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Helianthus maximiliani
Maximilian Sunflower, Perennial Sunflower€2.35Perennial sunflowers typically don’t grow quite as tall and large as their annual friends. However Helianthus maximiliani is a wonderful exception. It grows slowly through the summer months as a group of short stems, until late summer when the stems bolt and the flowers head for the sky.
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Helianthus mollis
Downy or Ashy Sunflower, Perennial Sunflower€2.10Most gardeners are familiar with the annual sunflower, however, it is the perennial varieties that coexist most happily with other garden plants. Helianthus mollis is a lovely perennial with butter-yellow flowers. It grows 120cm tall and requires little more attention than an annual cutting to the ground.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'Copper Red'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€2.10Out of stock
Helichrysum bracteatum ‘Copper Red’ glows like its on fire - Rusty red with touches of burnt orange are a perfect combination. The substantial blooms are held atop strong multi-branching stems. Perfect for cutting, they have a subtle silky sheen and are striking in all stages, from bud to fully opened.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'Golden Yellow'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€2.10Helichrysum bracteatum is the most well known and is probably the best of all the everlasting flowers. They make one of the finest subjects for bouquets, apart from being useful for beds and borders. They are easy to cultivate and established plants grow well with little or no attention and bloom from mid-summer right up to frost.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'Purple Red'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€2.10Helichrysum make one of the finest subjects for beds and borders and for bouquets, the flowers bloom from mid-summer right up to frost. Deep purple-red blooms are held atop strong multi-branching bright green stems. Known as an 'everlasting', they make one of the best dried flowers, both the colour and shape will last indefinitely.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'Salmon Rose'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€2.10Helichrysum bracteatum 'Salmon Rose' is a lovely mixture of buff, peach and salmon colours. Apart from being useful for beds and borders, the papery, double flowers make one of the finest subjects for bouquets, they are also an excellent dried flower.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'Scarlet'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€2.10Helichrysum bracteatum is the cut flower grower's staple, producing tall vigorous branching plants that are filled with large papery flowers. The scarlet red flowers are perfect for cutting, they have a subtle silky sheen and are striking in all stages, from bud to fully opened.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'Silvery Rose'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€2.10Out of stock
Helichrysum 'Silvery Rose' produces blooms that are pure to creamy-white and frosted with rose at the petal tips. The petals have a pearlescent sheen, reminiscent of vintage mother of pearl. The delicate rose colour is subtler on young blooms and darkens as they mature and open.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'White'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€2.10Helichrysum bracteatum is the most well known and is probably the best of all the everlasting flowers. They make one of the finest subjects for bouquets, apart from being useful for beds and borders. It is the cut flower grower's staple, producing tall vigorous branching plants that are filled with large papery flowers.
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Helichrysum italicum
Italian Helichrysum, The Curry Plant€2.50Out of stock
Helichrysum italicum is an easy to care for silver-leaved, perennial. In addition to its lovely light silveriness the foliage is endowed with interesting textures which provides contrast among green-leafed plants and the clusters of yellow flowers are useful for cutting.
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Helichrysum thianshanicum
Silver spike or Icicle plant. Marketed as 'Goldkind'€2.70Out of stock
From the Tian Shan Mountains of northern China comes this tough little subshrub that is among the finest expressions of silver foliage to be found. Helichrysum thianshanicum is a superb silver leaved evergreen, subshrub that forms a tight mound of eye-catching silver foliage.
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Heliopsis helianthoides ssp. scabra ‘New Hybrids'
False Sunflower.€2.95Heliopsis is a great plant for the busy home gardener. ‘New Hybrids' is a selection of the newest forms, they will bloom the first year from seed with a profusion of blooms in shades in lemon, golden yellow and orange-yellow. The plants will produce arm loads of flowers all summer long and never once ask for decent soil or proper care.
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Heliopsis helianthoides ssp. scabra ‘Summer Nights'
False Sunflower.€3.35Heliopsis ‘Summer Nights' is a special selection made by Dale Hendricks of North Creek Nurseries, USA. Introduced in 2004 it produces a profusion of single blooms in early to mid-summer, with rich, deep golden-yellow petals and deep mahogany centres. The foliage is red-tinted and the stems are tinted dark burgundy.
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Helleborus argutifolius 'Corsican Hellebore'
Corsican Rose, Holly Leafed Hellebore€2.35Out of stock
With bowl shaped, nodding flowers the colour of 'Granny Smith' apples, the Corsican Hellebore is an unmistakable plant. Its stout stems, deep green, leathery leaves and large heads of flowers mark it apart from all other hellebores. Easy to grow in sun or shade.
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Helleborus niger
Christmas Rose, Christmas Hellebore, Black Hellebore€3.75Helleborus niger is smaller and more compact than any of its relatives and is the first in bloom, producing a succession of delicate white flowers throughout winter. It is a welcome sight when the snow thaws to see something so pretty in bloom.
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Helleborus sternii 'Blackthorn Strain'
Christmas Rose, Christmas Hellebore€2.95Out of stock
Hellebore 'Blackthorn Strain' is a carefully selected seed strain, with delicate pink flowers backed with pink and green, the stems, petioles and often the anthers are an enchanting ripe berry rose. The saw-toothed foliage is pewter-blue above, burgundy-grey beneath.
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Helleborus x hybridus 'Black Beauty'
Hellebore, Christmas Rose, Lenten Rose
(formerly Helleborus orientalis)€3.55Out of stock
Originating from one of the country's top hellebore breeders. Hellebore 'Black Beauty' is a choice variety. The deepest plums and purples open from slate coloured buds, many plants having the extra bonus of the dark foliage of their parents.
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Helleborus x hybridus 'Helen Ballards Strain'
Hellebore, Christmas Rose, Lenten Rose
(formerly Helleborus orientalis)€2.70Out of stock
Based on hybrids bred by the doyenne of the Hellebore world, Helen Ballard, these must be some of the finest and most beautiful of the race we have to offer. Large flowers are produced in a variety of colours from dark purple to white - often extravagantly mottled and marked.
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Herniaria glabra
Smooth Rupturewort€2.80Herniaria glabra is a relatively unknown perennial that deserves to be used more often in our gardens. The nursery industry calls it ‘Green Carpet’ and well they should. This lovely bright green creeper spreads effortlessly in all directions. An excellent choice for between flagstones or as a lawn substitute.
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Hesperis matronalis alba
White Sweet Rocket, Dames Violet, Summer Lilac.€1.75Gorgeously scented pure white flowers are held above rosettes of dark green leaves. Like all sweet rockets it is highly attractive to bees and other beneficial insects, the fragrant flowers perfume the air in late spring and early summer evenings. The night-scented stock is a close relative.
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Hesperis matronalis, Mixed Colours
Sweet Rocket, Dames Violet, Summer Lilac.€1.70Dames Rocket produce flowers varying in colour from deep rich purple, through all the paler lilac shades to white. Highly attractive to bees and other beneficial insects, the fragrant flowers perfume the air in late spring and early summer evenings.
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Hesperis matronalis, Purple-Violet.
Sweet Rocket, Dames Violet, Summer Lilac.€1.60Dames Rocket was the favorite flower of Marie Antoinette. The genus name Hesperis is Greek for evening, a reference to this plant's aroma becoming ever more conspicuous towards evening. The fragrance is as sweet as a violet's. The night-scented stock is a close relative.
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Heuchera micrantha 'Melting Fire'
Heuchera villosa, Coral Bells, Alumroot€2.70Out of stock
Heuchera Melting Fire is a new seed variety of this charming groundcover. The new foliage emerges bright red with delightfully curled and heavily ruffled edges. As spring turns to summer the colour deepens, adding maroon highlights, The flower stems carry delicate clusters of white flowers. Pelleted Seed.
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Hibiscus trionum 'Simply Love'
Flower-of-an-Hour, Venice mallow,€1.75‘Simply Love’ is one of the stand-out stars of the garden. The bushy plants bear lovely iridescent silver flowers, each with a chocolate-purple centre. Hibiscus trionum is an easy to grow, very ornamental bedding or border plant, with a compact and good-branching growth habit. It is drought tolerant and performs well when grown as a container plant.