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Orchid ‘Iris’

Libertia grandiflora

Iris-like white flowers sit like orchids on upright spears of foliage and dark-green stems, from this very hardy and easy plant.

Great for containers or as a feature plant. Tolerates full sun and poor soils. 180cm.

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Yellow-horned Poppy, ‘Orange Tango’.

Glaucium flavum. Shiny yellow blooms with a slight tint of orange. Named the Horned Poppy due to its swollen

and pointed seed pods, with horn-like protrusions. A hardy perennial growing 2-3 foot. Plant contains glaucine, used medicinally for relief of coughs and lowering blood pressure. Easy. Copes with full sun.

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Clematis ‘Sugar Candy’

Sweetly scented flowers cover the dark glossy leaves of this semi-evergreen climber.

These are followed by silver feathery seeds, almost as attractive as the flowers of this Japanese clematis.

Easy and hardy. Will scramble to cover a shed or wall.

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The rare Oxslip

A delightful variety, with delicate yellow sweet-smelling blooms. A cross between a cowslip and a primrose and extremely rare, with rosettes of bright green leaves. Full clumps supplied.

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Penstemon - Husker Red

Dark bronze foliage and countless elegant spikes of white bell-shaped flowers with purple veins. 30in.

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Sea Fennel or Peter’s Cress

An incredible plant with aromatic leaves that smell of furniture polish! Culpeper called it ‘pleasant, hot and spicy’.

The grey-green leaves are topped with yellow blooms.

Grows to a height of 12in.

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Red-veined Rumex

The ultimate foliage plant for borders, with strong blood-red veins to the green leaves.

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Angels' Fishing Rods Dierama pulcherrimum

Dwarf and medium-sized hybrids with pretty bell-shaped flowers produced on long slender 'fishing rods' - arching stems that rise out of the attractive green foliage. 3 for £12.50; 6 for £20.

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Verbena Bonariensis

This variety has now become a popular ‘designer’ plant, being very easy and adding height and movement to your plantings with its rosy lavender blooms on tall stems that sway in the breeze. 1.25m.

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Crimson Clover

A good ground cover and a soil-improving plant. Quick to bloom. Unusual and attractive.

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Rudbeckia Green Wizard

Superb border plant with the most unusual bright green sepals with dark - almost black - cones. Strong stems are extremely long-lasting in water.

Great talking point for any border and a flower arranger’s dream come true.

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Rose-scented Lily

Arum creticum

Exotic looks, but fully hardy, this tuberous white lily has a butter-yellow centre and a gorgeous rose scent. 50cm.

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Golden Marguerites. Anthemis tinctoria

Perennial aromatic bright-green feathery foliage is covered all summer in lemon-yellow blooms - permanent sunshine in your borders! Great for cutting. 60cm.

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Strawberry-Crush Foxgloves

Large long-lasting bell flowers from this unusual hardy perennial, with fascinating crushed-strawberry shades. RHS Award of Garden Merit. Plant in groups for spectacular effect.

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Blue Wheat Grass

Agropyron magellanicum

Said to be the bluest of all ornamental grasses, this hardy clumping grass from South America grows to 12 inches tall and is graced with metallic blue foliage, shining out into the border.

A fine accent plant in perennial borders, the colour is almost iridescent and looks wonderful in combination with purple flowers or bronze foliage.

In summer it throws up a wheat-like bluish-green spike that matures to a straw colour. Evergreen.

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Chinese Lanterns Physalis franchetti.

This 60cm high perennial produces extremely decorative seed cases, looking like glowing orange paper lanterns.

Excellent freshly cut and they can also be easily dried for winter flower arrangements.

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