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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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Alchemilla mollis (Lady's Mantle)
Alchemilla mollis forms a round slightly spreading clump of highly characteristic wavy edged pale green to green foliage around 45 - 60 cm high and 60 - 80 cm in diameter. It is a fine ground cover plant for sun or light shade and will grow in boggy conditions. The plant is covered with a really spectacular frothy haze of tiny yellow to green |
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Anemone multifida `Rubra`
Anemone multifida 'Rubra' is a beautiful plant that is hardy and easy to grow. The finely divided leaves are attractive in their own right and are also a background for the single carmine-red flowers in early summer on 12-15 inch stems. |
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Anemone sylvestris (Snowdrop Windflower)
Anemone sylvestris (Snowdrop Windflower) produces lovely clear white fragrant single blooms 1.5 inches across in late Spring on 12-20 inch stems. |
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Anemone x hybrida `Whirlwind` (Japanese Anemone)
Anemone x hybrida 'Whirlwind' produces clear semi-double white flowers on 2.5 to 3 foot stems for months in autumn. |
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Aquilegia Biedermeier Group (Columbine)
Aquilegia Biedermeier Group produce a wide range of flower colours, including red, pink, blue, cream and lilac in early Summer. It reaches a height of about 12-18 inches and is easy to grow. |
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Aquilegia McKana Group (Columbine)
Aquilegia McKana Group (Columbine) is a very popular and versatile perennial approximately 80 cm high for sunny or shady positions in the border or wild garden. This strain produces flower colours ranging from white through yellows, oranges and reds to brown. The plant usually self seeds. |
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Aquilegia `Red Star` (Star Series) (Columbine)
Aquilegia 'Red Star' (Star Series) is a very popular and versatile perennial approximately 80 cm high for sunny or shady positions in the border or wild garden. The plant usually self seeds. |
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Aquilegia vulgaris Mixed (Columbine)
Aquilegia vulgaris is a very popular and versatile perennial approximately 80 cm high for sunny or shady positions in the border or wild garden. This strain produces flower colours ranging from pink to maroon to blue to dark purple to virtually black. The plant usually self seeds. |
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Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata `Black Barlow` (Columbine)
Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Black Barlow' (Columbine) is a very popular and versatile perennial approximately 80 cm high for sunny or shady positions in the border or wild garden. This strain produces striking 'black'/extremely dark maroon flowers in late spring and early summer. The plant usually self seeds. |
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Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata `Ruby Port` (Columbine)
Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Ruby Port' is a beautiful red wine coloured form of columbine, which is a very popular and versatile perennial approximately 80 cm high for sunny or shady positions in the border or wild garden. The plant usually self seeds. |
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Aruncus dioicus (Goat's Beard)
Aruncus dioicus (Goatsbeard) is a beautiful and statuesque perennial plant for the back of the border. The cream plumes of flowers are borne on stems around 150 cm high above beautiful ferny foliage in summer. |
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Astilboides tabularis (Roger's Flower)
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Astrantia good pink (Masterwort)
Astrantia is an extremely hardy and at the same time very delicate looking plant. The pink flowers of good pink are out from June to September. It can survive in sticky clay soils and dry shade. The height is 18 inches to 2 feet. |
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Astrantia major `Sunningdale Variegated` (Masterwort)
Astrantia major 'Sunningdale Variegated' has striking yellow-green variegated foliage in the early part of the year. The pink and green flowers are out from June to September. It can survive in sticky clay soils and dry shade. The height is about 75cm. |
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Astrantia major `Rubra` (Masterwort)
Astrantia major 'Rubra' is an extremely hardy and at the same time very delicate looking plant. The deep ruby-red flowers are out from June to August, and the foliage is flushed purple-red. It can survive in sticky clay soils and dry shade. The height is 60-70 cm. |
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Athyrium nipponicum var. pictum (Japanese Painted Fern)
The Japanese Painted Fern (Athyrium nipponicum var. pictum - also know as athyrium nipponicum var. pictum) produces beautiful arching tricolour maroon, medium green and silvery grey fronds throughout the growing season. The colours develop best in partial shade. |
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Brunnera `Betty Bowring` (Perennial Forget-me-not)
Brunnera macrophylla 'Betty Bowring' is a superb white flowered brunnera. The white flowers emerge in early spring and grow taller as the leaves come up. Then the dark green heart shaped leaves form superb groundcover in summer. The height is about 18 inches. |
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Cyclamen hederifolium Silver White and Silver Rose (Hardy Cyclamen)
Cyclamen hederifolium has attractive marbled leaves for about 9 months of the year and delicate rose or white flowers in autumn. It grows well under trees. The height is 10-15cm and it will form spreading clumps. |
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Dicentra spectabilis (Bleeding Heart)
Dicentra spectabilis (Bleeding Heart) is a classic border perennial plant grown for the beautiful heart shaped rosy red flowers with protruding white petals hanging from arching stems 2 to 3 feet tall in May and June. The attractive green divided foliage comes up each spring and dies down in winter. |
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Digitalis ferruginea (Foxglove)
Digitalis ferruginea (Rusty Foxglove) is an eye-catching plant producing rusty red and yellow flowers on long spikes up to five feet tall in summer. |
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Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove)
Digitalis purpurea is the wild foxglove. This strain produces mostly the classic pink trumpet flowers illustrated in the picture, with some plants having pale pink to cream flowers spotted with purple. |
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Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora (Foxglove)
Digitalis pupurea f. albiflora is a white form of the common foxglove. The clear white trumpets are produced in late spring to early summer. This plant will generally self seed and is usually a biennial. |
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