The Copper Canyon Marigold. A shrubby marigold from Mexico to Arizona with highly aromatic, finely cut filigree leaves. Super as a delicate foliage plant to give mounds of fresh, ferny green leaves. Flowers deep yellow but only in late autumn/winter into the spring. Up to 1.5m tall and very effective. Tender perennial. H3. 10cm pot. Read more
This is a mutant of the Mexican Marigold collected in California. The leaves are twisted and puckered and slightly grey-green in appearance. Light and airy it still carries the pungent aroma of its parent, forming an elegant shrub if kept away from the frosts. We use as foliage foil in the exotic garden and has quickly become one of our favourites. Tender perennial. 1m. H3. 1.5L pot. Read more
A charming perennial with hundreds of small yellow-eyed white daisies making a foam of flowers over finely cut foliage. An old favourite with flower arrangers. May-June. 40cm. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
A splendid, trouble-free, self-supporting, 2m perennial, with large heart-leaves, suppressing all weeds. Yellow daisies with tiers of scaly green bracts. July-Aug. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
Rice paper plant. A magnificent foliage plant which impresses in our Exotic Garden. Large grey-green palmate leaves, downy on the underside, are presented like plates on suckering woody stems. Produces loose sprays of white non-descript flowers in late autumn. Hardy with us. Perennial. 2m. H4. 1.5L pot. Read more
Supposedly the best Tetrapanax cultivar on the market. Bigger and better with more muscles to flex. Widely grown and highly rated – we’ll see… Tender. Perennial. 2m. H4. 2L pot. Read more
Airy sprays of tiny mauve blossoms like a miniature clematis, all summer. Attractive maidenhair fern type leaves. Herbaceous perennial. 2m. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
A delicate double form of Thalictrum delavayi much alike but shorter at 1m. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
Decorative blue foliage flushed purple, topped with heads of purple and cream flowers. The most dramatic foliage of any thalictrum June-August. Perennial. 2m. H7. 1.5L pot. Read more
Common/Yellow meadow rue. Native to temperate regions of Asia, Northern Africa and Europe. This is a robust floriferous perennial with compound pinnate leaves, clouds of billowing fragrant yellow flowers consisting of protruding yellow stamens from two green bracts from July to September. Best grown in a sheltered spot. 1.5m. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
Amazing cucumber relative making huge annual climbing growth from tuberous roots; then masses of yellow blossom. July-Sept. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
Variegated lemon thyme with pale mauve flowers. A sweetie. Summer. Perennial. 30cm. H5. 10cm pot. Read more