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Geneva Bugle
Ajuga genevensis is used throughout the world yet this relatively uncommon form is less well known. This very well behaved, evergreen groundcover has deep gentian blue flower spikes and is by far the showiest of the species. It is often the plant of choice for smaller areas or along edges and pathways.
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.
Rock Bells, Dwarf Red Columbine
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.
syn A. alpina 'Schneehaube'
Wall, White or Mountain Rockcress
One of the earliest spring flowers to appear, Arabis ‘Snowcap’ with dense masses of snow-white flowers looks wonderful in containers or under spring-blooming bulbs, the pretty white flowers will fill the void when yearning for blooms is tugging at your core. 
False Rockcress, Large-flowered Aubrieta
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.
False Rockcress, Large-flowered Aubrieta
Aubrieta 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.
Snow in Summer
‘Snow in Summer’ lives up to its name in late spring when the foliage is smothered in luminous white flowers. Beautiful used as a path edging, in a stone wall or cascading over containers. Try it amongst your spring bulbs – tall lily flowering tulips above a dense carpet of white Cerastium… Breathtaking!
English or Lawn Chamomile
Also spelt Camomile
Camomile is a most useful plant. It can be used to make beautiful lawns and raised beds, an infusion of the plant is an ideal family remedy, calming and sedative, perfect for restlessness or travel sickness, while for gardeners the tea is effective as a spray to prevent ‘damping-off’ of seedlings
Hardy Cyclamen
Cyclamen coum is adored as a cultivated ornamental plant. The flowers vary from white to rosy-purple with every hue in between and in such quantity to obscure the leaves. They open from early winter and continue unabated into spring. 
Maiden Pink. Aka 'Albus'
Dianthus deltoides ‘Confetti White’ is a quite exceptional little plant. Growing to just 10cm tall it will spread up to 50cm wide. The pure white blooms appear in abundance, just poking their heads above the deep green foliage. In the early morning dew or after a shower of rain they sparkle like clear white diamonds.
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.
Mexican Daisy, Fleabane
Producing a profusion of daisy like blooms from May right through till November, Erigeron is easy to grow and an amazingly versatile plant, being low-growing, happy in sun or partial shade and thriving in any well-drained soil. 
Myrtle Spurge
Euphorbia myrsinites is a charming plant, a prostrate-growing evergreen with trailing stems that are clad in spiraling grey-blue leaves. An easy, tough, tidy groundcover and one of the most useful and highly ornamentally plants to grow in the garden. 
Hardy Geranium
Geranium ‘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.
Hardy Geranium
“Splish Splash” is a fascinating, rare and prized border plant and one of the most beautiful, striking and unusual perennial geraniums. Very easy to grow, the clumps of divided foliage are topped with mauve-blue splashes and flecks on pure white petals, each petal appearing to be individually designed and painted.
Hardy Geranium
‘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.
Smooth Rupturewort
Herniaria glabra is a relatively unknown perennial that deserves to be used more often in our gardens. The nursery industry calls it ‘Green Carpet’ and well they should. This lovely bright green creeper spreads effortlessly in all directions. An excellent choice for between flagstones or as a lawn substitute.
Perennial or Evergreen Candytuft
Iberis sempervirens is an early season favorite. This low bushy plant produces mounds of blinding white flowers in spring to early summer. An all round tough plant suitable for problem areas, use for containers, for pathways and crevices of ornamental walls. 
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.
Lavender Cotton
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.
Sedum Ruben’s Lizard is a low-growing sedum that has tight, rosy-green cushion of needles with reddish tips. Throughout the summer the plant is covered with many tiny, star-shaped white flowers. Drought and heat tolerant or low maintenance, whatever you want to call it, ‘Lizard’ takes a lot of abuse.
Biting Stonecrop, Wallpepper
Delicate in appearance and yet very cold hardy, Sedum acre is beautiful from the first stirrings of early spring to the twilight of autumn. Hardy and very easy to grow. Started early it will form a nice dense ground cover the very first season. If the weather is favourable it will flower within six months.
Reflexed Stonecrop, Love Links
If you’re looking for a beautiful plant that thrives with virtual neglect, Sedum reflexum just might fit the bill. The small bushes spread over the ground and the foliage resembles mini spruce branches. They are at their loveliest spilling over edges of walls and rocks to create the illusion of a living waterfall.
Dragon's Blood, Crimson or Causican Stonecrop
Sedum spurium coccineum is the most robust sedum, with deep crimson blooms and bronze-green leaves. Low maintenance, durable and interesting, they enhance the appearance of green roofs, rockeries and containers. In July, dense clusters of showy crimson blooms smother the evergreen plants.
Phedimus spurius
Sedum spurium ‘Voodoo’ is a stunning little perennial groundcover for hot, sunny locations. The intense dark mahogany foliage that provides a stunning contrast to the almost neon, luminous rosy-red flowers which appear June through August.
Stonecrop,
A mixture of many attractive low-growing sedum varieties representing a wide range of foliage types and flower colours. Low maintenance, durable and interesting, grow them on walls or banks, as a ground cover or as a green roof. Sedum strut their stuff where many other plants dare not venture!
Stonecrop
Sedum Roof Garden Mix is a formula mixture of many important varieties for roof gardens in full foliage and flowering colour range. Low maintenance, durable and interesting, grow them on walls or banks, as a ground cover or as a green roof. Sedum strut their stuff where many other plants dare not venture!
The Cobweb Houseleek
Always an interesting plant, Sempervivum arachnoideum is an exotic and interesting variation which forms small green rosettes of fleshy leaves, the tip of each leaf connected to another by a network of silvery filaments that resemble a spider’s web.
Winter Hardy Varieties. Hens and Chicks or 'Hippy Chicks'
Whether planted in large numbers or used as a single specimen Sempervivum are both beautiful and enduring. Their rosettes are fascinating, their colour hues are stunning and their tendency to produce offsets makes for easy increase.
Caucasian Germander
Summer-blooming spiky flowering plants – in garden design parlance ‘the verticals’. We all need some, and there are lots of contenders, but a plant that can go just about anywhere in the garden, cope with almost all situations and bloom with copious plush spikes over several weeks is a very rare treat.
Wild thyme
Thymus serpyllum is one of the most versatile groundcovers. Forming dense evergreen cushions of flowers these low maintenance plants don’t require mowing, watering or care, and can take a lot of abuse. Its leaves can be used as a culinary herb and its uses in the garden are almost unlimited.
Sandwort.
Arenaria 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.
False Rockcress, Large-flowered Aubrieta
Aubrieta is a traditional rock garden plant that is lovely growing over rock walls or spilling out of crevices. ‘Leichtlinii’ forms a low cushion of leaves that is smothered by wonderful deep-carmine flowers.
Vintage Florists, Scented Carnation
Developed for florists for use as a cut flower, the super tall stems of Dianthus ‘Chabaud Aurora’ display the most beautiful range of coral, salmon, blush, pink and cherry flowers. They will provide a continuous harvest of blooms for cutting from the end of April until the end of September.
Vintage Florists, Scented Carnation
Dianthus Chabaud is a vintage carnation, developed for florists around 1904. With long stems, they are famously scented and provide a continuous harvest of blooms from April until September. Deliciously coloured, the creamy white petals of ‘Benigna’ are outlined with the fruitiest of plums and raspberry reds.
Vintage Florists, Scented Carnation
Boasting ruffled white petticoat-like blooms on strong stems, Dianthus ‘Chabaud Jeanne Dionis’ has the fullest of flowers. An ideal cut flower and perfect for wedding work, they will bloom all summer long from an early sowing.
Vintage Florists, Scented Carnation
Developed for florists for use as a cut flower, the super tall stems of Dianthus ‘Chabaud La France’ are topped with blooms in the most delicate shades of seashell pinks to creamy blush. They will provide a continuous harvest of blooms for cutting from the end of April until the end of September.
Vintage Florists, Scented Carnation
‘Chabaud Magenta’ provides armfuls of deep magenta, frilly double blooms with the spicy fragrance of clove. Pronounced shab-o, they were developed specifically for florists for use as a cut flower. With a heavenly scent, tall stems and an extremely long vase life.
Vintage Florists, Scented Carnation
Developed for florists for use as a cut flower. Dianthus Chabaud is a vintage carnation that dates back as early as 1904. Displayed profusely on slender, sturdy stems, the apricot and soft orange blushing petals of Chabaud ‘Orange Sherbet’ are striped with dark raspberry red and coral.
Vintage Florists, Scented Carnation
Hardy, tough and very easy to grow, Dianthus Chabaud were developed for florists for use as a cut flower and will provide a continuous harvest of blooms for cutting. ‘Marie Chabaud’ provides armfuls of delicate, pale lemon yellow, frilly double blooms.
White California Poppy
This is a lovely cultivar of the California poppy, the blooms of ‘Ivory Castle’ boasts single, creamy white blooms. One of the easiest and most colourful annuals to grow from seed, they bloom profusely from mid summer until frosts and are breathtaking in massed plantings or containers.
California Poppy
Eschscholzia Thai Silk boasts large semi-double blooms in breathtaking jewel tones and a chiffon-like texture reminiscent of glorious oriental silks. This exotic mix contains the Thai Silk series of four colours: Appleblossom, Rose, Apricot Chiffon, and Pink Champagne.
Extra double California Poppy
‘Thai Silk’ is a stunning range of California poppies of superb quality with silky flowers. ‘Appleblossom Chiffon’ produces very double flowers in an ethereal shade of shimmering, dappled silvery-pink. Very easy to grow, they are attractive to pollinators and perfect for cutting.
Extra double California Poppy
‘Thai Silk’ is a stunning range of California poppies of superb quality with silky flowers. ‘Appleblossom Chiffon’ produces very double flowers in an ethereal shade of shimmering, dappled silvery-pink. Very easy to grow, they are attractive to pollinators and perfect for cutting.
Extra double California Poppy
A beautiful and sophisticated variety, Eschscholzia californica Thai Silk produces extra double silky flowers, ‘Pink Champagne’ in a unique shade of soft champagne-pink on a cream base. Very easy to grow, they are attractive to pollinators and perfect for cutting.
Iceland Poppy
Named after ‘Kelmscott Manor’, the country home of the writer, designer and socialist William Morris, Papaver nudicaule ‘Kelmscott Giants’ produce large, luscious, crepe paper-like petals in an array of soft pastel shades.
Drummond's Phlox, Annual Phlox.
Silvery white petals are dressed in tints of blush pink that darken with age, against a darker pink eye. The blooms carry a fresh fragrance reminiscent of lilacs and make delightful cut flowers. Uniform with outstanding weather tolerance they will flower right through the summer until October. Leave the colour in your borders or cut regularly through summer for wonderful vase displays.
Drummond's Phlox, Annual Phlox.
‘Sugar Stars’ is a fabulous new annual Phlox variety that blooms with a confection of purple-blue and white clustered blooms. One of the most useful of annuals they flower from mid July right through to October. For spectacular display, romantic excess and sweet fragrance, they are without peer.
Drummond's Phlox, Annual Phlox.
Phlox is one of the most useful of annuals, they are extremely rewarding garden subjects and lack real competition in the late summer garden. Uniform, with outstanding weather tolerance they will flower from mid July right through the summer until October. Perfect for wedding work and bouquets, Grandiflora ‘Alba’ provides pure white flowers combined with a delicious scent.
Drummond's Phlox, Annual Phlox.
Phlox drummondii grandiflora ‘Isabellina’ is fast to flower and produces abundant clusters of creamy, linen-yellow flowers that are the colour of condensed milk. A must-have for wedding work, this delicious variety is a great addition to the garden border and bouquets.
White Alpine Pasqueflower or Alpine Anemone
Pulsatilla alpina subsp. alpina is a charming form, with white flowers, the outer segments flushed with bluish-purple. A favourite for collectors, they have a protracted flowering period and followed by attractive seed heads, they are showy, long-lived and reliable plants with a lengthy period of interest.
Pasque Flower, Windflower, Meadow Anemone
The Pulsatilla genus includes some of the loveliest of all flowering plants. From the time in early spring when their woolly, hairy flower buds first appear; through the time their enchanting, hairy, feathery seed-heads are formed, these plants are always a delight.
Tumbling Ted, Trailing Rock Soapwort
Saponaria is a pretty little plant that forms a mound of bright-green leaves, smothered by starry bright-pink clusters of flowers. Use as a ground cover, in paving or rock features or allow it to trail over the sides of raised beds and low walls. RHS Award of Garden Merit. 
Coral Carpet Sedum
Sedum album is one of the most popular forms of sedum, known for its dense foliage as it changes colour throughout the seasons. The leaves emerge a coral-salmon in spring, change to bright green in summer and then to reddish bronze with the arrival of cooler temperatures. In summer the plants explode in masses of tiny, white star-shaped flowers.
Stonecrop
Sedum forsterianum ‘Silver Stone’ is one of the more unusual textured species, with whorls of silver-green foliage. In late summer bright yellow star shaped flowers appear. This low-growing succulent plant grows to a height of 15 to 20cm, extremely hardy it can cope with temperatures down to minus 34°C.
Emperor's Stonecrop
Recently renamed Hylotelephium telephium
Hugely 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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