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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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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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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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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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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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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 warleyense (Bishop's Hat)
Epimedium x warleyense (Bishop's Hat) produces attractive yellow flowers in spring from among the green evergreen foliage in April and May. The height is about 10 inches. |
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Epimedium x youngianum `Niveum` (Bishop's Hat)
Epimedium x youngianum 'Niveum' (Bishop's Hat) has heart-shaped semi-evergreen leaves, which are green in Spring and then become bronze-coloured. The white flowers are out in Spring. The height is about 20cm. |
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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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Euphorbia cyparissias `Fens Ruby` (Spurge)
Euphorbia cyparissias 'Fens Ruby' has soft fine blue-grey-green foliage with red tips to the leaves. The honey-scented lime green flower bracts are out from April to June. |
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Euphorbia myrsinites (Spurge)
Euphorbia myrsinites has attractive glaucous bluish coloured diamond shaped leaves geometrically arranged around the semi-prostrate stems. The yellowish green flower heads are out between May and August. The height is 6 to 12 inches. |
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Festuca glauca (Blue Grass)
Festuca glauca (Blue Grass) forms clumps of spikey blue-grey foliage about 20cm tall. The blue colour develops better in a sunny situation than in the shade. |
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Fragaria vesca `Alexandria` (Wild Strawberry)
Fragaria vesca 'Alexandria' (Alpine strawberry) is a charming strawberry plant producing white flowers and small thimble sized strawberry fruit throughout the summer. The height is 10 inches. |
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Geranium clarkei `Kashmir White` (Hardy Geranium)
Geranium clarkei |
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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 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 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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Geum rivale `Album` (Water Avens)
Geum rivale |
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Iris `Amber Queen` (Dwarf bearded Iris)
Iris 'Amber Queen' (Dwarf Bearded Iris) has yellow and white flowers. They are out in April and May, and the height is about 8 inches (20cm). |
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Iris `Lilli-white` (Dwarf bearded Iris)
Iris 'Lilli-white' (Dwarf Bearded Iris) has pure white flowers. They are out in April and May, and the height is about 12 inches (30cm). |
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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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