Symplocarpus - Tulbaghia

Symplocarpus foetidus £6
The Skunk Cabbage of the American Northeast is a real hard nut compared with the western and Asiatic Lysichiton species. Like them, it's a wet-ground plant in nature, but is certainly trickier to establish in the bog garden and for us grows well in large pots of ordinary potting compost, watered only adequately in spring and summer, fairly dry in winter. Very early into growth and flower, with snow and soil frozen hard, the spadix heats up to prevent freezing. The ground-level spathe is short and leathery, dirty green flecked red-brown. It's a fascinating and rare curiosity in cultivation, rather than a great beauty. These are divisions of a plant we've grown for years. FEW.
Synthyris sp. (big) £4
American Veronica relative. Rounded, dark evergreen leaves. Spikes of blue flowers to 30cm or more. For light shade.
Thalictrum cultratum £4
One of those minus types which you grow for the lovely, stiff, very finely divided foliage which is held with great poise. The flowers are a pleasant brown. 50cm.
Thalictrum delavayi var. decorum £4
Large violet flowers on a fairly tall plant. Straightforward and good.
Thalictrum delavayi 'Album' £4.50
A border stalwart; completely anthocyanin free so the flowers are white white white and the leaves clear light green. Sooooo fine.
Thalictrum 'Elin' £5
A spectacularly tall, and self-supporting Swedish hybrid which gets its purple tinted stems and violet flowers from rochebrunianum, and its glaucous leaves and height (3m+) from flavum var. glaucum.
Thalictrum flavum var. glaucum short form £4.50
Thanks to Jane Henry of the late lamented Churchills Garden Nursery at Chudleigh for this interesting plant. Glaucous and yellow flowered but under 1m in height. These are divisions of seedlings of her original find, which came true.
Thalictrum flavum 'Illuminator' £4.50
An old plant. The young foliage is a lovely light yellow, and much of this colouring persists for many weeks. These are divisions of our good plant. We think that most seedlings are inferior, although some nurserymen admit to doing it by seed.
Thalictrum kiusianum £3.50
The midget we first met as stunning panfulls on the AGS showbench. Lilac flowers on a very short (15cm) plant.
Thalictrum uchiyamae £4.50
For us, a splendid tall (1.8m) upright thing with good sized lilac flowers and pretty green leaves with rounded leaflets.

Tricyrtis
The Toad Lilies are autumn flowering plants for moist soil in some shade.
Tricyrtis formosana 'Dark Beauty' £4.50
About as dark and as blue as they get.
Tricyrtis hirta £4.50
Our form, which goes back to Washfield again is notably pale, so the spots stand out particularly well.
Tricyrtis ishiiana £4
Utterly different: arching stems carry mustard yellow, nodding flowers which remain half closed and hence bell shaped. Great sprawling over a rock on a moist shady slope.
Tricyrtis macropoda 'Tricolor' £4
A rather small, strikingly variegated variety with pale green / cream leaves flushed pink in spring. It needs a cool shady position to avoid unpleasant scorching. The flowers, if you get them, are insignificant and yellowish, but it's the leaves you want. Grown much more in the USA than over here.
Tricyrtis ohsumiense £4
Another yellow, but upfacing.
Tricyrtis 'Raspberry Mousse' £4
Another of the upright, upfacing ones, whose name indicates the colouring.

Trifolium repens 'Dragon's Blood' £4.50
Well yes, it's a white clover, but: the leaflets are silvery, with a shrply defined dark green base, plus a maroon ink-devil stain on each. So beautiful, and seized by customers, including those I consider to have impeccable taste, at Plant Sales. Great as a dense sprawly patch or hanging over the edges of a big pot. Flowers white and perfectly harmless.
Trifolium  repens 'William' £4.50
Splendid large deep red leaflets, and red flowers. Hairless and traily, in typical repens fashion, unlike other red flowered clovers. Thanks to Nick 'PanGlobal' Macer, in whose garden it works a treat.

Tritonia
Relatives of Crocosmia from South Africa, well proven as garden plants. A burgeoning collection here...

Tritonia crocata group varieties
Lots of tubby flowers crowded on 30cm stems in late spring. Winter green. For a sunny, well drained spot. Bulks up quickly to make a striking clump. Good in a pot, potted on or split annually at the end of summer, and put in the greenhouse during very cold snaps. T. deusta and T. squalida may be involved here too. I'd like to call this group by its South African name, the Mossel Bay kalkoentjies, but I can't pronounce it.
Tritonia 'Pink Sensation' £4
Clear pink, probably a form of squalida.
Tritonia 'Princess Beatrix' £4
Intense orange with dark basal blotches.
Tritonia 'Prince of Orange' £4
(Handwritten nursery labels say POO) - vivid orange.
Tritonia 'Serendipity' £4
A delicate light orange.
Tritonia 'Tangerine' £4
Ditto, if you're collecting names.
Tritonia 'Plymouth Pastel'  £4
Very delicately blended pastel shades of orangey yellowy pink .

Tritonia deusta £4
Vivid orange. Somebody pointed out to me that the dark blotches are little browny purple hearts. Ahhh.
Tritonia disticha ssp. rubrolucens tall pink form £5
Classic tall species, 1m high in flower. Like a delicate Crocosmia, carrying lovely clear pink flowers on wiry, branched stems in late summer. Easy in good soil in sun. Winter dormant. The form we've offered for years, originally from South African seed.
Tritonia disticha ssp. rubrolucens shorter redder form £4
More like 60cm tall at the end of flowering, a little earlier, and a redder pink - perhaps carmine describes it best. The Cornish consider this the usual form.
Tritonia lineata winter growing form £3.75
This 30cm species is variable, and while it mainly lives in the Eastern Cape, does extend into the winter rainfall area. Rather a tall plant with cream flowers, veined brown outside. May flowering, before dying down.
Tritonia lineata summer growing form £3.75
As above, but biscuit flowers in late summer, 20cm high, winter dormant. Previously listed as simply lineata.
Tritonia securigera £3.75
Orangey brown flowers in May. Prolific winter grower. The name means 'wielding an axe' - look VERY closely inside the flower with a x10 hand lens to see why.

Trollius x cultorum 'Alabaster' £4
Famous creamy flowered cultivar from post-war Germany, by division. 40cm. Moister soil in sun.
Trollius x cultorum  'Commander-in-Chief' £4.50
Big, bright orange bowl shaped flowers. Vigorous, to 60cm.
Trollius stenopetalus £4.50
Big, bold, upward facing buttercup yellow flowers. 60cm. Sarah insists, rightly, that I stress how distinctive and excellent is this plant.
Tulbaghia 'Bob Brown' £4
Not the short, round plant with a big personality you might expect, given the name. A putative violacea / cernua hybrid which usefully combines the vigorous evergreen  clumps and tall flower stems of violacea, with the subtle merging green/purple/yellow colours in the flowers normally found only in winter dormant species. Hardy and easy, flowering in early summer. It's occasionally seen under the prosaic name 'new var 5'.
Tulbaghia aff. cernua CDR 199 £5
Broad leaved, winter dormant plant with stout crowns. Small green flowers with yellow coronas in summer. 50cm. Sun, ideal for a pot.
Tulbaghia 'Fairy Star' £4
Short (25cm) with fine leaves and starry pink flowers. Very floriferous and distinctive. Evergreen too.
Tulbaghia leucantha H&B 11996 £3.50
Little orange and brown flowers on thin 20cm stems. Fast bulking and free flowering. The form once known as dieterlinii. Visit www.theafricangarden.com for an inspirational gallery of Tulbaghia photos.
Tulbaghia leucantha larger form £4
Creamy-green with orange corona - height 25cm.
Tulbaghia montana £3.50
Tiny, delicate species, best in a pot both for winter protection and so you can admire the little orange and brown daffodilish (i.e. very noticeable corona) flowers in spring.
Tulbaghia natalensis B&V 421 (clone 2) £4
Pink flowers, with an orange brown corona. The scent is reminiscent of pinks. A small, reasonably hardy plant flowering in late spring.
Tulbaghia sp. (307) £4
Lots of small greeny purple flowers on 40cm stems in summer. Fine leaves.
Tulbaghia violacea 'John May's Special' £4
A splendid large violacea, around 80cm in height with 2cm diameter mauve flowers in summer and autumn. As hardy as tulbaghias get, in a well drained soil in sun. Evergreen, like all the violaceas.
Tulbaghia violacea pallida £4
Pretty white flowers from pale pink buds; 50cm. Equally tough.
Tulbaghia violacea 'Peppermint Garlic' £4
An American selection, almost as tall as John May's, but with larger, paler flowers. Very nice.
Tulbaghia violacea 'Silver Lace' £4
Beautiful silver variegation contrasts well with pink-purple flowers on 30cm stems. Bulks up to form an attractive clump, but best given some protection in colder parts of the UK. Often flowers more freely in pots.