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Crocosmia - Diphylleia
Crocosmia It's hard to imagine British gardens without these summer stalwarts, yet they are essentially a garden phenomenon of the 20th Century. The 1898 edition of Robinson's cutting-edge 'The English Flower Garden' mentions only aurea, under a synonym. Crocosmia 'African Glow' £5 Orangey yellow, but definitely a variant of yellow not orange. Oh for a colour chart we can all afford… Crocosmia 'Baby Barnaby' £5 Branched stems with orange flowers, blotched maroon. 60cm. Sarah says I must emphasize how very nice it is. Crocosmia 'Debutante' £5 Peculiar, but attractive pinky orange. Quite early, but with staying power. Crocosmia 'Dusky Maiden' £5 Browny orange, bronzed leaves, 50cm. Crocosmia 'Ellenbank Firecrest' £5 60cm small-but-many flowered orange and red bicolor. Eyecatching. Crocosmia 'Fire Jumper' £5 Dan Hinkley's red/orange bicolor. Excellent, still rarely seen. Unusually many flowers per stem. Crocosmia 'Harmonia' £5 Prolific flowers, the colour of barbecued tomatoes, with yellow throats. Mid height. Uncommon. Crocosmia 'Jackanapes' £5 Good old dwarf red/yellowy orange bicolor, making a cheeky face at you.. Crocosmia 'Mrs Geoffrey Howard' £5 Large tomato red flowers, quite tall. Crocosmia 'Paul's Best Yellow' £5 Very large, rich golden yellow flowers face outwards. Impressive. Crocosmia 'Rayon d'Or' £5 Early season, bright orange-yellow, marked red at base, outward facing flower. Crocosmia 'Sir Matthew Wilson' £5 Vigorous, with big red flowers. Crocosmia 'Star of the East' £5 Huge, open, slightly inclined orange flowers. Crocosmia 'Zambesi' £5 Best of the African Rivers hybrids. Very tall and long flowering. Many large outfacing orange flowers. PBR
Cyclamen hederifolium seedlings from Ruby Strain £4 A good proportion are flowering deep red-pink. Autumn flowering. Cymophyllus fraserianus £4.50 Small North American sedge whose flowers are an improbable pure white, against the dark foliage. 15cm. Probably needs acid soil. Slow. Cypella herbertii £3.50 Orangey yellow flowers like small tigridias on a branching plant over a long summer season. A no-trouble bulb for unheated glass, tough enough that you might risk it outside in a mild garden. Deinanthe bifida £4.50 Strange and lovely herbaceous Hydrangea relative. White, waxy, weirdly shaped flowers . The rough, pale green leaves have a characteristic broad notch at the apex. 50cm tall, humus rich soil in shade. Delphinium 'Alice Artindale' £5 Not the only double Delphinium, but a unique, celebrated and scarce one. The blue flowers are so lovely in bud, with all the doubling retained within the normal tubular shape, only later opening to a full fuzzy double. Tall, extremely so on fertile ground, and best given a bit of support before they look like they need it. Slug food, like all the others, so protect this treasure from the slimy fiends. Desmodium canadense £4 Branched spikes of pink pea flowers, up to 1m tall. Small (cheaper!) plants this autumn, bigger as next year goes on. Thanks to Grace Officer. Dicentra macrantha £4 The usual 'bleeding heart' flowers are fewer and larger than in any other species we know, and amber in colour. Very delicate foliage, bronzed and finely divided. A hardy, winter dormant plant for shade, but it needs protection from cold winds once in growth. Dierama 'Coral Bells' £4.50 Warm pink flowers in summer, from silvery bracts. 1m. Like all these, for a sunny place which doesn't dry out in the summer. Dierama Blackbird seedlings £5 'Blackbird' was an old seed strain from the defunct Slieve Donard nursery in Northern Ireland, characterized by broad, tubby, dark purple flowers. Most of what's around nowadays is 'seedlings ex...', whether they tell you that or not. We do, and know that while most have these qualities, a few vary in the direction of the more usual pink garden hybrids. Typically lm+ in flower. Dierama 'Guinevere' £4.50 A vigorous, pure white flowered garden hybrid with typical arching habit. Divisions of established plants. Dierema 'Knee-high Lavender' £4.50 Interesting, free-flowering plant of the media type, flowers as described and upward facing. 50cm or so. Dierama 'Puck' £4.50 A nice hybrid of the dracomontanum persuasion, but a little taller and more vigorous, and rather pinker in flower. 50cm. Dietes butcheriana £4 A rhizomatous African irid with white flowers marked yellow and lilac on stems to 1m, capable of growing in deep shade in the wild, but doesn't necessarliy flower under those conditions. Won't take too much frost. Digitalis 'Glory of Roundway' £5 A beautiful perennial hybrid, reaching 1m or more in height, with lots of smallish creamy pink flowers. Forms a meaty clump given rich, fertile soil. Never as widely grown as it deserves, being quite slow to propagate - you really have to cut the clumps up with a sharp knife. Digitalis parviflora £4 Tiny, rich brown foxgloves packed into a tight cone in summer. Well perennial. No rarity, but so good. Diphylleia cymosa red marked form £5 Beautiful Podophyllum relative with red-stained leaves in spring. White flowers. Height to 50cm. Woodsy position.
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Acanthus - Amorphophallus Anemone Angelica - Athyrium
Arisaema Beesia - Cenolophium Centaurea - Crinum
Crocosmia - Diphylleia Epimedium Disporum - Eryngium Ericas
Eucomis - Geum Galanthus Geranium Gladiolus - Heloniopsis Hedychium
Herbertia - Kalimeris Kniphofia - Liriope Lunaria - Oenothera
Olsynium - Podophyllum Primula Polemonium - Ranunculus
Ranzania - Salvia Sanguisorba - Siphocranion Sisyrinchium - Tropaeolum
Tulbaghia - Zephyranthes
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