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 '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 'Fire Jumper' £5
Dan Hinkley's red/orange bicolor. Excellent, still rarely seen. Unusually many flowers per stem.
Crocosmia 'Gerbe d'Or' £5
Warm yellow with bronzed leaves.
Crocosmia 'Hellfire' £5
Rather large flowers are an impressive angry dark red, although there aren't many in each inflorescence.
Crocosmia 'Honey Angels' £5
Lots of small flowers, yellow with a slight tang of orange. 60cm. Silly name, sorry.
Crocosmia 'Mrs Geoffrey Howard' £5
Large tomato red flowers, quite tall. 
Crocosmia masoniorum  orange form £5
Open, orange, upward facing flowers with strongly protruding stamens, quite early. 60cm.
Crocosmia masoniorum 'Rowallane Yellow' £5
Rich yellow, upward facing flowers on arching stems; very fine. 60cm.
Crocosmia 'Okavango' £5
Large, brash peachy flowers over a long season. 75cm. PBR.
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 'Saracen' £5
Over-ripe tomato red, with dark tinted leaves. Short - 50cm or so.
Crocosmia 'Sir Matthew Wilson' £5
Vigorous, with big red flowers.
Crocosmia 'Star of the East' £5
Huge, open, slightly inclined orange flowers.
Crocosmia 'Sultan' £5
Hot, rather burnt, red tones, bronzed leaves.
Crocosmia 'Ellenbank Firecrest' £5
Small-but-many flowered orange and red bicolor. Eyecatching. 60cm.
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.
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.
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 FROM SPRING 2010
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 £4.50
'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
A vigorous, pure white flowered garden hybrid with typical arching habit. Divisions of established plants.
Dierema 'Knee-high Lavender' £4.50 FROM SPRING 2010
Interesting, free-flowering hybrid, flowers as described and upward facing. 50cm or so.
Dierama 'Puck' £4 FROM SPRING 2010
A nice hybrid of the dracomontanum persuasion, but a little taller and more vigorous, and rather pinker in flower. 50cm.
Dierama robustum hybrids £4.50
Derived from a Hannays collection about 20 years ago, this little colony in our garden regularly overtops Julian (1.82m) in flower. Arching stems, many tubby pink flowers (mostly a vivid pink) with silvery bracts. VERY FEW UNTIL SPRING 2010
Dierama 'Tiny Bells' £4 FROM SPRING 2010
Floriferous, dwarf (40cm), pink. From Michael Wickenden.

Dietes
African relatives of Iris and Moraea, rhizomatous evergreens tolerating only a little frost, so for the mildest gardens or pots given winter protection. In the wild, many come from shady habitats.
Dietes iridioides £4
The flowers, on long lasting stiff branching stems to 60cm, have the classic iris profile, white, with a yellow blotch on the outer perianth segments and pink tinged style crests. Few.
Dietes buthcheriana £4
Much like iridioides, but a bit taller, capable of growing in deep shade in the wild, but doesn't necessarliy flower under those conditions.

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.