New Woodland Plants
Roscoea purpurea Snow Goose
A stocky White flowered Roscoea true purpurea flowering over a long period. | Impatiens quingchengshanica 'Emei Dawn'
A form with pale pink flowers in late Summer and Autumn. The stems are quite tough and stout with dark green ... | Begonia 'Torsa'
A new hardy form whcih grows very large, pink flower in late Summer till frosts. The leaves can grow 40cm across | ||
Begonia grandis 'Snowpop'
Begonia grandis subsp. sinensis is a more compact selection than the typical subsp evansiana,. Smaller foliage and earlier flowering makes for ... | Saxifraga stolonifera 'Nezu Jinga'
A Japanese form with very large silvered green leaves with a network of silver veins to the extra large leaves to ... | Roscoea cangshanensis
An easy and quiet vigorous species from China. Summer flowering from July right through till the frosts with us. | ||
Blechnum novae-zealandiae
A New Zealand fern with long lanceolate fronds flushed red initially turning green through yellow. Very attractive. Probably best in a ... | Polypodium x mantoniae 'Bifido-Grandiceps'
Tall growing Polypodium very tollerant with a broad terminal crest to the fronds. Tolerant of dry shade, probably not best in ... | Polypodium glycyrrhiza 'Lawrence Crocker
North West America. Dark green fronds with broad terminal crests and all the other pinnae on the fronds are neatly crested ... | ||
Polypodium glycyrrhiza x scouleri
A large growing shiny dark leaved Polypodium. The most tropical looking and tough looking Polypodium. Evergreen, a good hybrid for ... | Begonia 'Wild Swan' BSWJ 7772
A short tuberous deciduous species/variety from Japan. With rounded hairy mat green leaves and separate stalks with masses of white flowers. ... | Zingiber mioga 'Crug Zing' BSWJ 4379
A very hardy ginger from Chjudo which is between Japan and Korea. Yellow and pink/apricot flowers in Autumn at ground level.. ... | ||
Begonia grandis Bells and Whistles
A fully hardy for with silver mottling to the dark green leaves. Dark red lower leaf surface. A distinct new form. ... | Begonia palmata DJHM 13008
A lovely bordeline hardy Begonia collected by Dan Hinkley in Myanmar. With large well marked Mottled bronze palmate leaves and pink ... | Drynaria sinica
A lovely hardy fern. Red flushed new frionds emerge in Spring and gradually turn to greysih green. Deciduous but but leaving ... | ||
Best Selling Plants
Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM
A truly magnificent fern with splendid crests and arching fronds, said to be the 'King of the British Ferns'. In time, to 1.2m tall. Very effective in a pot against a north facing wall. Semi-evergreen.
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Geranium macrorrhizum 'Mount Olympus White' AGM
syn Geranium mac. 'White Ness'. An easy, hardy, evergreen Geranium. Very good in dry shade. Forms good ground cover with fragrant foliage. Pure white flowers over most of the Summer starting in late May. This is a pure albino with no hint of pink in the calyx or flower.
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Dryopteris wallichiana AGM
A most magnificent fern from the Himalayas and Japan, although named after the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich. The young unfolding fronds are a golden green in the Spring contrasting well with the hairy black midrib and stems. Needs moist conditions though not boggy and avoid dry alkaline soils. Evergreen.
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Polystichum setiferum 'Plumoso-multilobum' AGM
syn Polystichum setiferum 'Plumoso-Densum' A fine medium growing form, with divided pinnae on overlapping pinnules. Very architectual in growth. One of the most popular. More for the shade garden rather than the wild garden.
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Gillenia trifoliata AGM
A plant that has become increasingly popular as gardeners recognise its quiet beauty. White star flowers that have a fluttering butterfly quality about them, reddish stems and calyxs, followed by berries and coloured foliage in Autumn. A semi-shaded well drained spot will have this flowering most of the Summer. Use to the front of a shade border to fully appreciate its beauty. A rhizomatous perennial, that is gradually clump forming.
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Asplenium scolopendrium AGM
The native wild form of this easy and very useful evergreen fern. Strap shaped, long undivided fronds giving the plant it's common name Hart's (deer) Tongue fern. Grows better on alkaline to neutral soils. Happy in damp shade but also in dry shade once established. This fern works brilliantly with other ferns, hostas and bergenias.
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