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The nursery is open to visitors on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 9.30am to 5pm each day until the end of October.

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

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Eragrostis curvula£7.20

African Love Grass. Fine, dark green drooping leaves and graceful, arching black flowers from May to October. Evergreen for a warm sunny, well drained position. 90cm.

Nasella charruana£4.50

AGM An attractive clump forming grass from south America with rich green, narrow, leaves and arching stems holding clusters of red-tinted flowers all summer. Drained soil in sun. 60cm.

Stipa pseudoichu£5.00

Slow growing clumps of upright foliage to 80cm and tall arching stems topped with silvery plumes to 1.4m in summer. Average soil in sun.

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Hedera helix 'Francis'£5.00

Sharply pointed, multi-divided leaves with prominent veins. Forms dense mats or can climb. Distinctive.

Oxalis tetraphylla 'Reverse Iron Cross'£5.00

An unusual form with lush green leaves with fine brown marks (compared to a big blob!) and the usual brick pink-red flowers all summer. Mostly hardy given drained soil. 15cm.

Geranium tuberosum£5.00

A summer dormant species from the Mediterranean with deeply divided leaves and heads of blue windmill-like flowers in spring. 30cm. Drained soil in sun.

Iris sibirica 'Flight of Butterflies'£5.00

AGM A more natural look with clouds of small bright royal blue flowers, the falls more white with heavy blue veining. Good soil, sun. 1m.

Scutellaria tournefortii£5.00

Elegant upright spires of white flowers highlighted with a light blue-purple to 45cm. Ordinary soil in sun or light shade. Doesn't self-seed here.

Schoenoplectus lacustris 'Zebrinus'£5.00

Clumps of stiffly upright leaves with bright white horizontal bands, potentially to 1.8m if wet enough. For pond margins or bog garden.

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.

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Award Winning Plants

RHS Award of Garden Merit

The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) issued by the Royal Hoticultural Society (RHS) helps gardeners find reliable, consistent plants that will provide particularly good value in the garden.

The award is granted after trials at the RHS’ garden at Wisley in Surrey and/or assessment at specialist collections or discussion at meetings. There is a set list of criteria that plants have to meet to be deemed worthy of the AGM. For more information on the AGM please visit the RHS Website.