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An easy winter treasureCoralberry or Indian Current A woody plant in the honeysuckle family. In winter they look fabulous with their winter deep pink berries. They show up so well as the plant is deciduous with shredding bark on older wood and brown to purplish branchlets. Prefers some sun, but part...

Tall and vivd for later on in summer.A rarely found plant. With strong pink-purple flowers bourne aloft on strong stems. The leaves are olive green and rough and pleated. The whole lot is set off with the purple stems and midribs. The native range of this species is SE. Europe. 1.8m tall. Prefers th...

A dwarf beared from Hokonui.

A miniature lemon yellow iris from the Balkan countries. These can bloom from mid October with a flourish and sporadically over summer. Ideally grown in a sunny free draining soil with rhizomes visible on surface. Grown in an alpine rock garden, border or container this plant benefits from rhizome c...

Connoisseurs' bulb.The Chocolate Lily is a showy bulb with sturdy stems clothed in lance-shaped, glossy deep-green leaves. They are campanulate, brown-blackish blooms. These are borne in multiples at the stem tips with as many as 20 flowers some say, opening in rapid succession until all are open. I...

Spring simplicity itself.The natural range of this species is Europe to West Caucasus and Lebanon. Not English meadows, but it has made itself at home there and looks lovely with snowdrops and winter leaves. Flowering as it does from mid winter to spring.A compact, semi-evergreen perennial bearing m...

Compact cushions or small mats of bright green leaves, covered with masses of magenta/purple flowers in spring and summer. Sun and well-drained soil. A little lime appreciated. H10cm x W30cm. Ideal for walls, rockeries, troughs, rock garden, crevices and gravel, front of border and hanging baskets.T...

So early, so much pleasure in winter, June!Hoop petticoat daffodil to 20cm tall, easy to naturalise in rockeries troughs or in paving, hardy, sun to part shade, potash to help flowering.Several bulbs per pot.Photo from wiki commons

A miniature bi-color daffodilA dutch bred form featuring dainty white petals (perianth) and a lemon-yellow trumpet. Reaching a petite height of about 15 cm, it blooms very early in the season. This year the beginning of August in Canterbury.Several bulbs per pot.

A lovely shaped jonquil type. lovely shaped jonquil Introduced in 19193. It is compact and very pretty produces 2 to 4 sweetly scented, bright greenish-yellow flowers per stem with tiny, bowl-shaped, darker yellow cups. Named after the flute-playing fertility god, it grows 15-20 cm tall and blooms i...

Related to Aquilegia Pyrenaica, but distinctly taller, with deep purple-blue flowers in January and February, this gem is quite suitable for the border. In the wild it is found in stony grass, scree or boulders, on limestone. Will cross with ordinary Aquilegias. You can be ruthless and get rid of al...

Rare in the wild and to buy, a lovely native white forget-me-notEndemic to the North Island, this small perennial herb features grey-green rosette leaves and white flowers. It is classified as Nationally Critical and typically grows in high-altitude rocky or limestone areas. Native. Great in a pot o...

A special looking but easy plant.A fabulous easy perennial native to Chile and Argentina. It forms low, compact flat rosettes of hairy leaves, whose size depends on the conditions and features vibrant yellow inflated flowers resembling slippers. The plant thrives in moist but well-drained soil, part...

One of the very choicest of this unusual group of flowers, this variety has unusually tall stems, slightly bending at the top, holding truly exceptional, large, bright blue, spiky looking, powderpuff flowers. Even the foliage is attractive consisting of thick, leathery, spathulate leaves, deeply vei...

Japanese Black pine. Broadly conical, evergreen. Rigid dark green needles in 2's, 10cm long. Egg shaped cone 7cm long. A coastal tree tolerating salt winds and poor sandy soils. Performing well as shelter on high exposed cold sites.None available anywhere that I can find. Useful to train in the Japa...

A rarely seen, delightful creeping phlox that looks most like a wood phlox, but could be for drier spots in the sun!Southeastern United States. Hairy phlox, easy going for sun to part sun to part shade. Flowers for ages from early spring to summer and even flowering gaily on the shortest day. 25cm c...

Wow I am happy to have bred this charmer.Woodland phlox is charming for light shade, or beside a rock microclimate. Carpets of large white white flowers appear in December and onwards..This photo was taken in mid June after a frost! Note that it is growing in one of my "pipe libraries", which is in...

Super classy! So much fun!Annual for a sunny spot. Beautiful Yellow Eastern Mediterranean annual. 20-45cm. Decorative seed pods. Great for a mediterranean or rock gardens. From the Eastern Mediterranean.No special treatment of seed required.15 seed.Gideon Pisanty (Gidip) גדעון פיזנטי, CC...

This easy, but surprisingly uncommon plant, is well worth having.has a basal rosette of blue-grey leaves, from which arise branching, leafy stems. At the end of each division open frilly, bright pink, small flowers, which are ideal for a rock garden, raised bed or container. 10-15cm, spread 20-30cm...

A compact, rounded, evergreen shrub with rigid branches and very small leaves, dark glossy green above, greyish below. Small, white flowers open from pink buds in early summer, followed by dark red, spherical fruit

Small plantsRattlesnake Master or button snake-root is native to the tall-grass prairies of central and eastern North America. Yucca like foliage which is blue/green and waxy coated. The largish, button-like flowers are on up to 1.2m when stalks The flowers are larger than E. agavifolium, yet the fl...

An evergreen, small-spreading vine with pale yellow or purplish solitary bell shaped pendant flowers appearing from spring to summer. Flowers are followed by a purple "apple" shaped berry. An erect supple stem and dark green narrowly elliptical leaves 5cm long. An ornamental plant that is native to...

ritically endangered, yet readily available to us.An annual climbing plant. From Turkey, a rare, critically endangered, bicoloured pea only found near Antalya. Interestingly according to wikipedia; their entire wild population is restricted to an area of 2 km2 outside Belin village on rocky limeston...

Striking foliage in part sun or shade. Brighten up dull and difficult times in difficult places. Another lovely addition to the range of grasses available.Bowles’s golden grass grows very successfully in shady borders under camellias or shrubs and trees. Planted in several informal drifts it looks...