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Spring Fling Ideas Book 1
Get the look with: Erysimum Rysi ‘Gold’ (P), Erysimum Rysi ‘Moon’ (P), Heuchera ‘Key Lime Pie’ (P), Tiarella ‘Morning Star’ (P), Scirpus cernuus, Acorus gramineus ‘Ogon’, Euphorbia ‘Efanthia’ (P), 2
The Spring Fling Ideas Book Having a year round garden filled with plants and flowers is every gardener’s ultimate goal.
That’s why we have put together this ideas book, so that gardeners everywhere can create the spring look they want with ease with a range of varieties. We have picked out the very best in early flowering plants, interesting foliage, inspiration and planting ideas to create a spring garden that is full of colours, textures, heights and habits. It’s divided into sections: Spring Flowers; Spring Foliage; Herbs; and Late Spring Flowering Varieties, so that you can extend the gardening season as far as possible.
Heuc�er� ‘Lic�ri�e’
Euph���i� ‘Efan�hi�’ 3
Get the look with: Iberis ‘Master Piece’ (P), Primula Belarina ‘Buttercup Yellow’ (P), Primula Belarina ‘Nectarine’ (P), Lobularia ‘Snow Princess’ (P), Lobularia ‘Primavera Princess’ (P), Erysimum ‘Orange Zwerg’ (P), Sagina ‘Green’. 4
Spring Fling Flowers
Spring Fling Flowers
Early flowering varieties are on everyone’s checklist for their spring garden. The following pages are full of Spring Fling flower ideas and inspiration. We have included a huge variety, from classic spring colours such as radiant yellows, pretty purples and bright whites, to some more adventurous varieties like our red hot Erysimum Winter series (p1415)and the passionate Primula Belarina ‘Valentine’(p26-27), which are perfect for more dramatic planting schemes.
Myo��i� ‘M� O� M�’
Tiar�ll� ‘M�r��n� Star ’ 5
Aubrieta
‘L�me Var�egate�’
‘R�y�� Re�’ 6
Spring Fling Flowers A wonderful selection of alpine Aubrieta. They are all low growing and creeping varieties which can form trails if allowed. Normally growing to about 15cm x 30cm and flowering from April to May. ‘D����e P��k’
Aubrieta are ideal for rockeries, gravel gardens, walls and containers. Planting ideas: Plant with other pinks and purples for soft hues and contrast with bright lime foliage, like Carex oshimensis ‘Everillo’ (p73) for example.
Aubrieta ‘Blue Whale’ Large, intense blue flowers engulf the mounds of tight green foliage in spring.
Aubrieta ‘Lime Variegated’
Low growing, spreading lime yellow and green variegated foliage with intense purple-blue flowers.
Aubrieta ‘Dr. Mules Variegata’
Aubrieta ‘Double Pink’
A wonderful perennial with contrasting violet-purple flowers against creeping cream and green variegated foliage.
Beautiful ruffled, double pink flowers with just a hint of a yellow eye create an extravagant display.
Aubrieta ‘Blue Beauty’ Beautiful double blue flowers on clean, green foliage and with a lovely dome forming habit.
Aubrieta ‘Gloria’ A rich green, mound forming variety with dark magenta-red flowers.
Aubrieta ‘Royal Blue’
Aubrieta ‘Royal Red’
Aubrieta ‘Swan Red’
A compact evergreen, moundforming plant with iridescent blue flowers.
Compact mounds of luscious green foliage with vivid red-magenta flowers.
Variegated foliage, just like ‘Doctor Mules Variegata’ but with purplered flowers.
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Bergenia
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Spring Fling Flowers
A selection of very attractive Bergenia with excellent foliage and pretty racemes of flowers. ‘Autumn Magic’ flowers from August-December and is perfect for winter flower colour. The other two varieties flower from March-May and make good early ‘Spring Fling’ flowering varieties. Planting ideas: Plant Eroica (pictured) with Aubrieta, Saxifraga, and variegated Thyme for a deliciously scented flower bed with stalky racemes coupled with low growing alpines.
Bergenia ‘Autumn Magic’
The best Bergenia for autumn flower colour. With large green foliage and bright pink racemes.
Bergenia ‘Eroica’
Bergenia ‘Harzkristall’
An improvement on previous forms with more purple-burgundy “elephant ear” leaves than the Bressingham Ruby. Superb pink flowers in spring
Delicate white flowers, with just a slight tint of rose on the petals emerge from well contained glossy green foliage in spring.
Campanula
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‘Saman�h�’
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Spring Fling Flowers A group of low growing Campanula, often sold as ‘alpines’ in spring. Wonderful for the front of raised beds, rockeries, walls, steps and mixed containers to enjoy all year round. Some are also suitable for mixed summer baskets. Planting Ideas: Best planted en masse for a wall or carpet of deep purple throughout spring.
Campanula garganica ‘Dickson’s Gold’
Campanula poscharskyana ‘Pinkins’
Golden foliage with light blue flowers.
Campanula ‘Elizabeth Oliver’
Dainty double light blue flowers for the summer.
Lilac pink flowers with lighter coloured centers
Campanula muralis A cascading habit with flowers of deep mauve for spring and most of summer.
Campanula ‘Samantha’ (VR)
A wide flowered violet-blue, fragrant bellflower which will creep if allowed.
Campanula muralis ‘Major’
Campanula port. ‘Mrs Resholt’
Vigorous dark green foliage with purple mauve flowers.
Mid-blue flowers about 2cm in diameter.
Campanula ‘Summer Pearl’
Campanula x haylodgensis
Compact spreading plant with double white, pearly flowers in spring.
Unusual double lavender-blue flowers raised by Hay Lodge, Edinburgh in 1885.
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Campanula pulla ‘Blue’
Lovely violet-blue bells, which hang tightly to the foliage.
Campanula ‘Yvonne’ Low spreading, producing masses of lilac-blue upturned bell-like flowers.
Dianthus
‘R���k��’
Early Birds This is a superb new early season Dianthus which flowers a full 4-6 weeks earlier. ‘Rebekah’ A free flowering and perfumed variety carrying fully double crimson blooms over grey-green foliage.
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Spring Fling Flowers Ery���um Ry�� ‘Gol�’
Pr���l� B�lar�n� ‘Cream’
Lo��lari� ‘Pr�ma�er� Pr�n�es�’
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Erysimum Winter series
Get the look with: Tiarella ‘Morning Star’ (P), Erysimum ‘Winter Rouge’ (P),Erysimum ‘Winter Sorbet’ (P) 14
Spring Fling Flowers ‘Winter’ is a series full of hot pinks, burning oranges, intense purples and warming reds, guaranteed to heat up any garden in spring. Flowers emerge early in March and last right through to mid summer. Planting ideas: Combine with other Erysimum in the Winter series for a red hot pot, or plant with the ‘Rysi’ series for a superb mix of bright or soft yellows that will offset the warmth of the winter series perfectly. They also work well with other spring flowering varieties such as Primulas (Belarina for example), Viola & Arabis as well as fancy foliage like Tiarella.
Erysimum ‘Winter Joy’
This variety is similar to E. ‘Bowles Mauve’, but this has the advantage of larger purple-mauve flowers and is earlier.
‘W�nter P���’
Erysimum ‘Winter Orchid’ (P) EUPVR TBAF
Erysimum ‘Winter Rouge’ (P) EUPVR TBAF
Flowers emerge as a coppery orange, turning to purple as they age.
A rich, rosy-red colour that really shines in the early spring sun.
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Erysimum ‘Winter Sorbet’ (P) INNERYWS
Purple, yellow, pink and copper tones. This variety however, is earlier to flower, more compact with larger flowers.
Erysimum Rysi series
Get the look with: Erysimum Rysi ‘Star’ (P), Erysimum ‘Winter Joy’, Sagina ‘Green’ 16
Spring Fling Flowers The ‘Rysi’ collection is a mixture of soft and bright yellows that provide the ultimate zesty yellow colour palette that’s perfect for spring. They are early to flower in March and continue flowering all the way through mid summer. Planting Ideas: Plant together for a bright yellow spring display, or try with lime coloured Heuchera(p50-55) and green grasses such as Scirpus cernuus(p71).
Erysimum Rysi ‘Bronze’ (P) INNRYSIBRO
An upright, compact wallflower with bronzy-orange clusters of flowers in spring.
Ery���um Ry�� ‘Gol�’
S��r�u� �er�uu� Heuc�er� ‘Ke� L�me P�e’
Erysimum Rysi ‘Gold’ (P) INNRYSIGOL
Erysimum Rysi ‘Moon’ (P) EUPVR TBAF
Golden yellow flowers in spring on a neat, upright, compact habit.
Pearly cream flowers on upright, but compact flowering stems.
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Erysimum Rysi ‘Star’ (P) EUPVR TBAF
Bright, lemon yellow flowers look superb on the compact green foliage.
Erysimum
‘Plan� W��l� Lem�n’
‘A�ri�� T�is� ’
‘Oran�e Z�er�’
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Pr���l� B�lar�n� ‘Nectar��e’
Spring Fling Flowers This range of Erysimum ‘Wall Flowers’ are all unique with varying habits, flower colours and garden uses. Flowering from April to July, with some starting earlier. Planting ideas: Wallflowers are very popular for spring planting as they come in a wonderful range of long lasting flower colour, and can be planted with spring and summer flowering varieties as well as textured foliage such as grasses, Heuchera and Euphorbia. They are perfect for many garden situations - in the container to show off the flowers or mixed in bed and border to create a colour hot-spot.
Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’
A perennial wallflower with numerous clusters of rich purple coloured flowers on long racemes from spring to summer.
Erysimum ‘Plant World Lemon’ (VR)
An upright wall-flower with flowers that change from a ‘Sweet Sorbet’ pink to light yellow.
Erysimum ‘Constant Cheer’
Erysimum ‘Golden Jubilee’
An upright wallflower with clusters of slightly scented dusty red flowers, fading through oranges and pinks.
Bright green foliage with goldenyellow flowers in spring.
Erysimum ‘Sunburst’ (P) LISTRACE
Erysimum ‘Sweet Sorbet’
An eye-catching beauty with intense orange sorbet flowers borne on cream-green variegated foliage.
A wall flower with long spikes of brilliant lilac to purple flowers which will continue from spring to summer.
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Erysimum ‘Apricot Twist’
This will brighten up any spot in the garden with its incredibly intense apricot-orange flowers on petite green foliage.
Erysimum linifolium ‘Variegatum’
Wonderful variegated cream and green foliage with light mauve flowers on fairly long spikes.
Erysimum ‘Orange Zwerg’ (P) INNERYOZ
A more heavy flowering variety of this bold, bright orange flowered Erysimum.
Helleborus
‘S�l�er Dollar ’
‘Double Pink Spotted’
Double Purple’
Candyfloss pink, double flowers with maroon freckles really catch the eye when they bloom in the late winter and early spring.
Delightful smokey purple, double flowers that emerge early in spring.
‘Double White Picotee’
Each creamy white petal is erratically spotted and bordered by a deep plum-pink edge, creating delightful bi-coloured, double flowers.
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‘Double Yellow Spotted’
Beautiful creamy yellow, double flowers with a string of plum freckles on each petal.
Spring Fling Flowers This selection contains some of the best Hellebore varieties available. Often planted in traditional woodland areas and under trees, they create a sophisticated spread of delicate flowers and foliage. Planting ideas: They’re very early flowering, so excellent for use in spring containers, but equally happy in the bed or shady border. Plant a combination of different flower colours to create an effortless scattering and give an authentic woodland look.
Helleborus ori. hyb. ‘Blue Metallic Lady’
Round, mostly upright metallic blue-purple flowers. 80% true to colour.
Helleborus ‘Silver Dollar’ (VR)
Compact mound of serrated silver leaves held together with pink stems. Greenish-white flowers with a pink flush on the reverse.
Helleborus orientalis hybrid ‘Blue Lady’
Helleborus orientalis hybrid ‘Pink Lady’
Round, mostly upright blue to dark purple flowers. 80% true to colour.
Round, mostly upright pink and rose-pink flowers. 80% true to colour.
Helleborus ori. hyb. ‘White Lady Spotted’
Helleborus ori. hyb. ‘White Lady Spotted’
Round, mostly upright white with fine red spotted flowers. 80% true to colour.
Round, mostly upright white with fine red spotted flowers. 80% true to colour.
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Helleborus ‘Double Queen Mixed’
A kaleidoscope of colour in the spring. Wonderful mix of double blooms on tough green foliage.
Helleborus orientalis hybrid ‘Red Lady’
Round, mostly upright red flowers. 80% true to colour.
Helleborus orientalis hybrid ‘Yellow Lady’
Round, mostly upright yellow flowers. 80% true to colour.
Iberis
‘Master P�e�e’
Pr���l� B�lar�n� ‘Cream’ Sa��n� ‘Gr�en’
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Spring Fling Flowers Iberis provide excellent spring colours to containers and beds. They mix well with Primulas and other spring flowering varieties and as an added bonus they’re popular with bees and butterflies too. New introductions this year include ‘Master Piece’, which has extra large flower heads and ‘Pink Ice’, a cool shade of pink for a sophisticated planting scheme.
‘Absolut�l� Ame�hys� ’
‘P��k I�e’
Iberis ‘Absolutely Amethyst’ (P) EUPVR TBAF
A jewel in the crown of any Iberis collection. Wonderful pink puffs of flowers on neat mounds of green foliage.
Iberis ‘Master Piece’ (P)
This exceptionally long flowering variety produces mounds of evergreen, narrow, Plymouth Argyle green leaves and masses of large, pure white flowers with small pink centres.
Iberis sempervirens ‘Snowflake’
Iberis ‘Pink Ice’ (VR) A multitude of flat clusters of large, pink flowers with small dark-pink centres held over fine, evergreen foliage.
Clumps of white flowers in early spring on compact foliage with small green leaves.
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Iberis ‘Golden Candy’ (VR)
Superb golden foliage with white flower blooms similar to those of ‘Snowflake’.
Iberis ‘Snowball’ (P) EUPVR TBAF
This variety has fantastic, ample sized balls of white flower, largest in the first year. More prolific in the spring period than traditional Iberis.
Myosotis (Forget-me-not)
Pr���l� B�lar�n� ‘B��er�u� Y�ll��’
Myosotis ‘My Oh My’ (P) MYOMARK
A beautiful mist of sky-blue forgetme-not flowers shower this plant in early spring on a very compact habit. A true, blue beauty!
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Ery���um Ry�� ‘Br�n�e’ Spring
Fling Flowers
Primula Belarina
Get the look with: Primula Belarina ‘Valentine’ (P), Iberis ‘Master Piece’ (P), Tiarella ‘Morning Star’ (P), Heuchera ‘Gotham’ (P). 26
Spring Fling Flowers We are very excited about this series of Primula. They are a classy alternative to the Primrose and Polyanthus, with ample sized, ruffled double flowers from February with flushes through to summer. Planting ideas: Plant at the front of a container or bowl and give them a backdrop of taller flowers and foliage which will set them off beautifully. They grow very well together too so pick a variety of different colours for an elegant pot or bowl.
‘P��k Cha�pa��e’
Primula Belarina ‘Amethyst Ice’ (P) KERBELPICOTEE
PrimulaBelarina‘Buttercup Yellow’ (P) KERBELBUT
Primula Belarina ‘Buttermilk’ (P) KERBELMILK
Primula Belarina ‘Cream’ (P) KERBELCREM
Primula Belarina ‘Nectarine’ (P) KERBELNEC
Primula Belarina ‘Pink Ice’ (P) KERBELPICE
Double flowers which as the name suggest are amethyst mauve, edged with white.
A mass of large double cream flowers - probably the most floriferous variety.
Sumptuous buttery yellow flowers with the hallmark Rosette collar.
Creamy, milky, semi-double flowers on bright green foliage.
Fairly compact double flowers of pink and swirls of cream.
Glorious yellow flowers which blush to intense pinky-orange at the petal margins.
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Primula Belarina ‘Cobalt Blue’ (P) KERBELCOB
Striking large deep blue, double flowers.
Primula Belarina ‘Valentine’ (P) KERBELRED
A fantastic, deep, intense red.
Primula Kennedy
‘In�is�r�e’
The result of over 35 years of careful selection, this Irish series, bred from old Irish varieties, all have the same 3 things in common. The foliage is an unusually purple bronze colour, the plants are floriferous with the blooms either contrasting or complimenting the foliage. They’re also tough, being hardy down to -15°C.
Primula Kennedy ‘Avondale’ (P) EUPVR TBAF
Delicate pink flowers, crossed with white and set off by a striking yellow centre held over green foliage.
Primula Kennedy ‘Dunbeg’ (P) EUPVR TBAF
Beautiful soft peach coloured blooms that contrast perfectly with the dark foliage.
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Primula Kennedy ‘Innisfree’ (P) K72
Fabulous, dark, velvety red flowers displayed over very dark green to purple foliage.
Spring Fling Flowers Primula auricula A range of easy to grow double auriculas bred specifically for their suitability for the garden. They have been bred with strong flower stalks which have the ability to hold aloft a full head of flowers, without the stalks bending. Great for tubs, sinks, beds and borders.
Primula auricula ‘Black Jack’® (VR)
Deep burgundy flowers with a yellow rimmed white central eye.
Primula auricula ‘Late Romantic’® (VR)
Late Romantic has short stalks of pale peach, rose-like blooms with a delicate scent, flowering in late May and repeating in late summer.
Primula auricula ‘Shaun’® (VR)
Short stalks of double golden yellow, scented blooms, set off against wonderful silver dusted foliage.
‘Shaun’®
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Primula No spring garden would be complete without Primulas, and here we have picked out quite a selection to choose from. For a more traditional planting scheme choose soft yellows and pinks, or for something a bit different try the more unusual varieties like ‘Francisca’ & ‘Elizabeth Killelay’.
Primula veris A perennial herb which is sometimes used in the kitchen for salads and other culinary delights.
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Primula ‘Francisca’ Unusual tousled blooms which are luminous green, fading to a yellow centre.
Primula japonica ‘Alba’
Beautiful flowers with pure white petals and honey-yellow centres which look stunning against matt green foliage.
Primula ‘Miss Indigo’
Primula pulverulenta
Double deep violet-purple flowers, each petal delicately edged in silver.
Strong stems hold whorls of deep pink flowers with an even deeper maroon eye, opening in succession up the flower stems.
Primula bulleyana
Primula chungensis
A tall candelabra primrose with upright green foliage and small orange flowers.
Primula elatior This is a wild form of the well known Oxslip with sulphur-yellow flowers.
Primula japonica ‘Apple Blossom’
Soft pink flowers on tall candelabra flower stems.
Primula vialii ‘Red Hot Poker’
A graceful variety with elongated green leaves produce high impact flowers of purple with red tips.
Primula ‘Dawn Ansell’
Abundant terracotta coloured tubular flowers held in whorls above mid green scalloped rosettes of foliage.
An exceptional rose like, pure white double flowers with a green ruff which holds the flower nicely.
Primula elatior-hybrid ‘Gold Lace’
Primula ‘Elizabeth Killelay’
Gorgeous flowers with bronzy-red marginations and yellow centres on short candelabra stems. Slightly variable colour.
Rich, deep maroon double flowers with edges traced in golden yellow, held over pale green foliage with a slightly scalloped edge.
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Primula japonica ‘Miller’s Crimson’
Another elegant tall candelabra primrose with bright red flowers in summer.
Primula beesiana Fragrant whorls of lilac-magenta flowers produced on tall stems
Primula denticulata ‘Blue Selection’
Distinctively shaped, lilac blue ‘drumstick’ blossoms.
Primula vulgaris The common primrose seen so often in our Cornish hedgerows, but we are sourcing seed from commercially cultivated crops.
Saxifraga
‘R��r�’
‘White’
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Spring Fling Flowers Saxifraga are small and low growing, all with tight mounds of foliage which produce a variety of flower colours between May and June. Planting ideas: Ideal for a small alpine bowl with other coloured Saxifragas, Ajugas and Sempervivums or placed in the fringes of the border or rockery.
Sa�i�rag� ‘S�l�er Cu�hi�n’
Saxifraga cuneifolia ‘Variegata’
Green and gold succulent foliage which creeps and covers.
Saxifraga ‘Rubra’ An improvement on previous red Saxifrage. Strong, mounding alpine foliage is covered by flowers in spring.
Saxifraga ‘Cloth of Gold’
Eye-catching golden mounds, one of the tightest with little whitepearly flowers which bloom in spring.
Saxifraga ‘Golden Falls’
Saxifraga ‘Fleece’
Creamy-white flowers emerge on mounds of silver-green foliage fringed with gold.
A mass of small white flowers in early spring against emerald-green foliage.
Saxifraga ‘Silver Cushion’
Saxifraga ‘Triumph’
Wonderfully variegated foliage with exquisite light-pink flowers.
Rose pink flowers on large dark green rosettes.
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Saxifraga ‘Pearly King’
A vigorous Saxifrage with creamy white flowers in astonishing abundance.
Saxifraga ‘White’ Chosen as a more pure white alternative to S. ‘White Pixie’ with flowers over a neat cushion of lush green foliage.
Get the look with: Viola ‘Etain’, Erysimum ‘Winter Joy’ and a mix of Primroses. 34
Spring Fling Flowers
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Viola Ery���um ‘W�nter J��’
Viol� ‘Eta�n’ A brilliant upgrade from standard ‘Pansy’ varieties. Most of these offer good scent and perennial flowering attributes. They look absolutely stunning in border fringes, rockeries, gravel gardens, bowls and tubs. Planting Ideas: Plant with a mixture of Erysimum, Euphorbia and Primula as pictured, or plant en masse in flower beds for a haze of colour.
Viola ‘Columbine’ Rich mauve with light-cream, sketchy streaks.
Viola ‘Dawn’
Viola ‘Elaine Quin’
Creamy yellow flowers with a slight eye.
Similar to ‘Columbine’ but more of a marbled purple/cream flower.
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Viola ‘Buttercup’ A profusion of sweet honey scented, bright-yellow flowers.
Viola ‘Etain’ An unbeatable variety with beautiful cream-yellow flowers spreading to lavender on their margins and an unforgettable scent.
Viola ‘Green Goddess’ A good, strong Pansy-type Viola with a yellow marked face in the centre and watery green tinge bleeding from the edge towards the centre.
Viola ‘Janet’ Dark blue, almost purple flowers with cream centre and yellow eye and a very good scent to go with it.
Viola hederacea
This really is unique, almost metallic in colour - Yellow suffused, bronzed gold and dark maroon.
A trailing, large leaved, spreading Viola with peculiar purse-like purple and white flowers.
Viola labradorica
Viola ‘Martin’ Wonderfully vibrant violet flowers with cream eye.
Dark purple foliage and violet flowers. This will seed and spread to its hearts content!
Viola ‘Mrs. Lancaster’
Viola ‘Papilio’
White flowers with noticeable central veins and yellow eye. Possibly the strongest scent of all the range.
Wonderful marbled texture flower with purple mixing with white and a yellow eye.
Viola sororia ‘Freckles’
Viola ‘Tiger Eyes’
A Viola with distinctive flowers white with blue speckles.
Viola ‘Irish Molly’
Viola ‘Rebecca’ Creamy white flowers splashed and frilled with mauve. One of the strongest scented Viola in the range.
A uniquely marked, yellow faced flower which compliments the series.
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Viola ‘Jackanapes’ Bright yellow lower sections with upper chocolate-brown.
Viola ‘Molly Sanderson’
Near-black flowers with purple veining and golden eye.
Viola ‘Roscastle Black’ Velvety purple-black with a white eye.
Viola ‘Tony Venison’
Viola ‘Zoe’
Gold and green variegated foliage with light blue flowers. The variegation recedes in the warmer summer months becoming more creamy.
A bright-yellow centre surrounded by lilac-blue on the lower margins and upper petals.
Spring Flowers
P�lm�nari� ‘B����e Gum’
Arenaria balearica Very compact and spreading dark green foliage with little white flowers.
Arabis alpina caucasica ‘Angvine’
Absolutely stunning hardy alpine with golden frilled green foliage and gorgeous pink flowers in spring and the start of summer.
Arenaria purpurascens
Arenaria ‘The Pearl’ (VR)
Bright green prostrate foliage with star-like, pink flowers in spring.
A small mound forming alpine covered with masses of delightful, pure white open flowers on a green cushion of foliage.
Arabis alpina caucasica ‘Variegata’
Arabis ferdinandicoburgii ‘Variegata’
Attractive, prostrate cream-green variegated foliage with sprays of small white flowers.
Sprays of scented white flowers, which may flush to pink, over large cream & green variegated foliage.
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Armeria caespitosa Tight mound-forming habit with profusion of light pink flowers.
Arabis ferdinandicoburgii ‘Old Gold’
Sprays of small white flowers over a lively tapestry of golden, green variegated foliage. Collected from Macedonia at the beginning of the 20th century.
Spring Fling Flowers Here we have picked out a selection of some more of the best and most beautiful to inspire your plans for spring planting.
Armeria juniperifolia ‘Alba’
Neat tufts of green foliage with white flowers in spring to summer.
Armeria maritima ‘Rubifolia’
Neat form of the more usual Sea Thrift varieties with rich bronze foliage and pink pom-pom flowers.
Corydalis flexuosa ‘China Blue’
This hardy perennial displays clusters of light sky-blue trumpets over fine, lace-like foliage of rich green.
Armeria juniperifolia ‘Bevan’s Variety’
Armeria maritima ‘Dusseldorf Pride’
Small ‘thrift’ with mid grey-green foliage and double pink flowers.
Compact foliage with dark pink bubble-like flowers.
Corydalis ‘Berry Exciting’ (P)
Armeria ‘Nifty Thrifty’ (VR)
A vigorous Corydalis with succulent stems and gold ferny leaves on a wide spreading plant. The purple flowers are wonderfully fragrant and long lasting
Striking, grassy mounds, leaves of green, edged with cream with bright rose-pink flowers.
Diosma ericoides ‘Sunset Gold’
Geum ‘Eos’ (VR) Bright orange blooms over a clump of golden yellow foliage make a wonderful contrast for a stunning spring display
A dense evergreen shrub with needle like yellowish-green foliage and masses of small white/pink flowers in the spring.
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Armeria maritma ‘Morning Star White’
Fresh, deep green, grass-like foliage and a multitude of long-lasting, white, pom-pom like flowers that appear in spring.
Corydalis ‘Blue Dragon’
Marvellous purple-bronze, compact foliage which offers early, scented blue flowers in spring into summer.
Hypericum x moserianum ‘Variegatum’
Tri-coloured foliage plant with a prostrate habit to be enjoyed all year round and yellow flowers in spring.
Justicia rizzinii This native of Brazil is a small perennial evergreen shrub with masses of nodding yellow tipped red flowers. (Suitable for indoors for winter flower colour)
Lithodora ‘Blue Star’ (P) STAR
Glorious green leaves and small white flowers with brushstrokes of blue.
Oenothera ‘African Copious amounts of small bright yellow flowers on bright green foliage.
Potentilla tonguei Large, apricot-yellow flowers with a crimson eye in spring over a mat of slightly trailing green foliage which turns more red in autumn.
Lychnis x arkwrightii ‘Orange Zwerg’‘Variegatum’
Lathyrus vernus Carmine-pink flowers form in clumps on dense flower spikes.
Wonderful single orange flowers on upright bronze foliage.
Lithodora ‘Heavenly Blue’
Morisia ‘Monantha’
Brought over to the UK in 1825, this alpine has beautiful, bright sky-blue flowers for most of the summer.
Polemoniumbrandegeei ‘BressinghamPurple’(R)POLBRESS This is a compact “Jacob’s ladder” variety that features purple tinted, green leaves and burgundy stems with clusters of slightly fragrant cobalt-blue flowers.
Potentilla verna ‘Nana’ Brilliant yellow flowers on dwarf mounds of green foliage.
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Lithodora diffusa ‘Alba’
Pretty little white stars on the mounds of deep green foliage.
Parahebe ‘Porlock’
Yellow flowers of about 2cm in diameter on tough, dark green, finely cut, slow growing foliage.
Lavender-blue flowers that will cascade over a containers sides.
Polemonium caerul eum ‘Brise d’ Anjou’ (P) BLANJOU
Polemonium ‘Stairway to Heaven’ (P)
An erect, clump-forming perennial with typical “Jacob’s Ladder” bright green, variegated leaves with golden-creamy-white edges.
A sensational, variegated, medium sized mound of mid-green ferny leaves strongly edged in creamy white and flushed with pink during cooler spring months.
Pulmonaria ‘Bubble Gum’ (P)
Pulmonaria ‘Raspberry Splash’ (P)
Distinctive purple flower buds give rise to radiant clusters of pale-pink bell-shaped flowers. Its attractive glossy narrow leaves remain light green in colour with showy silver spotting throughout the season.
An upright variety with small, pointed spotted leaves and raspberry flower spikes.
Rhodanthemum ‘African Spring’ (P)
Silver foliage with daisy like flowers which emerge in spring and have white petals with golden brown to yellow centres.
Pulmonaria ‘Victorian Brooch’ (P)
Rhodanthemum ‘African Eyes’ (VR)
Rhodanthemum ‘Moondance’ (P)
Rhodanthemum ‘Pretty in Pink’ (P)
An absolute beauty with attractive long, but compact silver-spotted foliage with long-lasting magenta-coral flowers.
Silver foliage with flowers with cream petals and dark-brown eyes, which emerge in early spring.
Numerous soft-pink daisy like blooms fading to white over the season emerge over compact, evergreen, grey-green foliage.
This is the best pink coloured variety to date. A multitude of rich deep pink flowers on silvery green foliage.
Trichodiadema densum
Vinca minor ‘Illumination’
Vinca minor ‘Bowles Purple’
Vinca major ‘Wojo’s Gem’
Small and compact, mat forming perennial succulent which readily produces abundant attractive vivid pink to magenta-carmine flowers in early spring.
Stunning golden variegated foliage which trails like liquid gold from the basket or container with fantastic mauve periwinkle flowers for spring an summer.
Shiny, dark-green trailing foliage producing fantastic single purple flowers in Spring.
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A brightly variegated Vinca with creamy yellow centres edged and flecked with dark green. Lavender blue flowers in spring and summer.
Get the look with: Heuchera, Ajuga, Helichrysum, Sedum & Calocephalus.
A�ug� 'Black Sc�ll��' (P)
Heuc�er� 'Cr�me Br���e' (P)
Euph���i� 'Efan�hi�' (P) Ly��machi� 'Gol��lock�'
Spring Fling Foliage
Flowers only last so long, and that’s why it is so important to choose interesting foliage that will keep gardens looking spectacular all year round. Plants have never looked as luscious and green as when they’re planted next to a deep purple or burning orange leaf…and a once dull green garden transforms into a myriad of colours and textures. From fluffy grasses and furry Sage to shiny dark Ajuga and rustling Heuchera, the following pages pick out the best that year round foliage has to offer.
Aralia ‘Sun King’
Large, bright gold leaves emerge in spring and in a sunny position the foliage will remain eye-catching throughout the summer. In full shade, the foliage looks a darker lime green colour. Tall 60cm spikes of tiny white flowers appear in summer.
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Ajuga
‘Black Sc�ll��’
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Fancy Foliage Ajuga add a wonderful dark leafy texture to planting combinations. Some, such as ‘Black Scallop’ and ‘Catlin’s Giant’ have really dark shiny leaves, whereas others have foliage that varies in pinks, bronzes, yellows and reds, such as ‘Rainbow’ and ‘Burgundy Glow’. They are also easy to care for and grow attractive purple flowers from early on in April. Planting ideas: Excellent for use in container combinations as pictured, but also ideal for border fringes.
Ajuga ‘Black Scallop’ (P) BINBLASCA
A very robust form of Ajuga with lovely dark, scalloped foliage, with blue flower spikes in spring.
Ajuga reptans ‘Burgundy Glow’
Attractive variegated red and cream foliage, which trails slightly with blue flowers.
Ajuga ‘Chocolate Chip’ (VR/CB)
Get the look with: Ajuga ‘Black Scallop’ (P), Sage officinalis ‘Icterina (Gold)’, Carex and Heuchera
Ajuga pyramidalis ‘Metallica Crispa’
A great low growing Ajuga with small mat forming leaves. Is darkest when kept cool and relatively dry.
A wonderful Ajuga with dark, slightly metallic, crinkled and hairy leaves with a small blue flower in summer.
Ajuga reptans ‘Catlin’s Giant’
Ajuga reptans ‘Rainbow’
Very large dark bronze-green metallic foliage with the bonus of bright blue flower spikes.
Shiny bronze foliage with flecks of green, red and gold. Deep blue flowers are a real bonus.
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Ajuga reptans ‘Braun Herz’
Very shiny dark bronze leaves which creep over the ground with deep-blue flower spikes in spring.
Ajuga reptans ‘Variegata’
A low growing, creeping alpine with creamy yellow and green variegated foliage.
Cordyline
‘T��ba� D����er ’
‘Ch� Ch�’
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Fancy Foliage A great selection of Cordyline, best used as an architectural plant in a container or planted out in a raised bed or border. Often with interesting striped leaves of contrasting colours. They have become popular in recent years thanks to their exotic palm-like appearance, especially in coastal gardens. Cordyline australis ‘Pink Passion’ (P)
Cordyline australis
Cordyline australis ‘Kiwi’
Cordyline australis ‘Red Heart’
A strikingly coloured Cordyline with long, slender leaves which are a combination of greyish purple in the centre and pink at the edges, giving it rich magenta tones.
Cordyline australis ‘Red Sensation’
Relatively narrow mid-green spiky leaves.
A vibrantly colourful variation with dark grey-green sword shaped leaves with a pink midrib.
This ‘Sundance’ improvement has green sword-like strap leaves that have a solid stripe of pink down the midrib and along the leaf ’s base.
A wonderful dark burgundy variety. Nice strong, upright habit.
Cordyline australis ‘Red Star’
Cordyline australis ‘Torbay Dazzler’
Cordyline ‘Renegade’ (P)
Cordyline ‘Sunrise’ (VR)
An evergreen exotic structural shrub with striking bronze-red foliage.
An evergreen, palm-like tree with green, cream striped, sword-like leaves.
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A clump forming Cordyline that has arching, dark purple to nearly black foliage with a glossy lacquered finish. Dramatic foliage with small fragrant, light lavender flowers.
A distinctive Cordyline with strong and stable variegation. The long, arching leaves have a deep red/pink central stripe and thick, bright pink margins.
Euphorbia
‘Efan�hi�’
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Fancy Foliage Variable in habit, some more compact than others. Particularly useful in the pot, or container for the spring, mixed with other perennials, which can then be transplanted into the bed or border after use in the container to continue to add interesting foliage to the garden.
Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Amy Purpurea’
Get the look with: Euphorbia ‘Efanthia’ (P), Lysimachia ‘Goldilocks’ and Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (Display flowers in autumn)
Euphorbia ‘Baby Charm’ (VR)
Very compact forming a neat mound. Bronze green foliage with short flower stems. Flowers apple green in colour with yellow centres and red capsules.
Euphorbia ‘Glacier Blue’ (P)
An excellent new variegated form of Euphorbia characias offering Smokey blue grey leaves with white margins.
Euphorbia characias wulfenii
This forms large, bold clumps of blue-grey foliage with sulphuryellow flower spikes in MarchApril.
Dark bronze-green leaves with new shoots of deep purple and flowers of lime-green which last through spring.
Compact and evergreen with many foliage colours throughout the year. Grey-green edged with yellow, shades of pink, red and orange, and lime green flowers.
Euphorbia ‘Despina’ (P)
Euphorbia ‘Efanthia’ (P)
Glaucus blue-green evergreen foliage with a wonderful spray of flowers in spring. Flowers are lush green with dainty red-eyed antennae.
Euphorbia ‘Grey Hedgehog’ (VR)
Euphorbia ‘Kalipso’ (VR) INNKALFF
An excellent evergreen perennial with multi-stemmed cool, ice blue needle-like leaves which are soft to touch.
A wonderful rounded, bushy and compact form with golden yellow flowers on buff green foliage.
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Euphorbia ‘Ascot Rainbow’ (P)
Small, green leaves with purple tinges on the edges and red undersides. Yellow balls of flower through summer and into autumn.
Euphorbia x martinii Rounded mounds of medium green leaves often tinged with purple. Chartreuse bracts emerge in spring with red eyes.
Helichrysum
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‘I�ic�e�’
Sa�e �fi��n�li� ‘Tricol�r ’
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Fancy Foliage Helichrysum are brilliant for baskets, bowls and tubs, particularly at the edges to allow them to demonstrate their full trailing ability. These varieties will act as a foil for any container plant.
Helichrysum microphyllum
Still one of the best basket Helichrysum varieties with its small silver lobed leaves.
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Helichrysum petiolare ‘Gold’
Helichrysum petiolare ‘Silver’
Gorgeous golden foliage which trails with vigour.
An excellent, vigorous trailing Helichrysum, silver in colour and large, lobed leaves.
Helichrysum petiolare ‘Variegatum’
A cream/silver variegated form of the very popular basket plant.
The scented Helichrysum varieties add a delicious aroma to tubs and containers. ‘Korma’ and ‘Icicles’ are similar to curry plant, but with a milder scent. ‘White Wonder’ is intensely aromatic and as an added bonus it flowers from June to August.
Helichrysum ambiguum ‘Korma’ (P/CB)
Helichrysum ‘Icicles’ Similar in form to curry plant, but more elongated foliage and slightly more silvery appearance.
A relation to the curry plant with silvery-white feathered foliage.
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Helichrysum ‘White Wonder’
The silvery foliage and yellow flowers make this intensely aromatic plant a real head turner.
Heuchera ‘Blac��err� Jam’
‘Ke� L�me P�e’
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Spring Fling Flowers
‘Cr�me Br���e’
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Heuchera
‘Ke� L�me P�e’
Get the look with: Plant a mix of Heuchera, Tiarella and Euphorbia
Heuchera Little Cuties ‘Blondie’ (P)
Heuchera Little Cuties ‘Ginger Snap’ (P)
New growth blushes pink, whilst older growth matures to brown, rosy, miniature leaves the colour of gingersnap biscuits.
Heuchera Little Cuties ‘Peppermint’ (P)
Miniature caramel leaves that produce ever blooming creamy blonde flowers.
Rich, very dark, chocolate coloured leaves and light pink flowers all year round.
Heuchera Little Cuties ‘Sugar Berry’ (P)
Heuchera Little Cuties ‘Sweet Tart’ (P)
Berry coloured leaves with very dark violet veins and a silvery veil.
Miniature peppermint-green leaves, veiled in silver/white with pink flowers throughout the year. The older flowers darken to a stronger pink and hold on well.
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Heuchera Little Cuties ‘Coco’ (P)
A tight mound of zingy lime-coloured leaves with bi-coloured flowers of cerise and hot pink held above dark stems. Very long flowering and brilliant in the pot.
Fancy Foliage A choice selection of Heuchera, popular for their year-round foliage appeal and strong colours that vary depending on the time of year. Ideal in containers, either on their own, or mixed with other Heucheras, Tiarellas or with other foliage and colourful flowering plants. When finished use in the container they can be planted into the bed or border for years of enjoyment.
Heuchera ‘Amethyst Mist’ (VR)
A new shade in Heucheras, different from the burgundies of the past. Silver markings over burgundy on wonderful large leaves.
Heuchera ‘Blackberry Jam’ (VR) PWHEU0109
Heuchera ‘Autumn Leaves’ (P)
Large leaves start vivid red and gradually darken to ruby red through the season making it stunning in the Autumn.
Heuchera ‘Can-Can’ (VR)
A wonderful richly coloured Heuchera with bold tones of maroon and blackberry with ebony veins.
The first of the ‘ruffle’ foliage varieties to take on a metallic silver leaf which always stands out in any garden.
Heuchera ‘Crème Brûlée’ (P) TNHEUCB
Heuchera ‘Delta Dawn’ (P)
A superior marmalade-orange Heuchera, far stronger than early forms. Beautiful striking foliage in spring will please year after year.
Heuchera ‘Berry Smoothie’ (P)
In spring & autumn, large rounded leaves smoulder brick red, with a golden yellow edging and pale veining. Throughout summer leaves are shades of gold & lime green.
A real “smoothie” colour all year round - rose pink, through raspberry to blackberry shades. Big, bold habit. A blend of heat loving H. villosa and cold tolerance of H. americana.
One of the darkest Heuchera available with ruffled leaves and tall creamy-white flower spikes.
Heuchera ‘Cherry Cola’ (P)
Heuchera ‘Chocolate Ruffles’ (P)
As the name suggests, the leaves are mixed tones of rusty browns and reds.
Heuchera ‘Electra’ (P)
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Heuchera ‘Black Beauty’ (P) DARK BEAUTY
Blood-red veins electrify the golden leaves. Red venation is feint while the leaf changes from yellow in spring, to chartreuse in summer & autumn. Short, dense cones of white flowers.
Ruffled leaves, chocolate in colour on top, burgundy underneath and a profusion of purple flowers.
Heuchera ‘Electric Lime’ (P) ELECTRIC
The large leaves are plain lime-tinted yellow during the summer with the bonus of densely packed stems of white flowers, In the cool of Autumn the red veining on the leaves starts to show.
Heuchera ‘Fire Chief ’ (P)
Heuchera ‘Georgia Peach’ (P)
Heuchera ‘Ginger Ale’ (P)
Heuchera ‘Gotham’ (P)
Glowing wine red foliage turns a little tanned in the winter. Bicoloured pink and white flowers on dark red stems continue through spring, summer, & autumn
Rich peachy-rose leaves with an veil of white on the upper side. Colour changes through the seasons with hues of orange, rose and purple. Insignificant, but attractive cream flowers.
A ginger coloured variety which exhibits hues of lime and cream. A silvery metallic veil covers the leaf surface. Ginger flowers with a hint of pink emerge in spring & summer.
This striking dark leaved variety displays powerful dark foliage with attractive yellow flower stalks.
Heuchera ‘Green Spice’ (VR)
Heuchera ‘Hollywood’ (P)
Heuchera ‘Key Lime Pie’ (P) - TNHEU042
Heuchera ‘Licorice’ (P)TNHEU044
Dark grey edged silver-green leaves with strongly contrasting dark purple veins.
What a marvellous blend of dark, metallic veiled foliage and intense deep rose bells in summer.
Heuchera ‘Lime Marmalade’ (P) EU DERIVED VAR
Heuchera ‘Mahogany’ (P)
A vigorous sport from the well know H. ‘Marmalade’, with deeply-lobed and ruffled leaves which are a glowing lime to chartreuse green all season long.
Glossy mahogany red foliage with ruffles. Wonderful dense shiny colour year round. Foliage changes from spring purple tones to summer red tones. Flowers few, on short stems.
Heuchera ‘Midnight Rose’ (VR) DERIVED OBSIDIAN
Heuchera ‘Obsidian’ (P)
Dark foliage flecked irregularly with rose-pink tints. The flecks brighten as the season progresses until they become almost cream in colour.
A strong, rich, dark chocolate coloured Heuchera with shiny, well rounded leaves. It has to be one of, if not the, darkest Heuchera available to date.
Wonderful lime-green foliage which contrasts beautifully against dark leaved Heuchera.
Heuchera ‘Marmalade’ (P)
A great garden performing amber coloured Heuchera. Spring foliage is more purple and summer becomes more red.
Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’
Red-bronze, maple leaf-shaped foliage with cream coloured blossoms in spring.
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Slightly ruffled, glossy, dark burgundy foliage which create impressive clumps in spring and summer.
Heuchera ‘Midnight Bayou’ (P) BAYOU
Shimmering blackcurrant maple-like foliage changes with the season from a more silvered purple to red purple.
Heuchera ‘Paris’ (P) A nice compact variety with green leaves veiled in white. This variety produces lots of rosy-red coral bells on sturdy flower stems.
Fancy Foliage
Euph���i� ‘Efan�hi�’
‘Cr�me Br���e’
Heuchera ‘Peach Flambé’ (P)
Stunning bright peach coloured foliage, turning more plum during the winter. Peachy-cream insignificant flowers in spring.
Heuchera ‘Southern Comfort’ (P)
Large cinnamon-peach leaves which change to burnt-copper and amber, a lush habit, & produces creamy white flowers in late summer.
Heuchera ‘Plum Pudding’ (P)
Heuchera ‘Plum Royale’ (P)
Heuchera ‘Purple Petticoats’ (VR)
This variety has dark, plum coloured, slightly shiny metallic foliage & excels in spring when colours are more vivid than its sister variety ‘Amethyst Mist’
Shiny purple leaves all summer, turning in winter, to more silver foliage with just a purple tint. Pink-white flowers on dark peduncles, excellent vigour, mounding, and compact habit.
An excellent purple leaf which becomes more frilly during the winter months and also has stems with cream flowers from late spring.
Heuchera ‘Sparkling Burgundy’ (P) SPARKLING WINE
Heuchera ‘Sugar Frosting’ (P) PWHEU0104
Heuchera ‘Sugar Plum’ (P)
Glowing burgundy-rose leaves in spring, misty orange in summer , rich wine-red in winter. Creamy white insignificant flowers.
Glowing burgundy-rose leaves in spring, misty orange in summer , rich wine-red in winter. Creamy white insignificant flowers.
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A lush mound of maple like, attractive crinkled lobed leaves remain plum purple in colour with distinctive deep purple veins and tinges of silver throughout the year.
Heucherella
'Redst��e F�ll�'
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Fancy Foliage A Heucherella is a cross between a Heuchera and a Tiarella - the clues are in the leaf shape or flower. Use them in a container, either on their own, or mixed with other Heucheras, Tiarellas and foliage plants to show off their magnificent trailing foliage. When finished they can be planted into the bed or border outside.
Heucherella ‘Alabama Sunrise’ (P)
Heucherella ‘Berry Fizz’ (P)
The deeply cut foliage in spring to mid summer is gold with red veins. In late summer, the leaves turn green with red veins. In autumn, the older foliage turns amber-pink. Small white flowers.
Heucherella ‘Kimono’ (P)
The foliage could certainly be mistaken for Tiarella being so narrow and painted in spring, becoming more palmate in summer. But the best aspect of this variety is its metallic-rose flowers.
Heucherella ‘Sunrise Falls’ (P)
A vigorous, trailing Heucherella with large, yellow, maple-shaped leaves and red veins.
The maple-shaped leaves are deep purple with a glossy bronze sheen and erratically sprinkled with beads of light pink.
Heucherella ‘Redstone Falls’ (P)
Heucherella ‘Solar Eclipse’ (P)
A fabulous, trailing Heucherella sporting broad coppery leaves, with a deep red centre. The leaves change to reds and browns in the autumn and winter.
Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea’ (P)
Leaves with huge cinnamon stars are surrounded by the loveliest intense orange tea coloured borders. The big, palmate cut leaves darken in the summer and lighten up again in the autumn.
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Heucherella ‘Brass Lantern’ (P)
Fabulous brassy-gold and red maple shaped leaves in spring, turning olive and brown in winter with white frothy flowers in late spring.
Heucherella ‘Stoplight’ (P)
Leaves with a red-brown centre edged with lime green really are reminiscent of a ‘ring of light’.
Golden yellow, maple leaf shape foliage with excellent markings emerging as bright red when young, darkening to burgundy-chocolate brown as the leaves mature.
Heucherella ‘Tapestry’ (P)
Heucherella ‘Yellowstone Falls’ (P)
Stunning multi-coloured and veiled foliage with free flowering stems of warm pink flowers. The dark-centred leaves are coloured blue green in spring and summer & green with dark centres from autumn.
This has beautiful lobed Pear Green coloured leaves with deep crimson markings and stems that can trail up to 90cm. It’s great for brightening dark corners.
Holcus ‘Albovariegatus’
Wonderful soft, cream and green variegated grass with pink in winter and spring longer white flower heads appear if left untrimmed.
Lamium Heuc�er� ‘Cr�me Br���e’
Euph���i� ‘Efan�hi�’
La��um g��eobdol�n ‘Herma�n’� Pri�e’
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Fancy Foliage
La��um ma��latum ‘White Nan��’
Excellent varieties, primarily for their foliage colour. They also flower from May to September. They will perform in almost any situation - in a bowl, tub, basket, bank or paved area. The plant acts as a marvellous foil to other summer and winter patio plants - brilliant value for year round interest and colour.
Lamium galeobdolon ‘Hermann’s Pride’
A hardy foliage variety with ‘pewter’ like frosted variegation on a green leaf, with yellow flowers at times through summer.
Lamium ‘Gold Nuggets’
Lamiummaculatum‘Golden Anniversary’(P)DELLAM
Found in a Cornish hedgerow, one of the original Lamium varieties slightly trailing with golden foliage, a white flash and pink flowers.
Striking tri-coloured foliage and purple flowers with a compact, semi-trailing habit.
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Lamium maculatum ‘White Nancy’
Predominantly silver blotched foliage with green frills, which trails and provides white flowers in spring.
Phormium
‘Ra��b�� Q��en’
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Fancy Foliage A magnificent selection of Phormium - statuesque, architectural and ultimately impressive in nature. All with strappy, leathery foliage, that is often stripey, and forms clumps of varying heights and spreads.
‘Back In Black’
Every garden must have Phormiums!
Phormium ‘Alison Blackman’ (P)
Phormium ‘Apricot Queen’
This yellow variegated spreading Phormium has green and cream foliage with a narrow red edge along the outside of the leaf.
Phormium ‘Bronze Baby’
A compact Phormium growing to around 60cm. The wide dark reddish-brown foliage curves gracefully at the tips.
Phormium ‘Chocomint’ (P)
The leaves are a deep chocolate brown, with mint-green margins. A beautiful contrast for this stunning flax lily.
This Phormium is about 120cm tall with upright, spreading leaves, arching at the tips The leaves emerge yellow with green margins and turn apricot as they mature.
Slim and striking, black leaves that turn red in the autumn.
Phormium ‘Cream Delight’
Phormium ‘Crimson Devil’
This broad Phormium grows to 100cm tall with bold, wide arching leaves that have a cream-yellow mid-stripe and green margins edged with red.
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Phormium ‘Back In Black’ (P)
Rich crimson-red with darker red margins.
Phormium ‘Duet’
Phormium ‘Evening Glow’
Phormium ‘Flamingo’
A semi-dwarf Phormium with narrow leaves stiffly carried upright which grows to about 80cm tall. The leaves are green in the centre with the creamy white variegation concentrated towards the margins.
The young leaves are held erect, while the older leaves tend to spread, It grows 80cm - 100cm tall with bright pinkish-red leaves that have a greyish-brown margins and occasional stripes.
A colourfully striped, arching Phormium with striations of pink, coral, apricot and green on rather compact leaves up to 100cm.
Phormium ‘Golden Sword’
Phormium ‘Jester’
Phormium ‘Joker’ (P)
Growing to around 100cm this Phormium has a pink centre to the leaf with lime green margins. It has a strongly arching habit and is wide spreading
Nettle green leaves with red stripes and bewitching pinkie red margins. This is more a more intense, contrasting colour than previous similar forms.
This plant is up to 100cm tall and has leaves that are stiff, erect & broad. The centre of each leaf is creamyyellow, shading to gold, occasionally with a pinkish flush. The outer edges are striped with dark green.
Phormium ‘Golden Ray’
Golden-yellow stripes surround a green central band. Margins are bronze.
Phormium ‘Pink Stripe’
This upright and spreading cultivar grows 110cm -130cm tall with greyish brown leaves that have a broad, fluorescent pink margins at the leaf bases which narrows and gradually disappears at the leaf tip.
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‘Back In Black’
Phormium ‘Rainbow Maiden’
Growing to about 100cm it has an upright habit with drooping tips. The central leaf area is dark salmon-pink on new leaves, fading to yellow-pink on older leaves, with a narrow greenbronze band inside the margin.
Phormium tenax Broad upright mid-green leaves.
Phormium ‘Rainbow Queen’
Phormium ‘Rainbow Sunrise’
This plant forms a large 120-150cm tall clump with erect leaves slightly bent at the tips producing wide olive-green leaves with rose-red edges that fade to cream.
This is a low spreading plant with leaves 80cm long. The leaf is mostly pinkish-red but the margins and occasional stripes are greyish-brown.
Phormium tenax ‘Purpureum’
Phormium ‘Tricolor’
Broad leaves with a hint of green, largely flushed with purple.
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A broad form growing to 100cm tall. The drooping dark green leaves have creamy white edges, becoming flushed pink with a burgundy edge in cooler weather.
Phormium ‘Sundowner’
This is a vigorous cultivar reaching 150-200cm in height. The broad, upright sword-like leaves are bronzy green, edged with narrow dark rose margins that fade to cream; its new leaves are particularly colourful.
Phormium ‘Yellow Wave’
A medium sized plant growing to about 150cm tall with arching 6cm wide green leaves with a central yellow band that fades to green in the autumn.
Tiarella
‘M�r��n� Star ’
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Fancy Foliage Tiarellas are trailing foliage plants with pretty puffs of flowers rocketing skywards from the start of April all the way into mid summer. They’re traditionally a border plant, but we would recommend them for the container to be allowed to trail over baskets and pot edges. Planting Ideas: Put with other Tiarellas, Heucheras or even summer foliage and flowering plants. They look best planted at the edge of containers so that their pink flowers can skyrocket Tiarella ‘Appalachian upwards as their Trail’ (P) A trailing habit where numerous branches carry heart shaped green foliage trails leaves with a dark centre. Elegant trail with white, foamy down the sides. stems flowers in the spring.
Tiarella ‘Morning Star’ (P) TNTIA042
Deeply cut, palmate, green leaves with strong bronze venations and feathery pink tinged flowers in spring and summer.
Tiar�ll� ‘Mysti� Mis� ’
Tiarella ‘Cascade Creeper’ (P)
Medium sized, deeply lobed, heart shaped leaves marked with a scorched earth brown shade in the centre. In spring flowers are starry white or pink.
Tiarella ‘Mystic Mist’ (P)
A mound of green, maple-shaped leaves, mottled with white flecks. The central veins of the leaf are depicted by a deep wine red colour. A foam of fragrant white flowers appear in mid to late spring.
Tiarella ‘Pink Skyrocket’ (P)
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Dissected Maple-like leaves, engraved with dark chocolate central blotches, produce a lush shiny green mound. “Skyrocketing” on tall sturdy stems, spires are studded with round rosy buds and frothy pink and white star-shaped flowers.
Tiarella ‘Iron Butterfly’ (P)
We are confident enough to say that this is the best Tiarella in the world to date with large, fragrant flowers over contrasting, well-cut, bronzed foliage.
Tiarella ‘Spring Symphony’ (P)
Chosen for its splendid pink flowers and cut foliage with a streak down the centre.
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Sa�e �fi��n�li� 'Tricol�r'
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A�ug� 'Black Sc�ll��'
Ly��machi� 'Gol��lock�'
Heuc�er� 'Cr�me Br���e'
La��um g��eobdol�n 'Herma�n'� Pri�e'
Fancy Foliage
Lysimachia ‘Goldilocks’
One of the mainstays of the basket continues to delight with its golden foliage.
More from our selection of fancy foliage that will inject life back into any border, basket or bed, providing year round luscious greenery with interesting colours, textures and habits.
Astelia banksii This will produce very uniform clumps of narrow silver, swards of foliage.
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Astelia chathamica ‘Silver Spear’
A clump-forming perennial with long, silvery-green spear shaped leaves and occasional yellow flowers from female plants followed by orange berries.
Astelia nervosa ‘Westland’
Westland’ is an evergreen perennial which forms silvery bronze, arching sword-like leaves turning more bronze to almost red in colder weather.
An easy to grow glowing red and rusty silver leafed variety which becomes darker red in cooler conditions. Grows as a clump of up to 2 feet in height which makes it an excellent pot plant.
Euonymus fortunei ‘Gaiety’
Euonymus fortunei ‘Harlequin’
A dense shrub of green and silver foliage.
Lonicera nitida ‘Lemon Beauty’
Lemon Beauty’ is a dense, evergreen shrub with tiny, ovate, green leaves with a golden edge. In spring it bears tiny cream flowers and in autumn pale-violet berries are sparsely produced.
Sagina subulata var. glabrata ‘Aurea’
Low growing golden foliage with petite white flowers during summer.
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Astelia ‘Red Devil’
A hardy patio plant with greenbronze foliage and blue flowers in autumn.
Euonymus japonicus microphyllus ‘Gold Dust’
Euonymus fortunei ‘Emerald ‘n’ Gold’
Striking emerald-green and golden variegated foliage.
Lonicera nitida ‘Baggeson’s Gold’
Dark green and white flecked foliage on a sub-shrub with a compact growth habit.
Bright golden upright, but compact waxy foliage which makes a lovely sub shrub.
A stunning golden-green foliage sub-shrub which will grow progressively larger over the years.
Loropetalum chinensis ‘Fire Dance’
Muehlenbeckia complexa
Sagina ‘Green’
An evergreen, woody shrub with sumptuous wine-red foliage. Bright pink flowers arrive in spring to compliment the foliage.
Long stiff trails of small, deep green leaves.
Stachys officinalis ‘Wisley White’ (VR)
Stachys ‘Silver Carpet’ When you see this you can not help but stroke the silver, hairy leaves which continue to please all year.
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Incredible amount of white flower clusters are produced on this fairly low growing shrubby perennial. Leaves can be reasonably long at approx 2-4cm, with slightly toothed margins.
Fast covering green foliage with petite white flowers in summer.
Tradescantia ‘Maidens Blush’
The youngest leaves contain gorgeous amethyst through to soft pink tones. This supposed houseplant will survive light frosts and is good either in the garden or as a container plant.
Grasses
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Fancy Foliage
Acorus gramineus ‘Ogon’
Golden yellow, cream and green leaves make a really strong show all the year round.
Acorus gramineus ‘Variegatus’
Dianella caerulea ‘Cassa Blue’ (P) DBB03
White and green variegated leaves.
A strappy, rich blue foliage plant, similar to a dwarf Phormium, but tougher. This variety grows in clumps and has an abundance of baby blue flowers which grow to about 55cm in height.
Dianella tasmanica ‘Tas Red’ (P)
This ‘Flax Lilly’ has shiny green, strappy leaves which have varying hues of yellow and red - mostly during the colder months. Short deep red flower stems and blue berries emerge up to 60cm in spring.
Below you will find a range of Carex grasses, all variable in habit, but ideal for use in a variety of situations - raised bed, borders and containers for spring, summer and autumn. Fantastic textures and colours that work well when placed at the back of the container to provide height, alternatively use the fluffier varieties to spill over the edge.
Carex buchananii Extremely narrow, erect, bright reddish-brown foliage with tall flower spikes.
Carex ‘Frosted Curls’ Thin, curling silver-green leaves with a compact habit.
Carex oshimensis ‘Everest’ (P)
Carex comans ‘Red’ A New Zealand sedge forming dense tufts of narrow thread-like bronze leaves.
A dense mound forming Carex with a distinctive white mid stripe which makes the foliage stand out in the winter months.
Carex oshimensis ‘Evergold’
Carex flagellifera An upright, brown grass with tinges of green.
A stunning variegated light green and golden cream ‘rush’.
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Carex oshimensis ‘Everillo’ (P)
Mound forming, linear lime green leaves turning golden yellow with age.
Carex testacea A thin, upright grass, olive green in colour.
Grasses
Un���i� r��r� ‘E�erflame’
Deschampsia flexuosa ‘Tatra Gold’
Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’
A fine mystical blue grass which looks excellent early in the season and will flower later.
A stunning bright chartreuse, golden-green grass with delicate flowers in summer.
Festuca glauca An alternative blue grass with delicate cylindrical swards and a spreading habit.
Imperata cylindrica ‘Red Baron’
A stunning, bolt upright grass with lime green leaves that turn progressively through burgundy red to claret-blood red in late summer and into autumn. Unique and breathtakingly beautiful.
Libertia ixioides ‘Goldfinger’ (P)
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Elegant weeping foliage with a prominent central golden stripe. Profusions of pure white star-like flowers are produced in clusters just above the foliage in spring. Berries follow in Autumn.
Festuca ‘Golden Toupee’
Yellow-green, low growing grass which fits its description as it looks like a tuft of hair.
Libertia peregrinans ‘Gold Leaf ’
Dramatic, coloured foliage, richest in autumn & winter. Spiky, stiff leaves create a fan-type effect, with prominent orange midrib.
Fancy Foliage Grasses form part of a garden’s backbone, providing reliable year round colour as well as seasonal interest, with foliage that changes throughout the seasons, some with flowers in summer and berries in the autumn too. These offer a different range of colours which will appeal to gardeners, designers and landscapers alike.
Libertia ixioides ‘Taupo Blaze’ (P)
Changing from green, through yellow-orange, to intense burnt red. White star flowers emerge, just clear of the foliage in spring. Orange-red berries in autumn.
Miscanthus sinensis ‘Zebrinus’
Liriope ‘Pure Blonde’ (P) LIRBLONDE
This Liriope shoots blonde, almost white new growth for 2 to 3 months of the year in the spring.
This is relatively short at just about 100cm tall at maximum. It is quick to make clumps and the foliage has a heavy yellow banding.
Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’
Attractive, “zebra-like” horizontal yellow and green banding add interest to the leaves of this tall, sturdy grass.
Strikingly black strapping foliage which curls back on itself. Unique in form and colour.
Stipa gigantea
Stipa tenuissima
Clumps of dark green leaves, dominated by tall stems which carry panicles of bronze, feathery spikelets.
Miscanthus ‘Gold Bar’ (P)
Bright emerald-green leaves which turn to brown through the year with delicate flowering heads in summer.
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Miscanthus sinensis ‘Morning Light’
Erect clumps of slender leaves with white borders and arching tips, giving an overall shimmering effect. Reddish-bronze flowers emerge in summer.
Scirpus cernuus
Stipa arundinacea
Close tufted evergreen plant with filament like, or “fibre-optic” leaves. These are then replaced by sheaths over time.
This grass forms dense clumps of fine spikes of brown, turning golden-orange in autumn.
Uncinia rubra ‘Everflame’ (P) BELINDAS FIND
Uncinia uncinata rubra
Everflame is colourful and vividly variegated; each leaf is bronze with vibrant bright red margins which gleam in the sun. It is evergreen so this dazzling colour persists right through the winter.
A wonderful mahogany-red sedge grass, which makes nice clumps of foliage.
Succulents
Get the look with varieties such as: Sedum spectabile ‘Hot Stuff ’ (VR), Acorus gramineus ‘Ogon’, Ajuga ‘Black Scallop’ (P), Heuchera ‘Crème Brûlée’ (P), Euphorbia ‘Efanthia’ (P), Carex testacea
Sempervivum ‘Ruby Heart’ Wonderful silvery-green succulent leaves. The inner “heart” of the houseleek turns a ruby red as it matures.
Aloe aristata An evergreen perennial, forming rosettes of fleshy lance-shaped leaves spotted with white and tipped with a soft white spine. Tubular, orange-red flowers in autumn.
Sedum ‘Blue Carpet’ A drought tolerant stonecrop with blue foliage that creeps and mounds low to the ground. Attractive in many settings.
Sedum ‘Bertram Anderson’
Echeveria imbricata
Sedum acre ‘Aureum’
Tight rosettes of flat grey-green leaves that when mature, form offsets freely to produce large solid clumps. A branched arching inflorescence & clusters of red and yellow flowers in the spring.
A dazzling form of this British species - low growing green foliage with golden-white tips in spring and yellow flowers in summer.
This super succulent has dark lobed foliage and starry red flowers in late summer.
Sedum cauticola ‘Coca Cola’
Sedum ka. va. Fl. ‘Weihenstephaner Gold’
Sedum kamtschaticum ‘Variegatum’
Silver-grey foliage with masses of soft pink flowers in late summer.
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Clumps of bright green open rosettes with large heads of golden flowers, which are attractive to butterflies - originating from N.E. China.
This compact growing sedum has relatively large olive-green leaves that have cream coloured variegation on the margins. A hint of pink can be seen in full sun. Yellow flowers emerge in summer.
Sedum Makinoi A gold-leaved Sedum, spreading slowly to form a beautiful yellow-green mat. Yellow flowers in summer will attract butterflies.
Sedum reflexum ‘Yellow Cushion’ (VR)
Sedum reflexum ‘Green Cushion’ (VR)
Very small-green rosettes, resembling small Echeveria with low flowers at the end of summer.
A fast growing, dense mat of conifer blue foliage topped with brilliant yellow flowers in summer.
Spruce like mounds of mid green foliage augmented by attractive yellow flowers in the summer.
Sedum spathulifolium ‘Cape Blanco’
Sedum spathulifolium ‘Purpureum’
Sedum spectabile ‘Hot Stuff ’ (VR)
Striking golden green mounding, succulent foliage magnified by dazzling yellow flowers in summer.
Low-growing, carpet forming silver-white, succulent foliage with small yellow flowers in summer, originating from Oregon, USA.
Sedum spurium ‘Dragons Blood’
Sedum spurium Variegatum
Vibrant blood-red flower heads are displayed above a carpet of attractive deep burgundy foliage in midsummer.
Almost herbaceous, cream and red variegated foliage with charming pink flowers.
Sempervivum calcareum
Sempervivum ‘Jovibarba allionii’
Bright green concentric rosettes with deep red tips.
Sedum reflexum ‘Blue Cushion’ (VR)
Sedum pachyclados
Plum-tinted, silver, succulent foliage, similar to S. ‘Cape Blanco’, also with yellow flowers emerging in summer.
Sempervivum arach’ ‘Rubin’
Dark maroon rosettes with “cobweb”-like covering.
Sempervivum ‘Standard Green’
Small, bright golden green rosettes.
Bright green succulent rosettes.
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This is the Sedum we’ve been waiting for. ‘Hot Stuff ’ is a full 1/3 shorter then Sedum spectabile ‘Brilliant’, with brighter pink flower heads and a habit that is much more compact.
Sempervivum arachnoideum
We have this year selected a better form of cob-web Sempervimum. Succulent green rosettes with slight blushes of pink and covered heavily in webbing.
Sempervivum tectorum ‘Rubin’
Deep burgundy-red rosettes.
Thyme serphyllum ‘Goldstream’
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Fancy Foliage
Herbs
Herbs are highly valued in the garden for their culinary uses, and the idea of the ‘kitchen garden’ is becoming ever more popular. What’s more, herbs can make exquisite ornamental varieties. They have texture, scent, often pleasing, dainty flowers, and offer a striking mix of foliage colours to add the finishing touch to any pot, basket or tub.
Rosemar� �fi��n�li� ‘Gol� Dus� ’ (VR)
Euph���i� ‘Efan�hi�’ (P) Heuc�er� ‘Cr�me Br���e’ (P)
La��um g��eobdol�n ‘Herma�n’� Pri�e’
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Sage
Get the look with: Sage officinalis ‘Icterina (Gold)’. Plant with various Heuchera, Euphorbia and Carex. 80
Fancy Foliage
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The officinalis, or rutilans Sage (Salvia) are herb varieties, often used when cooking poultry, meat, cheeses, pickles, stuffing and salads, but many of them are superb ornamental varieties in their own right.
Sage officinalis ‘Purple’
A purple form of the well known broad-leaved Sage.
Sage officinalis ‘Common Broad Leaf ’
Arguably the best variety for use in cooking - broad, green upright foliage.
Sage officinalis ‘Tangerine’
Sage officinalis ‘Tricolor’
Another semi-hardy Sage with bright-green foliage and a strongly recognisable citrus aroma.
Multicoloured green, pink and cream foliage which is upright, but with some trail.
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Sage officinalis ‘Icterina (Gold)’
A perennial with gold and green variegations on a rough, but keenly scented upright foliage.
Sage rutilans ‘Pineapple’
A semi-hardy herb with light green foliage with scarlet-red flowers in late summer.
Thyme
Thyme ‘H���ngt�n S�l�er ’
Here are a variety of alpine and herb Thyme varieties, with different forms, colours, scents and textures. Ideal for herb gardens, pots, paths, rockeries and raised beds or borders. Planting Ideas: Thymes of different foliage and flowering colour should be mixed to produce a variable mat through the year. Plant between paving stones for a decorative garden path.
Thyme ‘Camphor’
Thyme ‘Coccineus’
Thyme Common
Compact bushy green, camphor scented foliage with large heads of pink flowers.
A very prostrate Thyme with large, rounded leaves and crimson flowers.
As the name suggests, commonly in the garden and used for cooking. Dark green upright, bushy foliage with pink flowers.
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Thyme doerfleri ‘Bressingham Pink’
A very attractive creeping thyme with dark green leaves and pink flowers.
Creeping evergreen with bright green and gold variegated leaves with pink flowers, which are particularly attractive to bees and butterflies.
Thyme ‘Orange’
Thyme prostratus
A very attractive grey-green Thyme with an upright, bushy form and balsamic-orange scent. Often used in pot-pourri.
Original prostrate Thyme with simple green foliage - very elegant.
Thyme serphyllum ‘White’
Bright green trailing and creeping growth covered with masses of white flowers.
Thyme x citriodorus ‘Anderson’s Gold’
Gold leaves, especially when grown cold with a bushy, spreading habit.
Thyme ‘Hartington Silver’
Thyme ‘Doone Valley’
Another prostrate Thyme with variegated cream and light green foliage and white-pink flowers.
Thyme serphyllum ‘Goldstream’
Good gold and cream variegated leaves with pink flowers in June all on a prostrate habit.
Thyme vulgaris ‘Silver Posie’
Thyme ‘Tabor’ Petite rounded leaves providing a familiar fragrance and also to be used in poultry, fish and some fruit dishes.
Thyme x citriodorus ‘Golden Queen’
Wonderful lemon scented thyme with golden variegated leaves. A good culinary Thyme adding citrus qualities.
Bushy upright form with deep pink flowers over grey-green foliage.
Thyme serphyllum ‘Russettings’
A vigorous creeping Thyme, forming a dense mat of dark green leaves, with abundant dark-pink flowers all summer.
Thyme ‘Woolly’
Silver and light green foliage with pink flowers on an upright, bushy foliage.
Low-growing, creeping mat with grey-green, hairy foliage and pale mauve flowers.
Thyme x citriodorus ‘Lemon’
Thyme x citriodorus ‘Silver Queen’
Dark green upright foliage with light pink flowers.
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Thyme nitidus ‘Peter Davis’
Light silver and cream variegated lemon scented leaves.
Rosemary
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A classic herb variety. Great ornamentally as well as for culinary uses. This genus can be used in almost any savoury dish including fish, meat, eggs and drinks. Flowers will Rosemary officinalis Rosemary officinalis Rosemary officinalis generally appear ‘Arp’ ‘Gold Dust’ (VR) This has wider, flatter leaves than Upright deep green foliage and One of the hardiest Rosemary other rosemary plants. Each leaf flowers. This genus can be varieties, with erect, light green, briefly from April blue has a deep green streak edged used in almost any savoury dish lemon-scented growth and light with sunny gold that doesn’t fade including fi sh, meat eggs and blue fl owers. to June too. regardless of the season. Deep-blue drinks. coloured flowers in summer.
Rosemary officinalis ‘Mrs Jessop’
Upright shrub with pale blue flowers along its stems.
Rosemary officinalis ‘Prostratus’
Rosemary officinalis ‘Rose’
This variety has good trailing, creeping growth and good blue flower colour.
Rosy pink flowers adorn this sturdy upright herbal beauty.
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Rosemary officinalis ‘White’
Almost pure white flowers emerge on the upright flower stems.
Fancy Foliage
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Late Spring Flower Power
Late Spring Flower Power
There is a time in the garden when the spring varieties start to fade, but it may still be a little too cold to plant out late summer bedding just yet. There is that awkward in between stage where many people are not sure what to plant for colour and interest.
These pages include varieties that are perfect for this inbetween time and will add fantastic colour to the garden from the very beginning of the summer season in late April/Early May.
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Neme�i� Sunsati� Plu�® ‘Granad�’
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Lobularia
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Late Spring Flower Power These Lobularia are like no others that have come before them. They outperform seed raised varieties by miles. Being sterile, they are extremely vigorous, and because they put no energy into setting seed they have an incredibly long bloom time. ‘Pr�ma�er� Pr�n�es�’
They create a great hanging basket or window box and are a perfect filler in combinations. In addition they have a delicious honey scent, and we have even found them to be hardy in our trials in very well drained situations in the garden. ‘Primavera Princess’ has variegated foliage that is proving to be very on trend at the moment, and ‘Princess in Purple’ produces airy clouds of flowers to create a purple haze in a pot or basket. ‘Snow Princess’ is a multi award-winning variety for its garden performance.
Lobularia ‘Primavera Princess’ (P)
Honey scented clouds of white blossom cover the variegated foliage.
Lobularia ‘Princess in Purple’ (P) EUPVR TBAF
Lobularia ‘Snow Princess’ (P) INLBUSNOPR A multi award-winning variety due to its incredible, long lasting mounds of honey scented white flowers which form a complete cover over the fine green foliage for most of the summer. Much stronger than other seed-raised varieties. A “must-have” for your pots and baskets!
Clouds of dark purple flowers that exude an unmistakable honey scent.
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Sunsatia Nemesia
‘Cas�i�’
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Late Spring Flower Power The Sunsatia® series are a unique range of Nemesia as they are the first series with such a range of vibrant colours to be produced from cuttings rather than seed. This means that they will not produce seeds as readily as some of the more traditional seed grown varieties. This leads to plants with far greater vigour and flower power so you can enjoy the wonderful colours right through the summer. The upright varieties have the best scent - ideal for tubs. The semi trailing types are excellent for baskets as well as pots, tubs and raised beds.
Nemesia Sunsatia® ‘Blackberry’ (P)
A fairly tall upright variety with intense purple-pink rounded petals and an orange eye zone.
Nemesia Sunsatia® ‘Cassis’ (P)
Short, upright, stocky habit to match Sunsatia ‘Peach’ with dark pink flowers, blue markings and a golden yellow eye.
Nemesia Sunsatia® ‘Kumquat’ (P)
Nemesia Sunsatia® ‘Mango’ (P) (Imp)
Vibrant, tangy orange flowers which have hints of yellow and red on green semi-trailing foliage.
An improved variety - more compact and with more flowers. Clusters of creamy yellow flowers with purple and orange eyes.
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Nemesia Sunsatia® ‘Carambola’ (P)
Zesty orange-yellow flowers on semi-upright habit.
Nemesia Sunsatia® ‘Peach’ (P)
The most compact, densely branching upright variety with tight clumps of flowers which bring a cocktail of colour to any garden. Flowers have hints of peach, cream, pink orange and purple.
Sunsatia Plus Nemesia
‘C�err� �n I�e’
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Spring Fling Flowers The Sunsatia Plus series is a continuation of an amazing breeding programme to produce more prolonged flowering and demonstrate a more robust habit. Some excellent colours make a great range. Excellent for summer containers, either solo, or for fringe planting.
Nemesia Sunsatia Plus® ‘Anona’ (P)
Nemesia Sunsatia Plus® ‘Cherry on Ice’ (P)
Nemesia Sunsatia Plus® ‘Ciruela’ (Imp) (P) Flowers with shades of plum to magenta and golden yellow eyes on slightly trailing foliage.
Crimson red flowers, very striking in colour and form.
Nemesia Sunsatia Plus® ‘Papaya’ (P) (new)
Nemesia Sunsatia Plus® ‘Pera’ (P)
Nemesia Sunsatia Plus® ‘Pomelo’ (P)
Nemesia Sunsatia Plus® ‘Raspberry’ (P)
A frilly white flower with dark veins towards the central yellow eye.
Each flower is the colour of the glowing embers of a fire fading from deep red to golden yellow.
Stunning two-toned flower with scarlet red upper and white lower petals.
Vibrant, golden, honey-yellow flowers make a splash of colour for any garden.
A variety with delightful creamy yellow flowers and lemon yellow eyes.
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Nemesia Sunsatia Plus® ‘Granada’ (P)
Scintillating red flowers with orange centres that smother the foliage.
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Heuc�er� ‘Cr�me Br���e’
Heuc�er� ‘Ame�hys� Mis� ’
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