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Geranium wallichianum 'Buxton's Variety'£5.00

Treasured form has spode blue flowers with large white centres. Doesn’t show its true colour till late summer with cooler, damper weather. Plant it deeper in cool humusy soil in light shade or open position with a good mulch. More or less prostrate.

Anemone x lipsiensis 'Sioux'£6.50

A recent selection of this natural hybrid with larger flowers of a gentle creamy yellow in March and April. Dark foliage. Good, leafy soil in part or light shade. 15cm.

Cardamine glanduligera£5.00

Stunning, rich purple flowers in small clusters on stems to 15cm. Glossy leaves, divided into three are sparingly produced. Slowly forms a loose patch in good, drained soil in shade.

Anemone nemorosa 'Stammerberg'£4.50

A stunning form with ragged semi-double white flowers merging into a ring of green bracts. Often pink tinged in the centre. Good woodsy soil in shade. 15cm. syn. 'Stammheim'

Symphyotrichum foliaceum coll. Montana£8.50

Clumps of deep green foliage and upright stems topped with heads of lavender-blue flowers in late summer. 50cm. Best in good soil in full sun, ideal with grasses like Panicum.

Polemonium sp big blue£5.00

A fine plant (if only we were sure of it's name!) that makes neat clumps with large clear blue flowers to 40cm in spring. Very showy. Good soil in sun or light shade.

Anemone nemorosa 'Bracteata Pleniflora'£4.50

Rather variable semi-double white flowers surrounded by a ruff of green and white bracts. Every flower different and changes year to year. 20cm. Shade.

Milium effusum 'Yaffle'£4.50

A lovely form of Wood Millet with soft green leaves lightened by a butter yellow stripe down the centre of each blade. Typical yellowish green arching flowers to 75cm in spring. Shade, average soil.

Geranium sanguineum 'Glenluce'£6.00

Beautiful large flowers of clear rose-pink. Relatively large clumps of rich green foliage to 30cm. Drained soil in sun or light shade.

Anemone nemorosa 'Atrorosea'£4.50

A lovely soft pink flush to the white flowers gives this a more delicate look than some of the other "pink" forms of wood anemone. Reasonable soil in shade. 15cm.

Vinca difformis ssp. sardoa£5.00

The best Vinca for winter flower for us. Controllable groundcover and upright stems to 1m with very large light blue flowers from December to May or even all year! Sun/Shade.

Polygonatum biflorum dwarf form£6.50

A dwarf form of one of the common American solomon's seals. Slightly pleated green leaves and clusters of cream bells with jade green tips. Scented. Decent soil in shade. 40cm.

Geranium palustre£4.50

Low growing clumps with purple flowers in summer. An easily grown perennial with a long season of flower. Ordinary to moist soil in sun or light shade. 30cm.

Epimedium x omeiense 'Akane' Og82001£8.50

Striking clear red flowers with primrose yellow lips and long spurs fading to white. Spidery, showy flowers in good heads to 50cm. Good soil in shade.

Anemone ranunculoides 'Ferguson's Fancy'£6.00

Chocolate brown tinted new leaves turn to green with the double yellow flowers nestled in a ruff of green bracts in early to mid spring. Good woodland soil in light shade, under deciduous trees is ideal. 15cm.

Pennisetum flaccidum£6.00

One of the hardiest fountain grasses but also invasive so best contained. Beautiful upright stems topped with purple spikes before turning russet-buff in autumn. Any soil in sun or part shade. 1.5m.

Geranium 'Prelude'£4.50

Masses of small blue flowers in spring. Alan Bremner's hybrid: a compact clump of leaves and the myriad of flowers are held erect for weeks in late spring. Open or light shade, not too dry. 70cm.

Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'£4.50

Often used in naturalistic gardens this is an excellent garden grass. Dense clumps of foliage and tall, upright stems topped with purple flushed green flowers in summer. 1.5m. Ordinary soil in sun or part shade. Good winter effect from the stems and seedheads.

Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Avalanche'£4.50

Bright creamy white striped leaves, tinged pink and upright purplish pink flowers in summer. 1.2m. Dense clumps of foliage provide upright columns of stems that last all winter, cut back in February. Average soil in sun.

Thalictrum sp. MCW109£5.00

A Michael Wickenden collection (Yunnan?) with early growth, dark stems quickly ascending to 1m-1.4m with loose heads of creamy flowers in late spring.

Fuchsia alpestris£6.50

Rarely seen Brazilian species with downy foliage and a cascading habit. Attractive, elegant, red and purple flowers in late summer and autumn. 1.2m.

Symphyotrichum 'Coombe Fishacre'£4.50

AGM A distinctive form with light-mid pink flowers with slightly swept back rays (petals) making it instantly recognisable. Dense bushy habit to 75cm. Good soil in sun.

Melica altissima 'Atropurpurea'£4.50

A woodland edge/clearing specialist this clump forming ornamental grass grows upright to 90cm topped with spikes of purple downward swept flowers in spring and summer.

Arisaema flavum£7.50

Cute little flowers, butter yellow on top fading into creamy with greenish markings below. Attractive foliage and spikes of red berries later. 40cm. Hardy.

Aconitum sp. ACE1449£4.50

From the Alpine Garden Society expedition to China in 1994 this herbaceous species produces upright stems to c. 1.4m topped with spikes of light green buds that open to ivory tinted pink flowers in summer.