All Plants

Potentilla nepalensis 'Helen Jane'£4.50

Beautiful clear pink flowers with a crimson centre over many weeks in summer on this herbaceous species. Ordinary soil in sun or part shade suits it well. 40cm.

Potentilla rupestris£5.00

A lovely cottage garden type plant that makes clumps of strawberry-like leaves and upright stems topped with white flowers in summer. Easy and hardy, will self-seed a little. Good with smaller grasses. 40cm.

Potentilla sp. CC7180£5.00

Probably a Himalayan collection this has neat clumps of fresh green trifoliate leaves and clouds of rich ruby red flowers for weeks in summer to 40cm. Ordinary soil, sun.

Primula 'Barnhaven Garnet Cowichan'£5.00

Stunning garden worthy polyanthus in a range of deepest reds, some near black. The Cowichan types lack the typical large yellow eye. Decent soil in some shade. 25cm.

Primula 'David Valentine'£5.00

Pretty pink flowers on this P. elatior x P juliae hybrid. Showy flat faced flowers held in large heads up to 15cm in late winter and spring. Good soil in light shade.

Primula 'Lady Greer'£5.00

AGM. A delightful little primrose hybrid with neat clumps of leaves and masses of light yellow flowers in spring on stems to 20cm. Good soil in light shade.

Primula ex Barnhaven Indian Reds£5.00

Seed grown polyanthus in a range of bright rich reds, rubys, crimsons etc. Some towards magenta or purple. Decent soil in some shade. 25cm.

Prosartes lanuginosa£6.00

(syn. Disporum lanuginosum) Soft green clumps with greenish white, open, starry flowers in spring to 30cm. Good, leafy soil in shade.

Reineckea carnea£5.00

Low patches of strap-like leaves (more or less evergreen) and short spikes of flesh pink flowers in spring. Ordinary soil in shade. 15cm.

Rhodiola pachyclados£4.50

Low mats of blue-grey rosettes make a lovely feature for a rockery or front of border. White flowers when it can be bothered. 10cm. Full sun and well drained soil.

Roscoea alpina CC3667£4.50

Seed grown plants from this wild collected form with light purple flowers over clumps of relatively narrow foliage to 20cm. Drained but moisture retentive soil in shade!

Rubus cockburnianus£14.50

The classic white stemmed bramble with robust upright stems to 1.8m or more, arching over with time to root at the tips. Small pinkish white flowers. Easy!

Rubus spectabilis£8.00

A much loved species from north America with cinnamon coloured, peeling bark, very early magenta flowers (often before leafing up) and glossy green foliage. 2m.

Rubus ulmifolius 'Bellidiflorus'£8.50

Amazing fully double soft pink bramble with pointed and almost frilly petals. Bronze tinted foliage. Thorny! Prune to size.

Rudbeckia subtomentosa 'Henry Eilers'£5.00

Rumex scutatus silver leaf£5.00

Low bushy clumps of shield shaped leaves spotted, splashed or coated with a silvery overlay. Thready spikes of pinkish flowers to 40cm. Sun.

Salvia 'African Sky'£5.50

Stunning sky blue flowers from spring to autumn on this modern S. chamelaeagnea hybrid from New Zealand. Scented foliage is a bright, fresh green. 60cm in a sunny spot with good, drained soil. Probably not fully hardy.

Salvia 'Joan'£5.50

A stunning, hardy, Salvia involucrata hybrid makes an upright bushy plant with spires of brilliant deep almost purplish pink flowers to 90cm. Drained soil in full sun.

Salvia chamelaeagnea£5.50

A bushy upright subshrub. Evergreen in a sheltered site, with spikes of blue-purple and white flowers in summer to 60cm. New to us so not sure on hardiness but it survived -16 with minimal protection!

Salvia involucrata 'Hadspen'£5.50

Syn. 'Hardy Form'. New to us but supposedly hardy form of this spectacular sage with upright spikes of big bright pink tubular flowers that will arch over as they mature. Reddish stems and veins. Well drained, warm sheltered position in sun. 1.5m.

Salvia scabra£5.00

Neat clumps from woody bases with branching spires of narow tubular flowers in a showy light blue. Summer to autumn, 40cm. Well drained soil in full sun. ?Hardiness.

Sanguisorba 'Little Angel'£5.00

AGM Neat clumps of white margined pinnate leaves produce upright, wiry, branched stems topped with short dense spikes of maroon flowers in summer. 30cm. Good soil, sun.

Sanguisorba 'White Tanna'£5.50

A new white flowered form to 90cm. Clumps of pinnate foliage. Good soil in sun.

Sanguisorba obtusa silver leaved£5.00

A great form of the species with silvery-grey foliage that is a good reason to grow without the chunky caterpillar-like flowers. Good soil in sun or light shade. 75cm.

Sanguisorba officinalis CDC262£5.50

A strong, upright Korean collection with short spikes of burgundy flowers on wiry stems to 2m. Late summer flowering. Good soil in sun.