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

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

High on hot rocky hillsides on the island of Malta grow these impressive and unusual giants. When we first encountered these members of the 'umbelliferae' family, to which cow parsley, angelica, and similar plants belong, a friend remarked that compared to their relatively medium height, they had astonishingly huge umbels (or "heads") of seeds! We tried to identify them without success, and we thought they resembled an angelica, so the temporary name stuck! Angelica "Huge Umbel" (Hugh Jumble). And they also produced the most enormous seeds of any plant in this family we have ever seen, and we cultivate a very large number of the umbelliferae family here. Grown here in Devon, they make impressive plants, and amusing and intriguing dried flowers too! Please let us know if you can name them......Please note they are not edible. ... Learn More

An impressive, but unidentified member of the cow parsley family, (possibly an angelica), originally collected on the Mediterranean island of Corfu. Sprays of palest creamy-yellow flowers open on very tall strong stems before producing large golden umbels of seeds. A striking plant for the back of the border, and treat as not edible! ... Learn More

Sizeable, deepest pink "snapdragon" flowers open over a prolonged period in spring and summer on this scarce plant. It is strictly speaking a perennial, when it will ultimately make a thick-stemmed shrub clad in thin pointed leaves, but does very well grown as an annual. It grows in wild rocky places from the Rif Mountains of Morocco to Malta, where it can sometimes be seen as a dazzling patch on mountain roadsides and clifftops, but is very rarely seen in cultivation. ... Learn More

This spectacularly spiny plant gives a continual show of wonderfully crinkled silk-petalled pure white flowers from June through to the end of August, their centres coloured a delicate yellow by the golden pollen. Individual blooms are short lived but very impressive and are continually replaced by fresh blooms. ... Learn More

This interesting small climber has heart-shaped foliage and carries numerous perfumed, purplish trumpet shaped flowers for most of the summer, which are most attractive to butterflies. The plant will best show off its many flowers if the wiry stems have some form of low framework or wiry shrub to climb over. ... Learn More

Exotic, red-tongued, pale pink orchid-like flowers burst open amidst deeply-lobed leaves. One of the most beautiful flowering trees in existence, it is native to Madagascar, but naturalised widely in the southern hemisphere, where it excels in a warm climate in well-drained soil, but elsewhere also make a perfect conservatory or warm glasshouse plant. ... Learn More

This unique, hardy and completely perennial begonia has fleshy, olive green, deeply-veined foliage, which is held beneath fragrant, golden-eyed, ivory-white, 3cm wide flowers in summer and right into autumn still flowering into October. Grown in moisture retentive but freely draining soil and mulched well with bark it can be safely grown outside all the year around. The top growth is hardy to minus 2 degrees C, but the tough tuberous roots have survived every winter here for 35 years, even at below minus 10C! ... Learn More

This early fruiting (in UK conditions) hot pepper produces 30-50 distinctive fang-like fruits. The "fangs" are about 6cm long and change colour from dark green to purple to red but can be harvested at the dark purple stage. The flavour is like a cayenne pepper and can be chopped for cooking or dehydrated and ground into chili powder. It has a score of 71,500 Schoville units so is hot but not extreme. ... Learn More