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Hardy Exotics L - Z
More seeds from our range of Exotic plants that should be hardy outside in many areas of the UK. |
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Incarvillea Deli Series Rose 10 seeds £2.99 JS1240 |
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A pink flowered favourite in old English gardens. These hardy and nearly hardy perennials are native to high elevations in India, Tibet, China and Turkestan. Best treated as short-lived perennials but it is well worth the extra effort to grow these plants. They are not a Gesnariad or related to gloxinias, but rather to the Campsis and Bignonia family or trumpet vines. The plant is named after an 18th-century Jesuit missionary. The crowns are easily damaged and plants are very late to emerge in the spring, so it is recommend that you mark where they're planted. If you are careful in the spring and don't disturb them, you'll be rewarded with a clump of exotic looking flowers held above a mound of ferny dark green foliage that will amaze visitors to your garden. |
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Incarvillea Deli Series White 10 seeds £2.99 JS1241 |
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A white flowered form of these hardy and nearly hardy perennials, native to high elevations in India, Tibet, China and Turkestan. Best treated as short-lived perennials but it is well worth the extra effort to grow these plants. They are not a Gesnariad or related to gloxinias, but rather to the Campsis and Bignonia family or trumpet vines. The plant is named after an 18th-century Jesuit missionary. The crowns are easily damaged and plants are very late to emerge in the spring, so it is recommend that you mark where they're planted. If you are careful in the spring and don't disturb them, you'll be rewarded with a clump of exotic looking flowers held above a mound of ferny dark green foliage that will amaze visitors to your garden. |
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Kniphofia
Royal Castle Hybrids |
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Superb plants from the hills of tropical South Africa, which can look stunning in a well grown clump. Different hybrids flower at varying times of the year to give a continual display. We offer a packet of mixed hybrids to try if you do not already have these in your garden. Needs a sunny well drained position to flower well. Look in your RHS A-Z encyclopaedia to see the full range of colours and forms available. |
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Lathyrus
latifolius Mixed |
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This is a very much neglected but worthwhile hardy garden perennial climbing plant. They quickly reach a height of 6-8 feet and can be trained over an archway, against trellis, fence or sunny wall. Our seed selection contains flowers in shades of deep rose pink, white and purple rose and are excellent for cutting. Perfume is very light though compared with annual sweet peas. We grow a few of these plants up metal obelisks each year with flowers produced all summer long. |
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Lavandula
angustifolia Hidcote Superior |
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Lavender is used in many gardens both
for flower and foliage and we offer 2 key varieties to enhance your
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Lavandula
stoechas Purple Ribbon |
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A 2-3 foot Lavender with narrow gray-green leaves topped with rose-purple flowers all summer. They are easy to grow and are among the most beautiful of all lavenders but not so hardy as the English types originating from sunny Mediterranean coasts. This will need a microclimate position in a free draining sandy soil to survive our winters. |
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Leycesteria formosa |
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This is a semi suckering upright shrub to 6ft with long hollow attractive green/blue stems with cane like growth supporting lime green leaves and very unusual clusters of white flowers set in purple bracts. The 4” terminal clusters are produced from late summer and into autumn, followed by small red purple berries. |
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Lobelia
cardinalis |
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A short lived perennial for a damp border, but with stunning 15” columns of scarlet 2” flowers in summer to early autumn. Tall 3ft stems of narrow often red/purple leaves I find complement a group of ginger lilies. Because of the short lived nature, best grown from seed every few years to keep a regular display. |
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Lobelia
Compliment Mixed |
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For a range of colour rather than the normal cardinalis these dual purpose plants can be grown as perennials or annuals. Attractive flowering spikes in a range of colours from pink, red to lilac or purple. Tall selection to 3 ft that can really add some extra colour to your tropical borders. |
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Lupin
Gallery Series
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The first dwarf hybrid Lupin which can be flowered the first year from seed with an early sowing. Once established they can produce 10 to 12 flower spikes per plant. Our mix includes shades of blue, pink, red, white and yellow. 18” tall plants. |
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Lupin
Russell Special Mix
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Well known standard lupins to 3ft tall in an excellent colour range including bi-colours. Essential perennial for a mixed border. |
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Macleaya
microcarpa |
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This is a huge perennial with large plume like deep buff
to coral pink flowers from early to mid summer. Height 2.2m Spread 1m.
Spectacular at the back of a border or mixed with a bold tropical garden
theme. |
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Melianthus
major |
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A popular attractive foliage plant from South Africa not
often seen for sale, producing large pinnate leaves of a soft blue/green
colour. An excellent foliage display plant tolerating some light frost,
so may prove hardy in a warm position, but in reality best over wintered
under cover. From late spring it can produce attractive long spiky
racemes of red brown to brick red flowers up to 3ft long. |
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Michauxia
tchihatchewii |
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I first grew this spectacular flower about 10 years ago and they are indeed wheel like, with about 20 white petals radiating from a central pale yellow hub. Each individual bloom is about 4 inches in diameter, and dozens open up simultaneously on plants up to 5 feet tall. Large numbers of buds extend the flowering period to at least a month. The leaves are produced mostly as a ground-hugging rosette; they are tough, deeply notched and covered with stiff hairs that people with sensitive skin might find irritating. Like a few other members of the Campanula family, Michauxia is a biennial - it blooms in its second season from seed and then dies. But growing it from seed is easy, making annual replacement of the plants no chore, just as gardeners are used to routinely replace biennial foxglove plants. A choice and rare plant. |
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Oleria
macrodonta |
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Olearia are handsome and impressive evergreen shrubs from Australasia, very reliable in mild areas and seaside gardens where it is often planted as a hedge or windbreak. Inland, it needs the shelter of a warm sunny wall. The fragrant flowers, like golden eyed white daisies, are produced in huge heads which almost smother the bush. |
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Papaver
orientale Pizzicato mixed |
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A superb semi dwarf mixture of these lovely Oriental Poppies. Colours range from red, scarlet, pink, mauve, salmon and white all with a black centre. Each plant once established can produce up to 20 flowers in a season. 18” tall. |
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Penstemon
sensation mixed |
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An excellent seed mix of colours, including red to pink, lavender and rose, and bi colours with tall 2ft strong stems. These lovely plants produce a profusion of flowers from June to September in milder areas. Colder winter temperatures below -8°C will tend to cut them back and the resulting new growth the following spring takes longer to flower. Best for milder gardens or in protected positions. Our own plants flowered non stop from June to November in 2005 with an excellent display. |
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Perovskia
Taiga |
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We have been growing this lovely perennial for many years in our own garden, it produces soft grey-green foliage on white stems. The colourful flowers resemble spikes of blue lavender. This particular variety has larger flower-heads and is an impressive plant, even in winter when bold groups of the white stems make an attractive feature. The deeply cut foliage smells strongly of sage when bruised. |
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Phormium
tenax |
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We grow a number of these striking architectural plants around our garden some more tolerant of frost than others. The big forms like purpurea can reach 10ft plus but the hybrid striped forms are more manageable at 3ft |
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Phyllostachys pubescens |
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This bamboo commonly known as Moso is one of the largest hardy bamboos in the world. It is the most popular bamboo in china, used for food, timber, paper, plywood, flooring, and crafts. Its use in landscaping is growing in popularity in the US and Southern France. Young shoots are covered with a fine, fuzzy covering that looks like velvet. This is a true giant. Can you imagine standing in a grove of giant moso that has canes the thickness of small telephone poles? One of the most beautiful and probably the most magnificent of the giant hardies. Needs fertile soil and summer heat to grow well and it will take many years to mature from seedlings. Hardy to -17°C |
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Piptanthus
nepalensis |
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A really pretty shrub in spring with attractive pea like
sprays of bright yellow flowers, followed by racemes of large bean type
pods in the autumn. Easy from seed and fairly fast growing with flowers
in the 2nd or 3rd year. An open habit shrub from Himalaya that I find
benefits from a light pruning after flowering to keep it in shape.
Rarely seen for sale in my experience, to 5ft in 5 years. |
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Poncirus
trifoliata |
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Deciduous spiny shrub or small tree, a relative of the Citrus family. The fruits are small 1" to 2" and bitter, but the flowers are typical Citrus with white sweetly scented blossoms. This is pretty hardy to about -20C and is often used for rootstock fruiting citrus trees. (See my Hardy Citrus Plant section). The attractive dark glossy green leaves and flowers make it worthwhile - grows easily from seed. |
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Primula
vialii |
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A beautiful and exotic form of primrose. The two-toned red and pink columnar flowers look very like little red hot pokers. Can be grown in an open border but best in partial shade. A must have novelty. |
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Rheum
palmatum tanguticum |
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If you like large leaves and spectacular flowers you have to grow this form of ornamental rhubarb. It forms huge clumps of large, often purple backed soft leaves, supporting columns of 6ft tall red flowers. An excellent spot plant for a lawn specimen that requires plenty of water to be impressive. |
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Romneya
coulteri |
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A gorgeous woody based perennial fully hardy given some protection and a warm sunny position. Has large poppy like scented white flowers with a prominent golden stamens. Attractive narrow silver grey green leaves support the flowers on 3ft stems. July picture taken of our own plant. |
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Salvia
superba Blue Queen |
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A superb compact strain flowering over a long period numerous 6-9 in. spikes of deep violet flowers on 12” to 15” plants. This vibrant mid-border salvia is perfect for introducing a splash of a colour in a moist but well-drained border. It flourishes in sun or light dappled shade and is highly attractive to butterflies and bees.. |
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Salvia
superba Rose Queen |
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A superb compact strain flowering over a long period numerous 6-9 in. spikes of rose flowers on 12" to 15" plants. This vibrant mid-border salvia is perfect for introducing a splash of a colour in a moist but well-drained border. It flourishes in sun or light dappled shade and is highly attractive to butterflies and bees. |
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Verbascum
bombyciferum Polar Summer |
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This is an eye-catching plant with heavily felted, silver-grey rosettes of large leaves that look outstanding in winter. From these, tall, furry, silvery flower-spikes emerge in early summer. These reach their full height by mid-summer and start to produce a succession of wide-open, yellow flowers which continue into late summer. After flowering, the spikes still look attractive for months before starting to die off. Plants self-seed copiously and if possible leave the seedlings where they appear naturally as they are very drought-tolerant and are not fond of being transplanted. Needs a well drained sunny position. |
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Verbascum
hybridum Banana Custard |
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This wonderful Verbascum hybrid produces huge, two toned flowers from late spring into early summer that look fantastic in any perennial garden. The blooms are a mixture of bright and light yellow, and are somewhat different from the rest. Also known as Mullein, this wonderful plant has light green silvery foliage that will add great contrast to the flower colour. The plants grow to a height of two to four feet with a spread of one to two feet. Try Banana Custard in rocky sloped for colour, or as a border plant in a cottage garden. |
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Verbascum
hybridum Snow Maiden |
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The tall, erect spikes of 'Snow Maiden' are packed with small, pure white flowers, which have yellow stamens, and will continue to appear over a long summer. It makes a striking show for the middle to back of a multi-coloured border or white bed, and is easily grown from seed. Free-draining soil is vital, also making it a good contender for Mediterranean-type areas with plenty of sun and light soil. |
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Wisteria
sinensis |
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This well known Chinese Wisteria is a
climbing vine with scented blue-violet 12" flowers in pendulous clusters
in mid-April. It is distinguished from the Japanese Wisteria by larger
flowers and shorter racemes. |
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Yucca
filementosa |
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One of the hardiest Yuccas that flowers within a few years from seed. Clump forming up to 5ft tall with panicles of white tulip shaped flowers from a basal rosette of deep green leaves edged with white threads. Best situated in a sunny protected position however fully hardy in the UK. |
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Yucca
glauca |
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Slightly hardier than filementosa with narrower leaves. Clump forming up to 5ft tall with panicles of white tulip shaped flowers from a basal rosette of deep green leaves. |
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Symbol Code Germination --- Easy n, Moderate n and Challenging n Backlog for Fresh Seed --- u New Seeds not in Catalogue ---« Hardiness --- ] (To -5°C) ]] (To -10°C) ]]] (To -15°C) Growing Symbols --- £ Sunny position £ Shady position S Lots of Water |
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