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- Award of Garden Merit (RHS Award) indicating a plant that is rated excellent for garden use, of good constitution, and not requiring specialist conditions to grow well.
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- Hardy to -5°C
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- Unlikely to withstand a frost
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- New addition to this year's catalogue.
You have found: 9 Plant Families and 20 plants
EchinaceaEchinaceas prefer a deep, fertile, humus-rich soil in full sun, although they will tolerate some shade. They are very attractive to bees and butterflies, and provide a good display of flowers from July through to September. |
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100 x 60cm. Large pinky-purple flowers with prominent central cone.
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100cm. Intense carmine-red, horizontal flower petals, with a prominent central cone.Â
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90 x 30cm. White flowers with prominent central cone.
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EchinopsGlobe Thistles. These produce spherical heads of flowers in summer, very attractive to bees, and grow in well-drained soil in sun. |
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Up to 130cm. Blue flowers, good for cutting and drying.
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90cm. Blue flowers in summer. Attractive to bees and butterflies.
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EchiumMay cause mild discomfort if ingested. Can irritate skin. |
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60-90 x 30cm. Many stems bear masses of blue flowers in summer. Highly attractive to bees. Biennial. Self seeds. Well-drained soil in full sun. British native.
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EpimediumRhizomatous plants, making good ground cover under trees. They prefer fertile, humus-rich soil in full or part shade, and flower in spring. Trim off old foliage in late winter. |
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30cm. Elegant sprays of pale pink flowers.
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30cm. Leaves red when young, good autumn colour. Flowers red & white.
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30cm. New leaves flushed copper in spring, with pale yellow flowers.
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Erigeron |
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15cm. Vigorous, carpeting, spreading perennial, with masses of white daisies, fading to pink, in summer. Well-drained soil in full sun. Suitable for walls or cracks in paving. Self seeds.
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60 x 45cm. Clump-forming perennial. White flushed pink,daisy flowers, early to mid-summer. Fertile, well-drained soil in sun. Good cut flowers if cut fully open.
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Erinus |
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8 x 10cm. Semi-evergreen perennial. Sprays of tiny pink, purple or white flowers in late spring to summer. Well-drained soil in full sun or part-shade. Suitable for a rockery or cracks in paving. Can be short-lived.
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Erodium |
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20-25cm. Attractive foliage, producing sprays of pink flowers, with darker blotches and veining, throughout summer. Well-drained soil in sun..
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15cm. Forms a mat of silvery divided foliage. The pale flowers are veined pink, the upper petals bearing two dark blotches.
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20-45 x 20cm. Magenta pink flowers all summer. Ferny foliage. Fertile, well-drained soil in sun. |
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15cm. Pink-mauve upper petals, paler lower petals. Flowers in summer over a mat of feathery foliage. Well-drained soil in sun.
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30 x 30cm. Mound of attractive, grey-green foliage, heads of white flowers veined pink, with dark blotches on upper petals. Well-drained soil in full sun. Self seeds a little (maybe a lot on light, sandy soils). Photo taken in February!
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EryngiumUmbels of thistle-like flowers produced in mid- to late-summer. They require a fertile, well-drained soil in sun. Very attractive to bees. |
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90cm. Metallic cones with silvery, prickly bracts. Biennial. Self seeds.
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60-90 x 50cm. Violet-blue flowers with grey-blue bracts.
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Eupatorium |
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100-120cm. Dark maroon-brown foliage, with heads of white flowers in late summer and autumn. Prefers alkaline soil, in sun or part-shade, (but colours better in sun). Attracts bees and butterflies.
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