A fascinating plant from Sicily. Large violet blue flowers are produced all summer, followed by remarkable, enormous corkscrew seeds which are commercially used for making hygrometers (to measure dampness) - wet one and watch what slowly happens! (Click for more details)

Deepest lilac-pink flowers produced for many months over lovely feathery leaves. A long flowering, long lived valuable plant. (Click for more details)

This gorgeous and valuable plant produces violet-veined white flowers above fragrant crinkly leaves over an incredibly long period, from the end of winter until midsummer and spasmodically thereafter. It is much admired in our gardens and is bone ... (Click for more details)