AUGUST AVAILABILITY LIST 2008

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Minimum order: 8 trays x 60 plugs (480 plugs) - Order in multiples of 60

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ACHILLEA millefolium Cerise Queen - Frothy, feathery clump of dark green foliage and domed heads of delicate purple-pink flowers produced over the summer. Height: 60cm

ACHILLEA filipendulina Cloth of Gold - Free flowering, with flat, platelike 4-6in mustard yellow flower heads. Can be dried and used as "everlastings". Flowers: Jun-Aug. Height: 5ft.

ACHILLEA ptarmica The Pearl - Loose sprays of double and semi-double button flowers on stout stalks. Flowers: Spring to Summer. Height: 24"

ADENOPHORA bulleyana - Glossy hazel/reddish gold foliage spring to early summer followed by beautiful ½ inch to ¾ inch long flowers of soft to sky blue. Flowers: All Summer. Height: 24 inches

New  AGASTACHE aurantiaca Apricot Sprite - A staggering display of apricot spikes of tasselled florest erupting from richly fragrant foliage. Ideal for borders and patios, Height: 45cm

New AGASTACHE Purple Pygmy - Very bright rich purple flowers coupled with a scented foliage. Flowers profusely from mid summer to early winter. Height: 30cm

New ALCEA rosea Appleblossom - Unique double appleblossom pink flowers. Ideal at the back of garden borders. Flowers: June-Sept Height: 150cm

ALCEA Creme de Cassis - Blackcurrant coloured flowers with attractive veining that fade to a lighter colour. Flowers: June-September. Height: 200cm

ALCEA rosea Fiesta Time - Beautiful double cerise-pink flowers are produced on compact plants. Ideal for containers or borders. Height: 90cm

ALCEA rosea Fruity Mixed - This English favourite cottage garden flower has a beautiful mix of soft apple-blossom and peach blooms. Height: 150cm Flowers: June - Sept.

ALCEA Peaches n Dreams - Large, pure double creamy peach blooms some tinged with a raspberry-pink smother tall stately stems. Flower: July-frost. Height: 200cm

New  ANODA dilleniana Candy Cups - Attractive candy-pink cup shaped flowers. Suitable for garden borders. Flowers: June - Frost. Height: 120cm

AMSONIA tabernaemontana - Clusters of beautiful star-like, mid-blue flowers. Glossy 3-6in Narrow leaves. Flowers: Summer. Height: 36 inches

ANAPHALIS margaritacea New Snow - Silver-green leaves that are 3-5" long and wooly underneath. White flower heads to 6" across. Flowers: Jul-Sep. Height: 24"

ANCHUSA azurea Dropmore - Blue funnel-shaped flowers. Large border plant. Flowers: May-Jul. Height: 120cm

ANCHUSA azurea Feltham Pride Strain - Innumerable brilliant gentian-blue lowers on compact, widely branching flowering stems. Flowers: May-Sep. Height with Flower: 90 cm (36'')

ANEMONE sylvestris - Fragrant, nodding, white 1 1/2" flowers will spread rapidly in open woodlands. May reflower periodically throughout the summer. Flowers: May-Jul. Height: 30cm

ANTHEMIS tinctoria Kelwayi - Large single bright lemon blooms, attractive grey-green foliage. Flowers: Summer to Autumn. Height: 24"

AQUILEGIA vulgaris plena Black Barlow - Fully double, spur-less, purple black flowers above fern-like mid-green leaves. Flowers: May - Jun. Height: 70cm

AQUILEGIA vulgaris plena Christa Barlow - Fully double, spur-less, dark blue, white edged flowers above fern-like mid-green leaves. Flowers: May - Jun. Height: 70cm

AQUILEGIA Dragonfly Hybrids - A colourful mix of medium sized, long spurred flowers on compact plants. Flowers: May-Jun. Height: 18"

AQUILEGIA vulgaris Nora Barlow - Double upright facing flowers, carmine with green spurs. Flowers: May-Jun. Height: 90cm

AQUILEGIA Rose Barlow - Rose-pink, fully double, spurless flowers. Upright. Height: 80cm. Flowers: May-July

AQUILEGIA vulgaris William Guiness - Very dark purple flowers (nearly black) with beautifully contrasting white corollas. Flowers: May - July. Height: 60cm

ARISTEA Ecklonii - Unusually attractive showy plant. Produces sprays of deepest cobalt blue star-like flowers from compact iris-like leaves. Flowers: June - July Height: 60cm

ASPHODELINE lutea - Yellow spikes of star shaped flowers that open in the afternoon. Flowers: Aug-Sep. Height: 80cm

ASTRANTIA major - Silver to rose cushions of flowers surrounded by ray-like bracts of similar colour. Long lasting when cut.

ASTRANTIA Major Hybrid - Silver to rose cushions of flowers surrounded by ray-like bracts of similar colour. Long lasting when cut. Height: 60cm Flowers: June - Aug

ASTRANTIA Major Primadonna - A most attractive plant, good for ground cover, bearing long, loosely-branched stems of flowers in shades of purple. Height: 70cm Flowers: June - July

ASTRANTIA major Ruby Cloud - Sturdy stems carry cream-colored, rounded umbels with harmonious purple-red flowering bracts. Flowers: June - August. Height: 70 cm

BERKHEYA multijuga Golden Spikes - Large brilliant golden yellow flowers with unusual spiky foliage. Height: 60cm Flowers: June - Sept

New BERKHEYA purpurea Silver Spikes - Large mauve to white flowers are produced on strong spiky stems. Height: 60cm Flowers: June- Sept

CAMPANULA glomerata var acaulis - Purple-blue, bell shaped flowers borne in dense racemes atop short stalks just above the compact basal foliage. Flowers: Apr-Jul. Height: 6"

CAMPANULA barbata - Forms flat rosettes of coarse, lance-shaped leaves, sending up woody stems with nodding blue bell-shaped flowers. Flowers: May-Jul. Height: 30cm

CAMPANULA glomerata Alba - Extraordinarily vigorous clump-former. White flowers appear in terminal clusters atop 18" spikes. Flowers: July - August. Height: 30cm

CAMPANULA glomerata Dahurica - Bears large purple star-like blooms clustered at the top of the stem. Flowers: Mid to Late Summer. Height: 18"

CAMPANULA Latifolia Macrantha White - Sparse foliage allows very large white bell flowers to present themselves most clearly. Flowers: Jul-Aug. Height: 3-5'

CAMPANULA Makaschvilii - Pretty pink/white bells over grey-green, smallish heart shaped foliage. Flowers: Jul-Sept Height: 40cm

CAMPANULA Persicifolia Alba - Excellent cut flower variety. Large groups of white bell shaped flowers. Flowers: June - August Height: 80cm

CAMPANULA persicifolia Blue Bloomers - Large, semi-double, deep blue, bell flowers on upright stems. Flowers: Jun-Jul. Height: 75cm

CAMPANULA punctata Rubriflora - Cream-colored, slender, tubular bell-shaped blossoms which are tinted purple with crimson spots. Flowers: June - July. Height with Flower: 25 cm (10'')

CAMPANULA Pyramidalis White - A tall and elegant plant, cloaking itself in masses of pristine white flowers over a long period. Flowers: July-Aug. Height: 140cm

CAMPANULA Pyr.Lavender Blue - Star shaped lavender-blue flowers. Flowers: Jul-Aug. Height: 150cm

CATANANCHE Coerulea - Many brilliant blue flowers above interesting low silver green foliage. Flowers: Jun-Aug. Height: 16"

CATANACHE caerulea Alba - White Flowers with blue centers. Foliage, narrow, grey-green wooly leaves. Flowers: Jul-Sep. Height with Flower: 60cm (24'')

CENTAUREA Dealbata - Pink deeply fringed, showy flowers used in the perennial border. Also good for drying. Flowers: Jun-Jul. Height with Flower: 80cm (32'')

CENTAUREA Montana - Fringed, rich blue cornflowers with reddish blue centers and black-edged involucre bracts. Flowers: Jun-Aug. Height: 50cm

CENTRANTHUS Alba Pura - White flowers on blue-green foliage. Flowers late Spring. Height: 18 - 24"

CENTRANTHUS ruber Coccineus - Masses of dense, fragrant red flower clusters with grey green leaves and stems are a complimentary. Flowers: May-Jul. Height: 90cm

CEPHALARIA Alpina - Soft yellow Scabious like flowers, suitable for cutting. Height: 100cm Flowers: June - Aug

CHRYSANTHEMUM maximum nanus Silver Princess - Single white daisy flowers. Good for cut flowers, borders and butterflies. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 30cm. Spread: 30cm

CIRSIUM Diacanthum - White variegation on dark green leaves and wickedly sharp thorns! Attractive, purple, thistly flowers. Flowers: Jul-Aug. Height: 50cm.

CIRSIUM japonicum Pink Beauty - Long lasting, soft pink pom-poms about 1 & 2 inches across on branching 15 - 20 inch stems. Flowers: Jun-Aug

New CISTANTHE grandiflora Brightness - Cerise pink flowers on silver green foliage. Height: 60cm

CLEMATIS heracleifolia - Large clusters of silvery-blue hyacinth shaped flowers on erect woody stems. Non-climbing. Flowers: Aug-Sep. Height: 80cm

CODONOPSIS clematidea Lilac Eyes - Climber with unusual lilac bell shaped flowers with a coloured eye. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 90cm

COREOPSIS grandiflora Early Sunrise - Yellow semi-double flowers are born on long stems. Attracted to birds and butterflies (nectar source). Height: 18". Flowers: Mar-Jun

COREOPSIS Sunray - Yellow, daisy-like, double flowers atop slender, erect stems. Flowers: Jun-Jul. Height: 50cm

CYNARA cardunculus - Small purple thistly artichoke, flowers on tall stems. Long silver-grey leaves pointed and divided. Flowers: June - July. Height: 2m

CYNARA scolymus Große Grüne - Very attractive large purple green flowerhead. Flowers: Oct. Height: 75cm

DELPHINIUM Astolat - Lavender pink with dark bees. Foliage: Palmate-shaped. Flowers: June - September. Height with Flower: 180 cm (72'')

DELPHINIUM Black Knight - Very dark blue flowers with black centre. Flowers: June-Sept. Height: 180cm

DELPHINIUM Blue Bird - Tall spikes of flowers in clear blue with a white center. Flowers: Jun-Aug. Height: 1.5m

DELPHINIUM elatum Blue Fountains - Massive flower spikes in shades of blue, purple, and white, many with contrasting black or white 'bees'. Flowers: Jun - Jul. Height: 120cm

DELPHINIUM Blue Jay - Vivid, eye stopping, gentian blue flowers with a black bee. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 5-6' tall.

DELPHINIUM elatum Blue Lace - Densly packed spires of true sky blue flowers with a touch of lavender pink are presented on very long stems in summer. Height: 1.5m - 2m

DELPHINIUM Camelliard - Lavender flowers on tall stems. Lovely with silver foliage. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 150cm

DELPHINIUM Galahad - A graceful tall clump forming perennial with eye-catching, pure white flowers in summer. Height: 1.5m

DELPHINIUM Guinevere - Clump-forming. Pale purple flowers with delicate pink tinges, and white eyes in summer. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 1.5m

DELPHINIUM King Arthur - Huge, double florets of blue with white bees. Flowers: July-Sept. Height/Spread: 60-120cm / 45-60cm

DELPHINIUM Summer Skies - Flowers are a soft, summer sky blue accented with a white bee. Foliage: Palmate-shaped. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height with Flower: 180 cm (72'')

DIERAMA Blackbird - Produces cascades of pendulous, funnel-shaped claret purple flowers on wiry

DIERAMA Pulcherrimum (Angels Fishing Rod) - Basal grey green leaves and tubular (bell-shaped) flowers on arching stems. Flowers: Sep-Oct. Height: 150cm

DIERAMA Fireworks - A spectacular hybrid with dense bunches of small purple-mauve flowers on gently weeping stems. Height: 60 - 90cm

DIERAMA Dracomontanum - Compact clumps produce disproportionately large, deep pink flared trumpets on delicate arching stems. Height: 60cm

DIERAMA Erectum - Stiff, upright wands, sport close-packed clusters of brightes fluorescent pink outward-facing bells giving colour into October. Height: 90 - 120 cm

DIERAMA Galpinii - A distinctive species with dense clusters of small tubular purple flowers. One of the last dieramas to flower in the garden. Height: 90 - 120 cm

DIERAMA Mossii - This delicate variety has unusually thin, strong wiry stems carrying clusters of tubular claret bells, making a welcome appearance in spring. Height: 90cm

DIERAMA Igneum - Tomato red, flared flowers. Vigorous and quick to clump up. A choice and very hardy plant. Height: 60cm

DIERAMA Argyreum - A rare, smallish species displaying ivory white pendulous flowers which, uniquely, open from pale sulphur yellow buds. Height: 90cm

DIERAMA Reynoldsii - This late flowering dierama is quite stunning. Unusual white bracts show off the pendulous deepest wine red flowers to perfection. Height: 90 - 120cm

DIERAMA Snowbells - Large flared milky white bells. Height: 90 - 120cm

DIERAMA Spring Dancer - The earliest flowering Angels Fishing Rod. Numerous flared pink trumpets dangle on thin stems, which are outfacing rather than pendulous. Height: 90 - 120cm. Flowers: April - May

DIGITALIS purpurea Excelsior Strain - A most spectacular strain of mixed colours superb for shady shrub and tree areas, back of borders and excellent for cut flowers. Flowers: Early Summer. Height: 5'

DIGITALIS lanata Cafe Creme - Unusual pearly grey flowers with bronze-yellow purplish tinted tubes on a dark green foliage. Flowers: Jun to Aug. Height: 50cm

DIGITALIS Obscura Willow Leaved Foxglove - Dense/shrubby with unusual narrow leaves and gently nodding yellow flowers each veined & spotted red inside. Flowers: Jul-Sep. Height: 2'

DIGITALIS parvifolia Milk Chocolate - Elegant spikes covered in small chocolate coloured flowers. Rich dark green foliage has a sheen. Flowers: Apr-Jul. Height: 90cm

ECHINACEA purpurea Ruby Star - Deep carmine-pink petals are held flat from a central brown cone. Flowers: July - September. Height with Flower: 100 cm (40'')

ECHINACEA White Swan - Strong honey fragranced flowers often with 14+ blooms out at once. Long lived for border, bedding or cutting. Flowers: Jun-Aug. Height: 24"

ECHINOPS bannaticus Blue Glow - Decorative, intense, steel-blue flower heads. Foliage: Grey-green, slightly tomentose. Flowers:July - September. Height with Flower: 120cm

ECHINOPS ritro - Small globe thistle, clump forming, with coarse, prickly leaves. silvery blue flowers at first and maturing to bright blue. Flowers: Jul-Sep. Height: 100cm

ERIGERON speciosus Pink Jewel - Plants produce an abundance of double cotton candy pink flowers with yellow centre in summer till frost. Foliage color- Green. Height: 16 to 20 inches.

ERYNGIUM agavifolium - Evergreen perennial with glossy sword like green spiky leaves, and greenish white flowers. Height 1-1.5m

ERYNGIUM giganteum - Silvery to blue, with hints of mauve cylindrical umbels, surrounded by large, prickly, silvery bracts. Heart-shaped, sharp toothed, green leaves. Flowers: Jun - Aug. Height: 1.5m

ERYNGIUM Planum (Sea Holly) - Architecturally interesting round blue blossoms with spiny bracts. Roundish, leathery, dark green basal leaves. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 70cm

ERYNGIUM variifolium - Attractive evergreen perennial with a clumping basal rosette of dark green leaves and extraordinary white veining. Blue flowers. Flowers: Jul-Aug. Height: 40cm

EUPHORBIA Dulcis Chameleon - Purple-brown foliage

New EUPHORBIA Nicaeensis - Forms a mound of silvery, grey-green foliage with a profusion of brillian lime-greenish-yellow flowers for most of summer. Height: 30-60cm

EUPHORBIA characias subsp. wulfenii - An evergreen, shrubby plant with blue-green foliage, and crowns of yellow-green blooms. Flowers: Late Spring through Summer. Height: 48"

FRANCOA Pink Giant - Crinkled, fleshy leaves push up large long lasting bicoloured pink flowers on short, branching stems. Height: Approx 3'

GENTIANA asclepiadea Pink Swallow - Pink tubular-shaped blossoms appear in clusters of twos and threes along the axils of the stems. Foliage: Lance-shaped. Flowers: July - September. Height with Flower: 40 cm (16'')

GENTIANA asclepiadea Alba - A gracefully arching plant with slender, leafy stems whose white flowers are marked with green in the throat. Height: 12" - 36". Flowers: Summer/Early Autumn.

GENTIANA asclepiadea Pink Cascade - The rare and very beautiful pink form of this late summer flower. Arching sprays of very late trumpet-shaped flowers from July to October. Height: 50cm

GERANIUM pratense Mrs Kendall Clark - Pearl-grey, saucer-shaped summer flowers, dusted pale pink and finely cut mid-green leaves. Flowers: Jun-Jul. Height: 75cm

GERANIUM pratense Painters Palette - Clumping, somewhat upright habit with flowers ranging from white, to pinks, blue to violet, and white with blue splashes. Flowers: Jun - Aug. Height: 40cm (16'')..

GERANIUM pratense Splish Splash - The large white blossoms are brilliant blue-striped and irregularly speckled. Flowers: Jun-Aug. Height with Flower: 50-80 cm (20-30'')

GERANIUM Yoshinoi - Excellent ground cover. Attractive small marbled leaves with soft pink flowers. Height: 40cm Flowers May - July

GEUM chiloensa flora plena Blazing Sunset - The double brilliant scarlet flowers are earlier, more prolific than other varieties. Flowers: Mar-Jul. Height: 60cm

GEUM chiloense Lady Stratheden - Semi-double, rich yellow flowers on branched stems above rosettes of hairy, kidney shaped, leaves. Flowers: May-Jul. Height: 50cm

HELENIUM Hoopesii - Handsome grey-green strappy foliage forms a basal rosette with terminal ray flowers of yellow with a yellow-brown central disk. Flowers: summer. Height: 3-4 ft

HELLEBORUS orien Black Beauty - Deepest plums and purples with beige anthers open from slate coloured buds. Dark foliage. Height: 45cm

HELLEBORUS orient Helen Ballards - Beautiful large, waxy, extravagantly marked flowers in many assorted colours.

HELLEBORUS orien Prize Winners - Assorted colours including pinks, maroons and mottled and patterned heads. Height: 45cm

HEUCHERA sanguinea Bressingham Hybrids - Cluster of bell-like flowers in shades from white to deep red.Repeat blooming if old flowers removed. Flowers: June-Sept Height: 60cm

HEUCHERA sanguinea Firefly - Long-blooming coral bell with small, intensely colored flowers. The simple, lobed foliage is attractive year round. Flowers: May-Jun. Height: 18" x 16"

HEUCHERA americana Palace Purple Select - Nearly round, scalloped edge, metallic bronze-purple foliage with blush white flowers. Flowers: Jun-Aug. Height with Flower: 60cm

HEUCHERA sanguinea Ruby Bells - Very free flowering and semi evergreen, this beautiful variety produces little bright red, bell-shaped flowers in great numbers above attractive foliage. Flowers: May - Sep. Height:40cm

HYSSOPUS Rose - Pink flowered small shrub which makes a decorative hedge. Superb bee plant. Leaves may be used to flavour salads. Height: 45cm

HYSSOPUS White - White flowered small shrub which makes a decorative hedge. Superb bee plant. Leaves may be used to flavour salads. Height: 45cm

INCARVILLEA Delavayi - Large, rose coloured flowers that look like little trumpets with leaves that are mid-green and coarsely toothed. Flowers: Jun-Aug. Height: 18-24 in

INCARVILLEA mairei - Large, dark pink flowers that look like little trumpets with leaves that are mid-green and coarsely toothed. Flowers: May - Jun. Height: 40cm

INULA Gold star - A towering perennial with large, bright orange-yellow blossoms. Foliage: Elliptic - lanceolate shaped and tomentose below. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 200 cm (80'')

JASIONE laevis Blue Light - Tufted perennial with lance shaped leaves. Dense blue flowers throughout the summer. Flowers: Jun-Aug. Height: 25cm

KNAUTIA macedonica 'Mars Midget' - Ruby-red flowerheads, very abundant flowering from early summer to late fall. Compact and dwarf habit. Height: 40cm Flowers: June - October

KNIPHOFIA uvaria hybr. Border Ballet - Low growing, red, pink, yellow, orange and creamy pastel shades. Flowers: June - Oct. Height: 60cm