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No. of Varieties: 45
Bugle. Thunder and Lightning,

For most of the year Ajuga is a pleasant, quiet achiever, a very versatile low growing ground cover, with evergreen, rosette-like foliage that hugs the ground like an evergreen carpet but those weeks in spring when the blue flowers appear are simply quite magical.

White Goat's Beard, Bride's Feathers
Aruncus dioicus’ commonly known as Goat’s Beard or Bride’s Feathers is one of the most handsome plants for the perennial bed. Its leaves are large and it has an abundance of flowers and in the autumn it turns an impressive, autumnal yellow colour.
Actaea racemosa var. cordifolia

Actaea cordifolia comes into its own late in the season, when multiple stiff and stout stems emerge from the base of the plant. It displays impressive long racemes of chalky-white blooms that are composed of numerous, tiny individual star-like, fragrant flowers.

Actaea simplex Atropurpurea Group

Valued for its large purple-black leaves, Cimicifuga simplex ‘Atropurpurea’ is an exceptionally beautiful selection. The long, fluffy spires seem to float in mid-air, each flower studded with feathery stamens.

Umbrella Plant

Cyperus alternifolius is a very popular both as a house plant and pond plant. The bracts are symmetrically arranged in an umbrella formation and held atop elegant stems that sway with the breeze, giving a tropical touch to the garden. They are also excellent when used in fresh or dried floral arrangements.

Dwarf Foxglove

Digitalis purpurea ‘Snow Thimble’ is bred for its large pure-white, bell-shaped blooms, born on short spikes only 100cm tall. It is one of the most elegant dwarf Foxgloves, easy to place in the garden it is especially suited to cottage gardens, shade gardens, wildflower and cutting gardens.

Aka 'Pink Champagne'

Digitalis ‘Silver Fox’ is one of the most beautiful dwarf Foxgloves for the cottage garden and border. Growing to just 60 to 70cm tall, the creamy-white speckled bells are flushed with soft lavender-pink. An elegant and rare foxglove that is ideal for borders or containers.

Hollow Joe Pye weed, Queen of the Meadow
Introduced in 2010, Eupatorium ‘Ivory Towers’ is relatively new to our gardens. This architectural plant bears generously clusters of ivory-white blooms which are long-lasting and beloved by butterflies. Given an early sowing, will flower the first year.
Helens's Flower, Autumn Helenium

If there’s one plant that can inject a little razzle-dazzle into the border during gloomy late summers it is Helenium. From late July ‘Helena’ blooms with masses of vibrant blooms. Very hardy and easy to grow, all this plant needs is sunshine and well-drained soil.

Corfu Lily or Funkia

Hosta 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.

Bulley's Iris, Sino-Siberian Iris, Beardless Iris.

Iris bulleyana is a classic species Iris from western China. It belongs to a small group of oriental species which are entirely hardy and are of great value to the gardener. The plants are successful in any moist garden soil. Flowering from June to July, the blooms with mid purple flowers and dark purple veins.

Northern Blue Flag Iris

Iris versicolor is one of the few species in garden cultivation. Although happiest at the waterside the plants will also perform well under average to moist border conditions. Flowering from May through to July, each stalk produces up to five violet-blue flowers with ruffled petals and bold purple veining.

Northern Blue Flag Iris

‘Kermesina’ is an attractive and popular cultivar of Iris versicolor. Flowering from May through to July with claret-purple flowers with ruffled petals and bold purple veining. It may be grown in shallow standing water or moist shoreline soils and suitable to be grown in constantly moist humusy soils of a border.

Poached Egg Plant or Fried Egg Plant.
The fragrant, abundant flowers of Limnanthes appear from summer to autumn and attract bees and butterflies for the duration. This lovely plant provides a carpet of fragrant golden and white blooms that will grace the front of the border, rockery or path edging.

Price range: €1.75 through €5.95

White Jacob’s Ladder, Greek Valerian
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland

The white form of the lovely Jacobs Ladder, named after the slender, fresh green leaflets arranged like the rungs of a ladder. Blooming in late spring to early summer, the bright foliage and white flowers will brighten shady locations. Both the flowers and the attractive ferny foliage are excellent for cutting.

Wildflower of Britiain and Ireland

Prunella vulgaris is an interesting and quite beautiful little wildflower plant. The plants produce pretty blue-violet flowers in summer, the flowers freely produce nectar and are highly attractive to bees. If you’re looking for something to add to a meadow garden, or something for those shady areas this is the plant for you.

Greater Burnet, Di-Yu
Ancient Herb, WIldflower of Britain and Ireland

Sanguisorba convey a relaxed feel to the garden, indispensable to the modern gardener, but it is the summer when the unusual red flowers top the slender, upright stems that it really becomes a head-turner.

Japanese Burnet, Oriental Burnet

Sanguisorba tenuifolia ‘Alba’ is a Japanese species that has infiltrated our psyche. The most refined of perennials, the highly tactile flowers float like dainty ghosts at the tips of their slender stems.

Globeflower, Wildflower of Britain and Ireland

Trollius europaeus is a beautiful native wild flower of Europe and Western Asia. Found in damp ground in shady areas, it is a most attractive plant with dark green, deeply cut leaves and bears flowers, best described as egg-yolk yellow in colour.

Globeflower, Globe Flower
Trollius ‘Golden Queen’ has strong erect stems, rising up to three feet from out of its clump of serrated foliage. Each stem is topped by the largest brightest tangerine blossoms. Excellent for bouquets and magnets for butterflies and bees.
Longleaf Speedwell

Gardeners are often looking for good solid perennials that will have attractive flowers, be easy to take care of, grow nicely but not take over the garden. One group of plants that should be considered is the Veronicas.

Siberian Culver's Root

Veronicastrum is one of the most fashionable plants around. It is an excellent genus, full of hardy, trouble-free plants. The multiple tapering, soft spikes of white flowers look like elegant, living candelabras.

Japanese Windflower

Japanese Anemones bloom with gently cupped flowers in white through pale pink into pinkish purple. Blooming from August to late October, they help push the show into autumn and provide colour when most gardens begin to fade.

Kingcup, Marsh Marigold
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland
‘Caltha palustris, commonly called Marsh Marigold is one of the most cheerful native plants to adorn the edges of a pond or stream and possesses the added benefit of flowering in the shade. The plant’s yellow flowers and dark green shiny leaves cheer up the otherwise barren landscape as winter recedes.
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea ‘F1 Camelot Cream’ produces towers of a delicate buttercream colour, the dense spikes of blooms are borne all the way around the stem. Developed to flower in the first year, they can be sown anytime from January to September.
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove

This premium series has been developed for florists to be first year flowering, with good-quality, dense spikes that are long flowering and well-branched, Digitalis ‘F1 Camelot Lavender’ produces towers of an exquisite colour with blooms borne all the way around the stem.

First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove

Developed for florists to be first year flowering, this premium series produces dense spikes that are long flowering and well-branched. Digitalis ‘F1 Camelot Rose’ produces towers of an exquisite colour with outward facing blooms borne all the way around the stem.

First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea ‘F1 Camelot Cream’ produces towers of a delicate buttercream colour, the dense spikes of blooms are borne all the way around the stem. Developed to flower in the first year, they can be sown anytime from January to September.
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove
Early flowering and fast growing, award winning Digitalis ‘Dalmatian Purple’ produces towers of gorgeous lavender-purple blooms with deep mauve interior markings. The good-quality spikes are uniform in height, well-branched with excellent habit and compact foliage.
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove
Early flowering and fast growing, award winning Digitalis purpurea ‘Dalmatian Peach’ produces towers of swoon-worthy peachy blooms with freckled interiors. A huge bonus is that the series blooms the first year from an early indoor sowing. Sow successionally for continuity of blooms
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove
Early flowering and fast growing, award winning Digitalis ‘Dalmatian Purple’ produces towers of gorgeous lavender-purple blooms with deep mauve interior markings. The good-quality spikes are uniform in height, well-branched with excellent habit and compact foliage.
First Year Flowering Foxglove

A new a super-fast, first year flowering perennial, Digitalis ‘Dottie Mix’ produces flowers in five gorgeous, soft colours just 20 to 24 weeks from sowing. The plants grow quickly to 75cm tall and are more compact at flowering than other F1 series, the showy spikes carry big blooms and quickly fill large 15 to 25cm pots with ease

First Year Flowering Foxglove

A new a super-fast, first year flowering perennial, Digitalis ‘Dottie Mix’ produces flowers in five gorgeous, soft colours just 20 to 24 weeks from sowing. The plants grow quickly to 75cm tall and are more compact at flowering than other F1 series, the showy spikes carry big blooms and quickly fill large 15 to 25cm pots with ease

First Year Flowering Foxglove

Digitalis ‘F1 Dottie Purple’ is an outstanding colour, deep purple tubular flowers with contrasting dark speckling. The showy spikes provide numerous high quality stems for a flower-packed display. This first year flowering type that lends itself to successional planting. Sow in late summer to autumn for the earliest spring blooms.

First Year Flowering Foxglove

A new a super-fast, first year flowering perennial, Digitalis ‘Dottie Mix’ produces flowers in five gorgeous, soft colours just 20 to 24 weeks from sowing. The plants grow quickly to 75cm tall and are more compact at flowering than other F1 series, the showy spikes carry big blooms and quickly fill large 15 to 25cm pots with ease

Aka 'The Shirley'
Digitalis purpurea var gloxinioides is an outstanding and unusual strain of Foxglove. Resembling the Gloxinia plant, the open flowers are tubular, each with frilled edges. With tall dense spikes of blooms, they are held horizontally and display the heavily spotted throat markings to better advantage.
Spotted Joe Pye weed
Eutrochium purpureum subsp. maculatum

Crowned with large panicles of purple flowers, Eupatorium atropurpureum fall into the ‘naturalistic’ category. They share the physical characteristics of native species, albeit transplanted to another country.

Water Avens

Geum rivale, the Water avens is a native perennial of slow-draining or wet soils. Flowering prolifically it is particularly useful in damp soils and makes a good show besides ponds. It produces both nectar and pollen and is an excellent plant for attracting pollinators and amphibians to the garden.

Fleur-de-lys, Flag Iris
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland
Yellow Flag Iris is a common and widespread native plant. This good-looking plant is a wetland plant that is especially showy in bloom and has been transplanted into well-watered gardens all over the world.
Pudding Grass, Pulegium
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland, Ancient Crop

Pennyroyal is a cottage garden plant of old. This highly aromatic herb has a strong peppermint scent to its dark green leaves, even more so than other mints.With attractive whorls of lilac-blue flowers, it can be used to carpet a shady corner or make a ‘lawn’ smelling deliciously of peppermint.

Dwarf Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate

Spectacularly draped with long, velour-like cerise tassels. Persicaria ‘Cerise Pearls’ is a modern-day, low growing variety. Tall enough to give the same airy effect, yet so much easier to place in the garden.

Wildflower of Britain and Ireland

Our 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!

Betonica officinalis, Wood Betony, Bishopswort.
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland

This pretty little wildflower is a slow growing, long-lived plant with attractive spikes of rich pink-mauve flowers that are very attractive to bees and butterflies as a nectar source. The flowers, which rise from dark green crinkly leaves, keep their colour throughout summer and look stunning when growing en-masse.

Spiked Speedwell

Gardeners are often looking for good solid perennials that will have attractive flowers, be easy to take care of, grow nicely but not take over the garden. One group of plants that should be considered is the Veronicas. They provide some of the clearest, truest blues in the perennial border.

Culver's Root

Veronicastrum is one of the most fashionable plants around. It is an excellent genus, full of hardy, trouble-free plants. The multiple tapering, soft spikes of white flowers look like elegant, living candelabras.

Price range: €1.75 through €5.95