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A newly released selection only available here or to those 'in the know'. A fund raiser for the NZAGS visiting speaker fund, The Steve Newall Memorial Travelling Speaker, as a tribute to Steve.A newly released, lovely and wonderful little endemic alpine plant of the South Island of New Zealand.Disco...

A creeping rhizomatous perennial, making a compact mat of small, rounded leaves with blue, bell-shaped flowers in summer. A selected, very compact form. 10cm x 30cm wide Excellent in rock gardens or troughs. Spreads, so to confine it if you feel the need to protect more feeble growers, plant within...

'Angelina' is a golden variety. Could be, but maybe I am just mean to it. Thrives in bright, direct sunlight and prefers moderate temperatures. It is drought-tolerant and should be watered sparingly. Grows on old slate rooves, rock gaps… fire resistant! Golden yellow especially in winter and droug...

Gorgeous. For me this is a bit tender, our big frosts knock them down. Mexican Sage. From there and Central America. it tolerates occasional light frosts and temperatures down to about -8°C, but above-ground growth will die back. It thrives in full sun and requires excellent drainage to survive the...

Architectural mounds, for an easy alpine or modern look.The Cushion Plant or Australian Astroturf is a hardy evergreen native to Australia and New Zealand. Though it looks like a bright green moss, it is actually a flowering perennial herb. It is prized in landscaping for its dense, lumpy cushion-li...

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 salmon-orange flowers. It grows on flats and slopes in the north and sou...

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 bright pink flowers. It grows on flats and slopes in the north and south...

Clusters of fairy-like, star-shaped white flowers.Littleleaf cotoneaster from Himalayas. It is low-growing, evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub, that typically grows to 60-90cm tall but spreads alot. From rocky and alpine areas. A great Bonsai or fairy garden specimen. Keep it trimmed to the form and...

Chile central. This is definitely the best Haploppaus you can buy with its silvery blue foliage and unusual buds. Peduncles are bare or with one to three small linear bracteoles. Flowering starts in spring and ends in Autumn with so many flowers, starting off orange and fading to deep red the two to...

A tiny treasure for spring, will seed about in your rock garden or trough. Only a few.Amethyst Meadow Squill This valuable plant is often grown for its star-shaped, amethyst-blue to violet, grape-hyacinth-like flowers, which open in late spring, much later than the more popular Siberian squill, and...

St John's wort. Mt Olympus, but about; north and to Turkey. Large and richly flowering. For pots, troughs or the rock garden. Large flowers from December, deciduous. Easy in the sun. 30cm.Shown here emerging from a rock phlox. Not sure about the addition of Moonlight. it seems to bright to me.Creepi...

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...