An easy to grow Snapdragon for beds and borders, performing well in full sun or semi-shade. With distinctive contrasting bi-colour, purple-red and white flowers (a colour way that is often referred to as a 'silver bi-colour'), the flower spikes are softly fragrant, long-lasting and make a great cut flower option. ... Learn More

A. majus "maximum mix" of the fullest, most colourful selection of double snapdragons you can buy. They are half-hardy herbaceous perennials, but usually grown as an annual. Plants grow up to 90cm high, with green lance-shaped leaves, and flower from summer to autumn. ... Learn More

This classy snapdragon is actually a small shrub, with grey, softly hairy leaves and quite large flowers, either white or pink with some yellow colouring in the throat. It seeds itself freely but is very liable to hybridize with A. majus forms or with other species, the hybrids being more upright. Comes from Eastern and central Pyrenees ... Learn More

These "snapdragon" flowers have parallel purple streaks and stripes, whilst the lower lip has a yellow palate. They give off a strong sweet fragrance which is most attractive to pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies. The stems of this flowing plant are erect and freely branched, often with tufts of narrow leaves growing directly from the stem. ... Learn More

Branching stems, arising above delicate blue green maidenhair foliage, are heavily festooned with diaphanous blue and white flowers. This dwarf treasure was originally collected on Mount Olympus by Joseph Halda. ... Learn More

Dark purple to black flowers with unusually prominent yellow stamens open from May to August. This lovely, long-lived, true alpine species, grows in high rocky places, sometimes in limestone areas, but makes a superb garden plant. ... Learn More

One of the very smallest and rarest of this lovely group of plants, this tiny delight bears short stems carrying disproportionately large, ink-blue flowers, above prostrate, miniature, rubbery, blue-grey leaves. ... Learn More

This dwarf plant features bi-coloured flowers of dusky plum-purple and soft creamy yellow, over a mound of ferny light-green foliage. Perfect for the rock garden, for the border's edge or even in containers and troughs. Columbines have been grown in gardens for centuries, and in warmer countries hummingbirds will often drop in to sip nectar from the flowers. ... Learn More

An elegant and beautiful plant carrying sprays of deep red-spurred, lemon-yellow flowers. The bright cloud of blooms atop a patch of these is an unforgettable sight. ... Learn More

Large, flared, outward-facing pink flowers, almost identical to those of a clematis, are held proudly facing outwards on our most admired aquilegia. We have heard visitors disputing that these lovely plants were in fact aquilegias. ... Learn More

Dividing sprays of bright blue, centred by bunches of golden anthers, resemble nothing so much as flared clematis flowers! These lovely plants improve yearly, dying down underground safely each autumn. ... Learn More

This choice selection is from the range in our catalogue plus other colours and forms collected from our cottage garden. Gently scatter very, very thinly, where you would like to see them flower and they will reward you with a lovely swathe of colour. ... Learn More

One of the smallest of all aquilegias with elegant blue and cream flowers on tiny stems above delicate rosettes of finely cut leaves. A bone hardy and exquisite dwarf plant. ... Learn More

This pretty little alpine aquilegia comes in the most delicate shade of blue with slightly rounded outer petals. Best grown on a scree or rockery where it cannot be overshadowed by larger plants or even in a container. ... Learn More

This outstanding dwarf aquilegia from Japan bears disproportionately large, ivory-white flowers on short dividing stems, all carried just above thick blue-green leaves. It is a very hardy and long-lived plant ... Learn More