Interesting Foliage
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Tiarella wherryi 'Silverado'
Foam Flower, Mitrewort€3.00Out of stock
Tiarella is a small plant with heart-shaped leaves which makes a dense patch of foliage that is an excellent groundcover. An easy plant to grow: low maintenance, good in shade, and a long bloomer. It also works well in pots and containers. -
The White Garden - Annual Flower Mix
Ideal for beds and borders and for cut flowersStarting at: €3.95
As they say, white goes with everything and among theme gardens, the white garden may be the most popular. The White Garden Flower Mix gives a selection of spectacular, bright white annual flowers. Calm, soft and serene this beautiful mix will carry borders into early winter with panache.
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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. -
Stachys byzantina
Lambs' ears, Woolly Betony
Also known as Stachys lanata, or olympica€2.25What can I say? Its a plant you can pet!...Bees love it…children love it….and you just have to stoke it on the way past! Lambs' ears is a well-known ground-covering perennial, popular for its soft, fluffy foliage, plus, it’s a great silver accent in between all the green going on in the garden.
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Sporobolus heterolepis
Dropseed, Sacaton Grass€2.95Brought to the forefront of the design world by the Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf, 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.
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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€2.95Hugely 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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Scrophularia nodosa 'Figwort'
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.55Our native Figwort is one of the most prolific nectar producers in the plant world, the long-lasting flowers attract more pollinators than any other plant around. The flowers, similar to tiny snapdragons ripen into egg-shaped seed pods, which are just the perfect bouquet filler for interest and movement!
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Santolina chamaecyparissus ssp tomentosa
Lavender Cotton€2.95Out of stock
Santolina, commonly known as Lavender Cotton is a small shrub with soft, woolly, finely divided foliage, that make neat, rounded bushes. They are valuable for mass planting, ideal for knot gardens and small hedging around herb gardens etc. It will stand any amount of clipping and shaping - a perfect plant for control freaks.
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Pennisetum villosum 'Cream Falls'
Chinese Fountain Grass€2.65Pennisetum villosum is one of the easiest and most visually stunning grasses to grow. Brilliant white, rabbit-tail spikes are produced in abundance from bushy, clump-forming deciduous plants. Eye-catching and early to flower in borders or large containers. -
Pennisetum alopecuroides var. viridescens
Black Flowered or Dwarf Purple Fountain Grass€2.75Pennisetum alopecuroides var. viridescens has broader leaves and darker flower heads than the regular species and, growing to around 60cm tall, it is also slightly smaller. It has graceful smoky purple-black plumes that contrast nicely with the slender arching, glossy, deep green foliage.
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Pennisetum alopecuroides
Fountain Grass€2.75Pennisetum alopecuroides is an especially appealing species, it changes its appearance and colour throughout the growing season. In late summer graceful fountain-like plumes emerge in profusion, they slowly change colour to a blend of green, soft pinks and light-colored maroons before maturing to light tan.
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Parthenocissus tricuspidata veitchii 'Boston Ivy'
Boston Ivy, Bostonian Ivy, Wall Ivy€2.70Out of stock
Boston ivy is a wonderful ornamental vine. The elegant, dark green glossy foliage is replaced with a vivid range of crimson reds in autumn. Sensational for covering walls, fences and arbors. If allowed, it will grow to impressive size and can turn the most mundane masonry building into a stately wall of foliage. -
Muhlenbergia capillaris 'Ruby'
Pink Muhly Grass€3.95Even people who aren’t familiar with ornamental grasses often know Muhlenbergia capillaris. With dramatic arching plumes of soft pink flowers reminiscent of headdresses worn by Vegas showgirls, a large planting of the wonderful Ruby Muhly Grass is enough to stop traffic.
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Moluccella laevis
Bells of Ireland, Shell FlowerStarting at: €1.85
'Bells of Ireland' are flowers to please anyone who loves flower arranging. Cut fresh, the bells will last for years and they are very useful for winter arrangements but they also look good in flower borders and with the recent fashion for green blooms are becoming more sought after.
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Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea
Tall Moor Grass, Purple Moor Grass€2.85Few other grasses have such a great separation between foliage and flowers than Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinaceae. With clumps of arching, blue-green leaves above which the most slender stems and delicate see-through flowers grow to six foot or more. In autumn they turn golden yellow to deep copper.
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Mimosa pudica 'The Sensitive Plant'
Touch-me-not€1.95Mimosa pudica, the 'sensitive plant', is a source of fascination to adults and children alike. When touched, the narrow fern-like leaflets they almost instantaneously fold together and the leaf stalk droops. This sometimes sets off a chain reaction, with several leaf stalks falling on top of one another. -
Milium effusum 'Aureum'
Bowles Golden Grass€2.95Milium 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. -
Hosta 'New Hybrids'
Corfu Lily or Funkia€2.75Hosta are grown predominantly for their outstanding foliage, from leaves as small as a teaspoon up to those larger than a dinner plate, colours range from deep blues to silvers, darkest shiny greens to bright yellows, from a single solid hue to the myriad of variegations the choice is almost overwhelming.
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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. -
Helichrysum thianshanicum
Silver spike or Icicle plant. Marketed as 'Goldkind'€2.95From the Tian Shan Mountains of northern China comes this tough little subshrub that is among the finest expressions of silver foliage to be found. Helichrysum thianshanicum is a superb silver leaved evergreen, subshrub that forms a tight mound of eye-catching silver foliage.
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Helichrysum italicum
Italian Helichrysum, The Curry Plant€2.50Helichrysum italicum is an easy to care for silver-leaved, perennial. In addition to its lovely light silveriness the foliage is endowed with interesting textures which provides contrast among green-leafed plants and the clusters of yellow flowers are useful for cutting. -
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 -
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.