All of the perennials we offer in one A-Z list. Please feel free to use the Refine options on the left or the Search box at the top right to help you find specific plants. The Plant Selector may also be of help.
Brilliant blue flowers for weeks in spring. Pretty water repellent foliage, stays where you put it. Summer dormant - sometimes! 45cm. Easy in humusy soil in light shade.
Sea Kale. An attractive native seaside plant with rounded grey foliage (good eating!) and strong, branched stems of white flowers to 1m. Drained soil in full sun.
Big, sword-like pleated leaves on this wild collected form with tall, strong stems supporting branched heads of long-tubed orange flowers in late suimmer to 1.5m. Good, drained soil in full sun.
TENDER A bushy perennial producing masses of ruby red tubular flowers with light pinkish tips from late spring till the frosts. Best kept frost free overwinter. 30cm.
A lovely form worth growing for the leaves as much as the flowers. Silvered leaves with a dark green stripe from the apex in towards the centre. Pink flowers in late summer/autumn. 10cm.
Cardoon. Big clumps of greyish foliage, more or less jaggedly divided produce tall, strong stems topped with glorious purple thistles. This form has golden yellow edged bracts.
A beautiful and fairly hardy species with masses of soft lilac pink flowers with golden centres from midsummer into late autumn on wiry stems to 1.2m. Drained soil in full sun with a deep mulch or protect in winter.
Striking pink pea-like flowers on an upright plant - looks like a shrub but is herbaceous. Relatively large trifoliate leaves add to the "what's that?" impact. 1.2m.
A delightful herbaceous Pink from the Amur river valley area. Upright stems topped with generous heads of violet flowers in summer. Drained soil in sun. Easy and very hardy. 30cm.
Clumps of blue-grey foliage send up tall, arching, wiry stems topped with clusters of magenta flowers in early summer. Excellent for mixing with ornamental grasses. Ordinary soil in sun. 80cm.
A beautiful and easy herbaceous perennial species with heads of fimbriate pinkish flowers to c. 45cm. Relatively short lived so allow to self-sow. Ordinary soil in sun.
Dense clumps of fine grassy leaves and arching stems to 60-90cm bearing clusters of pink flowers in summer. Drained but good soil in full sun. Variable?
A perennial foxglove with rosettes of fresh green evergreen foliage and spikes of pale yellow flowers with milk chocolate brown markings to 90cm. Ordinary soil in sun or light shade.
Evergreen stems are spotted and speckled purple at the bases with greeny white flowers with brown markings in spring. 45cm. A very choice woodlander for a good leafy soil in shade.
Lush evergreen foliage on arching stems to 40cm. Off-white bell-like flowers hang from the stems and are followed by purple berries. Good soil in a sheltered shady spot.
New to cultivation this species has shiny, evergreen leaves, quite narrow and held on stems to 40cm. Lots of whitish flowers with green/brown speckles in late spring to early summer. Good soil in shade.
A more or less evergreen relative of Solomon's Seal. Broad light green leaves on curved stems to 40cm, with ivory flowers stained green in late spring and early summer. Ordinary soil in shade, even quite dark.
Patches of upright stems well clothed with fresh green leaves and greenish white flowers in late spring. A fresh looking plant for shade, ordinary soil. Deciduous. 45cm.
Primula relative with elegant rich rosy pink reflexed flowers produced successionaly in spring. Prefers moist but drained soil in shade. Neat clumps to 30cm.
Clumps of tall wand-like stems clothed with narrow leaves and topped with heads of smallish white flowers in autumn. Excellent for mixing with Panicums etc. 1.2m. Ordinary soil in sun.
