Woodland
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Digitalis lutea 'Small Yellow Foxglove'
Small Foxglove, Straw Foxglove€1.74Digitalis lutea is a quite a different species to the traditional cultivated foxglove, with delicate small flowers; it is an easily grown plant that is reliably perennial. It bears delicate pale cream-yellow tubular flowers and grows to just 60cm in height. This delicate foxglove is a charming beauty wherever it is planted.
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Digitalis lanata 'Café Crème'
Grecian, Woolly, Perennial Foxglove€2.34Digitalis lanata has a beautiful 'Coffee and Cream' colouration, from late spring to mid summer it produces spikes of densely packed, fawn-coloured flowers each with a pearl coloured lower lip. Each of the blooms is delicately patterned with dark brown veins.
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Digitalis grandiflora
Syn: Digitalis ambigua. Perennial Foxglove€1.98Digitalis grandiflora is one of the few truly perennial foxgloves. Extremely hardy and one of the best performers. Bearing upright stalks of beautiful creamy-yellow bells through the summer, the lovely soft shade allows this plant to blend with almost anything in the garden.
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Digitalis ferruginea 'Gigantea'
Perennial Foxglove, Rusty Foxglove€2.34Digitalis ferruginea 'Gigantea' is an interesting and exotic looking foxglove and a native of the northern Mediterranean. With elegant, leafy spires and closely packed golden blooms, each orchid-like flower has an interior of rich red to dark brown veins with fine soft hairs on the tips.
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Dicentra spectabilis alba
Lamprocapnos spectabilis, Bleeding Heart€3.54This stunning, more rare form of Dicentra with its pure white heart shaped flowers adds charming beauty to the woodland or shade garden. Planted with other shade lovers, it gives a real lift each spring when the delicate heart shaped wonders first appear.
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Dicentra eximia 'Fernleaf Dicentra'
Fringed Bleeding Heart€2.46A popular plant for the shade garden, very easy and satisfying to grow, Dicentra eximia is a tremendous performer. Long-blooming, with nodding, heart-shaped flowers and deeply cut, fern-like foliage, planted with other shade lovers it will add charming beauty to any woodland or shade garden.
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Cyclamen hederifolium f. albiflorum
Hardy, Ivy-leaved or Neapolitan cyclamen.
Marketed as 'Perlenteppich' and 'White Pearls'€3.54Having seen the dainty flowers of Cyclamen hederifolium, few can resist trying to grow it. The form, albiflorum blooms with pure white flowers. The succession of flowers lasts for weeks and provide a feature until late spring.
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Cyclamen hederifolium
Hardy, Ivy-leaved or Neapolitan cyclamen.
Wildflower of Europe€3.18There are few plants that offer such ornately decorative foliage. no two plants are the same and a mass planting of Cyclamen hederifolium in the late autumn or winter is more fascinating than the most intricately detailed Persian carpet.
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Cyclamen graecum
Greek Cyclamen€3.42Cyclamen graecum are appreciated for their wonderful rosettes of superbly marbled leaves. The markings of which are infinitely variable and include some of the most striking patterns and vivid colour combinations. The flowers have a magenta blotch at the base and are veined in red.
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Corydalis solida 'Spring Fumewort'
Bird-in-a-bush
European Wildflower€1.74What gardener with a heart and soul could resist the spring flowers of Corydalis, whose winged petals with upswept spurs suggest a flight of elfin butterflies. These woodland ephemerals are highly useful at the front of the border, with miniature bulbs such as crocus, muscari or scillas.
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Cimicifuga simplex 'Atropurpurea'
Actaea simplex Atropurpurea Group€2.34Actaea simplex 'Atropurpurea' is an exceptionally beautiful selection, valued for its large Astilbe-like leaves of purple black. Its dark hue makes a wonderful backdrop for colourful foliage and flowering shade plants. In late summer, long, fluffy spires in pale pinkish-white, rise above the dark foliage. -
Cimicifuga simplex
Actaea simplex€2.34Out of stock
Actaea simplex is a spectacular plant. With long, fluffy spires in pale pinkish-white that seem to float in mid-air. Stunning when grown in groups, while single plants have good specimen value, they add architectural height and late summer bloom to the back of a shady border. -
Cimicifuga racemosa var. cordifolia
Actaea racemosa var. cordifolia€2.10Actaea cordifolia comes into its own late in the season, when multiple stiff and stout stems emerge from the base of the plant. It displays impressive long racemes of chalky-white blooms that are composed of numerous, tiny individual star-like, fragrant flowers. -
Cardiocrinum giganteum, 'Giant Yunnan Lily'
Syn: Lilium giganteum var. yunnanense€3.36Cardiocrinum giganteum is a truly spectacular plant, which produces glorious vanilla scented, trumpet-like flowers on stems up two to three metres tall. Most gardeners agree growing this rare beauty is well worth the wait. I suppose you do have to be patient to be a gardener. We all know the longer we must wait for a beauty, the more we treasure it.
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Cardamine pratensis
Cuckoo Flower, Ladys flower, Ladys smock
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.34Out of stock
Cardamine pratensis is one of the most beautiful and one of the best loved wild flowers. Found in moist meadows and damp grasslands, it bears long narrow leaves and supremely elegant flowers in late spring/early summer. they appear just at the time the first cuckoo starts to call.
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Betonica officinalis, Betony
Formerly Stachys officinalis, Wood Betony, Bishopswort.
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€1.74Out of stock
This pretty little wildflower is a slow growing, long-lived plant with attractive spikes of rich pink-mauve flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies as a nectar source. The flowers, which rise from dark green crinkly leaves, keep their colour throughout summer and look stunning when growing en-masse.
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Bergenia cordifolia ' New Hybrids'
Heart-leaf bergenia, Elephant's ears€2.46Out 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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Astrantia major alba
Masterwort, Melancholy Gentleman, Hatties Pincusion€2.22Out of stock
Pale greenish-white, pincushion-like flowers surrounded by a ruff of greenish white bracts are produced from June to October. The delicate Astrantia alba is perfect for naturalising in areas of moist, dappled shade. It works equally well in a woodland edge or in a mixed border.
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Aruncus dioicus, Goat's Beard
White Goat's Beard, Bride's Feathers€2.10Aruncus dioicus’ commonly known as Goat's Beard or Bride's Feathers is one of the most handsome plants for the perennial bed. Its leaves are large and it has an abundance of flowers and in the autumn it turns an impressive, autumnal yellow colour.
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Arum italicum subsp. italicum.
Italian Arum, Lords & Ladies
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.70'Arum Marmoratum' is extremely useful for shady spots or woodland planting. With unusual creamy-white flowers, attractively patterned leaves and scarlet, fleshy berries it stays lush right throughout winter, thriving in cold weather.
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Aquilegia canadensis
Rock Bells, Dwarf Red Columbine€2.34Native to Canada and the US in all states east of the Rockies, this superb variety is quite unlike the usual Aquilegia. Growing just twelve to eighteen inches tall, with dark-green foliage and eye-catching, scarlet and lemon-yellow flowers which hang like drifts of softly illuminated lanterns.
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Aquilegia alpina
Alpine or Mountain Columbine€1.50Aquilegia alpina is a species-columbine that rivals the fanciest cultivars and has been grown in gardens for as long as the idea of gardening has existed. It is a clump-forming perennial with deep blue-green, downy foliage and vibrant violet blue nodding flowers in late spring and early summer.
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Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing'
Gipsy Laces, Lady's Needlework.€3.00Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing' is the most elegant and garden-worthy form of cow parsley. With stunning, almost black, finely cut ferny foliage the first year, it explodes the second year with delicate clusters of small white flowers held above the darkest of foliage. Use them for fillers in bouquets as you would Queen Anne’s lace.
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Anthriscus sylvestris 'Cow Parsley'
Gipsy Laces, Lady's Needlework.
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€1.80Anthriscus sylvestris is most characteristic of hedgerows, road verges and woodland edges. Our native Cow Parsley has a sophisticated form, with delicate, open, white lacy umbels, that from mid-spring to early summer look as though they're erupting from a well shaken champagne bottle!