A long-cultivated distinct variety bearing large, semi-double flowers that are splashed with green and stained purple in the throat. Neat, dark green, filagree foliage.
This is the darkest blue of selection of all the nemorosa varieties, found in the forests of Estonia. Late flowering, dark blue flowers over strong, long-lasting filigree foliage.
Pink in bud but opens white and then matures through sugar-pink to rose-red. Foliage strong and apple-green in colour. Introduced by Paul Christian’s Rare Plant’s Nursery in Wales and remains one of the best deep-pink clones available but is rarely listed.
A deep pink clone originally collected by Arnis Seisums and Janis Ruksans near Gothenburg, in Sweden.. Opens white and shades to pink in the first few days with a rich purplish pink reverse to the petals.
This is undoubtedly the belle of the ball, as pure as it sounds with a profusion of white petals form a tight rosette turning each flower into a perfect powder puff.
Each broad flower head is a soft filigree of ferny green leaflets, like green lace. A lovely foil for narcissus, scilla, chionodoxa and especially dark-flowering hellebores.
This wood anemone is smaller than the more widespread type and has vivid yellow flowers and more sharply toothed leaves and burnished red pedicles. Rarely offered
Unique cross has produced a superior plant with larger, longerlasting, clean white flowers, more freely produced, on taller stems. Handsome, deep green leaves trifoliate serrated leaflets. Exclusive offering
An endemic species of Crete with pale green spathe and pale yellow to pale cream spadix, blotched purple. Leaves dark glossy green blotched silver grey.
An endemic species of Crete with pale green spathe and pale yellow to pale cream spadix, blotched purple. Leaves dark glossy green blotched silver grey.
Bright green lanceolate leaves, purple spadix and hooded greenish-white spathe finely edged in plum-purple. An elgant species native to Crete and Libya.
Large maroon spathe shelters a dark purple, almost black, spadix and these nestle alongside shiny, purplish and silver leaves which are very beautiful, and persist throughout winter and spring.
Large maroon spathe shelters a dark purple, almost black, spadix and these nestle alongside shiny, purplish and silver leaves which are very beautiful, and persist throughout winter and spring.
An outstanding plant with its large, polished, dark green, hastate leaves and enormous, dark silky-purple spathes. This only recently discovered species from Crete has all the attributes of an excellent garden plant ... and no evil smell!
Baby bulbs available
Tall spires of loosely spaced bells in spring, the lower ones a rich caramel hue and top half the most brilliant ultramarine. This particularly good form is from Sicily and is bone hardy in our hot dry summers.
Tight heads of deep, inky-black, crumpled bells in loose clusters on medium tall stems. tidy leaves but big flower spikes and is one of the chunkiest of all of the species. Strangely and mysteriously beautiful.
A native of Southern Spain, uncommon in both cultivation and the wild. Produces dark reddish-purple spathes with very long violet spadices that appear before the leaves
Sweetly scented, creamy/ flushed pink, urn-shaped spathes in autumn with short, spear-shaped leaves following. Lovely exception in an evil-smelling bunch! The flowers squat at ground level and remind me of a huddle of gossiping monks!
A Pyrenees endemic, extending the season by bearing elegant racemes of narrowly bell-shaped flowers in late spring. Like a dainty, brighter bluebell available in both pale blue or white available.
Massive golden stem erupts from a great fleshy barrel of a bulb in late summer and then bursts forth into a gloriously surreal candelabrum of lipstick-red single-flower heads. Broad, glaucous blue green leaves in winter. Mostly 3 year old bulbs.
