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Aconitum carmichaelii `Arendsii` (Monkshood)
Aconitum carmichaelii 'Arendsii' produces blue flower spikes up to 4 feet tall in summer. It is a reliable hardy perennial and can be used as a substitute for delphiniums if delphiniums do not succeed in your garden. |
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Ajuga reptans `Burgundy Glow` (Bugle)
Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow' is perhaps the most colourful of the bugles. The evergreen leaves are grey-green, cream and wine red, making a very striking low groundcover. In early summer, the 15-20cm flower heads are covered in intense sky blue flowers. |
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Ajuga reptans `Multicolor` (Bugle)
Ajuga reptans 'Multicolor' is a very colourful low groundcover plant. The evergreen leaves are purple, green, brown, cream and white, making a very striking low groundcover. In early summer, the 15-20cm flower heads are covered in intense sky blue flowers. |
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Aster novae-angliae `Purple Dome` (New England Aster)
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Aster novi-belgii `Lady in Blue` (Michaelmas Daisy)
Aster novi-belgii 'Lady in Blue' is a fine dwarf variety of Michaelmas Daisy about two feet tall with rich blue semi-double flowers in the Autumn. The plant has a compact habit. |
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Aster x frikartii Monch (Michaelmas Daisy)
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Campanula carpatica (Bell Flower)
Campanula carpatica is a superb low growing plant for groundcover, an alpine bed or a container. The clear blue flowers are out in Summer and the evergreen foliage forms a slowly spreading carpet about 10cm thick and about 30cm across. |
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Campanula lactiflora `Loddon Anna`
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Geranium `Brookside` (Hardy Geranium)
Geranium 'Brookside' (Cranesbill) produces beautiful large deep blue flowers with paler eyes. It has an exceptionally long flowering period. The attractive divided leaves form a mound approximately 60 cm high and 60 cm across throughout the summer, with the main flower display occurring from June to September. |
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Geranium himalayense `Plenum` (Hardy Geranium)
Geranium himalayense 'Plenum' produces striking double lilac blue flowers in late spring and early summer. The mound of attractive foliage is about 1 foot high, and spreads slowly. |
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Geranium `Johnson's Blue` (Hardy Geranium)
Geranium Johnson's Blue' (Cranesbill) produces one of the most beautiful royal blue flower shades in any plant. The attractive divided leaves form a mound approximately 30 cm high and 60 cm across throughout the summer, with the main flower display occurring in March to May. |
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Geranium wallichianum `Buxton's Variety` (Hardy Geranium)
Geranium 'Buxton's Variety' is a beautiful plant seldom offered for sale. The superb white-centred blue flowers are carried on the scrambling or spreading stalks up to 60 cm long. The flowers tend to be more china blue earlier in the year and more lavender coloured later on in the long flowering season, which lasts through the mid and late summer . The deeply toothed leaves are slightly mottled. |
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Geranium x magnificum (Hardy Geranium)
Geranium x magnificum is covered with a really spectacular show of beautiful purple flowers in early summer. The plant forms a round clump of divided foliage around 45 - 60 cm high and 60 - 80 cm in diameter. It makes fine ground cover in sun or light shade. |
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Hosta fortunei var. aureomarginata (Plantain Lily)
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Iris `Actress` (Tall bearded Iris)
Iris 'Actress' has warm scented large ruffled amethyst-blue flowers with an orange beard above the strappy grey-green leaves in late spring to early summer. The height is about 2 feet (60cm). |
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Iris `Blue Rhythm` (Tall bearded Iris)
Iris 'Blue Rhythm' (Tall Bearded Iris) has attractive cornflower blue flowers. They are out in May and June, and the height is about 100cm. |
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Iris `Red Orchid` (Tall bearded Iris)
Iris 'Red Orchid' is a bearded iris with purple flowers above the strappy grey-green leaves in late spring to early summer. The height is about 20 inches (50cm). |
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Iris sibirica `Papillon` (Siberian Iris)
Iris sibirica 'Papillon' (Siberian Iris) sends up 3 foot stems with lovely mid blue flowers in early summer. It is a moisture loving plant and looks good beside a pool. |
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Iris sibirica `Tropic Night` (Siberian Iris)
Iris sibirica 'Tropic Night' (Siberian Iris) sends up 3 foot stems with white flowers in early summer. It is a moisture loving plant and looks good beside a pool. |
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Iris `Tinkerbell` (Dwarf bearded Iris)
Iris 'Tinklerbell' (Dwarf Bearded Iris) has mid to pale blue flowers with darker centres. They are out in April and May, and the height is 8-12 inches (20-30cm). |
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Liatris spicata (Gayfeather)
Liatris spicata is an exotic perennial plant. The feathery purple flowers are out in early summer on the 2-3 foot tall stems above the grassy foliage. It is a good cut flower and can be made to bloom again in late summer if the first flower heads are removed. |
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Lythrum virgatum `Dropmore Purple` (Purple Loosestrife)
Lythrum virgatum 'Dropmore Purple' (Purple loosestrife) produces intense purplish red 3 foot tall spires in July and August. It is an adaptable plant which will grow by the waterside or in quite dry conditions. |
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Origanum laevigatum `Hopleys` (Oregano)
Or1ganum laevigatum 'Hopleys' (Oregano) is a great plant for the front of a sunny border or a herb garden. The purple tinged foliage mound 1-2 feet high is covered in deep pink flowers all Summer. |
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Phlox paniculata `Norah Leigh` (Border Phlox)
Phlox paniculata 'Norah Leigh' is a stunning border perennial. The variegated leaves provide extra colour in spring and early summer before the flowers are out. The sweet scented pale lavender flowers have darker centres and are carried on flowers stems 80 cm high in summer. |
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Primula cortusoides `Primadiente`
Primula cortusoides 'Primadiente' produces umbels of rose coloured flowers on approximately 10 inch stalks in late Spring to early Summer. The leaves are light yellow-green coloured. |
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