June
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Amaranthus cruentus 'Hot Biscuits'
Foxtail Amaranthus, Everlasting Flower€1.95Amaranthus 'Hot Biscuits' is a rather splendid ornamental addition to the garden and the vase. This gorgeous and graceful amaranth feature bold spikes of coppery-bronze branching plumes. They make an excellent cut flower and make exciting vase material that hold their colour longer than other amaranths.
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Amaranthus cruentus 'Velvet Curtains'
Foxtail Amaranthus, Everlasting Flower€2.25Out of stock
Amaranthus 'Velvet Curtains' provides intense crimson inflorescence which makes exciting vase material. Flower heads retain their colour, for a long season before turning to seed. The gluten free, protein rich seeds can be eaten as a grain, perfect for vegetarians and vegans. -
Amaranthus tricolour 'Summer Poinsettia Mix'
Summer Poinsettia€1.75Amaranthus tricolour is grown for its beautiful foliage. 'Summer Poinsettia Mix' is a colourful mix of tropical splendors. Juicy colour combinations: deep green leaves topped with creamy chartreuse, vivid yellow, purple with red, and a tricolor mix of red, green and gold.
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Anchusa italica 'Dropmore'
Aka Anchusa azurea or Italian Bugloss€2.75Anchusa 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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Aquilegia atrata
The Dark Columbine€2.25Aquilegia 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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Asphodeline lutea
King's Spear, Yellow Jacob's Rod€2.80Asphodeline 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.
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Aubrieta hybrida 'Hendersonii'
False Rockcress, Large-flowered Aubrieta€1.85Aubrieta '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.
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Aubrieta hybrida 'Leichtlinii'
False Rockcress, Large-flowered Aubrieta€1.85Commonly called ‘Rock Cress’, Aubrieta is a traditional rock garden plant that is lovely spilling out of crevices, growing over rock walls or placed in stonewalls. 'Leichtlinii' forms a low cushion of leaves that is, throughout the summer months, smothered by wonderful deep-carmine flowers.
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Aubrieta hybrida 'Whitewell Gem'
False Rockcress, Large-flowered Aubrieta€1.85Aubrieta has long been treasured for its delightful spring show of brightly coloured flowers. ‘Whitewell Gem’ is smothered by large, intense reddish-purple flowers for several months. Lovely spilling out of crevices or over rock walls, the plants can also be used in paving with other ground hugging plants.
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Aubrieta x cultorum 'Cascade Mix'
False Rockcress, Large-flowered Aubrieta€1.75Aubrietia is a very versatile plant. They are well known for use in rockeries, but the cushion forming habit also makes it useful as a ground cover; it can be planted in beds and is perfect for underplanting shrubs. they can also be used between paving and walls, or create a wonderful foil for spring bulbs.
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Bupleurum rotundifolium 'Griffithii'
Hares ear€2.00This wonderfully intriguing annual makes a great companion plant for showier flowers in the garden or the vase, the blooms of chartreuse green bring out the colours of other flowers, especially bright ones. Easily grown from seed, it is a particularly unique dried or cut flower.
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Catananche caerulea 'Amor Blue'
Cupids Dart, Love Plant.€2.25Catananche caerulea 'Amor Blue' is a charming plant, with blue, star like flowers each with a dark eye and unique papery petals. They look best when grown in groupings, rather than one or two plants and don’t mind crowding. Plant en-masse in prairie style or meadow plantings, mix them up a little with other hardy perennials and grasses.
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Catananche caerulea 'Amor White'
Cupids Dart, Love Plant.€2.25Out of stock
Catananche caerulea 'Amor White' produces stunning blooms of white, star like flowers each with a dark purple-blue eye and unique papery petals. The blooms rise on single stems above neat clumps of grey-green foliage. Super when planted the border, they also make a wonderful, long lasting cut or dried flowers.
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Cephalaria gigantea 'Giant Scabious'
Giant Scabious, Caucasian scabious€3.30Out of stock
Cephalaria gigantea is a gentle giant that has an informal look that is perfect for looser planting styles. With pretty pale butter-yellow scabious shaped flowers, use it as you would Verbena bonariensis planted at the back of a mixed or herbaceous border. The stems are tall but airy and 'see-through'.
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Clematis tangutica 'Radar Love'
Golden Clematis€2.00Out of stock
This uncommon Clematis is a graceful, vigorous and very floriferous climber. During summer and all the way through to autumn the plant is covered with golden yellow nodding lanterns. In the autumn the flowers of 'Radar Love' turn into beautiful large tufts of long silvery, silky seed heads that are just as ornamental.
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Delphinium hybrida, Benary's Pacific 'Astolat'
Candle Delphinium€2.75Astolat is a rare and unusual colour. This stunning delphinium blooms with spires of soft blush to deep rose-pink flowers. Gorgeous in the vase or planted in bold clumps for a dramatic statement in the garden. Benary's Pacific is a premium strain of this gorgeous variety that will bloom the first year from an early sowing.
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Delphinium hybrida, Benary's Pacific 'Black Knight'
Candle Delphinium€2.75Delphinium 'Black Knight' produces gorgeous spires that are laden with intensely coloured deep purple flowers. Bloom the first year from an early sowing, these dark-eyed delphiniums are stunning when planted in bold clumps in the garden and are one of the most spectacular cut flowers you can grow.
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Delphinium hybrida, Benary's Pacific 'Cameliard'
Candle Delphinium€2.75Delphinium 'Cameliard' blooms feature spires of lavender blue flowers each with white bees. They will bloom the first year from an early sowing. Bring a touch of nostalgia back to the garden - They are excellent for cutting, ideal as feature plants and are worth almost any effort to grow because they are so beautiful.
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Delphinium hybrida, Benary's Pacific 'Galahad'
Candle Delphinium€2.75In the Arthurian legends Sir Galahad is renowned for his gallantry and purity, he is perhaps the knightly embodiment of pure virtue. In the garden, Delphinium 'Galahad' is a subtle and beautiful delphinium with spires of elegant pure white blooms.