An amazingly choice and heat-tolerant plant with very large, brilliant yellow, purple-eyed flowers. Although a perennial shrub in warmer climes, this plant is best grown in a large pot or sheltered garden elsewhere. ... Learn More

We are offering a selection of a large number of different aconitums varying in colour from white and yellows up to pale lavender and deepest blue. All of them are hardy herbaceous plants, and habits vary from compact to bushy, with heights also covering a good variable range. Grow some and see if you can identify them, as we have collected too little seed to offer them individually. ... Learn More

Delicate, but strong and charming, and a valuable bloom in the late summer gap, this pendulous allium (pulchellum means "beautiful!") has wide, bell-shaped, reddish violet flowers, that sprout out and then down, resembling an exploding firework. It excels especially among silver-foliage plants, when its dusty bells dangle from massed slender stems. ... Learn More

With an astonishing resemblance to a tropical orchid, this rarely seen plant in the Ginger family makes a beautiful and intriguing addition to any suitable garden, whilst in cooler climes it can make an impressive container exhibit indoors. A native of Indonesia and Malaysia, it is also cultivated for medicinal purposes, as an oil is obtained from the dried rhizome, and it is reputed to have many medicinal properties. In Arunachal Pradesh its flower buds and young flowers are eaten by the 'Adi' tribe and are said to be very tasty! ... Learn More

This erect, very rarely-seen, British native wildflower will thrive in damp conditions and gives a lovely late summer display of multiple soft pink flowers, (which occasionally are pure white with pink anthers!) on tall softly hairy stems with attractive grey-green leaves. It is an herbaceous perennial and so will return for several years after dying back over winter. ... Learn More

This spectacular Amaranthus displays stunning tassels of long-lasting lime green flowers from summer through to autumn, slowly fading to cream as they age. The large leaves and sturdy stems on this half-hardy annual provide a strong framework through which the long panicles of flowers will cascade to a most dramatic effect. The plant will need to be watered well in dry weather, and can be encouraged to grow to 3 or 4 feet with careful feeding and support. ... Learn More

This cheerful dwarf Amaranthus is a colourful and most unusual addition to the front of your herbaceous border, providing a splendid splash of colour with its display of dark red tassels. Especially useful where not much room if available as it has a neat and compact form and will be happy in a confined space. ... Learn More

This unusually flamboyant specimen is grown for its striking coloured foliage rather that the more familiar tassels of flowers. It provides beautiful colour contrast when planted with other foliage plants and will grow steadily taller through the summer months, enjoying full sunlight and with good heat tolerance. ... Learn More

This delightful everlasting flower is a must for the cutting garden, where its silvery white flowers with bright yellow centres on winged stems are borne throughout the summer, and will make a long-lived superb display indoors and out, and even all winter long if dried out! ... Learn More

Large, dramatic, exotic-looking, light pink spathes burst open on pink, green mottled stems, whilst the equally impressive, dangerous-looking spadix is swollen and a flesh-coloured whitish-pink. The much-branched umbrella-like compound foliage is held aloft on a single, very long speckled petiole to form a lush jungly-looking mini-canopy. Ideal for the gardener who enjoys unusual plants, Amorphophallus bulbifer is one of the hardiest and is perfect for growing in the UK and Europe as long as it can be given a suitable position outside, with frost protection, good drainage and humus-rich soil. It also performs well in a large container. Native to North East India and the Himalayan region including Nepal and Northern Myanmar, its natural habitat in wooded foothills and monsoon forest is often at much higher altitudes than many of its more tropical relatives and its cold tolerance is therefore higher. ... Learn More

A low-growing perennial with trailing stems bearing dark green ovate leaves, and deep blue, bowl-shaped flowers from early summer to autumn, it is very often grown as an annual. It truly is one of the most exquisite blue-flowered plants available. ... Learn More

This majestic grass, native to the Great Plains of North America, and is tolerant of a wide range of soil conditions, and will grow to between 1 and 2.5m in height depending on the moisture and soil type available. So if you need a tall imposing feature this should fit the bill! ... Learn More

This extremely handsome marginal aquatic plant can also make a lovely feature in the bog garden, forming clumps of broad green leaves that in summer produce quite large white flowers, sometime with a splash of pink. Rarely seen but easy to grow! ... Learn More

Tasty fruits called sugar-apples or sweetsops grow on this small, well-branched tree or shrub that tolerates a tropical lowland climate better than its relatives Annona reticulata and Annona cherimola, whose fruits often share the same name. But this one is the best and most widely cultivated of these species as it is rather similar to soursop (Annona muricata). ... Learn More

This slow-growing evergreen tree produces racemes of fragrant Lily of the Valley-like flowers, and in late autumn, strikingly attractive, edible, strawberry-like fruits. It prefers a sheltered spot to actually produce the ripe fruits but is hardy otherwise. ... Learn More