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The nursery is now closed to visitors for the winter and will re-open on Friday 1st March 2024. Thank you to all our visiting customers during 2023, probably our busiest year since the nursery was started in 1996.

Click & Collect & Mail order continue as normal and the majority of orders are being shipped within 7-14 days.

Last orders for delivery before Christmas will need to be placed by 12 noon, Sunday 10th December.

We are now only shipping to England, Scotland and Wales. I'm sorry but export to the EU is no longer possible.
The costs of Phytosanitary Certificates in the UK to allow shipping elsewhere in Europe are prohibitive.

Please get in touch if you have any questions or problems.

Plants In Season Now

Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea 'Windsaule'£4.50

Clumps of mid green leaves to 50cm produce tall more or less upright stems topped with greenish brown flowers in mid summer to 2.4m. The heads more open than the better known 'Windspiel'. Good soil, sun.

Juncus ensifolius£6.50

Hedgehog Rush. Low clumps of flattened foliage and clusters of dark brown spiky inflorescences to 20cm. Good to wet soil in sun or light shade.

Ajuga reptans 'Julia'£4.50

Striking spires of clean pink flowers rise above lightly bronzed foliage in spring. Very floriferous and a good doer making a low evergreen carpet. 15-20cm.

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Geranium peloponnesiacum£5.00

An attractive wintergreen species from south eastern Europe. Tuberous roots and hairy leaves often marked brown, rich blue flowers in spring to 25cm. Drained soil in full sun.

Ipheion 'Rygel'£4.50

New to us this seems quite compact with deep purplish blue flowers. Winter and spring flowers for a well drained sunny position. 15cm.

Silene coronaria wild form£4.50

Brilliant reddish magenta flowers on this form from Graham Gough. Silvery grey foliage and strong flower stems to 90cm. Self seeds in dry soil in full sun.

Hedera helix 'Heise'£4.50

Crisp white margined leaves with grey and green centres on this classic mid-sized ivy. A good fresh looking variety for climbing or groundcover.

Hedera helix 'Seabreeze'£4.50

A striking and unusual white variegated form with variable curled leaves, generally rounded or deeply divided. Compact and fairly slow growing.

Hedera helix 'Shamrock'£4.50

AGM Dark green foliage with three oddly angular divisions often held at different heights giving an unusual appearance. A good dense groundcover.

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!