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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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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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Armeria maritima `Splendens` (Thrift)
Armeria maritima 'Splendens' (Pink flowered thrift or sea pink) produces compact hummocks of grassy foliage with masses of bright pink blooms on 6 inch stalks from Spring all through the summer. |
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Aster lateriflorus `Lady in Black` (Michaelmas Daisy)
Aster lateriflorus 'Lady in Black' (Michaelmas Daisy) sends up dark purple/green leaves through the summer, and then produces masses of pink centred white small daisy like flowers in autumn. It is about 4 feet tall. |
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Aster novi-belgii `Freda Ballard` (Michaelmas Daisy)
Aster novi-belgii 'Freda Ballard' is a fine tall variety of Michaelmas Daisy about 75cm tall with rich red semi-double flowers in the Autumn. |
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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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Centaurea dealbata (Cornflower)
Centaurea dealbata is easy to grow and long lived. It forms a clump of attractive silvery grey foliage about 2 feet high. The dark pink corn-flowers are out in summer. |
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Dianthus deltoides `Brilliant` (Rockery Pink)
Dianthus deltoides 'Brilliant' (Maiden Pink) has cheery pink flowers all summer long and makes a superb colourful carpet about 4-6 inches high. |
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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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Dierama pulcherrimum (Angel's Fishing Rod)
Dierama pulcherrimum (Angel's Fishing Rod) produces graceful flowering stems up to 150cm tall and weighed down by the pink bell-shaped flowers in July and August. The foliage is grass-like. |
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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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Echinacea pupurea Bressingham Hybrids (Coneflower)
Echinacea pupurea Bressingham Hybrids (Cone Flower) produces large reddish-purple flowers with a central cone. The height is around 3 feet. The flowers are out from July to September. |
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Epimedium grandiflorum `Lilafee` (Bishop's Hat)
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee' (Bishop's Hat) produces delicate purple flowers in spring from among the reddish tinged green evergreen foliage. The height is about 9 inches. |
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Epimedium x youngianum `Roseum` (Bishop's Hat)
Epimedium x youngianum 'Roseum' (Bishop's Hat) has heart-shaped semi-evergreen leaves, which are green in Spring and then become bronze-coloured. The lilac flowers are out in Spring. The height is about 25cm. |
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Erigeron `Rosa Juwel` ('Pink Jewel') (Fleabane)
Erigeron 'Rosa Juwel' ('Pink Jewel'), or Fleabane, produces pink semi-double flowers on 75cm stems in summer. It is in many ways like an earlier flowering michaelmas daisy. |
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Geranium sanguineum (Hardy Geranium)
Geranium sanguineum (Bloody Cranesbill) is a low-growing hardy geranium native to the British Isles. The 1 inch across striking bright purplish crimson flowers are out between June and August. The seed heads have a long pointed 'beak', hence the name 'cranesbill. The foliage is deeply cut. |
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Geranium `Sirak` (Hardy Geranium)
Geranium 'Sirak' produces striking lilac purple flowers in late spring and early summer. The 18 inches to 2 feet tall clump spreads slowly. |
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Iris `Beverely Sills` (Tall bearded Iris)
Iris 'Beverly Sills' produces abundant, sweetly scented soft coral pink flowers above the strappy grey-green leaves in late spring to early summer. The height is about 2.5 feet (75cm). |
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Knautia macedonica
Knautia macedonica produces attractive deep red scabious like flowers in summer on a plant 18 to 24 inches tall. |
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Lamium maculatum `Beacon Silver`
Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver' is a colourful low ground cover or front of the border plant. The evergreen foliage is strikingly silver variegated and sets of the cerise/mauve flowers in summer. |
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Linaria purpurea `Canon Went` (Toad Flax)
Linaria purpurea 'Canon Went' (Toad Flax) produces fine pink flower spikes 3 feet high above the greyish green fine foliage in summer. |
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Lychnis chalcedonica (Campion)
Lychnis chalcedonica (The Maltese Cross Campion) is a striking border plant with Maltese cross shaped flowers of the most intense scarlet in summer. The height is 45 to 90 cm. |
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Monarda `Fishes` (`Pisces`) (Bergamot)
Monarda 'Fishes' (Pisces) is a fine Bergamot or Bee Balm with pale pink flowers on 4 foot tall flower stems in summer. The mildew resistant leaves are fragrant, and can be used to make a herbal tea. The flavour is very like earl grey tea. |
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