phlox, easy going for sun to part sun to part shade. Flowers for ages from early spring to summer and even flowering gaily on the shortest day. 25cm c...

Wow I am happy to have bred this charmer.Woodland phlox is charming for light shade, or beside a rock microclimate. Carpets of large white white flowers appear in December and onwards..This photo was taken in mid June after a frost! Note that it is growing in one of my "pipe libraries", which is in...