A worthy recipient of the R.H.S. Award of Garden Merit. Numerous thick massed stems with veined rubbery leaves, and terminating in compound golden yellow florets, radiate in every direction producing a dome reaching almost to the ground. ... Learn More

Sprouting stems carry dazzling red leaves in earliest spring. Later they elongate before producing glorious yellow flower heads, when the leathery leaves retain the superbly contrasting blood red veining. Finally, in October, the leaves fall, leaving bright red, electric flex cane-like stems. A very high value plant for all seasons! ... Learn More

Visualise a red-stemmed golden-flowered compact gypsophila and you will be close to describing this outstanding new introduction. This plant has an exciting future - both as a garden plant and cut flower. ... Learn More

An extremely rare shrub now found only in the Azores Islands where it is almost extinct. This extremely attractive plant has distinctively white-veined, leathery green leaves and large yellow flower heads which are strongly honey-scented in spring and summer. ... Learn More

A striking and completely new plant we obtained under this name from Eastern Europe. Stout radiating stems form a sizeable dome smothered with golden flowers in early and mid-summer. Very hardy and totally perennial! ... Learn More

A rare and narrow-leaved form of this hard member of the pineapple family collected from the southern Chilean Andes. In autumn the centre of the large rosette of leaves turns flaming red around the central golf-ball like cluster of egg-shell blue flower buds. ... Learn More

This superb and spectacular giant from the Mediterranean has dark green leaves, divided many times into delicate, feathery segments. The enormous flower-heads contain countless tiny, bright yellow flowers in early summer. It makes an enormous hardy tuber in time, and can make a spectacular addition to a wild garden, border, shrubbery or on a pool margin. ... Learn More

This striking plant produces several, tall, strong, impressive, almost bamboo-like, repeatedly dividing stems, carrying large umbels of bright yellow flowers, much loved by butterflies and bees. These later transform into architectural sprays of exceptionally attractive, very large, flat, golden seeds making this a superb specimen plant. ... Learn More

A charming dwarf plant for the front border or rockery with grey-green leaves and short stems holding sprays of yellow flowers which transform into attractive, hard, bladder-like seed pots, rather like small eggs clustered up the stems. ... Learn More

Silver-grey foliage and stems supporting the masses of lemon yellow flowers make this rather unusual crucifer quite a curiosity. It is supposedly a perennial, but is best treated as either an annual or biennial. ... Learn More

"Meadowsweet" is one of the most attractive spring and summer flowers, bearing white fluffy sprays of flowers on strong stems which bear jagged-edged, corrugated leaves. Both the flowers and leaves, if bruised, have a pleasant and quite pronounced 'antiseptic' fragrance, very like "Savlon" cream. ... Learn More

The golden-leaved form of the beautiful " Meadowsweet" is an asset for any garden. Sprays of attractive, fluffy white flowers arise above stems clad in finely divided, canary-yellow leaves. The entire plant, even the leaves when crushed, has a deliciously fragrant, almost antiseptic perfume. ... Learn More

This culinary herb, well known for its fluffy, feathery plumes of soft green leaves, and flat heads of yellow, star like flowers followed by edible seeds, is a highly aromatic and flavourful herb with culinary and medicinal uses. Fennel features prominently in Mediterranean cuisine, where bulbs and fronds are used, both raw and cooked, in side dishes, salads, pastas and vegetable dishes. It is an extremely attractive plant that also performs well in the garden borders being a wonderful attractor of bees and butterflies. ... Learn More

This is the more attractive and too-rarely-seen dark form of fennel, the old herb and cottage garden plant. Massed plumes of feathery purple-bronze aniseed-scented foliage arise bearing large white "cow-parsley" heads. ... Learn More

This graceful plant has crinkled, dark green leaves, and bears from summer into early autumn delicate spikes of bell-shaped, shell-pink flowers, striped and spotted with red lines and spots. These lovely flowers were very popular in the past as pot plants, and indeed make lovely cut flowers. ... Learn More