Dense, green rosettes are covered with white stemless flowers in spring. This good grower is one of the very choicest alpines and a frequent show-winner. It is a very rare plant in nature, being found only on a few of the highest peaks of the central Apennines. ... Learn More

This robust and easily grown plant forms cushioned tufts made of large rosettes of spoon-shaped leaves fringed by fine hairs, and short downy stems carrying from one to six white or rosy flowers with a yellow eye. It grows at over 1600m in the Alps and Carpathians. ... Learn More

This delightful dwarf member of the primrose family, also called the pygmy flower or rock jasmine, grows high on the the Fell Fields of California, where it produces small rosettes of crinkled leaves from which arise thin stems carrying small yellow-eyed, creamy white flowers. ... Learn More

Androsace strigillosa has neat rosettes of small leaves in winter, and much larger leaves in summer. It has upright stems with a loose umbel of a few flowers, white when they are open. But what makes this highly sought after is the reverse of the petals, seen also in bud, which is a deep, dusky pink, outlined with white. It has grown well outside for many years, eventually making a wide clump. A variable species forming loose clumps or hummocks depending on altitude. Central Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan) above 2500m in light woodland and among scrub, smaller forms higher up in alpine meadows ... Learn More

This desirable plant forms small tufts of rosettes covered in long, silvery, silky hairs making a quite solid cushion. The fragrant flowers, borne in early summer, are white with a yellow eye when they first open but then gradually turn pink, and can quite cover the entire face of the cushion when in full bloom. ... Learn More

A beautiful, long-lived plant bearing golden-eyed, creamy-white flowers in spring and early summer on shortish stems holding jaggedly bisected leaves. It grows, predictably, on Mount Baldo in Italy! ... Learn More

This is one of the easiest and long-lived of the clump-forming Anemones which improves with age, bearing dense sprays of white waxy-petalled flowers with a blue reverse. An exceptionally beautiful flower from China. ... Learn More

Anemone rivularis, commonly known as 'riverside windflower', is a clump forming perennial. The white saucer shaped flowers, tinged with blue on the reverse and indigo in the middle are borne on erect, branched stems in late spring and early summer. ... Learn More

This lovely Chinese species gives a valuable late summer and autumn display of large rose pink flowers in profuse clusters on long stalks, which make perfect cut flowers. Clouds of decorative woolly seed pods remain on the plant until shredded by the winter storms. ... Learn More

Beautiful pink, semi-double flowers are balanced on well-branched deep red stems above a clump of mid-green vine-shaped leaves. An ideal plant for smaller gardens, it is easy to grow once established when the plants will spread to form a patch in a rich moist site. Shorter than many other anemone cultivars, it works well in smaller gardens or towards the middle of a border, and flowers from late summer well into autumn. Plants grown from these seeds may give a variety of forms and colours. Winner of a Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (1997). ... Learn More

A stunning Japanese treasure. Above the mid green leaves arise airy sprays of impossibly beautiful nodding flowers. Seemingly carved from wax, like pendent water-lilies, each displays a wondrous double circle of petals, the outer one an almost pure ivory white, whilst the centre is purplish-blue. Totally hardy, these fabulous plants will excel in shade and well-prepared organic soil. Very few good seeds collected. ... Learn More

From Japan comes this unusual, rather small distinctive plant which in earliest spring carries the most deeply slashed and divided leaves of any angelica. In late spring open dense sprays of tiny white flowers. ... Learn More

This seed has been collected from plants which were grown from seed of the true wild "Norwegian Angelica", growing on the shoreline in northern Norway, 200 miles inside the Arctic circle, where temperatures plunge to below minus 40C in the cold dark winters. This form makes basal rosettes of divided leathery leaves, above which appear in summer, stocky stems holding globular balls of greenish-white flowers. Later appear the very distinctive, spherical, congested heads of large fragrant seeds. It may be used either as a culinary herb or a striking garden plant! ... Learn More

A striking specimen, very much like Angelica hispanica, but larger overall, bearing impressive, thick, glossy ternate leaves. Enormous sprays of yellow-green flower heads appear in early summer. ... Learn More

Angelica sylvestris, a short-lived perennial native to Europe and central Asia, including the UK. As part of the carrot family, Apiaceae, it has beautiful umbelliferous flowers that are attractive to many pollinating insects such as bees, beetles and hoverflies. This robust plant is tolerant of a wide range of growing conditions from full sun to partial shade. ... Learn More