Highly scented, long-tubed creamy-white flowers in loose umbels; the 'Sea Daffodil', which originates from sandy shores in the Mediterranean and flowers in late summer on stout, fifteen-inch stems above lustrous green, pointed strap-shaped leaves. Requires a warm, sunny, well-drained situation togive of its best. Or fine in a pot.
Papaver 'Black Peony' 9cm...£2.25
Papaver 'Porple Jester' 9cm...£2.25
PARAQUILEGIA anemonoides 7cm...£4.50
A moist crevice-dweller from the high Himalayas, which enjoys trough, or similar, cultivation with shade from hot summer sun. Lovely aquamarine-blue rounded leaflets and stunning, deep violet goblet flowers on wiry stems. A treasure.
Paris cronquistii 8cm...£7.50
Paris fargesii 9cm...£6.50
Paris japonica 1ltr...£16.50
Paris luquanensis 8cm...£7.50
Paris
polyphylla stenophylla 9cm...£5.50
Curious yellow spidery flowers on a stem rising from another carrying a whorl of narrow, glossy green leaves. Interestingly attractive and quite at home in a shady, moist peat bed.
Paris quadrifolia 1ltr...£3.50
An attractive woodland species for moist soils in part-shade. Creeping stems up to ten inches tall and topped with strangely alluring spidery yellow-green flowers.
PARONYCHIA
capitata 7cm...£2.50
A mat-forming sun lover with attractive, congested grey foliage and numerous showy silver bracts enclosing the tiny, inconspicuous flowers. From the Mediterranean and very startling in a sunny position where it appears like a silver carpet.
Paronychia 'Brinstead Gold' 9cm...£2.00
Slightly more vigorous than the above and this time forming a creeping mat of lemon and lime-green with tiny white flecks.
PEDICULARIS
densiflora sold out
A stunning species with dark green, red-tinged, ferny foliage and fantastic dense heads of bright red or deep carmine flowers. A Californian resident of pine and fir woodlands.
PENNISETUM
alopecuroides 'Hamelin' 2ltr...£3.50
Soft, gently arching, fine foliage and delightful pinkish brown foxtails in late summer providing an effective, airy contrast in a mixed perennial border.
As above, but only five inches high so perfect for the front of the border, next to a path or even for contrast in a rock garden. Dense clumps of dark green foliage and dwarf 'flowering' stems.
Perezia lanigera 7cm...£4.00
Petrocallis pyrenaica 'Alba' 7cm...£3.00
PETROCOPTIS
pseudoviscosa 9cm...£2.50
From the Pyrenees and perhaps the most compact form with dense clumps of turquoise blue-green leaves and clusters of pink flowers on short two-inch stems. Some shade from hot summer sun is appreciated.
PETROHAGIA
illyrica s.sp heynaldiana 1 ltr ... £3.25
A quite delicate, light and airy plant, for a trough or rock garden. Small needle-like, linear leaves on soft upright stems and numerous pale pink flowers with deeper coloured veining and markings.
PETROPHYTUM
caespitosum 7cm ... £2.50
A low mat-forming species with narrow, blue-tinged foliage and small fluffy racemes of white flowers on short stems.
Phacelia parryi sold out
Cymes of dark purple-blue, campanulate flowers on are held on ten-inch stems over bronze-tinted clumps of small lobed foliage. Found on semi-shaded embankments in California.
Philipelia patagonica 7cm...£3.25
Phlomis 'Lloyds Variety' 1ltr...£3.00
Phlomis bracteata sold out
Phyla nodiflora 9cm...£2.50
x Phylliopsis 'Askival' 7cm...£3.50
Small shrub with bright green elliptical foliage on gently erect stems and stunning, eye-catching terminal racemes of many small, deep rose-pink urns. As a plant for a sunny peat bed, they don't come much better than this.
Phylliopsis 'Coppelia' 9cm ... £3.50
Phylliopsis 'Sugar Plum' 9cm...£4.00
Physaria alpina 7cm...£2.25
Physaria
didymocarpa 7cm ... £2.50
Clusters of bright, golden yellow flowers encircle silver rosettes of white-felted oval leaves. Strange inflated seed pods follow.
Physaria eburniflora 7cm ... £2.50
Probably my favourite that I've grown - this makes congested white-silver leaf rosettes and attractive heads of cream coloured flowerson short stems. A Wyoming endemic of dry flats.
A selected, low-growing form of this sub-shrub from New Zealand; tiny blue-grey leaves on wiry stems and heads of waxy white flowers. White fruits follow if pollinated.
Pinellia pedatisecta 8cm...£3.00
Pinellia tripartita 9cm...£5.50
Plantago major 'Rosularis' 1 ltr ... £2.25
A strange and attractive curiosity with deep green basal clumps centred by 'flowers' which form rose-like rosettes before elongating into bright green mini-Christmas trees.
Pleione 'Hekla' 9cm...£3.50
Pleione 'Moorhen' 9cm...£6.50
Pleione 'Piton' 9cm...£3.50
Poa chaixii sold out
Polemonium caeruleum 1ltr...£3.00
Polemonium carneum 9cm...£3.00
Polemonium 'Eastbury Purple' 1ltr...£3.00
Polemonium pauciflorum 1ltr...£3.00
POLYGALA
alpicola 1 ltr ... £4.50
(Caucasus) From stony alpine meadows in Russia and forming a small, dark green, tufted plant with charming dusky blue flowers.
Polygala calcarea 'Lillet' 9cm ... £2.50
A very free-flowering clone which makes a good-sized creeping mat of small, dark green leaves and numerous dense inflorescence of bright blue flowers in April.
Polygala chamaebuxus purpurea 9cm ... £2.25
A startling plant in flower - violet-purple and yellow flowers en masse cover this creeping evergreen. Never more than two-inches high it makes admirable ground-cover in a gritty peat bed.
Polygala major sold out
This is a lovely small shrub-like species with panicles of vibrant magenta-violet flowers on upright stems. Appreciates a good soil in part-shade.
POLYGONUM
viviparum sold out
(Wyoming) Pretty, narrow feathery leaves in small tussocks, sprout little 'bottle-brushes' of tiny white flowers. Appreciates part-shade in a moisture-retentive but gritty soil.
Paris quadrifolia 1ltr...£3.50
Physaria eburniflora 7cm ... £2.50