Selected here many years ago, sprays of icing pink pom-poms hover gracefully above the burnished, bright golden foliage. This lovely form looks fabulous as a massed planting and is completely trouble-free, improving yearly. ... Learn More

Sprays of dark blue flowers gently brushed paler around the edge of each petal, adorn this rare columbine in spring and early summer, above a compact display of blue-green, basal 'maidenhair' foliage. We have also been advised that this may be a different species, possibly a form of Aquilegia kuhistanica. ... Learn More

In about 1990 we developed this plant, the world's first golden foliage aquilegia to come almost 100% true from seed with new foliage that appears to glow in a shaded spot. Flowers can range from pure white through shades of pink and reds to many forms of blue and mauve. ... Learn More

This ever-popular old cottage garden plant produces massed heads of very unusual, tightly-compressed green buttons which open into green-cream-purple heavily doubled flowers. Very long-lived and comes reliably true from seed. ... Learn More

This completely new colour range has bicolored flowers in all shade of red, orange and yellow. The occasional 'plum' pops up but adds to the colour scheme! Unlike many aquilegias which give a once-off burst of bloom, these will flower on and on. ... Learn More

This specially selected spurless form produces flowers almost identical to double clematis and in the most deep and rich royal purple. One of the most outstanding new forms we have recently produced. ... Learn More

New aquilegias come around quite rarely. And this lovely, quite compact new flower, which was bred by Jenny Templeman who is one of our customers, and named after her dear mother, has long-spurred golden flowers, most of which are also delicately perfumed. ... Learn More

Dense clouds of puckered deepest blue and white flowers open over a long season, especially if plants are dead-headed. This is one of the most distinctive and best-known of the old fashioned forms and was rescued from obscurity here. ... Learn More

This fast-growing, bone hardy evergreen groundcover can soon spread to form a generous clump of foliage, topped in late spring with open clusters of golden-eyed, lightly scented white flowers. A handsome addition to the alpine bed or rockery, it can also be used to fill crevices in paving, or dry stone walls. It is also a rare native native to the British Isles, where it is only known to occur in a few locations in the Cuillin Ridge of the Isle of Skye. In addition it is native to mountainous areas of Europe, North and East Africa, Central and Eastern Asia and parts of North America. ... Learn More

Pure white funnel-shaped flowers open on branching stems above a carpet of fleshy leaves in earliest spring. An easy-to-grow plant ideal for a rockery in sun or shade. ... Learn More

This very rare, tough, tufted endemic lives only on a few dry hills, high above the rushing Umpqua River on the Pacific coast of Oregon. Cruciform flowers of bright purple open on compact, rounded shrubby domes which cling tenaciously to the rocky outcrops. In 2001, to reduce chances of extinction, researchers grew hundreds of plants in the Berry Botanic Garden greenhouse using seeds collected from the wild. During the autumn rains, researchers battled the slippery slopes and clung to the steep cliffs to place plants and directly sow seeds into appropriate habitat near existing Koehler's rockc ... Learn More

Short white sprays of flowers open in very early spring over a spreading mat of small, thick, slightly rough, rubbery leaves. This tiny plant comes from the European Alps, where it grows amongst rocks and moraines. ... Learn More

This gem is similar to but smaller than Arabis cyprium and has much smaller seeds. We discovered it high in the alpine ski-zone of the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus where it is the earliest by far of all arabis varieties to flower. It comes out with the snowdrops here numerous sprays of delicate pink flowers being produced from January onwards. It is excellent in a pot too! ... Learn More

This tall, bushy plant, a member of the ginseng family from the United States and Canada, has large compound leaves, the leaflets being large and round with long, pointed tips. The white to pale green flowers open from June to August at the joints of the stems before the dark purple berries ripen in large clusters. The large roots are an ingredient of root beer, giving it a liquorice flavour. ... Learn More

In the first year, this rewarding, but sadly becoming-rarer British native flower, makes a large striking rosette of floppy dark green leaves, its strong roots soon dying safely away underground for the winter. The following spring, strong stems bear clusters of large, attractive purple "thistle" flowers, which open from mid summer to autumn. They then produce branches decorated with attractive, cherry-sized hooked burrs, or seed capsules, which are often used by children to throw onto coats and woolly jumpers causing much distress to their parents! The roots are black on the outside, and usua ... Learn More