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GALAX Diapensiaceae
Galax urceolata sold out
( syn. G.aphylla ) An American woodland species with glossy green leaves which colour wel in Autumn and Spring; and in early Summer, dense heads of numerous small creamy white flowers. Shady spot and moisture retentive soils.
Galtonia regalis 1 ltr ... £3.25
When mature, this makes two-and-a-half foot clumps of long leaves and a central spike of pendulous, greenish-yellow flowers. A high altitude collection from South Africa.
Gaulnettya wisleyensis sold out
GAULTHERIA
cuneata 9cm ... £2.50
A small creeping little shrub decorated in late Spring by numerous small, dangling creamy-white chalice flowers and even more dramatically in Autumn, by quite large white berries. These berries have one more trick up their sleeves - they smell of Germoline when crushed ( not sure if this a positve attribute or not.... )
Gaultheria semi-inferna 9cm...£2.75
GAURA lindheimeri 1 ltr ... £2.50
An airy, free-flowering perennial for the sunny border. Hundreds of pink and white flowers throughout the Summer.
Gaura lindheimeri 'Cherry Brandy' 1ltr...£3.00
Gaura lindheimeri 'Melody' 1ltr...£3.00
A lovely new form with cream variegation to the leaves and thousands of pure white 'Swirling Butterfly' flowers.
GAZANIA rigens 7cm ... £2.50
A 'near-as-dammit' hardy South African. Forms a sub-shrub, woody basal framework which sprouts anew in Spring to produce semi-succulent matt green leaves and numerous fine-rayed flowers in yellow, orange and red.
Ginkgo biloba 1ltr...£3.50
GLADIOLUS flanaganii 9cm...£5.00
You want drama ? Huge ( relatively speaking ) scarlet-red, slightly waxy-textured, trumpets on eight- or ten-inch tall stems. Pale grey-green, pointed leaves do their best to keep everything grounded and in proportion. Flowering size, seed-grown bulbs.
Gladiolus kotschyanus sold out
Gladiolus papilio 1 ltr ... £3.25
A hardy, understated and refined Gladioli for the garden. Sun and good soil will reward with a steadily increasing clump of upright foliage and stems of creamy-white flowers blotched grey-blue.
GLAUCIDIUM palmatum 1ltr... £5.50
A stunning plant from Japan which, given sunny peat-bed conditions, can form thick rhizomes beneath large kidney-shaped leaves and stunningly gorgeous pale lavender flowers up to three inches across. A high-class plant.
Globularia bisnagarica 1 ltr ... £2.50
Lovely dark, shiny green leathery leaves with large blue powder puffs on short stems. A form collected in Crete.
Globularia nudicaulis 9cm ... £2.50
Short leafless stems of round, blue flower heads and small, leathery green tufts of foliage. A mountain dweller from Spain.
Globularia stygia 9cm ... £2.50
Greece. A distinct creeping species with narrow, pale green leaves and pale blue, round heads of flower on very short stems.
Globularia trichosantha 9cm ... £2.50
More rounded and glaucous foliage than many other species, with a mounded growth habit and four- or five-inch stems of bright blue flowers.
GUNNERA magellanica 1 ltr ... £2.25
From South America and makes an attractive carpet of small pleated, dark green leaves and dense, congested spikes of crimson and cream flowers. Ideal as a ground-cover in a peat bed.
Gypsophila aretioides 7cm...2.50
Gypsophila briquetiana Mc&W 5920 9cm ... £2.50
An interesting gysophila collected by John Watson in 1977; tufts of short rigid, dark green spiky foliage and nunerous very pale white, almost transluscent small flowers with pencilled crimson markings. Gritty soil and not too dry.
Gypsophila cerastioides 1 ltr ... £2.75
A refined species ( here, grown from seed from the Rotung Pass in India - which is where the form recently selected by M & H Taylor was collected ) and making quite vigourous mounds of small sage-green leaves and covered in early Summer by white flowers with bright pink delineations.
Gypsophila imbricata 9cm ... £2.50
Dense, tight mounds of spiky bright green foliage and sessile white flowers make this an attractive feature in a trough or rock garden.
Gypsophila oldhamiana 1 ltr ... £3.00
A strong-growing species with erect leafy stems and many-flowered heads of white flowers.
Gypsophila petraea 7cm...£2.50
