Plant Catalogue: Herbaceous Perennials
HELENIUM ‘Die Blonde’. Boss and flower an unadulterated bright yellow. Very cheering. 180cm £4.20
H. ‘Ring of Fire’. A new form from Holland, the flowers are reddish brown made more striking with a central and outer zone of yellow. Upright, free flowering (in sept/oct.) and deemed worthy of an AGM. £4.20
H. ‘Rubinzwerg’. Rich, deep mahogany-red flowers over a long season on a plant of short stature make this a valuable addition to the range. 75cm. £4.20
H. ‘Septemberfuchs’. Late flowering, with tawny red-brown flowers, a lovely colour to enrich the autumn border. 180cm. £4.20
H. ‘Zimbelstern’. A fine, large flowered yellow form with orange flecks and brown boss to compliment our range of colours. 150cm. £4.20
H. ‘Wyndley’. An old English cultivar still managing to deliver the goods. Large Mustard yellow flowers overlaid with orange and tawny flecking. 1m. £4.20
HELIANTHUS giganteus ‘Shiela’s Sunshine’. A whopper (2.5m+) with pale sulphur yellow daisies through autumn.
H. ‘Lemon Queen’. Generally speaking, rather coarse plants. However, this variety is redeemed by the quality and volume of its autumnal crop of pale lemon daisies. 2m. £4.50
*H. salicifolius. A towering, willowy leaved foliage plant whose airy display of golden yellow flowers brings the daisy season to a close in early October. 2.5m. £4.30
*HELLEBORUS foetidus ‘Wester Flisk’. Deeply incised dark bottle green leaves and pale green flowers held on mottled crimson stems in mid-winter. 45cm.
Helleborus x hybridus. The following are seedlings raised from plants of impeccable pedigree, though like the Royal family, parents cannot always be entirely responsible for the character of their children! No doubt the following offspring will show some interesting variation too. Flowering size in 3L Pots. £9.00 and 1L non flowering £5.00.
H. x h ‘Creams come Greens’. Some with faint spotting too.
H. x h. ‘Darkest Purple’. Seedlings from our very best dark purple plants (including ‘Queen of the Night’).
H. x h. ‘Picotee’. White ground with purplish veining and staining to edge of the sepal. (petal)
H. x h. ‘Reds come deep Pinks’. Very large, cupped flower strain derived from Helen Ballard strains.
H. x hybridus. ‘Slaty-Blue with purple spotting’. Blue bloomed beauties resembling their strongly freckled parent.
HEMEROCALLIS. Daylilies are indestructible border perennials which with little fussing will give pleasure for years. Latterly, they have become grossly vulgarised in breeder’s hands. The following species/old cultivars are plants fortunately untainted by this brazen treatment. From £4.50
H. altissima. A tall species (150cm) with elegant, night scented, fluted lemon-yellow flowers.
H. citrina x ochroleuca. An extremely graceful hybrid bearing narrowly fluted pale lemon scented flowers on stems high above its foliage.
H. ‘Corky’. Zestful, lemon yellow flowers from mahogany buds. 60cm.
H. ‘Golden Chimes’. With its golden flowers, mahogany on their reverse, dark stems and free flowering habit, this nearly 50 year old hybrid has yet to be outclassed. 60cm.
H. ‘Hyperion’. Another old cultivar with gently flared pale yellow, scented flowers. Hard to beat. 90cm.
*H. ‘Laughton Tower’. Thinking the horticultural world short of a new Daylily or two, I bred this fellow. At 1.5 m + high, it looks down on its overblown American peers in a very haughty and satisfactory manner. Oh, by the way. The small fluted flowers are apricot-orange.
*H. ‘Sammy Russel’. Bold, reddish-tan, flamboyant flowers, perfect for ‘heating up’ the border. An old cultivar yet to be bettered. 90cm.
*H. ‘Stafford’. Large mahogany-red flowers of ravishing quality. An exemplary old hybrid which still holds its own in the Daylily stakes. 120- 150cms.
H. species(?cultivar). Bought from a reputable Nursery under the name of H. ‘Hyperion’ which it clearly isn’t! The soft orange-yellow flowers are born for weeks on end and meld well with crimson Persicarias. 1m.
HEUCHERA americana. A beautiful form that has been under our care for many years with striking chocolate-purple mottling overlaying the young leaves. Small white flowers. 30cm. £4.25
H.‘Brownfinch’. Good though the many plum-purple cultivarsare, this silver mottled, green leaved form provides welcome relief. But it is the copious 60cm spikes of terracotta-brown flowers that are its greatest attribute, looking magnificent here with purple salvias through early summer. £4.50
H. sanguinea ‘Alba’. This plant received an AGM only recently yet is rarely met with. Why? Its plain green leaves perhaps. This is a wonderful plant whose ivory flowers age with remarkable grace, a feature not normally noted in white flowered plants. Early summer onwards. 60cm £4.50
HOSTA. Having been shaken to the mid-ribs by the Hosta boom, my enthusiasm for these ubiquitous plants remains tepid. That said, when used discriminately they can be highly effective. We offer two, both small in stature
H. ‘Thumbnail’. Lilliputian in scale, the name refers to the leaf size. Pleasant pale violet flowers on 20cm stems maintain the symmetry. £4.30
H. venusta variegata. A rare little charmer with neatly variegated cream and green leaves and pale violet flowers. 15cms. £6.00
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