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Can be big, can be small. Depends where it lands up. Let it seed.Rock Harlequin. Charming biennial with pink flowers tipped with yellow. Pink stems. 30-90cm tall. Full sun and or part shade, dry, acidic, gravelly and poor all good. So woodlands, in the sun… At present I am growing it with its root...

Connoisseurs' bulb.The pointed-petal fritillary. Found in fields in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Three nodding bell-shaped flowers per stem. On the outside the petals are olive green with brown spots, the inside of the petals is brown. Weedy things from their homelands, found in grasslands, vin...

Connoisseurs' bulb.Bulgaria, northern Greece and western Turkey. They are campanulate, green tinged with reddish-brown but not tessellated, and with a musky scent. It grows to 20-38 cm. One of the easiest of Fritillaries to grow in the garden. Light woodland or a sunnier spot.These will be plus pots...

Queen Olga's snowdrop. A Greek species. Autumn flowering. The flowers are pendant, with three outer white tepals arching over smaller, inner tepals often marked with green. 10-15 cm and forms clumps over time through bulb offsets. Price per bulb.cheap to freight. Contact me.Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA...

About three nodding pretty pale lemon-yellowflowers per stem, the cup slightly deeper yellow than the somewhat reflexed perianth segments. A miniature daffodil. 40cm tall Some pesticide also provided for narcissus fly months. (should you wish to use it)

South Africa, Winter rain, one of the most remarkable, noteworthy species of the genus and it can be instantly recognized by its extremely long perianth tube with its straw coloured flowers - strangely striped and blotched with maroon, spade-shaped on the 3 lower lobes. Spring and early summer flowe...

A very beautiful South African bulb which is unfortunately endangered in the wild being restricted to only a handful of sites in the northwestern Cape. Fortunately it grows well in cultivation. A strikingly beautiful species with the largest blue flower. Best without severe frost, but try sheltered...

Synonym: M. pavonia A showy bulb with orange petals and iridescent blue/green spots at the petal bases. The mature plant grows up to 0.5 m high and produces a single long, linear, spreading basal leaf up to 0.9 m long. Best without severe frost, but try sheltered nooks. Dormant over summer they are...

Grey-green leaves. Flowers, borne in spring, are yellow with orange- and red-tinged outer petals giving an overal pastel look. Not such a strong colour as 'Bronze Charm' which is similar. I am still bulking these up. Comes back year after year. Perennial species tulips that naturalize well. Sun. 15c...

Trailing clumps of narrow leaves topped with rich blue, funnel-shaped flowers marked with white stripes inside.Autumn or Showy Chinese Gentian (a direct translation of the latin specific name). Western China and Tibet. Award of Garden Merit (A.G.M.) from the Royal Horticultural Society.Trailing stem...

A special plantFrom the Rocky Mountains, this high alpine Boykinia relative in the Sax. family has heads of five-petalled, cherry-red flowers, held just above a cushion of leathery, scalloped leaves in early spring. It is long-lived when happy in the rockery or alpine trough, where it prefers lean...

A classic. Compact rosettes of crinkly, shiny leaves send up short spikes of deep purple-violet flowers that bloom for weeks, a striking, long-lived mullein for dry, sunny spots.Numerous shortish dividing spikes of dark purple-violet flowers open over an extended period above crinkly-shiny-leaved ro...

Rock Soapwort is a mat-forming semi-evergreen rock plant whose flowers are held in loose sprays at the tips of its mound. Masses of bright pink blooms for a long period from spring into summer, covering it. Easy and vigorous it gradually spreads until reaching any edge from which they can cascade. S...

Low, dense mats of silvery-grey, cushion-like foliage, forming a soft, alpine carpet.A green tinted, mat forming ground cover for the rock garden. Will take some shade. Best with a good collar of fine shingle or course sand. Eventually forms a good patch. Drought tolerant when established. Flowering...

Love saxifragas. Make a mini crevice garden in a pot to enjoy their form all year round - they even flower.Silver rosettes of pointed leaves with burgundy stems and large white flowers. Morning or afternoon sun. Surprisingly easy going, give them lots of lime, even such that the potting mix will ten...

NO MOW Lawns. Much, much better than Platt's Black. It is slower but lasts and lasts.Native. Shore Cotula. Usually in wet coastal habitats from the coast to 1000m in seeps and wet areas. So shade and poor drainage all fine. Dampness required. Bright green, weed suppressing mat which spreads well. T...

One of the rarest and most exquisite spring flowers.Sumptuous nodding lavender goblets arise on felted stems from a veil of silky hairs amidst filigree fern-like leaves. An utterly hardy and reliable plant which will improve as it ages over the years!P. halleri is generally considered a more alpine...

A silver rock crevice or trough delight.Miniature silver domes of tightly packed rosettes and slim stems of dainty white flowers in summer. H8cm x W10cm. Open sunny position in well-drained soil with extra lime. A tiny version as you would expect. Increases well.Third image from wikimedia by Ghislai...

Furry, crinkly and crazily spotted - a fun pot plant.A widespread but mostly coastal, found on sandstone or granite rocks from Namaqualand and the northwest Cape to the southwest Cape, the southern Cape and the Little Karoo. May as well have all the facts! It has sword shaped leaves and a much branc...

Furry, crinkly and weirdly coloured, is it a starfish or an octopus or a flower - a fun pot plant.This found in the arid winter rainfall region from northern Namaqualand to southern Namibia. It has sweetly scented short lived yellow flowers with dark brown spots and blotches and crisped brown margin...

Bright and winter cheerful. A must have pot plant, forget it behind the shed in summer.A fall blooming (April to June in habitat) South African species with a leafy, often branching stem, and grey-green tri-foliolate leaves and pink flowers. It grows on flats and slopes in the north and southwest Ca...

Bright and winter cheerful yellow blast. A must have pot plant, forget it behind the shed in summer.South African species-complex found on sandy flats from Namaqualand southwards to the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to Riverdale. It is a variable species with many different varieties. It has very int...

Palm leaf sorrel. Decorate winter.A winter growing species from the Western Karoo of South Africa with interesting leaves, growing about 8 cm high. Width can slowly extend to 40-60 cm, in very mature plants. This one is difficult to get to bloom in cultivation, but the leaves are enough! It may need...

Candy cane sorrel. Cute and pretty in winter.Candy cane sorrel refers to the red and white stripes when the flower is in bud. It is a long blooming South African species found on flats and slopes in the northwest and southwest Cape. 5-15 cm. As autumn rains get it cracking, keep it largely dry until...