Omphalodes - Podophyllum

Omphalodes cappadocica 'Parisian Skies' £4
Hearty, floriferous clumper, with sky blue flowers in this form.
Omphalodes cappadocica 'Starry Eyes' £4
,A white edge to the blue flower makes it stand out well in a shady place.
Ompahalodes verna and Omphalodes verna alba £4
Blue and white flowered forms of the classic woodland groundcover. Do specify which you want!

Ophiopogon
There's more to this genus than black leaves! Here are two very different variegated varieties.
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Little Tabby' £4
Has the broad leaves of the black thing, but heavily striped lengthwise in dark green and cream. Easy, and much in demand.
Ophiopogon japonicus 'Nanus Variegatus' £4
Dwarfer, with very narrow leaves heavily striped white, with short spikes of lilac flowers. Very unusual, for well drained soil in the rock garden, sink or pots.
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' £4
If you did want the black thing, I'm sure we could find you a nice one.

Orthrosanthus multiflorus £4.50
Southern irid with a succession of sky blue flowers on stems to 50cm in summer, needing a well-drained, sunny position outside in favoured spots, or the cool conservatory.
Oxalis oregana £4
No dangerous pinging seeds or ineradicable bulbils here. It's a quietly spreading American woodlander with softly hairy leaves and (in this form) dusky pink flowers. Useful for moister shade even on heavy soils.
Paeonia mlokosewitschii AGM £5 FROM SPRING 2010.
Divisions of the classic pale yellow herbaceous paeony.
Paesia scaberula  £4.50
Creepy little fern with finely divided leaves. For a woodsy bed. A good clump of newly expanded fronds looks fantastic. Hardy except in really cold districts.
Panicum virgatum 'Dallas Blues' £4.50
A fine bold blue leaved selection of this North American grass. Broader in leaf than 'Praire Sky', taller too, up to 2m in the right conditions. Big purplish panicles. Full sun. Also offered P. v. 'Warrior', green leaved with red tinted inflorescences, to 1.8m.
Papaver orientale 'Beauty of Livermere' £4.50
Tall, with bright red flowers backed by leaf-like bracts. Terribly impressive.
Papaver orientale  'Fatima' £4.50
Pink and white, rather frilly flowers.
Papaver orientale  'Karine' AGM £4.50
Very compact, shallow bowl-shaped light salmon pink.
Papaver orientale  'Leuchtfeuer' AGM  £4.50
Glowing orange with a hint of pink, compact.
Papaver orientale  'Patty's Plum' £4.50
Bulky, floriferous, indescribable purple/brown/red colour - now it's no longer the in thing you can plant it only when you have the perfect place for it...
Papaver orientale  'Pinnacle' £4.50
White fringed orange.
Papaver orientale 'Place Pigalle' £4.50
White petals vividly edged in red, a colour scheme more familiar in opium poppies than in orientals. A compact (45cm) variety.
Papaver orientale  'Raspberry Queen' £4.50
Bob Brown summed it up as 'Barbara Cartland with running mascara'.

Papaver Super Poppy series
American hybrids of, supposedly, complex parentage. In horticultural terms I'd sum them up as oriental poppies with thicker, tougher, glossy petals which means the flowers last quite a lot longer (this year a 'Jacinth' flower lasted 10 days even inside a polytunnel in sunny weather!). This is a very good feature.
Papaver 'Jacinth' (Super Poppy series) £5
Glossy red-pink.
Papaver 'Medallion' (Super Poppy series) £5
Purple pink, rather Patty's Plum-ish.
Papaver 'Tequila Sunrise' (Super Poppy series) £5
Rather frilly pinky orange..

Paradisea lusitanica £5
Fine upstanding spikes of good sized, pure white, flared trumpet shaped flowers in early summer. Good fertile garden soil in sun or part shade. Height approaches 1m with us.
Patrinia scabiosifolia £4
Tall species for the border, with nice pinnate leaves and bright yellow flowers. Usefully late flowering.
Pelargonium 'Renate Parsley' £4
Long-flowering ovale hybrid, with ovate grey leaves and small bicoloured flowers, the upper petals deep red, the lower pale pink. Much easier from cuttings than others of this type, important for us and you, since you'll want to root cuttings as an insurance and to refresh the plant every few years.
Pelargonium rodneyanum  £3.50
Tuberous pelargoniums have a tricksy reputation, but this Aussie is perfectly easy, and hardy with us. Low and a bit spready, with lots of bright purple-pink flowers over a long summer season. Strangely uncommon.
Peltoboykinia watanabei £4
Deeply lobed, shining green peltate leaves up to 30cm across; creamy flower spikes; height around 40cm. A handsome foliage plant for a cool, moist position. A rare Japanese member of the Saxifragaceae.
Pennisetum orientale 'Robusta' £4.50
A notably taller form of this pretty grass, with upright pink-tinged bottlebrush flower spikes.
Penstemon hidalgensis £4.50
Thanks to the splendid Portland Pitmans, champions of all things Penstemon, for seed of this huge rare species from high altitudes in Mexico. In the wild it tops 1.8m, rather less in the garden. The stem leaves clasp the stem in opposite pairs, the flowers are purple and quite big. It remains to be seen how much protection it will need as a perennial. Keep the young plants we supply in the greenhouse or coldframe overwinter. In colder parts of the USA it can be grown as an annual, which may be the way forward here. Apart from Nold's book, we recommend the American Penstemon Society website for information on P. species.
Penstemon smallii £4
A smart species with big, toothed leaves, with a (healthy) brownish tint much of the time, and lilac flowers. 40cm.
Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Inverleith' £5
A short (max 75cm, often much less), compact and very well behaved form of this sometimes overbearing species. Short spikes of dark red flowers, handsome dark green foliage.
Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Taurus' £5
Similar flowers but quite a bit taller.
Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Rosea' £5
Up to 1m tall in good ground, making a very dense clump with slender spikes of pink flowers. Very attractive - used in quantity in the long borders at Rosemoor.
Persicaria bistorta 'Hohe Tatra' £4
A smart, very bright pink, relatively short form of another variable species; again, it does not seem as thuggish as many.
Persicaria polymorpha £5
The best of the tall white species, we reckon. Big panicles of white flowers, ageing pinkish. Can reach 2m when established. It does not run (honest, guv!), and is not picky about soil. Few.
Petasites paradoxus £4
As a rule, never trust a butterbur if you've less than half an acre to plant it in. This is a true exception, and beautiful to boot. Dense clumps of silvery foliage to 40cm. Small heads of gently fragrant flowers in late winter, before the new leaves.
Phegopteris decursive-pinnata £4
The Japanese Beech Fern. Gently spreading clumps of soft, pale green fronds, curled in at the tips and edges during spring, to excellent effect. A delicate-looking but easy little fern for a woodsy spot.
Phlox glaberrima 'Morris Berd' £4
A nice bushy herbaceous thing, with big pink flowers all over, rather than on top of the clump. Horticulturally, it's 'Bill Baker' with bigger flowers. From the USA.
Phlox paniculata 'Blue Paradise' £4.50
The bluest we know, a luscious colour in cool, moist weather; around 60cm. Like all the paniculata varieties, it has the classic summer evening fragrance.
Phlox paniculata 'Mary Christine' £4
Perhaps the scarcest of the variegated cultivars, tricksy to propagate and rarely seen. It has a clean white variegation with good sized pink flowers, much like the colour of the old indestructable passed on from one cottage garden to the next. The variegation varies a little from shoot to shoot, although is far from random; reversions are occasionally seen and should be removed. We gave our original plant to Sarah's Mum quite a few years ago, and she has come to think very highly of it. Thanks to Beeches Nursery and Kevin's turbocharged plantsmanship.
Phlox paniculata 'Monica Lynden-Bell' £4.50
Very pale pink from dark buds, and is shorter than some, around 60cm.
Phlox paniculata 'Tenor' £4.50
Deep salmon flowers, with leaves flushed purple in spring.
Phlox paniculata 'Utopia' £4.50
Really tall - 1.5m and self-supporting in Sarah's mum's garden, with very large dense heads of pale pink flowers again; not often seen and a great favourite of mine.
Pimpinella major 'Rosea' £4
A straightforward pink flowered umbellifer. 1m or so in flower, but delicate. Easy.
Pinellia pedatisecta £4
Pretty summer growing Asiatic aroid. Slender soft greeny yellow spathes to 30cm in early summer. Not a dangerous bulbil maker! Shade.
Plectranthus excisus £4
Forget the look of the tender species, and think of this as a hardy Coleus. The leaves are interesting - some gremlin has bitten the tip off each and replaced it with one that's too small. Dies down completely in winter.
Podophyllum peltatum £4
North America's May Apple is an attractive, slowly clumping woodland perennial, with pairs of smart peltate (that's umbrella-ish, crudely) leaves and a waxy white flower in the axil.
Podophyllum pleianthum £5
Perhaps the most satisfactory garden plant of the rather more exotic Asiatic species. Striking hexagonal leaves are apple green, and the nodding flowers are dark red and clustered, tho' a little smelly. Good woodsy conditions.
Podophyllum 'Spotty Dotty' £6
Hybridists have been to work , combining good leaf markings with a vigorously clumping habit. This is an impressive plant when established in a woodsy bed, as at Rosemoor. Plant Breeders Rights, so we had to buy some little ones in for you and grow them on.