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Rare delphinium looking in creamy yellow. Only a few large plants. 12cm potssyn. Aconitum pyrenaicumNorthern wolf’s-bane. Yellow Monkshood, from mountainous regions of central and southern Europe. It is vigorous and hardy, and only rarely seen in gardens which is a shame as it is easy for a variet...

Wild and wonderful for a casual lookScented agrimony grows to 1m with yellow flower spikes and fragrant foliage. Excellent for borders and wild gardens. The defining feature is the strong fragrance released when foliage is brushed or bruised. The plant is widespread across Europe and parts of South...

This plant forms hardy and tough clumps that are about 50cm tall. Yellow arching flowers all summer. In the rose family, so divided leaves and hooked seeds which means it is distributed by birds. A great meadow or border plant. It is from Europe, North and South Africa, North Asia. Naturally on calc...

One of the few grasses we can get here in New Zealand mentioned often in the new wave perennial planting movement. Doesn't spread by seed to become a garden pest.Feather reed grass is a dramatic ornamental grass used in many types of landscapes. When the Perennial Plant Association named this cultiv...

Just split up, take advantage of a good deal, plant a few to get an instant clump.Many synonyms, E. macranthum, E. luteum and more. A hardy, plant-it-where-you-like plant. The fastest spreading rhizomatous epicedium, drought tolerant when established but happiest in light shade and moist soils. They...

Just split up, take advantage of a good deal, plant a few to get an instant clump.A hardy, plant-it-where-you-like plant. The fastest spreading rhizomatous epicedium, drought tolerant when established but happiest in light shade and moist soils. They are all fairly tough during mid summer and very h...

A dwarf beared from Hokonui.

Striking foliage in part sun or shade. Brighten up dull and difficult times in difficult places. Another lovely addition to the range of grasses available.Bowles’s golden grass grows very successfully in shady borders under camellias or shrubs and trees. Planted in several informal drifts it looks...

Must try, striking amethyst colouring. "Like many garrigue plants adapted to heat and drought, (this) is able to tolerate abundant rain and occasional periods of severe cold"Amethyst Sea Holly, is both hardy and architectural Mediterranean plant. It's known for its striking unusually colored amethys...

Bush germander. A rare, semi-woody dwarf and compact shrub endemic to the western Balkan Peninsula (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro). In the mint family, it grows 10 to 60 cm high and produces dense, whitish-green flower heads. The highly decorative seed pods adorn the plant well int...

Exceptional grass for a brilliant effect. Feather or Golden oats grass- a dramatic, statement plant, not only because of its size, but also because of the large heads of oat-like flowers which shimmer in the soft morning and evening sunlight as if they are made of gold. Blue green leaves in a compac...

Beautiful and drought resistant plant for full sun. Rare.Tufted evening primrose. Rare. The desert evening primrose forms tight rosettes and big white flowers when it wakes up from its summer dormancy. A taproot aids survival. Each large, white flower has four, heart-shaped petals and eight yellow s...

Striking foliage in sun or shade. A great addition to the arsenal of "grasses" available in New Zealand. Hakone grass or Japanese Forest grass. An easy grass that prefers moist soils in shade or part shade. Best out of the heat and/or brightest light that can bleach the foliage. 60cm tall, spreads o...

Striking foliage in part sun or shade.A great addition to the arsenal of "grasses" available in New Zealand. Hakone grass or Japanese Forest grass. An easy grass that prefers moist soils in shade or part shade. 60cm tall, spreads only slowly. Wonderful in shaded borders and shingle gardens, looks be...

Essential border plant. Clusters of clear pink, daisy-like flowers.Prairie Aster becomes an autumn seasonal focal point as myriads of light lavender and pale periwinkle flowers nearly cover the entire mounded plant. The cool-colored petals encircle bright yellow centers that become rich burgundy aft...

Rare and special.A very desirable rock garden plant that I have at last. It has spreading mats of small green leaves carrying heads of large violet snapdragon flowers in early summer. It looks good whether trailing over the edge of a stone trough or in a selected spot on the rock garden in sun and w...

Numerous curious, lantern-like buds open into a huge candelabra of branching stems holding fantastic, pure white, passion-flower-like blooms, beginning in early summer and continuing until February if dead-headed. One of the world's most astonishing and spectacular flowers, this arrestingly beautifu...

Gorgeous. An easy plant for the garden. Sunny spots will give delightful flowering all through winter and beyond. However I find it doesn't last in our quite severe frosts, so collect seeds, let them do their own thing, or place it in a more sheltered spot if you are in cold places.Fiinally lots of...

Dense green foliage crowned with fragrant, rose-pink spiky flowers bloom in summer, the petals adorned with dark spotted patterns.Bradbury's Bee Balm. A great, unusual prairie plant, this Monarda is shorter and more compact than the usual. Sun or shade conditions and average soil, but not waterlogge...

Purple points, leaves, buds and flowers! A must have in any garden. Purple tinted new leaves burst forth in spring when little else perennial is interesting, the leaves continue to be dark hued until the flower buds emerge which take over as gorgeous dark stems and buds which give interest well befo...

Clumps of finely divided leaves topped with airy, branched umbels of claret-red and pink flowers, creating a delicate, almost lace-like effect.A symphony of branched, wiry flowering stems with claret, red/pink colors exactly as in the photo. Full sun in cool summer climates to semi-shade elsewhere...

Red(dish), well red for a rockrose.Rock Roses are versatile shrubby perennials, excellent for growing in the rock garden, or at the front of a hot, sunny border or in sand on poor soils.The names of these are very confusing. I have had a battle for a few years. Copper pin sounds exotic, but it is a...

A soft apricot. Most unusual.Rock Roses are versatile shrubby perennials, excellent for growing in the rock garden, or at the front of a hot, sunny border or in sand on poor soils. Pale terracotta, almost apricot, over a bushy mound of bright green foliage. Plants must have very good drainage, parti...

A sweet wee double pink for the sun.Rock Roses are versatile shrubby perennials, excellent for growing in the rock garden, or at the front of a hot, sunny border or in sand on poor soils. This selection has double flowers of cerise tinted baby-pink, over a bushy mound of bright green-grey foliage. P...