This new geranium makes spreading mounds of foliage, which are smothered by masses of large magenta, black eyed flowers. The leaves are lime green early in the season. ‘Anne Thomson’ is best grown in good moist soil in light shade. Height 30cm width 60cm. Read more about Geranium ‘Anne Thomson’
Hellebores are easy to grow requiring minimal maintenance. Trim flowering stems back to ground level late spring and top dress with good compost at least every other year when grown in the garden. Read more about Helleborus x hybridus ‘Sophies Delight’
Hellebores are easy to grow requiring minimal maintenance. Trim flowering stems back to ground level late spring and top dress with good compost at least every other year when grown in the garden. ‘Tutu’ has beautifully elegant, ruffled centres with pale pink, flecked petals. Read more about Helleborus x hybridus ‘Tutu’
NEW Heucheras are spectacular foliage plants. Scalloped leaves are glowing gold when they emerge in early spring. They soften to amber and peach as the season progresses. Read more about Heuchera ‘Caramel’
A vigorous hybrid between the closely related genera Heuchera and Tiarella with all the virtues. During spring and early summer a myriad soft pink flowers are held on thin vertical stems. 'Hopscotch' will grow in areas with humid summers. Read more about Heucherella ‘Hopscotch’
Frothy masses of white flowers are held over startlingly beautiful foliage mounds. Leaves are reddish brown with a lime green edge that darkens in the colder weather. Read more about Heucherella ‘Solar Eclipse’
A hybrid between the closely related genera Heuchera and Tiarella Heucherella ‘Tapestry’ is the recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society. It forms a luxuriant mound of “sage green, brown and chestnut leaves”. Read more about Heucherella ‘Tapestry’
One of the most beautiful of the frost hardy Hibiscus which has startlingly beautiful white flowers with a magenta-red centre. Happy in any sunny spot in the garden. A good cutting back by about a third will keep it healthy and floriferous. I grow it as a small standard. Read more about Hibiscus syriacus ‘Red Ensign’
Classically variegated foliage with vivid green margins and decorative gold centres. Hostas are vigorous in growth when grown in the shade and if well watered will make a 40cm tall by 60cm wide clumps. Ideal for pots. Read more about Hosta ‘Beach Boy’
A compact variegated Hosta that forms an attractive dense mound of smooth heart shaped blue-green leaves, splashed with bright yellow centre lines. Bell-shaped lavender blooms in late summer.
30-60cm x 60-90cm Read more about Hosta ‘Catherine’
This dwarf form of the Native Frangipani (so called because it has scented flowers are reminiscent of the fragrance of Frangipani) makes a dense evergreen bush about a metre tall by as much across. It will produce its creamy yellow flowers which age to yellow during summer. Read more about Hymenosporum flavum ‘Gold Nugget’
The Japanese Blood Grass is one of the showiest of all small grasses and despite its soft look it is a very tough plant indeed, growing in a hot sunny spot with very little watering in our garden. The blood red leaves are most intensely coloured during summer and autumn. Read more about Imperata cylindrica ‘Rubra’
One of the most beautiful of all the bearded iris, Iris 'Pink Satin’ has been one of the stars of our dry garden for more than fifteen years and now is a much-admired major feature in our woodland garden. Read more about Iris ‘Pink Satin’
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‘Spartan’ is a fast growing, rich green, columnar conifer. It makes a fine specimen plant and a superb screen or hedge. Growing to 5 metres tall with a spread of a metre or so it is very useful in tight spaces. Happy in any sunny spot. Read more about Juniperus chinensis ‘Spartan’
This terrific tea tree with its weeping habit and gorgeous, red flowers grows from 150 to 200 cm tall. Evergreen, fast growing and needing just a little extra irrigation when once established it is smothered in its deep red ‘wax flowers’ for a prolonged spring period. Read more about Leptospermum ‘Outrageous’ (Not for Tasmania)
‘Picollo’ grows into a small, evergreen shrub some 100cm tall by as much across which is smothered with crimson wax flowers during spring. It will attract lots of pollinating insects and makes a very useful cut flower. Happy in sun or light shade. Read more about Leptospermum ‘Picollo’ (Not for Tasmania)
This most beautiful of all the feather grasses is a hybrid between Miscanthus sinensis and M. transmorrisonensis. From early in the new year until winter arching feathers on slightly arching leafy stems gives ‘Fallingwater’ elegance, movement and form. Read more about Miscanthus ‘Fallingwater’
A new selection of variegated Miscanthus much smaller growing than M. ‘Zebrinus’ and unlike the latter is neat and tidy. It has a rigidly upright growth habit and its dark green leaves are heavily banded with gold. It impressed visitors to our garden last summer and autumn. Read more about Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gold Bar’
All of our plants are offered in a 10cm diameter pot unless otherwise indicated. Plants grown here are frost hardy to at least minus 5C unless stated otherwise. Many are hardy to much colder temperatures. They may be evergreen or deciduous, or herbaceous and overwintered by being cut back to near pot level.Read more about Standard Pot Size
Whilst uncommon in its South African homeland this iris-like plant is an obligingly easy to grow in the garden. There is a clump which has happily flowered in our dry garden for fifteen years. Read more about Moraea spathulata
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This evergreen small shrub has intricately dissected foliage which gives it a lacy fern like appearance. The new leaves are reddish and during winter the leaves turn rich oranges and purples. Read more about Nandina domestica ‘Filamentosa’
BEST SELLER This new catmint is much neater than older varieties making a tidy mound of grey leaves topped for most of the late spring summer and autumn with lavender-blue flowers. It will grow 30cm tall by 40cm across. Read more about Nepeta x faassenii ‘Purrsian Blue’
Walkers Low catmint has been growing in our double borders for a dozen years or so. Stiff upright stems, clothed in greyish leaves, carry spikes of lavender-blue flowers of a similar colour to N. Read more about Nepeta racemosa ‘Walkers Low’
From a very tough evergreen mat of dark green leaves, stiff twiggy leafy stems carry heads of rich purple pink flowers from summer to autumn. Happy in any sunny spot and very tolerant of drought needing only a very occasional watering in the driest of summers. 30cm x40cm. Read more about Origanum laevigatum ‘Herrenhausen’
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’
