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Perennials

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Our A-Z list of perennial flowering plants : find what suits your individual garden style and climate. Whether your garden is hot and dry, frosty, cold, too shady, or whatever your soil type, you will find plants here to suit your environment. Amongst our offerings you will find both easily grown plants which can be planted in masses for landscaping effect, and rare exotic treasures which require careful cultivation. Use our search function to find specific plant names, or choose the filter function in our menu to search for plants by size, drought tolerance, light requirement.

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Achillea 'Cotton Tuft'

Miniature alpine yarrow for cottage garden or rock garden, long flowering and not invasive, pure white flowers. Drought and frost hardy.

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Allium sphaerocephalum

A useful border allium, flowering in mid summer, producing tall stems topped with spherical heads, about the size of crab apples. These begin green, then as the season progresses, burgundy colouration gradually extends down until the balls are entirely coloured. Best planted closely as a clump for good effect.

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Anemone nemorosa 'Blue Queen'

A cultivar of nemorosa with clear blue flowers in spring. Makes a delightful pot plant, or woodland planting. Do not over-water after flowering, caution to those with irrigation systems, keep soil barely damp and not wet.

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Artemisia schmidtiana 'Nana'

Tiny grey foliage ground cover for the rock garden which will tolerate dry conditions. Easy and long lasting, good with saxifrage and auricula.

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Arthropodium cirratum

The lush green leaves resemble the foliage of a Hosta and look great in mass plantings beneath trees. New Zealand native with sprays of starry white flowers in summer.

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Astelia chathamica 'Silver Spears'

A superb and versatile plant from New Zealand with completely silver, flax-like foliage. Makes a bold statement in the mixed border with sedums and euphorbias or can be grown in gravel with succulents and alpine plants. Also a great pot plant.

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Astelia nervosa 'Westland'

The usual form is silver but this variety has purple tinted leaves. Great in a large pot or tub, alternatively in the rock garden or border. Prefers well drained soil.

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Campanula glomerata 'Nana'

I found this little treasure at Woodbank nursery several years ago. It is a very compact, low plant with impressive large clusters of purple trumpets. Non-invasive and perfect for the rock garden or trough.

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Campanula glomerata 'Superba'

Cultivated form of glomerata with especially rigid upright flower stems and clusters of divine purple flowers. Useful for cutting and clumps well between roses and in the herbaceous border.

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Campanula persicifolia 'Alba'

Single white campanula; simple and beautiful, yet easily grown and long-lived. Like most campanulas, it dislikes excessive leaf litter on the crowns in winter.

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Campanula poscharskyana

A very useful groundcovering variety which forms strong colonies in even the most difficult dry areas. Pale blue flowers in spring and autumn.

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Campanula punctata

Beautiful Japanese species with tall stems and large speckled pink bells. Best in the border where it can ramble freely between other perennials. Good cut flower.

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Carex 'Brunette'

A really useful low mounding grass which will grow well in a range of situations from shade to full sun. Attractive bronze evergreen foliage, recommended for low to medium annual rainfall areas from 550-800 mm per year, where they will not seed. Not recommended in wetter climates of 900 mm+ rainfall, (or heavy irrigation): this climate may cause the...

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Clematis aristata

Climbing Tasmanian clematis with simple, white flowers. Dense, bushy growth and attractive olive green occasionally purple foliage. Responds well to pruning.

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Clematis x petrei 'Perfection'

A pretty covering clematis that looks good tumbling over a wall or embankment. Likes alkaline free draining soil and flowers for a long time, compact and abundant.

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Cotyledon macrantha

Large fleshy leafed variety with orange bells during winter. Easy in coastal gardens, good in pots and perennial plantings; a useful texture plant to combine with other succulents. Keep dry in winter.

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Crocosmia 'Lucifer'

A great bulb from South Africa producing hot red blooms in summer. Great with heleniums, salvias, etc.

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