Contemporary
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Thalictrum lucidum
Shining Meadow Rue€2.20Thalictrum lucidum is a less well known species of meadow rue, it sports luscious deep green, fern-like foliage. In mid-summer the plant is festooned with a superb array of fragrant flower stems, topped with airy puffs of soft cream flowers each with bright yellow stamens.
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Stipa tenuissima 'Pony Tails'
Recently renamed 'Nassella tenuissima'. Mexican Feather Grass€2.75Stipa tenuissima 'Pony Tails' is wonderfully impressive. In summer, plants are covered with masses of elegant pale feathery seed-heads which are held a little above the foliage. These can be cut for use in arrangements indoors. Alternatively they make a useful winter food source for finches and other seed-eating birds. -
Stipa gigantea
Golden Oats€4.25Stipa gigantea is the most dramatically beautiful of all grasses. It has the wonderful and fashionably transparent quality of providing height without bulk, tall stems of golden oat-like flowers allow glimpses into the garden beyond. -
Stipa capillata 'Bridal Veil'
Feather Grass, Needle Grass. Aka ‘Lace Veil’.€2.95Out of stock
Stipa capillata 'Bridal Veil' is one of the prettiest perennial grasses. Forming a dense, glossy green clump of foliage they bloom in summer with beautiful upright plumes. The hair-like awns are at first clear green, and as they mature they turn a beautiful silvery-white.
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Sporobolus heterolepis
Dropseed, Sacaton Grass€2.70Out of stock
Sporobolus displays a magnificent fountain of fine textured, emerald-green leaves which develop rich shades of reddish-gold or deep orange in the autumn, but the great joy of this plant is that it produces a great cloudy haze of tiny flower heads. Numerous stalks with delicate, open panicles shoot up and over the clump.
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Sedum ussuriense 'Pink Beacon'
Ussuri River Stonecrop
Recently renamed Hylotelephium ussuriense€2.80Sedum ussuriense is at its best in late summer and through autumn, the blue-green succulent, rounded leaves are followed by a glowing display or carmine-red flower clusters. It even pleases the eye in winter when its seed heads turn into a stage for dew drops and ice crystals.
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Sedum telephium 'Emperor's Waves'
Emperor's Stonecrop
Recently renamed Hylotelephium telephium€2.95Out of stock
Hugely impressive in any garden, Sedum telephium ‘Emperors Wave’ boasts succulent, blue-green foliage and masses of star-shaped flowers in glorious shades of deep pink and purple. They are popular with late season perennials and ornamental grasses. The extreme contrast in flower shape enhance each other, adding to the textures and colours of the late season garden.
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Sagina subulata 'Irish Moss'
Pearlwort, Corsican Pearlwort€2.95Out of stock
Sagina subulata is one of the best low growing ground covers. Irish moss is most often used as a ground cover, softening paths and stepping-stones. It gives a lush accent to rock garden and terraces. For a luxurious carpet of green, few plants can match Irish Moss.
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Rudbeckia occidentalis 'Green Wizard'
Western Coneflower, Green Coneflower€2.65An absolute gift to flower arrangers, this is a noble and ornamental plant for the back of any border making nice clumps of foliage. It is, of course, the flowers that are remarkable: three or four inches across, “green” is one’s immediate impression on seeing them.
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Ricinus communis 'Carmencita'
Castor Oil Plant€2.65Out of stock
Ricinus communis 'Carmencita' is an outstanding new variety with shiny dark brown foliage. The palmate leaves have deeply incised lobes and grow 30 to 75cm (12 to 30in) across. The plants have red stems and in late summer clusters of bright red blooms are followed by stunning scarlet seeds pods.
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Panicum virgatum 'Emerald Chief'
Panic Grass, Switchgrass€2.70Out of stock
'Emerald Chief' is a good Panicum virgatum selected seed strain. Hardy with sturdy upright deep green growth and great autumn colour. The panicles open red pink in late summer and its foliage turns from green to a lovely deep gold. This chief stands up tall throughout the winter months.
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Panicum virgatum
Panic Grass, Switchgrass€2.25Despite its American provenance Panicum virgatum was originally taken up by German landscapers and gardeners. Renowned for its steely coloured blue-grey to blue-purple leaves, but it is the contrast between the rigid, stainless-steel foliage and purple-pink froth that really charms.
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Milium effusum 'Aureum'
Bowles Golden Grass€2.95Out of stock
Milium 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. -
Lysimachia clethroides ‘Lady Jane’
Gooseneck Loosestrife€3.40Out of stock
Lysimachia ‘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. -
Hordeum jubatum
Squirrel-Tail, Foxtail Barley€2.20Out of stock
Squirrel-Tail Grasses are the ultimate architectural plant, adding see-through effects, autumn colour and winter shapes. They carry silky, golden-greyish panicles in early and mid summer, which develop a reddish or purple tinge at the tips. Fantastic in massed groups, or around taller, more stately plants. -
Heliopsis helianthoides ssp. scabra ‘Summer Nights'
False Sunflower.€3.55Out of stock
Heliopsis ‘Summer Nights' is a special selection made by Dale Hendricks of North Creek Nurseries, USA. Introduced in 2004 it produces a profusion of single blooms in early to mid-summer, with rich, deep golden-yellow petals and deep mahogany centres. The foliage is red-tinted and the stems are tinted dark burgundy.
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Festuca glauca 'Blue Fescue Grass'
Blue Fescue€2.00Diminutive Festuca glauca makes a tight mound of steely blue, needle-like blades and is one of the most tactile of the evergreen grasses. Planted as a specimen or in swathes across a garden, the colour is so unexpected it can't help but catch the eye.
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Fennel, Bronze Fennel
Herb Fennel, Bronze Fennel.€2.25Used in many culinary dishes, the leaves and seeds of Fennel have a sweet aroma and an aniseed flavour. The fine clouds of feathery, bronze-purple leaves are wonderful in the herb garden or among tall perennials and grasses. The foliage acts as a delicate veil through which flower heads of plants can be seen.
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Eupatorium maculatum atropurpureum
Spotted Joe Pye weed
Eutrochium purpureum subsp. maculatum€2.70Eupatorium maculatum atropurpureum is handsome in all of its parts. Invaluable for the late-summer border, the mid-green leaves and stems are suffused with a dusky purple. From July they are crowned with large domed panicles of pinkish-purple nectar-rich flowers. -
Eupatorium fistulosum f. albidum 'Ivory Towers'
Hollow Joe Pye weed, Queen of the Meadow€2.95Introduced in 2010, Eupatorium ‘Ivory Towers’ is relatively new to our gardens yet has already been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit . This architectural plant bears generously clusters of ivory-white blooms which are long-lasting and beloved by butterflies. Given an early sowing, will flower the first year. -
Echinacea purpurea, Organic
Purple Coneflower€2.70Echinacea purpurea is one of the most versatile perennials for the garden. Flowering from early July right through to September, it is sturdy and self-supporting, hardy and easy to grow, undemanding and suitable for both the formal border and the meadow look. Organic Seed. -
Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'
Magnus' Purple Coneflower€2.45Out of stock
Echinacea ‘Magnus’ is an outstanding selection of the 'Cone Flower'. Distinguished by the warm bright colour of its exceptionally large flowers, and horizontal petals. This award winning variety has for many years been one of late summer's most garden worthy forms -
Echinacea purpurea
Purple Cone FlowerStarting at: €1.95
Out of stock
Echinacea purpurea is one of the most versatile perennials for the garden. Flowering from early July right through to September, it is sturdy and self-supporting, hardy and easy to grow, undemanding and suitable for both the formal border and the meadow look.
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Echinacea pallida
Pale Purple Coneflower€2.70Echinacea pallida is one of the more rare members of the Echinacea family. They have much longer, ray flowers than those of the more familiar purple coneflower, the plants bloom earlier and continue to bloom sporadically through the autumn months.