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

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

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