Hardy Perennials
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Alcea rosea 'Queeny Mix'
Althaea rosa, Hollyhock€2.35This gorgeous award winning Hollyhock has the distinction of being the shortest in the Alcea rosea family. 'Queeny' is a dwarf Hollyhock that reaches only 60cm in height with fully double blooms. Unlike the tall varieties, it is a perennial that can also be used as an annual as it will bloom in its first year.
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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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Anchusa italica 'Dropmore'
Aka Anchusa azurea or Italian Bugloss€2.35Out of stock
Anchusa italica is a wonderfully statuesque plant with vibrant, gentian blue flowers, dense foliage and lance shaped mid green leaves. 'Dropmore' is a 1905 selection that is still available today. They will thrive in a sunny border and make a great companion to rich plums and purple tones.
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Anemanthele lessoniana 'Pheasant’s Tail Grass'
formerly Stipa arundinacea€2.50In 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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Anemone hupehensis var. japonica 'Japanese Anemone'
Japanese Windflower€2.45Japanese Anemones are among the best late summer and autumn border flowers. The flowers open from round, silk-covered buds and in summer rain, look like pearls glistening in the border. Blooming from August to late October, they help push the show into autumn and provide colour when most gardens begin to fade.
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Anemone nemorosa 'Wood Anemone'
Windflower
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.75This lovely woodlander makes a striking impact in the spring garden. The Irish-born exponent of wild gardening, William Robinson, adored Anemone nemorosa. Writing in his English Flower Garden in 1883, he begins by saying "there is little need to plead for their culture".
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Anemonopsis macrophylla
False Anemone, Renge-shoma€3.55Out of stock
Anemonopsis macrophylla is one of the most beautiful and elegant plants that you could wish for. Slow growing and rarely seen, it bears nodding, opalescent white flowers on slender elegant spikes, but this emphatic woodlander is not in fact difficult to grow if given humus-rich, semi-shaded conditions.
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Anthemis tinctoria, Cota tinctoria, Dyer's Chamomile
Golden Marguerite or Golden Chamomile.€2.15In horticulture Cota tinctoria is still widely referred to by its synonym Anthemis tinctoria. This beautiful aromatic, hardy perennial that is fast to flower and often used as a biennial produces masses of golden yellow daisies from June through to September. Historically used for natural dyeing, this is an ideal plant for naturalised and pollinator friendly plantings.
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Antirrhinum braun-blanquetii
Perennial Snapdragon€2.95In addition to having one of the most unusual names, Antirrhinum braun-blanquetii, is also one of the few hardy perennial species of snapdragon. Named for Josias Braun-Blanquet an influential 20th century Swiss botanist it bloom the first year from seed producing numerous spikes from which delicate yellow, large snapdragon blooms appear.
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Aquilegia alpina
Alpine or Mountain Columbine€2.25Out of stock
Aquilegia 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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Aquilegia atrata
The Dark Columbine€2.10Aquilegia atrata is a beautiful free flowering species that is native to the alpine meadows and forest clearings of Switzerland and Northern Europe. With many branching stems of deepest coloured, almost black flowers. This is an outstanding, highly sought species that would be a showstopper in any garden.
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Aquilegia canadensis
Rock Bells, Dwarf Red Columbine€2.35Native 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 chrysantha ‘Yellow Queen’
Golden Columbine€1.95Aquilegia chrysantha ‘Golden Queen’, is quite simply one of the most beautiful Aquilegias. With mid-green foliage and long-spurred, golden-yellow flowers. The large blooms are upward facing and are produced generously in early summer. This is one plant that is guaranteed to create a stunning display.
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Aquilegia var. stellata 'Barlow Mix'
Clematis Flowered or Rose Columbine.€2.00Aquilegia var. stellata 'Barlow Mix' is one of the really exceptional doubles forms of Aquilegia. It is the first Aquilegia series with fully double, spurless flowers. Stylish and elegant, with a graceful upright habit they grow to around 80cm tall. It produces many stems and makes an ideal cut flower.
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Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White'
Also known as 'Nivea'€2.25Aquilegia 'Munstead White' is a handsome form, is reputed to have been specially selected by early twentieth-century garden writer and designer Gertrude Jekyll. Their abundant, bee-pleasing, white flowers will bloom in late spring and early summer are perfect for shade.
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Aquilegia vulgaris 'William Guinness'
Also known as “Magpie”€1.75Out of stock
Eye-catching, purple-black flowers with contrasting white centres appear in late spring and early summer above fern-like, mid-green leaves this variety is something special. 'William Guinness' is a superb and reliable Aquilegia variety that makes an ideal cut flower, it grows and blooms well in shady areas.
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Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Nora Barlow'
Clematis Flowered or Rose Columbine.€2.45Emma Nora Barlow was a formidable woman and a granddaughter of Charles Darwin. She enjoyed hybridising plants and gave some seeds to the nurseryman Alan Bloom who named his commercial stock after her. Together they produced a cottage garden classic.
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Arabis alpina subsp. caucasica 'Grandiflora Rosea'
Wall Cress or Mountain Rockcress€1.75Arabis is a very popular and useful plant and one of the best for the rockery. It is related to Aubrieta and is used in a similar fashion. 'Grandiflora Rosea' is a pink flowered cultivar that makes a good groundcover, it can be used in borders and is excellent for trailing over the edges of containers, over stones or down walls. -
Arabis alpina subsp. caucasica 'Snowcap'
syn A. alpina 'Schneehaube'
Wall, White or Mountain Rockcress€2.00One of the earliest spring flowers to appear, Arabis 'Snowcap' with dense masses of snow-white flowers looks wonderful in containers or under spring-blooming bulbs, the pretty white flowers will fill the void when yearning for blooms is tugging at your core.
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Arenaria montana 'Mountain Sandwort'
Sandwort.€2.25Arenaria montana is a classic little alpine or rock garden plant, still relatively unknown to many gardeners. The plant forms prostrate mats of evergreen foliage, blanketed by large white flowers. They are at their loveliest spilling over walls and will quickly fill in the spaces between stepping stones.
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Armeria maritima 'Alba'
Thrift, Sea Thrift, Sea Pink, Cliff Rose.€2.10Out of stock
Armeria Maritima 'Alba' is a beautiful white cultivar. One of the easiest grown perennials and a valuable rockery plant, and one that should always be included if choice is restricted. This compact, evergreen perennial grows in low clumps and sends up long stems from which globes of pure white blooms.
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Armeria maritima 'Splendens'
Thrift, Sea Thrift, Sea Pink, Cliff Rose.€1.85Out of stock
Easy to grow, undemanding and very long lived, it is no wonder that our little Thrift has been cultivated worldwide as a garden flower. Armeria maritima Splendens is a beautiful dark pink cultivar. With clumps of dark green, evergreen foliage it requires little water and very little maintenance.
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Artemisia ludoviciana
Louisiana sage€2.10Out of stock
Prized for its beautiful silvery foliage, the fine grey-white stems of Artemisia ludoviciana bear silvery-white leaves that are fragrant, fuzzy and soft. This finely textured plant adds a different element to the garden, the texture and leaf form setting them apart from those other garden plants with rather less refined foliage.
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Arum italicum subsp. italicum.
Italian Arum, Lords & Ladies
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.45'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.