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...
Bonaparte's crown. E. cyparissias is a vigorously spreading rhizomatous perennial with erect stems to 40cm tall, bearing very narrow blue-green leaves, and bright lemon-green flowers in late spring and early summer. This plant needs to be placed carefully because of its...
Red foliage in early spring maturing to green with a yellow vein. Long flowering yellow inflorescence in summer. 1m clump forming PB2
I recieved this euphorbia many years ago as E. brittingeri, but it now appears to be known as flavicoma. Related to epithymoides. 20-30 cm. The floral leaves are lime-yellow and are produced from late October and continue for at least four months. It self seeds making an...
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.PB2
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,...
