Alpines & Herbs

Highly aromatic herb. Excellent for mint sauce and mint jelly. Pretty garnish for fruit salads, fruit and wine cups and tea. Grows with lilac flowers. Mint can spread indefinitely so take caution where you plant it. The purple flowers are very attractive to bees.

Characteristics:

• Type: Herb
• Height & Spread: H 0.6m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Colour: Green, Purple Flowers
• Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade
• Size: 9cm

Lavandula stoechas 'Lusi Purple' is a mound forming Lavender with grey/green aromatic foliage and larger cone shaped dark purple flowers with purple ears. Long flowering and ideal in borders or alongside paths, good for drying and bees love them.

Characteristics:

• Colour: Violet
• Max. Height & Spread: H 0.4m x S 0.6m
• Hardiness: Full Frost Hardy
• Flowers: August - June
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

'Spring Charm' is a mat-forming, short-lived evergreen perennial with loose rosettes of oval, toothed, hairy-edged, dark green leaves and erect stems bearing compact racemes of purple-pink flowers in late spring and early summer. Perfect for rock gardens.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergeen Alpine/Perennial
• Colour: Purple-Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.1m x S-0.2m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Spring & Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 9cm

Stipa Tenuissima 'Pony Tails' is a deciduous grass to 60cm, forming a compact upright tuft of thread-like leaves, with narrow, arching, feathery flowering panicles in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Tufted Deciduous Grass
• Colour: Light Brown
• Max. Height & Spread: H 1m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 1 Litre

Ajuga reptans 'Braunherz' is an outstanding perennial with deep bronze green foliage. Upright spikes, up to 8"/20cm tall, of deep blue flowers appear from April to June. A real steady choice that thrives in shade.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: Purple/Blue
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.2m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: April-June
• Position: Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 1 Litre

Armeria caespitosa is a delicate mound forming alpine, perfect for containers, gravel gardens or rockeries. Place it between paving to add some colour to your patio.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Alpine
• Colour: Pink
• Height & Spread: Height 6cm x Spread 30cm
• Flowers: Spring
• Position: Full Sun or partial shade
• Hardiness: Sku#: 5391159915891

Rosemary officinalis is a bushy shrub with a dense, leafy habit. Linear dark green leaves have recurved margins and pale, felty undersibes. Flowers usually pale violet-blue and white. Repeat-flowering may occur at different times throughout the year.

Characteristics:

• Colour: Purple-Blue
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1.5m x S-1.5m
• Hardiness: Frost Hardy (Needs Winter Protection)
• Flowers: May to June
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 9cm

Aubrieta are an early Spring flowering perennial with a delicate but striking blue purple flower. Compact, it forms a fabulous carpet cover in beds or rockeries.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Alpine
• Colour: Purple
• Height & Spread: Height 10cm x Spread 40cm
• Flowers: Spring
• Position: Full Sun or partial shade
• Hardiness: Sku#: 4011261013261

A low growing Sedum that will spread into a carpet of twisted green leaves. Foliage turns a pretty bronzy green in Winter for year round interest. Looks great in tubs or containers, grows well in rockeries and is easy to grow so great to get the kids involved.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Sedum
• Colour: Yellow Flower
• Height & Spread: Height 8cm x Spread 50cm
• Flowers: July - October
• Position: Full Sun or partial shade
• Hardiness: Sku#: 5060791450984

Phlox ‘Emerald Cushion’ is a creeping perennial which will create a pretty carpet of soft pale lilac flowers from Spring into Summer. If you want to cover bare spots in your beds, or soften edges of patios and paving, it is a quick grower that will cover ground fast.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: Light purple blue
• Height & Spread: Height 2cm x Spread 50cm
• Flowers: Spring and Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Hardiness: Hardy

Commonly known as Sea Pink or Thrift, this low growing plant forms a compact mound of grass like leaves. It’s pretty globular white flower heads with bloom from April – June. Perfect for coastal gardens or rockeries, but will also do fine in flower beds.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: White
• Height & Spread: Height 50cm x Spread 50cm
• Flowers: Spring and Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Hardiness: Hardy

Erodium 'Bishops Form' is a compact, mat-forming, deciduous perennial with ovate, scalloped or lobed, deep grey green leaves and saucer shaped, veined, bright pink flowers in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Alpine
• Colour: Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.1m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun

Ajuga reptans 'Chocolate Chip' is a ground-hugging plant prized for its blue-purple flower spikes on display in mid to late spring. The blossoms rise slightly above the foilage of tiny, glossy, oval leaves which are chocolate with burgundy highlights.

Characteristics:

• Colour: Blueish-Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-7cm x S-22cm
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Spring
• Position: Full Shade or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 1 Litre

Chives are a perennial member of the onion family that sport beautiful edible flowers. Chives are considered a cool-season crop, which means that they grow best in the spring and fall. The harsher temperatures of summer usually cause them to go dormant until cool weather arrives again.

• Minimal care is needed for fully-grown, established plants.
• Although chives are drought tolerant, it's important to give them consistent watering throughout the growing season for high yields. Moisten the soil thoroughly when watering.
• Chives' small bulbs grow near the soil surface, so use mulch to conserve moisture and keep the weeds down.
• After the flowers bloom, be sure to remove them so that the seeds aren't spread throughout your garden.

Characteristics:

• Type: Herb
• Height: H 0.5m
• Bloom Time: Summer
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Colour: Pink/Purple/Red/White
• Light Requirement: Full Sun
• Size: 9cm

Dianthus caryophyllus 'Sunflor Luigi' is a completely hardy alpine which flowers from spring until late autumn and can be used both indoors and outdoors. Plants form a neat compact mound of grassy foilage smothered with fully double flowers. Spicy fragrance.

Characteristics:

• Type: Alpine
• Colour: Salmon-Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.15m x S-0.15m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: March - August
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 1 Litre

Dianthus 'Raspberry Parfait' is a compact, early flowering Perennial. It is a very free-flowering bedding plant. The blush crimson blooms have a deep crimson centre which contrasts very well with modern pastel trends.

Characteristics:

• Colour: Pink/Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.2m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun to Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 1 Litre

Dianthus 'Whatfield Can-Can' is a small cushion-forming perennial with linear, grey-green evergreen leaves and frilled, pink and fragrant double flowers in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Alpine
• Colour: Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.1m x S-0.2m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun

Primula vialii is a rosette-forming herbaceous perennial with hairy, oblong-lanceolate leaves and erect stems with a terminal conical spike of light violet flowers opening from red buds.

Characteristics:

• Colour: Pink & Red
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June & July
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 9cm