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Persicaria bistorta 'Superba'
Tall stems support dense heads of pale pink flowers that wave elegantly in the breeze creating wonderful, natural motion that brings the garden to life. Excellent ground cover for a damp location.
Persicaria microcephala 'Red Dragon' PBR
A vigorous, spreading, semi-evergreen perennial with attractive, purplish-green leaves and bearing rounded clusters of small, white flowers in summer and autumn.
Phormium 'Bronze Baby'
An upright to arching, evergreen perennial with strap-like, purple-bronze leaves and in hot summers, may produce an upright spike of tubular red flowers from the centre of the plant.
Phormium 'Evening Glow' (v)
A clump-forming, evergreen perennial with sword-like leaves of red, pink, purple and bronze variegations.
Phormium 'Jester' (v)
A clump-forming, evergreen perennial with arching, strap-like leaves of pink with bright green margins.
Phormium 'Pink Stripe' (v)
An elegant variety with dark olive-green strappy leaves with distinctive pink stripes.
Phormium colensoi 'Tricolor' (v)
A clump-forming, evergreen perennial with arching, sword-like leaves, striped green and creamy-yellow with a thin red margin.
Polemonium caeruleum
A lovely cottage garden favourite with bright green foliage from which emerge erect stems bearing lavender-blue flowers in midsummer. A short-lived perennial but it self-seeds freely.
Polemonium pauciflorum 'Sulphur Trumpets'
An unusual variety with drooping, trumpet-shaped yellow flowers tinged red in late spring and summer.
Primula japonica 'Alba' (Pf)
A semi-evergreen perennial forming a basal rosette of crinkled, light green leaves with stout stems in late spring and summer topped with whorls of white flowers with yellow centres.
Primula veris (Pr)
A British native, this plant displays fragrant, deep yellow flowers in late spring on downy stems up to 20cm long.
Rudbeckia fulgida var. deamii
A clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with rough, dark green leaves and bearing golden yellow flowers with black centres from summer and into autumn.
Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'
A clump-forming herbaceous perennial with tall stems bearing golden yellow flowers with black centres in summer and into autumn.
Rudbeckia triloba 'Prairie Glow'
A tall perennial with bristly green foliage producing daisy-like, orange-red flowers tipped yellow in summer and into autumn.
Salvia 'Amistad' PBR
A tall, upright perennial with bright green, slender, aromatic leaves producing masses of large, deep purple, tubular flowers from summer into autumn.
This plant may be received cut back but it will soon begin to put on new growth.
Salvia 'Bleu Armor' PBR
A wonderful Salvia with vivid blue flowers from late spring and throughout summer into early autumn, with a compact, well-branched habit.
Salvia 'Blue Note' PBR
A bushy, woody perennial with aromatic green leaves, producing open racemes of hooded, velvety, deep blue-purple flowers in summer.
Salvia 'Hot Lips'
A bushy perennial with aromatic foliage producing stunning bright lipstick-red and white flowers throughout the summer and into autumn.
Salvia 'La Mancha'
A bushy, evergreen shrub to 75cm tall with aromatic, mid-green foliage.
The tubular flowers borne on upright stems from late spring into early autumn have a cream to pale yellow lower lip and a small, pink-tinged upper lip
Salvia 'Nachtvlinder'
An evergreen sub-shrub with aromatic leaves and producing open racemes of velvety reddish-purple flowers in summer and into autumn.
Salvia 'Violin Music' PBR
A bushy perennial with aromatic leaves, producing slender racemes of small, violet-blue flowers from summer into autumn.
Salvia CHERRY LIPS ('Dysceri')
A bushy, evergreen perennial with aromatic foliage producing flowers opening reddish pink then becoming pink and white as they mature.
Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna'
A wonderful cultivar of ornamental sage with erect stems bearing masses of small, violet-blue flowers throughout summer and into autumn.
Salvia nemorosa 'Rose Queen'
Clusters of deep pink buds opening to pale pink flowers in upright spikes in summer with aromatic foliage.
Salvia nemorosa CARADONNA PINK INSPIRATION ('Tucarink')
Slender, upright racemes of whorled, pink flowers in summer above, aromatic, wrinkled, dark grey-green foliage.
Salvia officinalis 'Purpurascens'
A dwarf sub-shrub with attractive, purple, young foliage becoming grey-green as it matures, producing purple-blue flowers in summer.
Salvia x jamensis BELLE DE LOIRE ('Barsabel')
An upright perennial with aromatic foliage producing long spikes of bicoloures orange and yellow flowers right through from spring into autumn. The flower fade to creamy pink as the temperature drops towards the autumn.
Sanguisorba 'Purple Tails'
A vigorous, clump-forming deciduous herbaceous perennial with dark green toothed leaves, and upright long, slim spikes of pink, fluffy, droopy bottlebrush flowers, opening from purple buds, which appear from mid-summer to autumn
Sedum sediforme
A clump-forming, succulent, evergreen perennial with blue-green foliage and producing rounded clusters of pale yellow flowers in summer.
Selaginella kraussiana
This wonderful plant, is quite fast growing but never rampant. it forms dense mats of semi-evergreen foliage. Ideal ground cover in a damp spot with some shade.
Silene dioica
A mat-forming, semi-evergreen perennial often found growing wild, with ovate leaves and small clusters of purplish-pink flowers from summer into autumn.
Silene flos-cuculi
An upright perennial with branched stems bearing terminal clusters of star-shaped, rose pink flowers from late spring and into summer. An attractive wild flower which can be grown successfully and to great effect in a cottage garden setting. To help prolong the flowering, deadhead regularly.
Sisyrinchium striatum
Tufts of long, narrow leaves support slender upright spikes of yellow flowers in summer. Self-seeds freely.
Stachys byzantina 'Big Ears'
A mat-forming perennial with velvety, white-hairy green leaves producing spikes of purple flowers in summer.
Teucrium ackermannii hort.
An evergreen perennial forming a dense mat of soft, velvety, silvery-green, aromatic foliage with clusters of fragrant, lavender-purple flowers from late spring through until early autumn.
Teucrium chamaedrys f. albiflora
A small, perennial, evergreen subshrub with toothed, dark green leaves with softly hairy undersides producing spikes of tubular, lipped, white flowers in late summer and early autumn.
Thalictrum 'Black Stockings'
A tall perennial with lacy foliage and almost black stems producing sprays of fluffy, bright purple-pink flowers in summer.
Trollius chinensis 'Golden Queen'
An upright perennial with deeply-lobed and sharply-toothed dark green leaves with orange-yellow, bowl-shaped flowers in late spring and early summer.
Tulbaghia violacea
A strong-growing perennial with grey-green, strap-like foliage and bearing pale purple-pink, fragrant flowers in late summer and into early autumn.
Tulbaghia violacea 'Silver Lace' (v)
Clump-forming perennial with linear, variegated, grey-green foliage with a cream stripe producing fragrant lilac coloured flowers from summer into autumn.
Valeriana officinalis
Domed clusters of white to blush pink flowers in summer on tall, branching stems above aromatic foliage.
Verbena bonariensis
Perennial verbena, whose clouds of vivid purple flowers are borne freely on tall, branching stems from midsummer to autumn. Ideal for mixed and herbaceous borders, and excellent for cutting.
Verbena hastata
A tall perennial forming a clump of lance-shaped, pointed and toothed, dark green leaves with sturdy, branching stems producing stiff panicles of violet-blue flowers from early summer into autumn.
Verbena officinalis 'Bampton'
A bushy perennial with wiry branches of deep purple foliage producing short spikes of small, purple-pink flowers from summer into autumn.
Vinca major
A fast-growing, evergreen subshrub with upright stems of glossy leaves producing solitary violet-blue flowers from spring until autumn.
Vinca minor
An evergreen, mat-forming shrub with trailing shoots which easily root themselves, with glossy, dark green leaves and producing violet-blue flowers from mid spring and throughout the summer.
Vinca minor 'Illumination' (v)
A great ground cover perennial with trailing stems bearing bright, yellow ovate leaves margined dark green and bearing lilac-blue flowers from spring to autumn. A very versatile plant growing pretty much anywhere.