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Striking foliage in sun or shade. A great addition to the arsenal of "grasses" available in New Zealand. Hakone grass or Japanese Forest grass. An easy grass that prefers moist soils in shade or part shade. Best out of the heat and/or brightest light that can bleach the foliage. 60cm tall, spreads o...

Striking foliage in part sun or shade.A great addition to the arsenal of "grasses" available in New Zealand. Hakone grass or Japanese Forest grass. An easy grass that prefers moist soils in shade or part shade. 60cm tall, spreads only slowly. Wonderful in shaded borders and shingle gardens, looks be...

Essential border plant. Clusters of clear pink, daisy-like flowers.Prairie Aster becomes an autumn seasonal focal point as myriads of light lavender and pale periwinkle flowers nearly cover the entire mounded plant. The cool-colored petals encircle bright yellow centers that become rich burgundy aft...

Rare and special.A very desirable rock garden plant that I have at last. It has spreading mats of small green leaves carrying heads of large violet snapdragon flowers in early summer. It looks good whether trailing over the edge of a stone trough or in a selected spot on the rock garden in sun and w...

Numerous curious, lantern-like buds open into a huge candelabra of branching stems holding fantastic, pure white, passion-flower-like blooms, beginning in early summer and continuing until February if dead-headed. One of the world's most astonishing and spectacular flowers, this arrestingly beautifu...

Gorgeous. An easy plant for the garden. Sunny spots will give delightful flowering all through winter and beyond. However I find it doesn't last in our quite severe frosts, so collect seeds, let them do their own thing, or place it in a more sheltered spot if you are in cold places.Fiinally lots of...

Dense green foliage crowned with fragrant, rose-pink spiky flowers bloom in summer, the petals adorned with dark spotted patterns.Bradbury's Bee Balm. A great, unusual prairie plant, this Monarda is shorter and more compact than the usual. Sun or shade conditions and average soil, but not waterlogge...

Purple points, leaves, buds and flowers! A must have in any garden. Purple tinted new leaves burst forth in spring when little else perennial is interesting, the leaves continue to be dark hued until the flower buds emerge which take over as gorgeous dark stems and buds which give interest well befo...

Clumps of finely divided leaves topped with airy, branched umbels of claret-red and pink flowers, creating a delicate, almost lace-like effect.A symphony of branched, wiry flowering stems with claret, red/pink colors exactly as in the photo. Full sun in cool summer climates to semi-shade elsewhere...

Red(dish), well red for a rockrose.Rock Roses are versatile shrubby perennials, excellent for growing in the rock garden, or at the front of a hot, sunny border or in sand on poor soils.The names of these are very confusing. I have had a battle for a few years. Copper pin sounds exotic, but it is a...

A soft apricot. Most unusual.Rock Roses are versatile shrubby perennials, excellent for growing in the rock garden, or at the front of a hot, sunny border or in sand on poor soils. Pale terracotta, almost apricot, over a bushy mound of bright green foliage. Plants must have very good drainage, parti...

A sweet wee double pink for the sun.Rock Roses are versatile shrubby perennials, excellent for growing in the rock garden, or at the front of a hot, sunny border or in sand on poor soils. This selection has double flowers of cerise tinted baby-pink, over a bushy mound of bright green-grey foliage. P...

Rock Roses are versatile shrubby perennials, excellent for growing in the rock garden, or at the front of a hot, sunny border or in sand on poor soils. Terracotta with dark blotch, over a bushy mound of bright green foliage.Photo 2: The top pair are Chelsea Red, the middle, a single Ben Vane and the...

Compact clumps of grey-green leaves topped with clusters of softly colored red-orange-pink flowers, lightly scented and cheerful all winter.Perennial wallflower. Flowering all winter this is another sweetly scented plant and another charmer. Easy for lots of situations. Cheer up roses in winter, pla...

Everyone should have a JOY Plants plant.Bred by Joy Plants, our local nursery expert. Not sure how two so very different plants, albeit with exactly the same coloured flowers, (hence the same image for both entries) yet they can have such a different form. Horses for courses in terms of choice. This...

Not sure how two so very different plants, albeit with exactly the same coloured flowers, (hence the same image for both entries) yet they can have such a different form. Horses for courses in terms of choice. This one has large leaves and a larger stature, about 65cm excluding flowers. These provid...

Upright clumps of green foliage crowned with dense clusters of soft pink, star-like flowers.This palest pink form of the popular, normally deepest red, cottage garden plant can make an impressive statement, especially en mass, in the herbaceous border. Long-lived and reliable! 60-75cm.While the imag...

Compact, self-supporting plants with finely divided foliage and buds that promise softly translucent, stained-glass-like flowers.Bred by Keith Hammett. "Our original 'Beeline Seed' has proved popular. This series is different as it is based on 'Dark Destiny', a cultivar resulting from a cross betwee...

Grass for floral work and for summer interest. Silver Queen Tender Perennial, but grows as an annual grass with me and thrives in full sun, being incredibly heat tolerant and weed suppressing. It blooms from summer onwards, and its stalks are an excellent choice for incorporating into dried arrangem...

Delicate lilac flower heads from summer to autumn. Found in central and southern Europe. Delicate mauve/lilac 30-60 cm from summer to autumn. For a, sunny place, poor stony soil fine, drought tolerant. Easy. Flower and whole plant: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia CommonsFlow...