Narrow spikes of small but numerous, fragrant, five-petalled yellow flowers appear on long stems above basal, potentilla-like leaves. Later, the unusual spiky seed heads appear. Also known as hairy agrimony, this unusual plant is distributed primarily over the Korean Peninsula, Japan, China, Siberia, and Eastern Europe. ... Learn More

This native wild flower grows in damp woods and shady places, and bears in spring loose umbels of up to twenty pretty, white, star-like flowers. This is a really useful plant for naturalizing in woods and shady spots which, given half a chance, it will eventually carpet completely. The unmistakable sweet smell of garlic is often the first thing you will sense before you see it in the spring! ... Learn More

Our trial ground holds several different "snapdragons". One of the very tallest is the pale-yellow flowered plant from northern Spain, Braun Blanquetti. One of our busy bees carried pollen from a red flower to this bed of flowers and produced the lovely hybrid swarm we have christened Candy Spires. Numerous spikes hold dense masses of medium-sized pale pink snapdragons, which open all summer long and will very gently self-seed wherever they are happy. Like its parents it has a very long flowering period, and although it blooms the first year from seed, it is truly spectacular in subsequent years when the bushy, spreading plant sends up a solid mass of tall stems which produces a living dome of colour. And of course, occasional hybrid seedlings of a slightly different colour may appear as we have numerous different forms in our gardens.....and still the busy bees! ... Learn More

This early-fruiting sweet pepper is an attractive blocky pepper with large,thick-walled, square-shaped fruits. They start off green and turn fiery red and are high yielding. They are suitable for growing in a greenhouse or in a sheltered position outside. ... Learn More

This dense, medium-sized, evergreen shrub, has dark glossy green, broadly oblong, sparsely-spined leaves, and impressive drooping racemes of rich orange flowers, tinged red in bud, followed by blue-black berries. A long-lived and easy shrub. ... Learn More

Very, very rarely available, seeds of this exciting plant produce vigorous and erect black raspberry plants, which are versatile enough to be grown almost anywhere. The fruits have a unique colour with large, almost purple-black fruits full of anthocyanins, which are good for your health, and also have a special distinct 'perfumed' taste. They are less tart than blackberries, which they superficially resemble, and this makes them better for eating fresh, although they also make good jams. Black raspberries are the first raspberries to ripen in the spring - with a very concentrated period of ripeness - and can be harvested in two or three passes. This particular variety has attractive, blush-white canes and is less susceptible to cane diseases and root death than others types. We regret that we have obtained just a few fertile seeds this year, hence the extremely low packet count. ... Learn More

This is the rare white form, from the Rocky Mountains, this high alpine Boykinia relative has heads of five-petalled, pure white flowers, held just above a cushion of leathery, scalloped leaves in early spring. It is long-lived when happy in the rockery or alpine trough, where it prefers lean, gritty soil or scree, in full sun with a cool root run. ... Learn More

Multiple, vibrant, deepest orange trumpet shaped flowers up to 30cm in length bloom simultaneously and repeatedly throughout the growing season. Each flower emits a gorgeous perfumed scent especially in the evening making this an idea patio/conservatory plant. Plants are shrubby in nature but tender in colder climates growing from 1 meter to 2.5m. ... Learn More

Calceolaria integrifolia is a small, tender, bushy, evergreen sub-shrub with oblong, veiny, matt-green leaves with hairy undersides and with clusters of bright yellow, pouch-like flowers. This native of Argentina and Chile blooms from late spring through to early autumn. ... Learn More

In early spring, this rarely-offered plant opens its large white to lilac flowers which have a purple spot at the base of each petal. Seed for this plant was originally collected in The USA on Figueroa Mountain in Santa Barbara county. It is also found in grassy places near the coast from southern California to Baja. ... Learn More

We have produced a superb mixture of the two forms of this lovely flower, and you will get, in roughly equal proportions, sizeable, flared, ivory-white or deep blue bells, which open along many strong stems carrying rough, jagged-edged, nettle-like (but non-stinging!) leaves. This tough, long-lived, clump-forming, non-running plant will only spread by seed, and is one of the essential cottage-garden plants of olden days. ... Learn More

Robust sprays of fragrant, creamy white flowers open above compact stems, bearing leathery, slightly hairy, little-divided leaves, an unusual feature within this group of plants. A new, rare and extremely garden-worthy plant from the windy Azores Islands, it will puzzle even the most knowledgeable plant enthusiast! ... Learn More

Cousins to gladioli, these long-lived hardy plants produce clumps of green sword-shaped leaves, with tall, arching spikes of large funnel-shaped blossoms that are a rich, deep burnt scarlet-red, which unusually in this group of plants, face upwards, and appear in mid to late summer. ... Learn More

This new introduction has a distinctive, attractive purple skin with a white tip. They are resistant to cracking and bolting and are quick to harvest - taking only 35-40 days from sowing to reach maturity and can be succession sown from spring until early autumn. ... Learn More

Pretty, bell-shaped pale mauve flowers hanging from long wiry stems from July until August, making it one of the last varieties to flower. This is one of the varieties that must not be allowed to dry out, it can in fact stand at the edge of a pond in place of an iris!! ... Learn More