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    ABELIA                                                                                    Caprifoliaceae

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 Abelia 'Francis Mason'          3ltr...£3.50 

 A late season riot of colour - bright pink and white flowers en masse completely obscure the small elliptical, bright green leaves late in the season. 

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    ABIES                                                                                              Pinaceae

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Abies balsamea 'Hudsonia'          1 ltr...£3.50 

Forms a very compact and dense, dark green mound of short, congested branchlets clad in black-green leaves. Very slow-growing and tolerant of shade and damp soils.

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  ABUTILON                                                                                      Malvaceae

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 Abutilon x millieri 'Variegatum          1ltr... £3.00  

 A strangely attractive clambering plant with remarkable irregular variegation to its heart-shaped leaves - dark green and lime-yellow. Nodding orange chalices in Summer complete the picture.

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    ACAENA                                                                                        Rosaceae

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Acaena pinnatifida          9cm...£2.00  

A creeping mat of small, narrowly dissected, pale grey-green leaves ( turning a greenish brown in Winter ) and dainty button flowers in early Summer. Gritty soil. 

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    ACANTHOLIMON                                                            Plumbaginaceae

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Acantholimon hohenackeri        7cm...£3.00

A tight-growimg mound of very fine 'needle' like leaves of ale grey-blue and given a hot Summer, sessile pink flowers.

 

Acantholimon kotschyi          7cm...£2.50 

Dense mound of sharply spiny, glaucous blue-green leaves topped by pink-purple flowers surrounded by white bracts. Sun in well-drained soil.

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 Acantholimon trojanum          sold out 

This is distinct in forming a deep green, congested spiky mound; and in late Spring, lipstick-pink flowers are held on short stems. 

 

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    ACANTHUS                                                                                Acanthaceae

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Acanthus hirsutus       1ltr...£4.75

 

 

 

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Acanthus mollis          2ltr...£3.25 

A statuesque and stately plant for a fertile soil in part-shade or sun. Large roundly divided, glossy green leaves and stocky pannicles of ruby-purple and cream, tubular flowers.

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Acanthus perringii       1ltr...£4.75

 

 

 

 

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  Acanthus spinosus          3ltr...£3.50 

A dramatic and architectural perennial for a rich moist soil where it will reward with large, glossy jagged-edged leaves and stout spikes of numerous open-mouthed, mauve-purple and white flowers.

( syn. Feijowa sellowiana ) 

Prostrate silver filigree foliage on slowly spreading shoots, form a pleasant mat beneath white flowers on 10cm stems. 

 Highly dissected green cushions of foliage beneath small yellow flowers.

 Narrow linear, pointed foliage in tidy compact clumps and in time, dense sprays of green-yellow flowers. New Zealand.

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    ACRADENIA                                                                                      Rutaceae

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 Acradenia frankliniae         1ltr...£4.50

 

 

 

 

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   ACTAEA                                                                                  Ranunculaceae

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( syn.A 'Alba')

Robust, deciduous woodlander, the native British 'Baneberry' makes a great show in late Summer with its compact spike of glistening red fruits. 

 Adonis amurensis 'Fukujukai'         9cm...£5.50 

An early Spring flowering treasure; saucers of glistening yellow flowers open as early as February and are held over soft, ferny foliage. 

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     AEONOPSIS                                                                     Caryophyllaceae

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 Aeonopsis cabulica         sold out

 

 

 

 

 

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    AETHIONEMA                                                                           Brassicaceae

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 Aethionema kotschyi          7cm...£3.00  

Very dwarf, slow-growing congested ini-shrublet: glaucous, succulent-like leaves topped with dense, rounded heads of rich pink flowers. 

(Turkey) Small slightly woody plant with silver-blue leaves and pale pink and purple flowers on an imbricated raceme. 

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 Aethionema subulatum          9cm...£2.50

(Turkey) Similar to A.glaucescens but perhaps slightly more vigorous; tiny grey-blue leaves on short upright stems and heads of pale pink flowers. Sun. 

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 Aethionema thomasianum         9cm...£2.75 

A small prostrate shrublet with rounded, glaucous silver-blue, fleshy leaflets and lovely pink flowers held in terminal heads. 

A dwarf species, growing only to eight inches or so, with white flowers stained slightly yellow and held over narrow green leaves.