subulata
var. glabrata
'aurea'
A clump of needle thin golden leaves, which form a ground-hugging
mat. Covered in tiny starry white flowers in May and June. 3
cm
salix
LANATA
A grey, felty leaved willow which forms a low deciduous mound, ideal
for the larger rockery. 75 cm
SALVIA
BLANCOANA
Grey leaved sage with rather prostrate spikes of light blue flowers,
attractive to bees. Prefers well-drained soil. 30 cm
CYANESCENS
White, woolly foliage forms a basal rosette, with spikes of blue flowers
in summer. I cannot find any cultural advice in any of our reference
books but I am sure it would benefit from protection from winter
wet. 15 cm
x JAMENSIS ‘HOT LIPS’
(Syn. S. MICROPHYLLA ‘HOT LIPS’)
This fashionable plant is much in demand at the moment, good for tubs. A mixture of white and scarlet flowers for months in summer. Will need a sheltered corner for overwintering in well drained soil, or bring under cover. 50 cm
OFFICINALIS ‘PURPURASCENS’
‘Purple sage’. Purple scented foliage with spikes of blue flowers
in June and July. 60 cm
X
SYLVESTRIS ‘MAYNIGHT’
(syn. S. X SYL.‘MAINACHT’)
Hairy leaves, good show of indigo-violet flowers on thin spikes, with reddish-purple
bracts for weeks from midsummer. Dead-head to prolong flowering. 80 cm
TRANSSYLVANICA 'BLUE SPIRE'
Large slightly hairy green leaves at the base, sending up tallish spikes of indigo-blue flowers for weeks, in summer. 80 cm
ULIGINOSA
A hardy Salvia for damp soils, no wonder we like it! Tall willowy stems of sky
blue flowers in late summer.
When happy, creeps about a bit. Late to come through in the spring. 1.3 m
sambucus
NIGRA 'EVA'
(syn. S. NIGRA F. PORPHYROPHYLLA 'BLACK LACE')
Cut leaved Black Elder. We have been asked for this one so much because the one in the car park looks so wonderful each year. An upright bushy shrub with blackish purple finely divided leaves. Distinctive elderflower scent to the pink flowers in early summer, followed by glossy black berries in autumn. Best grown in full sun to get the best foliage colour. (PBR) 3m
SANGUISORBA
menziesii
Maroon bottlebrush flowers on slightly willowy stems, for weeks from
May. Prefers moist soil. 70 cm
OBTUSA
Slightly arching, willowy stems with pink bottle-brush flowers which call out to be stroked, for weeks in summer. Prefers moist soil. 60 cm
SANTOLINA
CHAMAECYPARISSUS ‘SMALL-NESS’
The spelling of this name intrigues me, is there a little Nessie
from Scotland that this was named after? A compact dwarf shrub.
Yellow button-head flowers from mid to late summer. 20 cm
PINNATA ssp. NEAPOLITANA ‘SULPHUREA’
Forms a small bush of wonderful thin silver, aromatic leaves. Sulphur yellow button flowers
from July. If dead-headed, will continue to flower for weeks. 45 cm
SAPONARIA
OCYMOIDES
‘Tumbling Ted’. Trailing stems covered in simple four-petalled pink
flowers in summer. Ready in May. 10 cm
SAXIFRAGA
In
addition to those listed below,we have small numbers of some varieties of
saxifrage especially suitable for growing in troughs.
‘CLARENCE
ELLIOTT’
Rosettes of leaves, branching wiry stems of small starry pink flowers in midsummer.
10 cm
‘CRANBOURNE’
Encrusted saxifrage, with large pink flowers in late winter, early spring. Slow growing. Prefers well-drained soil. 0 cm
‘ESTHER’
Encrusted saxifrage, more spreading than most of the others we grow. Creamy white
flowers on a stem; in early spring. 20 cm
'FAIRY'
Green mossy foliage with white flowers from March to May. 10 cm
saxifraga
‘GREGOR
MENDEL’
Primrose yellow flowers in late winter, early spring. Cheering early colour for
the rockery. 10 cm
‘JAN PALACH ’
Striking orange flowers, in late winter-early spring. Slow growing. Prefers well-drained soil. 5 cm
JUNIPERIFOLIA
Spiny rosettes form a dense cushion of dark green leaves, covered with bright
yellow flowers all over in late winter, early spring. Slow growing. 5
cm
'marianna'
Primrose yellow flowers, over a mound of encrusted looking foliage,
in late winter-early spring. Slow growing. 5 cm
OPPOSITIFOLIA 'THEODEN'
Forms a low mound of small dark green leaves, producing large rose-purple flowers in early spring. Prefers a moist, cool position in gritty soil. 5 cm
‘RUTH
MCCONNELL’
Green mossy foliage with scarlet flowers from
March to May. 10 cm
‘SARA SINCLAIR ’
Rosy-pink flowers, in late winter, early spring. Slow growing. Prefers well-drained soil. 0 cm
saxifraga
‘SILVER
CUSHION’
Silver variegation to the mossy foliage. Pale pink flowers from March to April.
10 cm
SOUTHSIDE
SEEDLING GROUP
A mat forming plant with very showy, arching panicles of white flowers heavily
spotted red, in late spring and early summer. Prefers well-drained
soil. 25 cm
‘WHITEHILL’
Attractive encrusted rosettes tinged with red on outer edge. White flowers in
summer. 15 cm
SCABIOSA
COLUMBARIA ‘NANA’
A dwarf scabious, ideal for the rockery with blue flowers for weeks,
from midsummer. Prefers well-drained soil. 25 cm
COLUMBARIA
ssp. OCHROLEUCA ‘MOON DANCE’
Dainty little creamy-yellow scabious flowers, from May until autumn.
Prefers well-drained soil. 30 cm
‘MIDNIGHT’
This hybrid occurred here on the nursery (as you can tell, if you
say its name with an italian accent...). The flowers are dark maroon
and on branching stems, for weeks from July. Seems hardy if in
a very sheltered spot and with well-drained soil. 1.1 m
RUMELICA see KNAUTIA MACEDONICA
SCHIZOSTYLIS
Its Iris-type leaves belie the fact that it does best in moisture
retentive soils and certainly flowers best if planted in full sun. The flowers
open on upright spikes during the autumn.
COCCINEA ALBA
Strap-like green leaves send up spikes of smaller white flowers from September until
the first frosts. 45 cm
COCCINEA 'MAJOR'
Spikes of good sized red flowers. An improved version of Schizostylis major. 45 cm
COCCINEA ‘SUNRISE’
Larger flowers and a beautiful sugary pink. 45 cm
COCCINEA ‘WILFRED
H. BRYANT’
(syn. S. COCCINEA 'PINK PRINCESS')
ovely large softest pink flowers from September until the first
frosts. 50
cm
SCILLA
All Scillas
are harmful if eaten.
LITARDIEREI
Small fairly broad spikes of soft lavender blue flowers in May. Prefers a well-drained position. 10 cm
MISCHTSCHENKOANA ‘TUBERGENIANA’
Give yourself a few seconds to look at this name, then see if you can remember
how to spell it (without looking!)... Difficult, isn’t it! A good early
flowering dwarf bulb, of pale blue flowers with darker central stripes. It
can start flowering as early as January in a mild winter. Come quickly when
we open
in February to catch it!
10 cm
PERUVIANA
A wonderfully showy head of blue flowers erupts out of a basal cluster of fleshy
green leaves, in June. Seems to clump up easily. 25 cm
SIBERICA 'SPRING BEAUTY'
It is such a cheering sight in early spring when the gentian blue flower spikes
push up through the ground. Ideal for growing under deciduous trees and shrubs.
10 cm
SCUTELLARIA
ORIENTALIS
A mat forming rockery plant with yellow labiate flowers in summer.
Needs well-drained soil. 20 cm
SCORDIIFOLIA
This delicate-looking plant grows well in sun or shade, and dry shade at that!
Deep blue flowers from July to September. Spreads by underground runners. Disappears
underground
for the winter. 15 cm
‘SHERBERT LEMON ’
A mound of foliage with clusters of sherbert lemon flowers from May to August. 25 cm
SUFFRUTESCENS ‘TEXAS ROSE’
A mound of foliage covered in small rich pinky purple flowers from July until autumn. 20 cm
SEDUM
Sedums
are an herbaceous group of plants with succulent looking leaves.
They flower in late summer, early autumn and are very attractive
to butterflies
and bees. The taller varieties look attractive to us even when the flowers have
gone over, so help add interest to the garden in winter. We have been told Sedums
will tolerate some shade if grown in dry conditions, but think it best to grow coloured leaf forms in full sun.
‘BERTRAM
ANDERSON’
Trailing purple tinged leaves which darken with age. Reddish-pink flowers in
late summer, on prostrate stems. 10 cm
CAUTICOLA ‘LIDAKENSE’
Glaucous leaves, with deep pink flowers during late summer and early autumn.
Good for the rockery. 10 cm
KAMTSCHATICUM var. KAMTSCHATICUM ‘VARIEGATUM’
Cream, red and green variegated foliage, tinting pinker in cold weather. Orange
buds and yellow flowers in late summer. 10 cm
sedum
‘MATRONA’
A pretty pink sedum with pink tinted stems and a gentle scent,
in autumn. Copes well in dappled shade. 45 cm
‘MUNSTEAD
RED’
Flat heads of red flowers in late summer, early autumn. 30 cm
sedum
‘RUBY
GLOW’
Purple-tinged glaucous leaves with deep pink flowers in late summer. Sprawly
habit. 20 cm
SPATHULIFOLIUM ‘CAPE
BLANCO’
Rosettes of succulent white ‘dusted’ leaves with yellow flowers in
midsummer. 7.5 cm
SPECTABILE ‘ICEBERG’
Flat heads of white flowers in autumn. Sometimes reverts to pale pink. 30 cm
SPURIUM ‘DRAGON’S
BLOOD’
(syn. S. SPUR. ‘SCHORBUSER BLUT’)
Crimson succulent foliage with red flowers in mid
to late summer. 8 cm
TELEPHIUM ATROPURPUREUM GROUP
'PURPLE
EMPEROR'
Very dark purple foliage, with heads of red flowers for weeks from
July. Not such a strong grower. 50 cm
TELEPHIUM SSP. MAXIMUM 'GOOSEBERRY FOOL'
Flat heads of palest, greeny-yellow flowers attractive to butterflies and bees in late summer. Prefers well-drained soil. 35 cm
‘VERA
JAMESON’
Trailing stems of purplish-grey leaves, with heads of dusky-pink flowers in late
summer and autumn. More compact than
S. ‘Ruby Glow’. 15 cm
SEMPERVIVUM
House Leeks. A group of evergreen succulent plants. They like full sun and very
well-drained soil. Any rosettes that flower die, so they produce new rosettes
all around the base for self preservation.
Ideal in troughs. We grow about 35 different varieties. 4 cm
SERRATULA
SEOANEI
Here is a plant to deceive your friends with – looks like a marigold until
it flowers. In September it is covered in many- branched stems of dainty pink
cornflower-type flowers. 15 cm
SILENE
ALPESTRIS 'FLORE PLENO'
A mat forming plant with stems of double white flowers in summer. 15 cm
UNIFLORA ‘DRUETT’S
VARIEGATED’
Variegated foliage; white campion flowers in summer. 10 cm
UNIFLORA ‘ROBIN WHITEBREAST’
(syn. S. UNIFLORA ‘FLORE PLENO’)
Semi-succulent grey leaves sprawl rather untidily, but it is saved by a continuous mass of white, slightly scented 'carnation' flowers, from May to September. 15 cm
SISYRINCHIUM
Iris-type leaves, but that is where the similarity ends! They have
clusters of flowers, each flower only lasting a day. All like a well-drained,
sunny position, and most flower all summer.
‘BLUE
ICE’
Large blue flowers with darker veins for weeks, from May onwards. Needs a sheltered spot.
15 cm
‘DRAGON’S
EYE’
Lavender-mauve flowers with a distinct purple eye, for months in the summer.
12 cm
IDAHOENSE
var. MACOUNII ‘ALBUM’
White flowers. Compact. 10 cm
‘MARION’
An improvement on our un-named purple Sisyrinchium, with larger showier flowers
all summer. More compact. 15 cm
PURPLE
Good purple flowers for months in summer, earlier than S. 'Marion'. 12 cm
‘RASPBERRY’
I wouldn’t fancy eating raspberries this colour! More biscuit-coloured
like S. biscutella but half the height. 15 cm
SOLDANELLA
ALPINA
Alpine Snowbell. A choice alpine with rounded dark green leaves and pretty funnel-shaped violet-blue flowers, with fringed petals in early spring. 10 cm
solidago
x LUTEUS ‘LEMORE’
Gently arching stems of soft yellow flowers in late summer, autumn. 70 cm
VIRGAUREA SSP. ALPESTRIS VAR. MINUTISSIMA
A very miniature Golden rod, with yellow flowers from July. 4 cm
STACHYS
ALBOTOMENTOSA
Very woolly foliage with white undersides and stems, with peachy-apricot flowers in summer. We are sure it will need a very sheltered, sunny situation, or give winter protection to be on the safe side. 40 cm
CITRINA
Basal mat of felty-grey foliage. Spikes of tiny cream flowers in summer. (Only a few available). 10
cm
DISCOLOR
(syn. S. NIVEA)
A basal rosette of slightly serrated leaves, with short dense spikes of white
flowers from July. Useful plant for late summer
colour in the rockery. 10 cm
OFFICINALIS ‘ROSEA’
Slightly indented foliage. Tall, slender flowering stems, with dense spikes of
pink flowers during the second half of summer.
Likes heavy soil. A much under-rated plant. 60 cm
STERNBERGIA
LUTEA
ANGUSTIFOLIA GROUP
Long strap-like leaves come before the yellow crocus type flowers in late summer, early autumn.
Needs a sunny, well-drained position
to flower well. 10 cm
STIPA
ARUNDINACEAseeanemanthele lessoniana
GIGANTEA
Forms large grassy clumps with tall oat-like flowers in summer. 2.2 m
TENUIFOLIA
The description will not do this attractive grass justice… A small clump
of fine, green leaves with a mass of delicate oat-coloured grass flowers, in
summer. Self-seeds. 45 cm
SYMPHYTUM
‘GOLDSMITH’
Golden variegated groundcover comfrey, very useful especially to lighten
a shady corner. Pinky buds open to creamy white flowers from spring.
Tends to send up the odd reversion now and then. Spreading. 20
cm
‘SNAPE COTTAGE’
A good red flowered form of comfrey which appeared in Angela and Ian Whinfield’s garden at Snape Cottage.
X UPLANDICUM ‘AXMINSTER
GOLD’
Wonderful golden variegated foliage with tall stems of typical slightly wishy-washy
comfrey flowers. We cut down the flowering stems pretty soon so the showy clump
of leaves at the base can ‘strut their stuff’. These should be ready
in May. 1.1 m
