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Salvia Hot Lips
Salvia Hot Lips
€8.00
Ornamental Sage Hot Lips Most fittingly named for its luscious scarlet flowers, Salvia Hot Lips is a medium-sized, shrubby perennial, evergreen if not cut back by frost. It has a bushy habit, and the small, ovate leaves are mid-green and aromatic. From June, scarlet, typical sage-type flowers are carried in loose terminal racemes; the flowers ch...
Salvia Love and Wishes
Salvia Love and Wishes
€8.00
Ornamental Sage Love and Wishes A beautiful, exceptionally long-flowering ornamental sage from the Australian Wish series, Salvia Love and Wishes is a medium-sized, herbaceous perennial, with a neat, upright, bushy habit. The aromatic leaves are pale olive-green. From early June to the first frost in October, magenta, typical sage-type flowers a...
Salvia nemorosa Caradonna
€4.00
Balkan Clary Caradonna A really good, shorter ornamental sage, Salvia nemorosa Caradonna is a herbaceous perennial with a very upright, clump-forming habit. The narrow, rough, grey-green leaves are pleasantly aromatic. From June to September, spires of violet flowers with pinkish-purple bracts are borne on slender, dark purple stems; the flower...
Salvia nemorosa Ostfriesland
€4.00
Balkan Clary Ostfriesland A beautiful, robust and long-lived ornamental sage for the front of a sunny border, Salvia nemorosa Ostfriesland is a compact, bushy, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with narrow, mid-green, pleasantly aromatic leaves. From July to September masses of violet-blue hooded flowers with purple-pink calyces appear on purp...
Sanguisorba officinalis Tanna
€4.00
Great Burnet Tanna A pretty (and fashionable) cultivar of the rare native Irish great burnet, Sanguisorba officinalis Tanna is a compact, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with blue-green leaves, divided into oblong leaflets. From July to September little bobble-like, deep maroon-red flowers rise above the mound of leaves on slender stems, mak...
Saxifraga fortunei Black Ruby
€4.00
Fortune Saxifrage Black Ruby An impressive addition to the late flowering planting scheme, Saxifraga fortunei Black Ruby has deep bronze to almost black foliage, turning reddish in Autumn. The stunning dark pink flowers contrast with the dark leathery leaves in September and October. This is a shade-loving, mat forming perennial that will happ...
Sedum Autumn Joy (Herbstfreude)
€4.00
Sedum Autumn Joy A plant with a confusion of name changes, better known as Sedum Autumn Joy but also known as Hylotelephium telephium 'Herbstfreude'. Herbstfreude meaning Autumn Joy. This is an upright, bushy, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial, larger than many ice plants. The succulent, ovate, leaves are pale greyish-green, emerging early in ...
Sedum Matrona
Sedum Matrona
€4.00
Stonecrop Matrona Still better known as Sedum Matrona, Hylotelephium Matrona is a clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with an upright habit and succulent, ovate, grey-green leaves, tinged with purple, a good foil for the flowers. In August and September, big, dense heads of tiny, starry, pale pink flowers with a deeper pink centre are a magnet f...
Sedum Purple Emperor
Sedum Purple Emperor
€4.50
Sedum Purple Emperor More commonly known by its older name of Sedum Purple Emperor, Hylotelephium telephium (Atropurpureum Group) Purple Emperor is a compact, clump-forming herbaceous perennial with broad, succulent deep bronze-purple leaves on deep red, upright stems. From August to October, rounded heads of tiny, starry purplish-red flowers ar...
Sedum spectabile Brilliant
€4.00
Ice Plant Brilliant Once known as Sedum Brilliant, Hylotelephium spectabile (Brilliant Group) Brilliant is a compact, bushy, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial, with particularly vivid colouring. Broad, succulent, ovate, leaves are grey-green, on thick, sturdy stems, a beautiful foil for the flowers. In August and September, dense, flat heads o...
Senecio candicans Angel Wings
€12.00
Senecio Angel Wings Also known as shining-white ragwort, this is a beautiful foliage plant for a dry, sunny spot, as it is drought-tolerant once established. Senecio candicans Angel Wings is a small, rather short-lived, clump-forming, evergreen perennial with large, rounded, velvety, silver leaves. In summer, the plant bears flat clusters of gol...
Silene vulgaris - Bladder Campion
€3.00
Bladder Campion (Coireán na gcuach) Named after Silenus, the god of the woodlands in Greek mythology, this is a beautiful native wildflower that can be found all around Ireland. White, drooping flowers are borne on upright grey-green downy stems from June to August. The base of the flower is inflated, a little like a balloon or bladder (hence ...
Stachys byzantina
Stachys byzantina
€3.00
Lamb’s Ears An old cottage-garden favourite, Stachys byzantina is an evergreen perennial with a vigorous, weed-suppressing, mat-forming habit. The elliptical leaves are silvery-grey, soft and almost woolly, giving the plant its common name of lamb’s ears, and form a spreading basal clump. In June and July, soft, woolly stems, 20”/50cm tall, rise...
Symphytum grandiflorum
Symphytum grandiflorum
€4.00
Ground Cover Comfrey A creeping comfrey with creamy yellow to white flowers that appear in drooping clusters in mid-Spring to early Summer. This comfrey will spread in time, suppressing surrounding weed growth with its tightly packed cushion of hairy dark green leaves. Symphytum grandiflorum is a valuable early provider for bees and perfect for...
Symphytum grandiflorum Hidcote Blue
€4.00
Creeping Comfrey Hidcote Blue Sprays of hanging tubular bells start to open from tight pink buds in mid Spring. Symphytum grandiflorum Hidcote Blue is an excellent low growing deciduous perennial, well suited as groundcover for banks and slopes, and as an edging plant anywhere in almost any soil, as long as its fertile and partly sunny. Creepin...
Thalictrum aquilegifolium
€4.00
French Meadow Rue Famous for its lacy bluish-green delicate fern like foliage, Thalictrum aquilegifolium offers an amazing display of long lasting pinky purple or white fluffy cotton flowers on branching stems from late spring onwards. The French Meadow Rue prefers moist humus rich soil in dappled shade. They are perfect for naturalising in a w...
Thalictrum Black Stockings
€4.50
Meadow Rue Black Stockings A very pretty cultivar of the native Irish meadow rue, named for its thick, jet-black flower-stems, Thalictrum Black Stockings is a tall, upright, bushy, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial, good at the back of a moist border with grasses. The scalloped, mid-green leaves have an almost lacy appearance. In May and June,...
Thalictrum delavayi Hewitt's Double
€4.50
Chinese Meadow Rue Hewitt’s Double A fairly new introduction, but already a classic, Thalictrum delavayi Hewitt's Double is herbaceous perennial with a rather lax, upright habit. The mid-green leaves are lacy and divided into three rounded leaflets, delicate and very attractive, reminiscent of maidenhair fern. Flower buds like little mauve rain...
Thalictrum rochebrunianum
€4.00
Meadow Rue Favoured for its lacy refined purple tinged delicate fern like foliage and sturdy purple stems. Thalictrum rochebrunianum begins flowering a bit later than other Meadow Rues, from mid Summer onwards. Starting with pearl like buds, in abundance, opening into a graceful cloud of tiny lavender flowers with exquisite fluffy yellow centre...
Tulbaghia violacea
Tulbaghia violacea
€4.75
Society Garlic A native of South Africa, Tulbaghia violacea is a vigorous, deciduous, rhizomatous perennial, looking rather like a more refined agapanthus or allium. It forms a clump of narrow, strap-shaped, grey-green leaves, which smell of garlic and can form dense clumps. In July, August and September, pretty umbels of fragrant, starry, lilac...