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Latest Plants
Inula magnifica 'Sonnenstrahl'

Inula magnifica 'Sonnenstrahl'£6.50

A giant plant making clumps of huge fresh green leaves, up to 90cmm long and 25cm wide and strong stems to 2m+ topped with yellow daisies with long drooping rays. Stunning with big Miscanthus and other large summer and autumn flowers.

Monarda 'Jacob Cline'£3.00

Strong upright stems of fresh green foliage showing off bright scarlet red flowers in whorls in mid to late summer. Excellent for seedheads for autumn and winter interest.

Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal'

Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal'£3.00

Popular form of Wood Anemone for its bright white flowers with a ruff of bright white petalloid stamens giving a near double look. Low growing spring flower for shade and ordinary soil. 15cm.

Erysimum 'Golden Jubilee'

Erysimum 'Golden Jubilee'£3.00

A low growing alpine type of perennial wallflower with lovely light yellow flowers in spring. Creeping patches for drained soil in full sun, ideal for rockeries as it doesn't get huge. 10cm.

Geranium 'Karen Wouters'

Geranium 'Karen Wouters'£4.00

A recent form with lavender flowers veined darker purple in spring and early summer over lovely felted textured foliage. Neat clumps to 35cm for drained soil in sun.

Geranium phaeum 'Rothbury Ruby'

Geranium phaeum 'Rothbury Ruby'£4.00

New from Cyril Foster this reddish purple form has no white zoning in the centre allowing the colour to flood almost all of the petals. Good rich colour for average soil in shade. 50cm?


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.  More recently a choice selection of shrubby plants has been added, 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!

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Featured Plants
Anemone nemorosa 'Lismore Blue'

Anemone nemorosa 'Lismore Blue'£3.00

A shorter form of Wood Anemone with good solid blue flowers in spring to 15cm. Average to good soil in the shade.

Viola elatior

Viola elatior£3.00

From the steppes of Europe and Asia this is the easiest of the shrubby violas. Deciduous, with pale green foliage, delicate blue flowers are produced in early summer. 50cm. Sun.

Geranium Patricia 'Brempat'

Geranium Patricia 'Brempat'£4.50

(Geranium endressii x Geranium psilostemon)
Bright Pink Flowers with dark centres, less strident and shorter than Geranium psilostemon. 75cm.