The nursery is now closed to visitors until the spring.  We will re-open on Saturday 1st March 2025.

You can however use Click & Collect on the website if you wish to pick up plants from the nursery. We need at least one full day to get your plants together.

Mail order also continues as normal and the majority of orders are being shipped within 7-14 days.

Featured Plants
Acorus gramineus 'Variegatus'

Acorus gramineus 'Variegatus'£5.00

Beautiful creamy variegated arching foliage on this evergreen perennial for good to wet soil in at least some shade. Really tough but best out of cold winds. 25cm.

Sedum rupestre 'Angelina'

Sedum rupestre 'Angelina'£5.00

A new yellow leaved form from Austria. Prostrate, with bright yellow flowers. Dry soil in sun. Foliage turns bright amber in winter. Not to be confused with S. ‘Gold Mound’ which looks the same but is not hardy.

Oenanthe pimpinelloides W&B-BG-B-10

Oenanthe pimpinelloides W&B-BG-B-10£5.00

A superior perennial selection of this European native which makes clumps of small pinnate green leaves and wiry stems topped with multi-headed snow white umbels in summer to 45cm. Ordinary soil in sun.

Recently Added
Ipheion 'Jessie'

Ipheion 'Jessie'£5.00

A fresh strong blue flowered form with the colour shaded across the flower. Tidy and neat growth. Winter and spring flowers for a well drained sunny position. 15cm.

Ipheion uniflorum 'Charlotte Bishop'

Ipheion uniflorum 'Charlotte Bishop'£5.00

The first pink flowered form to be available with masses of rich pink starry flowers starting in November, peaking in spring. Drained soil in full sun. 15cm.

Tiarella cordifolia 'Slick Rock'

Tiarella cordifolia 'Slick Rock'£5.00

A splendid carpeting Foam Flower with masses of white flowers in spring and again later. Makes excellent low ground cover under deciduous trees, try with Colchicums. 20cm.

Hedera helix f. poetarum JUVENILE

Hedera helix f. poetarum JUVENILE£5.00

The juvenile form of the Poet's Ivy. This will provide creeping/climbing growth with typical green foliage. When it becomes adult the berries will be the desired yellow. Patience!

Tulbaghia violacea 'Silver Lace'

Tulbaghia violacea 'Silver Lace'£5.00

AGM Pretty silvery white variegated form of this tough bulbous southern African plant. Heads of cheerful lilac-purple flowers all summer and autumn. 60cm.

Hedera helix 'Dyinnii'

Hedera helix 'Dyinnii'£5.00

Possibly the smallest ivy with dense bushy growth covered with tiny sharply pointed foliage. A soft mossy appearance for small places or containers.

Welcome to The Plantsman's Preference website!
 

We have been selling an extensive range of Hardy Geraniums and Ornamental Grasses as well as many new, rare and unusual perennials (particularly those suitable for shade) since 1996, mail order since 1998 and online since 2000.  We probably have the largest collection of Hardy Geraniums for sale in the UK, with at least 200 different varieties over the course of a year.  We also grow a small, choice, selection of shrubby plants, particularly those from the Caprifoliaceae

The most important factors in our choice of what plants we grow have always been; good garden value, growable, and possibly most important - we have to like it!  We are particularly keen that plants should get on with it without lots of fussing from the gardener so we generally do not grow anything that needs staking or deadheading!

Here on our website you can easily securely shop online and use our fab Plant Selector to help you find plants to suit your requirements or conditions.  Or you can just browse through the categories and A-Z pages.  If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us, quickest response will be from the nursery phone number at the top of every page, please leave a message if we're unable to answer.

Don't forget to try and Visit the Nursery and see the plants in real life!
 

Award Winning Plants
RHS Award of Garden Merit

RHS Award of Garden Merit

The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) issued by the Royal Hoticultural Society (RHS) helps gardeners find reliable, consistent plants that will provide particularly good value in the garden.

The award is granted after trials at the RHS’ garden at Wisley in Surrey and/or assessment at specialist collections or discussion at meetings. There is a set list of criteria that plants have to meet to be deemed worthy of the AGM. For more information on the AGM please visit the RHS Website.