Diminutive in all aspects apart from flower size, this rare, dwarf creeping plant bears short-stemmed, pinkish mauve flowers with numerous exceptionally thin petals. The slow-creeping carpet of stems carries short, fleshy leaves, wider at their ends, and with noticeable deeply indented veining. ... Learn More

This variety produces showy, large flowers with crested centres in a range of colours. The flowers grow on tall stems, reaching around 70cm, and are perfect in a sunny border and also ideal for cutting for display in the home. ... Learn More

This beautiful plant produces delicate clouds of soft white flowers that float above lacy green foliage, which reflect dappled sunlight in woodland gardens for a dazzling effect. These spring-blooming beauties, with attractive foliage and elegant flower plumes, are ideal for borders, containers, and shady gardens where they can perform of their very best, whilst the ferny, deep green foliage will add texture to garden beds long after the blooms have faded. ... Learn More

This long-flowering, completely hardy, long-lived plant displays showy star-like heads with radiating bracts in shades of green, pink and white. They make excellent, long-lived cut flowers as a bonus. ... Learn More

This new and quite distinct plant bears dark pink pincushion flowers surrounded by a ruff of deepest ruby-red bracts that appear from early to late summer. This superb, bone hardy and very long-lived plant has basal clumps of leaves which are deeply lobed and dark green. Seedlings may occasionally vary a little. ... Learn More

Yet another staggering new introduction! Huge flower heads, occasionally producing that great rarity.... doubled flowers, mainly of deepest shades of red, open on divided stems in early summer. The latest astonishing surprise from our ongoing breeding programme of these long-lived rewarding plants. Unique and exclusive to Plant World! Few seeds available. ... Learn More

One of the best performing and pretty Astrantias we have seen. Tall branching sprays of light to deep red-mauve flowers, each with a ruff of reddish purple bracts appear from May to the end of September. Said to deter slugs, they thrive in heavy clay and almost anywhere the soil stays reliably moist but not waterlogged, so position in a humid, sunny or shady position in a border or near shrubbery. Excellent cut flowers.. ... Learn More

Seed from the darkest ruby and maroon forms in our garden. Invaluable, very long flowering period (May-October). ... Learn More

This most popular and much improved form of Astrantia major has a much larger "collar", with beautifully coloured tips darkly etched in attractive green shades. It is very long lived indeed and will grow under almost any conditions. It is also ideal as a cut flower. ... Learn More

Papery flowers edged with pink, green and white pointed bracts are massed on long stems above shiny green leaves, elegantly striped and splashed with yellow and cream. A superb foliage plant in the spring. Select variegated seedlings and reject green ones, also the pure white ones which will not grow. ... Learn More

Discovered by our breeding and selection team here at Plant World, this hybrid astrantia has the largest and most impressive flower heads we have ever seen! The name 'Supernova' is inspired by the huge maroon, dome shaped flower heads, surrounded by green-tipped bracts, that look almost like a red sun ready to explode. Also boasting a compact, vigorous, and dense habit, we believe this one will be a prize winner in years to come! Unfortunately we have been able to collect just a limited number of fertile seeds, and some of these may vary, but they are absolutely exclusive to our website. This ... Learn More

Exquisite, upwards facing, green bracted, pure rose pink flowers are held above compact clumps of bold tripartite foliage. This is the most desirable of all of the long-lived astrantias with a rewardingly long flowering period. "A very beautiful plant." (Graham Stuart Thomas) ... Learn More

Fantastic strong violet flowers appear on stems to around 60cm in height, discovered in southeastern europe this campanula relative loves a hot spot such as a rockery or south facing slope. ... Learn More

This amazing plant makes an amazingly fast growing shrubby-looking specimen, which, in a few weeks can either hide a small shed or be a lovely spot plant. It makes a tall spire of succulent and tasty, deep beetroot-red, triangular leaves, which can be pulled off and eaten in salads or cooked like spinach, along with tall dense racemes of edible, red-purple flowers which are followed by papery seeds. ... Learn More

Purple-green bell flowers, (resembling an ancient nightshade) are deep purple inside, and hang on thick stems bearing soft leaves. Later appear the juicy, shiny, black berries. But be warned, its common name is true and appropriate. It was derived from the fact that in ancient times women would put tinctures of the berry juice into their eyes to dilate the pupils to 'make them appear more beautiful': BELLA DONNA = BEAUTIFUL LADY! All parts of this plant are extremely poisonous, producing the drug atropine, commonly used in eye examinations, (and also scopolamine and hyocyamine) so do not e ... Learn More