If you're only going to grow one Dahlia then this is it... Deep bright, rich red flowers on sturdy upright stems of bronze-tinted foliage. Perfect Summer colour...
Darmera peltata 2ltr...£4.00
DEGENIA Brassicaceae
Degenia velebitica 7cm...£2.75
Large petalled, acid-yellow flowers held over prostrate stems of narrow silver foliage make for a pleasant combination. Sun, but not too parched.
DENTARIA Brassicaceae
Dentaria digitata 1ltr...£2.50
Desfontania spinosa 1ltr...£3.50
A classy flowering shrub. Small, prickly hollyesque leaves on upright stems and striking open-ended, tubular flowers of orange-yellow. Its habit is dense and slow, ensuring it wil never outgrow its position.
Dianella caerulea 9cm...£3.50
Diascia barbarae 'Belmore Beauty'
7cm...£2.50
An attractively variegated form; creamy-yellow and green leaves on soft stems and rich pink flowers. Surprisingly hardy.
Diascia 'Prince of Orange' 9cm...£2.50
A new selection with quite bright orange flowers on leafy stems.
Dicentra
'Bacchanal' 1ltr...£3.00
A lovely plant to have creeping around a Spring border with glaucous, filigree foliage in small clumps and stunning deep red, nodding flowers on delicate stems. Once you've grown it you won't want to be without it.
Dicentra 'Hybrids' 1ltr...£3.00
Dionysia 'Aisbett' sold out
Dionysia 'Annielle' 7cm...£4.00
A relatively easily pleased and long-lived selection; making a dense, compact cushion of small, mid-green rosettes and with the potential to cover itself in luscious, two-tone yellow flowers in early Spring. This is one of the few Dionysias I've tried outside on a sunny rock garden - grew well and looked great for seven months until end of October ! No doubt, given efficient protection when necessary, this is a distinct possibility.
Dionysia aretioides 'Bevere' 7cm...£3.50
Dionysia aretioides 'Mary Randall' sold out
An old variety with large, pale yellow flowers over a loose cushion. Not too difficult in a cold greenhouse and kept airy and dry in the Winter months.
Dionysia aretioides 'Paul Furse' 7cm...£3.50
Very compact growth with compact rosettes of slightly scented, crenulate silver-blue-green foliage and good-sized two-tone yellow flowers that sit almost stemless entirely covering the mound.
Dionysia aretioides 'Susan Hale' sold out
Another selection, this time with large, deeper yellow flowers and with a slightly more robust constitution; though still requiring careful watering and adequate air-flow to maintain good health.
Dionysia aretioides x archibaldii 7cm...£5.00
( D. 'Annielle' x D. archbaldii ) Compact mound of silver-green rosettes and numerous small, palest lilac, golden-eyed flowers.
Dionysia 'Bernd Wetzel' 7cm...£5.50
Dionysia curviflora 7cm...£5.00
Dionysia curviflora x lamingtonii 7cm...£6.00
Dionysia 'Eric Watson' sold out
( D.bryoides x D.tapetodes MK9107/3 ) Forms a tight green cushion of small rosettes each of which is capable of producing a yellow-centred, violet-purple sessile flower. Quite stunning and long-lived.
Dionysia microphylla sold out
Dionysia x microphylla 7cm...£4.50
Dionysia tapetodes sold out
Tight silvery green cushions, covered in relatively large bright yellow flowers in Spring. Makes a fantastic cushion plant for the cold greenhouse.
Dipcadi serotinum 7cm...£3.00
Diselma archeri sold out
An attractive, slow-growing squat shrub with arching sprays of adpressed, dark green scale-like leaves and, though heralding from Tasmania, it is perfectly hardy. An ideal support for a delicate, twining clematis or such like.
Disporopsis fuscopicta 1ltr...£2.50
Disporopsis taiwanensis 2ltr...£4.00
Disporum cantonense 1ltr...£3.00
Disporum flavum 1ltr...£3.50
Pale, glossy green clumps of erect stems bear charming, drooping yellow flowers in late Spring. Part-shade in moisture-retentive soil.
Disporum sessile 9cm...£3.25
Disporum sessile 'Cricket' 8cm...£8.50
Disporum smithii 9cm...£3.00
A charming and delicate small species for moist soils and a part-shaded position. Wiry stems with slightly angular leaves and small hanging bells of creamy white with green tints. Yellow berries extend the season of interest.
Douglasia laevigata var. ciliolata 7cm...£2.50
A really lovely North American with narrow-leaved rosettes of blue-green foliage and small heads of several bright crimson-pink flowers on short stems. A lovely plant for a pot under glass or a sheltered gritty trough.
Dracocephalum 'Fuji Blue' 7cm...£2.50
Dracocephalum grandiflorum 9cm...£2.50
A low-growing, creeping species with bullate leaves and spikes of blue, tubular flowers.
Dracocephalum ruyschianum 9cm...£2.50
A robust species but nice in a good soil in sun. Rich purple-blue flowers held in whorls on eighteen-inch stems.
Drapetes diffenbachii sold out
A choice, prostrate alpine species from the Coromandel Mountains, New Zealand; forming tight mats with white flowers in terminal clusters. For moist, peat-bed conditions or a shady trough.
Drimys henryi sold out
Dudleya collomae 1ltr...£2.50
( North America ) This has proved to be remarkably hardy. Forms smooth, glaucous blue, succulent leaves in compact rosettes and from these appear many red stems of yellow-orange flowers. From the region including the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts in Arizona. Looks great 'toasted' in a sunny greenhouse in a gritty, sandy compost.