This dwarf, compact perennial forms a leafy, often cascading, clump with nodding, unusually narrow, bell-shaped, light blue flowers on erect, elongated, leafy stems. It is native to the mountains of Croatia and adjoining areas where it blooms from early to mid summer. RHS Award of Garden Merit. ... Learn More

"Coventry-Bells" and "Bats-in-the-Belfry" are but two of the quaint old names for this bellflower which apparently came into cultivation in 1561. Stout stems carry wide blue bells, with thickly set leaves below. ... Learn More

Large flared ivory-white bells open along many strong stems which carry rough, nettle-like (but non-stinging!) leaves.The pure white version of this ancient cottage garden favourite comes quite true from seed as long as it is grown alone. This clump-forming, non-running plant will only spread by seed. ... Learn More

We have produced a superb mixture of the two forms of this lovely flower, and you will get, in roughly equal proportions, sizeable, flared, ivory-white or deep blue bells, which open along many strong stems carrying rough, jagged-edged, nettle-like (but non-stinging!) leaves. This tough, long-lived, clump-forming, non-running plant will only spread by seed, and is one of the essential cottage-garden plants of olden days. ... Learn More

A new plant given to us as 'collected in Turkey', but we cannot identify it. From a flat rosette of tufted grey leaves come several prostrate stems bearing a succession of soft blue flowers. An unusually attractive dwarf rockery plant. ... Learn More

Pendulous bell-shaped, golden-eyed, pale lavender flowers, up to 6 inches or 15 cm. across, hang from the enormous blooming panicle that can reach one metre across. Surely the rarest and grandest of all Dahlias, and seldom seen in gardens, it was only recently discovered in cool cloud forest at high elevations, (around 2000 m.) in Oaxaca, Mexico, where it is accustomed to cool days and not-too-cold nights. This gorgeous, statuesque, deciduous perennial tree dahlia, with towering height and bamboo-like stems can grow up to 3 m tall. It is late-flowering, from September onwards (in the northern ... Learn More

One of the world's most spectacular flowering trees, native to tropical western Africa. The large reddish-orange flowers (up to 15cm long) bloom with great profusion, contrasting with the glossy dark green leaves, and when flowers bloom at their peak in the spring, the tree can appear to seem on fire, hence one of the common names being 'fire of the forest'. The open flowers are cup-shaped and can hold water and dew, which makes them attractive to many species of bird and insect. This tree is believed in some parts of Africa to possess magical properties, with twigs being used as wands by witc ... Learn More