An exciting newly imported plant which makes low evergreen mounds of grey, sage like foliage with intensely fragrant leaves. Soft mauve blue white throated flowers in spring and summer. Sun loving and drought tolerant. 40 cm x 90 cm more... about Salvia ‘Chateau Cathare’
This Salvia has a very tidy habit and is very free flowering. It features sparkling violet-purple flowers from December to late April. It was discovered in the Devon (UK) garden of former holder of the National Salvia Collection, Christine Yeo. 60cm x 60cm. more... about Salvia ‘Christine Yeo’
This is similar to Salvia greggii both in growth and needs but is a hybrid between S. greggii and S. microphylla. We imported ‘La Siesta’ last year from Olivier Filippi’s nursery in the south of France. more... about Salvia x jamensis ‘La Siesta’
Our working title for this variety of Mexican sage. It was growing in my son Harry Glenn’s garden in Camberwell and is distinguished by its bright purple red flowers held in mauve calyces. more... about Salvia leucantha ‘Harry's Red’
This is one of the most telling of all the summer/autumn flowering salvias. It was the most admired plant in our garden last season. In our garden Salvia ‘Meigan’s Magic’ grew a metre tall by 80cm wide. more... about Salvia ‘Meigans Magic’
A vigorous plant which in its first year has made a shrub 120cm tall by as much across. During summer and autumn it carries masses of glowing cerise flowers. During winter I shear and shape this plant to a round shrub about 80cm by 80cm. more... about Salvia microphylla ‘Cerise Velvet’
This hybrid between Salvia nemorosa ssp tesquicola and Salvia ‘Wesuwe’ popped up in our dry garden a couple of years ago. It has the early flowering habit and dark flowers of the latter and the showy bracts of the former. A terrific plant which I named for my daughter. more... about Salvia nemorosa ‘Kate Glenn’
A stunning German bred plant with dozens of spikes of glowing rich deep violet flowers beginning in late spring. After about 10 weeks of extraordinary beauty the flowers pass their prime and we cut the whole plant to the ground. more... about Salvia nemorosa ‘Ostfriesland’
This Salvia is one of the best nemorosa types with spikes of rich violet flowers set in large lilac bracts from late Spring until Autumn. It responds well to dead heading although we cut it to the ground when it looks tired after the first 12 weeks of flowers. more... about Salvia nemorosa ssp. tesquicola
This is the very dark, early flowering Salvia which grows near the entrance to my dry garden. It’s in full flight by October a good month before most of its kind. The stiff vertical deep violet blue spikes contrast wonderfully well with yellowy green Euphorbias. more... about Salvia nemorosa ‘Wesuwe’
This, the most handsome of all the Meadow Sages, makes flat rosettes of crinkled leaves from which, in its second year onward, are carried metre tall stems of lilac-blue flowers. Happy in any sunny well drained spot which gets a little extra water during very dry spells. more... about Salvia pratensis Haematodes Group
An import from Europe with particularly elegant spikes of rich violet-blue flowers enclosed in persistent purple bracts. One of our best new plants. The first flush of flowers is in the spring and early summer. more... about Salvia x superba ‘Tanzarin’
This is a welcome new addition which we imported recently from Olivier Filippi’s Mediterranean plant nursery in the South of France. Santolina insularis is endemic to the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean and makes a tough and drought tolerant garden plant. more... about Santolina insularis
Scabiosa ‘Pink Lace’ is an easily grown, shrubby pin cushion with large soft pink flowers from spring until winter. Its blooms are more heat tolerant than other selections on the market which have been bred to look as smug as a bug in a 6 inch pot. more... about Scabiosa ‘Pink Lace’
Beginning in mid-summer the large cauliflower shaped flower heads change from pale green in bud to soft baby pink then to deep pink through deep salmon-pink to dark coral-pink and finally, as autumn progresses into winter, rich mahogany brown. more... about Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’
Thought by some, including me, to be the best of all the taller growing Sedum. Handsome the year round it makes 90cm or more tall stiff maroon stems clothed with waxy blue leaves. more... about Sedum ‘Matrona’
The ground seeds of this beautiful grass from California and the western states are believed to have been widely used as a food source by the Hopi Indians of North America. more... about Sporobolus airoides
A plant of the Eastern US woodlands the Celandine Poppy has grown in the same spot in my garden for 15 years. It is in complete shade during summer but gets more light during its early spring until early summer flowering period. more... about Stylophorum diphyllum
This native of the province of Gansu in northern China was “...one of the first oriental lilacs to travel. Crossed somewhere on the way, it found its way as the hybrid S. X persica into Persia long ago”, writes Fr. John Fiala in his fine monograph Lilacs:The Genus Syringa. more... about Syringa laciniata
