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Alchemilla mollis AGM

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Common as muck but for a tough spot very good, plumes of yellow flowers in Summer. Wonderful for flower arranging and the leaves look magical with water droplets sitting on them. Very dry shade tolerant and resistant to deer and rabbits, plus the occasional football or foot. Will mildly seed around. Too useful to ignore!
Price: £4.50


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3. Iris foetidissima AGM
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Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal' AGM

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 15cm (6in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Double flowered form, white with a central ruff of staminoid petals, last cultivar to flower.

Price: £3.00


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3. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Ruby Port'
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Aquilegia vulgaris 'Clementine White'

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial shade

A medium to compact strain of double semi upward facing starry white flowers in masses during May and June. Very tolerant and thrives in dryish semi-shade.
Price: £3.00


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Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

syn Nivea. A lovely pure white strain of this good garden plant, easy in shade where is shows up wonderfully well. A native plant.
Price: £3.00



Multi-buy
1 plant £3.00 3 plants £8.00


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2. Geranium macrorrhizum 'Mount Olympus White'
3. Digitalis purpurea 'Pam's Choice'
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Aquilegia vulgaris 'Ruby Port'

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Double ruby red flowered form, very good in shade, even dry shade, and will seed true.
Price: £3.00



Multi-buy
1 plant £3.00 3 plants £8.00


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
2. Digitalis purpurea 'Pam's Choice'
3. Geranium phaeum 'Album'
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Aster divaricatus

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

A very lovely species Aster which is easy, mildew free, with shiny dark black stems with white flowers atop the zig zag stems in Late Sumer/Autumn. Perfect for the shady border in late Summer and thought to be often used by Gertrude Jekyll in her designs.
Price: £4.50


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Ruby Port'
2. Geranium phaeum 'Album'
3. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
Bergenia 'Overture' AGM

Bergenia 'Overture' AGM

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Richly coloured, neat foliage and stunning magenta flowers in Spring. Great Winter dark red foliage colour. A high quality form.
Price: £4.95


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2. Iris foetidissima AGM
3. Tiarella 'Pink Skyrocket'
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Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' AGM

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

PP13859 PBR 1799
Fully silvered leaves and blue flowers in Spring. Shows great vigour even in dry conditions. Will gradually form a good size plant.
Price: £5.50


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2. Galium odoratum
3. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Ruby Port'
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Special Offer Cyclamen hederifolium AGM - 7 mixed leaved forms.

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 15cm (6in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

A mixed batch of leaves and flower colour. Super in dry shade, August - September flowering, leaves all Winter.

Price: £21.00


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2. Bergenia 'Overture' AGM
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Epimedium pinnatum ssp colchicum

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

A very tough, easy, pale yellow flowered evergreen Epimedium. Easy in dry shade. European type.
Price: £4.50


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People who bought this item also bought:
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2. Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' AGM
3. Geranium phaeum 'Album'
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Epimedium x rubrum AGM

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

A hybrid form which is a good general easy form for drysih shade. Evergreen well marked foliage to 35cm high x 50cm wide.
Price: £4.95


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3. Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' AGM
Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum' AGM

Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum' AGM

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Easy pale lemon yellow flowered species, good ground cover. European type.
Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Geranium macrorrhizum 'Mount Olympus White'
2. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
3. Helleborus x ericsmithii 'Moonshine'
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Epimedium x warleyense

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

An old variety, but for dry shade a plant that’s hard to beat. Orange flowers in Spring and green mottled leaves all year. European type.
Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
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2. Geranium phaeum 'Album'
3. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
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Euphorbia amygdaloides var robbiae AGM

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

The native wood spurge, very tough evergreen euphorbia for any shady conditions including the dry soils right under trees. Green leaves and yellow flowers in Summer.
Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Ruby Port'
2. Myrrhis odorata
3. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
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Galium odoratum

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade



We're asked for sweet woodruff often enough that we have started growing it. Mythical thug for a shady spot where it can spread and display its white flowers in Spring. Will tolerate dry soils.

Galium will spread quite vigorously. So a plant that will survive in difficult situations

Price: £3.50


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Myrrhis odorata
2. Geranium 'Rozanne' AGM
3. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
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Geranium macrorrhizum 'Mount Olympus White'

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

syn Geranium mac. 'White Ness' An easy hardy evergreen geranium. Very good in dry shade. Evergreen form which forms good ground cover with fragrant foliage. Pure white flowers over most of the summer starting in late May. This is a pure albino with no hint of pink in the calx or flower.

These are in 1 litre round coir pots which we are trialing. These just need planting in the ground as is and not removing from the pot. Hope you like them.
Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
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3. Geranium nodosum
Geranium macrorrhizum 'Pindus'

Geranium macrorrhizum 'Pindus'

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 15cm (6in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

A slightly compact growing form to only around 25cm tall, spreading by rhizomes and clusters of pretty reddish purple flowers over a long time. Very good ground cover including in very dry shade.
Price: £4.50


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People who bought this item also bought:
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3. Alchemilla mollis AGM
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Geranium nodosum

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Bluish pearly pink flowers. A nice form of this woodland toughy from the Old Rectory, Burghfield. Will seed around to a certain extent and thrive in pretty much the driest position.
Price: £4.50


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Geranium macrorrhizum 'Mount Olympus White'
2. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
3. Galium odoratum
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Geranium phaeum 'Album'

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

An excellent Geranium for shade as the white flowers really light up a dry shaded spot.
Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
2. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Ruby Port'
3. Aster divaricatus
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Geranium 'Katherine Adele'

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Heavily mottled foliage almost completely purple flushed, with lined pink flowers.
Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
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2. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
3. Digitalis x mertonensis AGM
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Iris foetidissima AGM

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

A native Iris that does well in dry soils in shade, purplish and yellow flowers in summer, but the real star quality is the pod of berries which split in Autumn revealing scarlet orange fleshy seeds. A rhizomatous spreader.
Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
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2. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
3. Digitalis purpurea 'Pam's Choice'
Lathyrus vernus AGM

Lathyrus vernus AGM

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Spring pea, a non-climbing woodlander from Eastern Europe. Blue-purple flowers.
Price: £4.50


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People who bought this item also bought:
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2. Special Offer Cyclamen hederifolium AGM - 7 mixed leaved forms.
3. Tiarella 'Pink Skyrocket'
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Liriope muscari 'Big Blue'

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Predictably large with blue flowers. One of the best of the good flowering forms, and evergreen.
Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
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2. Epimedium x rubrum AGM
3. Myrrhis odorata
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Myrrhis odorata

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade



Sweet Cicely, fully deciduous. In Spring it produces soft, hairy, pale green leaves, and then later small heads of cow parsley type flowers. Brushing past it releases the sweet aniseed scent, and it is often used in the preparation of stewed fruit to reduce the amount of sugar needed.

Reportedly needing moisture but grows well in dry shade, though best with semi-shade.

Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Galium odoratum
2. Geranium 'Rozanne' AGM
3. Liriope muscari 'Big Blue'
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Omphalodes cappadocica 'Cherry Ingram' AGM

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Blue-chip and striking Spring woodlander, comparatively large blue flowers in masses in Spring.
Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Ruby Port'
2. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
3. Geranium macrorrhizum 'Mount Olympus White'
Polemonium caeruleum 'Album'

Polemonium caeruleum 'Album'

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

White Jacob's ladder, good in a shady spot. Repeat flowering if conditions are not very dry.
Price: £3.80


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
2. Myrrhis odorata
3. Iris foetidissima AGM
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Pulmonaria 'Cotton Cool'

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

A nice white silver leaved cultivar with good blue flowers in April.
In 1 year
Plant at 40cm centres,
Soil - most soils apart from very dry or wet.
Price: £4.95


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3. Pulmonaria 'Opal'
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Tellima grandiflora 'Forest Frost'

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Heavily mottled leaves are frosty in Winter, when the leaves turn to a burgundy colour, pink flowers in Spring. Good for shade even dry shade.
Price: £4.95


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People who bought this item also bought:
1. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
2. Epimedium pinnatum ssp colchicum
3. Epimedium grandiflorum ‘White Queen' AGM
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Tiarella 'Pink Skyrocket'

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

True pink flowers over darkly marked deeply cut wherryi type foliage.

Price: £5.50




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People who bought this item also bought:
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2. Iris foetidissima AGM
3. Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' AGM
Vinca minor f.alba 'Gertrude Jekyll' AGM

Vinca minor f.alba 'Gertrude Jekyll' AGM

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 15cm (6in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

A lovely low growing, compact white flowered form. Short evergreen leaved stems produce a succession of refreshing white flowers from mid Spring and in to the Summer. Bushy plants.
Price: £4.20


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People who bought this item also bought:
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2. Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM
3. Geranium macrorrhizum 'Mount Olympus White'
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Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM

Aquilegia vulgaris 'Munstead White' AGM

£3.00

syn Nivea. A lovely pure white strain of this good garden plant, easy in shade where is shows up wonderfully well. A native plant.
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Aquilegia vulgaris 'Ruby Port'

Aquilegia vulgaris 'Ruby Port'

£3.00

Double ruby red flowered form, very good in shade, even dry shade, and will seed true.
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Geranium macrorrhizum 'Mount Olympus White'

Geranium macrorrhizum 'Mount Olympus White'

£4.95

syn Geranium mac. 'White Ness' An easy hardy evergreen geranium. Very good in dry shade. Evergreen form which forms good ground cover with fragrant foliage. Pure white flowers over most of the summer starting in late May. This is a pure albino with no hint of pink in the calx or flower.

These are in 1 litre round coir pots which we are trialing. These just need planting in the ground as is and not removing from the pot. Hope you like them.
find out more

Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' AGM

Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost'  AGM

£5.50

PP13859 PBR 1799
Fully silvered leaves and blue flowers in Spring. Shows great vigour even in dry conditions. Will gradually form a good size plant.
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