Sprays of saucer-shaped, dark red flowers open from June to August on hairy stems, above a vigorous rosette of hairy, grey-green, strawberry-like leaves. This vibrant and delightful Himalayan cinquefoil is an excellent long flowering plant, and given a sunny, well-drained site, it is trouble-free and easy to grow. ... Learn More

A Potentilla that has well-balanced but dwarf habit which carries crimson red flowers in the summer over foliage that has an eye-catching silver lustre Ideal Conditions:Prefers full sun, or partial shade with free-draining soil or compost. ... Learn More

Single, bright yellow buttercup flowers nestle amongst the small shiny-green leaves in late spring on this very low spreading, tuft-forming, low maintenance plant. It is very easily divided in spring by digging up the clump and ripping apart into smaller pieces. ... Learn More

Cupped-shaped yellow flowers, with orange markings at the base of each petal, open on low compact, cushions. This rare British native plant resides in high places on the Scottish mountains, as well as growing at lower levels in Scandinavia and right up to Svalbard in the Arctic Circle. Suitable for screes, rock gardens or dry slopes, its blooming time is from May to June. ... Learn More

Darker-eyed, bright golden yellow flowers adorn this rarity endemic from the French eastern Alps where it is found at only 16 or 17 localities. On the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, it is threatened by competing plant invaders, collecting and also agriculture. These seeds have been garden grown! ... Learn More

Stunning, semi-double, dark crimson red flowers with dark centres, open over a long spring and early summer period, above striking clumps of silvery foliage. This perfect. long-lived cottage garden plant grows well in any good garden soil in a sunny position. ... Learn More

A long lived trouble free plant producing rosettes of typical strawberry-like foliage and carrying sprays of golden yellow flowers. ... Learn More

This beautiful new semi-dwarf cultivar is quite a winner with compact heads displaying crimson-eyed, bright pink flowers, and petals attractively crinkled just like crepe paper. New buds open repeatedly in a long succession, from spring until late summer. ... Learn More

This attractive tuft-forming plant, is perfect for edging or growing in the rock garden with large, orange-blotched yellow buttercup flowers which are held on a mound of fuzzy, silver-grey, strawberry-like leaves. Bone hardy, it is native to high Arctic regions across the Northern Hemisphere and makes a single taproot, so it will not spread. ... Learn More

This superb edging perennial is supremely easy to grow but is not often seen in gardens. Plants form a low mound of deep-green, leathery,wrinkled leaves with a strawberry-like appearance, with large, bright yellow, rose-like flowers which are held on short stems just above the clump. This is one of those plants that begs to be touched. Perfect for the sunny rock garden, it is also ideal for mixed containers. It often benefits from a hard trim immediately after blooming, to keep the clumps neat and tidy for the rest of the season. ... Learn More

A wide selection of many showy herbaceous forms in white, yellow, orange and red, e.g. Potentilla argentea, atrosanguinea, grandiflora, hyparctica, megalantha, nepalensis, rupestris nana and several more. ... Learn More

Massed heads of deep raspberry red flowers shade to a crimson velvet centre on these long-flowering and long-lived specimens. Bright green crinkled foliage, reminiscent of strawberries, adds to this attractive illusion. An excellent form of Potentilla thurberi. ... Learn More

Bone hardy and bearing pure white flowers, this attractive Balkan endemic has a conservation status of Critically Endangered. Populations are fragmented, with few individuals, which occur very rarely in Meadows in coniferous forests and dwarf pine societies mainly in the Rila mountains between 1500 – 1700 m of altitude. The wider general distribution has more recently been extended to include loci in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, R Macedonia and Serbia. ... Learn More

Sprays of charming, multi-coloured, red-eyed, pink and yellow flowers open on sprawling stems in July and August. A gorgeous garden plant, although its home is grazing grounds and cultivated areas from 2100 - 2700 metres high in Pakistan to Central Nepal! ... Learn More

In July and August, from a tight rosette of white, silky tomentose leaves arise tiny stems bearing disproportionately large, darker-eyed, deep purple-pink flowers. This exceedingly rare endemic crevice-dweller that grows in Armenia in Gegham on the mountains Sevsar and Agusarka, and in Zangezur on the mountain Mets Ishkhanasar, is in the category of Critically Endangered. The extent of occurrence and area of occupancy is less than 10 km2 and the area of distribution severely fragmented where it grows in the alpine belt at between 3300–3500 meters on rocky and stony slopes and on screes. It was included in the first edition of the Red Data Book of Armenia under Category 1: Endangered species. Very few fertile seeds available of this perfect plant that could be 'best in show' if grown well! ... Learn More