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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

Ipheion uniflorum ssp. tandiliense£4.50

Bluish white spring flowers with darker purplish blue shading and stripe. Neat, tidy greyish green foliage emerges in autumn and looks good all winter. Hardy, 15cm.

Arum 'Chameleon'£6.00

A stunning winter-green type with large mid green leaves with a heavy pewter marbling over most of the leaf, just a narrow band of plain green round the edges. Typical pale flowers in late winter. 40cm. Average soil in part shade.

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.

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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.

Hedera helix 'Melanie'£5.00

Super ruffled leaves which get pale towards the edges and have a crisp, very narrow, pinkish red margin. Fairly large but not rampant.

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!