Interesting Foliage
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Alchemilla mollis 'Lady's Mantle'
'Thriller', 'Irish Silk', Lady’s Mantle€1.75The unpretentious lady's mantle is extremely useful for both its foliage and its flowers. The foliage has the additional virtue of looking especially beautiful after a rain, when it holds water droplets in the pleats of its surface like many pearls of liquid mercury.
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Amaranthus caudatus 'Coral Fountain'
Cascading amaranthus, Love-Lies-Bleeding€2.25With cascading tassels of the most wonderful coral-pink. Amaranthus 'Coral Fountain' is a great addition to the garden and a superb filler for the vase. With generous treatment, specimens three or four feet or more with enormous drooping tassels of flowers can be obtained.
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Amaranthus caudatus 'Mira'
Cascading, Rope Amaranthus€2.25The blooms of Amaranthus caudatus 'Mira' have a unique ombre colour that transitions from light sage green, to lilac, to deep purple. The trailing locks are like jeweled necklaces, thick, pendulous tassels that extend 60 to 90cm long. They add exceptional texture and visual interest to gardens and floral designs alike.
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Amaranthus cruentus 'Hot Biscuits'
Foxtail Amaranthus, Everlasting Flower€1.95Amaranthus 'Hot Biscuits' is a rather splendid ornamental addition to the garden and the vase. This gorgeous and graceful amaranth feature bold spikes of coppery-bronze branching plumes. They make an excellent cut flower and make exciting vase material that hold their colour longer than other amaranths.
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Amaranthus cruentus 'Velvet Curtains'
Foxtail Amaranthus, Everlasting Flower€2.25Amaranthus 'Velvet Curtains' provides intense crimson inflorescence which makes exciting vase material. Flower heads retain their colour, for a long season before turning to seed. The gluten free, protein rich seeds can be eaten as a grain, perfect for vegetarians and vegans.
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Amaranthus tricolour 'Summer Poinsettia Mix'
Summer Poinsettia€1.75Amaranthus tricolour is grown for its beautiful foliage. 'Summer Poinsettia Mix' is a colourful mix of tropical splendors. Juicy colour combinations: deep green leaves topped with creamy chartreuse, vivid yellow, purple with red, and a tricolor mix of red, green and gold.
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Anemanthele lessoniana 'Pheasant’s Tail Grass'
formerly Stipa arundinacea€2.20Out of stock
In summer Anemanthele lessoniana produces open, airy panicles of purple-green flowers that give the plant a pleasing overall arching habit. The leaves become bronzed and turn orange-red in winter - This is still one of the most beautiful of all light grasses.
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Annual Ornamental Grasses Mix
Mixed SpeciesStarting at: €3.55
Out of stock
With a range of interesting colours, heights and textures, annual ornamental grasses are very easy to grow. Many have graceful, pendant, nodding flowers which are extremely useful in the garden and are a dream for flower arrangers.
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Bergenia cordifolia ' New Hybrids'
Heart-leaf bergenia, Elephant's ears€2.45Out of stock
Bergenia cordifolia is one of the most useful of all plants and worthy of a place in any garden. No other plant offers such quality, glossy, evergreen foliage at ground level. This sturdy plant can be planted in groups as ground cover, for edging borders or to provide a foil for delicate foliage plants.
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Briza maxima 'Greater Quaking Grass'
Greater Quaking Grass€1.75Out of stock
Ornamental Grass Briza maxima has blue green leaves and flower heads that hang like scaly little heart shaped lockets that are tinged with pink from late spring to mid summer. They make a wonderful cut flower and flowering in 10 to 12 weeks from spring sowing, they are very easy to grow to perfection.
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Calamagrostis brachytricha
Feather Reed Grass€3.55Out of stock
Calamagrostis brachytricha is a beautiful ornamental grass that is well suited to perennial herbaceous borders and naturalistic planting schemes. It is tolerant of a wide range of soils and growing conditions and is one of the few flowering grasses that can be grown in shade. In late summer fluffy, silvery-white flower heads emerge that in autumn take on buttery shades.
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Canna x hybrida 'Large Flowered Hybrids'
Canna Lily€3.55Canna 'Large Flowered Hybrids' create an undeniably tropical look, producing large flowers in hot colours in yellow, gold, fiery orange and red. With their lush tropical foliage and showy flowers they make borders and beds come alive with their bright colours all summer long until first frosts.
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Carex comans 'Amazon Mist'
Curled Sedge, Switch Grass€2.10Amazon Mist is a graceful ornamental grass with arching silver white evergreen foliage, each ending with a slight curl. The flowing mounds of fine textured are lovely spilling over slopes and walls. It adds colour and texture to both summer and autumn displays.
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Carex pendula
Pendulous or Weeping Sedge€1.75Carex pendula is a woodland plant of considerable charm with long arching leaves and erect stems that bear long drooping green flowers. Suitable for full sun, in shade, wet or dry, it is a great plant for tough conditions, it will even tolerate heavy soil and permanently wet soil.
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Carex testacea 'Prairie Fire'
Red Switch Grass, Speckled Sedge€2.35Out of stock
Carex Prairie Fire is an outstanding specimen plant. A very ornamental grass, in full sun the fine leaved foliage erupts into colour like burning embers. In late summer, panicles of rosy flowers appear just above the foliage. For glorious colour, plant in full sun to partial shade.
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Coleus blumei 'Kong Empire Mix'
Painted Nettle. Flame Nettle€4.50Over the past few years, the new breeding of Coleus has exploded them into hundreds of wild and crazy types of colours and forms. Overwhelmingly the favourite is the Kong series for its sheer presence, each leaf is easily as big as your palm, and probably twice as large as the next biggest Coleus you can buy.
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Coleus blumei, 'Black Dragon'
Painted Nettle. Flame Nettle€2.25This wonderful Victorian type coleus ‘Black Dragon’ forms a riot of rumpled leaves in velvety purplish black leaves, each bordered by frilly edges. The ruby red centres are sometimes flecked with violet or pink. Easy to grow from seed, they will show their first colours in as little as two weeks.
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Cordyline indivisa ‘Mountain Cabbage Tree’
Mountain Cabbage Tree€2.00Out of stock
Cordyline indivisa is a rare and beautiful high altitude species from New Zealand. This attractive and distinctive species is rarely cultivated, but is occasionally offered by specialist nurseries. It can be distinguished from all other Cordyline species by its very broad blue-grey leaves
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Cynara cardunculus 'Cardoon'
Cardoon€2.00Whether you are into the culinary arts or edible landscapes, you may want to put this plant at the top of your list. Chosen by the RHS as one of the top plants of the last 200 years, Cardoons are aristocrats in both the ornamental and the vegetable world.
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Cyperus alternifolius 'Umbrella Plant'
Umbrella Plant€2.20Cyperus alternifolius is a very popular both as a house plant and pond plant. The bracts are symmetrically arranged in an umbrella formation and held atop elegant stems that sway with the breeze, giving a tropical touch to the garden. They are also excellent when used in fresh or dried floral arrangements.
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Deschampsia cespitosa
Tufted Hairgrass€1.95Deschampsia cespitosa is a lovely variety of ornamental grass especially valued for it’s tall flower plumes. The sprays of airy delicate flowers, eventually changing to bronze add texture and colour to the winter garden and deliver a knock-out punch to cut-flower arrangements.
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Deschampsia cespitosa 'Pixie Fountain'
Dwarf Tufted Hairgrass€2.70'Pixie Fountain' is a dwarf variety of Deschampsia cespitosa, just as pretty as its larger cousin. The flower stems growing to a height of 60cm. Perfect for many situations, adding dimension, texture, and a breezy quality to the garden.
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Dipsacus sativus fullonum
Fuller’s Teasel, Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€1.95Fullers Teasel a sub-species of the common teasel. The bristly flower heads were cultivated, matured and dried. Inserted into wooden frames, they were used to bulk up the pile on woolen cloth. The variant name 'fullonum' refers to the name of the trade of the 'fullers' to raise the nap on woolen cloth - to 'tease' it. Teasel is still used today by some who weave wool by hand.
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Dipsacus sativus fullonum, Organic
Fuller’s Teasel, Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.35Fullers Teasel is perfect for attracting wildlife to your garden, especially bees and butterflies while birds love to feed on the seed. It is unique in the plant world in the way in which it blooms: purple-pink flowers form first in a ring around the middle of the head, it grows in width over a few days. Organic Seed.