This eryngium is a broader, more compact, and in all ways most superior form of Miss Wilmott's Ghost. It is most desirable in the garden where it holds its silvery colour longer, also making a most attractive cut flower which dries and retains its sheen well. Surprisingly, and totally unexpectedly (IMPORTANT please remember this...), they come up the first year with soft green leaves, nothing at all like the final plant. They then later die down to a hardy tuber to overwinter. But, surprise, surprise....the following year erupts the fabulous metallic, silver-grey familiar foliage, followed by ... Learn More

An inappropriate, even horrid, name for a lovely garden worthy plant. Long thin pineapple-like leaves edged with evenly spaced soft thread-like spines. Numerous green and white spherical flowers in attractive bunches are held atop branching stems. ... Learn More

The most amazing deep Magenta flowers appear on top 3ft high plants with multiple heads over sharp serrated and divided leaves. Eryngiums love hot dry conditions in full sun. ... Learn More

A large packet taken from all of those described here, as well as some unidentified species in our trial ground. ... Learn More

This is the most metallic blue of all "sea holly" flowers. Heart-shaped leathery leaves surround these exotic blooms which make superb cut flowers, and when dried out, retain their colour indefinitely. ... Learn More

This superb new variety has a quite amazing dwarf and compact stature. It produces diminutive, prostrate basal rosettes from which emerge silver-blue stems that form themselves into a large, globular flower-head containing hundreds of metallic-blue flowers. A bone hardy and valuable introduction to gardens. ... Learn More

A high altitude collection from our 1994 Chile trip, collected at 6,000ft on Volcano Antuco (RB94054). Has flourished here for many years. Massed heads of spiky, greeny-white grape-sized flowers on strong stalks above pineapple-like saw-toothed rosettes. ... Learn More

Superlative evergreen, beautifully variegated and marbled, waxy green rosettes, produce branching angular sprays of spiky silvery-blue flowers. From the Atlas Mountains of Africa comes this low growing, very long-lived, completely hardy, loveliest of the eryngiums. ... Learn More

This very hardy alpine is much like a dwarf form of our familiar wallflower, bearing narrow, dark green leaves with golden-yellow clusters of fragrant flowers with a long flowering period starting in early spring, till late summer. Hardy to -12°C it is ideal for rockeries and front-of-border positions, or even may be used in containers to add colour to early spring planting. ... Learn More

This incredible selection of incredibly diverse perennial erysimum (shrubby wallflower) seeds has never before been offered anywhere. We have been breeding unusual wallflowers for very many years, and a good number of our best seedlings have been protected and sold in large numbers worldwide. The original parent stock we used for breeding purposes varied from tiny alpines. through the conventional commercial colour range of biennial wallflowers, right up to large shrubby species. Enormous beds of mixed forms were grown to permit the bees to do much of the pollinating. Plants varied enormously ... Learn More

Only very rarely are any seeds produced by the usually sterile, legendary, 'Bowles Mauve' parent plants and each seed is individually hand collected with great care. These will all produce true F1 plants with first generation hybrid vigour. Plants will vary very much in habit, colour of flowers and flowering times, as we intentionally grew the parent plants in close contact with a large variety of different erysimums and commercial dwarf wallflowers. These unique plants should all be of a very high standard and commercially valuable if propagated hence their high price. We respectfully poi ... Learn More

This new gem from our ongoing breeding programme possesses a full hand of aces! The seed pods, collected individually as they ripen, should produce unique, enormous, hardy perennial plants which make strong stout stems, almost trunks, in their second year. Plant them out as small plants, they will not thrive in a small pot. It is essential they are given room to grow unhindered in an open position, when they will spread out into a solid dome of branches clad in evergreen leaves. In the following late winter to early spring, (and ours flower earlier than all other perennial erysimums we grow,) ... Learn More

Growing best in dry, sandy soil, this unusual colour variant is an attractive biennial/perennial, consisting of several stout stems arising from a basal clump of leathery leaves which have toothed margins. Found naturally on the Western edges of North America, this seldom-seem wallflower has much larger and also paler flowers than others of its kind. ... Learn More

Golden yellow fragrant flowers open sequentially above compact cushions of bright green leaves. To encourage compactness and repeat blooming, shear the first set of blooms before seeds are set. One of the very best of the wild wallflowers, this dwarf and ancient plant has a long and well-deserved history in gardens. Whether it’s the ability of the brilliant yellow flowers to brighten spring gardens, or the ease with which it attracts birds and butterflies to flower beds, the flowers will begin to brighten your gardens in the spring and continue into the summer. It has a long history in garden ... Learn More

This rare Polish endemic giant wallflower survives in just one area on the calcareous hill of Czorsztyn Castle at 500 metres above sea level where it grows into a sizeable bush smothered in bright yellow fragrant flowers. ... Learn More