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

Bring colour to your winter garden.... Includes: Atriplex hortensis var. rubra, Agastache foeniculum 'Golden Jubilee', Geranium pratense 'Purple-Haze', Haloragis erecta 'Wellington Bronze', Heuchera 'Metallica', Arum italicum Pictum, Aquilegia vulgaris 'Alchemist's Gold', Ligularia dentata (clivorum) 'Desdemona', Anthriscus sylvestris 'Golden Fleece' and Plantago major Rubrifolia. ... Learn More

Always the most popular colour. Includes: Campanula lactiflora 'Prichard's Variety', Echium 'Blue Steeple', Geranium 'Purple-Haze', Agapanthus 'Headbourne Hybrids', Libertia caerulescens, Aristea ecklonii, Meconopsis 'Lingholm', Nepeta parnassica, Veronica grandis and Aquilegia vulgaris 'Blue Flamingo'. ... Learn More

This delightful and graceful plant forms a mound or tuft of finely divided, ferny-looking leaves, bearing upright stems with graceful nodding flowers in shades of deep violet to wine purple during late spring and early summer. A rare plant, native to open woodlands in China, it is a very close cousin to the normal aquilegias differing in that the flowers lack the usual spurs at the back. This is a superb plant for edging, in the rock garden or bright woodland. ... Learn More

Possibly the most delicate and beautiful of all thalictrums, this rare but quite hardy plant has aquilegia-like foliage with heads consisting of masses of white, waxy, buttercup-like flowers, with prominent bright yellow stamens. It is found in small local areas on garrique in southern Spain and along the Mediterranean coast. In our gardens visitors sometimes mistake these plants for tall anemones, to which they are quite closely related. Very few good seeds collected. ... Learn More