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The Fragrance of the Past
Gathered here are rare and old varieties of perennial flowers, flowering shrubs and trees, and those old herbs which were treasured at least as much for their beauty as their usefulness. Many have become rare around the world because they were overlooked for gaudier charms, or by-passed by fashion in one century or another. Yet these are the tough ones, the plants that have been tested by time and generations of gardeners, surviving the worst that nature can throw at them. In an era of climate change, these will continue to charm us and loyally fill our lives with their sweet fragrance and beauty. A number are notably drought resistant.
Heirloom flowers are our living link to history. Here you will find flowers treasured by the Romans and Greeks and Romans, grown in medieval gardens, described by Shakespeare, or treasured for magical and medicinal associations. These are the flowers of the great landscapers of the past, and the treasure of the plant hunters of the 19th century.They are also the flowers of discerning gardeners throughout the ages who knew a good plant when they saw one! Do inqure if you are searching for a particular plant. We have many more varieties than we can list. Please note we supply only large plants raised mainly in 150 ml (6 inch) pots, under natural conditions, and fully hardened before sale.
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Abutilon known variously as the Flowering Maple, the Chinese Bellflower or the Chinese Lantern or the Parlour Maple. These shrubs have beautiful pendant Chinese lantern shaped flowers and are also valued for maple leaf-like foliage. From summer to the end of autumn they are alive with honeyeaters at Honeysuckle Cottage.
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Boule de Neige
A. x hybridum
A treasured old variety forming a neat medium shrub with graceful, nodding pure white, lantern-shaped flowers that can develop a faint blush.
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$8.95
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Double Apricot
This is a charming seldom seen variety with masses of small fluffy double lantern flowers in soft apricot nodding from the stems. Around 1.5 m.
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$8.95
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Gold and Crimson A. striatum
A. x hybridum
A delightful shrub with quantities of yellow upside down Chinese lantern flowers, each veined and blushed with crimson, borne over many months on a shrub to 1.5m. Full sun. Tough and reliable
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Variegata
This quite rare old variety has generously pale cream variegated maple-like leaves that create a delightful effect as they flutter in the breeze. The lantern-shaped single flowers are apricot-pink.
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Wisley Red
A. x hybridum
Upside down Chinese lantern flowers in crimson red are borne in great numbers over many months on a soft stemmed shrub to 1.5m. Tough and reliable. Full sun.
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Bears Breeches or Oyster Plant
Acanthus mollis
This handsome architectural perennial grows to around 90 cm with large glossy dark green incised leaves and very tall dense flowering spikes
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$9.50
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Hollard's Gold
A. mollis
This remarkable variety differs from the species in having striking golden foliage, and it is ideal for light shade to mid shade situations.
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$10.50
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Achillea Kiss-Me-Quick or Yarrow. These easy to grow drought resistant perennials have become very popular again as dependable garden standbys. The flowers can be picked fresh or are excellent dried. It was once a custom to carry a flower as it was said to be certain to bring true love and friendship your way. It was named for the Greek hero Achilles who was said to have used the crushed leaves of Milfoil yarrow to staunch the bleeding of his soldiers in battle. The last war in which Achillea was reported to have been officially used to coagulate blood and so staunch bleeding was the American Civil War where it was used in the treatment of sword wounds. Achilleas are very cold resistant, and the flowers of A. millefolium varieties are sweetly fragrant and very attractive to butterflies and beneficial insects. The dried leaves have been used as a tobacco, in brewing beer, and in Biodynamic preparations. Provide plants with full sun and good drainage and add a small handful of dolamite to the soil.
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A. millefolium Lilac Beauty
A gorgeous variety which blends perfectly with pink, lilac, white or cream shrub roses and is the most reliable of perennials for a sunny border. The large flat heads composed of many tiny lilac-pink, sweetly scented flowers that fade gently to lavender pink provide the effect of brocade and are very attractive to butterflies. Flower stems can be a metre high and are excellent as cut flowers. The foliage is handsome, forming foaming rosettes of finely divided leaves.
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Achillea ageratum 'Moonwalker' Sweet Nancy Yarrow, Maudlin, English Mace
Sweet Nancy is an ancient perennial herb treasured for its very sweetly aromatic foliage which retains its scent when dried. It was used to scent water for bathing and in sweet bags to add fragrance to clothing.. The golden flowers are borne in corymbs and the plant reblooms continuously from late spring to late autumn. It thrives in full sun to partial shade in a well drained position.
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Cassis
A. millefolium
Delicious! This new cultivar is a long blooming perennial producing many tall stemmed heads of intense cherry red flowers An award winning cultivar.
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Cloth of Gold (Also known as Parker's Yarrow) A. filipendula
An excellent, easy-to-grow perennial for a sunny position . It forms a clump with aromatic ferny foliage and in summer and autumn the numerous tall stems are topped with large flat heads of densely packed small golden yellow flowers. The flowers are excellent for cutting and drying.
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Debutante A. millefolium
A beautiful variety with long strong flowering stems and handsome very finely divided softly textured ferny foliage. Sweetly fragrant and very attractive to butterflies and beneficial insects.
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Lilac Beauty A. millefolium
A gorgeous variety which blends perfectly with pink, lilac, white or cream shrub roses and is the most reliable of perennials for a sunny border. The large flat heads composed of many tiny lilac-pink, sweetly scented flowers that fade gently to lavender pink provide the effect of brocade and are very attractive to butterflies. Flower stems can be a metre high and are excellent as cut flowers. The foliage is handsome, forming foaming rosettes of finely divided leaves.
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Noblessa A. ptarmica
This newly reeased perennial is a charmer, flowering over a very long period on a compact rounded plant to 30 cm high and 50 cm wide with dainty green foliage. Noblessa literally smothers in fully double purest white small flowers. For a sunny position. Drought and heat tolerant.
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Raw Silk A. millefolium
This rare variety forms a mound of very finely divided soft green foliage fro which emerges number a tall (to around 90 cm) flowering stems each surmounted by a large flat inflorescence composed of dozens of tiny silken cream flowers, the eact shade of raw silk.
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Red Velvet
A stunning variety with large heads of glowing velvety red flowers on tall stems.
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Rich Crimson A. millefolium
This is a particularly reliable perennial with beautiful deep rich crimson flowers in large heads that attract butterflies from far away. Highly reliable.
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Wild White Yarrow A. millefolium
This is the herbal variety of Yarrow but it is also a beautiful white flowered form with scented finely divided deep green foliage. It is a great attractor of butterflies and beneficial insects and it is very drought and cold resistant.
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Agapanthus Lily of the Nile One of the most drought resistant perennials, coming in a range of sizes and colours to suit any garden, and tolerant of a wide range of soils . While they prefer full sun. they will tolerate half shade. Add compost to the soil to get magnificent flowers. These are large plants but flowering begins reliably in the second year.
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A. inapertus Drakensberg Agapanthus or Drooping Agapanthus
Native to the eastern Transvaal of South Africa where it is found growing in rocky mountainous areas, this elegant species has tall stems with flower heads of dark blue pendulous flared tubular flowers.
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Purple Cloud
This stunning distinctive variety is one of the darkest flowering agapanthus varieties with huge heads of deep purple-blue pendulous flowers borne on spectacular tall stems. It blooms from mid-summer to autumn.
Stunning!
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Seaspray
A compact taller growing with large full spherical heads of wide open throated, unusually large white flowers touched with the faintest misty grey. it has a very long flowering period.Foe full sun to half shade.
Drought resistant.
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Agastache Closely related to mints and bergamots, this genus has only become more widely known in Australia in recent times. These very ornamental perennials have delicious leaf scents, are very attractive to honeyeaters, and are drought resistant.
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Apache Sunset A. rupestris var.
So well named, this heavy blooming perennial variety has all the richness of sunset in its flowers which vary from peach to rose, perfectly offset by the silvered elegant foliage. The entire plant smells deliciously of old'fashioned home-brewed root beer. Butterflies and hummingbirds adore it.
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Apricot Sprite A.aurantica cv.
This is a selected form of the Orange Hummingbird Mint. The mint fragrant grey green foliage of this compact perennial is a perfect foil for the many slender spikes of rich apricot, tubulara flowers which are highly attractive to honeyeaters and butterflies. It has good drought and cold hardiness once established, and needs a sunny well drained site.
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Astello Indigo Agastache x hybrida
What a delicious fragrance combination to delight the senses! The prolific showy deepest blue long flower spikes are scented of sweet mint while the very healthy foliage is redolent of root beer! It grows to around 50 cm high, adapts very well to life in a large pot if space is a problem and it has good winter hardiness.
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Bolero Agastache x cana
A well branched hardy perennial to 45 cm high with fragrant foliage and abundant long dense spikes of brilliant rose-purple tubular flowers with deep purple calyces, very attractive to butterflies and honeyeaters.
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Globetrotter A. pallida
A beautiful compact growing shrubby perennial with fragrant foliage and profuse very dense eye-szcatching spikes or lilac flowers with rose pink bracts. The rose bracts persist long after the flowers and continue to create a colour splash. A great butterfly attracter.
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Lavender Haze A. pallidiflora var. neomexicana
This amazing variety has both lavender scented flowers and lavender scented foliage, a wonderful perennial for those creating a scented garden. The plants are well branched from the base, grow to 40 cm high and bear prolific dense spikes of delightfully sweet lavender scented and lavender coloured flowers.
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Pink Pop A. astromontana
This is a charmer, ideal for the smaller garden or for growing in a large container. It is a compact grower to 40-45 cm high, very well branched, with fragrant foliage and a profusion of dense spikes of fragrant pink flowers. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Exceptionally long blooming. Perfect too in cottage gardens, butterfly gardens and in herb gardens.
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Raspberry Daiquiri A. aurantiaca
A gorgeous fragrantly foliaged perennial with many richly coloured spikes of raspberry-red flowers. It is a compact, well branched grower to around 30 cm high. A great attraction to butterflies and honeyeaters.
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Rose Mint A. pallidiflora ssp.neomexicanus
Totally desirable from its fresh mint scented foliage to its profusion of burgundy coloured flowering stems each densely arrayed with tubular rose pink blooms that are a beacon to every butterfly, bee and honey eater. The grey green foliage is the perfect foil. The plant flowers throughout summer and well into the autumn, and its compact growth habit to 60cm wide and 80 cm wide (in flower) makes it ideal for a large pot or sunny position in the garden. It has all the virtues including being resistant to insect pests and diseases, drought and heat tolerant once established (it would prefer a moist well drained soil), wonderful fragrance and very long blooming period.
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Sangria A. mexicana
This gorgeous perennial is an absolute must! The foliage is deliciously lemon scented and the spectacular rich flamingo pink large flowers are borne in whorls up the many 30 cm long flower spikes. The flowers are wonderfully attractive to honey eaters and bees alike, and the young leaves make a delicious tea. It is a sun lover and makes a bushy plant to around 70 - 80 cm tall.
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Tango A. aurantiaca
Creating a glow of brilliant but soft orange in the garden, this variety grows to 35 cm and has a much branched habit with sweetly scented grey-green foliage. The prolific dense spikes of tubular flowers are great butterfly and hummingbird attracters and Tango is very long flowering from late spring through to autumn. Hardy.
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Ajuga Bugle Traditionally a wound-healing heab used mainly for internal injuries or for slow-healing wounds, the bugles have fallen out of favour as medicinal herbs but have found their new fortune as groundcover plants, being wonderful dense reliable carpeters on moisture-retentive soil, unresentful of shade, cold tolerant, weed excluding, and exceedingly pretty when they bloom with dense spires of lipped, pure intense blue or porcelain blue flowers. Some vareieties have white or even pink flowers. The glossy leaves are available in a number of colour variations. Large plants.
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Purple A. reptans
A hardy easy to grow variety, quick to spread, with purple-bronze foliage and prolific densely arranged spikes of blue-purple flowers.
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Akebia longeracemosa Vanilla Scented Akebia
This beautiful rare Chinese species is evergreen and frost resistant. The rather wistaria-like racemes of flowers are in deep rose to maroon and are deliciously scented of vanilla. It likes a well drained soil and full sun (not a western aspect) for at least part of the day.
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Alcea Hollyhock Give hollyhocks full sun, good drainage and an airy situation. They have good drought resistance once established. Those listed are perennial for us.
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A. rosea Spring Celebrities Lemon
A stunning variety with large double blooms in iced lemon sorbet with deeper lemon in the heart. This variety has resistance to mildew and rust and has good cold resistance.
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$7.50
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Alcea rosea Hollyhock The Bride
Absolutely exquisite. The stems of this tall growing variety are arrayed with large pompom double flowers which are purest white lit within by a tiny lemon centre. It is tall growing, particularly heavy blooming, and perennial.
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Alcea rosea Hollyhock Blackberry
This is an heirloom double flowered variety with powderpuff flowers in the richest violet-purple like freshly squashed blackberries and veined even darker. Luscious.
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Alcea rosea Hollyhock Blackberry Ripple
A gorgeous blend of semidouble blackberry coloured blooms mixed with fully double white blooms. A spectacular, very healthy, tall growing perennial.
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Alcea rosea Hollyhock Violet
Superb in a garden of heirloom roses, this is a tall vigorous grower with glowing crimson double blooms each shaded with lavender and violet in the manner of Gallica roses.Very healthy and floriferous.
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A. rosea Black Currant Whirl
Such a delicious colour. The tall spires of flowers to 1.8 m are the deep purplish-black of crushed blackberries with a touch of fresh pale cream here and there.
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rosea var. nigra Black Hollyhock
This dramatically beautiful perennial hollyhock is an heirloom variety and was grown in the superb gardens of the early American president Thomas Jefferson, and even further back by the famous writer of perhaps the world's most delightful garden book John Parkinson, in 1629. The flowering stems are tall, often to 2m with large satiny black flowers with a touch of burgundy in the centre that are borne for a long period. They are very attractive to butterflies and honeyaters. It requires full sunlight and well drained soil. Cut back to the large rosette of basal leaves at the end of flowering. It is resistant to rust.
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A. rosea Chamois
A sensational new perennial hollyhoch with tall spires of large, fully double powderpuff flowers in vanilla icecream cream blushed with soft pink and buff. Dreamy!
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A. rosea Chaters Chestnut Brown
This stunning newly released perennial hollyhock has fully double blooms densely arranged along the 1.5 mstems in summer. The incredibly rich depth of colour is exactly that of polished brown autumn chestnuts. Gorgeous!
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A. rosea Creme de Cassis
We sold out of this perennial so fast last year , almost the second it flowered in the garden. The spectacular tall stems up to 1.5 m bear along their length large semi-double to fully double flowers in a unique black currant colour which at the edges look as if black currants were diluted with fresh cream. Yum! It truly looks utterly delectable.
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A. ficifolia Antwerp or Figleaf Hollyhock
This is a very old tall growing long-lived perennial which species with large saucer-shaped flowers to 12.5 cm diameter in rich colours, predominantly yellow, and with fig shaped leaves . It grows to around 1.8m. It you are in a district prone to leaf rust, this species is very resistant and additionally is particularly cold hardy.
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A. rosea Peaches and Dreams
A delectable hollyhock with tall spires up to 2.0 m of large powderpuff flowers in creamy-apricot shaded to peach.
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A.rugosa Russian Yellow Hollyhock
A truly sensational species, growing to 1.8 m or more, particularly resistant to rust, healthy, vigorous and and particularly heavy blooming. The very wide saucer-shaped flowers are a beautiful primrose yellow colour.
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Althaea officinalis Marshmallow
This is the true marshmallow from which marshmallows were once made before the use of gelatine. Today this perennial is grown for its quiet charms in old-fashioned cottage gardens and in herb gardens. The multiple slender stems are arrayed along their length with soft frilled grey-green leaves and clusters of dainty pale pink hollyhock-like flowers. It is still widely used today for its soothing properties in herbal medicine.
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Aloysia triphylla syn. Lippia citriodora Lemon Verbena
This deliciously scented shrub which originated from Chile and Argentina can reach 1.5 to 2.0 m in warmer climates. It has long narrow leaves which are intensely fragrant of lemon. The airy panicles of tiny white flowers are borne in profusion in mid-summer. It was first grown in Europe in the 17th cenury. The leaves retain their fragrance for a long time after drying and lemon verbena is a favourit herbal tea usedfor its relaxing effects especially in France. The leaves are also used to flavour foods and liqueurs, and the essential oil extracted from the leaves is used in perfumes and eau de cologne. They are an excellent addition to a fresh scented pot pourri.
see also Lime Verbena
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Aloysia triphylla Lime Verbena
Absolutely irresistible! Many of you will be familiar with the delightful Lemon Verbena shrub with its intensely lemon scented foliage used in herbal teas, to flavour everything from seafood to cakes, and used particularly in the French perfumery industry. Now there is a Lime Verbena. It looks just the same but the scent is that or pure freshly squeezed Tahitian lime. It would make a perfect fragrant garden hedge or feature planting for a herb garden and the large sprays of fairy-like white flowers make it equally welcome in the flower garden or grown in a large pot.
see also Lemon Verbena
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Angelica Angelica archangelica
A handsome, tall (1.5m) plant with a large rosette of handsome deeply cut leaves. It requires a moist position and will flourish in light shade.. All parts have the sweetest, cleanest, most delightful fragrance. The stems are candied for delicious green sweets and a delightful tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves. The huge spherical inflorescences of green and white flowers are very attractive.
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Angelica gigas Purple Angelica
This dramatically beautiful species from China, Japan and Korea can reach around 1.8 m with lush divided foliage, deep burgundy stems and huge heads of darkest purple flowers. It will thrive in a lightly shaded spot with moist soil, and is frost hardy. The young leaves (only) are cooked as a vegetable in China.
The roots find use in Chinese medicine.
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Angelica pachycarpa Shiny angelica
This handsome architectural plant adds real drama to the garden. It resembles the herb angelica but is somewhat shorter growing with large mirror-glossy deep green leaves and huge umbels of tiny green flowers.
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Anthemis tinctoria Susannah Mitchell or Dyer's Chamomile
A beautiful reliable ad floriferous perennial forming a low spresding cushion of ferny foliage with masses of palest lemon to cream daisy flowers. Ideal for a sunny position and tolerates dryish soils once fully established.
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Anthriscus sylvestris Ravenswing
A ravishing perennial indispensable for those planning a garden of dark rich colours or a Gothic garden. The finely lacy, darkest purple to black foliage forms a large rosette from which emerges tall umbels of tiny white flowers subtended by pink bracts. It will gently self seed and most seedlings come true to colour.
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Aquilegia (perennial Columbines or Perennial Granny's Bonnet) The charming perennial columbine derives its common and botanical names from that of two birds the dove (columba) and the eagle (aquila), for the shape of the flowers is 'composed of plain petals intermixed with others that are hollow and horned, so that they imitate a Pidgeon with expanded wings'. We offer a number of truly perennial and often rare species and named varieties, some of them dating to Tudor times. Columbines are tough hardy perennial herbaceous plants which die down completely each winter reshooting in early spring. We have many more varieties than can be listed here, of extraordinary beauty and rarity. Do visit the nursery if you can in spring. These are big well hardened plants grown in 150 ml (6 inch) pots.
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A. caerulea Crimson Star
This older variety is still cherished for its 'fire and ice' colouring. The flowers have exquisite deep crimson red sepals and spurs while the corolla is a flawless white. Always admired in the nursery.
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A. alpina Alpine Columbine
A lovely species with exquisite large rich blue and white short spurred flowers. Rare. First introduced into gardens from Switzerland in 1793. 0.4m. It does not require a cool climate.
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A. atrata Dark Columbine
This dramatic columbine has darkest purple, almost pure black flowers with protruding golden stamens.
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A. caerulea Sunshine
Absolutely gorgeous! This elegant new perennial achieves a truly stunning colour combination with profuse maidenhair-like foliage that unfurls in spring to a beautiful gold that then takes on bronze shades. The tall, branching flower stems bear a profusion of deepest rubywhat no other has. The long spurred flowers are fully and fluffily double and come in a soft pure sunshine yellow.very floriferous and grows to around 35 cm high, perfect for the front of a garden border or, where space is limited, in large pots.
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A. caerulea Crimson Star
An old cultivar with exquisite carmine red outer petals and spurs, and a pure white corolla.
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A. caerulea Snow Queen
This stunning and uncommon columbine can reach 90 cm and flowers from early summer. The large flowers are glistening white with lightly waved petals, long elegant white spurs, and a protruding mass of golden stamens.It is an easy grower in a well drained soil.
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A. canadensis Rock Bells
A superb and rare species in Australian gardens with dark green ferny foliage and many eye-catching deep scarlet and yellow flowers that remind us here in the nursery of flaring rockets.
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A. chrysantha Golden-Spurred Columbine
An extraordinarily beautiful rare species with rich green maidenhair-like foliage and exceedingly long spurred (7-8 cm), soft golden-yellow, fragrant flowers, several to each stem. When it flowers in the nursery it causes a sensation! It is native to New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Colorado and is both cold and drought resistant. Plants can reach 90 cm.
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A. chrysantha Yellow Star
This hardy perennial provides a true sunburst of gold and sweet fragrance. Lower growing than the species, at 30 cm, it forms a central posyof up to 18 or more fragrant golden yellow flowers wich contrast beautifully with the sea-green foliage.
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A. clematiflora Clematis Columbine
One of the loveliest and rarest of columbines. It opens to nodding very short spurred flowers with wide saucerlike pink flowers resembling clematis.
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A. clematiflora Firewheel
Resemling a semi=double clematis flowers with crimson petals and an explosion of golden stamens in the centre. Grows to 65 cm, Spectacular. To 60 cm.
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A. clematiflora Green Apples
This is a variety of the rare Aquilegia clematiflora, with masses of lime green buds that open to double flowers that begin Granny Smith apple green and fade to cream, sometimes with a touch of blossom pink. The plants grow to 60 cm, floriferous, with lush maidenhair foliage.
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A. Flabellata Black Currant Ice
Rare and gorgeous, this smaller perennial aquilegia produces a profusion of nodding flowers with unuually long corollas in pale cream with drrp purple corollas. It is perfect for the front of borders or for growing in popts where space is limited.
Rare!
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A. Flabellate Nana Alba
The nearest thing we know of to a Snowflake, and much easier to grow in our climate. This is a dwarf growing perennial with lush ferny foliage and exquisite nodding single glistening white flowers. The tips of the petals and of the short spurs are tipped with apple green. Early spring flowering.
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A. fragrans
The most fragrant of all aquilegias with very large long spurred white or pale cream flowers dripping with nectar and delicious fragrance and deep blue-green foliage with apple scent.
Very rare.
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Leprechaun Gold
One of the most popular plants in the nursery, this compact growing varietyhas brilliant gold leaves splashed with emerald green. The flowers are large rich purple coloured bonnets.
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Lime Sorbet
A gorgeous tall plant with very double tiered flowers in lime green gradually turning to ice white The exquisite foliage is a perfect background.
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A. hybrida Roman Bronze
Of complex breeding, possibly including A. rockii and created by the great Aquilegia breeder Ray Brown, this variety emerges in very early spring unfurling bright golden maidenhair fern-like leaves that progress through bronze to copper before finally turning green as summer arrives. The very prolific flowers are deep violet with golden stamens and a delightful honey scent.
Quite rare
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A. longissima Longspur Columbine or Desert Columbine
Not all columbines come from temperate regions. This is possibly the most stunning of all Aquilegia species, yet it originates from the Chihuahuan Desert of Northern Mexico, Southern Arizona, and Big Bend where it grows in part shade and available moisture.. The finely textured foliage is lush, and the exquisite large golden flowers have the longest and most elegant spurs of any species, up to 16 cm long.
Rare.
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Oranges and Lemons
The most cheerful and charming of aquilegias,and bound to lift spirits. No two open bell flowers are exactly alike, and all of them ar bicolours in shades of lemon, soft orange, and occasionally light red.The bells of St. Clements would certainly chime to this happy perennial.
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Rose Queen A. caerulea
A beautiful variety with large rich rose and white flowers.
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A. skinneri Tequila Sunrise
A gorgeous conflagration of red, coral pink and rich gold. in nodding long spurred flowers. This very long blooming variety grows to 50 cm and is attractive to honey eaters.
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A. viridiflora Chocolate Soldier
This is one of the most unusual of all aquilegias, exotic and quite exquisite. The nodding flowers have smooth green skirts of sepals and chocolate brown petals. The flowers are sweetly fragrant.
The plnts literally walk off the nursery shelves when they flower in spring.
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A. vulgaris Double Pleat Blackberry
Nothing could be more old-fashioned and eye-catching in the garden than this tall growing and very floriferous variety with very double blackberry coloured flowers that look as if they have been neatly pleated. If you love old fashioned cottage garden style plants this is a must.
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A. vulgaris flore plena Nora Barlow
Bred in England, this is one of the loveliest columbines . Very tall and sturdy it bears masses of plump green button buds that open to very double apple blossom pink nodding blooms touched with apple green on the petal tips. In cultivation since the 17th century.
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A. vulgaris flore plena Ruby Port
A sumptuously beautiful columbine bearing tall graceful sprays of fully double nodding flowers in the richest dark ruby port colour.
Very rare.
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A. vulgaris flore plena Victoriana Columbine or Tower Doubles
A lovely old-fashioned columbine very popular in Victorian days with very double flowers like crinolines with many petticoats beneath and very short spurs unlike modern varieties. The flowers come in a delightful assortment of pure delicate pastel colours and are borne on robust large plants with handsome foliage. Columbines of this type were first described and illustrated in the Elizabethan period.
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A. vulgaris flore plena Black Barlow
Tall growing to almost 1m with quantities of nodding very double spurless flowers of deepest black-purple, and closely resembling a Tudor variety.
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A. vulgaris flore plena Christa Barlow
The very double flowers are an exquisite deep blue with golden stamens. The petals are thinly edged with crisp white.
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A. vulgaris Magpie Doubles
So old-fashioned yet so dramatic! This is a tall growing variety with prolific, fully double flowers. Each petal is ia crisp white with a wide eye which is all but black. The short spurred sepals are the darkest black-maroon imaginable. The whole effect is that of a flight of ruffle-feathered magpies.
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A. vulgaris Pink Petticoat
Truly luscious! The double flowers borne on tall wiry branched stems have ice white petals touched deep within by rose pink while the short spurred sepalss are a true rose pink. The cluster of stamens are gold. It is the perfect variety in a cottage garden and attracts butterflies and beneficial insects into your garden.
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A. vulgaris Sunburst Ruby
By any standards this is a sensational perennial. In spring the large rosette of maidenhair-like foliage unfurls in a soft clear gold which shadesto glowing bronze as the season progresses. The tall branched flower stems carry prolific, deepest ruby red, very double flowers with a cluster of golden stamens.
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A. vulgaris Wild Columbine
This is the true wild columbine or Granny's Bonnet used to create 'flowery meads' in mediaeval gardens and grown by Shakeaspeare. Lovely rich blue to purple nodding flowers. The root has been used medicinally in the external treatment of ulcers of the skin.
Rare.
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A. vulgaris William Guinness
Also known as the 'Magpie Columbine' The flowers are the darkest chocolate- maroon with shiny white corollas, definitely black and white to the eye, and have the delicious scent of newly mown meadow grass. They are very attractive to both butterflies and honey eaters, and there is simply nothing else like it. 75 cm high.
Very cold resistant.
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A. vulgaris Woodside White
This variety belongs to the Verveanana Group. It emerges in early spring with delightful acid chartreuse coloured maidenhair fern-like foliage which warms to a soft butter yellow as spring progresses. it bears masses of ice white or palest ice blue short spurred nodding flowers held high above the foliage on tall branched stems flowers. A great classic for a well composted, moist but well drained soil in morning sun or very light shade.
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A. vulgaris Lime Frost
Unlike 'Lime Sorbet' with its luscious double lime and white flowers, Lime Frost is named for its pale cream, chartreuse and lime splashed leaves. The nodding large flowers, borne on tall stems well above the foliage are a rich purple and spurred. This is the famed Woodside Strain so loved by honey eaters and butterflies.
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A. yabeana
This is the richest deepest blue of all the aquilegias. It comes from the mountain districts of Japan (but not an alpine variety), growing vigorously to 75 cm with a profusion of large exquisitely spurred flowers.
Rare!
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Artemisia
This genus was named for the Greek goddess Artemis (Diana) who was said to have given this group of plants to the centaur, Chiron. Virtually all those listed here are very ornamental shrubs an intensely aromatic. Many were burned as purification herbs in religious or magical ceremonies to create a sacred ceremonial space or to cleanse the body and spirit. Almost all listed here are intensely silver foliaged making them a striking, easily grown addition to the ornamental or herb garden. Other artemisias such as French Tarragon and Russian Tarragon may be found in the Gourmet Herb Garden . Artemisas are cold hardy, and also of great value to gardeners in hot dry areas, surviving drought very well.
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Artemisia alba syn. A. camphorata Camphor Southernwood
This a distinct form of Southernwood. It is an attractive, compact, lower growing sub-shrub to around 80-90 cm with very finely feathery grey foliage very like that of Lad's Love in texture and with spikes of bobble-like grey-green flowers. It has a fresh mint-and-camphor scent and is an excellent textural and aromatic plant for a sunny garden and for growing in a pot. It is also drought resistant. Camphor Southernwood is also very useful as an ingredient in moth repellent bags and for use as a companion plant. The southernwood species (A. abrotanifolium and A. alba) contain some remarkably good scent variants. We first discovered 'Tangerine' many years ago in California and yearn for it's delicious true tangerine fragrance. A. abrotanifolium has a wonderful lemon and camphor scent. Another variety we have yet to find smells of Coca Cola!
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A. lactiflora White Mugwort
A tall-growing Chinese herbaceous species much sought after for its many-branhed panicles of tiny milky white button flowers during summer. The silvered green foliage is jaggedly incised. It requires a moist soil and prefers light shade. It is a bitter aromatic tonic plant and finds use in Chinese medicine in treating problems such as liver and menstrual disorders. 1.2m.
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A. ludoviciana Silver Queen
The favourite of American herb gardeners for its excellent display of ghostly white flowers in elegant spikes and silvery-white foliage. In summer it is a sea of gently waving silvery-white wands. An absolute must. Much used in dried flowers and herbal arrangements. It was used medicinally by the Amerindians.
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A. vulgaris Mugwort or St. John's Plant
Mugwort is the ancient Druidic, magical, dream-making herb, an aromatic perennial believed to have magical powers and worn as a talisman against sickness, exhaustion, and evil. This belief is ancient in origin and St. John the Baptist is believed to have worn mugwort woven into a girdle to resist temptation and evil when he went into the wilderness. The dried leaves are added to sleep pillows as they can create wonderfully adventurous technicolour dreams for at least some people. It is a flavouring in liquers, and is used as a seasoning on fatty meats such as duck and goose where it also aids in digestion. A mild tea has been traditionally used for poor digestion, nervous conditions and rheumatism but should not be used when pregnant.
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Tree Wormwood A. arborescens
A large bush to 1.3m with soft, finely divided, dense, intensely silvery foliage which has a pleasant clean aromatic fragrance when touched. Tiny lemon button button flowers in panicles when flowering but the attraction lies in the glorious wrought silver of the foliage. Very hardy. The Clean pungent scent is also insect repellent. Try a shrub as a companion plant for your vegetable garden or dry the leaves to use in little bags of moth repellent herbs together with tansy, cotton lavender, and sweet lavender to place among stored winter woollens.
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$8.50
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True Wormwood A. absinthum
Named for its use as a flavouring agent in the once famous French liquer Absinthe (now banned for its long term effects in the brains of afficionados), but a must for the garden. It is a densely mounding bush with frilled and deeply incised sensationally silvery leaves. No longer used (legally!) in liquers, but like Tree Wormwood valuable as an insect repelling companion plant and as a moth repellent as it has a clean pungent fragrance.
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Powys Castle
This splendid rarer silver foliage plant originated in the magnificent gardens of Castle Powys in Wales. The very dense foliage is frothy and much curled creating a lush beautiful pure silver effect. Full sun. The bush mounds to 70cm, then spreads and forms a superb spillover plant for walls and edgings. It is very cold resistant and very drought resistant. It is thought to have originated as a cross between A. arborescens and A. absinthum.
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Lad's Love or Maidens Ruin or Southernwood or Old Man A. abrotanum.
Surrounded by legends, this soft feathery grey-green small shrub has a sharp lemony-camphor tang when crushed, very refreshing to the senses. Keep in pots near the door to be pinched and sniffed, in the herb garden to be dried for pot pourri (it is also a sweet smelling moth repellent), as a clipped edging for a herb garden border, and as an important companion plant in the orchard and vegetable garden.
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$7.95
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Oriental Lime
This is quite different and beautiful. It forms a small, upright growing, aromatic shrub, the foliage looking so cool even on the hottest summer day, in lime green splashed with pale gold.
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$8.50
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Artemisia verlotiorum Chinese Mugwort or Chinese Wormwood
A tall growing, clump forming perennial with deeply cut silvery-green leaves. It is used in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine, particularly in the dried form when it is known as moxa giving name to the treatment known as moxibustion. It is particularly used in the treatment of liver, spleen and kidney problems and Chinese Mugwort has also found use in Chinese cooking, for instance in Chinese mugwort rice cakes and as a bitter herb to temper and flavour fatty dishes.
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Asperula odorata Sweet Woodruff or Our Lady's Lace or Lady's Laces
Medieval monks grew this lovely plant in their gardens. It likes a fairly moist shady spot and threads the ground with ruffs of leaves and tiny white star flowers. The scent is of new mown hay, and the plant is delightful in all respects. The fragrance is increased by drying. Use in pot pourri, to fragrance linen, and in the famed Maibowle to celebrate May Day.
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$8.50
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Brugmansia Angel's Trumpet
Brugmansias love a sunny, protected, well drained position, and are unfussy with regard to soil type. They are suited to areas with no more than light frosts, and have considerable drought resistance. They are all characterised by exceptionally large, drooping, trumpet shaped flowers of the most elegant form, and all are large shrubs to small trees, quite stunning in flower, and their flowering period is often of many months duration. Like oleanders, all parts are pisonous, so similar care should be taken.
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Brugmansia Grande Marnier
This is a form of B. versicolor, a soft leafed and fast growing shrub to 2 m bearing masses of large, deliciously fragrant, elegant trumpet flowers in soft clear apricot that age to a soft peach.
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$15.50
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Double White Angels Trumpet Brugmansia x candida Flore Plena
This is the queen of the brugmansias with prolific, very large, double, glistening white trumpet flowers which have a delicious and heady fragrance. A mature shrub, which can reach 3 m is a breath taking sight.
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$14.50
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Brugmansiaa x insignis 'Frilly Pink'
A beautiful shrub growing to around 1.8 m with abundant large (20 cm long), elegant, flared and slightly frilled trumpet flowers of clear pink which are produced for many months. A true traffic stopper. Frost does cut it back but it almost always recovers quickly in spring with fresh growth.
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$19.50
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Brugmansia 'Ecuador Pink'
This is still, to the best of our searching, the richest coloured of the pink angel's Trumpet varieties and remains a very choice plant. The spectacular rich pink 22 cm long trumpets with flared and fluted edges are deliciously fragrant particularly in the evening and produced in profusion from spring to the end of autumn.. This spectacular lushly tropical plant is. like almost all brugmansias,nevertheless able to resist considerable frost even if cut back by winter cold. It reaches around 1.8 m, forming a fast growing large leafed upright clump.
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$22.00
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Brugmansia 'Giant Yellow'
This variety has to be seen to be believed. The trumpets are incredibly large, very flared at the bass and beautifully fluted. It begins flowering while only a metre high, and in the greatest profusion, continuing in successive waves. Fully grown at about 1.8 m it is utterly sensational, massed with clear mid yellow bells. Like all brugmansias, it grows well in almost any part of Australia and may be cut back by frosts but almost always recovers.
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$22.00
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Red Angel's Trumpet Brugmansia sanguinea
The Red Angel's Trumpet is a rare and much sought after species (for instance they have been listed on eBay for $60).It is native to the Andes, growing from Columbia to Chile, and forms a very handsome, soft leaved, many stemmed shrub which produces prolific large nodding brilliant deep red trumpet flowers which are pale gold on the outside. It likes a sunny to lightly shaded position. It is tolerant of light frosts, and in heavy frost areas usually shows blackened leaves but grows back from the woody stems in spring. For that tropical look in a cooler garden, or to flourish in a warm temperate garden, this plant is a perfect choice.
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$14.50
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Brugmansia sanguinea Yellow Form
A rare and gorgeous form of the Red Angel's Trumpet, growing to around 2m with a great profusion of 25cm long trumpet flowers in a rich clear yellow. B. sanguinea is the most frost tolerant of the genus and flowers over a very long season.
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Buddleia Butterfly Bush or Honeycomb Tree or Summer Lilac
Buddleias give to the summer garden the same gift that lilacs bring in spring, bowing down with fragrant blossom. They are exceedingly attractive to butterflies so that your summer garden will be alive with many kinds of butterflies, and honey eaters sip from a number of species.. They are very heat resistant once established and have good drought tolerance. In colder climates, buddleias can be cut back by frosts but will rapidly regrow in spring. All buddleias appreciate good drainage and full sun. Note: Many rare specie listed here are very unlikely to distribute seed and are propagated exclusively by vegetative means at our nursery.
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Buddleia davidii
A silvery sage-leafed shrub bearing masses of honey-fragrant fat lavender lambs tails composed of thousands of tiny flowers that attract butterflies by the hundred. Cultivars offered in 2010 include:
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Black Knight
A very striking variety with dense panicles up to 20cm long of intense dark purple honey scented flowers. Introduced in 1959 and a little hardier than most.
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$12.95
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Dwarf Chinese B. davidii var. nanhoensis Nanho Blue
A dwarf variety growing to 1.8m with a slender elegant habit with narrow grey-green leaves. The panicles of honey-scented flowers are deep lavender blue. native to Gansu Province, China.
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Ile de France
This beautiful variety has long dense panicles of fragrant deep wine red to plum purple flowers . It may attain around 2.4 m (8 feet).
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$12.95
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Joan
More compact in form than most B. davidii cultivars, and with larger flower heads, mauve, fragrant, and in dense conical sprays.
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$12.95
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Lochinch
A shrub of compact habit, approximately 1.5m high and wide, silvery grey leaves, dense panicles of intensely honey-fragrant rich violet-blue flowers in mid-summer to autumn.
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$12.95
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Pink Delight
Lovely clear pink honey-scented dense panicles of flowers on a mediun sized bush. A Dutch cultivar of complex breeding.
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$14.95
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Royal Purple
Bears masses of large heads of richest purple, honey fragrant flowers. Extremely popular at the nursery.
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$12.95
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Royal Red
This older variety bears masses of very showy richest red-lilac flowers and has sweet honey fragrance.
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$12.95
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White Bouquet
A very fine and hard to find variety with long full dense panicles of honey-scented pure whie flowers, raised in 1942.
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$12.95
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White Profusion
A tall (to 3m) and magnificent form with 20 cm dense panicles of tiny pure white flowers with golden eyes, and honey scented.
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B. alternifolia Fountain Buddleia
Surely the most exquisite of all buddleias, this species from north-west China forms a tall semi-weeping deciduous shrub. The fragrant mauve flowers are borne in dense little posies at intervals along each slender stem and are wonderfully attractive to butterflies in spring.
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B. colvilei
Summer Lilac Often rated the showiest of the buddleias, this eastern Asian species forms a large upright shrub which remains evergreen in milder climates, with lond pointed leaves that are finely furred beneath. The large bell flowers are a rich cherry red and are borne in graceful terminal panicles. Honey eaters are attracted to its flowers.
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$14.95
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B. fallowiana
Lovely, quality shrub with white woolly stems and leaves and large dense panicles up to 30 cm long of very fragrant pale powdery lavender-blue flowers.
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$14.95
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B. indleyana Lindley Butterfly Bush
Discovered by Robert Fortune in China in the 19th century, this little known species isis a slender, willowy, semi-deciduous shrub to 2.5m with shiny green foliage and long narrow curved panicles of flowers quite a deal bigger than that of most buddleias, and two toned in purple and violet. Charming and rare. The flowers are attractive to honey eaters and butterflies.
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B. madagascariensis
From Madagascar, a tall shrub which thrives in warmer areas with honey-scented rich orange-yellow flowers in long panicles. Leaves woolly. If allowed, this will climb a short distance into a tree and can look stunning grown this way.
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B. saligna Olive Buddleia or False Olive
This drought hardy South African species forms a many stemmed graceful shrub to 3.0m and has slender, olive-like foliage deep green on top and silvery below. It bears dense, large sprays of tiny, strongly honey fragrant, cream flowers. The bark is quite beautiful, a mixture of cream, grey, and dark brown. In its native country it is used in traditional medicine, the leaves being used to treat coughs and colds. The very fine grained wood is used to make small items.Rare.
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B.salviifolia Sage Leaf Buddleia
An intensely honey fragrant buddleia with long, sage-like, wrinkled leaves, dark green above and silvery below. The very large branched flower spikes are dense with soft lavender flowers, borne in such abundance in late winter and spring as to weigh the shrub down, and the intense honey fragrance is borne far on the air. It is exceptionally attractive to the first butterflies of spring, and to bees. The fresh and dried leaves have been traditionally used in Africa to make an aromatic herbal tea. A decoction of the roots was used to treat coughs and colds. Quite rare. Around 3 m x 3 m.
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B.x weyeriana Apricot-Peach
A lovely form of somewhat smaller growth than most B. davidii varieties, to around 2.0 m, with dense sweetly scented panicles of apricot flowers shaded deeper to peach with a lavender suffusion. Quite delicious. Rare.
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$14.95
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B. x weyerana Orange Glow
A striking shrub to 3m with honey-fragrant large dense panicles of cream and golden-orange flowers.
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Camellia, Heirloom, Species and Fragrant
There are a number of very old camellias thriving on our1830s property. Some were dug and shipped over from an early New Zealand farm planting and are known to be around 140 years old. In the nursery there are usually a number of ancient varieties for sale as well as species camellies. Fragrance has largely been by-passed in the world of camellias, but we have a particular interest in fragrant camellias. Historic varieties quite regularly stocked in the nursery include: Anemoniflora syn. Waratah, Honeycombb, Mrs. Sol Runyon, Dona Herzilia de Freitas Magalhaes, Elegans Supreme , Jean Lynn, Kingyo Tsubaki; Aquaeformis (syn. Fishtail Camellia); Goldfish Camella; Quercifolia Tsubaki or Oakleaf, Magnoliiflora, and Speciossissima.
We do offer a few varieties for mail order
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C. sinensis Tea camellia
An exquisite ornamental species as well as being the tea of commerce. It originates from China through to to Assam with dark serrated foliage and exquisite pendulous single white blooms faintly suffused with pink which have a large puff of golden stamens. The flowers are borne in profusion down the stems.
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C. oleifera Tea Oil Camellia
This beautiful species from South Eastern Asia and China forms a graceful glossy leaved upright shrub to small tree that much resembles the closely related species Camellia sasanqua. It bears a profusion of quite exquisite medium sized single blooms each with dense central boss of bright golden stamens. The seeds that follow are a source of camellia seed oil. (The cold pressed oil is vitamin rich and has long been used for skin and hair products.)
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Debutante
One of the most floriferous, charming, and reliable Japonica cultivars over a wide range of climates from South Australia to Queensland. This flowers of this older variety are of paeony form. a soft clear pink, and are borne very prolifically from early May through to September. It prefers light shade but contends better with full sun than most camellias .The bush builds slowly to 2-3 m high and 1.5m high and is dense and well shaped. Debutante was bred in Charleston, Georgia, in the famous Magnolia Gardensc.c..1900 making it a romantic as well as a practical choice.
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$16.95
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Dona Herzilia de Freitas Magalhaes
This famous old variety has abundant medium sized powderpuff double flowers in the most exquisite and unique shades of lavender to mauve faintly lit within with rose. It is notorious for flowering deep pink in its first year or two in the ground and it has been discovered that the colour change occurs when its roots reach down into clay soil from the rich upper soil. It is very well worth waiting for!
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C. Elegans Champagne
Camellia Elegans was introduced into cultivation in the Western world in 1822 which makes it one of the earliest of all intrductions and it is believed to have been bred in China. It is one of the most beautiful of shrubs and has passed its beauty to its sport 'Elegans Champagne' which was released in 1975. It has a spreading slightly weeping habit with large handsome glossy dark foliage which is the perfect foil for the exquisite large anemone form blooms which are white shading to a creamy centre of petaloids. A faint pale pink blush can occur. Both Elegans and this sport are much loved in the lush gardens of the Deep South of the United States It flowers early and continues until early August.
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$16.95
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Blue Cloud
Calamintha nepeta
What a gorgeous perennial to create that desirable misty haze of colour in the garden. All the rage in Europe and America, this forms a bushy plant with spearmint-scented deep green oval foliage and it flowers continuously from early summer to late autumn forming a haze of tiny blue flowers each with purple bracts, that are haunted by busy bees. It is fully hardy and perfect for a sunny position, growing to around 25 û 30 cm.
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$8.50
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Campanula Bell-flower
The bell-flowers are among the most beautiful classical perennials, and have been long cultivated in the garden. Many species listed below have been grown since the Tudor period. Perfectly suited to mountain gardens including those of south-eastern Queensland, and at low altitudes from approximately Sydney south. They respond to the incorporation of compost in the soil, regular watering, and preferably an aspect with morning sun, but are generally easy to cultivate.
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C. lactiflora Milky Bellflower Pritchard's Variety
A spectacular and beautiful perennial which grows to 75 cm. The much branched flowering stems bear a great profusion of soft powder blue open-faced bell flowers through summer. It is an ideal planting beneath the old-fashioned summer flowering roses.It is hard and likes a sunny sheltered position and a well drained soil enriched with compost.
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C. latifolia Brantwood
A spectaclar hardy perennial which is easy maintenance and tolerates quite poor soils. It grows to 1.2 m with many tall strong stems bearing along their length glorious rich violet blue long tubular flowers. Tall though this variety is, it requires no staking.
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C. persicifolia White Bells
This is the exquisite pure white flowered form of the Peach-leaved Bellflower, forming a clump from which emerges one metre long spikes covered with glorious white bell flowers in summer. Hardy and wonderfully reliable. Full sun.
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$8.50
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C. persicifolia Blue Bells
This is the milky blue flowered form of the Peach-leaved Bellflower.
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$8.50
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Campanula portenschlagiana syn. C. muralis
This charming groundcover suited to most climates forms a low spreading mound The leaves are quite tiny, frilly and fanlike and the single blue-purple open bell flowers totally smother the plant for months on end. Very easy to grow in a sunny to lightly shaded position with average water requirements.
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$8.50
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C. punctata var.rubriflora
An outstanding bell-flower from the far East and long admired and grown by the Chinese. It flowers at a height of around 45cm with long-stalked heart-shaped leaves. The large nodding long bell-shaped flowers, borne in racemes are an exquisite waxy creamy-pink or creamy-white, up to 7.5cm long, speckled inside with deep crimson-red.
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C. pyramidalis Chimney Bellflower
An amazing and superb perennial , breathtaking in full flower and never forgotten with many branched spikes to 1.5 m covering in countless powder blue saucer-shaped flowers. It originated from northern Italy and the Balkans. It is an easy grower, fully hardy for a well drained position. If your soil is markedly acidic place a little chunk of concrete beside the plant (or add a little dolamite or lime annually) as it lprefers neutral to alkaline soils.
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$8.50
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C. takesimiana
A gorgeous rare herbaceous perennial campanula native to Korea with nodding, large, long bells of pale blue to pink richly spotted within like a foxglove. It forms good clumps in a lightly shaded moist position.
Very hardy
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$8.50
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C. trachelium Nettle Leaf Bellflower or Throatwort or Coventry Bells or Bats-In-The-Belfry
This is the original plant Known to Gerard, writer of the 16th century English Herbal, "in the woods and hedgerows of Kent about Canterburia." It bears delightful rich deep purple bellflowers on a tall plant an isone of the most beautiful; and easily grown campanulas.
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$8.50
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C. t. Faichem Lilac
This variety originated in Scotland and is a beautiful and elegant perennial with many 1.0 m long spires of lilac outward facing bell flowers.
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$8.50
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Cardamine pratensis Flore plena
This is the rare double form of Lady's Smock or Cuckoo Flower, one of the lovliest of all English wildflowers, mentioned in Shakespeare. The plant is a hardy perennial for a moist position with delicate fernlike leaves forming a rosette from which emerge slender clustered spikes of exquisite pale lavender double flowers. It is considered to be a fairy flower. It is also known as Cuckoo Flower as it flowers at the same time as cuckoos begin to call and Milkmaids.
This double form is rare
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Cedronella canariensis syn. C. triphylla Cedronella or Balm Of Gilead
Extremely pretty slender herbaceous bush to 1.2m with lemon-and-camphor scented ferny leaves and showy dense spikes of very pretty, lipped, pale pink flowers. The leaves are a delightful fresh note in pot pourri or. The leaves are a noted insect repellent, particularly against mosquitoes.
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$8.50
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Cestrum Newellii
A popular shrub believed to have originated as a cross between the beautiful C. elegans and C. fasciculatum, growing to 1.5m with spectacular dense clusters of rich rose pink tubular flowers through much of the year. It is frost resistant.
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$12.95
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C. nocturnum Queen of the Night or Night Blooming Jasmine or Night Blooming Jessamine
Night scented greenish flowers in clusters throughout summer. Shrub to 3m. The fragrance of this bush is incredibly sweet on the evening air. It is somewhat frost tender.
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$12.95
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Cistus Rock Roses
These are from the Mediterranean region, and are wonderfully heat and drought tolerant, having masses of single blooms which in many cultivars resemble wild roses, while larger flowered forms resemble handsome poppies. Every garden with a well drained, sunny spot in the garden should have these. They also do well in large pots on terraces and decks.
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C. x argenteus Grayswood Pink syn. Silver Pink
This is a beautiful and refined variety forming a small spreading dense shrub to around 90 cm with neat grey-green foliage and very abundant exquisite silvery pink flowers which have the delicacy of tissue paper and the look of wild roses.
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$10.50
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C. x purpureus Brilliancy Orchid Rock Rose
This is a frost hardy shrub to around 1 m, with sticky, narrow, balsamic scented leaves and masses of large deep pink poppy-like silken flowers, with a deep red spot at the base of each petal.Very free flowering.
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C. x purpureus Alan Fradd
This variety forms a taller shrub to around 1.5m with evergreen leaves that are sticky with fragrant resin. The abundant white flowers are silken textured and appear hand painted with maroon at the base of each petal.
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C. ladanifer Labdanum or Balsam Rock Rose or Gum Cistus
The leaves are sticky with oil and richly scented of balsam. The flowers resemble large single white roses with a small purple spot at the base of each petal. In Adalusia in Spain whole hillsides can be white with its blooms and the air filled with the invigorating scent of balsam. Drought resistant. The leaves are an excellent fixative in pot pourri.
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$10.50
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C. ladanifer var. petiolatus Bennett's White
This spectacular drought resisant variety has handsome shiny evergreen foliage which is very sticky with incense fragrant resin, and quickly produces a profusion of exceptionally large silken purest white flowers each with a cushion of golden stamens. It needs full sun and good drainage and thrives everywhere from seaside gardens to the inland. Try combining it with Pride of Madeira for a stunning effect.
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Cistus x hybridus Mounding White Rock Rose
This hybrid between C. populifolius and C. salviifolius grows to 1.0m x 1.2 msoftly furred long oval leaves and covers with prolific clusters of crimson buds that open to pure white flowers touched with gold at the base of the petals. The leaves have an incense-likw fragrance.
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Cistu x pulverulentuss Sunset
An exceptionally fine variety with dense, broad leafed, grey foliage and a profusion of medium sized glowing rose pink single flowers resembling roses which are borne from late spring through summer. Each flower has a tiny golden eye. I is tolerant of drought, coastal conditions, heat and frost. The only warning is for wallabies. They love it and will nibble bushes regularly. In the absence of wallabies it mounds to a spectacular 60 cm high and two metres wide. Provide full sun and a well drained but moist soil.
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$10.50
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Cheiranthus mutabilis Siberian Wallflower or Mutabilis
This has long been a particular favourite in gardens and is now rather rare, a perennial wallflower that blooms on and on, its flowers an exquisite suffusion of buff, lavender and purple.
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$8.50
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Cheiranthus cheiri Wallflower 'Old Brown'
Many will remember seeing in old gardens bushes of the most intensely richly fragrant wallflowers which were tobacco brown or brown lit with gold. The French know such wallflowers as Giroflée. They are a quietly beautiful perennial and resemble single flowered stocks on much branched semi-woody plants. They were replaced by plant breeders with frilly brightly coloured flowers but lost much of their beloved scent in the process. We managed to track down a source of the originalheirloom plant and are delighted to now be able to offer it.
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$7.50
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Cheiranthus cheiri Wild Wallflower
The true perennial wild wallflower of the Mediterranean Region which often naturalises on cliff faces and in the stone walls of ancient buildings such as castles.. The flowers vary from golden yellow to orange and are very sweetly scented.
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$7.50
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Clematis montana Rubens
A striking and exceptionally floriferous variety with foliage that can take on a burgundy suffusion and absolutely smothering in a mantle of exquisite medium sized rose pink flowers in late spring and early summer. It will flourish in areas that are marginal for large flowered clematis and of course thrives wonderfully well in traditional clematis growing districts. As a bonus this clematis does not require annual pruning – simply tidy up if it has become overly enthusiastic. It can reach 7 m. Large well established plants.
PS Thinking of covering a shed or some building you aren't happy with? The montana clematis varieties are perfect for the purpose. The great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright is quoted as saying "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
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$14.95
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Clematis montana Starlight
We absolutely love this exquisite clematis which is spring flowering. It bears a profusion of creamy white semi-double flowers up to 6cm across with a central boss of golden stamens. Like all C. montana varieties it is a fast grower, perfect for draping through small trees and over walls, and requires no annual pruning. As with 'Rubens' it performs perfectly in districts that are marginal for large flowered clematis. Large well established plants and the silken feather duster-like seedheads are a bonus.
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$14.95
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Clerodendron ugandense Blue Butterffly Bush
This far too little known shrub has perhaps the most beautiful blue flowers in the world. It prefers a frost free climate, but can cope far better with lower temperatures than most tropical species. It forms a shrub to 1.8m and throughout summer and autumn bears large airy panicles of flower seach of which is half sky blue and half cobalt blue, with long curved protruding stamens.The flowers are exceedingly attractive to butterflies.
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$12.95
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Cosmos diversifolia
This is one of the Zapotec plants from Mexico, a charming perennial cosmos with finely divided ferny leaves and a wonderful abundance of 5cm wide rosy pink single flowers throughout autumn. It is hardy and will form a good wide clump in time. Rare.
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$8.50
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Crinum x powellii
This is one of the most beautiful plants to add to the summer garden. It is a large, lush, bulbous plant with a tall rosette of large shiny, smooth, straplike tropical looking leaves from which emerge tall umbels of up to ten large trumpet- shaped pure pink flowers with a heavenly lily fragrance.
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$14.50
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Cunila mariana syn. Cunila origanoides Stone or Hoary Stone Mint
This rare North American perennial has the most intense peppermint fragrance imaginable in its leaves. In summer, it sends up many 80cm flowering stems with frosted green foliage which is hoar white nearing the tops of the stems which are topped with whorls of tiny white flowers. Native Americans made a peppermint flavoured tea from this wonderfully ornamental plant, and it was used to treat fevers and upset tummies in the same way that peppermint was used in Europe. It is exceptionally beautiful and fragrant, lasts well in arrangements and can also be used in dried arrangements and herbal wreaths. Your greatest problem in growing this drought and cold resistant perennial may be to keep it away from flower arrangers.
Rare
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$8.50
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Dahlia imperialis Tree Dahlia or Candelabra Tree or Bell Tree Dahlia
Surely one of the most magnificent creatures in the plant world. Towering to aound 4-5 m by autumn yet dying back to the ground every winter, this incredibly fast growing plant has luxuriant tropical looking foiliage and many bamboo-like stems each up to 10 cm in diameter which were used in their native South Americato carry water. In autumn each stem can bear around 50 - 80 large saucer-shaped and sized flowers in huge airy panicles. As an added bonus it is cold hardy and tough as nails.
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Single White
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$14.50
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Single Lavender
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$14.50
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Dahlia Bishop of Llandaff
This is a precious and stunning plant antiques. In 1885 the first black foliaged dahlia was created by Rivoire of France and was named 'Lucifer'. It was subsequently used in plant breeding. This gorgeous variety resulted from a cross carried out by Stephen Reseder between Lucifer and a peony flowered variety in Cardiff, Wales. He named it in honour of Bishop Hughes who was apparently less than pleased (perhaps the association of black foliage and Lucifer weighed upon his mind) and after a brief name change to The Bishop which was ruled unacceptable by the Dahlia Society the name fially settled on was Bishop of Llandaff.. It went on to win the highly prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit and in 2004 went on to be listed as one of the best plant releases in the last two centuries. This is so different to modern dahlias, growing to a metre or a little more with exquisite neat small foliage in the darkest bronzed-black. The semi-double peony style flowers borne in early summer are a brilliant vermillion red, glowing against the dark foliage. It reflowers again in autumn, In frost prone areas make sure to lift the tubers in late autumn, storing them on straw or suspended in mesh orange bags in a cool place until spring when they can be divided and replanted. Give it a sunny position and a soil well enriched with compost and a small handful of dolamite.
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$18.50
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Deutzia
Close relative to Philadelphus and native to China, this genus consists of deciduous shrubs of graceful habit that are among the most spectacular in spring.
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D. scabra Candidissima
Introduced in 1868, an exquisite spring flowering deciduous shrub bearing terminal racemes of very double white flowers in great abundance.
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$14.50
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Dianthus barbatus Perennial Sweet William 'Sooty'
Sweet Williams were once in every garden with their large cluster heads of single carnation flowers and delightful old-fashioned fragrance. This perennial variety is lower growing and spreading with deep green suffused with crimson foliage and clustered heads of darkest red flowers. For a sunny position.
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$8.50
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Dianthus arenarius
This is a rare and exquisite species of clove pink with a mass of deeply fringed, small (2.5 cm) pure white flowers that are delightfully fragrant. The flowers are borne on fine wiry stems up to 30 cm long and the foliage forms a fine textured deep green mat. It requires good drainage and sun to partial shade. Put a little posy near your bed for sweet dreams.
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$8.50
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Dianthus carthusianorum Clusterhead Pink
This perennial has been in gardens since the medieval period and its name comes from the Carthusian Order who grew it in their monastery gardens. It is truly elegant, forming a dense tufted plant of grasslike leaves up to 15 cm high from which emerge in early summer many tall straight wiry stems each up to 70 cm long topped by a large cluster of single bright magenta pink carnation-like flowers. If your soil is very acid, work in a handful of dolamite. It loves full sun and good drainage.
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$8.50
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Dicliptera suberecta Uraguayan Firecracker Plant
This is an absolute must for hot dry parts of the garden. It is remarkably drought resistant forming a dense velvety soft blue-grey sub-shrub of refined appearance to around 40 cm. high and 75 cm wide. Even without flowers it is a wonderful textural asset in the garden. From mid-summer to late autumn it produces a great profusion of rich coral coloured tubular nectar filled flowers in clusters that are highly attractive to honeyeaters It shrugs off dryness, heat and even humidity.
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$8.50
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Digitalis purpurea Foxglove or Fairy Folk's Gloves or Fairy Bells or Gooseflops or Fairy's Petticoats
Tall spires of large tubular lipped flowers. They prefer a sunny sheltered site.
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Apricot Beauty
A tall foxglove in the richest soft apricot tones.
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$6.50
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Pam's Choice syn. Elsie Kelsey
This stunning tall growing perennial grows to 1.2 m has huge dense spires of large palest creamy-white bells with dramatic deep burgundy speckled throats.
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$7.50
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D. ferruginea gigantea Giant Yellow Herald
This lovely variety is a spectacular plant for a lightly shaded or morning sun position producing amazing 1.5 m tall spires of pale golden flowers with fine brown veining in the throats. Cut it down after flowering each year to keep it as a perennial or let it gently seed around.
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$7.50
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D. grandiflora Large Yellow Foxglove
This is one of the best of all garden foxgloves, a perennial growing to 90 cm with very large butter yellow bell flowers arranged up every stem. It prefers moist soil but tolerates drier soils when established and will take sun through to part shade.
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$7.00
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D. lanata Café Créme
A stunning foxglove producing multiple branched stems to 65 cm of densely arranged thimble sized foxglove flowers in pearl grey. The dark foliage is evergreen.
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$7.50
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D. x mertonensis Crushed Strawberry
A fine hybrid long lived perennial foxglove with tall stems of large beautiful flowers the luscious colour of crushed strawberries. It grows much larger than ordinary foxgloves and is a magnet for honeyeaters. Rare. 1m.
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$7.00
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D. parviflora Milk Chocolate
Every bit as luscious looking as it sounds. A perennial forming a rosette of glossy foliage from which emerge dense tall spires of thimble sized pale chocolate flowers
Rare
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$7.50
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D. viridiflora Green Foxglove
A rare and beautiful perennial from the Balkans. It grows to 1m with dense spikes of conspiecuously veined lemon-lime flowers emerging from lush rosettes of deep green leaves. Rare.
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$7.50
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D. Virtuoso Rose
This is a very long flowering variety growing to around 60 to 70 cm with prolific very beautiful large rose pink flowers arrayed along the stems.
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$7.50
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Echinacea purpurea Purple Coneflower
One of those splendid essential cottage garden plants that are the easiest of growers with handsome large reddish-purple daisylike flowers 18cm or more across on tall stems through summer and autumn.
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$7.50
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Echinacea 'Baby Swan'
This hardy perennial is a dwarf coneflower, flowering at a height of 60 cm and forming a large mound of deep green lance-shaped foliage from which emerge throughout summer many flowering stems each bearing a single large (to 10 cm wide or more,) pure white, sweetly scented flower. It is suited to a sunny well drained situation.
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$8.50
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Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'
Created over a decade by plant selection and created by the Swedish nurseryman Magnus Nilsson, this is the richest hot pink coneflower. It makes a strong tall well-branched perennial which is exceptionally floriferous. The petals are held out straight with none of the drooping that can occur in the original wild flower. It has the same herbal medicinal properties as the wild form,
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$8.50
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E. Prairie Splendor
A compact well branched perennial to 60-70 cm with prolific huge (10 to15 cm wide!) rich rose pink flowers that are borne almost continuously from summer to the end of autumn.
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$8.50
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E. Powwow Wild Berry
This is a compact growing perennial up to 90 cm high and is incredibly prolific, flowering without a break from early summer until the end of autumn. The flowers are up to 10cm wide and in a rich deep berry colour somewhere between deepest rose and purple mulberry.
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$8.50
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E. Powpow White
Slightly shorter than Powwow Wild Berry at about 65 cm, this variety has the freshest pure white flowers, up to 10 cm wide, with golden yellow cones. This perennial flowers from the beginning of summer to the end of autumn.
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$8.50
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E. candicans syn. E. fastuosum Pride of Madeira
A magnificent traffic stopping perennial flowering to 1.5m with enormous dense panicles of deep heavenly blue honey-scented bell-shaped flowers. For a sunny well drained position. It is tolerant of dry conditions. Bees, butterflies and honeyeaters all adore this spectacular and beautiful plant.
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$9.50
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Eomecon chionantha Snow Poppy or Poppy of the Dawn
With such exquisite names, you would expect a beautiful perennial, and this does not disappoint. Plant it as a hardy groundcover in moist but well drained light shade. From the woodlands of Southern China, this plant has quite large, almost round leaves held well above the soil and the flowers, borne on slender stems to 45 cm, are single, purest white, around 5cm wide, and poppy-like in appearance. The flowers come constantly from earliest spring to mid-summer. It spreads gently well by underground rhizomes and looks wonderful in drifts in semiwoodland settings and beneath deciduous trees. In retires underground in hot summers springing up afresh in autumn.
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$8.50
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Erigeron karvinskianus syn. E. mucronatus Baby Tears
A signature plant for Edna Walling, Australia's famous 20th century landscaper, a soft low growing mounding shrub smothering for months on end with tiny pink and white single daisies in airy profusion. Hardy to -10oC and very tolerant of seaside conditions and drought, this is a delightful spillover plant to mist the edges of paths and soften the appearance of rock edgings both in full sun and light shade.
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$7.95
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Filipendula palmata
This is a spectacular perennial which can flower up to 2 m high in summer, forming a mound of palmate leaves from which emerges tall feathery soft pink plumes of tiny flowers. Lovely.
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$9.95
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Fuchsia Ladies Eardrops
A flower that is synonymous with the Victorian period. It was a favourite pot plant for windowsills and fuchsias listed here are all upright growing and tough, very suited to growing as shrubs in the garden. Those which are forms of F. magellanica have good cold hardiness.
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arborescens Tree Fuchsia
A handsome evergreen large shrub bearing masses of upright tubular flowers in large clusters which are lilac scented. The foliage resembles that of a bay tree and is dark and glossy. It is winter flowering lasting from autumn to summer with us.
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$8.95
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F. boliviana Alba
This is similar to the above, but the large pendulous clusters of flowers are stunningly contrasted with long pure white tubes and sepals and bright deep red corollas.
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$8.95
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F. magellanica var. macrostemma Climbing Fuchsia
This is one of our favourites, a rare form that is rarely out of flower. It is not self supporting and does best climing through other shrubs. We have it climbing through climbing roses, and it easily reaches 3.5 m, bearing a profusion of crimson flowers. The honey eaters love this fuchsia, as well as other forms of F. magellanica . Cold hardy.
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$8.95
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F. magellanica var. gracilis
A charming elegant arching shrub, with narrow grey-green foloage. It flowers very generously, small pendulous fuchsia flowers with deep scarlet sepals and purple corollas. A 19th century favourite, this is one of the fuchsias that hedge Irish lanes. Cold hardy.
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$8.95
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F. magellanica var. molinae (syn. F. m. Alba)M
Also known as Angel's Tears and Maiden's Blush, this exquisite fuchsia grows to a shrub of around 1.5 m . From mid-summer onward its graceful branches are hung with hundreds of small pendulous pale pink flowers. Despite its delicate appearance it is very winter hardy. It will grow in full sun to partial shade as long as the soil is moist.
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$8.95
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Tinkerbell
This is one of the most charming of all fuchsias, forming a small graceful shrub to 1.2 m - 1.5 m, covered with fernlike, tiny, glossy deep green foliage and flowering for around six months of the year, with masses of tiny tubular rich pink flowers. Exquisite and fairylike.
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$8.95
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F. triphylla Gartenmeister Bonstedt (Master gardener Bonstedt)
This handsome upright shrub from 1904 with dark crimson-purple foliage and large clusters of long pendulous soft orange tubular flowers remains a garden classic. Frosts cut it back.
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$8.95
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F.serratifolia syn. F.denticulata
Despite the name, the foliage is only very slightly serrated. The profuse elegant long- tubular flowers have crimson sepal tubes which are white suffused green at the tips and brigh orange red corollas. Flowers spring and autumn. Very easy growing and cold resistant. From the Andean slopes of Peru an Bolivvia. Can grow to 4m. Spectacular
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$8.95
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F.splendens
This Costa Rican varirty grows to around 2 m with heart shaped leaves and beautiful pendulous deep rose pink flowers , the sepals terminating in green and olive green petals. Available from October 2009 onward.
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$8.95
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Carmel Blue
An elegant upright growing bush variety to about 1.0 m bred in the USA in 1956. The single corollas are a deep purple contrasting wonderfully with the ice white calyces. Available from October 2009 onward.
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$8.95
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Winter Purple
Sold under this name but probably much older as it occurs in very old gardens, this is a tough vigorous and quite cold hardy bush variety to 1.2 m which flowers with considerable abandon for many months. It has large flowers with folded purple petals and deep rose to crimson sepals.
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Geranium The hardy species geraniums (not to be confused with pelargoniums which go under this name in common parlance) are exquisite classic perennials and many are excellent groundcovers providing cushions of exquisite flowers.
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G. robertianum Herb Robert
A fairylike plant, a large rosette of delicately ferny leaves covered with the finest hairs so that the whole plant glistens. The stems are ruby red as is the older foliage and the dainty flowers are rose pink. It is strongly aassociated with goblins and under the protection of Robin Goodfellow (Puck). This plant has had many medicinal herbal uses, including staunching internal haemorrhages, as a gargle for sore throats and in lowering blood sugar levels. The crushed leaves repel mosquitoes.
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$6.50
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Geranium macrorrhizum 'Bevan's Variety'
A perfect choice for a beautiful yet tough, easy to grow groundcover. It forms a mounding, spreading mass of deeply cut, pine-scented foliage to around 30 cm high. The leaves take on a deep wine-50 red colouring in autumn. It is very floriferous and flowers from mid-spring into summer with masses of rich magenta pink single flowers with long protruding anthers. It tolerates a wide range of soils, full sun to light shade, is frost resistant, and also quite drought resistant once established. Loved by butterflies.
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$8.50
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Geranium robustum
It would be worth growing this species for its finely lacy silver-grey foliage alone. But the compact spreading bush covers repeatedly in large lilac flowers with white eyes and deep lilac nectar guides. Gently spectacular. For a sunny position.
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$8.50
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Geranium 'Ruby Trinkets'
An exquisite low growing (to 20 cm) variety with deeply cut dark green foliage and charming sprays of ruby flowers each with long protruding anthers. It prefers light shade and a well drained but moist soil, but is quite drought resistant once established. 'Ruby Trinkets' is loved by butterflies and it flowers over a long period.
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$8.50
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G. maderense
The giant of the geranium family growing to an amazing 1.5m with huge aromatic much divided leaves 0.7m across and producing immense inflorescences of countless rich lilac flowers each up to 4cm across. Gorgeous! Rare.
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$8.50
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G. phaeum Dusky Cranesbill
This is such a striking species, forming dense mounds of foliage from which emerge slender branched in florescences to 50 cm of darkest violet flowers in spring.
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$8.50
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G. phaeum Slate
This rare and exquisite form of the Dusky Cranesbill is similar in all respects with the exception that the flowers are a pure grey.
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$8.50
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Hedychium
Hedychiums come from tropical Asia and northward to the Himalayas. They lend a lush tropical feeling to gardens, yet those listed here will flourish in coastal and lower mountain districts as far south as Melbourne, All have a delectable fragrance and spectacular flowers. Expect plants to die back as winter approaches. Cut any canes that have flowered to the ground as they will not re-flower.They will be replaced by fresh canes.
Hedychiums particularly relish light shade, good drainage, and a moist composted soil.
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Hedychium Mountain Cream
This is a smaller growing deliciously scented and beautiful variety that even very modest sized gardens can accomodate as it reaches around 1.2 m. The densely packed inflorescences re 18 cm long.
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$14.50
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Hedychium gardnerianum Kahili Ginger
An incredibly fragrant member of the ginger family with huge heads of golden flowers. Soon forms a handsome clump about 1.5m tall.
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$10.50
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Hedychium coronarium White Butterfly Ginger or Garland Ginger or White Ginger or Awapui (in Hawaii).
Rated by the writer as one of the world's most exquisite and ethereal fragrances, the large, wide open, white flowers borne in short dense spikes are of fragile purity and pour forth their fragrance in spring. The elegant clump grows to around 1.5 cm. It originated from the Himalayas region and has good cold resistance. It is the national flower of Cuba where it is known as 'Mariposa blanca' and women often adorned themselves with the flowers. The very expensive essential oil is extracted by enfleurage.
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$12.50
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Hedychium flavescens Fragrant Cream H. flavescens
Lower growing to 1.3m, this resembles the White Butterfly Ginger but has pure cream intensely fragrant flowers in summer and autumn. A rarer species, tolerant of cooler regions.
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$12.50
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Helichrysum petiolatum Gold Licorice Plant
Outstanding foliage plant, low growing and spreading with soft finely furredt ime gold dollarlike foliage. The foliage is unscented. This is an outstandingly drought resistant plant perfect for large pots, hanging baskets and window boxes as well as a groundcover for light shade to full sun.
(This is not the edible licorice.)
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$8.50
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H. petiolatum Silver Mist
This is the pure silver foliaged form of the above.
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$8.50
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H. stoechas Curry Plant
A fine, densely foliaged, silvery grey shrub a little like rosemary with a deliciously strong mouth-watering curry scent when crushed. Clusters of golden flowers. The leaves are edible and can be used to add their delicious flavour to food, but the delicious fragrance is lost if used during cooking, so chop leaves finely and sprinkle over at the last moment. It flourishes in a sunny position.
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$8.50
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H. italicum ( syn. H. angustifolium; H. serotinum) Italian Curry Bush
This is a densely foliaged, silvery white, splendid shrub for a well drained sunny position. On a warm day its rich tantalising scent of curry wafts far and wide and the slightest touch to the foliage releases the fragrance. Heads of tiny yellow button flowers. Use in cooking as per H. stoechas
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$8.50
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Heliotrope or Cherry Pie
Heliotropium peruvianum
Marvellously fragrant of vanilla and spice and deliciously old-fashioned. Its dense heads of hundreds of little flowers on a small shrub seem to come forever. We currently offer two difficult-to-find to rare cultivars:
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Golden
This form is low growing, dense, and spreading with purest gold leaves, tumbling over garden edgings with soft lavender flowers in large dense heads and the strongest, most delicious vanilla custard fragrance which floats far beyond the plant.
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$8.50
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Lord Roberts
This precious old variety is the darkest form of Heliotrope with many large full heads of the darkest royal purple flowers set off by lush deep purple foliage. It has a delicious vanilla fragrance and flowers from spring to the end of autumn. It loves a sunny position and normal watering.
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$8.50
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Helleborus
A treasured genus containing a number of species tolerant of shade with handsome evergreen foliage and flowers which closely resemble roser. They like light shade and compost enriched soil and make a perfect underplanting to deciuous trees.
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orientalis Lenten Rose
Native to north-eastern Greece, western Turkey, the Caucasus and Georgia in Russia. The flowers vary exquisitely in colour from white to apple green with blossom pink, deeper pink, wine red, purple and slate. Flowers can be plain or delightfully patterned with deeper speckles. For a rich moist position in partial shade. Cold hardy to -15 degrees C.
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$8.50
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Ruffled Ladies
This superb selection has double ruffled flowers In a range of colours from cream and yellow to deep burgundy often with contrasting fine freckling. These are easy to grow
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$12.50
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H. foetidus Bear-Foot Hellebore
This is one of the most beautiful of the green flowers. The foliage is darkest green and deeply divided into narrow lobes. The branched flowering stems are held above the foliage and bear for many months a profusion of nodding, bell-shaped, apple green flowers with a faint touch of maroon at the tips of the petals. As a bonus, flowering begins at the end of winter and the bees find the sweet early nectar within the flowers irresistible. It has been awarded the coveted Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit. For those with wallaby and possum (and deer in some areas) problems, this plant is very unlikely to be attacked. As for the term 'foetid', you would have to 'get up very close and personal' to the flowers to take mild offence. It is an excellent clump former, drought resistant, and requires very little maintenance.
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$12.50
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Hemerocallis Day Lilies
These were introduced into English gardens in the middle of the 16th century and one of the classics of the herbaceous border. We stock old, reliable and fragrant varieties, alternating varieties each year. daylilies love full sun and good drainage, and are delightfully unfussy. Many are deciduous in winter.
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Top Cream
We've never had a more floriferous daylily than this It flowers in great profusion for many months of the year. The blooms are of excellent rounded form, medium sized, and a warm cream, a colour unaffected by hot sunlight Evergreen.
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$9.50
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Hesperus matronalis Dames Violet
This delightful, old fashioned plant bears tall spires of violet or pure white flowers which pour their sweet fragrance out on the evening air. In Victorian times, potted plants were brought into the house as a treat for everyone at night.It was also very popular planted around the verandah so that it could be enjoyed while resting in the evening . It is one of the most rewarding of all night-scented flowers and resembles a tall single stock to which it is related.
Unlike some night-scented plants it remains beautiful throughout the day and is very attractive to butterflies.
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$6.50
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Hosta Plantain Lily The Plantain Lilies are native to China and Japan and have become greatly appreciated for their lush decorative foliage , frost hardiness, versatility as groundcov ers or pot plants in low light intensity areas, and as exotic foliage plants around pool margins and in bog gardens. They are also valued for their tall spikes of lilylike trumpet shaped flowers which can be fragrant.
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Blue Cadet
Generally considered one of the finest blue leafed hostas, quick growing and forming a dense clump of blue-green heart shaped leaves, and bearing lavender bell flowers.
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$10.50
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Blue Wedgewood
The foliage of this lovely medium sized variety is a light blue resembling the colour the famous ware produce by Wedgwood and Sons in England. The flowers are lavender blue, bell shaped and carried on stalks to 25 cm.
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$12.95
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Gold Standard
This is one of the most outstanding hosta varieties with large lush gorgeous foliage which are gold with a slight suffusion of green at the edges. Quite sensational. The lavender flowers are borne on one metre stems. The mound can grow to 1.5 m in diameter and 55 cm tall.
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$10.50
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So Sweet
Giving a fresh look to the garden, this variety forms a medium sized clump with lush glossy green foliage irregularly variegated white around the margins and very fragrant lavender flowers.
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$10.50
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Loyalist
This is a reverse variegation cultivar and one of the best white centred leaf hostas available. The entre of the leaf is white and surrounded by an irregular deepest green margin.
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$10.50
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Hippeastrum
We have long had a love affair with hippeastrums from species through to those grown in the old colonial and earlier 20th century gardens of Australia and the American Deep South. We love them for their total reliability and toughness in a sunny spot, their huge generous bells of flowers, usually four to the stem, that appear in late spring and early summer, their luscious colourings, and thir ability to grow anywhere in Australia. Keith has raised many seedlings with their DNA generously mixed by our prolific bees. Those who have bought these plants are raving over their beauty and quality. These are full sized three year old bulbs (or older) which will flower next spring. We cannot guarantee what you will get in terms of colour but so far everyone has been thrilled.
Keith's Superb Hippeastrums!
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$10.50
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Houttuynia cordata Chameleon
This exceptionally pretty, creeping groundcover never develops bad manners. The ivy shaped leaves are green very generously splashed with rose pink, crimson, and cream and are strongly lemon scented.It likes moist well composted soils, and should be planted in light shade in hotter areas. The flowers are small but exquisite, resembling a white anemone.
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$8.50
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Hydrangea
Hydrangeas have long been favourites in country gardens as shrubs which are tough, reliable and beautiful. Most appreciate light shade or morning sun and a reasonably moist situation. There are many more varieties at the nursery.
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Agnes Pavellii
A beautiful large mophead variety composed of white flowers.
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$14.50
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aspera Villosa Group Star Hydrangea
An exquisite rarer deciduous hydrangea is frost hardy to -15 degrees C, bearing abundant large lacecap inflorescences. The fertile florets are small and purple while the sterile florets are white tinged blue.It prefers soils enriched with compost and a protected environment, growing up to 3m tall, a glorious sight in early autumn.
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$14.50
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Tosca
A gorgeous creamy pink mophead variety with huge heads.
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$14.50
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chinensis
This species is widespread in China at altitudes from 400 to 2,000 m. It is more elegant and delicate in appearance than almost all hydrngeas with abundant lacecap flowers with usually soft blue sterile flowers. Despite its exquisite looks, it forms a substantial multi-trunked deciduous shrub.
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chinensis f. formosana
A deciduous shrub with willowy leaves and lacecap infloresences of cream flowers and cream fertile flowers.
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$15.50
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macrophylla Chinese Hydrangea or French Hydrangea
Originating from China and Japan, this is the most commonly grown species. All macrophylla hydrangeas have two kinds of flowers, sterile flowers with large showy petals and tiny fertile flowers with very little petals. Depending on which dominates in a flowerhead, macrophylla hydrangeas are divided into two groups, Lacecaps and Hortensias.
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Lacecaps
These have few large sterile flowers but quantities of tiny fertile flowers to create a lacy look:
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Blauling
This cultivar forms a compact bush to 1.2 m and bears prolific large, saucer-shaped, lacy flower heads with a full ring of large sterile flowers which are a brilliant intense blue. Superb.
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$14.50
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Ne Plus Ultra
A gorgeous large lacecap. pink on alkaline soils and blue on acidic soils.
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$14.50
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Nightingale
An exceptionally beautiful cultivar with lacecap heads of blue-purple blooms.
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$14.50
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Hortensias or Garden Hydrangeas
Almost all of the large flower head is composed of sterile flowers with large colourful bracts to create a spectacular shrub:
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Bichon
A compact shrub of medium height to 1.5 m with spectacular abundant white flowers.
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$14.50
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Marie Claire
Utterly iriesistable with huge heads ofsugar pink flowers in abundance. On some soils the flowers may deepen to subtle mixtures of pink, mauve and blue but are still gorgeous. We grow it at the entrance to the nursery where it attracts much admiration.
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$14.50
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President Dormier
A small graceful variety that produces abundant wonderfully rich crimson flowers. It often reblooms in autumn after summer blooming.
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$14.50
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H. paniculata Grandiflora or Peegee Hydrangea
This is the most eye-catching form of the Panicle or Plumed Hydrangea which originates from moist open forest in south-eastern China and Japan. In this variety it is a deciduous shrub to around 2m, with huge domed heads almost entirely composed of large white sterile flower which eventually blush with age to wine colourings. Grandiflora was introduced from Japan in 1862.
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$14.50
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H. paniculata Grandiflora or Peegee Hydrangea
This is the most eye-catching form of the Panicle or Plumed Hydrangea which originates from moist open forest in south-eastern China and Japan. In this variety it is a deciduous shrub to around 2m, with huge domed heads almost entirely composed of large white sterile flower which eventually blush with age to wine colourings. Grandiflora was introduced from Japan in 1862.
Large advanced plants
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$24.00
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H. petiolaris syn. H. anomala subsp. Petiolaris Climbing Hydrangea
This remarkable deciduous self supporting climber comes from Japan. It can climb to 15 m and is spectacular grown up a tall tree, or up the side of a stone or brick structure. It produces prolific , beautiful, flat laceheads of white flowers in summer. It is very frost hardy. protect from hot afternoon sun. It should be regularly watered in summer. Prune gently back toward the support structure at the end of summer.
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$14.50
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H.arborescens Annabelle
A quite rare frost hardy species from North America . This cultivar has very large hemi-spherical heads of small white flowers which age to lime green. the shrub is tall and lax with big serrated leaves.
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$14.50
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H.serrata Star Hydrangea
This is an important deciduous species from Japan and Korea, introduced in 1843, with lacecap flowers.It is reportedly used in a medicinal tea in Korea. We offer it in two exceptional cultivars:
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Greyswood
A rare, exceptionally beautiful variety with prolific, exquisite, subtlely shaded lacecap inflorescences in late summer and autumn. It can reach 1.5 to 1.8 m. The fertile florets are a soft blue while the sterile florets are white blushed pink, giving a subtle smoky lavender colour at a distance.
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$14.50
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Hyssopus officinalis Hyssop
This perennial, neat, sub-shrub bears numerous tall spikes of rich blue flowers which are of great interest to butterflies and bees from ealy summer to late autumn. The neat dark green leaves have a bitter minty flavour and are used sparingly in soups and stews. The flowers can be used to decorate salads. Use the leaves and flowers in pot pourri.
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$7.50
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Impatiens
Forget those garish single annual Impatiens. These are truly special and rare. Impatiens are charming fill-ins for those difficult spots in shady to semi-shady gardens. Chinese Perennial Blue is an exquisite choice for a shaded corner and produces abundant nodding bell-like flowers for months, Monet's variety with its myriad bicolour delicate lilac and white flowers loves sheltered broken light or a morning sun aspect, while the evergreen tall-stemmed Congo adds an exotic tropical note.
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Impatiens niamniamensis Congo
A sensational continuous flowering evergreen perennial species fromeast Africa with lush deep green toothed foliage and many large long-spurred flowers that are deep red below and pure golden yellow above. The flowers on their slender stalks resemble nothing so much as tropical parrots.This gorgeous rare Impatiens grows to around 90 cm, is multistemmed and adds a wonderful tropical feeling to the garden. Ginger flowers make an excellent companion planting. Despite its tropical origins we have found it stands up well to occasional frosts.
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$8.50
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Monet
This is the beautiful variety planted around the famous pool with its wistaria covered green Japanese bridge in Monet's Garden in Giverny in France. It puts on a spendid show with airy panicles of small flowers that are half pure white and half mauve. Let it naturalise in an unwanted corner. Available September to March.
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$7.50
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Chinese Perennial Blue
This extremely pretty variety was collected by Bob Cherry in China many years ago. It is low growing with many hooded flowers in pure heavenly blue. Let it naturalise in a moist shay place. About 30 cm high.
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$7.50
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Iris japo-wattii
A tall lush-foliaged iris with tall flowering stems of lacy, frilled delicate lavender-white flowers. Fast growing and a splendid garden perennial. It is happy in light shade.
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$10.50
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Darjeeling
Perhaps the most spectacular of all iris, forming a clump resembling miniature palms to 1.2m with long sprays of large frilly lavender orchidlike flowers. Magnificent and rare.
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$10.50
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Fairyland
This beautiful Evansia variety has fresh gree strappy leaves and tall panicles of large lacy icy blue orchid-like flowers .
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$10.50
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I. Pseudocorus Yellow Flag or Fleur de Lys
This is the true Fleur-de-Lys cultivated since the 16th century, symbol of Louis VII during the Crusades (Flower of Louis) and mentioned in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleoparta. It was the heraldic symbol of mediaeval France and together with the three Plantagenet lions formed the arns of Edward III in 1339 of France and the Flower-de-luce of Shakespeare. One of the handsomest of all with very tall graceful slender foliage and tall spikes of bright golden scented flowers. Perfectly happy in moister garden soils or can be naturalised around a pool.
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$10.50
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I. pseudacorus Variegata
This garden classic is an excellent variety with swordlike leaves that are generously variegated with palest cream, quickly making a striking clump.
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$10.95
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I. germauica var. florentina Florentine Iris or Orris Root
An exquisite ancient iris which flowers in great profusion in spring in the hills around Florence in Italy. The remarkably prolific flowers are similar to bearded iris, milky white or pale lavener and sweetly fragrant. It was also medicinally in mediaeval times. The rhizome is dried and matured, developing a sweet fragrance of violets and is used as a fixative in the perfumery inustry. For full sun and good drainage. Despite its fragile beauty of its flowers the plant is as tough as old boots.
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$10.50
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I. Germanica Heirloom
Modern iris are certainly beautiful but old varieties are often the mainstay of the spring perennial garden. This tall stemmed (around 90 cm) variety has long lost its name but is found in very old gardens on the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. The very prolific large flowers are lavender and cappuccino coffee in colour, sweetly scented, and the plant rapidly forms a good sized clump. It is genuinely as tough as old boots when grown in a sunny well drained position. Rare.
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$10.50
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Jasmine Jasminum spp.
The Arabic name for the Jasmine is Ysmyn while the Persian is Jasemin and the Chinese Yeh-Lai-Ming. So universal has been the love of this superbly fragrant flower that the name changed little across Asia. Asia Minor and Europe. From the flowers of the white jasmine (J.officinalis) and the Arabic jasmine (J.sambac) are extracted the perfume known as oil of jasmine with its exquisite fragrance. The white jasmine reached English Gardens by Tudor times while Sambac was mentioned by 1659. See also Trachelospermum, Mandevillea and Cestrum for plants which share the same fragrance as jasmine and have common names which include jasmine.
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Azores Islands or Summer Flowering Jasmine J. azoricum
This has glossy dark green leaves framing large trusses of superbly fragrant white stars of flowers. An excellent tough climber for a sunny to lightly shaded position
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$12.95
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J. humile Revolutum Italian Jasmine
A quite rare shrub to 3.5m with evergreen or semi-evergreen foliage. The leaves are composed of up to seven leaflets. The sweetly scented golden flowers are borne in clusters in summer in cooler districts and virtually year round in frost-free climates. Available from August 2009 onward.
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$14.95
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Jasminum multipartitum Starry Wild Jasmine or Many Petalled Jasmine or African Jasmine or Bush Jasmine
This superb species comes from Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. It has glossy dark evergreen foliage, is fast growing to 2.5 m, and perfect for areas that receive summer rains. The individual flowers opening from a profusion of deep rose pink buds are solitary or in small clusters, and are about 3.5 cm or more across, purest white, very sweetly scented, and star shaped with 8 long petals. This jasmine responds well to light clipping and shaping for those who would prefer to grow it in a large pot (a good idea in frosty districts). It requires good drainage and a few hours of sunlight.
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$14.95
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J. nitidum Angelwing Jasmine or Shining Jasmine
This extraordinary species from India is quite cold hardy despite its tropical appearance. The foliage is avery glossy deep green an the large starry flowers emerging from rosy buds are prolific, borne in clusters and intensely fragrant. It is virtually evergreen in milder districts.
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$14.95
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J. officinale grandiflorum Poets Jasmine, Royal Jasmine, Catalonian Jasmine, Spanish Jasmine
This species is native to India, Iran and China and was taken to Spain in the 1600s by the Moors.It smothers in masses of large white flowers heady with fragrance and borne in large airy panicles throughout summer and into late autumn. This can be a large climber in time if allowed to ramble, but can be kept as a neat shrub to 1.5 m, and makes an ideal container plant for a sunny deck or terrace. It is frost hardy, and is grown in Provence, Iran, and Egypt for the perfumery industry. The essential oil is used in aromatherapy for depression, nervousness, coughs, tension, and also as an aphrodisiac.
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$12.95
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J. sambac Arabian or Tea or Sambac Grand Duke of Tuscany
Big double white intensely fragrant flowers resembling baby roses are borne in profusion on a medium, arching shrub. This is the species used to scent Chinese Jasmine Tea.
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$15.50
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J. mesneyi syn. J.primulinum Primrose or Japanese Jasmine
A double softly golden primrose flowered species from western China with arching canes, blooming late winter and early spring. The flowers are sweetly scented.
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$12.95
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Kentranthus ruber Kiss-Me-Quick or Queen Anne's Needlework or Pretty Betsy or Wall Valerian or Red Valerian
A lovely perennial with the added benefit of being exceptionally tolerant of seaside conditions, with large full dense panicles of fragrant tiny flowers and rather fleshy fresh green foliage. It has no medicinal properties but has been used as a pot herb, the fresh leaves chopped and added to salads or steamed and used like spinach. The roots (sacrilege!) are used in France to flavour soups. The flowers are immensely attractive to bees and above all butterflies. Cottage gardeners have loved it for centuries and was described by John Gerard, the great herbalist, growing in his garden in 1597.
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$7.50
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Kolkwitzi amabilis Pink Cloud Beautybush
This beautiful and graceful Chinese Shrub from the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae forms a lightly arching shrub which flowers prolifically along every branch in spring, with clusters of clear light pink trumpet flowers. It prefers a composted well drained soil and morning sun, or can be planted in a woodland garden with no more than 25% shade. Deeper shade inhibits flowering. It is a low maintenance shrub but does appreciate medium level watering. Clay soils are well tolerated.
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$12.50
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Lamium maculatum Beacon Silver
A very pretty groundcover for moist light shade or morning sun with intensely silver-white variegated foliage and dense spikes of showy hooded flowers.
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$7.50
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L. maculatum Pink Pewter
Just so pretty! This is one of the most reliable of groundcovers. It was discovered by John Metcalf in nursery stock and released by Four Season's Nursery in Norwich, England. The leaves, silver edged with deep green, would be reason enough to grow this variety but it flowers and flowers in flushes particularly in spring and autumn producing abundant short dense spikes of delightful hooded apple blossom pink flowers. It does require a moist soil. If a burst of extreme midsummer heat leaves your carpet of Pink Pewter looking bedraggled, shear the plant back lightly, improve the watering, and the whole carpet will almost miraculously fully renew itself, even in patches that have died back. Ideally, give it light dappled shade or morning sun As befits such a refined plant it is no garden thug and occupies space without menace.
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$7.50
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Lamiastrum Hermann's Pride
Lamiastrum is very close to Lamium in form and is used similarly in the garden. This variety mounds densely to around 25 cm high and has beautifully marked foliage, silvered with green veins. The prolific short spikes of golden hooded flowers are charming.and borne through spring. It will tolerate full shade (including dry shade once well established) to full sun, is happy in normal to clay soils and copes with coastal humidity. For those with rabbit problems, this plant is not one of their targets and we find wallabies avoid it too. Whipper snip or shear it back to about 15 cm high in summer if it could use refreshing or is a little lanky.
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$7.50
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Leonotis leonurus Lion's Tail
A magnificent tall creature and an old-time cottagers favourite bearing large spikes of furry bright orange flowers. Splendid at the back of the cottage border. Is used also as a herbal tobacco. Also known as Lion's Ear ot Wildedagga. Has medicinal use in its native South Africa.
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$8.50
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Leonotis Cream
This is the rare and very beautiful creamy-white velvety flowered form.
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$8.50
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Linaria purpurea Canon Went
An exquisite perennial with many dense slender branched 80cm spikes of pure baby ribbon pink snapdragon flowers.
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$8.50
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Linaria triornithophora Pink Budgerigars
Undoubtedly one of the longest flowering, most elegant and most stunning of perennials. It resembles a giant Fairy Bouquet and grows to around 90 cm. Established plants send up around tall flower spikes with whorls of bright lilac pink large flowers resembling circles of birds surrounding a plate. It is sometimes called Three Birds Flying or Three Birds Toadflax. Easy to grow, and stunning.
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$8.50
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purpurea Bob's Favourite
Similar to Canon Went but with rich purple flowers.
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$8.50
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Lobelia
Everyone knows the pretty deep blue annual bedding lobelia but here are some very striking and very floriferous long flowering perennials for the border. These will form sizeable clumps, dying back each winter.
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siphilitica Blue Cardinal Flower or Great Lobelia
A superb tall showy perennial with spires of bell-like rich blue flowers. Cultivated in Europe since 1665. For moist soil, sun or partial shade. Rare.
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$8.50
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x speciosa Queen Victoria
Pure wine and ruby red foliage combine with tall 80cm spikes of spectacular cardinal red fan shaped flowers. Honeyeaters love this plant.
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$8.50
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Lonicera Honeysuckle
We love the fragrance of honeysuckle so much we named our 1860's cottage and our nursery in its honour. (Our property is Magnolia Farm). When we came here 21 years ago we found a 70 year old hedge of Winter Honeysuckle which still flourishes and lovely tangles of the highly fragrant pink and cream flowered wild woodbine of England and Japanese honeysuckle. Our many additions the huge flowered very fragrant Giant Burmese Honeysuckle filmed and photographed many times by bemused television crews and photojournalists. Through almost all the months of the year the fragrance of honeysuckle fills our mountain air.
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L. x americana
This is an exceptionally beautiful climbing honeysuckle to around 6 m, prolific and long flowering throughout summer, with fragrant, slender, palest cream flowers blushed deep pink, borne in whorls, and smooth blue-green foliage. Despite its name, it was discovered in the south of France and is believed to be a hybrid between the two Mediterranean species L.etrusca and L. caprifolium.
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$14.50
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Lychnis coronaria Occulta
Give this truly charming form of the Rose Campion a well drained sunny position and a small handful of dolamite as it loves a limed soil. Treasured in cottage gardens of the past, the Rose Campion forms rosettes of silvered grey leaves rather like that of Lambs Ears. Tall elegant branched flowering stems emerge in late spring and summer with single palest pink disc-shaped flowers with a precise deeper pink eye.
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$8.50
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L. nitida Baggesen's Gold
Used in hedging for knot gardens and other purposes, and will reach 1 m if required. It has a neat tiny dense glossy almost pure gold foliage and tiny twinned cream honeysuckle flowers. Native to Yunnan and West Sichuan in China.
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$10.50
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Firecracker
An exceptionally lovely, very sweetly fragrant moderately climbing honeysuckle with clusters of bright crimson buds opening to rose and pale cream flowers in the style of English Honeysuckle. Vigorous and healthy but a restrained climber to around 4 m. It flowers profusely in spring and again in autumn with sporadic flowers between.
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$14.50
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Giant Burmese L. hildenbrandtiana
An amazing honeysuckle with very prolific huge creamy golden intensely fragrant flowers up to about 12cm long. Vigorous (ideal for a pergola) with almost evergreen, large, glossy leaves. Very rare. Ideal for mild winter areas.
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$14.50
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Gold Flame L. x heckrottii
One of the most beautiful of all climbers with excellent smooth blue-green foliage and large, very abundant whorls of clear golden honeysuckle flowers suffused apricot and pink. It is smothered in flowers for many months of the year. We grow it climbing through the soft apricot flowered old French Noisette climbing rose Crépuscule (1904) which is equally floriferous, dreamily fragrant, and long flowered, and the effect is quite simply perfection.
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$14.50
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L. korolkowii
A charming deciduous shrub honeysuckle with small neat deep green leaves and masses of small, rose pink, baby honeysuckle flowers followed by red berries. Very hardy.
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$14.95
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L. periclymenum Pink or English or Wild Woodbine
The one so often seen covering an arch or a porch in England cottage gardens, and of course Shakespeare's woodbine and the honeysuckle of hedgerows. Lovely soft clear pink and cream flowers, in masses, always fragrant but with evening it loses a certain earthy quality and the sweetness becomes curiously clarified and fine. Foliage blue-green.
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$14.50
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Winter L. fragrantissima
A quite rare graceful arching shrub to around 3 m, deciduous, bearing along the length of its slender bare branches throughout winter masses of miniature creamy white honeysuckle flowers. The fragrance, a mixture of honeysuckle and lemon, is sublime .
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$14.50
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Lysimachia nummularia Aurea Golden Creeping Jenny or Golden Moneywort
Few plants make a more attractive hanging basket, window box drapery, evergreen groundcover with a mature spread of around 80 cm for a small area , spillover around paths and a pond edging. It has many long trailers lined with perfectly spaced five cent piece chartreuse to golden leaves with bright yellow tiny cupped blooms. It loves full sun other than westerly sun and a moist well drained compost enriched soil.
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$7.50
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Mandevillea suaveolens Chilean Jasmine
A climber bearing large white open trumpet flowers with an exquisite fragrance that wafts far into the garden during the summer months
Now quite rare
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$14.00
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Michelia figo syn. Magnolia fuscata, Michelia fuscata Port Wine magnolia or Banana Shrub
Few plants are more famed for their fragrance.This is a relatively slow growing shrub species originating from China, with glossy evergreen small foliage bearing in spring quantities of small cream flowers deeply suffused with purple that are intensely and fruitily fragrant, resembling port wine.
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$14.50
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Monarda Bergamot, Bee Balm, Oswego Tea (ref. To M. didyma), Horsemint
We would never choose to be without these beautiful fragrant easy to grow perennials for full sun to partial shade. They love a rich moist soil, full sun to partial shade, but will tolerate dry conditions. The whorls of nectar rich tubular flowers are very attractive to honeyeaters, butterflies and bees and are borne in profusion on tall willowy stems to around one metre. The colours are rich, soft and enchanting, and the foliage has a delightful warm citrus fragrance. Tea made from the leaves has been used by herbalists in the treatment of stomach cramps, headaches, and fevers. Monarda is hardy to around -25 degrees C.
Monarda species were introduced into gardens more than three centuries ago and are a quintessential cottage garden plant. Monarda didyma was the soure of a tea known as Oswego Tea which replaced regular tea after the Boston Tea Party. The leaves contains the antiseptic compound thymol (found also in thyme) and were used by several Indian tribes to treat various infections. The taste of the tea has been likened to that of the citrus bergamot which is used to flavour Earl Grey tea. Lemon Bergamot is a favourite for a herbal tea. Wild Bergamot is a source of thymol and was used similarly to M. didyma by Indian tribes, usually in the form of tea. Add a little honey to sweeten.
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M. didyma Croftway Pink
One of the oldest varieties available and still one of the best and loveliest, awarded the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. It creates a good sized clump to 85 cm high and 45 cm wide with masses of flowering stems each topped with dense whorls of fragrant, long lasting, clear soft pink, tubular flowers which are filled with nectar and very attractive to butterflies and honeyeaters. The bracts are apple pink lightly suffused with rose pink. The mid green foliage is scented with a mixture of basil, citrus and mint. Like other perennial bergamot varieties it is fully hardy and flowers in the latter part of summer and autumn. Croftway Pink is an easy grower and will also grow well in seaside gardens.
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$8.50
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M. didyma Beauty of Cobham
This outstanding variety has tall stemmed, large, whorled heads of soft clear pink fragrant flowers each with dramatic purple bracts, creating a wonderful midsummer display. Fragrant foliage, a mixture of warm basil, citrus and mint, has been used in a herbal tea.
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$8.50
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Monarda citriodora Lemon Bergamot
This is one of the prettiest of the bee balms with gently showy tall spikes of many dense separate whorls of lavender-pink flowers with tiny purple freckles. This is an American herb native to the South-West USA and also goes by the names Prairie Bergamot, Lemon Horse Mint and Lemon Mint among others. The foliage is strongly lemon scented and was used as a tea and as a flavouring herb for game by the Hopi Indians. The fresh leaves are now widely used, to make an excellent tea, to flavour fish and chicken dishes, and as an addition to salads. They are also used in the preparation of long cold drinks. The flowers are edible and are used in salads and scattered over desserts at the last moment.
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$8.50
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Shades of Red
This gorgeous form of Bee Balm forms a clump of flowering stems to 75 cm high, each stem topped with large showy whorls of fragrant, richest crimson red, tubular flowers which are very attractive to butterflies and honeyeaters, The dark green foliage is scented of citrus mixed with basil and has traditionally been used be in herbal teas. 'Shades of Red' flowers in the latter half of summer and into autumn.
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$8.50
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M. fistulosa Wild Bergamot
This beautiful species is both drought and cold (to -25 degrees C) resistant and is a perennial which will adapt to almost any situation. Yet it is a queen in the garden with a sumptuous display of clear lavender large flower heads on tall willowy stems, soon forming a good clump. The leaves have a delightful warm oregano scent and are used, fresh or dried, to flavour meats and wild game (and in recent times ricotta cheese). They contain thymol and have also traditionally been used in a tea with antiseptic properties during the season of coughs, colds and sore throats.
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$8.50
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Myrtus communis Sweet Myrtle
A beautiful neat dark green shrub covering in sweetly scented white flowers with fluffy masses of stamens. The foliage is also fragrant. It has been used since the ancient Greeks and was sacred to Aphrodite, goddess of love. The berries were eaten fresh, and when dried were used as a spice. They were also used to dye hair.The leaves are used in pot pourri, and the oil extracted from the leaves is used in perfumes and cosmetics. Sweet Myrtle is also used in herbal medicine as a tea for flatulence. Recent investigations have demonstrated that it has antibiotic activity. For full sun.
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Tarentina
This is a fairly dwarf form of the Sweet Myrtle with dense fragrant foliage, and very sweetly perfumed white flowers.
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$9.95
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Nepeta Catmint
These are exceptional garden perennials, flowering over a long season, suited to a sunny, well drained position. See also Catnip below.
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Nepeta cataria Catnip
Irresistable to every red blooded pussy! Not unlike lemon balm in form but with soft velvety grey green leaves, bearing spires of dainty white flowers in midsummer. The leaves are like marijuana for pussycats.They roll over them in ecstacy and then fall into deep sleep, presumably accompanied by amazing technicolour dreams! For mere humans the leaves have time honoured use as a soothing relaxing tea usually taken at night to assist in restful sleep. No technicolour dreams! Use the dried leaves also to stuff cat toys and pussy pillows, the perfect gift for the cat that has everything. N. cataria Citriodora Lemon Catnip Amazing! This is a quite rare deliciously lemon-scented catnip. It makes an excellent tea with similar properties to catnip.Flavour it with honey. Pussies adore it.
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$7.50
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N. x faassenii Six Hills Giant A delightful edging subject forming a robust spreading clump of smallish, aromatic grey-green foliage Excellent perennial with lavender-blue flowers on billowing dense spikes, forming large lax mounds. Flowers throughout summer. Bees adore it as do pussies.
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$7.50
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Nepeta subsessilis 'Blue Dreams'
A beautiful form of the Japanese Catmint and very popular with gardeners in Europe and America although little known as yet in Australia.. It forms an upright clump to around 60 cm high with fragrant serrated green leaves and whorls of blue flowers suffused with purple and with speckled lower lips. The flowers are much larger than those of''Six Hills Giant' are very attractive to honey eaters and butterflie. This, makes a beautiful addition to a perennial border, flowering throughout the summer and autumn.
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$8.50
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N. tuberosa
This choice rare perennial species comes from rocky hillsides in Spain and Portugal and needs good drainage and full sunlioght. It reaches 70-80 cm with soft finely furry grey foloiage and profuse compact spikes of rich purple flowers.
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$8.95
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Nicotiana sylvestris Fragrant White Tobacco
This is the classic stately pure white intensely fragrant perennial tobacco of the English perennial border. It has long narrow trumpets in large nodding clusters which become dreamily fragrant as evening draws on. The flowers remai open even on dull days unlike many other flowering tobaccos.The soft green leaves smell of petunias! Rare.
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$8.50
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N. langsdorffii
A Brazilian species now much sought after by European gardeners for its airy large panicles of thimble sized pure green flowers shaped like goblets which remain open throughout the day regardless of cloudy conditions. They also have amazing blue pollen. If you love green flowers you must have this one. It will seed gently around the parent so you should always have a few. Rare.
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$8.50
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OcimumPerennial basil varieties Listed here are shrub basils which can last in the garden for many years, are deliciously fragrant and have very ornamental qualities. For our full list of basils, see the section Gourmet Herbs
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Camphor Basil Ocimum kilmandscharicum
A tall bushy perennial with spikes of white blossoms. The leaves have a refreshing sweet minty camphoraceous fragrance similar to that of costmary. Excellent in pot pourri and as an ingredient of sweet bags used to repel moths in linen. Winter hardy.
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All Year
This beautiful hybrid basil forms a sturdy rounded bush to 1 m with tall spikes of white flowers suffused with lavender. The foliage has a fragrance similar in scent and flavour to sweet basil, one of its parents, for which it can be substituted in cooking. In a warmer climate it is long lived but should be given frost protection in areas subject to colder winters. Rare.
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African Blue Basil
A beautiful hybrid of O. kilimandscharicum with sweet basil, growing to a bush around 90 cm high with purple suffused leaves and beautiful long spikes of mauve flowers which are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It is more cold sensitive than the African parent and in areas subject to frosts should receive winter protection. Alternatively cuttings should be propagated for spring planting. It is long lived in warm climates. The leaves have excellent flavour and fragrance for culinary use.
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$9.50
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O. gratissima East Asian or Tree Basil
Not a tree but a long lived shrub to around 1.6 m with large leaves scented of allspice and basil and long spikes of cream flowers. It has surprising winter hardiness and is not affected by mild or occasional frosts. It is pretty in flower but it is for the delightful foliage fragrance that it particularly earns a place in the garden. This basil should be better known outside its tropical Asian distribution for its culinary value and has a spicy flavour and fragrance. Winter hardy.
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Oenothera speciosa Showy Evening Primrose or Vesperine Primrose Pink Petticoats
A lovely perennial which is sweetly scented at night, bearing masses of cupped blush pink blooms on aspreading subshrub to 35cm high. Even on the hottest summer day it contrives to look exquisitely fresh when all around it plants look exhausted.
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Oxypetalum caeruleum Tweedia
There is no plant with flowers this exact colour - like the pure blue of a Siamese cat's eyes - with tiny turquoise centre.. It forms a sturdy little aspirational climber to about 90 cm with lots of starry blue flowers and velvety grey-green foliage. foliage. In warmer districts it is long lived. Evergreen. Cut back by a third in spring. Loves full sun.
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Origanum Ornamental and Fragrant Oregano
There is a separate section elsewhere devoted to Origanums but some varieties are beautiful summer flowering perennials which deserve a place of honour in the ornamental garden. Few plants are more drought hardy once established. They come from the mediterranean and all love full sun. It is said that their warm spicy scent was bestowed on them by Aphrodite. Bees and butterflies adore them.
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Devon Cream Origanum vulgare
This is one of the prettiest of variegated plants, forming a low growing dense cushion delightfully variegated with pale cream very plentifully splashed on fresh green. The foliage is deliciously and strongly scented of oregano. A must.
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Dingle Fairy
One of the most irrisistable origanums, making a dense cushiony creeping mat of fragrant foliage. It produces masses of hop-like inflorescences in cream, apple green. and pink bracts on short stems in summer. Fit for a fairy to perch upon. Full sun, good drainage (it loves a large pot) and grit around the plant is recommended.
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Fontfroide Abbey
We love this apple blossom pink variety. Itr is a vigorous upright grower to around 75 cm with neat ark green foliage and masses of large airy panicles of powder pink flowers. Very easy to grow and delightful. Not for culinary use.
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Herrenhausen
A variety with richly purple tinged foliage and a delightfully spice-and-fruit scent. The abundant flowers borne in airy panicles dry wonderfully well for craft work and pot pourri.
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Golden or Aureus O. vulgare
Grown in full sunshine this variety spreads to form a substantial dense carpet up to 80 cm wide of pure golden foliage and has palest pink inflorescences. The foliage has good typical oregano flavour for culinary use. It is one of the most attractive of all groundcovers in a well drained sunny position.
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Hopley's Purple
This variety of O. laevigatum loves a well drained sunny position. The lightly aromatic leaves are very small and neat and the flower stems to 30 cm bear very showy airy terminal panicles of tiny purple flowers. Once established the clump produces a misty cloud of flowers throughout the summer and autumn months which attract bees and butterflies. It is very heat hardy and dies down each year for the winter.
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Rosenkuppel O. laevigatum cv.
This is a spectacular garden origanum which does spendidly in full sun and tolerates dry conditions once fully established. the large dense heads are composed of dozens of purple flowers with maroon sepals and are very attractive to bees and butterflies. It dies down to the ground in winter in cooler climates, reshooting in spring.
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Santa Cruz
The gorgeous little hop-like flowers are a soft dusky rose pink and the neat foliage is a clear light green. The plant has wiry red-suffused stems. The flowers are beautiful either fresh or dried for craft work.
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Showy
Soft grey green aromatic foliage and long stemmed airy panicles of mauve flowers creating a misty effect in the garden.
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Origanum Thumble's Variety
This is a golden-green leaved form of oregano, more compact and lower growing than Golden Oregano and closer to a bright lime green, It has excellent flavour for cooking and it spreads to around 30 cm or more and to a height of 15 to 20 cm. It is drought resistant and the short branched spikes of tiny tubular light pink flowers are butterfly and bee attractors.
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Red Rosebud
This rare old Victorian variety has clusters of tiny deep red double blossoms resembling a posy of double roses. In Victorian times they were great favourites in corsages and for use as buttonholes. It is rarely out of flower between September and April and is an easy grower in a pot or in the garden in a sunny well drained position. The Rosebud geraniums first appeared in the 1850s.
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Scented geraniums See large separate section Scented Geraniums.
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Penstemon
We offer a number of exquisitely beautiful cultivars and species of these herbaceous perennials because they are among the most reliable and floriferous plants for Australian conditions. All have spikes of bell flowers, and flourish in full sun with very modest water and soil requirements. They flower from early to mid-summer and many continue their display for up to six months... the party girls who never go to bed.They are not bothered by pests and actually like a dryish soil! They also require no staking. No expertise required! Tip: Penstemons do not need feeding. In areas with heavy summer rainfall, mulch around them with 2-3 cm of gravel in which they will revel. And of course in all areas water moderately until they are established. Excellent flowers for the climate changed garden, with almost all the original species originating from the hot dry American South West and northern Mexico. Yet they ;ook as if they have arrived fresh from an English garden. They will thrive in a wide range of climates and are excellent cut flowers.
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Alice Hindley
This exquisite beauty should be in every garden, with many tall spikes to 1 m each bearing dozens of large white bell flowers each edged with purple. Utterly beautiful!
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Blackbird
This is a great favourite among gardeners seeking a very rich deep purple cultivar. The throat of the long tubular flowers is striped with purple. It grows to 90 cm, and has good cold hardiness.
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Chester Scarlet also known as Mrs. Morse
This outstanding penstemon is vigorous and upright growing to 90 cm with slender olive green leaves and prolific racemes of beautiful vivid crimson-scarlet bells each with a paler throat which are borne throughout the warm months of the year.
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P. digitalis Husker's Red
With leaves that colour to beetroot red , this variety has elegant wiry swaying stems of dainty palest pink trumpet flowers tipped with rose.
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Evelyn
An exquisite perennial with fine leafed foliage and many slender spikes of small clear fairy floss pink tubular bells. To us, this is the most elegant of all the penstemons. Quite rare.
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Midnight Also known as Russian River (the beautiful wine growing district on the northern Californian coast). For all those who love rich dramatic colours in the garden,this Penstemon has tall spires to 80cm of rich deep midnight blue-purple flared bell flowers that our honeyeaters love to sip nectar from. Very free flowering through summer and autumn.
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Mother of Pearl
A stunning variety, growing to 90 cm x 90 cm, covering in small opalescent flowers shaded with azure and and lavender-pink, the throats finely striped with cranberry.
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Osprey
This is a truly gorgeous perennial with many 70 cm spikes of creamy flowers blushed with pink. In really cold areas it needs winter protection.
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Pink Cloud
Indispensable, to our thinking, with its grace and style. The tall racemes of soft pink flowers are borne in great profusion and throughout the warmer months. Deep green foliage.
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P. rubicunda Firestem
This rare species has spikes of large, widely flared, trumpet flowers in glowing rich red with a white speckled throat. 90 cm
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Ruby Port
This is a stunning variety growing to 75 cm with rich deep wine red flowers with darker veined throats. Available from October 2009 onward.
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Sour Grapes
A sensational penstemon forming a large clump up to 1.4m wide with masses of metre high long dense spikes of purplish-blue bell flowers touched with emerald green. To see it is to want! Vita Sackville-West gave it the seal of approval, growing it for many years in her famous garden at Sissinghurst Castle.
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Thorn
A white, large flowered variety, deeply rouged with rich pink around the petal edges, making a striking display on tall, dense spikes.
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P. tubaeflorus White Great Plains Beardtongue
This elegant rare perennial blooms in early summer with a profusion of tall showy spikes of pure white flowers that emerge from a low growing large rosette of leaves. It requires a well drained sunny position but is moisture tolerant.
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Willie's Purple
This beautiful variety was collected by David Glenn. It is an extremely robust grower with tall very striking spikes of tubular rich purple flowers. Drought resistant.
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Perovskia Little Spires Russian Sage
Perovskia is an ideal plant for hot dry climates and has so many virtues, with branched airy spires of flowers that resemble true lavender from a distance, spicily pungent silvered foliage, excellent drought resistance once established, an exceptionally long flowering period from midsummer onward, and is an attractor of bees and butterflies. Not unimportantly, it is of no culinary interest to possums and wallabies. The plant is a perennial spreading on short rhizomes to produce a good clump. This variety will still grow to 0.7 to 0.9 m, but is less rangy than the species and unlikely to flop. Cold resistant, but In very cold districts, place mulch over plants at the end of the season.
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Persicaria microcephala Red Dragon
This is a spctacular, glowing, deep burgundy red leafed form of the elegant Chinese species. The arrow shaped leaves are marked like tapestry with rich deep brown and pewter grey. In late summe it bearsr dainty airy panicles of white flowers. It creates a splash of rich wine red in the garden. Importantly, this variety does not run and has no significant pests and diseases.. Rare.
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Swan Lake
A superb form with prolific tall spikes of large ice white bell flowers.
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Philadelphus Mock Orange
These shrubs are among the glories of late spring and early summer, their graceful stems covering in a profusion of blossom which is intensely scented of orangeblossom. Philadelphus are all winter hardy. They like a well drained sunny position with organically enriched soil.
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P. coronarius cv. Grandiflora Mock Orange, Orange Blossom
No old-fashioned garden is complete without this gloriously fragrant spring flowering shrub. Introduced by the Romans into England, it was found in gardens throughout England by Tudor times. It smothers in large, single, pure white flowers in spring and smells deliciously of sweet fresh orange blossom.
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Aureus P. coronarius Aureus
A rare classic, a shrub growing to 1.8m with leaves that are pure gold, later in mid-summer acid green, glowing on overcast days, with delightfully fragrant white flowers.
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Beauclerk
A stunningly beautiful, spring flowering, deciduous spreading shrub growing to 2.0m , bred in 1938. The prolific, fragrant flowers are very large , pure white with a small purple centre.
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Virginal
A sensational old French cultivar which can reach 3 m in height with time . The cupped, purest white flowers are semi-double to double once established and beautifully fragrant, borne in great abundance along the arching stems. Dark green foliage. This is a particularly frost hardy variety.
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Manteau d'Hermine
This beautiful old French Lemoine hybrid forms a dense, low, mounding bush about 75 cm high and up to 1.5 m wide and is quite rare. The profuse creamy white, fully double, fragrant flowers open from rosy pink buds.
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Silver Showers
This is a smaller bush to 1.2 m with upright arching stems and masses of single white intensely fragrant flowers in late spring. It is very hardy with pure white single very fragrant flowers.
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Minnesota Snowflake
This is an upright growing deciduous shrub which can reach 1.8 to 2.2 m tall with racemes of large bouble starry white flowers. It is very cold tolerant. This variety will be available from September 2009 onward.
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P.mexicanus
A 2.5m high shrub of exquisite beauty, absolutely smothering in late spring with single creamy white flowers that have golden stamens and a delicious intense orange blossom fragrance.
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Phlox
Midsummer to autumn flowering, tall, elegant and eye-catching, deliciously fragrant and heat and drought resistant, these perennial phlox are irresistible.
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Phlox paniculata Dunbar Creek
Visitors to the nursery in summer exclaim over this tall growing (to 1.0 m) perennial phlox with its large dense terminal heads of spicily fragrant white single flowers. The stems are sturdily upright and have withstood high winds for us. It is heat and drought resistant, attractive to butterflies, and revels in full sun. It will come into flower after the beautiful 'Miss Lingard' so that superb perennial white phlox are in the garden for months.
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Phlox carolina Miss Lingard or Wedding Phlox
This beautiful perennial has been in cultivation in the United States since the 1920s. It has smooth shiny mildew proof foliage and forms a clump with many big, dense, showy heads of fragrant purest white flowers on long stems. It is wonderfully attractive to butterflies and honeyeaters, and at night its sweet fragrance and white flowers attract hawkmoths. The plant grows to around 90 cm high and wide, and thrives in full sun to light shade in a well drained soil
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Phlox paniculata Robert Poore
A stunning perennial with many erect flowering stems to 1.0 m or more each terminating in large sowy panicles of deliciously fragrant rich lilac single flowers in mid to late summer. It is very attractive to butterflies and attracts honeyeaters. For full sun and average watering.
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Plectranthus argentatus Silver Coleus
A beautiful plant which grows to about 0.8m with large coleus-like soft velvety silvered grey leaves. It bears tall spikes of lavender flowers in summer, and is remarkably drought tolerant. It will grow in sun to partial shade.
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P. canina Dogbane or Wolfsbane
A dense rather succulent-leaved groundcover for a dry sunny position with a strong musky smell said to repel wolves (and dogs!) with numerous very pretty dense upright spikes of pale lavender-blue flowers.
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Populus balsamifera Balsam Poplar
Also known as Balm of Giliad, and Tacahamac Poplar, this quite fast growing tree reaches its maximum height in 20 years, which can be up to 25 m or more in ideal situations where water is not limited. Native to North America, it is deciduous, cold hardy, and produces catkins in late spring. The bark is fragrant, and the large winter buds are covered in sticky very fragrant resin. The winter buds were traditionally harvested before they opened and used to heal wounds and as a treatment for coughs and colds. The bark was used to prepare a tincture which was used to treat a range of infections of the chest, stomach, and kidneys as well as in the treatment of scurvy and gout. The flowers were gathered when freshly opened, steeped in cold fresh water, and drunk to purify the blood in spring. Rare.
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Primula
Primula species and varieties Perennial Primroses and Polyanthus Primroses and their ancient hybrid, polyanthus, are perfect for moist soil in morning sun or light broken sun. They have been treasured in gardens since the medieval period. Gathered here are cold hardy perennial primroses and polyanthus of great antiquity or of considerable rarity, many imported from England and France. Primroses produce a number of stems from the rosette of leaves, each terminating in a single flower, while polyanthus stems terminate in a cluster of flowers. Polyanthus arose from a natural cross between cowslips and primroses which resulted in the original Oxslip. In the middle of the 17th century some coloured forms arose and were selected for breeding. These became the earliest members of the poyanthus tribe, and were first described in 1665. Forget those huge gaudy modern throwaways, and discover the jewel-like treasured perennial varieties, some of them ancient. These are large plants and will multiply quickly into clumps.
Please see separate web page Primroses
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Prunella grandiflora Bella Deep Rose
This is a truly gorgeous butterfly attracting hardy perennial forming a dense mat of low attractive foliage and amazing masses of deep rose pink flowers born on 15-20 cm spikes from early summer to early autumn. It has good winter hardiness.
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Rosa Old-Fashioned Roses
We have a large offering of heritage and nostalgia roses each year which are mail ordered in winter each year and can also be purchased in pots at the nursery throughout the year unless sold out. These include Wild Roses and their Hybrids, Damasks, Gallicas, Albas, Centifolias, Mosses, Bourbons, Portlands, Hybrid Perpetuals, Chinas, Musk Hybrids, Old Hybrid Teas, Alister Clark Roses, Baby or Donkey Roses, David Austin Roses, Ranblers and Climbers, and Rugosas. Please see separate Section of website.
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We offer a select few Own Root Old-Fashioned rambler and climber roses with this Heirloom Flowers catalogue that have proved suited to Mail Order throughout the year.
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Albertine Rambler Rose
These are hardened off small bushes grown in 150 ml pots, not 2 year plants as in the rose catalogue
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Bloomfield Abundance syn. Shrub Cecile Brunner
These are hardened off small bushes grown in 150 ml pots, not 2 year plants as in the rose catalogue
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Brownlow Hill Rambler Wichuriana hybrid, presumed Edwardian
This rose remains unidentified but came to us as a gift from James Broadbent the well-known landscape historian. It was found at the historic Brownlow Hill country estate of Alexander Macleay who also built Elizabeth Bay House in Sydney It flowers in late spring and early summer with a glorious display of large, very double, saucer shaped blooms of soft pink blushed raspberry pink in the centre and with the intense unmistakable fresh sweet scent of ripe apples. The foliage is superb: dark green, refined, highly polished and absolutely disease proof.
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Chinese Double Purple Multiflora
Collected by Bob Cherry on a plant hunting expedition some years ago in China, this beautiful old variety is a rambler rose with profuse clusters of small, double, violet-purple, sweetly fragrant flowers.
These are hardened off small bushes grown in 150 ml pots, not 2 year plants as in the rose catalogue
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Francis E Lester Rambler Rose
These are hardened off small bushes grown in 150 ml pots, not 2 year plants as in the rose catalogue
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The Secret Garden Rambler Rose
Once flowering but just so spectacular, this is a large rambler rose suited to larger properties. It absolutely smothers in spring with very large heads of single pure pink flowers We've grown it with the fragrant Pink Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum. They flower together and make a bewitching combination.
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Village Charm Rambler Rose Own Root, 1982
This magnificent creature is strictly for the large garden. It flowers once a year for 4-6 weeks and grows into a stand-alone arching shrub to about 4 m high and wide with flawless lush foliage in even the wettest year. In flower it is breathtaking, every arching branch smothering along its length with very sweetly fragrant clusters of small, semi-double, cupped, blossom pink flowers. It is the ultimate show stopper rose in every respect with a scent that drifts far and wide.
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Pycnanthemum pilosum Mint Mountain Mint or Whorled Mountain Mint or Hoary Mountain Mint
This mint related species originates from the USA where it is found on the prairies and in open dry woodland. It is an exceptionally attractive perennial species forming a small multi-stemmed shrub with soft little leaves and prolific terminal branched whorled spikes of palest pink flowers like miniature Monarda inflorescences. The whole plant is redolent of mint and was used by Native Americans in a freshing tea. The leaves can be used either fresh or dried to make a tea.
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Rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis
Please see separate section in catalogue Rosemary
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Rudbeckia fulgida
Amongst the finest of all perennials for the summer garden, plants make a many stemmed upright compact growth and completely smother with large golden cone flowers with deep brown button eyes. It is an excellent cut flower and highly attractive to butterflies. It was Perennial Plant of the Year in 1999 (despite having been bred in 1937) and is rated as one of the most popular garden perennials of the last 50 years.
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Ruta graveolens Rue Shakespeare's Herb of Grace
This is an ancient biblical herb symbolic of repentance. It is a perennial shrub to 1m with finely cut lacy soft sea-blue foliage and four-petalled flowers of soft yellow with an emerald centre. Rue tea is said to be a tonic drink and good for dispelling a nervous headache (Definitely needs honey added). Rue is also given to poultry to help cure croup. One of the herbs in the famous Four Thieves Vinegar.
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Jackman's Blue
A classic small shrub with exquisite dense lacy very blue foliage which is pungently aromatic. The clusters of lemon flowers are delightful.
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Salvia spp. Sages
We have a very large collection of these, and love them for their ability to withstand drought, their unfussy qualities, their long flowering, and of course because we Honeysuckle Cottagers just love plants with delicious leaf fragrances. The flowers attract abundant honeyeaters, butterflies, and bees to our garden. Please see separate Section Sages for our very large full list. The following are perfect in the flower garden, either resembling perennials or are small neat shrubs suited to the perennial border:
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Salvia aurea syn. S. africana Lutea African Sage
A shrub to 1.2 m from South Africa with aromatic grey-green leaves and flowers of a most unusual shade of terracotta arranged in whorls. The dusky lime-green and maroon calyces persist for a long time. Drought and cold resistant.
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S. azurea var. grandiflora Azure Sage
One of the most beautiful of all blue flowers. The plant is drought resistant and forms a bush of many tall graceful slender stems to 1.0m high with long dense spikes of clear soft azure blue wide lipped fllowers which are very attractibe to honeyeaters and butterflies. The leaves are slender and grey green. It makes a wonderful display in late summer and autumn.
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S. dorisiana Fruit Salad Sage
A soft-textured large-leafed sage from Honduras. It grows to around 1.0 m, and the large soft foliage releases the most astonishing true, strong and delicious fragrance of fruit salad at the slightest touch. It produces abundant very large showy heads of vibrant mid-pink large flowers. Rare. It gently suckers (never becoming a problem for us even with rich basalt soil) to form a clump. We love to plant it beside garden seats and watch the delight and surprise of those who brush against it. It is tolerant of light shade but prefers sun. Drought resistant once established.
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S. involucrata cv. Mulberry Jam Roseleaf Sage
This richly coloured salvia forms a neat rounded bush to 1.2 m that flowers from the beginning of summer into late autumn or even winter for us. The long spikes of large tubular flowers are a vivid pink opening from dusky magenta buds, and the calyces are deep purple, attracting masses of honey eaters in our garden.
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S. involucrata Pink Icicles
This gorgeous new variety of the beautiful Roseleaf Sage grows to around 1.0 m and bears prolific large dense spectacular spikes of ice pink flowers each surrounded by matching bracts. The flowers are faintly fragtant. A must!
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S. chamaelageana
A beutiful perennial like plant which sends up many metre-long stems with small, neat, lime-green, finely scalloped, aromatic leaves The airy inflorescences of flowers are the colour of newly washed spring skies and are marked with cream. It is drought resistant but should be given winter protection in cold areas.
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S. coccinea White Texas Sage
A delightful plant for a dry situation and also tolerant of light shade. It bears branched inflorescences with many spikes of ice white flowers.
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S. coccinea Apricot Sage
The small very pretty bush grows to around 70 cm bearing dense spikes of softest apricot lipped flowers.
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S. flocculosa Kathe
Originating from Equador where it grows in the cooler highlands, this form makes a compact shrub with abundant neat, small, silvered-green foliage and very pretty dense spikes of sky blue flowers. This is a charmer and suited to full sun through to partial shade and a well-drained soil.
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Salvia greggii Lara
One of the prettiest of all the salvias and easily accommodated in the smallest garden provided it is given full sunshine and good drainage. It forms a particularly neat shrub to 70 - 80 cm for us, with tiny, shiny green leaves. The flowers are prolific, produced over many months, and are charming, with a wide 'skirt' in two shades of pink. We prune ours in early spring. 'Lara' is drought and cold resistant,and is very tolerant of coastal humidity. It was bred by Sue Templeton in NSW and has since traveled far and wide.
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Salvia x greggii Los Lirios
This natural hybrid of Salvia greggii was discovered near the town of Los Lirios in Mexico and was subsequently awarded the coveted Award of Garden Merit by The Royal Horticultural Society in the UK. It forms the neatest of rounded shrubs to about 90 cm with particularly neat small foliage. The shell pink flowers are of the 'dancing ladies' type with a prominent 'apron' and are born on short spikes. Excellent in all respects.
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S. greggii Pumpkin
Forms a charming subshrub with tiny leaves and endlessly repeat flowers with very pretty wide-lipped flowers that are cream softly suffused with apricot. It is both drought and frost resistant and grows to around 90cm.
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S. guaranitica cv. Black and Blue Guarani Sage
Stand back to let the honey eaters through! How they love this gorgeous dramatic salvia with its incredibly long flower spikes of very large intensely cobalt blue tubular flowers with contrasting ebony black calyces and flowering stems. It blooms from spring until the very end of autumn, reaches around 1.5 m, and is moderately cold hardy.
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S. hians
This rare very handsome perennial has spear shaped leaves on long stalks forming a rosette from which emerges much branched 60 cm. tall inflorescences densely packed with good sized blue-purple flowers. It looks wonderful with buttery -cream flowered Achillea Hella Glashoff.
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S. leucantha Purple Velvet
Often mistaken for a lavender, this species sends up many wandlike stems from the base with slender pleasantly aromatic dark green leaves and long dense spikes of rich purple velvety flowers with equally deep purple velvety calyces. It is a wonderful performer in Australia.
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S. leucantha Mexican Bush Sage
This less known form has ice white velvety flowers and velvety purple calyces. It will grow to 1.0 m.
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S. microphylla cv. Huntington Red
This variety forms a neat,slightly prostrate, small leafed shrub to around 90 cm with prolific spikes of glowing rich red flowers with a much enlarged lower petal resembling an apron. It flowers almost year round for us, making an excellent garden shrub with very good drought and cold resistance once established. The foliage has a light blackcurrant scent when crushed. It originated in the famous Huntington Gardens in Palo Alto, Los Angeles.
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Salvia microphylla Pink Blush
This splendid smaller bushy salvia has been given the coveted Award of Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. From late spring through to autumn it produces a profusion of quite long flower spikes arrayed with charming 'dancing ladies' type blossoms in a clear rich pink. The small neat mid-green foliage is aromatic. It will take hot weather very well and is drought tolerant. It needs a sunny well-drained position.
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S. rutilans Golden Delicious
This form of the Pineapple Sage makes a wonderful note at the back of a flower border. The leaves are a brilliant golden yellow, no ifs or buts, with delicious pineapple scent and flavour, and topped with deep rich red spikes of flowers in autumn.
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S. rutilans cv. Honey Melon Sage
Related to Pineapple Sage, but smaller in all respects, this variety has smooth lime green leaves that are intensely scented of honeydew melon. The brilliant deep red flowers on long elegant spikes are fillled with nectar and are exceedingly attractive to honey eaters and butterflies. It often flowers from late spring through to midwinter and has moderate frost tolerance.
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S. rutilans x S. leucantha Anthony Parker
Originating from South Carolina, this is a superb salvia with a compact growth habit to one metre with many stems springing from the base of the plant and silver-grey foliage that is a perfect foil for the spectacular long dense spikes of darkest purple velvety flowers.
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S. uliginosa Marsh or Bog Sage
A spectacular salvia which despite its name grows perfectly in ordinary garden soils, eventually forming a substantial clump of elegant slender stems toa metre high. The spires of lipped flowers are an exquisite heavenly blue creating a haze of blue for many months.
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S. Waverley
One of the loveliest of all sages, and the bees and native honey eaters agree. it forms a neat many stemmed shrub to around 1m tall, bearing prolific long spikes of palest lavender and white flowers making a wonderful garden display.
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Sambucus nigra Variegata Variegated Elder Flower
This is one of the prettiest variegated small trees, and when in flower with its huge heads of tiny white, richly fragrant flowers is a true traffic stopper. It has all the herbal virtues of the ordinary elder tree but the deep green leaves are variegated at the edges with palest cream creating a beautiful light and shade effect when the wind blows. It is exceptionally obliging, growing well in full sun and tolerant of a wide range of soils. Use the fragrant flowers in fritters, to flavour sorbets, jellies and make a delicious traditional sparkling wine, known until recently as elderflower champagne, A contretemps with the champagne makers of France outlawed the English name for this delicious fizzy drink which is produced by fermentation) The autumn berries can be used to make an excellent jelly, cordial or elderberry wine.
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Santolina Cotton Lavender
Lavender cotton in various forms has been used as a garden edging since Tudor times and was a favourite knot garden plant. The fragrance is pungent, aromatic and refreshing when crushed and the dried leaves have long been used in moth repellent mixtures.
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S. chamaecyparissus Lemon Queen
This is a compact growing subshrub with profuse creamy yellow soft button-like flowers in summer.
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S. viridis Lime Fizz
A beautiful minty green form of Cotton Lavender forming a dense finely feathery shrub with a pungent pine and rosemary refreshing fragrance. The fluffy button flowers held on stiff wiry green stems are palest cream and are borne in great abundance.
Rare.
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S. pinnata subsp. Neapolitana Edward Bowles
A rare and beautiful hardy variety which we first saw in the glorious herb gardens of Hardwick Hall in Yorkshire, built by Bess of Hardwick, a three times married (they all died of natural causes) multi-millionairess of the Elizabethan period who, like Queen Bess, was red haired, passionate, highly independent, and brooked no opposition. This variety has prolific, clear cream, soft textured flowers and aromatic green-grey feathery foliage.
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S. rosmarinifolia Rosemary Cotton Lavender
A wonderfully aromatic rare cotton lavender with similar form to the silver cotton lavenders but with fine green foliage rather like rosemary. It is an excellent moth repellent. Save prunings for moth repellent bags.
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Sedum
Sedums are succulent plants sometimes called Stonecrops which serves to indicate that they are very drought tolerant, and suited to drier soils and full sun exposure. They were long favoured in cottage gardens where their easy ways, long life, and summer-into-autumn flowers which are irrisistably attractive to butterflies made them very welcome inhabitants.
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S. mexicanum Gold Mound
This stunning new sedum is the perfect groundcover for a sunny position whether in a pot, a rockery, or spilling out of a border. It grows to around 5 cm high forming a dense fast growing carpet of fleshy golden needle shaped leaves. The flowers are golden, star-shaped and borne in clusters.
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Jade Dragon
A taller flowering variety with upright stems to around 70 cm and leaves which are pale gold to cream edged with jade green. The dense almost saucer shaped and sized inflorescences are ice pink and much loved by butterflies.
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Ruby Glow
This is a shorter growing mounding sedum with toothed silvery green foliage suffused with rose pink. The dense but delicate inflorescences of starry flowers are ruby red and appear from mid-summer to mid-autumn. Considered a garden classic, this sedum is very attractive to butterflies and bees.
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S. acre Welcome-Home-Husband-Though-Never-So-Drunk! or Jack-Of-The-Buttery or Stonecrop or Wall Pepper or Love-In-A-Tangle
This plant holds the record for the longest English plant name. A cheerful golden flowered creeping succulent with fine leaves. An old, old love of the cottage gardener who allowed it to live in walls and paths.
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S. spectabile x telephium Joyce Henderson
This is a medium sized sedum making a handsome clump, the leaves being green in shade but purple in sunny positions. The large domed terminal heads of flowers are a pretty shade of dusky rose pink.
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S. telephium Munstead Red
This is a variety of S. telephium and is deciduous and clump forming. The succulent foliage is deep green sufffused with purple and the large showy terminal inflorescences of deep purple-red flowers appear in late summer and autumn.
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Saponaria officinalis Soapwort, Double
A much loved ancient garden plant with masses of exquisite, flossy, soft pink, double flowers of very great charm in summer. The leaves are still crushed and added to water to make a soft detergent to wash and restore ancient tapestries, and also to make an ultra gentle shampoo. A charming carpeting perennial for sunny positions, the edges of paths, and for spilling out of pots. One of the prettiest plants we know and it has a delicious fragrance in the evening when it attracts pollinating moths.
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Double Pink
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Satureja thymbra Savory of Crete also known as Pink Savory and Roman Hyssop
This one of the wild herbs of the Greek island of Crete, It forms a tough, low growing, woody subshrub with stiff little leaves and very attractive flowering stems with many whorls of little soft pink flowers. The scent is simply sensational, a mouth-watering blend of oregano and thyme. It is also one of the commonest components of the mouth watering Middle Eastern culinary herb mixture known as Za'atar (The principal ingredient is Syrian Oregano which will be available as Za'atar from Feb 2012 onward).
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Stachys S. byzantina syn. S. lanata Lamb's Ear or Downy Woundwort
One of the most loved of all cottager's plants, forming a dense, spreading carpet. The leaves are covered in long dense white-woolly hairs reminiscent of the wool of a lamb, and children love to stroke this foliage. In summer the plant produces woolly spikes of purple flowers. It requires dood drainage and full sun, and also does well in large pots. It dislikes very cold and very wet weather.
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officinalis Betony or Bishop's Wort or King in Splendour
Long used by herbalists and considered useful used as a tea to relieve headaches, as a general tonic and gargled to ease toothache. The flowers are purple, lipped, borne in dense spikes and quietly charming.
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Potentilla fragiformis Strawberry Cinquefoil or Wild Strawberry
Not a true strawberry but greatly resembles one with strawberry-like golden flowers followed by strawberry red fruits (not recommended as they are tasteless) on a neat strawberry leaved plant. Forms a dense attractive mat.
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Lathyrus odorata Sweet Pea Heirloom
The scent of sweetpeas from previous centuries is legendary. A few can fill a room with fragrance. Modern sweet peas, for all their beauty, are a faint shadow of thei gloriously scented predecessors. The seeds of the wild sweet pea were first sent to England in 1699 by a Sicilian monk and were named Cupani. We have juined forces with the world's leading collector, Peter Grayson, Sweet Pea Seedman of the UK, to offer all these heirloom varieties of sweet peas.
These varieties are among the easiest of plants to grow. Plant them in March-April and also in early spring in a well-drained, sunny position with support. Water once after planting and not again until the seedlings have emerged. The support can be a teepee made from bamboo canes, or a trellis (a panel o Weldmesh to 1.5-2.0m is an easy solution, or a ready made wooden trellis). Enrich the soil with compost and a light dressing of blood and bone before planting, and if the soil is acid (most garden soils are) add dolamite or garden lime. Water occasionally with seaweed liquid fertiliser while plants aregrowing. Keep picking bunches of flowers so that plants do not set seed early and you wil have a very long flowering season.
All varieties listed are exceptionally fragrant, with usually 3-4 flowers per stem, and very floriferous.
All packets are $4.50 with 15 seeds per packet. Postage and handling $3.50 per total Sweet Pea Seed Order.
Please see separate web page Sweet Peas
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Symphitium grandiflorum Creeping Comfrey
This is not a medicinal comfrey but a very charming, low growing. perennial groundcover for morning sun to light shade. It bears nodding racemes of white bell-like flowers in spring that are loved by bees and is rather reminiscent of lily-of-the-valley. Rare.
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Syringa spp. Lilac
All lilacs prefer a well composted and well drained soil, and although they tolerate light shade thrive far better in full sun. Once the plant is three years old, remove one old cane at the base each year after flowering to keep shrubs from becoming leggy.
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White Chinese Lilac Syringa x chinensis Alba
This rare and very fragrant lilac makes a large rounded shrub to 3 m , smothering from mid-spring in long panicles of single white flowers. It makes a spectacular specimen shrub, or a traffic stopping informal unsheared hedge. Like all lilacs it is best in full sun.
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Tagetes lemmonii Passionfruit Marigold or Mexican Marigold Shrub
There are several fruit or anise scented marigolds but the surprise of them all is this spectacular shrub species from the Mexican hiHighlands. An evergreen to1.5m high and wide, it smothers from autumn to spring in large single golden flowers. Frost resistant. The leaves are deliciously and strongly scented of ripe passionfruit. Rare.
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Tagete lucida Winter Tarragon, Mexican Tarragon, Sweet Mace
An upright multi-stemmed perennial to around 65 cm with abundant dark green saw=toothed tender foliage foliage which has the same sweet aniseed scent as French Tarragon and finds the same culinary uses. It extends the season for tarragon, coming into growth earlier in spring and lasting longer into late autumn/early winter. The flowers are like gilded buttons, borne in clusters at the top of each stem.
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Tanecetum parthenium syn. Chrysanthemum parthenium Feverfew or Migraine Plant
Cottage gardens were never without feverfew. The neat bushy little plants with mint green cut foliage and sprays of white little daisies are as old-fashioned and innocent as checked gingham. It was first reported in the literature in 1772 for its efficacy in treating migraine headaches. A recent investigation in England indicated that 1-4 leaves daily reduced the incidence and severity of migraines for some sufferers.
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T. balsamita Costmary or Alecost or Bible Leaf or Sweet Tongue or Secret Mary
Nothing could be more old-fashioned or delightful. In the medieval period this plant was associated with the Virgin Mary and its French name to this day remains Herbe-Sainte-Marie. This perennial grows to around 90 cm with silvery sage green leaves which have a gentle sweet mint-and-camphor fragrance. In summer it bears heads of pure white daisy flowers. Its name of 'Alecost'' survives fom its medieval use in brewing ale. The leaves also found use as strewing herbs, in sweet bags mixed with lavender and used to moth proof stored woollens and linens, and in sweet toiletry waters. Particularly in the 19th century when many vicars were under the impression that the number of souls they saved was in direct proportion to the thunderous level of their oratory as well as the duration of their sermons, costmary leaves were tucked into bibles and discreetly sniffed to restore the senses of the dutiful congregation, hence the name 'Bible Leaf'. For a sunny, well drained position. It prefers a compost-enriched soil.
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Teucrium Germander
Related to the mints, and treasured since the Tudor period in knot gardens, planted with herbs, or in cottager's gardens. Very hardy, reliable and pretty.
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T. betonicum syn. Betonicifolia Raspberry Scented Germander
This handsome little upright shrub has lime coloured leaves with a delicious scent reminiscent of crushed raspberries. The spikes of pale flowers are charming, Rare.
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T. chamaedrys Wall Germander
This tough and pretty groundcover plant grows to around 15 cm with neat small foliage and attractive lipped mauve flower has been a popular medicinal herb since medieval times and continues to be used by herbalists for treating gout and poor appetite as it has digestive and appetite stimulating characteeristics. It was incorporated into bitters and healthful liqueurs. T. betonicifolia Raspberry Scented Germander This handsome small shrub has lime coloured leaves with a delicious scent reminiscent of crushed raspberries. The spikes of pale flowers are charming.
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T. fruticans Tree Germander
A delightful silver foliaged plant growing into a small shrub to 1.0 m with large lavender flowers shaped like those of rosemary.
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T. hyrcanicum Caucasion Germander
This rare germander from the Middle East forms a small upright bush from which emerge many long showy dense terminal spikes of rich deep lilac flowers. The foliage resembles that of sage and is a deep green. Once established it is admirably drought resistant. For a sunny well drained position.
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T. marum Cat Thyme
Closely resembling a siber-grey bushy thyme, this is a plant of quiet but definite charm, densely clothed in tiny silvered leaves with short spikes of rich pink lipped flowers. As for its common name, like catnip most pussies find it quite irrisistable and purr in its presence. It forms a neat subshrub which we like to grow in a pot in a sunny position.
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Thalictrum aquilegifolium
This perennial is truly lovely and excites a deal of admiration in our gardens. The foliage resembles that of a maiden hair fern and the individual tiny flowers are like powder puffs. Each fluffy flowers in shades of lavender, pale violet and purple. Very graceful and ornamental. To 1.5 m.
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T. delavayi Yunnan Meadow Rue
For those with a shady position in the garden ( this beautiful herbaceous perennial originating from China is the answer to a gardener's prayer along with shade lovers such as upright growing fuchsias, ferns , hostas, hellebores and lamiums. the exquisite blue Chinese Impatiens and tree begonias. The tall, graceful flowering stems which grow to at least one metre emerge from clumps of delicate maidenhair fern-like foliage and bear large clouds of delicate lavender flowers.
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T. dipterocarpum Lavender Showers or Meadow Rue
Maidenhair fern-like foliage and clouds of delicate cream and lavender flowers. Perennial, 1.2 - 1.5m. A favourite old-fashioned cottage garden flowe
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Thalictrum flavum ssp. glaucum Yellow Meadow Rue
This perennial a class act in the garden, forming a large rosette of elegant blue-grey (glaucum means blue) aquilegia-like foliage from which emerge a number of flowering stems up to
1.8 m in summer surmounted by large soft clouds of tiny, pale lemon flowers. It is perfect for the back of a perennial border. Given its rathers, it would choose to be in morning sun tor very light shade and moist well drained soil, but it copes well with far from ideal situations.
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T. speciosissimum
A noble plant for the border with huge airy panicles of soft lemon-yellow flowers and fernlike blue green foliage to 1.5m. The showiest of the thalictrums.
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Thyme Thymus
Please see the separate website section Rosemary and Thyme
If you are looking for three culinary thymes that are as pretty in flower as they are superb for culinary use, consider Jekka's Thyme, Lemon Mist (also known as Lemon BBQ Thyme) and Westmoreand Thyme. The carpeting thymes add fragrance and sheets of colour to the summer garden. Create a flowering carpet to walk or dream on, or create a fragrant thyme-covered medieval garden seat, or spill them over wide mouthed pots and down rockeries.
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Trachelospermum asiatica Yellow Confederate Jasmine
This species from Japan and Korea is equally as fragrant as the Confederate Jasmine, but the fragrance is closer to gardenia than jasmine. The clusters of flowers open cream with a buff yellow centre, and age to yellow. The oval foliage is a glossy dark green and the plant is a compact growing climber.
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T. jasminioides Confederate or Malayan
There are very few more versatile plants than this. It is exceptionally tough with very healthy, dense, glossy dark green foliage, and smothers in spring and early summer with pure white windmill-shaped flowers with an intense, rich, delicious jasmine perfume borne far on the air. It can be used as a dense mounding groundcover for sun to light shade. It does not resent light trimming.Trained onto latticework or wire, it forms the perfect dense green screen.
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Tricyrtis formosana Toad Lily
Despite the odd name, this member of the Lily Family is quite charming. Native to Taiwan, it loves moist shade, forming a sizeable clump in time to 80cm of shiny dark foliage from which emerge tall branched stems of pink flowers spotted deeper within. Hardy to -15 degrees C.
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Tradescantia virginiana Spiderwort or One Day Flower
Introduced in Elizabethan times into England, this is a charming plant for the herbaceous border with quantities of large 3-petalled violet-blue flowers, each dying after a day but borne in an endless display over months. To 60cm.
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Tulbaghia violacea
Although this plant is often grown as Society garlic and used similarly to garlic chives, visitors to the American North-West or France's Cote d'Azur will recognise it as a very popular drought resistant plant for a hot sunny position. It is very elegant with rosettes of slender strappy leaves and prolific, tall stemmed umbels of bell-shaped flowers. Plants flower for months in a sunny well drained position.
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Mauve
Prolfic stems of mauve bells.
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Alba
The rare whie flowered form with profuse elegant stems of white bell flowers.
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Verbascum blattaria var. album Moth Mullein
A perennial of great charm. Tall slender long flower spikes on 1.3m stems emerge from a rosette of dark green foliage. The flowers are just like large delicate apple blossoms, purest white, fragile, nodding, faintly blushed with pink.
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V. thapsus Woolly Mullein A massive rosette of felted silvery grey leaves with talk spikes of yellow miniature hollyhock flowers in summer. A dramatic plant for the back of a dryish sunny border.
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Viburnum
The viburnums belong to the honeysuckle family and are among the most trouble free of all shrubs, providing spectacular flowering in spring to early summer and often an excellent display of autumn colour and berries. Some are among the most fragrant of all shrubs.
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Anna Russell
This is a backcross between V. carlesii and V.x burkwoodii and forms a sturdy shrub with intensely fragrant heads of pinkish white flowers.
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V. x bonantense Dawn
This intensely fragrant beautiful variety blooms very dependably from late autumn throughout winter and early spring (we have seen it blooming encased in ice in Paris). The profuse clusters of flowers along the bare branches are deep pink lightening to pale blush and the scent travels far on the cold winter air. It eventually grows to 3 m and is long lived. This is a very cold hardy variety. Grow it in a compost enriched soil in full sun to light shade. The autumn foliage turns burnished bronze. Cut a few small branches and arrange them inside in winter. The flowers keep opening for ages and scent the room.
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V. lantana Versicicolor Wayfaring Tree
This is a very cold tolerant species from Europe and North Western Asia. It forms a tall, multi-stemmed rounded deciduous shrub to about 4 m and in spring puts on a delightful display of abundant white flowers borne in flat laceheads Quite rare. The fruit clusters that follow are often a mixture of blue, red and green simultaneously creating a showy effect.
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odoratissimaum Sweet Viburnum (Glossy leafed form)
Evergreen tall shrub with large heads of fragrant white flowers. Will grow well on the coast as well as inland. Very handsome evergreen foliage with deep green, highly polished, simple leaves.
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plicatum Mariesii
This fast growing shrub grows to 4m in good conditions and is a magnificent sight in full bloom. The shrub is noted for its distinctive layered horizontal branching so that the form is reminiscent of the multi-layered roof of a Thai temple.The exquisite white flowers are borne in flat lacecap clusters each about 15 cm wide and borne in profusion along every branch. They are followed by red berries which ripen to black and are both ornamental and a food source for birds in autumn. The deep green foliage turns a rich purple-red in autumn before falling.
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V. tinus Eva Price's
A densely foliaged evergreen shrub to 2 m with neat small foliage. In late winter and into spring it bears large flat lacy heads of carmine buds which open to tiny starry white flowers suffused with pink. The flowers are followed by blue=black berries. It is very cold hardy. For full sun to shade.
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V. opulus Notcutts Variety
This is a form of the Guelder Rose and the translucent berries it produces in profusion in autumn are like stained glass with the sun glowing behind them, colouring from amber to rosy apricot and then deep apricot stained red... and it produces them even in Sydney gardens. The flowers are exceptionally lovely too, large pure white lacecaps displayed over the entire bush, and the autumn foliage is richly coloured. Notcutt's variety makes a hardy vigorous bush to around 3.0 to 3.5 m high.
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V. plicatum Lanarth
The shape of this shrub with its horizontal branches always reminds us of a many-tiered Thai temple. The large snowy white lacecap flowers are borne in double file along the branches making an exquisite spring display.
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Vinca major Periwinkle, Blue or Greater Periwinkle or Sorcerer's Violet
Vinca major Periwinkle is one of the few good groundcovers for dry shady areas and is drought resistant. Keep it dense and restrained with a whipper snipper two or three times in summer after the spring flowering. It was the pervense of the Anglo-Saxon herbals, and Chaucer knew it as parwynke. It was much used in the medieval monastic garden as a medicinal herb. A crushed leaf placed up each nostril was used to control nose bleeds. It also had magical associations, and was used in love potions and to ward of evil spirits.
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V. major Variegata
Much more restrained in its growth is this variegated form of V. major, with leaves generously marbled and edged with vanilla, and large lavender flowers. Lovely in hanging baskets and tall pots. Hardy and non-invasive.
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White Lesser Periwinkle V. minor var.alba.
This is a smaller leafed and smaller flowered form of the periwinkle, but the flowers are pure white. It is a charmer when grown in hanging baskets and tall pots, quite vigorous,and has the same herbal properties as its big sister. Hardy and non-invasive.
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Variegated Lesser Periwinkle
This is a dainty spiller with small leaves generously marbled in creamy white. haedy and non-invasive.
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Double Blue Lesser Periwinkle V. minor cv.
This is a true charmer ideal for spilling out of pots, as a groundcover and spill-over for walls with dainty deep green shiny foliage and double rich heavenly blue flowers. Quite rare.
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Viola Perennial Viola Arkwright Ruby
A classic old perennial viola with profuse fragrant dark wine red flowers with a golden centre.
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Bowle's Black
This beauiful century old tufting perennial viola has abundant heartsease-like flowers which are darkest velvety black.
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V. cornuta Blue of Paris
This delightful perennial viola returns to our catalogue after being much missed. V. cornuta is also known as the Horned Pansy or Tufted Pansy and it forms a spreading dense cushion of low growing foliage from which emerge abundant sweetly scented heavenly blue flowers each with a characteristic pussycat face about the size of a ten cent piece. Outstanding.
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V. cornuta Alba
White Horned Violet This is a garden classic, a perennial viola which grows to around 15 cm high, covering in crisp white flowers which are lightly scented of vanilla. The flowers come in flushes throughout the season. It is hardy and grows well in slightly acidic to slightly alkaline soil in full sun to dappled light. Its one real demand is a moist soil so add compost before planting and mulch in dry conditions. This is so elegant, cool looking and floriferous and that it deserves such attention.
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V. corsica Corsican Violet or Corsican Pansy
Cold hardy and drought and heat tolerant, this perennial viola from the beautiful Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia is quite stunning, flowering at approximately15 cm high with large flowers in a glowing shade between blue and purple with a golden eye and 'pussycat 'whiskers' on the lowest petal. The flowers can literally cover the entire plant when in bloom. It likes full morning sun to partial shade and a well drained composted soil where they can flower from spring to early autumn even in quite hot districts. They appreciate an application of liquid seaweed fertiliser every 4-6 weeks (avoiding application on hot days). The Corsican V. Corsica will gently seed itself around the parent if happy in its position.. A few seedlings are usually around the parent.
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Violets, Sweet and Species:
See separate website section Violets for our huge collection of antique, fragrant, and rare species.
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