The Plant Nursery

Below are all the plants that I hope to have available for sale over the coming seasons. The list is up-dated every week so please bookmark the site and come back often. If you don't see something you like please contact me as I may be able to help source the required plant.

GENUS	SPECIES	CULTIVAR	COMMON NAME	TYPE	HEIGHT	DESCRIPTION	AVAILABLE & PRICE	PIC
AGASTACHE	RUPESTRIS	LIQUORICE WHITE	HYSSOP	HP/HHP	3 FT	A summer flowering perennial with aromatic leaves. It produces long spikes of numerous whorls of white flowers on long stalks. An excellent cut flower and a bold plant for the border. Loved by bees. Can be a short lived perennial.	0.65
ALCHEMILLA	MOLLIS		LADY'S MANTLE	HP	12-18"	This is an attractive plant with appealing, softly hairy, rounded, wavy-edged leaves and large sprays of greenish-yellow flowers that are good for cutting and make unusual material for flower arrangers. A good border plant and useful ground cover in shady positions.	0.65
ALLIUM	SHOENOPRASUM		CHIVES	HERB		Chives are ideal for growing in the veg plot and in the flower garden. The whole plant is edible from the bulb to the flower. It forms a neat clump which will fill out nicely if you kep cutting and using the leaves.	0.65
ALLIUM	TUBEROSUM		GARLIC CHIVES	HERB		This herb is ideal for thoose people who don't think they like garlic but are brave enough to try a little of the flavour. A mix of flavours between mild chives and mild garlic. The whole plant can be used, even the bulb and flowers. The flowers also make a lovely pot plant.
ANDROSACE	LACTIFLORA			HA	3-10"	This is a charming little annual from Siberia and Mongolia. Forming ample rosettes of narrow leaves, it produces numerous loong, slender stems bearing fountains of half inch, milk-white flowers.
ARMERIA	MARITIMA		THRIFT/SEA PINK	HP	6"	I can't remember if this is the true wild form or the cultivated variety. I grew it from seed about 20 years ago. It forms evergreen mounds of very tufted plants, superb for edging.The dense heads of deep pink flowers appear in summer
ASPERULA	ORIENTALIS		WOODRUFF	HA	12"	An easily grown and most attractive annual with slender, branched stems producing freely clusters of strongly yet delicately fragrant, sky-blue flowers. It likes a moist shady position. Loved by bees and butterflies.
ASTILBE	CHINENSIS?			HP	12"	I'm not sure if I've identified this astilbe correctly; it's been inn my garden for years. It produces a large clump of green purple leaves. Fluffy spikes if tiny, star shaped, deep raspberry red flowers are bourne in summer
AUBRIETA		HENDERSONII		HP	6"	This is an indispensible spring flowering rock garden plant. This is a superb little known variety producing large mounds of foliage covered in large flowers of rich lilac.	0.65
BOUTELOUA	GRACILIS		MOSQUITO GRASS	HP	1-2FT	An ornamental grass forming dense clumps of narow, nodding, brownish-green leaves and bearing arching flower panicles. The actual flower spikes are held horizontally and are described as "mosquito-like". Usefull for cutting and flower arranging
BROADBEAN		BUNYARD EXHIBITION		VEG		An English heirloom variety introduced in 1884 and has been popular ever since, A heavy cropping variety that produces smooth narrow 7 - 8" pods of well flavoured white beans
BROCCOLI		EARLY PURPLE		VEG		A delicious vegetable. Extremely hardy and prolific
BUDDLEIA	DAVIDII		BUTTERFLY BUSH	HSh	3 M	A fast growing and un-demanding shrub from China. It is a ideal for a number of places in the garden providing that it is sunny and well drained. The lond and heavy flowering heads transform the bush into a stunning display in summer which is irrisistible to butterflies.
BUNIUM	BULBOCASTANUM		PIG NUT	HP	2.5 FT	A rare pretty and edible plant for the border. It has ferny leaves and pretty white flowers in mid summer. It can be grown in any moist but well-drained soil in full sun. The roots can be eaten raw or cooked, the leaves as parsley and the seeds are a cumin substitute.