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SweetLong flowering, low-growing, evergreen perennial dense cushions of very small, emerald green, lobed leaves forming looser cushions about 3-5cm high. Good drainage and lime preferred, but fairly easy going. Can seed on occasion if happy. Rock gardens, gravel gardens or for growing in wall crevic...

Rare and hard to come byLarge flowers, They do not have rhizomes, so propagating them is tricky. With lobes that are white, the throat and outside of the trumpet are purple infused, stemless with pointed petal tips without a green spot in the throat. This belongs to G. acaulis group. As such they p...

You have to love a phlox. Massed plants or various shades in combo is brilliant.A profusion of rich pink, small flowers cover this fresh green carpeting plant in early summer/late spring. Marvellous on rock gardens and walls. quite a compact and tight form. Less rampant, so for a smaller pot or spac...

You have to love a phlox. Massed plants or various shades in combo is brilliant.Award of Garden Merit. This is pictured behind and to the left of the overblown, (but useful in some situations) "Daniel'. A mossy phlox covered in pink blooms form mid spring on low-growing compact but exuberant mat of...

A semi-prostrate, deciduous shrub, to 35cm high, with simple, linear green leaves and rich yellow flowers along the green branches in late spring or early summer, a mini version of the common broom plant. Non-invasive, no seedlings. Resplendent. Prefers a well drained soil in a sunny position, ideal...

Petite and speckledGrowing 4 to 12cm, with long leaves and creamy yellow flowers in spring. Hardywikipedia to the rescue. This species grows from 4 to 12 cm tall and blooms August to September.

Native, a small grey, wrinkly and lobed margins, the lobes often extending down the petiole. The white and yellow flowers are composite and daisy like. An easier to grow celmisia look alike. Good drainage, part shade in hot spots. 5-10cm spreading. Flowering from late October.

A lovely rare and late bloomer for rocks and wallsSouthern and eastern Alps. A rare, deciduous rock plant, sage-green, serrated 2cm leaves emerge in spring. Pretty dusky blue-purple fl, mainly in mid to late summer so it is good for extending the season. 12 cm high. For well drained soils. Fun or pa...

A paving delight, scent when you walk. Shade.Corsican mint, A tiny appressed herb that has a slight minty smell. 1cm tall forming an extensive colony of slender, creeping, rooting stems. Perfect between paving stones in slightly moist shady spots or forming mats. When you have a good sward hit it wi...

Frosty I guess, ghostly looks.From the Carpathian Mountains and eastern Alps. It thrives in moist, well-drained meadows and grassy slopes at high elevations, often found growing in calcareous soils. Only 10cm with a similar spread. Striking blue to violet or more usually white trumpets, which bloom...

G. paradoxa x G. septemfida and unlike either. Large flowers with six per stem. Floriferous, but needs two seasons to hit its stride. Cushion forming, vigorous, easy. For pots, troughs, rockeries. Sun or shade, very tolerant. If you grow one gentian, make it this one. 15cm.

A rarely offered rock plant (even in the UK!) which is herbaceous and emerges in early spring with small shoots which expand to produce the rigid stems of sage-green foliage. Each leaf is approximately 2 cms long or so and serrated. Flowers are very attractive and a dusky blue/purple in colour, long...

A low-growing perennial with fragrant yellow flowers in spring and unique papery, ball-like seed pods, perfect for sunny, rocky gardens with its silvery-green foliage adding year-round texture.Turkey and Southern Europe. Greek bladderpod or inflated bladderseed, is a drought-tolerant, low-growing pe...

A compact, much-branched alpine shrub with white flowers, naturally growing on stony slopes and cliffs—slow-growing but striking even at modest height.Much-branched erect low shrub, to 1.3 m ultimately/potentially. Mine is quite old and is 50cm high. Native of N.W. Yunnan and S.W. Szechwan at alpi...

Miniature azalea.White Kyushu Azalea with stunning clusters of lightly-scented white flowers in mid spring, with dark green evergreen foliage. Unknown breeding, but Japanese origin. 50-70cm after 10 years.8cm now.

A low, evergreen mat with textured leaves and wide blue-purple flowers in summer, ideal for sunny rockeries or alpine crevices.Dalmatia, Croatia: limestone rock crevices. Interesting foliage and blue-purple, wide-open flower, this is a special plant in the alpine garden and rockery. Violet flowers i...

Dwarf Arctic Birch A semi-prostrate little shrub with attractive glossy bright green foliage in late spring and summer turning to russet brown in autumn. DeciduousDwarf birch is circumpolar in distribution – it occurs in Greenland and Iceland and in the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia and North...

Small shrubby succulent "bonsai crassula", Very hardy from ES Africa. Rocky gritty soils Sun or slight shade. 30-50cm tall. Can be grown indoors.

Kusa Bonsai seedling pine in Japanese ceramic pot which is a pale celadon green. This is available in a white too. (search for pine seedling, for the others search for celadon)The product you would be buying is the image on the right in the leading compilation image. The second image is the actual K...

Kusa Bonsai in Japanese ceramic pot which is a pale celadon green.The product you would be buying is the left of leading compilation image. The second image is the actual Kusa Bonsai.Needs to be in outdoors light, but preferably not full sunlight as it will tend to dry out too fast in summer.On holi...

Kusa Bonsai in Japanese ceramic pot which is a pale celadon green.The product you would be buying is the right of leading compilation image. The second image is the actual Kusa Bonsai.Needs to be in outdoors light, but preferably not full sunlight as it will tend to dry out too fast in summer.On hol...

Kusa Bonsai in handmade ceramic brown pot by Naomi.This is a sun loving plant that flowers in a bright golden yellow from late winter through summer.Needs to be in outdoors light, but preferably not full sunlight all day as it will tend to dry out too fast in summer.On holiday? Place in a shallow sa...

Kusa Bonsai in handmade ceramic blue pot by Naomi.This is a sun loving plant that flowers from late winter through summer.Can be indoors or outdoors, but preferably not full sunlight all day as it will tend to dry out too fast in summer, although this is one off the hardiest plants about and a good...

Kusa Bonsai heliohebe in an off white ceramic pot.The product you would be buying is the image at the back right in the leading compilation image. The second image is the actual Kusa Bonsai. In a year or two you will need to adjust the wire so it doesn't dig in. The whole plant can be replanted into...