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Limnanthes douglasii
Poached Egg Plant or Fried Egg Plant.Starting at: €1.74
The fragrant, abundant flowers of Limnanthes appear from summer to autumn and attract bees and butterflies for the duration. This lovely plant provides a carpet of fragrant golden and white blooms that will grace the front of the border, rockery or path edging.
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Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria'
Cardinal Flower, Blood Red Dragons Tongues€2.34‘Queen Victoria’ is a much sought-after perennial lobelia which is grown for both its wonderful foliage and brilliant flowers. This stately, upright plant bears stunning spikes of crimson-scarlet flowers which rise up among the beautiful, maroon-bronze coloured foliage.
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Lunaria annua var. alba 'White Honesty'
Silver Dollars, Silver PenniesStarting at: €1.98
Lunaria annua alba has pure white starry blooms which are almost fluorescent at sunset. Over a long season it produces masses of silvery pods. It is properly grown as a biennial, and makes large, well-branched plants in its second year. Very easy to grow it is also a vital nectar plant.
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Lychnis coronaria 'Rose Campion'
Bloody Mary, Corn Rose€1.50With silvery-grey felted leaves and lax sprays of long-stalked, vivid rose-purple flowers in late summer, Rose Campion flowers with a big showy display that maintains interest at a time when many other plants are flagging. A very useful plant in the garden.
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Lychnis coronaria alba 'White Rose Campion'
Dusty Miller, Silene coronaria€1.98Lychnis can be grown as a border plant or as part of a mixed perennial display. It that maintains interest in the border at a time when many other plants are flagging. Rosettes of soft silver-grey woolly foliage make it a very useful plant in the garden.
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Lysimachia clethroides ‘Lady Jane’
Gooseneck Loosestrife€3.42Lysimachia ‘Lady Jane’ produces spires of white blossoms right above the foliage, they arch over then tip up at the ends and grow in beautiful curvy forms. Absolutely loved by butterflies, an additional feature is the good autumn foliage colour.
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Meconopsis sheldonii 'Lingholm'
Himalayan or Tibetan Blue Poppy€3.54Out of stock
With blue as vivid as a kingfisher's wings, Meconopsis 'Lingholm' is of the most exquisitely beautiful of all flowering plants. Bred by chance this superb hybrid is reliably perennial. With stunningly piercing blue flowers these plants are exceptional.
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Melianthus major 'Honey Bush'
Honey Flower€3.90The lush growth, coupled with the large, glaucous leaves of Melianthus major has made it as fashionable as tree ferns. If you don't want to mimic the rain forest, try growing it amongst slender-leaved grasses and perennials. The plants add texture and provide a good background to bright colours in the garden.
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Milium effusum 'Aureum'
Bowles Golden Grass€2.94Milium effusum Aureum has a magical quality, bringing incandescent light to the shady places it prefers. As the season progresses tiny golden, bead-like flowers on hair-thin stems arch gracefully creating fountains of gold.
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Mimosa pudica 'The Sensitive Plant'
Touch-me-not€1.98 As low as: €1.58Mimosa pudica, the 'sensitive plant', is a source of fascination to adults and children alike. When touched, the narrow fern-like leaflets they almost instantaneously fold together and the leaf stalk droops. This sometimes sets off a chain reaction, with several leaf stalks falling on top of one another.
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Musa ornata
Purple Flowering or Ornamental Banana€2.70Out of stock
Musa ornata is a very attractive ornamental banana plant with tropical flair. A small plant that produces long, glaucous-green, oblong leaves and a gorgeous purple inflorescence in summer. It makes a much more manageable plant than other species and is extremely suitable for containers and well suited for indoor use.
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Musa sikkimensis
Himalayan, Darjeeling or Sikkim Hardy Banana€3.54Out of stock
Musa sikkimensis is still a relatively new plant introduction and is proving to be as hardy as the most popular banana species Basjoo, but I think more attractive and quite spectacular as a large plant. The leaves are a darker glossy green, with new leaves producing a lovely pink flush to the underside.
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Nepeta x faassenii
Faassen's Catmint, Dwarf Catnip€2.10Out of stock
Nepeta faassenii is a dwarf catmint with slender spikes of lavender-blue summer flowers. This clump-forming perennial will form open drifts of hazy blue flowers for weeks and makes a lovely informal edging plant for paths and borders.
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Nicotiana affinis var. grandiflora
Jasmine Tobacco, Flowering Tobacco
Also known as Nicotiana alata var. grandiflora€1.50Nicotiana affinis, also known as N. alata, is a classic tobacco plant with a delicious evening scent. It has been justly popular for over a century and a firm favourite with generations of gardeners: it is far lovelier than the modern improved forms of Nicotiana alata.
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Nicotiana alata var. grandiflora 'Lime Green'
Jasmine Tobacco, Flowering Tobacco
Nicotiana affinis var. grandiflora€1.50Nicotiana alata 'Lime Green' is a sought after variety which produces a mass of bright green flowers which open fully in the afternoon. It provides a new and refreshing alternative to the usual shade annuals: the unusual colouring lifts the summer border and act as a foil to hotter colours.
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Nicotiana langsdorffii
Langsdorff's tobacco€2.34Nicotiana langsdorffii is Brazilian member of the tobacco family and one of those plants that deserves its present high reputation. The chartreuse green panicles of drooping bells add an important ingredient to the garden's palette of colours, a colour that fits in to a great variety of planting schemes.
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Nicotiana sylvestris 'Only the Lonely'
Woodland or South American Tobacco Plant€2.10With elegant, pure white, large clusters of glistening white blooms that are intensely fragrant, Nicotiana sylvestris 'Only the Lonely' makes an aristocratic statement. When in full flower, each head resembles a graceful explosion.
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Nigella damascena 'Miss Jekyll Indigo'
Love in a MistStarting at: €1.26
'Love-in-a-Mist' as it is commonly known is both beautiful and easy to grow, 'Miss Jekyll Indigo' bears rich indigo blue flowers which seem to float amongst the finely cut leaves. They provide a charming show of bloom during the summer months. RHS AGM.
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Nigella damascena alba 'Miss Jekyll, White'
Love in a MistStarting at: €1.50
Nigella “Miss Jekyll White” is one of the most interesting shaped flowers you will ever see. With pure white blooms, once the petals drop, the blossoms transform into little fairy lanterns and the seed pod can be dried for winter decoration indoors.
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Orlaya grandiflora 'White Finch'
Minoan Lace or French Meadow Parsley€2.34Out of stock
Orlaya grandiflora 'White Finch' is a true flower show star. This outstanding plant displays stunning pure white flowers that form in large, flat-topped clusters which resemble lace-cap hydrangeas. The plants bloom for a remarkably long period and mix easily with others in the garden or bouquet.
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Papaver commutatum 'Ladybird Poppy'
Ladybug Poppy€1.74A prolific bloomer with single, red, cup-shaped flowers that each have a black blotch in the centre, this poppy sends up two dozen or more lovely little flowers that look just like ladybirds. Every garden needs a poppy and this one is an exceptional annual. They are a delight to grow and very easy from seed.
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Papaver orientale 'Royal Wedding'
Oriental Poppy. Aka 'Choir Boy' or 'Checkers'.€2.34Out of stock
Nothing compares to the grace of the Oriental poppy, and 'Royal Wedding' is perhaps one of the most striking examples. It exhibits immense pure white satiny blooms with intricately decorated, deep purple-black hearts. They provide a real spectacle year after year.
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Parthenocissus tricuspidata veitchii 'Boston Ivy'
Boston Ivy, Bostonian Ivy, Wall Ivy€3.06Boston ivy is a wonderful ornamental vine. The elegant, dark green glossy foliage is replaced with a vivid range of crimson reds in autumn. Sensational for covering walls, fences and arbors. If allowed, it will grow to impressive size and can turn the most mundane masonry building into a stately wall of foliage.
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Passiflora caerulea 'Blue Crown'
Passionflower, Passionfruit, Granadilla€1.98Out of stock
Known as the Blue Crown Passion Flower or Hardy Passionflower. It is an extremely fast growing and beautiful plant. ‘Caerulea’ sparks with 10cm flowers with white petals and blue filaments. It is popular with gardeners because of its intricate, scented flowers that have an almost surreal appearance.