Our own celandine in which the usual cheerful yellow flowers look marvellous against rich purple foliage. Tuberous perennial. Will happily colonise a space. Summer dormant. 5cm. H7. 9cm pot. Read more
The Snake’s Head Fritillary is the most charming of all bulbous perennials with thin wispy glaucous green leaves, and delicate stems holding dangling bell-shaped flowers in shades of creamy green to deep maroon. Each flower is animated with reptilian checkerboard markings. April-May. Moist soil. Naturalises. 40cm. H5. 9cm pot. Read more
Ornamental, bronze-leaved version of culinary fennel. Good spring bedding plant as year-old seedlings, with yellow tulips. Summer. Perennial. 2m. H5. 10cm pot. Read more
A striking half-hardy fuchsia with large flowers each with a deep purple (almost black) corolla held amongst bright pink petals. A seductive, moody looking plant with a prostrate habit useful in pots and containers. June-Oct. 40cm. H3. 10cm pot. Read more
A dainty, hardy, yet free-flowering and showy plant with dark tinted stems and leaves. The flowers are small with long elegant deep cerise-pink petals and a corolla nearing black. Good in pots or in the border. All summer long 50cm-1m. H4. 10cm pot. Read more
An elegant, unusual fuchsia with long arching stems furnished with attractive pointed leaves and slender typical fuchsia flowers. Exotic looking. Frost hardy. 1.2m. H2. 10cm pot. Read more
Small clear white flowers appear in abundance over a long season. Ideal for the small garden. Hardy. 1m. H4. 10cm pot. Read more
Vigorous, with fascinating foliage effects. Usually smoky green with a pink flush but more intensely pink in chilly weather. Small red-and-purple flowers. All who see it wish to grow it. Hardy. 1m. H4. 10cm pot. Read more
A dense textured, wiry little pet with a silver cast over its leaves and reddish stems from which hang magenta tubular bells. Glossy black berries follow. Half-hardy. Shrub. 90cm. June-Oct. H3. 10cm pot. Read more
From the woodlands of Mexico and Central America comes this delicate small green leaved deciduous shrub with prolific petite cerise-pink flowers dangling from its leaf axils. Black fruit follow but never in great numbers. Woody, but hard winters will cut it back. Charming. June-Oct. 1m. H3. 10cm pot. Read more
A hardy compact bushy plant, long slender scarlet flowers with purple petticoats. 40cm. H3. 10cm pot. Read more
One of our favourite hardy fuchsias. Makes a good metre of annual growth from ground level and is elegantly hung with swarms of medium-sized lanterns in traditional red and purple. Summer and autumn. H4. 10cm pot. Read more