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    ANDROSACE                                                                             Primulaceae
Androsace alpina         sold out 

 

Androsace axillaris          7cm...£3.50 

A particularly pleasant 'running' androsace for a moist woodland type soil (peat and sand with leafmould, that type of thing). Creeps gently around throwing up tufts of small, slightly hairy palmate leaves and heads of small white, pink flushed flowers on 3cm stems.

tn_cantabrica.jpg Androsace cantabrica          7cm...£2.75 

Small mounded hummock of pale sage green, acute leaves and short stems of bright pink flowers with a slightly darker eye.

 

 

an_carnea.jpg Androsace carnea         9cm...£2.25

 

 

Androsace carnea x pyrenaica          7cm...£2.50 

Very neat, orderly tight dome of small linear mid-green leaves and very short stems carrying pink flushed flowers in Spring.

tn_cylindrica.jpg Androsace cylindrica (ex.'Val d'Ossue')          7cm...£2.25 

(Pyrenees) Small, narrow, fresh green leaves arranged in neat rosettes slowly forming a dense mound which can cover itself in Spring with lovely, stemless slightly creamy-white flowers.

 

an_cylin Androsace cylindrica x hirtella         sold out

 

an_geraniifolia Androsace geraniifolia         7cm...£2.50

 

 

 

 

Androsace globifera          7cm...£3.00

Androsace hedreantha          7cm...£2.25 

(Europe) Smooth pointed green leaves with lovely rose-pink, yellow-eyed flowers on very short stems. Easy and perfectly at home in a trough, raised bed or rockery 

tn_carnea Androsace hedreantha 'Alba'          7cm...£2.25 

The white flowered form which makes an equally attractive dense dome and covers itself with numerous small white flowers in mid-Spring.

 

 

tn_himalaica Androsace himalaica          8cm...£3.00 

A very pleasant low mound-forming plant with shiny green lanceolate leaves providing an ideal foil for the beautiful compact, rounded umbels of pink flowers with a noticeably darker eye. Hardy and easy in a moist leaf-mould type soil where it will, surprisingly, tolerate full sun.

 

tn_hirtella.jpg Androsace hirtella          7cm...£2.50

 

 

 

an_incana Androsace incana          7cm...£3.00

 

  

an_jacquemontii Androsace jacquemontii 'Pink Form'        7cm...£2.50

 

 

tn_kosopolowskyi Androsace kosopolowskyii         7cm...£3.00

 

 

 

 

Androsace lanuginosa          sold out

(Himalayas) A gently spreading mat of tight hairy rosettes made up of small acuminate blue-green leaves and bright pink flowers on axilliary stems. Forms an attractive silvery carpet in and around dwarf shrubs or conifers. 

Androsace lehmanii       sold out

 

 

an_mariae.jpg Androsace mariae          9cm...£4.75

 

 

 

 

tn_marpensis.jpg Androsace x marpensis          7cm...£3.00 

(A,globifera x A.muscoidea) A naturally occurring hybrid which forms an hirsute pale blue-green low mound of ong-lived rosettes, each of which produces stemless violet-purple flowers - en masse this makes for a very striking show.

 

tn_schacts Androsace muscoidea 'Schact's Form'         7cm...£2.50

 

 

 

Androsace muscoidea SEP 154         7cm...£2.75 

This form makes a loose cushion of small, hairy, tubby rosettes each of which produces a head of small, white flowers on short peduncles; these flush pink when pollinated.

tn_rigida.jpg Androsace rigida          sold out

 

 

 

 

Androsace robusta s.sp robusta          7cm...£3.00  

Closely related to A.villosa and coming from the Western regions of the Himalayas; forms a compact mat/mound of grey-green silky hairy rosettes and short scapes each with several white, yellow-eyed flowers.

Androsace rotundifolia          9cm...£2.75 

(Himalayas) Soft green palmate leaves covered in tiny hairs, form small clumps from which arise short stens carrying rounded heads of lovely pink flowers. Given adequate moisture, will tolerate full sun but some summer shade is ideal.

 

an_sherrifs Androsace sarmentosa 'Sherrif's Form'          9cm...£2.50 

Slightly hairy grey-green stoloniferous rosettes soon form a good sized mat and numerous yellow-eyed deep red-purple flowers on 4cm stems.

 

 

an_yunnanensis Androsace sarmentosa 'Yunnanensis'          9cm...£2.50 

Hairy green leaves and flowers of a strong pink make this an eye-catching form.

 

 

tn_sempervivoides Androsace sempervivoides          9cm...£2.50 

Compact mats comprised of rosettes of deep green channeled leaves and in mid-Spring very short stems carry lipstick-pink flowers in a dense head. Charming and tolerant of almost any conditions except drought.

 

 

 

Androsace sempervivoides 'Susan Joan'        7cm...£2.75

 

 

Androsace studiosorum          7cm...£2.50 

Grown from wild-collected seed these are forming creeping mats comprised of small rosettes and short stems of palest pink flowers. 

tn_doksa.jpg Androsace studiosorum 'Doksa'        7cm...£2.50 

Makes a very attractive and healthy looking compact mound of relatively large rosettes of hoary, oblanceolate leaves and very pale pink and white flowers on 5cm scapes.

 

 

Androsace tapete       7cm...£5.00

 

 

tn_barbatula Androsace villosa var barbatula          7cm...£2.50 

Caucasian form of A.villosa with silky hairy, grey leaved, small rosettes in creeping mats and white flowers on very short stems, soon fading pink.

 

 

 

Androsace wulfeniana         sold out

 

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