A real cutie but also tough and easy to grow. A miniature hosta with rounded small bluish green, thick, corrugated leaves so aptly named. Mound-forming, excellent in pots or in the ground. Reliably perennial. Height 20cm, spread 30cm. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
Creeping Peppermint. Excellent aromatic green carpeter, delightful to tread on. Likes moisture. Perennial. H4. 10cm pot. Read more
A charmer with small, round-lobed leaves marbled and brushed with varying tones of green and silver. Flowers with bright pink and magenta flowers amongst its own foliage in January and naturalises if it likes you. Best in deciduous shade but not too dry. 5cm. H5. 10cm pot. Read more
A hardy evergreen saxifrage, making loose rosettes of rounded, beautifully patterned leaves. Airy sprays of lop-sided white flowers in early summer. Good in shade. Perennial. 30cm when flowering. H5. 10cm pot. Read more
Common in gardens and rightly deserving of its place. Small heart-shaped leaves, marbled in grey and green, spiral out from an underground corm in the autumn and remain prominent right through the winter into spring, making the perfect companion to snowdrops and Hart’s Tongue ferns. The foliage goes dormant during the summer before pink flowers emerge in naked ground in October. Tolerant of dry shade. 5-10cm. H5. 10cm pot. Read more
Makes dark evergreen rosettes of sharply toothed, long-petioled and spoon-shaped leaves, hairy all over and blushed red on the underside. The flowering effect is a floating foam of white, made up of a mass of reddish stems clothed in loose panicles of small white-petalled flowers. Loves a damp shady place. May-June. Hardy. Perennial. 20cm. H5. 10cm pot. Read more
A hardy perennial evergreen herbaceous groundcover for shade with light reflecting glossy green leaves that are neat and orbicular in shape. A perfect foil for ferns. Curious flowers are hidden amongst foliage in spring. 10cm. H5. 10cm pot. Read more
Just about the bluest of all, the leaves overlapping like tiles on a roof. Flowers immaterial. Perennial. 30cm. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
This beautifully sculpted, pale blue-grey foliage of this plantain lily is held on long stems, almost like an arum lily. 1.2m when carrying its lilac bells. Perennial. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
Exotic looking toad lily with white, purple spotted funnel-shaped flowers and hairy leaves. Aug-Oct. Perennial. 80cm. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
A curious hairy leaved perennial that thankfully, seeds itself freely into the most awkward spaces producing many hooded flowers coloured mid mauve from angular stems. Robust and useful. Tolerates sun or shade and sits happily amongst cardoons, taking up the slack when its host is taking a rest. 50cm. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
Excellent perennial ground coverer with rosettes of deep evergreen foliage on 50cm shrubs. Pale green flower heads in spring. Tolerates any condition, but useful in dry shade. H6. 10cm pot. Read more