February

An amazing, award-winning variety that features unique double, ruffled blooms on tall, graceful flower spikes. Often called Butterfly or Azalea form, Antirrhinum 'Madame Butterfly Rose-Pink' is the absolute perfect shade - with just the right amount of depth and all the ruffles.

Antirrhinum 'Madame Butterfly Yellow' is a wonderful tall variety in a perfect primrose-yellow shade. Strong growing and vigorous, they bear lusty stems closely set with large, fully double blooms. Perfect as a cut flower, they look wonderful just as they are, as well as giving that all important ‘swoosh’ to arrangements.

Producing delicate pale pink and white blooms, Antirrhinum majus 'F1 Twinny Appleblossom' are an outstanding choice for containers or in the garden, Given sunshine and well-drained soil, they grow vigorously and flower freely. 'Twinny' snapdragons are exceptionally weather tolerant, and are excellent performers in both heat and rain.

Antirrhinum 'Twinny' introduce a brand-new colour palette for snapdragons, not to mention an exciting double-flowered form and award-winning garden performance. 'Bronze Shades' is a gorgeous blend of orange, pink, and rose. The plants are exceptionally weather tolerant, performing well in both heat and rain.

A new introduction for 2025 - Antirrhinum majus 'F1 Twinny Orchid' is simply beautiful. Producing the palest of pink blooms, delicately inset with hot magenta-pink. As with all the Twinny series, they display their exciting double-flowered form throughout both heat and rain and offer award-winning garden performance.

The Antirrhinum 'F1 Twinny' series offers large 'butterfly' azalea flowered blooms that jostle one another for space on compact plants. 'Twinny Peach' is one of the most unusual and beautiful snapdragons ever, with delicate apricot-peach coloured blooms, it is an All America Selections Award Winner.

A new introduction for 2025 - Antirrhinum 'F1 Twinny Rose-Pink' produces blooms in a soft, warm Rose-Pink. Large, double azalea flowered blooms jostle one another for space on compact plants. Ideal for the middle of the border, their habit makes them especially useful in containers while making an excellent cut flower.

The Antirrhinum 'F1 Twinny' series offers large 'butterfly' azalea flowered blooms that jostle one another for space on compact plants. 'Twinny Violet' blooms with the most luscious, deep violet-magenta double blooms. They grow vigorously and flower freely and are excellent performers in both heat and rain.

'Twinny White' snapdragons produce large 'butterfly' or 'azalea' flowered blooms that jostle one another for space on compact plants. Given sunshine and well-drained soil, they grow vigorously and flower freely. The plants are exceptionally weather tolerant, and are excellent performers in both heat and rain.

Antirrhinum 'Yellow Shades' feature delicate primrose-yellow, frilled blooms on compact plants. Double snapdragon blooms are often referred to as 'butterfly' or 'Azalea' type blooms. Given sunshine and well-drained soil, they grow vigorously and flower freely.

Antirrhinum majus 'Lucky Lips' has been awarded the Fleuroselect Award. The judges were impressed by its height and compact plant habit. Blooming with distinctive contrasting bicolour purple-red and white flowers, a colour way that is often referred to as a 'silver bi-colour', it is ideal for adding height to borders or for cutting.

Worldwide, Antirrhinum is one of the most important 'summer cut-flowers', grown year-round in greenhouses they are adored by florists and gardeners alike. An all-around excellent garden performer, 'Snowflake' produces densely packed spikes that bloom in succession with pure white flowers.

Aquilegia 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.

Native 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.

Aquilegia 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.

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.

Artemisia stelleriana 'Mori's Strain' is a superior, dense, mat-forming selection. Uniquely shaped silver-white felted leaves with deeply divided, rounded lobes, it forms very attractive low mounds, giving an attractive ground-hugging carpet. Its foliage makes a wonderful foil for more colourful flowering plants.

Asphodeline lutea is an easy to grow perennial that has great architectural form. The overall impression is distinctly upright, so it is good for adding vertical interest to the garden. In early summer leafy stems arise that bear dense, unbranched cylindrical spikes of gorgeous yellow, star-shaped flowers.

Aubrieta 'Hendersonii' is a vigorous variety that is smothered by rich lilac-purple flowers for several months in spring. It grows to only 10 to 15cm tall at maturity, but with a spread of around 45cm it makes a lively edging to a sunny border, growing over rock walls or placed in stonewalls.