100cm x 15cmThis aconitum was given to me by a gardener in Western Southland 30years ago. It's ID was not known to him. The closest I have come up with is A. carmichaellii which is an autumn flowerer but my plant flowers mid summer and is the first aconitum to flower for me....
A hybrid between A. cupiana and A. tinctoria. Creamy single daisies with primrose yellow centres. The foliage is a silver filigree of ferny foliage. Great for massing as a weed smotherer. Flowers from late spring. If the plant becomes untidy a severe chop-back will be soon...
This hardy daisies is among the best choice for summer-long colour in the sunny border. Plants form a mound of ferny green leaves, bearing branches of daisy flowers through the summer months. This selection has pale sulphur yellow flowers that blend with nearly anything....
False Dittany. 50 x 50cm. Very drought resistant making a shrubby evergreen mound. The foliage is grey-green, very hairy and soft. The flowers are small and insignificant. Needs good drainage but thrives in poor soils. If plants become leggy cut back hard in the spring.
A medium sized,fast growing upright shrub growing to 2m with handsome, emerald-green, pointed leaves. In midsummer the orange, ball-shaped flower clusters appear, carried on branched stems contrasting with the leaves, creating an eye-catching display at the back of a border....
Overdam is a compact tufted grass forming a clump of narrow variegated white and green leaves. The sprays of flowers have an airy purplish tinge. Plant turns pale brown for winter.
A clump forming perennial grass with flat green leaves to 90cm and bronze flowering panicles that fade to pale brown. One of the best grasses.
Centranthus ruber is a woody-based perennial, with grey-green leaves and dense clusters of pink, slightly fragrant flowers from late spring to autumn.
70cm. Emily McKenzie has large deep orange with a mahogany throat. Flowering late summer. A great cut flower. The foliage (as with all Crocosmia) is best left on the plant until spring) PB2
1m A superb crocosmia with apricot/yellow flowers. Long lasting in late summer. Foliage iris-like PB2
Eye catching, brilliant orange-red tubular flowers atop 1m stems in February. The leaves are mid-green. PB2
Tall growing to 60cm x 20cm spread. Forms clumps of grassy foliage flowering throughout the summer and into autumn. Full sun and dry. Great planted with ornamental grasses.
The apple green ferny foliage emerges from a rhizomatous rootstock making a lovely ground cover in woodland conditions.The nodding panicles of pure white hanging flowers are held above this foliage and looks best in partial shade. The plant will tolerate some dryness, but as...
Forms grassy clumps with large, pendulous rich pink bells draped along the length of arching flower stems ,growing to only 30cm tall Rarely seen.
This foxglove has the typical tall spikes of large flowers in an unusual strawberry shade. Grow in moist but well-drained soil in partial shade.
1.5m. An unusual colour of soft apricot-pink with a pale spotted throat. Flowers early-mid summer. Large rosettes of soft green foliage. Full sun to part shade. Photo thanks to HPS UK
100 x 50cm Full sun. Clump forming with mid summer flowering of steel-blue flowers which keep their colour when dried. Rounded basal foliage. As yet unflowered with me. Photo credit Hardy Plant Society UK
Geum coccineum, (true form)is a clump-forming perennial which typically forms a basal foliage mound of green leaves with very large terminal leaflets collected by Archibald in the Himalayas many years ago (c1994.) In late spring, erect, wiry, branching flowering stems of 5...
A graceful dwarf growing iris best in semi-shade and moist soils. 25-30cm Flowers lilac/mauve pink. Good sized plants.
No idea as to it name as given to me by a friend just as a shasta daisy! Grows to approx 50cm with good strong stems and a lovely frilly flowerhead.
This form of Maltese Cross has dusky pink flowers - a bit more subtle than the normal orange form. Clumps and upright stems to 75cm.
Maltese Cross. The flowers are cross-shaped as known since the Crusades. Orange-scarlet flowers arranged in dense flat heads on tall stiff stems to 1m make a bold statement especially when planted among blue or purple flowered companion plants. Needs full sun with a...
The green foliage is broadly marked with cream. The new foliage shows a strong pink colouring which fades away as the season passes. Yellow flowers. With us it prefers a cool or shaded position.
Persicaria 'Red Dragon' is an unusual herbaceous plant, grown for its foliage rather than flowers. Each leaf is sharply pointed, with maroon and green patterning and a pale white margin. It quickly develops into a handsome, upright clump. It is tolerant of a range of soils and...
