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 |
| PAPAVER |
SOMNIFERUM |
BLUE BREAD SEED POPPY |
HA |
3 FT |
This is a must for any cook or gardener. This is a beautiful poppy for the border with purple-blue blooms in summer and large seed heads filled with those seeds that cooks use in breads and baking. A fabulous plant. |
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| PARSLEY |
ITALIAN GIANT |
HERB |
A flat leaved variety so has a superior flavour to the curly leaf variety. No garden should be without some parsley. This is biennial variety. |
0.65 |
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| PARSLEY |
PLAIN LEAVED |
FRENCH PARSLEY |
HERB |
Large flat leaves with an excellent flavour. A perennial variety. |
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| PEA | HURST GREENSHAFT | VEG | An ideal second early / maincrop variety. Gives large yields and has good disease resistance. | |||||
| PEA |
SUGAR SNAP |
VEG |
A versatile variety which may be picked young and eaten as mangetout, left to mature to give normal peas or even cooked in the style of green beans |
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| PENSTEMON |
HYBRIDA |
LILAC FROST |
BEARD TONGUE |
HP |
15-18" |
A versatile border plant. Flowers continually throughout the summer long spikes of trumpet shaped blooms in shades of lilac |
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| PENSTEMON |
PCHA |
HP |
12-18" |
Originally collected in pine woodland at over 11,000 in Mexico with temperatures as low as -30, this is a gem that will look magnificent in your garden. It produces strong branching stems of shrubby fared white trumpets with a touch of purple all summer |
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| PRIMULA |
JULIAE? |
HP |
8" |
I'm not sure if this is the correct species of primula; but it's been growing inmy garden for years. A compact evergreen semiperennial that forms dense clumps of oval leaves with purple flowers in spring. A lovely and welcome addition to the spring garden |
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| PRUNELLA |
VULGARIS |
SELF HEAL, HEAL ALL |
HP |
6-18" |
This is an unusual ground cover plant forming a mat of numerous leafy runners and producing in summer erect stems bearing heads of purple-violet flowers. This species has numerous medical uses but don't leave your GP just yet! This plant can be quite invasive so be careful where you plant it. |
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| RHODOCHITON |
ATROSANGUINEUM |
PURPLE BELL VINE |
HHP/HHA/ CLIMBER |
This is a lovely climber from Mexico with heart shaped leaves and twisting stalks which enable it to climb. The cylindrical, purple-black flowers are produced in profusion for many weeks. Can be grown as an annual but is evergreen in a heated greenhouse or conservatory |
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| ROCKET |
VEG |
Great peppery leaves which add so much flavour to any salad. Leaves can also be wilted like spinach. |
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| SALAD LEAVES |
MESCLUN MIXED |
VEG |
A blend of 'cut and come again' leaves for a spicy alternative to everyday salad. Includes rocket, red russian kale, mustard, mizuna and chervil. Add to traditional lettuce or serve on their own |
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| SALAD LEAVES |
ORIENTAL MIXED |
VEG |
An interesting mix of spicy salad leaves. Ideal for adding to mixed green salad or stir frys. |
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| SALAD LEAVES |
ORIENTAL MUSTARDS |
VEG |
Adds taste and texture to your mixed salads and stir frys. |
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| SAXIFRAGE | URBIUM | LONDON PRIDE | HP | 8 - 12" | A popular garden flower that is generally used in the rockery but is able to thrive just about anywhere in the garden. The pink star-shaped flowers are tiny and grow on long stalks. The leaves are dark green and evergreen. A good ground cover plant that is not invasive. | 0.75 | ||
| SEDUM | TELEPHIUM | ICE PLANT | HP | 8 - 12" | I'm not sure what variety this is as I've had it for years. The original came as a freebie from a hedgerow during a walk in the country. It's not one of the cultivated forms with dinner plate sized flat head; but is beautiful all the same. It flowers in Autumn with lovely pink flowers and is loved by bees. | 0.65 |