Superb, hooded, helmet-shaped flowers of deepest rich purple-blue are held on stout stems amongst short but very thick and leathery, glossy leaves. After several years it forms a huge clump. The flowers appear whilst the leaves are still half de... (Click for more details)

Delicate, darkest chocolate-brown, orchid-like flowers slowly open on short stems above sheaths of fleshy leaves in early summer. Probably a form of Roscoea scillifolia, this is a completely new colour-break in this lovely group of completely har... (Click for more details)

This very long lived and exotic looking plant is in fact completely hardy. Exceedingly lovely, soft yellow, orchid-like hooded flowers, arise from tufts of glossy lanceolate leaves over a long period in early and midsummer. (Click for more details)

A splendid, hardy, long-lived and under-valued member of the ginger family, looking very much like a cross between an iris and an orchid! The beautifully hooded and lobed, large purple flowers appear in spring and early summer. (Click for more details)

The full name is Roscoea purpurea var. procera. Large, sumptuous, exotic, pale purple, orchid-like flowers are held on thick stems bearing broad, fleshy, pointed leaves. A very desirable,very long-lived and bone hardy member of the ginger family. (Click for more details)

Large, deep purple, hooded orchid-like flowers open over folded sword-like rich green leaves in midsummer on this very beautiful and permanent plant. (Click for more details)

An extremely beautiful and hardy roscoea looking surprisingly like an icing pink terrestrial orchid. We find that these dwarf plants are the only roscoeas which are able to slowly seed about here forming a spreading carpet of pink flowers in earl... (Click for more details)