Mail Order Plant Catalogue A to E from Abriachan Nursery

ABUTILON
suntense 2.3m	Felted grey shoots and lovely lavender, hibiscus-like flowers. First seen in a garden in Golspie in Sutherland. It has proven hardy.	£8.50	SOLD OUT
ACAENA These are low creeping carpets, feathery leaves and burrs. Excellent scrambling around rocks. Great with bulbs, which grow through the mat.
buchanii.	Strong growing, glaucous leaves with brown burrs	£3.50
caesiiglauca.	Silky grey leaves, and large brown burrs. Scrambling habit	£3.50
Microphylla Copper Carpet	Ferny bronzed leaves and fabulous red burrs in late summer	£3.50
ACANTHUS
Spinosus 1.5 to 2m (Bear's Breaches)	A magnificent perennial . Mounds of glossy heavily toothed leaves and imposing central spikes of purple hooded flowers in August/September.	£7.50	SOLD OUT
ACONITUM (Monkshood) The fabled monkshood. Strong and lovely in shade or woodland.
bi-colour 1.2m	Spikes of hooded white flowers, lipstick blue edged, shading elegantly into the florets.	£4.50
henryii Spark's Variety 1.2m	Classic blue monkshoods; spring flowering	£4.50	SOLD OUT
ACTEA
pachypoda alba 60cm	Green herbaceous leaves and white flowers, followed by striking white berries.	£5.50
ADIANTUM
pedatum (Maidenhair Fern) 40cm	Dainty, fine fronds on this lovely fern; shade or part shade and a lovely contrast. CLICK TO SEE ALL FERNS	£4.50
AGAPANTHUS African Lilies Midsummer colour that will give you impeccable garden credentials. Strong stems and eye catching, spherical heads of flowers. I grow several varieties in the ground and they come through winters well. They also look good indeed grown tight in large pots. To get the best from them liquid feed throughout summer with a high potash feed (tomato feed is ideal.) Full sun; good drainage.
ardernei Hybrid 60cm	Excellent floriferous white, the tips of the flowers tinted pink as they age. A lovely variety.	£6.50
Buckingham Palace 1.3m	Tall, magnificent blue flowers. This towered above all pots this summer and was the held on to its flowers the longest. Superb.	£7.50	SOLD OUT
Cally Bright Blue 60cm	First-rate blue from Michael Wickenden, Cally Gardens	£6.50
Castle of Mey 80cm	A fine old mid blue variety that is named for the famous Caithness Castle of the Queen Mother. Splendid in pot or border.	£6.50
ex St Helena 50cm	This Agapanthus was given to us by a customer with friends in St Helena, where it grows in the wild. Good, sturdy, mid blue flowers, building up quickly and well.	£6.50
Headbourne Hybrids 70cm	A fine old variety mid blue and floriferous. It has been a summer mainstay for us for a decade, looking great with bright pink diascia.	£6.50
Jack's Blue 1.2 m	Fine dark heads with dark stems. Great looks	£6.50
Navy Blue 90cm	Large, navy blue flowerheads on strong tall stems. One of the best	£6.50
Polar Ice 70cm	Glistening ice white heads on strong stems	£6.50
Streamline 50cm	Grey-blue flowers with darker stripe. Very attractive over a long period	£6.50
Timaru 75cm	Good groups of excellent blue heads. Bred in New Zealand, growing well here	£6.50
Torbay 80cm	The prettiest sky blue heads for summer. Good greyish foliage.	£6.50
AJUGA
Catlin's Giant 20cm	Shining green close leaves and dense spikes of rich blue flowers.	£3.50
ALCHEMILLA Pretty green sprays of flowers, sometimes on a tiny rather endearing level, or as a great border edging plant.
conjuncta (Alpine Ladies Mantle)	Exquisite acer-like leaves with silky, silver threaded edge. Flat growing.	£4
ellenbeckii (Creeping Ladies Mantle)	Tiny dark green leaves and vivid green flowers; useful spreading habit.	£4
mollis 30cm	Scalloped edged leaves, wonderful after a shower of rain; pretty sprays of green flowers in summer.	£4
ALLIUM
cepa proliferum (Tree Onion)	An Interesting plant for the herb garden. Bunches of onion bulblets on contorted leaves.	£2.50
schoenoprasum (Chives) 30cm	A strong Highland strain that makes excellent edging to veg plots and potagers. Good for scrambled egg and mashed potato too.	£3
schoenoprasum album	A lovely white flowered form	£3	SOLD OUT
ursinum (Wild Garlic)	A splendid native; on our stream bank the faint, pleasant garlic smells fill the evening very good in cooking. CLICK TO SEE ALL HERBS	£3	SOLD OUT
ALYSSUM
montanum Cushion forming	Bright yellow, early flowering cushion plant. Loves the early sun.	£3	SOLD OUT
ANDROMEDA
polyfolia Blue Ice	Pretty evergreen shrub, scrambling and forming a mound of blue/green leves, smothered in spring with pretty pink bells.	£5.50
ANDROSACE
primuloides	Lovely tiny spring flowering; evergreen rosette with sprays of little eye catching pink flowers. Yellow eye. Choice.	£3.50
ANEMONE nemorosa (Wood Anemones/Wind flower) These are cultivated forms of our native wood anemones. All are dainty, early flowering and build up steadily, year on year. You will find them in our garden amongst rocks and under the skirts of shrubs. Look closely at the flowers and turn over the petals to reveal the silver blue and violet shaded back to the petals. You will love them all. The sheer valour of them in spring sunshine awakens hope.
Leeds	Very large white flowers with golden stamen filing centre. Lovely	£3.50	SOLD OUT
Lychette	Large, flat faced white flowers; purple flushed stems	£3.50	SOLD OUT
Mid Blue	A heart stirring washed sky blue	£3.50	SOLD OUT
Robinsoniana	Palest blue with silver backed petals, just lovely	£3.50	SOLD OUT
Royal Blue	Clear royal blue variety, yellow stamens	£3.50	SOLD OUT
Vestal	The most beautiful double white sitting in a Quaker's ruff; exquisite.	£4	SOLD OUT
Viridiflora	An attractive oddity with fresh whorls of green flowers.	£3.50	SOLD OUT
ANEMONE - Other varieties
x lipsiensis	Lovely pale yellow flowers on fine foliage. A very good cross between nemorosa and ranunculoides species.	£4	SOLD OUT
ranunculoides	Often the first to show above ground. Dainty foliage and bright yellow flowers.	£4
Autumn Flowering Anemones
Taller, elegant anemones that really lift a late summer planting to a new level.
x hybrida Andrea Atkinson	A lovely white, yellow centred, single Japanese Anemone	£5
hupehensis Hapsden Abundance 80cm	An abundance of two-toned pink blooms on wide branching plants.	£4.50	SOLD OUT
ANGELICA
Ebony 1.2m	This fabulous new bee and butterfly plant is the darkest of any angelica we have ever grown. Exquisite, almost black, finely-cut shiny leaves are held below heads of darkest purple buds opening to delicate sprays of pink flowers.	£4.50	SOLD OUT
ANEMANTHELE
lessoniana (Used to be Stipa arundinacea) Pheasant grass	An elegant and most useful grass. Trailing flower/seed heads, on foliage that colours red, yellow and brown through summer heat and winter cold. CLICK TO SEE ALL GRASSES	£5	SOLD OUT
ANTHEMIS
Suzanne Mitchell 30cm	Fast growing carpets of pretty grey/green and pale straw daisies from June to Oct	£4.50
punctata cupaniana	Splendid plant for fast cover of a sunny bank. Grey foliage and endless amounts of clean white daisies.	£4.50	SOLD OUT
AQUILEGIA
discolor 10cm	Pretty wee flowers, cream and clear pale blue on blue/grey foliage	£4
ARABIS
caucasicum alba flora plena	A very pretty double white spreading Arabis, each flower individually a perfect, tiny white rose. A most useful plant for the edge of a raised bed or rock.	£4	SOLD OUT
ARMORACIA
rusticana 40cm (Horseradish)	No jar in the supermarket is going to give you the real flavour to have with roast beef. Upright wavy edged clumps of leaves and strong white tap roots, which is the bit you want. Contain it with boards or have it in a bed alone or it will run! CLICK TO SEE ALL HERBS	£4	SOLD OUT
ARUNCUS
diocius x sinensis Zweiweltenkind 3m (Goat's Beard)	Tall and stately with strong panicles of creamy white flowers in July. This selection is a hybrid between A. diocius and A. sinensis and very often has a bronze cast to the foliage. For retentive soil in sun or under trees. Deer resistant! Perfect for a woodland.	£4.50	SOLD OUT
ASPHODELUS
albus 30cm	Spears of foliage and spikes of white flowers, backs flushed soft apricot	£4	SOLD OUT
ASPLENIUM
scolopendrium (Hart's Tongue) 25cm	Handsome, undulating strap leaves; excellent in shade; wintergreen.	£4.50
scolopendrium Cristatum	Crested form.	£4.50	SOLD OUT
trichomanes (Maidenhair Spleenwort)	The lovely dainty small fern, you find on old walls. Wiry, small leaflets, black midrib. CLICK TO SEE ALL FERNS	£4.50	SOLD OUT
ASTER (Michelmas Daisies)
We have a gardening friend who lived on Loch Ness and supplied us with these excellent hardy, reliably mildew free, free flowering, long lived Asters.
x herveyi	Late summer/ autumn daisies; mildew free and a lovely light blue.	£4
Nova Belgica Pink	Rose pink flowers - Aug to Dec totally mildew resistant	£4.50
Nova Belgica Blue	Violet blue flowers - Aug to Dec totally mildew resistant	£4.50	SOLD OUT
ASTILBE Wonderful dense plants for damp or shady places. They also make fine specimens in large planters..
sprite 50cm	Dark foliage and very attractive pale pink sprays of blooms.	£4.50	SOLD OUT
William Buchanan 25cm	Compact clump forming, fern like leaves and cream/pink flowers.	£4.50
ASTRANTIA (Masterworts) Lovely old fashioned flowers; a quivering boss of stamens and surrounding ruff. 'Aunt Hatties's Pin Cushion'
major 40cm	Lovely old fashioned flowers with a central boss of stamens and surrounding ruff of papery green-white petals. The blooms last and dry well.	£4.50
major Gill Richardson Group	A fine selection with stunning deep crimson red flowers	£5	SOLD OUT
ATHYRIUM
ATHYRIUM fIlix-femina 80cm (Lady Fern)	Elegant pinnate leaves on this hardy easy-going Native fern. Good in shade and sun, if it has a cool root run.	£4
ATHYRIUM filix-femina Frizelliae (The Tatting Fern)	Quite a looker; arching slim fronds with the leaves reduced to give an almost beeded necklace affect. Good in woodland, or as a wonderful container plant. CLICK TO SEE ALL FERNS	£5
AUBRETIA I love aubrieta in the spring, carpets of colour over rocks and walls on easy, reliable plants.
Blue Whale	A noticeably large flowered lilac blue	£3.50
AZORELLA
trifurcata (cushion plant)	Look closely and you see overlapping jagged leaves, with tiny green flowers in summer. But that is not the point of this smashing plant, it creeps slowly making rock hard green cushions, looks good on sunny well drained beds and in low, broad pots.	£3.50
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BELLIS Double Daisies These are the tiny neat button daisies , not the larger seed raised flowers. They are antiques, having been around since 16th Century. Plant where you can appreciate their pretty, neat form. They are lovely mixed with dwarf early bulbs. After flowering, feed them well, and in a month or 2, divide and re-pot, then put in the shade. Watch out for greenfly.
rotundifolia caerulescens	Lovely little lavender blue daisies. Very pretty	£3.50
BERGENIA
Bergenia are good architectural plants all year round. Large leathery leaves that colour red and purple in winter.
Bach 30cm	Excellent red winter foliage and heads of pale pink in spring that age to white.	£4.50	SOLD OUT
BETULA
pendula (Silver Birch) 10M +	Strong young plants from Loch Ness Seed	£5
BLECHNUM
chilense (Chilean Hard Fern) 90cm	A rare Falkland Island native fern. Large handsome leathery leaves slowly forming substantial and attractive areas in shade or a damper area.	£8.50	SOLD OUT
penna marina (Falkland Island Little Fern)	Leathery heavily crested leaves that grow well in dry stone walls and work well in alpine plantings.	£4
penna marina cristata	Heavily crested leaves that grow well in dry stone walls and work well in alpine plantings.	£4	SOLD OUT
spicant 40cm (Hard Fern)	British native; neat shining pinnate fronds; hardy and evergreen. CLICK TO SEE ALL FERNS	£4.50
BLETILLA (Hardy Orchid)
striata 15cm	Sword shaped leaves and pink orchid flowers. Usually recommended for humus rich woodland soil, but ours has survived cold winters, drought and overshadowing by a huge Pieris and is doing fine. Maybe some care and it would be wonderful!	£6.50
BRUNNERA Strong grey-based leaves and attractive flowers, that come before the leaves in early spring.
Langtrees 35cm	Grey green leaves marked with metallic silver edge; sprays of lovely blue flowers.	£5	SOLD OUT
Mr Morse 30cm	Lovely heartshaped grey leaves....attractively marked with silver, and quantities of pretty sprigs of white flowers	£5	SOLD OUT
BUXUS (Box Hedging)
sempervirens	Glossy green/grey leaves ; perfect for hedging or topiary. Litre pots	£5
sempervirens variegata	A few variegated plants, Smart gold markings	£5
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CALLISTEMON
rigidus	From New South Wales, Australia; red bottle brush flowers and lance shaped on an evergreen shrub. Of course it needs a warm, sunny position or a pot very close to the house for protection, but there is nothing like a bottle brush! Surprising hardy for an Aussie cousin if given good drainage and sun.	£8.50	SOLD OUT
CAMASSIA
quamash 40cm	Delightful blue, slightly recurved flowers on strong stems. April/May and useful among new growth. Seeds lightly and only ever sparingly.	£3.50	SOLD OUT
CAMPANULA (The Bellflowers) The bellflowers are an amazing range of plants. They are the backbone of summer borders and simultaneously can be excellent carpeting plants or precious tiny treasures.
cochlearifolia	Tiny double powder-puff blue bells on a spreading mat. Lovely in a wide shallow pot.	£3.50
lactiflora 1m +	Our mid summer blue Campanulas. Wonderful plants filling a border and give a stately presence. We gave some the "chelsea chop" this year and that was great, giving us a 1 m show of excellent bellflowers in August/September instead of June/July.	£4.50
persicifolia 90cm	Willow-leaved bellflowers; elegant, wiry stems with open blue bells	£4.50
persicifolia alba coronata 80cm	Wiry stems and perfect little rosettes of white studding the length.	£4.50
persicifolia Chettle Charm 80cm	Large open white bells perfectly rimmed with china blue. Beautiful	£4.50	SOLD OUT
poscharskyana (Trailing Bellflower)	Bright blue stars of blooms, on trailing stems. Excellent on walls or edging plantings	£4.50
puntata	Large white bells flushed pink, delicatly spoted inside petals. Foliage strong, good groundcover	£4.50
CAREX
CAREX elata aurea (Golden Sedge) 50cm	A wonderful evergreen sedge. All gold parts. Good in the garden, and endlessly useful in pots	£4.50	SOLD OUT
CAREX pendula 2m (Weeping sedge)	UK Native Strong arching growth and panicles of nut brown seed heads all winter.	£4.50
CAREX trifida 70cm (Mutton Bird Sedge)	New Zealand and Falkland Island Native; clumps of strong green leaves and spikes of nut brown seed heads. One found on exposed headlands where sea birds burrow and nest. If you have a place that would look great if windswept and interesting, this is your plant. CLICK TO SEE ALL GRASSES	£4.50	SOLD OUT
CARDAMINE ( Ladies Smock Family )
pratensis (Lady's Smock)	Very pretty early flowering native; loves a damp area.	£4
rhapanifolia (Cuckoo Flower)	Strong, early pink ladies smock on fresh, cress-green foliage.	£4
CELMESIA (Mountain Daisies)
Wonderful New Zealand natives, usually silver, softly hairy leaves and clean white dasies
bellidoides	Mat forming dark green foliage. Clean white dasies, with yellow centres. CLICK TO SEE ALL NEW ZEALAND PLANTS	£4	SOLD OUT
CENTAUREA Perennial cornflower or Bluebottle. These are long favoured cottage garden plants flowering very early, right after the daffodils.
macrocephala 1.2m	A bold plant. Large shaggy yellow cornflowers opening from a bronze bud of scales in May/June. Always welcome	£4.50
montanum Parham 70cm (Perennial Cornflower)	An elegant form of this early flowerer; lovely lilac blue blooms.	£4	SOLD OUT
CENTRANTHUS
A plant that lives on air, growing from walls and cracks in impossible rock faces.
rubra (Wall Valerian)	A plant that seems to lives on fresh air. Rich red flowers on 30cm stems. Well suited to dry poor soil. Look up at the ramparts of Edinburgh and other Castle and it is there.	£4	SOLD OUT
CHAMAEMELUM
Treneague (Lawn Chamomile)	The non-flowering Chamomile, lush, fresh green and fabulously aromatic. This is the one used for lawns, but think of it also on a bank or bower or in an arbour….imagine, imagine. CLICK TO SEE ALL HERBS	£4	SOLD OUT
CHIONOCHLOA
conspicua (Plumed Tussock grass) 1.4m	A very handsome New Zealander; tussock growth and lovely open biscuit coloured plumed flowers for several months. CLICK TO SEE ALL NEW ZEALAND PLANTS AND GRASSES	£5	SOLD OUT
CHRYSANTHEMUM Its odd, but chrysanthemums were a ubiquitous presence in every garden of my youth, and then suddenly gone. I have tried to find and grow them and revive interest here in Scotland. I am concentrating on the hardiest( not the big show varieties, that are not truly hardy) and hence the easiest to grow.
Apollo 90cm	Double deep orange red flecked with yellow & a green centre	£4.50
Anastasia 60cm	Double bright pink	£4.50
Cousin Joan 100cm	Bright red purple single with yellow centre, Very Floriferous with a sweet perfume	£4.50
Chelsea Physic Garden 60cm	Beautiful double ,dusky orange red, bronzed backed petal . Lasted very well as cut flowers.	£4.50
Clara Curtis	Compact late summer Chrysanthemum. Single clear pink dasies. Prefers full sun, well drained soil	£4.50	SOLD OUT
Innocence 90cm	Pale pink single, yellow centre. Very Floriferous . Bees love it.	£4.50
Nantaderry Sunshine 50cm	Striking double yellow Chrysanths for Sept/October. Excellent	£4.50
Perry's Peach 75cm	A lovely single peachy pink with a yellow centre. Seems to shrug of slugs and fairly tolerant of winter wet in heavy soils	£4.50
Ruby Mound 90cm	A rich deep maroon red double. September to October	£4.50
Rose Madder 60cm	Strong rose pink single blooms with a yellow eye. Scented.	£4.50	SOLD OUT
CICERBITA
alpina 1.5m	Beautiful branching heads of blue daisies on mounds of large toothed leaves. A rare Scottish native and we love to sell it	£5	SOLD OUT
plumeria 2m	Lilac blue daisies on strong swaying stems. It seeds gently for us and we always have 4 or 5 in the garden each year, always welcome	£4.50
CIRSIUM
rivulare Atropurureum	Handsome clumps of leaves and large open sprays of purple/ red thistles, all without the spines! A remarkable garden plant, beloved by bees & butterflies and flowering from June to December	£5
CLEMATIS
montana Double Delight	A excellent new introduction, the scented double white flowers with yellow anthers in the middle have fragrances that range from vanilla to chocolate.	£7.50	SOLD OUT
montana Marjorie	Clematis Montana Marjorie is the world's first double flowering Clematis Montana, and will cover any fence, wall or unsightly object at an amazing rate but with amazing semi-double flowers. Grown for it's unusual, spiky petals, these flowers are white to salmon pink with slightly darker pink veining.	£7.50	SOLD OUT
montana rubens superba	Floriforous, fast growing Clematis, makes swags of pretty pink flowers.	£7.50	SOLD OUT
montana wilsonii	A late White flowering montana variety. We use it to climb through trees and it is fabulous with the best possible bonus of a garden filling honey scent. A highlight of every year.	£7.50	SOLD OUT
recta 1.5M	Usually a herbaceous specimum. clouds of white flowers.	£5	SOLD OUT
rehderiana ( climber )	A rare beauty; late summer yellow bells. scented and vigorous.	£9.50	SOLD OUT
COLCHICUM
autumnale alba	Rarely offered, white form of the Autumn Crocus	£5
speciosum	Large goblet shaped rich pink flowers in autumn	£4
CONVALLARIA
majalis Lily of the Valley	The lovely white bells with a heart melting fragrance. We sell plants established in pots, that will grow away far better than any dried root pieces. Also lovely in a container that can be brought indoors for a while to enjoy the blooms	£3	SOLD OUT
	Offer for four	£10	SOLD OUT
COTINUS
Royal Purple 2m	Excellent shrub; the darkest purple leaves that turn red in autumn. The flowers are a wonder, light and diffuse and making a smoke-like appearance.	£8.50
CRINODENDRON ( Chilean Lantern bush )
Alf Robins	A new pink flowered form of the fabulous lantern tree. Promises very well.	£9.50
hookerianum	Fantastic shrub; evergreen and a long season of dangling lantern-like crimson blooms	£8.50
CROCOSMIA The Montbretia family Great plants for a late summer show, bold and bright. They increase well and are rewarding to grow.
Anna Marie 80cm	Eye catching orange red. Long flowering period. New variety	£4.50
Canary Bird 50cm	Attractive, floriferous variety with neat bright yellow blooms.	£4.50
Constance 90cm	A new variety for us; large, open faced orange red blooms, eye catching.	£4.50
Hellfire	Large outward facing red flowers on strong stems. Good pleated leaves. Exceptional	£4.50
Honey Angels 60cm	Attractive bronzed leaves and yellow funnel-shaped flowers; excellent in the garden or containers.	£4.50
Lucifer 1.2m	A remarkable plant that draws the eye across the garden. Strong, upright pleated sword-shaped leaves with brilliant red flowers. Hardy and increases well	£4.50	SOLD OUT
Mistral 75cm	Early flowering variety; upright facing orange flowers, flushing pink with age; quite different and very attractive	£4.50	SOLD OUT
Okavango 80cm	The most beautiful peach/orange blooms with an arresting presence. Vigorous plants .	£4.50	SOLD OUT
paniculata 1.2m	Strong spears of growth that open into elegant pleated leaves. Persimmon orange flowers in August. An old garden plant and still first class.	£4.50
Paul’s Best Yellow 1.2m	Tall variety; large golden yellow flowers; flowers open faced and showy.	£4.50
CYMBALARIA
acquitriloba alba	Tiny, flat ground hugging leaves….the leaves are shiny and shaped and marked like ivy. Flowers for months, neat white toadflax flowers.	£3.50
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DAPHNE
Exciting well-loved group of shrubs, amongst the best scented plants in the garden. Groups of small crystalline blooms.
bholua Jacqueline Postill 2.5M	Unbelievable; turn the corner and there it is. You sense and scent it before you see it. It fills the surrounding area with glorious scent at the darkest , wettest time of year, January. Evergreen, hardy and the flowers are clusters of small white blooms with elegant purple flushed petals and buds covering. Strong young plants in 1 litre pots.	£10
retusa 60cm	A neat rounded evergreen shrub with scented flowers, dark pink outside, white inside. Our plants are very hardy as they are sourced from South Loch Ness at over 1000ft	£8.50	SOLD OUT
DARMERA
peltata (Umbrella Plant) 1m	A plant to grow for impact and form; large, handsome puckered edge leaves, fresh green turning bright red in autumn; white flower spike before leaves in early spring	£4.50	SOLD OUT
DELOSPERMUM (Mesembryanthemum)
The wonderful sun loving, South African dasies. Essentially perennial Livingston Dasies
nubigenum (Mesembryanthemum basutoland)	Neat succulent leaves. Bright sunny yellow dasies.	£4	SOLD OUT
DESFONTANIA (Chilean Holly)
spinosa	A magnificent evergreen shrub. Holly like leaves and a striking display of tubular crimson red yellow tipped flowers in summer.	£8.50
DICKSONIA
antarctica	The magnificent tree fern from New Zealand. Huge fronds and beautiful tobacco brown stems. This is the hardiest species of all. CLICK TO SEE ALL FERNS	£7.50	SOLD OUT
DIERAMA Wand Flowers or Angel’s Fishing Rods Dierama are a real feature of our summer garden. Strong, grassy foliage & elegant, wiry stems dripping with slender bells in papery calyxes. Each year we try some new species, and none have disappointed yet, proving both hardy and glamorous. Excellent in seaside gardens too.
adelphicum 75cm	A more upright species with flaring pink bells. Rarely offered	£5
igneum 50cm	Open faced bells of a brick red. The hardiest of all we grow and increases well.	£5
nixonianum 60cm	Nice lilac blue bells on a interesting new species.	£5	SOLD OUT
pulcherrimum dark	Long grassy leaves and arching stems, dripping with lilac pink bells emerging from silver papery calyxes. Exquisite. Seed raised from excellent dark pink plants	£5
pulcherrimum pale	Elegant pale pink forms	£5	SOLD OUT
DIGITALIS Foxgloves
purpurea alba 2m	The white foxglove. Stately plants wonderful in shade. Biennial	£3.50
DODECATHEON
media Goliath 30cm	Strong stems of cyclamen -like flowers; lilac pick with yellow tip.	£4
tetrandrum Red Light 40cm	Almost succulent leaves and very attractive "shooting star" red flowers	£4
DRYOPTERIS
lepidopoda 70cm (The Sunset Fern)	A beautiful evergreen fern with pink/ orange flushed new growth. CLICK TO SEE ALL FERNS	£5
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ECHEVERIA
glauca	Attractive grey leaved succulent, arching stems of red and yellow flowers all summer. Needs winter protection.	£3.50
ECHINACEA
purpurea Magnus Superior	An improved large flowered form of the purple Echinacea. Large puple dasies with brown central cones. June - Sept.	£5
ECHINOPS (Globe Thistle)
ritro Veitch's Blue 2m	Excellent blue flowered form of this sturdy herbaceous perennial. Mounds of tattered leaves and rounded flowers	£4.50	SOLD OUT
EMBOTHRIUM ( Chilean Firetree)
lanceolatum	Young Plants of the legandary Chilian Fire Tree. Evergreen, growing well for us on our well drained acid soil. Grows steadily, and soon displays fantastic clusters of scarlet red flowers. Rarely offered.	£12.50
EOMECON
chionantha Poppy of the Dawn 30cm	A delicate Chinese poppy; white with yellow stamens, wavy edged grey/green leaves.	£4.50
EPIMEDIUM Epimediums make excellent ground cover, they grow just about anywhere, and possess a real air of elegance. The spring flowers are dainty and repay close observation. The leaves follow and are fresh green, often bronze tinged and veined, lasting through winter. They work through a planting as stitches in a tapestry.
x perralchium Frohnleiten 50cm	Tough evergreen foliage with bronze markings. A good species for dry conditions. Excellent early foliage and yellow flowers.	£4.50
x versicolor sulphureum 40cm	Lovely, fresh bronze veined foliage and pale lemon flowers.	£4.50
ERYNGIUM ( Sea Hollies )
bourgatti Graham Stuart Thomas selection 30cm	Deeply cut white variegated foliage, gives a lacy effect; branching heads of blue sea hollies. Floriferous and long in flower.	£4.50
ERYSIMUM Perennial wallflowers
Bowles Mauve 25cm	Great plant, grey/green foliage; spikes of purple wallflowers. Ten months flower	£4	SOLD OUT
ERYTHRONIUM (Dog's Tooth Violets)
Pagoda 20cm	Lovely early yellow flowers, reflexed petals and large fresh nest of leaves. Good perennial plant.	£3.50	SOLD OUT
EUPHORBIA DON'T FORGET to watch out for Euphorbia sap. It is very irritant to eyes.
amygdaloides purpurea 40cm	Neat, very attractive purple wood spurge. The yellow, spring bracts are a great contrast.	£4.50	SOLD OUT
amygdaloides robbiae	A striking architectural perennial, does well even in dry shade Evergreen leaves , fine red stems and green flowers	£4.50	SOLD OUT
cyparissius Fens Ruby 15cm	Delicate froth of red foliage, resembling sphagnum moss. Suited to a dry open situation; lime green bracts	£3.50
myrsinites 25cm	Sprawling stems of silvery fleshy leaves, like silvery fir cones and acid yellow flowers in spring	£4	SOLD OUT
polychroma 25cm	Tidy spring growth topped with a golden yellow bract show. Some autumn colour too.	£4