December
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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.
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Astrantia major 'Primadonna'
Masterwort, Melancholy Gentleman, Hatties Pincusion€2.70Out of stock
Astrantia 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€2.20Out 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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Begonia boliviensis ‘F1 Sun Cities Mixed’
Pendula or Hanging Begonia, Tuberous Begonia€3.95Elegant cascades of vivid, elongated flowers with large, arrow-shaped, neatly serrated, green leaves. Begonia boliviensis ‘F1 Sun Cities Mixed’ feature the three ‘Sun Cities’ of the USA: ‘San Francisco’ has slmon-pink blooms, ‘Santa Barbara’ features white blooms and ‘Santa Cruz’, fiery red blooms
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Begonia x hybrida ‘F1 Funky Mixed’
Pendula or Hanging Begonia, Tuberous Begonia€3.95Be prepared to get your funk on. The Funky Begonia has entered the dance floor, and she's ready to boogie all summer long. Huge, voluptuous flowers with superior heat tolerance and semi-trailing yet dense, sturdy growth habit, in six fantastic colours – Light Pink, Bright Pink, Orange, Red, Scarlet and White.
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Campanula carpatica 'Blue'
Bellflower, Carpathian bellflower€1.50Campanula 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.
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Campanula carpatica 'White'
Bellflower, Carpathian bellflower€1.50Campanula 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.
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Campanula carpatica Mix
Bellflower, Carpathian bellflower€1.50Out of stock
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.
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Dodecatheon meadia 'Shooting Star'
American Cowslip,€2.35Out of stock
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.
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Erythronium dens-canis
Dog's Tooth Violet€2.95Erythronium 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.
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Erythronium grandiflorum
Yellow Avalanche Lily, Glacier Lily€2.95Erythronium 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.
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Geranium - Hardy Geranium Mix
Mixture of species and cultivars€3.30Out of stock
Hardy 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€3.55Geranium '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€2.70Out of stock
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.
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Geranium pratense 'Dark Reiter’
Hardy Geranium.€3.55Out of stock
'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€3.30Out 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 pyrenaicum 'Summer Snow'
Hardy Geranium€2.35Out of stock
Geranium 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€3.55‘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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Gunnera manicata
Giant Rhubarb€2.20Out of stock
Gunnera 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
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Helleborus niger
Christmas Rose, Christmas Hellebore, Black Hellebore€3.90Helleborus 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.
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Helleborus sternii 'Blackthorn Strain'
Christmas Rose, Christmas Hellebore€2.95Out of stock
Hellebore '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.
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Helleborus x hybridus 'Black Beauty'
Hellebore, Christmas Rose, Lenten Rose
(formerly Helleborus orientalis)€3.55Out of stock
Originating from one of the country's top hellebore breeders. Hellebore 'Black Beauty' is a choice variety. The deepest plums and purples open from slate coloured buds, many plants having the extra bonus of the dark foliage of their parents.
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Helleborus x hybridus 'Helen Ballards Strain'
Hellebore, Christmas Rose, Lenten Rose
(formerly Helleborus orientalis)€2.70Out of stock
Based on hybrids bred by the doyenne of the Hellebore world, Helen Ballard, these must be some of the finest and most beautiful of the race we have to offer. Large flowers are produced in a variety of colours from dark purple to white - often extravagantly mottled and marked.