All of our plants are offered in a 10cm diameter pot unless otherwise indicated. Plants grown here are frost hardy to at least minus 5C unless stated otherwise. Many are hardy to much colder temperatures. They may be evergreen or deciduous, or herbaceous and overwintered by being cut back to near pot level.Read more about Standard Pot Size
Anemones, or Windflowers, are a classic and much-loved garden plant. While definitely not a plant for a dry garden, it will flourish with regular watering through the driest part of summer. Best planted in light shade or an area which gets morning sun and afternoon shade. Cut back all the way to the ground after flowering. Read more about Anemone
The underside of the petals of the white flowered ‘Dainty Swan’ are mauve-pink. This hybrid between the autumn flowering Anemone hupehensis and the spring flowering A. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Dainty Swan’
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‘Serenade’ is a charming, soft single pink, flowered Japanese Windflower. It will flower from mid-summer until mid-autumn if grown in a sunny or lightly shaded spot which isn’t allowed to dry out during dry weather. 80cm tall by 60cm across. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Serenade’
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One of the most beautiful of all Japanese anemones, ‘Hadspen Abundance’ carries its deep carmine pink flowers from February until the end of April. It does well here if given adequate summer watering. It is definitely not a plant for a dry garden. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Hadspen Abundance’
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‘Maerchenfee’ is a classic single soft pink scrupulously bred to make a more compact growing variety of Japanese Windflower. Like all of its kin it will make a terrific display during late summer and autumn as long as it is well watered. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Maerchenfee’
Anemone ‘Elegans’ is a winner of Royal Horticultural Society’s prestigious Award of Garden Merit. Carrying its large soft pink flowers on 90cm tall stems it is one of the glories of late summer and autumn as long as it is given regular summer watering. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Elegans’
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These new wind flowers are considered to be amongst the most outstanding perennial plants to be released this century. Raised by Scottish nurserywoman, Elizabeth McGregor, these plants stay where they are planted and don’t spread like Japanese windflowers. Read more about Anemone ‘Wild Swan’
These new wind flowers are considered to be amongst the most outstanding perennial plants to be released this century. Raised by Scottish nurserywoman, Elizabeth McGregor, these plants stay where they are planted and don’t spread like Japanese windflowers. Read more about Anemone ‘Dreaming Swan’
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Featured in our pear walk and one of the loveliest of all the flowers in the garden, this outstanding cultivar makes metre tall stems topped by glistening pure white flowers from late summer until well into the autumn. Cut back all the way to the ground after flowering. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’
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This little rambler is native to much of North America. I’ve grown it under and around shrubs such as Hydrangea paniculata for 15 years or more and each spring and summer enjoy a carpet of maple like green leaves and 30cm tall stems each carrying a white windflower. Read more about Anemone canadense
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This newly released Japanese windflower makes a fabulous display of cupped, bright pink, golden centred flowers from late summer until late autumn. Smaller growing than older varieties it does well in pots as well as in a protected area in the garden. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Cinderella’
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This newly released Japanese windflower is more compact than older varieties producing its cupped double pink flowers, each with a tuft of golden stamens, on strong 45cm tall stems from late summer until late autumn. Good in pots as well as a protected area in the garden. . Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Pocahontas’
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It is the size of this windflower combined with its pure white semi-double flowers which makes it oh so desirable. Making only 40-50cm in height and perhaps a third that in width this is ideal for smaller gardens with low-light positions needing a lift. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Snow Angel’
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This stunning Japanese windflower is more compact than older varieties producing its semi-double, rose pink flowers, on strong 50-60cm tall stems from late summer until late autumn. Good in large pots as well as in a protected area in the garden. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Sweetly’
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The Snowdrop Anemone with its charming fragrant white flowers is a European Woodlander which grows best in a lightly shaded spot. The glistening white flowers top 40 cm tall stems over a skirt of deeply cut leaves. Plant about 30cm apart. Read more about Anemone sylvestris
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Smaller growing than the ubiquitous Acanthus mollis and a much more useful and useable plant with deeply divided leaves, dark green and glossy, making a telling mound. Read more about Acanthus spinosus ‘Beth Chatto’s Form’
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This very useful small growing Acanthus whose origins are not known with any certainty makes a compact foliage mound some 35cm by 40cm. From clumps of mid-green, thickly textured leaves strong 50cm tall stems of purple bronze flowers are produced in spring. Read more about Acanthus ‘Tupelo Grove’
The best of the yellow flowered yarrows first sold during the year of the Queen’s coronation. It makes well behaved evergreen mounds of feathery grey leaves. Read more about Achillea ‘Coronation Gold’
When Criss and I were on a pre-Covid trip to England we went to the RHS gardens at Wisley. The Achillea trials were being held in Portsmouth Field next to M25. Read more about Achillea ‘Credo’
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At the age of 90 German nurseryman Ernst Pagel took on the breeding of new Achilleas. Criss and I visited the RHS Wisley Gardens 15 years ago at the time of the Achillea trials and it was Pagel’s yarrows which impressed us the most. Read more about Achillea ‘Terracotta’
Ernst Pagels, the great German nurseryman who did much breeding work on ornamental grasses, took on Achilleas at the age of 90 with great success. The last time I was in England Pagels’ plants were the stars at the RHS Achillea trials at Wisley. Read more about Achillea ‘Walter Funke’
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The late Alan Bloom, whom I had the good fortune to meet, raised many superb garden plants in his nursery in the east of England over the last sixty years of the 20th century. Agapanthus ‘Isis’ is one of them. Read more about Agapanthus campanulatus ‘Isis’
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The only Agapanthus we know which flowers throughout late spring, summer and autumn. A dwarf evergreen, white flowered variety with particularly handsome flower heads. This plant rarely produces viable seed. Read more about Agapanthus ‘Perpetual Peace’
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This exceptional shrub is worth a pride of place in any suitable garden. It makes a tangle of long arching stems clothed small but attractive glossy green leaves. Read more about Agapetes serpens
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These mint relatives from the southern parts of North America have been a revelation to us and our resident New Holland Honeyeaters during these last few droughty years. Read more about Agastache aurantiaca
Agastache ‘Blue Boa’ is a newly imported multiple award-winning selection from the USA. It carries large bottle brush heads of intense violet-blue flowers for months from late spring until late autumn. Read more about Agastache ‘Blue Boa’
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A single stem in a group of Agastache ‘Sweet Lili’ in the Tesselaar family’s garden at Silvan had deeper flower colour. Lambley took a few cuttings ten years ago and ‘Johannah’s Memory’ has a permanent home in our flower border. Read more about Agastache ‘Johannah’s Memory’
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‘Royal Sceptre’ is a great new addition to our range of Agastache and to my mind a better plant than 'Blue Boa’ with stronger and less brittle stems. The 100cm or a little more tall stems proudly hold mauve-blue, bottle-brush flower heads. Read more about Agastache ‘Royal Sceptre’
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Our best selling plant by a long margin. In his fine book, Guide to Plants, Paul Bangay writes that “I use this in all my gardens as it is such a long-flowering plant and has a very distinct and unusual flower colour.” ‘Swe Read more about Agastache ‘Sweet Lili’
The very best perennial Allium suitable for a wider range of climates than the bulbous forms and not requiring a deep winter chill. It makes a compact upright clump of glossy green, narrow strap-like leaves. Read more about Allium ‘Millenium’
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This new selection has an abundance of golf ball size, soft pink flowers from spring through the summer months. This relatively small plant with its glossy green strap-like leaves has a neat compact habit making it a good plant for a garden edge or a narrow garden bed. Read more about Allium ‘Pink Pepper’
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Criss and I first saw this growing in the garden at Charlston Farmhouse in East Sussex about 35 years ago. It has been a staple in our double flower borders and the dry climate gardens now for 25 years. Read more about Allium sphaerocephalon
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This super frost hardy aloe relative from Southern Africa makes a shrub some 150cm tall by a little more across. The striated stems are well clothed with narrow dark green succulent leaves. For months during the warmer months its lime green buds open to coral flowers. Read more about Aloiampelos striatula
This delightfully fragrant shrub, native to South America, has been grown in European gardens for more than two centuries. Whilst the flowers are pretty enough it is the strong lemon aromas of the leaves for which it is grown. The leaves are used to make a herbal tea. Read more about Aloysia triphylla
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This new border Peruvian Lily blooms on strong 40-50cm tall stems. Frost and heat hardy, they are well suited to growing in garden beds and make long lasting cut flowers. Read more about Alstroemeria ‘Holiday Valley’
My son Ric Glenn has been much taken by a massed planting of this in London and I must say I share his enthusiasm. This most graceful ornamental grass was given the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society for very good reasons. Read more about Anemanthele lessoniana
Anemone ‘Elegans’ is a winner of Royal Horticultural Society’s prestigious Award of Garden Merit. Carrying its large soft pink flowers on 90cm tall stems it is one of the glories of late summer and autumn as long as it is given regular summer watering. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Elegans’
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