Unusually attractive much-divided variegated foliage, holds strong stems carrying masses of bright, metallic, purple-blue flowers. A bone-hardy and fabulous plant. ... Learn More

Numerous greenish-white flowers open in compound stems on stiffly-branching stems. The pale green leaves are sword-shaped, arching and produced in rosettes, the leaf margins being set with many bristle-like teeth. Long-flowering and ideal as a cut flower, it is totally hardy and exceedingly tough growing in dry sun or part shade. ... Learn More

A quite different variation over the very old favourite "Miss Wilmott's Ghost", having a much broader, rather than columnar habit and much larger bracted glorious lime green flowers in early summer. Later, the "flowers" develop a shining silvery hue, appearing a full month after "Miss Wilmott", just barely managing to ripen in the autumn garden. This valuable discovery was brought back from Turkey by plant hunter Martyn Rix, where it was located in beech/pine forest near Trabzon. ... Learn More

One of the most impressive summer plants you can grow in the UK, with unbelievable metallic silvery-blue leaves, flowers and stems. The word gigantea refers to the flowers, not the plants which are rarely more than 0.6 metres high. So named, as famous gardener, Miss Wilmott, used to walk around friends' gardens secretly scattering the seeds from her pocket. Surprisingly, and totally unexpectedly (so please remember this...), they come up the first year with soft green leaves, nothing at all like the final plant. They later die down to a hardy tuber to overwinter. But, surprise, surprise....the ... Learn More

This eryngium is a broader, more compact, and in all ways most superior form of Miss Wilmott's Ghost. It is most desirable in the garden where it holds its silvery colour longer, also making a most attractive cut flower which dries and retains its sheen well. Surprisingly, and totally unexpectedly (IMPORTANT please remember this...), they come up the first year with soft green leaves, nothing at all like the final plant. They then later die down to a hardy tuber to overwinter. But, surprise, surprise....the following year erupts the fabulous metallic, silver-grey familiar foliage, followed by ... Learn More

An inappropriate, even horrid, name for a lovely garden worthy plant. Long thin pineapple-like leaves edged with evenly spaced soft thread-like spines. Numerous green and white spherical flowers in attractive bunches are held atop branching stems. ... Learn More

The most amazing deep Magenta flowers appear on top 3ft high plants with multiple heads over sharp serrated and divided leaves. Eryngiums love hot dry conditions in full sun. ... Learn More

A large packet taken from all of those described here, as well as some unidentified species in our trial ground. ... Learn More

This is the most metallic blue of all "sea holly" flowers. Heart-shaped leathery leaves surround these exotic blooms which make superb cut flowers, and when dried out, retain their colour indefinitely. ... Learn More

This superb new variety has a quite amazing dwarf and compact stature. It produces diminutive, prostrate basal rosettes from which emerge silver-blue stems that form themselves into a large, globular flower-head containing hundreds of metallic-blue flowers. A bone hardy and valuable introduction to gardens. ... Learn More

A high altitude collection from our 1994 Chile trip, collected at 6,000ft on Volcano Antuco (RB94054). Has flourished here for many years. Massed heads of spiky, greeny-white grape-sized flowers on strong stalks above pineapple-like saw-toothed rosettes. ... Learn More

Superlative evergreen, beautifully variegated and marbled, waxy green rosettes, produce branching angular sprays of spiky silvery-blue flowers. From the Atlas Mountains of Africa comes this low growing, very long-lived, completely hardy, loveliest of the eryngiums. ... Learn More

Eryngium yuccifolium, commonly known as Rattlesnake Master, is a distinctive perennial plant that adds a unique architectural element to prairie landscapes. As a member of the Apiaceae family, this native North American species showcases linear, strap-like leaves arranged in a rosette formation, reminiscent of yucca plants. These leaves, which can reach lengths of up to 2 feet (60 cm), contribute to the plant's bold and structural presence. The foliage, tough and leathery, is an adaptation to the harsh conditions of its native prairie habitat. The flower heads of Eryngium yuccifolium are intri ... Learn More

This very hardy alpine is much like a dwarf form of our familiar wallflower, bearing narrow, dark green leaves with golden-yellow clusters of fragrant flowers with a long flowering period starting in early spring, till late summer. Hardy to -12°C it is ideal for rockeries and front-of-border positions, or even may be used in containers to add colour to early spring planting. ... Learn More

This incredible selection of incredibly diverse perennial erysimum (shrubby wallflower) seeds has never before been offered anywhere. We have been breeding unusual wallflowers for very many years, and a good number of our best seedlings have been protected and sold in large numbers worldwide. The original parent stock we used for breeding purposes varied from tiny alpines. through the conventional commercial colour range of biennial wallflowers, right up to large shrubby species. Enormous beds of mixed forms were grown to permit the bees to do much of the pollinating. Plants varied enormously ... Learn More