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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...

Madonna lilyInordinately slow to increase and even slower from seed. if they seed and I have yet to find any. My bulbs have been with me, more of less the same number for 25 years.So at least they are as tough as old boots. Mine are in the shelter of a hedge so short of water, but not too wet in win...

A perfect addition to your border or meadow-look garden. Let it resow which it does so well.Plants available now only as they want to be planted out soon, not hang around.Beautiful white corn cockle with thin speckled line down the centre of each petal. Hardy annual. 75cmSeeds originally from the UK...

A perfect addition to your border or mediterranean garden. Let it resow which it does so well.Plants available now only as they want to be planted out soon, not hang around.Delicate and airy annual, but don't let that put you off. It flowers early and heavily on blue green leaves self sowing. Such a...

Stout, weeping shrub with flattened green stems, small leaves on shaded shoots, and large, creamy-yellow flowers.Big flowered broom. native ranked as At Risk–Relict (It is only found now on the Poor Knights in reasonable numbers and a few Coromandel islands. It is a stout woody shrub with flattene...

Clumps of dark green, grass-like stems topped with sprays of pure white, saucer-shaped flowers with yellow stamens.Satin flower. One of New Zealand's exquisite natives, according to the RHS UK. But I think this is the Chilean one! Plants of the World, Kew say it is Chilean, but others think both cou...

Spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers with white markings rise above slender green stems, creating a striking late-spring display.Waterfall gladiolus. Found on wet cliffs, southwestern Cape, South Africa, where the corms are wedged into cracks in the rocks for protection. Constant moisture great, but...

Dense, ferny shrubs covered in single pink flowers, sweetly scented, with abundant small prickles and bright yellow hips. Chestnut rose. Single flowers in various shades of pink on dense strong shrubs with ferny foliage. Small prickles and lots of them. Thorny yellow hips. Sweetly scented. 3 meters...

Evergreen mound with weed suppressing attributes, scented flowers and small winter berries.Dwarf sweet box. Cute and exceptionally hardy, I find it manages with little water if needed once established. Perfumed like the tall cousins, but harder to get your nose to as only 40cm tall. Berries in winte...

Clumps of tall, arching, golden-green foliage forming graceful, fountain-like tussocks. Native. Dwarf Toe toe. A popular grass that forms small lush clumps and produces fluffy seed heads on long stems. An iconic plant that creates texture and movement. Lovely with perennials. Sun to part shade. Fair...

Common and big and bold and so easy, Strong enough for most grassy spotsWhite, bell-shaped flowers that appear in early spring. These bulbs are bomb proof and work well in awful situations where other lesser bulbs might struggle, think dark, drought or too wet. The flowers are white. 6 0cm. A good d...

A rarely found fragrant shrub for early spring.A monotypic genus in the olive family found in Korea where it is endangered. Also called Miseonnamu or white forsythia. A scrambling deciduous shrub with slender branches bearing dark green leaves and racemes of forsythia-like, fragrant white flowers 1...