This lovely plant from Madeira is vaguely reminiscent of a gangly Geranium maderense with much-divided stems and slightly smaller, but many more pink flowers. Although usually biennial, it will gently self-seed to perpetuate itself and has a very long flowering season. ... Learn More

Collected from the best cultivars in our garden, seedlings will produce large, upward-facing, red saucer-shaped flowers above low hummocks of deeply divided leaves. Bone hardy, and very reliable in making a blazing and long-lived display each spring and summer. ... Learn More

Coming true from seed, the gorgeous pale-pink flowered form of this lovely species makes one of the finest rockery plants. It forms a low spreading carpet studded with large saucer flowers, all delicately pencilled with red, over a long period from spring to late summer. ... Learn More

A very rare Japanese beauty. Compact clumps of attractively marbled foliage beneath white-eyed, purple-netted, rose pink, flared funnel-shaped flowers. Included is a new form in which each petal is twice cut, producing a frilly fifteen-petalled effect. ... Learn More

An absolutely superb rare and most desirable new plant from the mountains of central Japan, source of so many treasures. Large upward-facing saucers, of a darker veined magenta red, are produced almost endlessly from early summer into late autumn, on a nice compact cushion of hairy leaves. Long-lived, bone hardy and well-behaved...What more can you ask? ... Learn More

Multiple violet-purple flowers open in June-July over a base of soft leaves. Developing a long-lived stout rhizome, it is easy to establish in most conditions, whether in sun or shade. This lovely plant is one of the UK native hardy geraniums, and in the wild it ranges as far north as the Arctic. ... Learn More

A most unusual seedling appeared one day. Tight upright habit, compact trusses of upward-facing pale pink flowers. We concluded that as it appeared between the two, its parents were most probably G. clarkei 'Kashmir White' and G. sylvaticum. The seedlings displayed astonishing diversity, all having the same massed flower heads, but in colours from palest pinks to deepest blues. ... Learn More

From a central rosette of attractively marbled spring foliage, prostrate spreading stems with large numbers of smallish, violet-veined white flowers with purple-pollened anthers. The stems of this vigorous Japanese low crawler root as they spread, making it a worthwhile ground coverer or weed stifler. ... Learn More

Large numbers of blood red veined pink funnel-shaped flowers, from spring and throughout summer, adorn this low spreader, which stifles weeds whilst hybridising busily with other geraniums producing fascinating offspring. ... Learn More

On a compact slowly spreading carpet appears a non-stop display from June onwards of upward-facing white-eyed sky blue flowers. "A pearl beyond price" (Graham Stuart Thomas), but alas a reluctant seed producer - the elusive seeds are collected individually. ... Learn More

Bright yellow flowers open on multi-branching stems above thick leathery (presumably caltha or "kingcup" like) leaves which are differently shaped depending on where they grow on the plant, the upper ones being lobed and blunt-toothed, while the lower leaves kidney or rounded heart-shaped and coarsely toothed. This unusual hardy plant is from N.W. North America and is completely new to us. ... Learn More

This bright yellow flower is a classic cottage-garden perennial, blooming as early as May, and if dead-headed, flowering on and off all summer long until October, when it will brighten your garden with a touch of summer, long into the autumn months. ... Learn More

Numerous bright red or sometimes yellow flowers, open on many stems above bright green thick leathery leaved rosettes. This lovely new border or rockery plant was collected quite recently in South America (Patagonia). ... Learn More

Land of the Giants for spectacular effect. Inc. Alcea ficifolia yellow, Echinops tienshanicum, Ferulago sylvatica, Echium 'Blue Steeple', Lobelia tupa, Campanula lactiflora 'Prichards Variety', Peltiphyllum peltatum, Verbesina alternifolia, Rudbeckia laciniata and Vernonia gigantea. ... Learn More

This rare and lovely flower really is one of the most delightful border perennial, yet it is not often seen in gardens. Not only is it handsome, flowering from June to August, it is very hardy, easy to grow, and long-lived. Red shoots emerge from a central crown in April and evolve into a bushy, upright clump, the stems remaining red, carrying ovate, neatly creased, mid-green leaves that are serrated along the edges, rather like Meadowsweet. They gently branch towards the top, and a long succession of pretty, pure white flowers with five fluttering petals, with a butterfly quality is produced, ... Learn More