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Rodgersia

Rodgersia

Roscoea

Roscoea

Exotic looking plants with stunning flowers. We have what may be considered an extreme number of Roscoea, but we have grown them outside for a number of years and find we can have different species in flower from April to October, something very few other woodland genera can offer. We find them easy in a shady spot with a moist but not boggy soil. Plant deeply and avoid keeping them in pots overwinter. They can bea little slow to reappear in Spring.
Sarcococca

Sarcococca

A group of very fragrant low growing evergreen shrubs, that flower in Winter. They are an important element of any Winter garden with glossy foliage and strong scent, offering a good dose of seasonal cheer. Maintenance is minimal perhaps a light shaping as they mature and they are usually trouble free.
Saruma

Saruma

Saxifraga

Saxifraga

Smilacina

Smilacina

Speirantha

Speirantha

Soldanella

Soldanella

Symphytum

Symphytum

Synthyris

Synthyris

Tellima

Tellima

Tiarella

Tiarella

We are continuing to introduce new forms but still keep older varieties in production, probably because they are all good easy garden plants for shade, even dryish shade. Great flowers and fabulous foliage - a winning combination.
Tricyrtis

Tricyrtis

Toad lilies, we hold quite a range that are available at various times in the year. All are available mail order.
Uvularia

Uvularia

Vancouveria

Vancouveria

Vinca

Vinca

Viola

Viola

The Viola odorata forms are all single, easy growing, for a shady spot in the garden. The new Devon violets are much better than the old cut flower clones, not virus infested nor prone to red spider mite. Wonderful in a wild or woodland garden where they will happily seed about.
Ypsilandra

Ypsilandra

Zingiber

Zingiber

Plants for shade >  Perennials R - Z

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Polystichum tsussimense AGM

Polystichum tsussimense AGM

£7.00 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

This neat and low growing pale green Oriental fern has holly like tips and a mass of silvery white scales which gives it a striking silvery appearance in the cool dark, shady conditions it loves. Evergreen.
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Tiarella 'Angel Wings'

Tiarella 'Angel Wings'

£7.20 (2 or fewer items) £6.95 (3 or more items)

An exciting new hybrid and amongst the longest flowering of any form, (so very long flowering indeed!), well marked evergreen foliage with masses of pale pink flowers. Good in shade even dryish shade.

Just about the best of the new hybrids we think!
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Epimedium 'Spine Tingler'

Epimedium 'Spine Tingler'

£9.50

A very good plant with highly ruffled red new foliage and large golden yellow flowers. To 45 cm spread and 30 cm tall. Evergreen.
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Woodwardia unigemmata AGM

Woodwardia unigemmata AGM

£14.00

A hardy species of the chain fern, down to minus 8* C. Bright red new fronds, ageing to green. For moistish positions in shade. Fronds can be 1.5m long; quite one of the best large hardy ferns and one we are delighted to be able to offer.
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Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

£7.00 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

A truly magnificent fern with splendid crests and arching fronds, said to be the 'King of the British Ferns'. In time, to 1.2m tall. Very effective in a pot against a north facing wall. Semi-evergreen.
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Woodwardia radicans AGM

Woodwardia radicans AGM

£15.80

An enormous fern which needs a very sheltered almost frost free moist but not stagnant situation. Forms new plantlets from buds on the frond tips. Evergreen. A wonderful site in Madeira trailing down over the Levadas. City or coastal for open garden, otherwise a large pot taken in, in the winter.
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