Babiana - Cenolophium

Babiana angustifolia £4
Hairy leaved, winter growing corm from the Western Cape, with strong purple flowers on 25cm stems in spring. We're definitely in 'pets in pots' territory here. Mind you, the generic name comes from the Afrikaans babiaantje, so it's the Little Baboon Flower. Some pet.
Beesia calthifolia DJHC 98447 £4.50
Spreading clumps of cordate leaves, bronzy green as they emerge and becoming marbled as they age. Lots of little white flowers on 30cm stems in summer, rather like the related Actaea, but it's the foliage that makes it so special. Effective either in the woodland garden or a pot.
Begonia boliviensis £4.50
Something to grow in a pot by the house or, as we do, in the conservatory. It arches out in all directions, with elegant bright orange flowers in summer. Store the tubers frost free in winter. Quite a novelty, and impossible to miss.
Begonia 'Candy Floss'  BWJ 7858 £4.50
Lots of pink flowers over bold hairy leaves. 30cm or so. Strongly deciduous and apparently quite hardy. For humusy soil in shade.
Bellevalia dubia £4
Diminutive muscari-relative. Light blue buds open milk chocolate with a cream edge. Spring.
Bergenia 'Beethoven' £5
Densely packed white flowers with a fetching hint of pink.
Bergenia ciliata £5
Has hairy dinner plates for leaves; wonderful pale pink flowers in February. Pretty hardy, but hard frosts can mash the flowers, so choose a sheltered site.
Bergenia ciliata 'Wilton' £6
It's hairier, much hairier... One of those plants people ask for before they even know we have it.
Bergenia emeiensis £4.50
A little sweetie from Western China, white flowers from pink calyces and small leaves. Compact and under 30cm in height.
Bergenia 'Overture' £4
Intense magenta flowers on red stems. The upwardly inclined leaves are excellent for winter colour - as always, exposure to cold and light intensifies this.
Bergenia pacumbis CC3616 £4
Related to ciliata; very big leaves edged with hairs and pink flowers.
Bergenia 'Pink Dragonfly' £4
A dinky little variety, with pink flowers disproportionately large. Pretty good for winter colour, too.
Bergenia 'Rosi Klose' £4
Very compact and free flowering, bright pink to 30cm.
Bergenia tianquanensis £5
One of the least often seen Chinese species, this plant makes handsome rosettes of rather upstanding obovate leaves. We'll be honest, we've had it growing healthily for 5 years and it's never flowered.
Blechnum chilense £5
A very handsome large fern, evergreen with tough, glossy pinnate fronds. Bold and somewhat spreading, 1m or so in height. Hardy in southern and western areas, pretty good even in the Midlands, it seems, especially if mulched. Acidic or neutral soil.
Blechnum wattsii £6
A smaller (60cm) Australian counterpart of the previous fern, more definitely for shade, and much less grown so its hardiness is not well known - OK here.
Bletilla striata £4
An easy, large flowered, clump forming hardy orchid - what could be nicer? Bright green, pleated leaves and vivid pink flowers, dying back to tubers in winter. Recommended for humus rich partial shade, but can thrive in full sun or heavy soil.
Bletilla striata var. japonica f. gebina £4
And again, this time white flowered with a pink flush inside.
Bletilla Brigantes £4.50
Slightly more slender than its parent striata,  this vigorously spreading hybrid has both pink and yellow in the flower.
Bomarea edulis £5
A herbaceous, climbing Alstroemeria.which can reach 2m or more in a season, with tubular dull red flowers, yellow and green inside, in late summer. Dies down to edible tubers tasting cucumberish.
Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' £4
In this fine form the main veins of the leaves are picked out in silver. This effect lasts all year. Blue flowers. Protected by Plant Breeders Rights, unfortunately.
Brunnera macrophylla 'Looking Glass' £4
It's Jack again, but as the leaves expand the silver covers the surface. PBR again.
Brunnera sibirica £5
A hardy rarity. The blue flowers are much like B. macrophylla. Different bold leaves and running habit.
Campanula persicifolia 'Cornish Mist' £4
This recent pale lavender blue variety has a hearty constitution. Flowers early summer. Good species for cutting.
Campanula persicifolia 'La Bonne Amie' £4
Semidouble white, not as tidy a flower as the old ones but it does grow...
Campanula 'Van-Houttei' £4
Very big, dark blue-purple flowers. A fine plant. 75cm or so.

Cardamine
We have small numbers of the following, mostly dormant until spring and best left in pots, watered, until well into growth. Woodlanders unless stated:
Cardamine diphylla 'Eco Cut Leaf' £4
White-veined leaves emerge early spring; ephemeral white flowers. Simply inferior to aff. diphylla below.
Cardamine quinquefolia £4
The Kew/Washfield flowering form of this fast spreader: lilac-pink.
Cardamine raphanifolia £4
Big, bold, pink flowered, a beaut for the bog garden in spring
Cardamine waldsteinii £4
Good sized white flowers, really nice low, thick textured leaves.
Cardamine aff. diphylla £4
Special! A vigorous plant with well marked leaves which comes into growth in the autumn, unlike 'Eco Cut Leaf' and much stronger growing than the latter. Insignificant white flowers in spring. Woodsy conditions. Thanks to Kevin Hughes.

Carex grayi £4.50
The flower spikes look like maces (the weapon not the spice) and look rather spectacular from early May through to the summer. A broad leaved hardy sedge for ordinary conditions. Everyone seems to want it when we take them to early May plant sales (then we run out).
Cenolophium denudatum £5
An excellent umbellifer, with finely divided foliage and white umbels in summer. Best of all, it thrives in dry shade. Variable in height, but can reach 1m.