From the dry mountains of Iran comes this dwarf gem. Upwards-pointing, pale blue-violet tipped white flowers open from June until August on short stems above compact clumps of foliage. It is definitely a non-running plant and possibly one for the alpine house as it does self-seed. ... Learn More

From Western Siberia (so it should be hardy) and Japan, comes this herbaceous, trouble free plant. In spring many stout stems clad in toothed, fleshy leaves arise from a stout rootstock. Large heads of rich yellow flowers are produced from June until August. We are offering the 'best form' - Sedum aizoon ssp. maximowiczii. ... Learn More

Another excellent new flower bred, selected, and seed produced here at Plant World. Perfect for sunny, dry locations, strong, medium length upright stems produce impressive masses of flowers, varying from crimson red to chocolate brown, from late summer through to late autumn. The fantastic shiny foliage varies from purple-brown to almost black, whilst the fragrant flowers attract honey bees and butterflies. Just like many other sedums, it does well in parched dry gardens and once established thrives without irrigation. ... Learn More

An ever-popular rockery plant forming a close mat of evergreen, fleshy, dark green leaves and low flat compound heads of numerous bright yellow flowers. (Sedum kamtschaticum var. ellacombeanum) ... Learn More

Emperor's Wave is a completely new and different variety of Sedum telephium, with its dense purple-red umbels set-off by its darkest purple foliage, making it a great attractor of bees and butterflies - especially late in the summer. This excellent choice for sunny borders and rockeries is a perfect cutting flower. ... Learn More

Fertile seeds collected from our new and extremely attractive hybrid sedum with succulent, chocolate coloured foliage and strong stems displaying deepest pink flowers. With its exotic looking foliage it looks tender and vulnerable, but it is in fact totally hardy, dying away safely every autumn after a final burst of flower. Cut flowers will also make attractive, long-lived displays in a vase. A beautiful, very long-lived and long-flowering garden plant, with absolutely no vices. Very fine seeds, care when sowing. ... Learn More

Low trailing stems carrying close-packed, succulent leaves, terminate in rosettes from which arise short stems bearing many creamy yellow star flowers. A very long-lived and hardy plant which is perfect hanging over a wall or for the front of a rockery. ... Learn More

Although the common pink form has always been one of the top ten rockery plants, this new variety has much improved, deepest purplish-red flowers. Additionally, its slowly low-spreading carpet of succulent plum-coloured leaves is always attractive. ... Learn More

An absolutely mind-blowing selection of dark-foliaged plants for sunny, dry locations. Numerous strong, shortish semi-upright stems produce masses of flowers from pink to deepest crimson, from late summer through to autumn. But the foliage demonstrates its most crowning glory, and it varies from mahogany to almost jet black, and none of the seedlings should disappoint you. The flowers attract honey bees and butterflies, and like other sedums, it is invaluable in rock and dry gardens because, once established, it thrives without irrigation. And if you are curious about the cultivar name..... ... Learn More

Another very rare sedum, with five-petalled, greenish, cup-shaped flowers on smooth, hairless leaves, borne upon purplish stems. It is found in Eastern Siberia, China, Japan and Korea, amongst shady rocks and in woods where it flowers from July to September. It is easily grown in full sun to partly shaded sites in a well drained soil. ... Learn More

This rare plant, that grows up to 13,000 feet in the Himalayas, rises later in the spring than most perennials, but then it spreads out its basal leaves forming tiered mats of fine, lacy, fern-like foliage. During late summer the flower buds emerge, each flower head becoming a plateau consisting of thousands of tiny flowers, the intricate flower heads being perfect circles composed of even smaller circles. E A Bowles called it "The queen of all umbellifers, with its almost transparent tender greenness, and the marvellous lacy pattern of its large leaves, it is the most beautiful of all fern- ... Learn More

This delightful and graceful plant forms a mound or tuft of finely divided, ferny-looking leaves, bearing upright stems with graceful nodding flowers in shades of deep violet to wine purple during late spring and early summer. A rare plant, native to open woodlands in China, it is a very close cousin to the normal aquilegias differing in that the flowers lack the usual spurs at the back. This is a superb plant for edging, in the rock garden or bright woodland. ... Learn More

This absolutely amazing succulent shrub is endemic to the Canary Islands, where it evolved, over millions of years, into this quite unique plant with thick, contorted, sausage-like branches, forming a rounded dome. The bare, multi-branching stems are tipped with clumps of leathery, narrow, grey-green leaves which have clumps of attractive creamy flowers on them in late winter and early spring. These finally turn into sizeable globular seed heads, resembling snowballs, at the end of each stem adding to its year-long attraction. What more can a plant provide! In the wild It is found in dry coast ... Learn More

A long-flowering dazzler discovered on the mountains of South Africa. Numerous erect stems produce an everlasting display of carmine rose flowers from early spring until the autumn frosts. ... Learn More

Native to the high rocky mountain slopes of Russia, Georgia and Turkey, (its name means 'of the rocks') this tough and most attractive hardy plant opens its sizeable, pure white inflorescences, atop thick, rubbery, greyish basal foliage which is most attractively lobed and divided. Rare and possibly not in cultivation, but should be. It is protected in the wild, and on The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species, although local people have traditionally extracted the Essential Oils which are obtained by hydrodistillation! In a well-drained spot it m ... Learn More