Glowing and shimmering in the sunny border, this graceful, aromatic, evergreen shrub has dense, spreading, most attractive long, slender, erect shoots, bearing oval, waxy, blue-green leaves and domed umbels of star-shaped, yellow flowers from midsummer to early autumn. Indeed, the large bright yellow umbels in summer are the only clue that this rare plant is an astrantia relative! Although astonishingly hardy, it makes a perfect sea-side plant where it can thrive in the salty breeze! ... Learn More

Another recently discovered, lovely new plant which has fine umbels of bright yellow flowers on repeatedly branching sprays. Best sown direct where it is to flower. The flowers, which resemble those of alchemilla, are excellent for cutting. ... Learn More

In summer it bears long-stalked heads of lacy, divided, buff-yellow, almost astrantia-like heads which we are sure flower arrangers will find a use for. Superb in a hot garden where it also makes an ideal cut or dried flower. ... Learn More

Obtained from a fanatical grower of these lovely umbellifers, this extremely rare plant, with compact heads of yellow-brown flowers, is found in the wild apparently only in the mountainous region of the Turkish Taurus mountains in the region of of the Cilician Gate! In case you are curious, the Cilician Gates (or Gülek Pass) a pass through the Taurus Mountains, connects the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, through the narrow gorge of the Gökoluk River, climbing to over 1000m. We have no pictures other than of the remarkably unusual and attractive seeds, which do not resemble in the slightest those of any other bupleurum we have ever seen. Very few seeds. ... Learn More

This lovely plant is a rare UK native wild flower, bearing perfoliate leaves (speared around the stem like a kebab), and large showy umbels of tiny yellowish-green flowers surrounded by attractive, pointed, bright green bracts. ... Learn More