Plants with Purpose

Agapanthus Summer Love 'White' is an early-blooming white variety of the Summer Love series. It features wispy, bell-shaped, fragrant blooms from early to late summer, making it ideal for mixed borders or seasonal beds.

Characteristics:

• Type: Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: White
• Height & Spread: H-0.45m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Early Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 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

This item is available for collection only

The Sphere-like heads of the 'Globemaster' can grow up to 15cm across, and are made up of numerous star-shaped, sterile flowers. This perennial looks great in pots, but they can also be woven through a sunny border. Avoid excessive moisture from late summer when dormant.

Characteristics:

• Type: Perennial
• Colour: Purple
• Height & Spread: H 0.8m x S 0.2m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: July
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 3 Litre

This item is available for collection only.

One of the most popular of all the alliums with a striking silhouette which makes them particulary well suited to gravel or prairie-style planting schemes, but also look atractive in pots or mixed borders.

Their heavy packed umbels of deep, star-shaped flowers appear in early summer above star-shaped grey-green leaves (which will have started to die off by the time blooms form). Plant with herbaceous geraniums or ornamental grasses to help mask the leaves as they die off.

Characteristics:

• Type: Perennial
• Colour: Lilac
• Height & Spread: 1.2m x 0.2m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' is a beautiful exotic looking vigorous perennial with coppery-orange and golden-yellow flowers that are ideal to brighten up the garden. Adorned with dark burguny streaks, the eye-catching flowers bloom profusely for weeks above handsome foliage of lance-shaped, rich bronze leaves.

Characteristics:

• Type: Perennial
• Colour: Orange
• Height & Spread: H-0.75m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June & July
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' is a beautiful exotic looking vigorous perennial with coppery-orange and golden-yellow flowers that are ideal to brighten up the garden. Adorned with dark burguny streaks, the eye-catching flowers bloom profusely for weeks above handsome foliage of lance-shaped, rich bronze leaves.

Characteristics:

• Type: Perennial
• Colour: Orange
• Height & Spread: H-0.75m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June & July
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Armeria maritima Splendens is a robust, clump-forming, evergreen perennial with deep green, grass-like foliage and rounded heads of intensely-coloured, deep pink blooms. These are produced on erect flowering stems between May and August and contrast beautifully with the foliage.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Alpine
• Colour: Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Fully hardy
• Flowers: Spring and Summer
• Position: Full Sun

Athyrium filix-femina 'Victoriae' is a clump-forming, rhizomatous, deciduous fern bearing upright to arching, bipinnate, light green fronds with narrow, cross-shaped pinnules.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Lady Fern
• Type: Deciduous Fern
• Colour: Light Green
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Athyrium niponicum 'Crested Surf' is a clump-forming, rhizomatous, deciduous fern with arching, triangular, bipinnate, double-crested, silvery grey-green fronds, reddish-purple at the centre.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Painted Fern
• Type: Deciduous Fern
• Colour: Silver/Grey, Red/Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.75m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Bergenia 'Angel Kiss' from the Dragonfly Series features snow white flowers that emerge snow white in early spring later becoming light pink. Winter foliage is very dark by contrast, compact and glossy with red and purple highlights.

Characteristics:

• Type: Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: White, Light Pink
• Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Early Spring and Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Bergenia cordifolia is a vigorous perennial forming a spreading clump of rounded, slightly wavy leaves, often tinged purple in winter; erect red stems to 60cm tall carry sprays of deep pink flowers in early spring

Characteristics:

• Type: Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: Pink and Purple
• Height & Spread: H-1m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: Early Spring
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Calceolaria 'Purple Pink' is a herbaceous perennial with strange but beautiful flowers in a purple and rose pink colour, heavily marked externally with deeper purple or rose-crimson spots.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Slipperwort, Pocketbook Plant
• Type: Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: Purple, Pink, Amber
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Late Spring, Early Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Campanula 'Ambella Pink' is perfect for giving your garden that colour boost with its intense pink, star-shaped leaves. Combine with other Campanula colours for that extra atmosphere.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Bellflower
• Type: Perenial, Patio Plant
• Colour: Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.4m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 12cm

Campanula muralis is a low-growing perennial quickly forming an evergreen mat of small, rounded leaves. Bell-shaped violet-blue flowers 2cm in length borne freely on branching stems to 20cm in height, in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Semi-Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.15m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: July to August
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre
  Sku#: 5391159025637

Campanula muralis 'Blue Sky' is a compact, mat-forming, evergreen perennial with kidney to heart-shaped, mid-green leaves and loosely-shaped panicles of funnel-shaped, violet-blue flowers in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: Violet-Blue
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.2m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Cistus x hybridus 'Corbariensis' is a dense, bushy, frost hardy, evergreen shrub with ovate, wavy, dark green leaves and, in summer, red buds opening to white flowers with yellow stamens.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: White Rockrose
• Type: Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: White with Yellow Stamens
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1m x S-1.5m
• Hardiness: Tender in Frost
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Crocosmia 'George Davidson' is a clump-forming, deciduous perennial with erect, sword-shaped, dark green leaves and branched stems bearing spikes of yellow-orange flowers in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Perennial
• Colour: Yellow
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.9m x S-0.1m
• Hardiness: Tender in Frost
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Cyrtomium fortunei is an upright evergreen fern, with pale-green, broad, smooth fronds that do not look like a fern.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Fortune's cyrtomium
• Type: Evergreen Fern
• Colour: Pale-Green
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Tender in Frost
• Position: Full or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre