Pure white flowers adorn this lovely albino form of the ever-popular "Jacob's Ladder". It comes quite true from seed and will happily colonise a dark corner. ... Learn More

Predictably from Kashmir comes this bushy form of "Jacob's ladder" with ferny foliage and solid clusters of large silky pale blue flowers in early summer. One of the best butterfly plants you can grow, it prefers fertile, well-drained soil which is not parched, in sun or semi-shade. ... Learn More

This extremely lovely plant opens attractive, bright blue flowers, which are produced from June to September on tall stems up to 1 metre. It flowers from June to September in forests, open slopes and damp places in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to West Nepal, at altitudes of 2400-3700 m. It does best in moist, well-drained soil in sun to semi-shade. Our plants were grown from seed collected by Chris Chadwell on his expedition to the Himalayas in 2013. ... Learn More

Long peachy trumpets with flared yellow ends and deep pink marking on the back, adorn this delightful, compact, front of border plant which has finely cut silvery-leaved foliage, and which flowers prolifically in its first year from sowing. ... Learn More

A delightful form of the North American miniature polemonium or "Jacob's Ladder", Polemonium pauciflorum. Silvery-leaved foliage adorns stems bearing terminal bunches of yellow trumpets, striped in brown, with flared mouths. ... Learn More

This variety has the largest flowers of all of the "Jacob's Ladders". Its name translated, appropriately means 'beautiful'. Yellow-eyed blue saucers are carried on strong stem bearing deeply slashed leaves. ... Learn More

This is a fabulous garden plant discovered here with bright blue flowers above dark purple foliage that deepens in bright sunshine. Our original seed was collected at altitude in Japan where it is already accepted as one of the largest flowered gems of the race, but in 1991, in one tray of seedlings, we were excited to see just one plant with darker foliage which was especially notable in spring when it developed a purple rosette. Subsequent generations retained this feature, a proportion being darker leaved with a few lighter. This new colour break in polemoniums makes this an extremely valu ... Learn More

Very rare, unusual, and easy to grow, this lovely Japanese native woodlander thrives in any shady spot. From late summer to autumn, the upright downy white stalks appear, bearing whorls of white flowers, followed by attractive, showy dark blue berries. The whorls of long, pointed, leathery, dark-green leaves look quite unreal, almost like dazzling shiny plastic. Spreading by underground rhizomes, it is perfect for shade or even in a container too. ... Learn More

An interesting plant in the spiderwort family from the rainforests of Asia with attractive, broad foliage and small fruits that look like a cluster of shiny metallic blue pearls. It has potential as a shade-loving border plant, a showy pot plant or for use in floral arrangements. ... Learn More

A very generous packet of all known colours and bicolours, including some old, nowadays rarely seen small-flowered forms, as well as larger modern varieties. ... Learn More

This valuable, gregarious, low trailing, ground-cover plant, valuable for its early autumn flowering, will scramble over rocks and wall edges quite happily, quickly covering ground and rocks, the spikes of bright pink clusters being held erect from the red trailing stems. Native to the Himalayas, these seeds were collected at 4,000m in altitude from the brightest-colured plants! ... Learn More

Delicate ice-blue flowers with short stalks and a very long tube, have a violet central stripe on each petal, and arise from a central rosette of narrow shiny leaves. This rarely-seen native of the Roggeveld in South Africa will do well in a rich, well drained soil in a sunny spot, or in a large pot in the conservatory or alpine house. ... Learn More

A stunning carpet of bright succulent leaves is studded with a profusion of doubled flowers in all colours from orange, pink, purple, yellow and red to white. The succulent leaves are another clue to the wonderful drought-tolerance of this low-growing flower that absolutely thrives in hot, dry areas in poor, sandy or gravelly soil that drains quickly, the small, fleshy leaves storing water, allowing the plant to survive during dry periods. Although it is grown as an annual in most climates, the plant is truly perennial in warmer climates such as U.S. Department of Agriculture growing zones 10 ... Learn More

These gorgeous border or rock garden plants form a dense blazing carpet of colour with their brilliant flowers, and these are the very-rarely-offered single form of Portulaca with a wide range of brilliant shades, produced from mid summer to autumn. They can be very easily grown as annuals in a sunny, dry border or bank, or in a window-box or other container. ... Learn More

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