Fountain like clumps of fine arching leaves are topped by a cloud of maroon midge-like flowers during autumn. Late in the season the foliage turns bronze red and finally to straw gold during winter. Read more about Panicum virgatum ‘Rubrum’
This is totally different in both leaf colour and outline to the other Panicums that we’ve listed in previous catalogues. Panicum ‘Heavy Metal’ makes clumps of stiff upright stems clothed in blue leaves. Read more about Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’
Ruby Magic is a superb new dwarf Pennisetum with dark maroon, almost black, upright leaves. From late spring into summer the plant produces an abundance of long soft flowers of reddish cream on arching stems. Read more about Pennisetum advena rubrum ‘Ruby Magic’
Penstemons are gardening mainstays. Frost-hardy, evergreen and long-flowering, from the showy hybrids to the tough and hardy species forms, there is literally one suited for every garden in Australia. Read more about Penstemons (Beardtongues)
An old vigorous variety raised in Switzerland in the 1930s, now nearing its 100th birthday. “A glowing shade of red...” narrowly tubular flowers are a joy from late spring until winter. A particularly long lived cultivar P. Read more about Penstemon ‘Firebird’
'Rock Candy Ruby' is a new dwarf growing variety of this Californian species which will produce showy ruby-pink tubular flowers from spring until late autumn on 30cm tall leafy stems. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Rock Candy Ruby’
Penstemons are easily grown sun loving perennials with few wants except dead heading and the removal of old spent stems in mid-spring. Penstemon ‘Mother of Pearl’ has fabulous flowers, pale mauve blue, blush and white with purple internal veining. 60 x 60cm Read more about Penstemon ‘Mother of Pearl’
Pendent, cup shaped, intensely fragrant, creamy white flowers are carried in the leaf axils of an arching evergreen shrub. The flowers have a similar fragrance to the tuberose. Best grown in a moist well drained spot in sun or light shade. Height and width 2-3 metres. Read more about Philadelphus mexicanus
This graceful shrub grows wild from northern California through the Pacific north west to southern parts of British Columbia. It is quite adaptable in cultivation being fairly drought tolerant although growing best with a little extra irrigation during dry periods. Read more about Philadelphus lewisii
A very rare Phlomis grown from seed collected by Olivier Filippi in Southern Turkey and imported by us from his nursery a few years ago. Read more about Phlomis chimerae
Sometimes called Gallipoli Heath by older Australians Physostegia virginiana is a native of North America. This perennial will grow a sunny spot in any garden soil that is given a modicum of extra water during dry periods. Read more about Physotegia virginiana ‘Snow Peaks’
This plant is as attractive in leaf as it is in flower. It makes evergreen clumps of 20cm long narrow dark green leaves with contrasting white splashes. During spring the flowers, on 30cm tall stems, are pink in bud but darken to rich true blue as they open. Read more about Pulmonaria longifolia ‘Bertram Anderson’
