The best of the yellow flowered yarrows first sold in the year of the Queen’s coronation. It makes well behaved evergreen mounds of feathery silver-grey leaves. During late spring and summer 120cm tall leafy stems support tiers of whitish, cotton-wool like buds which open, more...

A long flowered, relatively dwarf, lemon flowered variety. Its low growing self-supporting habit makes this a very useful plant. Beautiful in our dry garden planted with Rosa sweginzowii especially when the rose carries its bright red hips. Achilleas want nothing more than, more...

I’ve grown this yarrow off and on for more than twenty years. It’s a German selection introduced to the English speaking world by Adrian Bloom whose gardens at Bressingham near Diss in Norfolk should be on every gardener’s must see before I die list. No other achillea has, more...

Dennis Norgate was growing this plant when I first met him more than forty years ago. Achillea clypeolata is worth having for foliage effect alone as its evergreen mat of intense silvery grey, feathery leaves makes it one of the most telling of any of the silvers. During, more...

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. A new introduction beautifully used by Di Johnson in her fabulous, more...

This is one of the finest dwarf growing Agapanthus. Later to come into flower than most (February here) A. ‘Bressingham Blue’ has dark blue waxy flowers on 80cm tall stems. As it is deciduous we plant winter flowering crocus and winter flowering hoop petticoat daffodils, more...

We found this beautiful plant growing in a bed of A. rupestris. It is obviously a hybrid, perhaps between A rupestris and A. cana or A. mexicana. It has all the virtues of the race, tough drought tolerant, long flowering and beautiful, so beautiful I’ve named it for my, more...

We grow the Mexican Hyssop instead of Bergamots as the water needs of Bergamots are much too great to warrant a place in our garden. Agastache mexicana makes 120cm tall stems clothed with citron scented leaves topped with 40cm spikes of deep dusky pink flowers with deeper, more...

The graceful loose heads of purple flowers remind me of the Roman Candle firecrackers we had on bonfire night. We grow this ornamental onion through Convolvulus and low growing geraniums in the dry garden where it increases well and blooms for much of the summer and the, more...

Blue-grey succulent leaves with contrasting reddish brown teethed margins make grand rosettes some80cm across. Growing wild on dry South African hillsides Aloe glauca should be hardy in all but the coldest districts. Pinkish orange flowers are produced on metre tall stems., more...

This plant, a hybrid between Anthemis tinctoria and the grey leaved spring flowered A. cupaniana, combines the good points of each. Flattish mounds of greyish fern like leaves are covered in the loveliest creamy lemon daisies for months on end from mid-spring to autumn. It, more...