Purple-lilac flowers with violet-striped white throats, and unusually pronounced splayed and pointed lips, open on one of the showiest of all penstemons. This rare plant is rich-flowering, and will self-sow in naturalized conditions, making it perfect for planting on well-drained soils and hillsides. As with all penstemons, butterflies and bees are regular visitors. In the wild it is native to the rocky slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains. And contrary to its name, the gorgeous flowers are definitely not small....but it was originally discovered by a Mr. Small! ... Learn More

A wide selection from this increasingly popular group of plants, including both rockery and border varieties, e.g. Penstemon spp. cardinalis, fruticosus, procerus, serrulatus, montanus, ovatus, venustus, virens and many more. Flowering all summer long, once established, these lovely plants will thrive in low fertil­ity soil with little summer water and are a superb choice for dry gardens. The spikes of hooded, tubular flowers come in all colours, and whether for borders, rockeries, bedding or patio containers, they are real winners. ... Learn More

A new and completely hardy, long-flowering plant, which produces from early summer into late autumn a seemingly endless succession of white throated, bright red flowers. ... Learn More

A tall and impressive plant, this vigorous specimen produces a tall spike of ivory-white tube-shaped flowers in late spring, which will add a splash of colour to the perennial border when little else is flowering. It dies back each autumn to a rhizomatous rootstock allowing it to survive the most severe winters. In the wild it grows in central USA and is found as far north as Canada. Early season butterflies will find this beauty irresistible! ... Learn More

This sizeable spreading shrub, with few or no basal leaves, sports strong stems carrying long, upward-facing flowers, which are bright blue to lavender-blue, sometimes with white hairs on the floor of the tubular blossom. In the wild in the USA this plant grows on dry rocky slopes at high elevations. Few scarce seeds collected. ... Learn More

This is the stunning white-flowered form of this sizeable spreading shrub, with few or no basal leaves, sports strong stems carrying long, upward-facing ivory-white flowers, sometimes with white hairs on the floor of the tubular blossom. In the wild in the USA this plant grows on dry rocky slopes at high elevations. ... Learn More

A medium stature penstemon bearing attractive mauve flowers on relatively short stems in mid summer. ... Learn More

A rare and choice low branching plant, spectacular with its colourful foliage, leaves being variegated with cream and green, with a strong V-shaped marking which is brick-red when fresh, but darkens to blackish-brown. Airy deep-pink spikes of delightfully graceful flowers appear in the autumn. A proportion of seedlings will revert to other patterns and colour schemes, so select the brightest. ... Learn More

This easy, but surprisingly uncommon plant, has a basal rosette of blue-grey leaves, from which arise branching, leafy stems. At the end of each division open frilly, white or pale pink flowers, which are ideal for a rock garden, raised bed or even a container. ... Learn More

This delightful, bone hardy, extremely dwarf shrub is native mainly to California and is confined to rocks and crevices in the mountains of the interior of western North America. It displays its evergreen blue-green tufts, and attractive, small bottle brush-like white flowers in summer and does well in sun or part shade in very sharply drained soil. In cultivation it will do well in trough, crevice garden or scree bed and will make a good pan for an alpine show. ... Learn More

This bone-hardy plant, surprisingly in the rose family, makes attractive creamy sprays of bottle brush-flowers which open from pink buds. It is a clumpy, mat-forming perennial herb growing in cracks and crevices in riverside cliffs in the state of Washington. ... Learn More

The "Tunic Flower" is a low-growing alpine or rock garden plant, which forms a mound of fresh-green leaves, bearing a cloud of tiny white or pale pink flowers beginning in early summer, and continuing for weeks. It is excellent as an edging plant, or growing in the cracks of rock walls where plants will self seed prolifically, unless faded flowers are trimmed off. This species is an excellent choice for summer colour in the rock garden where it will stay evergreen in mild winter areas ... Learn More

This rare monotypic plant, in a genus all on its own, is related to Laburnum, differing primarily in the upright racemes of beautiful fragrant yellow flowers. It prefers a sheltered well-drained site and when in full bloom is gorgeous and will defy all comers to name it! Few seeds collected. ... Learn More

An extremely rare plant only recently having been "re-discovered" after being thought to be extinct in the wild. This gorgeous, heavenly scented, almost constant-flowering plant forms a strong, vigorous, hemispherical mound of snow-white blooms. It can, if desired, also tastefully twirl itself around taller neighbours, even turning into a climber at times! One of the world's most fragrant flowers, at night it comes into its own when it produces copious quantities of vanilla & liquorice perfume! In the right conditions it is a true perennial plant, and one of the ancestors of modern Petunias, ... Learn More

Countless star-shaped lipstick-red flowers open over a very long season into late autumn on bushy, spreading plants. A new and very rare flower, it was only discovered as recently as 2007 in the remote jungles of Brazil. When grown as a container plant in a sheltered spot, or even better in a conservatory, it is a true perennial and will continue opening its buds right through the winter making a dazzling display on a solid compact plant. This gorgeous species was under threat of extinction, with just 14 wild plants left in its native country. ... Learn More