A relatively compact alpine species with deeply cut, blue-green foliage and orange-yellow, and occasionally blue flowers, from July to September. Its native range is widespread, but mainly in the European mountains, such as the Alps and the Carpathians, and the northern parts of Asia but like many aconitum species, it has great variability, due to isolation and hybridisation. ... Learn More

This quite unique herbaceous twining plant will climb to at least ten feet high, and bears from mid-summer to late autumn, long hanging clusters of ten or more large flowers. In addition to having attractive shining green foliage all season long, this selected form has intensely deep blue flowers. Very few good fertile seeds collected. ... Learn More

This virtually unknown, choice, and relatively dwarf species comes from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, where it grows at an altitude of over 7,000 ft. Making a large hardy tuber, it has dark green foliage, bearing in summer short stubby spikes of yellow-cream, monkshood blooms, each an inch or so across. ... Learn More

Green-lipped, palest yellow flowers open in early summer on this rarely-seen monkshood flower. A cousin to the more common Blue Monkshood, this species is not commonly seen in gardens, where it will form an upright clump of deeply-cut green leaves preferring a site that will not dry out. It also makes an outstanding cut flower. Like all monkshoods, all parts of this plant are poisonous. ... Learn More

The true "Monkshood" flowers from earliest spring, producing indigo-blue hooded flowers on strong stems clad in shiny green leaves. This is one of the earliest, easiest and most rewarding flowers you can grow in the garden and is totally trouble-free, making a strong, long-lived, bone hardy and totally non-invasive clump. ... Learn More

From earliest spring, deepest indigo-blue hooded flowers open on strong stems clad in shiny green leaves. This is a rare and dwarfer form of one of the earliest, easiest and most rewarding flowers you can grow in the garden and is totally trouble-free. The specific name (tauricum) comes from the region of the Crimea where it grows, which was once called "Taurica Chersonesus" ... Learn More

Collected originally on our 2004 seed expedition to the Russian island of Sakhalin, ("Land of the Giants") this unusually large, and very lovely plant bears substantial rosettes of elegant ferny leaves from which arise tall, strong stems bearing whorls of sizeable, deepest blue "Monkshood" flowers. ... Learn More

We are offering a selection of a large number of different aconitums varying in colour from white and yellows up to pale lavender and deepest blue. All of them are hardy herbaceous plants, and habits vary from compact to bushy, with heights also covering a good variable range. Grow some and see if you can identify them, as we have collected too little seed to offer them individually. ... Learn More

Long-lived clumps produce very dense sprays of pale sulphur yellow hooded flowers in spring and early summer, above attractive, bright green shiny foliage. If dead-headed, flowering will continue into the autumn. ... Learn More