Androsace strigillosa has neat rosettes of small leaves in winter, and much larger leaves in summer. It has upright stems with a loose umbel of a few flowers, white when they are open. But what makes this highly sought after is the reverse of the petals, seen also in bud, which is a deep, dusky pink, outlined with white. It has grown well outside for many years, eventually making a wide clump. A variable species forming loose clumps or hummocks depending on altitude. Central Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan) above 2500m in light woodland and among scrub, smaller forms higher up in alpine meadows ... Learn More

A beautiful, long-lived plant bearing golden-eyed, creamy-white flowers in spring and early summer on shortish stems holding jaggedly bisected leaves. It grows, predictably, on Mount Baldo in Italy! ... Learn More

China is the home of this delicate new discovery. Repeatedly branching thin stems carry clusters of numerous fragile, blue-backed pure white flowers. Superficially like Anemone leveillei, but bearing smaller and many, many more flowers. ... Learn More

This is one of the easiest and long-lived of the clump-forming Anemones which improves with age, bearing dense sprays of white waxy-petalled flowers with a blue reverse. An exceptionally beautiful flower from China. ... Learn More

From rocky places in Canada and the west coast of the USA comes this rarely-seen anemone. Golden-eyed white flowers, sometimes streaked with pink or purple, open on short stems over pointed, hairy leaves. Very few seeds collected. ... Learn More

This plant, displaying large opulent up facing saucers in a glorious shade of pale lemon and buttermilk, so far outshines many similar ones, that we cannot understand why it is not in every garden! ... Learn More

Large, golden-eyed, ivory-white flowers flowers open en-masse in spring, almost covering the clump of insignificant basal foliage. When the entire plant is in flower this splendid specimen is magnificent, it is truly one of the top three hardy anemones. Very few good seeds collected. ... Learn More

Anemone rivularis, commonly known as 'riverside windflower', is a clump forming perennial. The white saucer shaped flowers, tinged with blue on the reverse and indigo in the middle are borne on erect, branched stems in late spring and early summer. ... Learn More

Nodding white flowers with yellow centres open in late spring, this plant getting its common name from the way the flower buds emerge on bent stems, so they hang like snowdrops. They then straighten up and face outwards as the perfumed flowers start to open, petals catching the breeze, making them look like butterflies. ... Learn More

This lovely Chinese species gives a valuable late summer and autumn display of large rose pink flowers in profuse clusters on long stalks, which make perfect cut flowers. Clouds of decorative woolly seed pods remain on the plant until shredded by the winter storms. ... Learn More

Beautiful pink, semi-double flowers are balanced on well-branched deep red stems above a clump of mid-green vine-shaped leaves. An ideal plant for smaller gardens, it is easy to grow once established when the plants will spread to form a patch in a rich moist site. Shorter than many other anemone cultivars, it works well in smaller gardens or towards the middle of a border, and flowers from late summer well into autumn. Plants grown from these seeds may give a variety of forms and colours. Winner of a Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (1997). ... Learn More

A stunning Japanese treasure. Above the mid green leaves arise airy sprays of impossibly beautiful nodding flowers. Seemingly carved from wax, like pendent water-lilies, each displays a wondrous double circle of petals, the outer one an almost pure ivory white, whilst the centre is purplish-blue. Totally hardy, these fabulous plants will excel in shade and well-prepared organic soil. Very few good seeds collected. ... Learn More

From Japan comes this unusual, rather small distinctive plant which in earliest spring carries the most deeply slashed and divided leaves of any angelica. In late spring open dense sprays of tiny white flowers. ... Learn More

This seed has been collected from plants which were grown from seed of the true wild "Norwegian Angelica", growing on the shoreline in northern Norway, 200 miles inside the Arctic circle, where temperatures plunge to below minus 40C in the cold dark winters. This form makes basal rosettes of divided leathery leaves, above which appear in summer, stocky stems holding globular balls of greenish-white flowers. Later appear the very distinctive, spherical, congested heads of large fragrant seeds. It may be used either as a culinary herb or a striking garden plant! ... Learn More

This magnificent angelica bearing thick shiny leaves has rapidly become a cult plant. In midsummer, globular, almost solid heads, of dark crimson florets erupt on strong stems from inflated purple sheaths, providing a feast for pollinating insects. Very few fertile seeds are ever produced. ... Learn More