Euphorbia baselicis           2 ltr ... £3.00

Recently introduced from an Eastern European Botanic Garden, forms a twelve-inch mound of radiating stems of distinctly blue-grey foliage which terminate in heads of greeny-yellow flowers; an attractive mix, enhanced as the flowers take on a red tinge as they age.

 Euphorbia ceratocarpa          2 ltr ... £3.00

Nearly everything about this plant is lime-green ( apart from the red tinge to the stems ). In Spring it's like an acid-yellow beacon and if cut back following this, will normally flower again come August. In the meantime grow tropaoeleum, aconitum, adlumia, etc to clamber over it.

 Euphornia characias 'Burrow Silver'          1ltr...£3.50

 Euphorbia characias s.sp wulfenii          2ltr...£3.25

A striking specimen plant with pink-tinged stems and grey-blue leaves arranged in whorls. Giant heads of yellow flowers with distinct red-brown eyes are produced freely in March/April.

 Euphorbia characias s.sp wulfenii 'John Tomlinson'           2ltr...£3.25

Large corymbs of acid-yellow flowers over glaucous blue foliage.

 Euphorbia characias s.sp wulfenii 'Lambrook Gold'            2 ltr ... £3.25

Selected for its glorious golden heads of flower which adorn the tops of the stems of pale blue-green like like some ridiculously exhuberant golde tinsel thrown over a Christmas tree.

 Euphorbia mellifera           2 ltr ... £4.00

With a modicum of shelter, this can make a sizeable shrub - three feet by four in ten years. Bright green lance-shaped leaves with pale central midrib, clothe pale sienna stems and atop these sit flattened corymbs of creamy-brown flowers with a delicious honey scent.

 Euphorbia stricta          1 ltr ... £2.25

( syn. E.'Golden Foam' ) Makes a low-growing carpet of lime-green and yellow - plant it near something red ( one of the red-leaved Berberis is ideal ) and stand back...

Euphorbia wallichii          2 ltr ... £4.50

Dark green, purple-edged leaves with a central creamy-white vein and large heads of jade-green flowers in early summer. A dramatic plant hailing from the Himalayas.