Far Too Many Plants

  Ribes speciosum A classic with its rich red somewhat fuchsia-like flowers dangling all along the undersides of the stems in spring. The leaves are gooseberry-like and fresh green and the r...

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FUCHSIA REGIA GREY LEAF   Grown from AGS exchange seed as regia - the overall effect (semi-climbing) and the elegant flowers are typical regia, but the leaves are narrower and often somewhat...

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The nearest we come to a hardy pepper plant. In all respects typical of the genus – a climber with nicely veined heart-shaped matt green leathery leaves to about 3ins across. I’ve not seen ...

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One of the southern US swamp mallows, related to the spectacular coccineum and moscheutos, but requiring less summer heat to grow and flower outdoors. Suitable for pond margins and swampy cond...

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Until a few years ago I'd been a bit prejudiced against the sunflower group because many have them are rather weedy and coarse, albeit bringing a cheerful splash of bright yellow to the late s...

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A DESERVEDLY POPULAR GENUS NOWADAYS - ESPECIALLY VALUABLE FOR THEIR  LATE FLOWERING AND TOLERANCE OF DRY SHADE. STROBILANTHES SP. LARGE LEAF SP. (YUNNAN COL. JACKY POUSSE) A stonking gre...

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A houseplant related to the ever-popular Tradescantias, and very like a small version of those, with deep maroon foliage and small white flowers.  Easy and manageable (not weedy) in a sunny ...

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Aka Wendtia gracilis - known locally as the 'oreganillo amarillo'. This is a very special small shrub from Chile belonging to the ledocarpaceae, related to Melianthus and Francoa, but looking not...

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An African species related to the better known I.tinctoria. Overall it is smaller and has deep flesh pink flowers.  My experience of it here is that it is hardy and not difficult to grow ...

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An excellent and choice hardy prickly pear with pads about 6-8ins across and forming a solid small shrub quite quickly. The fine evenly spaced yellowish areoles on a sea green background make ...

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A very lovely neat perennial forget-me-not relative, with clear blue flowers in spring, and smart narrow foliage.  Seeds about a little but not at all weedy or coarse. Likes a well-drained s...

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An excellent form of this hardy ginger which produces orchid like blossoms directly from the ground in spring and then the standard upright leafy stems afterwards. Crûg's Zing differs from ot...

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A relatively small pink-flowered winter flowering species from Japan.  The leaves are rounded and somewhat glaucous.  Hardy and adaptable. £16

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Soft pink flowers in dangling clusters among soft green foliage any time from autumn to spring in its native California, where it is important for nectar for birds and insects.  Not the m...

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A popular creeping dwarf shrub with bell-shaped white flowers in late spring.  Easy and hardy £12

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An amazing large herbaceous perennial from Crete with luxuriant pinnate fresh green leaves on tall arching stems to 7 or 8 ft. The small green flowers appear in long tassels at the ends.  ...

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Our classic native Sea Kale (seed collected locally, on Shoreham Beach by the way) with phenomenal big waxy wavy pale grey leaves and chunky heads of honey-scented white flowers.  The new...

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A compact and hardy South African species with very striking narrow foliage - the undersides and stems being soft and white, contrasting with the deeply veined green upper surfaces.  The flo...

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One of many new hardy Begonias on the market now. This one is a relatively understated species - unusual for its symmetrical leaves and the petiole being attached to the middle, not the edge of...

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A simple understated species with perfectly formed white Anemone flowers on upright leafy stems up to about 40cms tall in early summer.  This species runs underground which makes it a proble...

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A relatively compact species not more than about 40cms across but with the same characteristic blue-grey foliage and black spines of the larger species. Also this is fairly much fully hardy ov...

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The Asian fringe tree. Similar to the more familiar American species – with the same masses of narrow-petalled white flowers, but with smaller, more leathery rounded leaves, plus blue fruits ...

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A new species for UK gardeners as far as I know – a possibly hardy shrubby member of the apocynaceae from southern China reminiscent of oleander but with beautiful richly tinted long oval lea...

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I have a few pieces to spare of this very rarely offered plant. There's some confusion about the name but either way it's a lovely species. I've found it easy to grow in a leafy shady spot an...

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"Of botanical interest" is a phrase you come across sometimes in catalogues for plants of no obvious ornamental merit. Botanical gardens and other collectors might be interested. I grew them from...

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