Echinops sphaerocephalus 'Arctic Glow'          2ltr...£2.50  

An impressive white 'Globe Thistle' with two-inch rounded heads comprising a multitude of small tubular flowers on three-foot high stems over roughly toothed foliage; never left alone by bees or hover flies 

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 Echinops tienshanicum          2ltr...£3.25 

A large 'Globe Thistle' with cream spiky flower heads the size of tennis balls - much loved by bees, hover flies and butterflies. Five feet in rich soil.  

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 Echium pininana          2ltr...£4.50

Compact clumps of softly prickly foliage and clusters of purple-red trumpet flowers.

Very narrow, silver-green foliage forms congested mounds which in May, can literally disappear beneath quite 'massive', sessile violet-purple bells. Excellent plant for trough, scree or pot.

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Eminium albertii        sold out

 

 

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 Eminium lehmanii         sold out

 

 

 

 

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 EPHEDRA

Forms an intricate and congested small shrub which will 'flower' in May - small, pale blue-green beads open to reveal sticky ( and presumably mighty attractive to flies ) reproductive organs. Successful pollination ( if you can't train a fly, a paintbrush does just fine ) will guarantee a good crop of the large, bright red drupes.

Short congested stems, clothed in fleshy, red-tinged oval leaves, form a gently creeping mat with palest pink flowers in early Summer. An(other) attractive plant form New Zealand.

I find this remains relatively dwarf, no more than two-feet in a good, moist soil and with stunning, but demure flowers of greenish yellow, gold and brown-red. Soon forms a good clump of erect sage-green stems.

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 Epipactis gigantea x veratrifolia          2ltr...£12.50 

I obtained this plant several years ago before the named forms available now were released comercially; so I am uncertain, at present, of its exact origins. I do know that its a mighty vigorous clone forming stems up to three feet tall in rich, moist conditions and with flowers of green, rusty-red and orange-yellow.

A native of Turkestan and a strong-growing, hardy species with large spikes of pale peachy pink flowers held on stems up to five feet tall in mid-Summer.

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Eremurus stenophyllus        2ltr...£3.50

 

 

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 Erinacea anthyllis         9cm...£3.00

 

 

 

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 Erodium carviflorum         9cm...£2.50

 

 

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 ERODIUM castellanum           9cm ... £2.50

Green, fuzzy, fern-like leaves form robust clumps and produce, all summer, on six-inch stems bright rose-magenta blooms. Easy in any good soil.

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 Erodium corsicum           9cm ... £2.75

A mound-forming species with felted, mat-green leaves, distinctly tinged red on the reverse and numerous flowers of pale pink. Sun.

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 Erodium pelargoniiflorum          

Crinkly, pale green leaves and heads of violet-veined white flowers on six-inch stems.

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 Erodium x variabile 'Bishop's Form'          9cm...£2.25

 

 

 

 

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 ERYNGIUM

This is a form selected for the jagged silvery-blue foliage with distinct paler central midrib, and the silvered spiny bracts surrounding the blue-white, globose flower heads. Sun for best colouration.

A fantastically spiny species from stony slopes and screes in Spain and the Atlas Mountains and remaining dwarf in cultivation. Six or eight inches tall with highly cut, spiny silver blue-green foliage and bracts surrounding the silvery white, spiky flower heads.

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 Eucomis bicolor         2ltr...£2.50

 

 

 

 

 

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 Eucryphia milliganii        9cm...£3.50

 

 

 

 

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 Eucryphia x nymansensis 'Nymansay'        sold out

 

 

 

 

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EUONYMOUS

A small, lax-growing shrub, noted for its peculiar shaped pink seed pods, which come complete with little horns and have the appearance of small, jester's caps.

A large deciduous shrub with pale green, obovate leaves on ridiculously corky-winged stems and.....talking of ridiculous, bright pink and red, four-lobed fruits in Autumn..

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 EURYOPS candollei           1 ltr ... £3.00

From a variable genus comes this, with the appearance of a stiffly, congested low-growing Hebe. A dense twelve-inch mound of small, pale green foliage-clad stems and small yellow flowers...not for drama-lovers unless having a very low-key, melancholic day.

Delicate stems of almost succulent, dissected pale blue foliage on this prostrate sub-shrub from the Drakensberg Mountains in Lesotho. Narrow-rayed, bright yellow flowers are produced when happy - cool roots and sun to encourage flowers.

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 Euryops tysonii           sold out

A hardy South African; lush, bright green mound of angular, acuminate leaves on twelve to eighteen inch green stems and late in the season ( August ), numerous bright yellow flowers dangle on fine petioles like twinkling baubles. A pleasant small shrub for the mixed border easily clipped back in Spring to keep in check.

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 EWARTIA

From Tasmania, this creeping ma