‘Silver Queen’ has large white flowers with silver-lavender highlights on the inner petals. The new crimson-mahogany foliage of this cultivar is particularly impressive and makes a perfect foil for the flowers. ‘Silver Queen’ will grow 30cm tall by 50cm across. Read more about Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Silver Queen’
Like so many Epimedium species, the fairly newly discovered Sichuan Fairy Wings is a native of China growing wild in the mountains of Shaanxi and northwest Hubei province. Read more about Epimedium sutchuenense
This easily grown plant will soon make a good-sized patch in any shaded spot, even dry shade. Multiple stems of soft lemon-yellow flowers bloom from late winter until midspring. Read more about Epimedium x versicolor ‘Sulphureum’
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This charming evergreen ground cover was raised by David Kennedy at his Clover Hill Rare Plants Nursery, carries deep pink and lemon flowers during late winter and spring. ‘Mardi Gras’ will grow 30cm tall by 50cm across. Read more about Epimedium x youngianum ‘Mardi Gras’
This relatively new release is as tough as it is beautiful. ‘Wayne Roderick’ will produce large, nicely formed, amethyst-lilac daisies above dense rosettes of ground covering evergreen foliage for month on month from late winter into summer. Read more about Erigeron glaucus ‘Wayne Roderick’
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This Seaside Daisy has much larger and deeper pink flowers than the typical plant. It also has the advantage of being sterile and so never produces viable seed. Read more about Erigeron karvinskianus ‘L.A. Form’
This very old hybrid has flourished in Australian gardens for nigh on a hundred years. It reliably makes vigorous clumps of spoon-shaped, grey-green leaved clumps from which 50cm tall stems carry perfectly form soft lilac daisies. The flower buds nod in a charming manner. Read more about Erigeron ‘Quakeress’
Much asked about, this has been growing in our dry climate garden for twenty years or more. The flowers, a metallic blue thimble, are circled by a metallic blue ruff as intricate as a snowflake. It makes an interesting cut flower. Read more about Eryngium bourgatii ‘Oxford Blue’
‘Pen Blue’ Sea Holly carries branching heads of striking flowers, metallic blue thimbles surrounded by an intricate metallic blue ruff, on strong 60cm stems. Flowering from late spring until autumn it is best grown in a sunny spot. Read more about Eryngium x zabelli ‘Pen Blue’
There can’t be a finer berried shrub than this when it’s in full autumn glory. Masses of deep pink, almost red berries, make such a spectacular display that visitors to the garden invariably rave about it. Read more about Euonymus europeus ‘Red Cascade’
This Australian release of this fine cultivar has caused great excitement. ‘Blue Haze’ is similar to E. ‘Copton Ash’ in habit and flower but is a neater plant and it’s not prone to the fasciation that mars ‘Copton Ash’ sometimes. Read more about Euphorbia ‘Blue Haze’
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This variety may well have the bluest foliage of all the ornamental Euphorbias. At Lambley it has made a round shrub, some 60cm by 60cm, clothed in beautiful powder blue leaves and crowned during spring and summer with large chartreuse flower heads. Read more about Euphorbia ‘Blue Peaks’
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Makes a magnificent evergreen foliage plant some two metres tall by 150cm wide. The large matt green, red edged leaves have a marked white central vein. In late winter showy clusters of reddish-brown flowers are produced. Frost hardy and drought tolerant. Read more about Euphorbia mellifera
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This form of Euphorbia rigida starts flowering in the middle of winter with large heads of lime green. The bracts age to crimson during the early spring months. The foliage is handsome the year round with waxy blue leaves spiralling around the upright stem. Read more about Euphorbia rigida
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Most days we get asked for plants for dry shade and this award-winning plant is perhaps the best we know. E. robbiae was first brought into cultivation from its Turkish haunts in Mrs Robb’s hat box early last century. Read more about Euphorbia robbiae
This is the best dwarf Forsythia which only grows 120cm tall by as much across. During late winter and early spring it produces a mass of lemon-yellow open bells so abundantly that you can barely see the stem for flowers. During autumn the foliage turns burgundy chocolate. Read more about Forsythia ‘Gold Clusters’
There are few shrubs which brighten the late winter landscape better than Forsythias. F. ‘Lynwood Gold’ covers all its branches with very large deep canary yellow flowers. A tough shrub wanting a sunny position and needing very little supplementary water. Read more about Forsythia ‘Lynwood Gold’
One of the best flowering plants to grow in shade, even dry shade. Francoa ramosa is the longest flowered of all the bridal wreaths. 80cm tall wands. Read more about Francoa ramosa
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Sweet Woodruff, one of Vita Sackville-West’s favourite plants, makes a wonderful fragrant ground cover for a shady spot. Whorls of dark green lance shaped leaves clothe 20cm tall stems which are covered in frothy masses of small white flowers during spring and early summer. Read more about Galium odoratum
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'James Roof' is a vigorous bushy evergreen shrub with leathery dark green leaves. Flowers are spectacular in drooping grey-green catkins to 20-30cm in length. Drought tolerant and frost hardy to 2.5m. Read more about Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’
This wonderful, dense, carpeting plant was raised in the 1970s in the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Held well above small, rich green, ivy-like leaves the pale pink flowers some 2.5cm across are prolific during mid-spring into early summer. Read more about Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokovo’
‘Kahn’ is a terrific Geranium discovered growing in the Wisley gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society in the mid-1990s. It looks like a giant G. sanguineum and is as easy to grow as the species. Read more about Geranium ‘Khan’
One of the easiest of the northern hemisphere geraniums to grow with excellent vigour and disease resistance. When in full glory, during spring and early summer, this is one of the most telling of all the cranesbills. Read more about Geranium x magnificum
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