December
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Arum italicum subsp. italicum.
Italian Arum, Lords & Ladies
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland$3.15
'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. -
Astrantia major 'Primadonna'
Masterwort, Melancholy Gentleman, Hatties Pincusion$3.15Astrantia major “Primadonna” is a splendid and most attractive cultivated variety forming bushy plants, good for ground cover, and bearing long, loosely-branched stems of very lovely flowers in various shades of wine to deep red. The papery bracts remain presentable for months, rustling in every breeze.
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Astrantia major alba
Masterwort, Melancholy Gentleman, Hatties Pincusion$2.59Pale 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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Campanula carpatica 'Blue'
Bellflower, Carpathian bellflower$1.75 Campanula carpatica 'Blue' is a lovely lavender-blue-flowered variety of this easily-grown campanula. It covers its low mounds of foliage with upward-facing blue bells for weeks in summer. The flowers are held on short stems above dainty heart shaped, bright green leaves. -
Campanula carpatica 'White'
Bellflower, Carpathian bellflower$1.75 Campanula carpatica 'White' is a lovely white-flowered variety of this easily-grown campanula. It covers its low mounds of foliage with upward-facing white bells for weeks in summer. The flowers are held on short stems above dainty heart shaped, bright green leaves. -
Campanula carpatica Mix
Bellflower, Carpathian bellflower$1.75 Campanula carpatica is a dwarf, perennial campanula which forms low-growing floriferous mounds that slowly spread to form an attractive ground cover. Throughout summer the plants explode with cup-shaped vivid blue or white blooms. -
Campanula cochlearifolia
Bellflower, Fairies Thimbles
Campanula pusilla$3.01 Campanula Pusilla is distinguished by its production of enormous numbers of elegant, lavender-blue bell-shaped blooms. It grows horizontally with rosettes of shiny green heart shaped foliage, rarely exceeding 10cm in height. It will spread indefinitely. -
Dodecatheon meadia 'Shooting Star'
American Cowslip,$2.73 Dodecatheon is a member of the primula family and a relative of the Cyclamen. It enjoys sun or partial shade and lend themselves to woodland environments, softening the under story with its delicately perfect blooms. Propagation by seed is surprisingly easy. A reliable bloomer and an easy keeper. -
Erythronium dens-canis
Dog's Tooth Violet$3.57 Erythronium dens-canis is attractive from the moment it pokes up from the soil in early spring. The oval pointed leaves with bronze patterns appear in early spring and are followed shortly by nodding rose pink to purple, elfin-cap flowers that bloom for several weeks. -
Erythronium grandiflorum
Yellow Avalanche Lily, Glacier Lily$4.13 Erythronium grandiflorum is a rarely offered species. Native to west North America, it is one of the largest of the genus. Blooming in early spring, each flower stem has up to ten golden yellow, nodding, star-shaped flowers with reflexed petals. -
Geranium - Hardy Geranium Mix
Mixture of species and cultivars$3.85Hardy geraniums are undoubtedly one of the most popular groups of plants. Today’s hybrids are the modern flag bearers, they are beautiful, reliable and endlessly various produces jewel-tone, saucer-shape flowers for months at a time. Exceptionally good value this mix always contain a few real rarities.
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Geranium bohemicum 'Orchid Blue'
Hardy Geranium$3.43Geranium '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 endressii
French crane's-bill, Géranium d' Endress$3.15 Geranium endressii is one of the best choices for massed plantings, filling in quickly to create a bushy groundcover. The plant forms a mound of glossy, deeply-cut, green foliage, bearing a summer-long display of cup-shaped, bright pink flowers. -
Geranium pratense 'Dark Reiter’
Hardy Geranium.$4.13'Dark Reiter’, is a fairly new cultivar originating from 'Victor Reiter' whose namesake was the legendary California nurseryman. What sets this plant apart is the new leaves that emerge a light maroon colour then fade to a purple-flushed deep green, it produces violet-blue flowers in spring.
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Geranium pratense 'Purple Haze'
Hardy Geranium, Garden Geranium$3.85Out of stock
'Purple Haze' is one of the discoveries of the century. Grown for its amazing foliage, unique shades rarely seen within in the genus they vary from bronzes, through purples to dark beetroot. Most are deeply divided and make a striking contrast to the blooms, perfectly themed in shades of gorgeous violet-mauve.
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Geranium pratense 'Striatum' aka 'Splish Splash'
Hardy Geranium$5.53Out of stock
"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 psilostemon
Armenian crane's-bill$4.13Out of stock
Get out the dark glasses – Geranium psilostemon has the most uncompromising colour of screaming magenta! Nothing like as gaudy as you might think and it never overwhelms, the wonderful dark eye in each flower tones down the effect. -
Geranium pyrenaicum 'Bill Wallis'
Hardy Geranium$2.73Out of stock
Geraniums ‘Bill Wallis’ is the best cultivar of the type with especially desirable, very deep violet-purple flowers. Very easy to grow, 'Bill Wallis' produces profusely from April to August, the deep violet-purple flowers each with deeply notched petals, float over the plant all summer.
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Geranium pyrenaicum 'Summer Snow'
Hardy Geranium$2.45Geranium pyrenaicum is a European species and well known for being one of the most floriferous of Geraniums. 'Summer Snow' is an easy to grow, yet hard to find white flowered cultivar which produces profuse quantities of white flowers each with deeply notched petals.
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Geranium sanguineum 'Vision Light Pink'
Hardy Geranium$3.57‘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$3.57A 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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Gunnera manicata
Giant Rhubarb$2.59Gunnera is one of the biggest and most spectacular, architectural, herbaceous plants. With gigantic, deeply lobed, deep green leaves, they look best standing as specimen plants or beside a large pond where the reflections reveal the undersides of the leaves -
Helleborus niger
Christmas Rose, Christmas Hellebore, Black Hellebore$3.15Helleborus niger is smaller and more compact than any of its relatives and is the first in bloom, producing a succession of delicate white flowers throughout winter. It is a welcome sight when the snow thaws to see something so pretty in bloom. -
Helleborus sternii 'Blackthorn Strain'
Christmas Rose, Christmas Hellebore$3.43Out of stock
'Blackthorn Strain' is a carefully selected seed strain, with delicate pink flowers backed with pink and green, the stems, petioles and often the anthers are an enchanting ripe berry rose. The saw-toothed foliage is pewter-blue above, burgundy-grey beneath.
