60-80cm. Sun or shade. Dark glossy foliage in tight rosettes. Yellowish-green flower-bracts spring to summer. Spreads so needs careful positioning.
The Edwardian garden designer Gertrude Jekyll described this sun-loving, evergreen shrub as 'one of the grandest of all plants', Euphorbia characias subsp Wulfenii is the perfect plant to create structure throughout the year in the perennial border. This handsome...
From seed collected in the early 1990s by Chadwell and McKelvie (Nepal and West Himalaya) 1.5m Forms a large clump of many stems. Each stem is 'crowned' with greenish-yellow flower bracts. Great grown with rhododendrons as it flowers when they are finished showing up nicely...
This hybrid appeared in my garden two years ago thanks to the birds and bees. The lemon flower bracts of E. cognata have been replaced with the orange shade of E griffithii that was growing alongside. Growing to just over a metre it appears to have retained the habit of E....
This is one of several excellent selections of Spurge, becoming increasingly popular in gardens. Plants form a mound of stunning burgundy-purple foliage, bearing small clusters of greenish-yellow flowers, flushed with purple in spring and early summer. Clip plants back...
Similar to the well known garden var known as E. polychroma. This selection has bright more golden bacts which I am rather fond of. Other than the colour of the bract I find it identical to the species. In the autumn the foliage has lovely autumn tones.
Synonyms Euphorbia polychroma Euphorbia villosa Friv. ex Boiss. Dark green, lance-shaped leaves are topped with a froth of bright, acid yellow spring flowers that form a distinctive star shape. Looks lovely as part of a green and yellow planting. In autumn the foliage turns a...
900mm Heads of brick-red over a mass of lovely tinted foliage. Sun or partial shade. A few available.
1.5m Good ground cover. Lovely but be warned it spreads but in large plantings it looks magnificent. Rich red flowers atop dark plum red leaves and stem.
"A variety similar to 'Dixter' but lighter coloured foliage. Grows slightly taller than 'Dixter' with dark orange floral leaves. The colour is not as bright as 'Fireglow' but distinct from 'Dixter'." This description is from a book on euphorbia which explains it easier than I...
A great feature plant, not often seen. Give it a well-drained soil. Grows into a large, shrub-like plant with smooth green stems, topped with whorls of long narrow, acid-green leaves, each striped with a central white vein.In spring these carry round heads of brown flowers,...
Actually a small shrub to approx 30cm with masses of small yellow flowers. Likes a dry sunny position. Fantastic plants of this can be seen in the Dunedin Botanic Gardens Rock Garden.
Now a extremely rare shrub now found only in the Azores Islands where it is almost extinct. Attractive distinctively white-veined, leathery green leaves and large yellow flower heads which are strongly honey-scented in spring and summer. It is said to grow taller than E....
