This rarely-grown New Zealand relative of our UK "Cow Parsley" is a large plant with handsome tussocks composed of dense clusters of sharply-pointed, sword-like, yellowish-green leaves, and bearing huge, impressive, broad heads of golden flowers. In a well-drained spot this incredible specimen will intrigue everyone (well, most people) for years. ... Learn More

Forming a dense rosette of long, sharp and very narrow leaflets, this unusual frost-hardy plant produces attractive sprays of yellow flowers which are are carried on a strong stalk that can be up 40 in (1 m) high. It is native to tussock grassland in the drier parts of the South Island of New Zealand where it thrives between 300 and 1400 m. In cultivation it does best in a sunny or lightly shaded spot as it does not prefer high summer temperatures and is a perfect replacement for e.g. Agave and Yucca in such climates. In areas where humidity is high it prefers a windy, exposed site. ... Learn More

These delightful, dainty gems are bulbous perennials with linear leaves and nodding, bell-shaped, pure white or occasionally pink, fragrant flowers, which open with or before the leaves in late summer. Clumps multiply reliably. ... Learn More

Formerly Leucojum nicaeense, this is a delicate and most lovely little April-flowering plant, which will happily seed into a sand plunge, if you let it. The stems are about 5 inches (12 cm) tall and the fragrant flowers pure white. It flowers in late spring and increases well in a bulb frame if, kept relatively dry in summer. It is native to a small area in south eastern France, near the Mediterranean. ... Learn More

A relatively compact alpine species with deeply cut, blue-green foliage and orange-yellow, and occasionally blue flowers, from July to September. Its native range is widespread, but mainly in the European mountains, such as the Alps and the Carpathians, and the northern parts of Asia but like many aconitum species, it has great variability, due to isolation and hybridisation. ... Learn More

This grand and imposing plant has stout stems which hold very late, August-September, spikes of rich violet-blue hooded flowers above rich green divided foliage. These are very valuable late season flowers when most else has gone. ... Learn More

This quite unique herbaceous twining plant will climb to at least ten feet high, and bears from mid-summer to late autumn, long hanging clusters of ten or more large flowers. In addition to having attractive shining green foliage all season long, this selected form has intensely deep blue flowers. Very few good fertile seeds collected. ... Learn More

This rare and luscious parchment white form of Aconitum septentrionale is a superb variety with an erect bushy habit bearing clusters of ivory white hooded flowers on branching stems, with deeply fingered dark green glossy leaves which appear in early spring. It grows best in fertile, well-drained soil but should not be allowed to dry out if possible. Few seeds available. ... Learn More

Primrose-yellow, darker-anthered "monkshood" flowers open on short stems on this rare gem from the mountain slopes and forest margins of China, Korea and Eastern Russia. Very doubtfully in cultivation, it is a far superior plant to its relative, Aconitum lycoctonum, being shorter and more compact in stature, as well as having flowers which are outward-facing rather than pendent. ... Learn More

This virtually unknown, choice, and relatively dwarf species comes from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, where it grows at an altitude of over 7,000 ft. Making a large hardy tuber, it has dark green foliage, bearing in summer short stubby spikes of yellow-cream, monkshood blooms, each an inch or so across. ... Learn More

Green-lipped, palest yellow flowers open in early summer on this rarely-seen monkshood flower. A cousin to the more common Blue Monkshood, this species is not commonly seen in gardens, where it will form an upright clump of deeply-cut green leaves preferring a site that will not dry out. It also makes an outstanding cut flower. Like all monkshoods, all parts of this plant are poisonous. ... Learn More

This is an unusual colour variant on the normal creamy-white form of Aconitum lycoctonum that bears strong spikes of purple-grey flowers shaded with cream at the mouth and dusky violet on the spur. As such it makes quite a change from the usual run-of-the-mill varieties. It is a local and regional Carpathian endemic from the nemoral belt of the mountains and taller hills. ... Learn More

The true "Monkshood" flowers from earliest spring, producing indigo-blue hooded flowers on strong stems clad in shiny green leaves. This is one of the earliest, easiest and most rewarding flowers you can grow in the garden and is totally trouble-free, making a strong, long-lived, bone hardy and totally non-invasive clump. ... Learn More

This is the rarer, white-flowered form of the true "Monkshood", which flowers from earliest spring, producing milky-white hooded flowers on strong stems clad in shiny green leaves. This is one of the earliest, easiest and most rewarding flowers you can grow in the garden and is totally trouble-free, making a strong, long-lived, bone hardy and totally non-invasive clump. ... Learn More

Collected originally on our 2004 seed expedition to the Russian island of Sakhalin, ("Land of the Giants") this unusually large, and very lovely plant bears substantial rosettes of elegant ferny leaves from which arise tall, strong stems bearing whorls of sizeable, deepest blue "Monkshood" flowers. ... Learn More