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Semi-Hardy Exotics Perennial and tropical plants that I would not quite call hardy. Many may survive outside given a warm area of the country but for most these are best kept under cover over winter. |
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Agapanthus africanus 15 seeds £2.42 JS322 |
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A stunning violet blue lily from South Africa which has large heads of clear blue umbels carried high over a mound of dark green strap like leaves. Africanus is a larger plant and not frost hardy below about -5˚C best suited to a conservatory. Available in most Garden Centres but expensive - why not try growing some from seed - if you can wait a few years for the plants to mature. |
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Agapanthus Snow White 15 seeds £2.55 JS1448 |
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Snow White is a new introduction that will flower within 1 year from seed and hardy enough to be left outside permanently in milder areas. Dwarfer in habit with multiple flowering stems. |
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Agave
Americana |
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A handsome desert plant used in tubs and ornamental pots that will take a light frost. |
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Agave Mixed |
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Handsome desert plants used in tubs and ornamental pots. We offer a mixture of Agave species for patio pot displays. and suitable for pot culture. |
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Agave
parryi |
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One of the best compact forms looking like a larger version of an artichoke in smokey blue. Grows to 2 ft maximum but slow growing. |
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Aloe
Hybrids (Click here for Larger Image - arborescens) |
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A unique collection of the hardiest ornamental Aloes from South Africa. These hybrids have proved to be hardier than the species as well as being bred for the best ornamental value. Tall plants to 6ft or more that will need dry conditions to survive any frosts but even then -5°C will be the maximum tolerance. See pictures of each type of hybrid Aloe we have for sale |
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Aloe Mixed |
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Unusual desert plants often used for medicinal purposes. We offer a mixed packet of species from the USA for you to try. |
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Beaucarnea
recurvita |
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Beaucarnea recurvata is well known as a robust house plant all around the world. They commonly are single trunks with a huge swollen base topped with bright green leaves that spiral down from the central crown. The leaves grow to 6 feet but are only about inch wide. Plants will usually grow to 6-8 feet tall when in containers but larger if planted outside in a frost free area. Native to semi-desert regions of South-eastern Mexico and closely related to Yucca, liking similar arid conditions, hardy to about -5°C. The swollen base is a water store for the plant which survives in hot dry climates - do not over water! |
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Canarina canariensis
Rare & New for 2012! |
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Canarina canariensis is a rare member of the Campanula
family from the Canary Islands. This tuberous plant makes glossy,
orangey-red striped blossoms throughout winter given a frost free
location. Best at temperatures below 25°C in the summer when it becomes
dormant to help protect against drought conditions with underground
tubers like a dahlia. |
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Canna Seed
Large Hybrids |
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Although these seeds are all selected from large flowered hybrids many seedlings revert back to their small flowered wild parent species, with only the occasional large flowered plant being produced! It is hard seed (hence Indian Shot!) and will need scratching and soaking before sowing. If you really want named hybrids though please see our plant section, but you may be lucky enough to raise a brand new hybrid from this seed collection. |
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Canna
Tropicana Series 8 seeds £4.44 |
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A superb strain of seed raised Canna. In the first year they start flowering from June, given an early sowing in Jan to Feb. Plus they are quickly clump forming to 8 or 10 flowering shoots by the end of the first season! Semi dwarf to 3ft and ideal for borders or pots. The big attraction is that they are Canna virus free and the colour range is excellent. We were very impressed in our 2006 seed trials. Easy germination. |
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Canna
tuerckheimii |
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This giant Canna, native of Belize, has huge green foliage and a branching habit, the spikes of small flowers typical of a species Canna are crimson but with the plant growing to 16ft you might need a step ladder to admire them! Great for a tropical foliage effect from seed. |
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Carnation
Giant Chabaud Super Claudia Mixed |
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Large fully double fringed flowers, with a wide colour range to 45cm. These large flowers are 100% double and supported on strong stems. A strain selected for its uniform, prolific flowering and ideal for cutting. Seeds can be sown in early Jan for Jun flowering to Apr for Sep flowering. Can also be sown in Jul under glass for spring flowering in pots. No heat required for keeping over winter as a perennial but they need to be kept under cover and fairly dry in cold weather. |
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Cinnamomum
camphora |
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A member of the laurel family, this tree is a broad leafed evergreen containing aromatic essential oils. The shiny green leaves are quite distinctive, helping to identify the tree at a distance. The essential oil 'camphor' is obtained from the leaves and twigs. Small yellow flowers are followed by black berries. New growth is frost sensitive and the tree is only hardy in mild parts of the country like Cornwall, maybe tolerant to -5°C once mature. |
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Clerodendrum trichotomum |
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A handsome, vigorous, late-flowering shrub or small tree valuable for its summer and autumn effects. The fragrant white flowers encased in maroon calyces appear in August and September and are followed by bright blue berries still with the colourful calyces. They bloom on current seasons growth. The foliage is dense, attractive and relatively pest -free; when crushed it releases the most unusual scent of peanut butter. Hardy to about -7°C with some die back of growth but suckers freely from the base. |
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Cyphomandra
abutiloides |
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| A rare member of the solanum family. This is a tamarillo species grown in South America as a food plant, but the taste is not to my liking. It produces clusters of orange 1/2” berries amongst large, heart shaped downy leaves. Not totally hardy, but makes an excellent summer bedding plant reaching at least 6ft from seed in one season. | |||
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Dahlia Bishops Children Bedding
Dahlia n]£ |
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| Developed from the original and popular Dahlia ‘Bishop of Llandaff’ this is a new generation of tall seed grown dahlias with red bronze elegant dark foliage and stems, topped by rich single flowers in shades of red, orange, pink and gold. Grows to 3ft tall by 2ft wide. Tubers may be kept for future years planting or for cutting material of the best colours. | |||
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Dahlia Cactus Flowered Mixed Cactus Bedding
Dahlia n]£ |
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| These superb bold flowered dahlias produce large, spiky 'cactus' blooms in a range of attractive colours. They are quite tall plants to 4ft, making them ideal for creating a statement in bedding displays or herbaceous borders, where they are particularly useful for filling in gaps that appear as other plants go to seed. They are frost tender, but can be re-used each year if the tubers are lifted in the autumn and stored in a frost-free place. | |||
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Dahlia Dandy Dwarf Bedding
Dahlia n]£ |
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| A lovely mixture of a collarette type dahlia excellent for bedding or to cut to 2ft. Green foliage and compact habit in a stunning colour range. Around the central eye is a collar of short upright petals which often contrast with the main petals giving a distinctive and unique appearance. | |||
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Dahlia Double Decorative Hybrids Cut Flower
Dahlia n]£ |
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| This Dahlia for the taller border grows to 4ft producing flat semi double flowers in an excellent range of colours. Usually grown for cut flowers on long stems. | |||
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Dahlia Figaro Mixed Dwarf Bedding
Dahlia n]£ |
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| One of the best bedding dahlia, Figaro offers a brilliant array of fully double 3" blooms on dwarf 35cm plants in a variety of colours amid fresh green foliage. These plants will retain colour from early summer until frost and flowers reliably from seed in the first year. | |||
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Dahlia Redskin Dwarf Bedding
Dahlia n]£ |
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| A new and exciting dwarf Dahlia 12" to 18" in height with a good colour range of double flowers in white, pink, red, purple, and orange from July to frost. Like Bishops children, what makes this variety special is the dark maroon/green foliage. Excellent for bedding out and if you want a particular selection of colours like all red/scarlet just keep the tubers over winter from the selected colours for next years plants. | |||
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Daphne bholua Himalayan
Daphne n£] |
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| Originating in the eastern Himalayas, Daphne bholua forms an upright growing evergreen shrub with leathery mid-green oval leaves. It produces intensely fragrant flowers which are pink on the outside and white within. It will thrive on any fertile free draining soils provided they are not too dry. It makes an ideal shrub for the small garden because it is quite slow growing and flowers during the late winter when most other plants are dormant. Daphnes hate transplanting and should only be pruned when absolutely necessary. The only problem is that the shrub is only partially hardy to about -5C and will defoliate after frosts and will need some expertise and patience to raise from seed. | |||
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Echium
pininiana |
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A spectacular Echium from the Canary Islands, capable of producing a 12ft flower spike of deep blue flowers from a basal rosette of narrow hairy leaves. From my own experience it will only take -5˚C before being killed by frost but if you are in a warm area, you have to try this plant given room. It is really a biennial though flowering the second year from seed after which it will need replacing. Make sure you have plenty of room for this giant! |
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Echium Pink
Fountain
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This spectacular Echium is a cross between Echium pininana and wildpretii, it produces enormous 10ft, tapering towers of dainty pink flowers over large rosettes of coarse, strap-like leaves, creating a real spectacle. This plant will need some winter protection in colder areas and is only fully hardy in warm areas. |
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Echium Snow
Tower |
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Another spectacular Echium from the Channel Islands, this one capable of producing a 15ft flower spike of pure white flowers from a basal rosette of narrow hairy leaves. From my own experience it will only take -5˚C before being killed by frost but if you are in a warm area, you have to try this plant given room. It is really a biennial though flowering the second year from seed after which it will need replacing. Make sure you have plenty of room for this giant! |
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Echium
wildpretii |
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A truly spectacular Echium from the Canary Islands very popular with our customers, capable of producing a 6ft flower spike of pink flowers from a basal rosette of narrow hairy leaves. From my own experience it will only take -5˚C before being killed by frost but if you are in a warm area, you have to try this plant given room. It is really a biennial though flowering the second year from seed after which it will need replacing. |
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Erythrina
crista-galli |
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Another plant I have grown for years but it really needs a hot sunny conservatory to do well. Long terminal spikes of typical pea family bright red flowers. Tall plant flowering at 6ft+ but dies back to ground level in cold climates, watch out for the thorns on the stems though! Easy to raise from seed and fairly fast growing. |
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Geranium
maderense |
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Geranium maderense is a greenhouse or conservatory pot plant for most areas of the UK, requiring a frost free position in full sun. At its peak this geranium stands 5 feet high and its inflorescence is 3 feet in diameter when flowering in late winter to late spring. This is the largest of all Geranium species, a giant aromatic plant with huge beautifully divided leaves. A spectacular short lived perennial plant if you have space for it. |
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Lantana
camara mixed hybrids |
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From my own experience Lantana are not easy to grow from seed unless the seed is fresh. We have identified what we believe to be a good seed source for these excellent pot or summer bedding plants. I have a very old plant trained as a 5ft standard that makes a spectacular display each year in our borders. |
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Meconopsis
betonicifolia |
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Fabulous plants with stunning blue flowers but not easy to grow without the right conditions. The trick is to sow them cool in early spring and plant them in a shady cool damp but well drained situation. They produce a rosette of bristly leaves and then in late spring they send up a flower shoot several feet tall which produces one or more terminal flowers usually followed by further flowers lower down the stalk. The blue colour ranges from a clear pale sky blue though intense pure blue to violet shades. The rosette of foliage will remain over the summer in cool damp climates, but even in England it will become very battered and may even disappear for a while like an Oriental poppy. The flowering rosettes die as winter arrives, but strong plants will have produced offset rosettes and so will spread into a clump over the years. |
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Nicotiana
glauca |
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Small tree native to Bolivia and Argentina to 20ft, but often remaining only 6-10ft. Trees bloom year round in warm climates with sprays of yellow tubular flowers, or during warm months in colder climates. Needs only average water and little care when established. Silvery grey/green attractive foliage best grown in full sun or part shade. Hardy to -5˚C but please beware all parts of the plant are poisonous. In our 2005 trials February seedlings reached 12ft by September and started flowering from June. |
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Panax
ginseng |
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A highly regarded Oriental medicine derived from the rootstock this is a Perennial bush to 90cm believed to be Hardy in the UK but we are not certain. Prefers a woodland condition with moist humus rich soil in semi shade to full shade. Quite a few years wait though before harvesting! |
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Polygala
myrtifolia |
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A pretty evergreen medium sized shrub
from South Africa that will grow outside in very mild locations where
frosts are minimal. Often used for hedging in its native country and
tolerant of regular pruning, it bears bright purple pea-like flowers
from Jul to Sept. Easy from seed with a little care. |
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Puya
chilensis |
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A rare member of the bromeliad family
from the Andes it has caused a stir at the Chelsea flower show recently
with its unusual inflorescences. Larger plants will take a light frost
and can be found growing in some Cornish coastal gardens quite
successfully. An evergreen desert like perennial it forms large, dense
rosettes of grey-green, strap like leaves edged with hooked spines. The
green-yellow flowers are born on spikes up to 2 m high which resemble a
medieval mace. Makes a useful, if not thorny, house plant until larger.
Tolerant to drought but prefers plenty of water in the summer growing
season and kept dry in winter. |
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Sarracenia
flava |
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Sarracenia flava is probably the grandest species of the genus, a tall slender trumpet pitcher that can easily be more than a meter tall! Sarracenia flava flowers are large, with long and strap like dangling yellow petals. In cultivation, Sarracenia flava seems to put all its growing efforts into a few pitchers at the beginning of the year. After these pitchers are made, few further pitchers are produced. During the winter, Sarracenia flava produces tall sword-shaped leaves lacking pitchers, called phyllodia. These allow the plant to photosynthesize all winter, during which there are fewer bugs to hunt. |
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Sarracenia
leucophylla |
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Sarracenia leucophylla is often called the most beautiful American pitcher plant, the leaves can reach a height of 80/100 cm with spectacular red veining and the hood is pure white also with red veins. The plant is able to tolerate a light frost and can be grown outside in the summer but best taken into a cold greenhouse over winter to protect it from severe frosts. Use a 50:50 peat/vermiculite mix and in the summer stand the pots in a shallow tray of water - they are bog plants! |
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Sarracenia
purpurea |
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Sarracenia purpurea is a fantastically
strange carnivorous plant that is easy it grow. Mature plants produce
6-8 inch pitchers that grow horizontal in a rosette pattern, the
pitchers curve upwards and wider toward the pitcher mouth. The purple
pitcher has a unique hood that is vertical and open to catch rainwater.
The colours range from bright yellow-green to deep purple with many red
veins running throughout the pitchers. It produces solitary pink to dark
red flowers on leafless 1-2 foot stems. |
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Sophora secundiflora |
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A cool tolerant slow growing shrub with glossy leaves and beautiful lavender flower clusters in the spring. Should make a useful cool or cold conservatory plant tolerant of dry conditions in light shade. The hard seeds will need a bit of scarification and soaking before planting. |
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Zantedeschia aethiopica |
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I have been growing these beautiful lilies for many many years and just love the stunning white flowers set against the strong green foliage. We also offer a new hybrid called Marshmallow Pink. Both quite Hardy capable of taking frost and re-growing from the root stock in spring. Loves water. |
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Zantedeschia aetheopica Green Goddess |
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The fabulous Green Goddess lily, a large plant with huge white flowers stained green at the tips. Quite Hardy capable of taking frost and re-growing from the root stock in spring. Loves water and a perfect flower arrangers dream. |
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Zantedeschia aethiopica Marshmallow Pink |
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We have managed to collect some fresh seed of this rare pink hybrid Zantedeschia aethiopica lily for the 2010 season. A fantastic complement to the white or green form, this water loving variety is quite hardy capable of taking frost and re-growing from the root stock in spring. |
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Zantedeschia albomaculata |
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Zantedeschia albomaculata is a summer
rainfall species from eastern southern Africa found in marshy ground on
rocky or grassy mountainsides. It is a medium/tall plant with arrow
shaped leaves that have white spots. It has white or creamy calla like
spathes not quite so open as aethiopica and not quite as hardy. |
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