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Filipendula ulmaria - Meadowsweet
€3.00
Meadowsweet (Airgead luachra) Bees, butterflies, kids and adults alike will delight in the almond-like scent of this vigourous native perennial- it’s reminiscent of marzipan. Fluffy white candyfloss flowers borne on tall reddish stems of up to 1.2m will add height and texture to the border or hedgerow from June to September. The leaves are tooth...
Fragaria vesca - Wild Strawberry
€3.00
Wild Strawberry (Sú talún fiáin) Finding this plant growing wild and picking off the tiny sweet ‘strawberries’ is the cherry on the cake if you’re out on a walk anywhere in Ireland. Also known as Alpine strawberry, Fragaria vesca is native to Ireland and a popular choice among permaculturists. The berries are not actually berries, technically sp...
Fragaria vesca Alexandria
€3.00
Alpine Strawberry Alexandria A long-established American cultivar of alpine strawberry, Fragaria vesca Alexandria is a deciduous, bushy, short-lived perennial, producing pretty, white, single flowers and small, but delicious fruit. The plant bears fruit over a long period from mid-summer to late autumn, and is a fairly heavy cropper for an alpin...
Galium odoratum - Sweet Woodruff
€4.00
Sweet Woodruff (Lus moileas) This carpeting wildflower can be found in mature woodlands and other damp, sheltered places. Native throughout Europe, it was once used to flavour beer and its wonderful scent reminiscent of fresh hay and vanilla was a popular choice in potpourri or indeed in the linen closet - you’ll need to pick it to smell it. Cla...
Geranium Ann Folkard
Geranium Ann Folkard
€4.50
Hardy Geranium Ann Folkard An excellent, long-established hybrid hardy geranium or cranesbill, Geranium Ann Folkard x psilostemon is a small, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial which blooms for a long period. The divided, palmate leaves emerge yellow-green, making a splash of light in the spring garden, gradually turning deep to mid-green, a lo...
Geranium Dragonheart (Bremdra)
€8.50
Geranium Dragonheart (Bremdra) A low-growing, long-flowering cranesbill with larger flowers than most, Geranium Dragonheart (AKA Bremdra) is a herbaceous perennial with a clump-forming, rambling habit. The pretty, mid-green leaves are deeply cut, and form a spreading, weed-suppressing mat which will wind its way round and even climb into neighbo...
Geranium Dreamland
Geranium Dreamland
€8.50
Cranesbill Dreamland A very pretty, long-flowering cranesbill, Geranium Dreamland is a compact, clump-forming herbaceous perennial with a low, spreading habit, making good ground-cover. The rounded, lobed leaves are downy and deep grey-green, a lovely foil for the flowers, which are borne from May to August. The cupped flowers, carried on short,...
Geranium Dusky Rose
Geranium Dusky Rose
€10.00
Cranesbill Dusky Rose A very pretty, long-flowering cranesbill, Geranium Dusky Rose is a diminutive, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial, ideal for the smaller garden. The lobed leaves are burgundy, sometimes dark green flushed with burgundy, both a lovely foil for the flowers. From May to September, soft-pink flowers with darker veins are borne...
Geranium Johnson’s Blue
Geranium Johnson’s Blue
€4.00
Hardy Geranium Johnson’s Blue A old, much loved, hybrid cranesbill, Geranium x johnsonii Johnson’s Blue is a herbaceous, clump-forming perennial with deeply divided mid-green leaves, faintly washed with silver, a lovely foil for the flowers. Single, lavender-blue flowers with darker veins, 2”/5cm wide, are borne throughout summer; they are very ...
Geranium maderense
Geranium maderense
€4.00
Madeira Cranesbill The largest in the family and, to some, the most spectacular of all. Geranium maderense is a statuesque evergreen biennial native to Madeira. The showy purple-pink dark-centered flowers of the Madeira Cranesbill appear in a large bouquet over the foliage in spring usually in the plant's second year. Tolerant of most soil, it...
Geranium Mavis Simpson
Geranium Mavis Simpson
€10.00
Cranesbill Mavis Simpson A very pretty cranesbill discovered at Kew and named for one of the gardeners, Geranium Mavis Simpson is a low, spreading, mat-forming, semi-evergreen, herbaceous perennial. The lobed, rounded leaves are grey-green and downy, giving a silvery effect, and persist well into winter in milder areas. From June to October, fla...
Geranium Orion AGM
Geranium Orion AGM
€8.50
Cranesbill Orion A chance seedling of Geranium Brookside, with meadow geranium ancestry as well, the brilliant cultivar Orion has masses of very deep violet-blue, almost indigo, saucer-shaped, 2”/5cm flowers with purple-maroon veins and a small greenish-white ‘eye’; the flowers are particularly luminous in morning and evening light. It is a ster...
Geranium phaeum Samobor
Geranium phaeum Samobor
€4.00
Dusky Cranesbill Samobor An excellent cultivar of the mourning widow or dusky cranesbilll, Geranium phaeum Samobor is a herbaceous, clump-forming perennial. The large, lobed, deep-green leaves, which take on a purple colour in autumn, are handsomely marked with a brownish-purple crescent, giving ground-cover interest throughout the growing seaso...
Geranium Rozanne AGM
Geranium Rozanne AGM
€4.50
Cranesbill Rozanne Dependable and desirable, and an award winner, Cranesbill Rozanne likes to put on a show of violet blue, white-centered saucer-like flowers from May to November, sometimes into December, in abundance, all over a sprawling mound of finely cut leaves. The leaves sometimes turn orange, then red with autumn. A low maintenance, qui...
Geum Alabama Slammer
Geum Alabama Slammer
€4.00
Avens Alabama Slammer A new hybrid avens cultivar, Geum Alabama Slammer is a fast-growing, semi-evergreen, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial, ideal for the front of a border. Glossy, light green, round leaves form a low mound, from which rise slender, branching burgundy flower-stems. The flowers are semi-double, ruffled, and a golden orange, ...
Geum borisii
Geum borisii
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Avens Borisii A modest, but vivid form of garden avens, Geum borisii is a slowly spreading, vigorous, clump-forming herbaceous perennial with a ground-covering mound of rounded, scalloped, rich green leaves which set off the flowers beautifully. From late spring to the end of summer, erect stems carry strongly coloured, upward-facing, intensely ...
Geum Flames of Passion
Geum Flames of Passion
€4.00
Avens Flames of Passion A long-flowering hybrid of water avens, Geum Flames of Passion is a compact, evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial with a clump-forming habit and deep red stems. It forms a mound of attractive, lobed, slightly hairy, mid-green leaves, over which rise, in May and June and into July, delicate, semi-double flowers, .8”/2cm ...
Geum Mai Tai
Geum Mai Tai
€4.00
Avens Mai Tai A very pretty, long-flowering avens for the front of a border, Geum Mai Tai is a rhizomatous, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with a ground-covering, basal clump of rounded, lobed, deep green leaves. From May to July, semi-double, pink-flushed, pale apricot flowers, fading to melon-pink, are borne on branching, red-green stems;...
Geum Mrs J. Bradshaw
Geum Mrs J. Bradshaw
€4.00
Avens Mrs J Bradshaw An old, tried-and-tested avens cultivar which has become very fashionable, Geum Mrs J. Bradshaw is a clump-forming, herbaceous perennial which forms a neat, dense mound of mid- to deep green, rounded, rather hairy leaves. The flowers are borne from late May to September on tall, slender, purple stems, and are bright scarlet...
Geum Pink Petticoats
Geum Pink Petticoats
€10.00
Avens Pink Petticoats An exceptionally pretty, compact avens, suitable for the smallest garden, Geum Pink Petticoats is a small, semi-evergreen to evergreen perennial with a clump-forming habit, forming a mound of attractive, lobed, basal mid-green leaves. From April to August, and into September, rosebud-like buds on reddish-brown stems open to...