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Sun. Lovely silvery-green leaves up to 1m spread, will drape elegantly over container edges and walls. Hardy and easy with purple flowers over a long period, even the odd one in winter. Will seed about, true to form.An interesting way of planting. peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via W...

Just potted up small seedlings. Available when you want them if you are in a hurry. Oct 4, '26A native New Zealand limestone geranium from the South Island in South Canterbury and North Otago. Similar to G. brevicaule, but more robust and larger, with grey-green leaves with a distinct brown margin...

Sweetly scented and long flowering, even in winter. 50 -70cm high and spread, strong magenta purple after initial redder (morning?)and pinker tones as they open, hence mutabilis. Slightly taller than Beth, easy and hardy.A bit leggy, as they are wont to go. but plant with low annuals like poppies. C...

Opening bright yellow and fading to pale creams, unique.Perennial wallflower. Flowering all winter this sweetly scented plant is a charmer. Easy for lots of situations. Cheer up roses in winter, place at the back of a rock garden, use in a gravel garden. Add pizazz to the border out of season. Hardy...

Oyster plant or Beach bluebell. In the borage family this is a spreading, prostrate perennial with fleshy, blue-grey-green leaves, up to 10cm long, and branched clusters of bright blue, bell-shaped flowers opening from pink buds in early summer. It grows on the beach, but in colder areas of Canada...

A bargain and a great colour!Perennial Horned rampion. Related to Campanula. dark purple almost blackish flowers with interesting horns. 60cm H. Grows well in the sand bed and in the garden. Good for pots and troughs. Use it in the front of a border. Sun. Does seed about a bit which is swell in my o...

Ortel will be at the expo! Along with other great sellers. Trough making and pot planting deomstration by Suzanne.Kusa Bonsai and Kokedama with Naomi, my indepensible part -time assistant

Available end of SeptemberA delightful variant bearing masses of small pink & occasionally mauve snapdragon-like blooms upon upright, slender, pointy spikes, 40-60cm tall. It is in bloom from December until the first frost, the blossoms being favourites of bees & butterflies. It doesn't require stak...

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...

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...

So popular overseas. A whopper. Sow the seed too.Up to 2m in height, with spreading, glossy, pale green strap-shaped basal leaves which die down before the flowers. Dense globose umbels of lilac-pink flowers to 10cm across with prominent stamens, are borne on tall stems in summer. They even stand up...

A lovely late season addition.United States. Royal Catchfly This delightful perennial - with a taproot - bears several stems up to 1m. Designed for hummingbirds, they look great in a hot border with their bright red flowers which are very valuable in later summer. Only a few.

IPlumed Thistle. From Japan comes this stoloniferous cushion-forming and evergreen plant. It is spiky like your average thistle. But if you can cope. it will be well worth it. An improved variety from Jelitto. For gritty well draining soils or simply average ones. Sun. Best in the rock or gravel gar...

This Himalayan species has much larger leaves in summer than other species.In winter the plant is deciduous and longish stolons loop over the substrate with old brown leaves attached which I find interesting. It has upright stems with a loose umbel of a few flowers on tallish stalks in mid summer. B...

Such cute flowersCompact, evergreen shrub. red/orange/white-tipped flowers appear from spring to autumn. Grows approximately 50 x 50cm. Prefers a sunny location and is hardy once established. However if you have frost it can be dug and potted up and brought in as a houseplant. Or leave it as a potte...

A compact, small shrub with a profusion of white flowers, naturally growing on stony slopes and cliffs—slow-growing but striking even at modest height.'Panda' is ideal for small gardens and rockeries. Slow growing. it reaches just 40–60cm in height after 10 years and features neat, mounding ever...

Everyone should have a JOY Plants plant.Not sure how two so very different plants (Large vs Petite), albeit with the same coloured flowers can have such a different form. Horses for courses in terms of choice.A perennial wallflower that has been bred in New Zealand and provides masses of fragrant fl...

A rare and lovely, tough plant. Fast growing.False Mallow, South America. Hardy deciduous, (if very frosty) plant that trails and creeps beautifully in full sun. Rare found in a lovely and very old rose garden. Can be invasive evidently, so be careful. It was a nice little thing in a sunny and dry s...

A wide spread European, African and Azerbaijan woodruff. 10–60 cm, my seed source seems a tight cultivar with small pale purple flowers, on long, thin, green, stems. Early summer. Messy sort of low mass, but trim after flowering.

Incredible colour slection and as tough as old boots.Clump-forming perennial which grows to about 75-90cm tall, with dark green, toothed, lance-shaped leaves, and clusters of dark violet flowers with yellow centres, flowering on strong stems, over a long period from early to late autumn or early win...

Superb for dry gardens. Intoxicating colour.Desert penstemon. Multi-stemmed plants with clasping, oblong, toothed, saucer-leaves around its amazing flowers. Sturdy, hardy and a very early splash of colour. It is highly valued in xeric landscaping for its vibrant, hot pink-to-magenta tubular flowers...

A special and rare purple-blue flowering plant for enthusiasts and those who love variety.Mescal bean or Texas mountain laurel is an evergreen, usually multi-trunked shrub or small tree ranging from just a few feet tall to more than 9m in height, though its usually much less, especially on poor soil...

A special flowering, drought tolerant rariety. A dessert willow-looking begonia.Southern California's desert regions.The desert willow is a small, multi-trunk tree, fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers in shades of pink, lavender, and white. These are seedlings so we don't know. The flowers attract poll...

Dwarf Turkish Alpine Wallflower. Smothered in the spring with incredibly sweetly scented, lemon, blooms. An excellent rock garden or edging plant for sunny areas, and tolerant of hot, dry sites with poor soil. Also great spilling out of cracks in rock walls, or between flag stones. Small species, fi...