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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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- New addition to this year's catalogue.
You have found: 5 Plant Families and 21 plants
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10-25cm. Funnel-shaped yellow flowers in early spring. Requires neutral to acid soil, reasonably fertile and well-drained.
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20-30cm. Multi-headed, elegant, canary-yellow flowers.
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30cm. Creamy white perianth with lemon trumpets, fading to cream. Very elegant! Early to mid-spring.
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NepetaThe catmints generally prefer a well-drained soil in full sun (exceptions noted), and the spikes of summer flowers are usually attractive to bees. |
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60-90 x 60cm. Lavender-blue flowers.
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90 x 60cm. Deliciously aromatic foliage, with pale yellow flowers from mid-summer to early autumn. Prefers a moist, cool soil.
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45cm. Blue-mauve flowers.
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60cm. Aromatic foliage, light pink flowers.
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150 x 45cm. An unusual catmint that will scramble up through other plants to a height of 150cm. or more. Blue flowers. Sun or part shade.
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45cm. Dense spikes of purple-blue flowers from mid-summer to autumn. Cut back after first flush of flowers to encourage further flowering and a compact habit. Sun or part shade. Good in a container too.
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30 x 45cm. An excellent plant, with aromatic foliage, and violet-blue flowers. Dead-head for a longer season. Can be cut back.
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90cm. Rich blue flowers from mid to late summer. Sun or part shade. Prefers a drier spot.
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40cm. Solid spikes of bluish-mauve flowers. Over-winters as tuber.
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30 x 45cm. Masses of lavender-blue flowers. Cut back after flowering to encourage more flowers.
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NerineHarmful if eaten. Nerines require well-drained soil in full sun. Tender ones should be kept frost free in winter, others need a sheltered position. They grow well in a container. |
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45 x 10cm. Heads of bright pink flowers produced in autumn. Leaves appear in spring, and die off before flowering. Ideally, grow at the base of a sunny wall. Mulch in cold areas in winter.
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20-30cm. Heads of pink, crinkly-petalled flowers in late autumn. Winter foliage. Summer dormant.
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30cm. Dainty plant with grass-like foliage, and masses of bright pink flower in autumn. In all but warmest areas, over-winter in a cold greenhouse.
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30-40cm. White flowers, Oct-Nov. Winter foliage. Summer dormant.
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45cm. Pale pink flowers in autumn.
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NicotianaContact with sap may irritate the skin. |
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Up to 120cm. Masses of dangling white flowers which age to pink, from early summer to autumn. Grow in sun or some shade. Annual or short-lived perennial. Survives a light frost.
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150 x 60cm. Panicles of pendent, long-tubed white flowers, sweetly scented, in mid-summer to autumn. Sun or shade. Biennial or short-lived perennial. Hardy in warmer areas.
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Nigella |
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40cm. Bright blue flowers, with attractive seed heads. Any well-drained soil in sun or part shade. Annual. Self-seeds. |
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