Alpines & Rockeries
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Dianthus deltoides ‘Arctic Fire’
Maiden Pink.€1.95Dianthus ‘Arctic Fire’ is a spectacular first-year-flowering perennial that forms a dense evergreen mat. The clear white blooms are complemented by an attractive, glowing red eye. This quite exceptional little plant will and grow up to 50cm wide, it covers bare spots quickly. Heat tolerant and hardy to minus 35°C.
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Dianthus deltoides ‘Flashing Light’
Maiden Pink. 'Leuchtfunk' or 'Confetti Deep Red'€2.45Out of stock
Dianthus ‘Flashing Light’ is a spectacular first-year-flowering perennial that forms a dense evergreen mat. The real joy of this plant comes in late spring when a large number of flowers are borne in quick succession. Poking their heads above the deep green foliage, they sparkle like ruby-red diamonds.
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Dianthus deltoides ‘Microchips’
Maiden Pink.€2.10Dianthus deltoides ‘Microchips’ has glaucous blue-green foliage that from late spring are covered with a seemingly impossibly large number of flowers. In shades of white, pink and rosy-red with crimson rings they give several months of both colour and clove-like scent.
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Dianthus pinifolius
Pineleaf Pink€2.70Dianthus pinifolius is a rare and unusual dryland species with a very distinctive look. This intriguing dianthus forms compact mounds of blue-green, grass-like foliage. In late spring to early summer, tall stems emerge from the foliage from which dense heads of dark ruby red flowers erupt.
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Dianthus superbus
Fringed pink, Superb pink€2.35Dianthus superbus is a garden favourite that ranks highly with many gardeners. The fragrant blooms, in shades from a romantic pale pink to a rich, deep-lilac are so finely cut they resemble frilly pinwheels. Those florists of old who strove for those rounded dianthus flowers must have hated it.
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Digitalis purpurea heywoodii 'Silver Fox'
Aka 'Pink Champagne'€2.70Digitalis 'Silver Fox' is one of the most beautiful dwarf Foxgloves for the cottage garden and border. Growing to just 60 to 70cm tall, the creamy-white speckled bells are flushed with soft lavender-pink. An elegant and rare foxglove that is ideal for borders or containers.
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Erigeron karvinskianus 'Profusion'
Mexican Daisy, Fleabane€2.95Producing a profusion of daisy like blooms from May right through till November, the flowers open white but change to deep pink as they mature. Erigeron is easy to grow and an amazingly versatile plant, being low-growing, happy in sun or partial shade and thriving in any well-drained soil. -
Eschscholzia californica 'Ivory Castle'
White California Poppy€2.00This is a lovely cultivar of the California poppy, the blooms of 'Ivory Castle' boasts single, creamy white blooms. One of the easiest and most colourful annuals to grow from seed, they bloom profusely from mid summer until frosts. Extremely attractive to bees, they are breathtaking in massed plantings or containers.
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Eschscholzia californica 'Rosa Romantica'
California Poppy€2.70With flowers that resemble a rose, Eschscholzia californica 'Rosa Romantica' is a lovely and quite unique California Poppy, the petals are streaked in the most romantic of shades, soft pink-rose and salmon-fuchsia overlay creamy white on each elaborately painted petal.
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Eschscholzia californica 'Thai Silk' Mix
California Poppy€1.95Eschscholzia 'Thai Silk' boasts large semi-double blooms in breathtaking jewel tones and a chiffon-like texture reminiscent of glorious oriental silks. This exotic mix contains the Thai Silk series of colours: Appleblossom, Rose, Apricot Chiffon, and Pink Champagne.
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Eschscholzia californica Thai Silk, 'Appleblossom Chiffon'
Extra double California Poppy€2.45'Thai Silk' is a stunning range of California poppies of superb quality with silky flowers. 'Appleblossom Chiffon' produces very double flowers in an ethereal shade of shimmering, dappled silvery-pink. Very easy to grow, they are attractive to pollinators and perfect for cutting.
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Eschscholzia californica Thai Silk, 'Apricot Chiffon'
Extra double California Poppy€2.45'Thai Silk Apricot Chiffon' produces silky double, creamy apricot coloured blooms with petals fringed in beautiful coral pink. Very easy to grow, they are attractive to pollinators and perfect for cutting. These clustered flowers are fascinating to the eye and are breath taking in massed plantings or containers. -
Euphorbia myrsinites
Myrtle Spurge€3.45Out of stock
Euphorbia myrsinites is a charming plant, a prostrate-growing evergreen with trailing stems that are clad in spiraling grey-blue leaves. An easy, tough, tidy groundcover and one of the most useful and highly ornamentally plants to grow in the garden. -
Geranium bohemicum 'Orchid Blue'
Hardy Geranium€3.55Out of stock
Geranium 'Orchid Blue' is a simply stunning plant, producing clusters of saucer shaped flowers of a rarely seen shade of pure orchid-blue, each with purple-violet veins. This new-on-the-scene plant soon spreads to form low hummocks of deeply cut soft green, leaves.
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Geranium pratense 'Striatum' aka 'Splish Splash'
Hardy Geranium€3.95"Splish Splash" is a fascinating, rare and prized border plant and one of the most beautiful, striking and unusual perennial geraniums. Very easy to grow, the clumps of divided foliage are topped with mauve-blue splashes and flecks on pure white petals, each petal appearing to be individually designed and painted.
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Geranium sanguineum 'Vision Light Pink'
Hardy Geranium€3.75‘Vision Light Pink’ produces masses of large luminescent light pink flowers with red veins from early spring through to late summer. This long-lived, drought-tolerant perennial is useful as a small scale groundcover and in mixed borders. Use it in rock gardens, stone walls or even in container plantings.
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Geranium sanguineum 'Vision Violet'
Hardy Geranium€3.55A beautiful, robust ground cover variety of the every popular Geranium sanguineum; ‘Vision Violet’ produces masses of large luminescent violet flowers from early spring to summer. The blooms cover this compact, mounding plant with intricately cut leaves.
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Herniaria glabra
Smooth Rupturewort€2.95Herniaria 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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Iberis sempervirens 'Snowflake'
Perennial or Evergreen Candytuft€1.95Iberis sempervirens is an early season favorite. This low bushy plant produces mounds of blinding white flowers in spring to early summer. An all round tough plant suitable for problem areas, use for containers, for pathways and crevices of ornamental walls. -
Iberis umbellata 'Lilac' Candytuft
Annual or Globe Candytuft€1.25Out of stock
An extremely easy to grow, hardy annual plant, Iberis umbellata is quick to grow and is in bloom within two months from a spring sowing. This beautiful lilac form has glossy green leaves and the familiar clusters of fragrant flowers which are attractive to bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects.
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Iberis umbellata 'Rose-Cardinal' Candytuft
Annual or Globe Candytuft€1.25Iberis umbellata 'Rose-Cardinal' is quick to grow and is in bloom within two months from a spring sowing. Extremely easy to grow, they are invaluable for underplanting and for use in rock gardens and containers. They are considered one of the best plants grown for edging purposes.
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Iberis umbellata 'White' Candytuft
Annual or Globe Candytuft€1.25Iberis umbellata is a popular and easily-grown annual plant that is perhaps more versatile than you might imagine. Considered one of the best for edging purposes, they are also invaluable for underplanting, for rock gardens and containers. Easy to grow and fast to flower, this fragrant hardy annual will quickly cover any unsightly bare spots in the garden.
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Leontopodium alpinum 'Edelweiss'
Edelweiss€1.75Out of stock
Leontopodium alpinum is much loved as the traditional symbol of the Alps and the unofficial national flower of Switzerland. Commonly known as Edelweiss, the plants have matt, grey-green foliage, which makes the perfect backdrop for the remarkable white starfish shaped felted bracts.
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Limnanthes douglasii
Poached Egg Plant or Fried Egg Plant.Starting at: €1.75
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.