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Dodecatheon meadia

Dodecatheon meadia
€4.00
Shooting Star Also known as American cowslip, Dodecatheon meadia is a compact, clump-forming herbaceous perennial with a basal rosette of light green leaves, rather like those of primroses, to which they are related. In April and May, nodding pinkish-mauve flowers with a paler mouth, reflexed petals and pointed stigmas are borne on tall stems ab...

Echinacea purpurea Magnus
€4.00
Coneflower Magnus A strong variety of coneflower, tolerant of adverse weather conditions with a long flowering period from July to September. The very large (up to 10cm/4in) deep pink-purple daisy-like flowers of Echinacea purpurea Magnus are held flat on stiff stems with a dark orange center mounted on top. The seedheads are a wildlife foodsou...

Echinacea purpurea White Swan (Alba)
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Coneflower White Swan A hardy clump-forming perennial with a long flowering period from July to September. The large white daisy-like flowers of Echinacea purpurea White Swan are slightly bent back on stiff stems with a dark yellow center mounted on top. The seedheads provide food for wildlife during the Winter months. Coneflower White Swan is ...

Echium pininana Snow Tower
€4.00
Tree Echium Snow Tower Also known as Echium pininana alba and bred in Guernsey, Echium pininana Snow Tower is a rare, pure white version of the popular purple tree echium, and is a magnificently architectural, short-lived perennial for milder gardens. A very attractive rosette of large, hairy, silvery-grey leaves is produced in the first year, f...
Echium russicum
Echium russicum
€4.00
Red-flowered Viper’s Grass, Russian Bugloss A bushy biennial subshrub with stunning upward spires of ruby pink over a foot long opening in Summer. Echium russicum produces pointed mid-green soft fuzzy leaves down the lower half of each flowering stem in the 1st year, which are then followed by funnel-shaped flowers growing up the top of the ste...

Echium vulgare - Viper’s-bugloss
€3.00
Viper’s-bugloss (Lus nathrach) Viper’s-bugloss seems as rather inscrutable common name - in that regard its other name ‘blueweed’ is more straightforward - until we learned that ‘bugloss’ comes from the Greek word for ‘ox-tongue’, which must be a reference to the shape and texture of the leaves: hairy, strap-shaped and with a pronounced vein in ...

Epimedium grandiflora Lilafee
€4.00
Barrenwort Lilafee An elegant foliage plant, Epimedium grandiflorum Lilafee is well suited at the front of a shady border or next to woodland plants. This is a compact, deciduous, clump-forming, low growing perennial with attractive textured leaves making it suitable as ground cover or edging plant. Small purple cup flowers framed by four long p...

Erigeron glaucus Sea Breeze
€8.00
Beach Aster Sea Breeze Also known as fleabane, Erigeron glaucus Sea Breeze is a low, mat-forming, herbaceous perennial with narrow, spoon-shaped, grey-green leaves up to 6”/15cm long. In summer, daisy-like pink flowers in shades from carmine to lilac pink, and with yellow centres, almost cover the plant. The flowers are attractive to butterflies...
Eryngium maritimum

Eryngium maritimum
€3.00
Sea Holly (Cuileann trá) In the 16th century, Eryngium maritimum was considered a strong aphrodisiac. We are sworn to secrecy, but in any case, Sea Holly is a widespread native, easily recognised due to its waxy, spiky appearance. Sitting happily in clumps on the sand of many an Irish beach or dune, it has leathery, silver-blue, holly-like leave...

Eryngium planum Blue Hobbit
€4.50
Blue Eryngo Blue Hobbit A dwarf, very floriferous form of blue eryngo or sea holly, Eryngium planum Blue Hobbit is a herbaceous perennial with a compact, clump-forming habit, ideal for patio pots or at the front of a sunny border. From a clump of rounded basal leaves, erect stems rise, bearing spiky, silvery blue-green leaves. All summer and wel...
Eryngium variifolium

Eryngium variifolium
€4.00
Variable-leaved Sea-holly One of the best sea-hollies, also known as the marble-leaved sea-holly, Eryngium variifolium is a long-lived, evergreen perennial with a clump-forming habit, perfect in a gravel planting or at the front of a sunny border in very free-draining soil. From a flat rosette of rounded, waxy, basal leaves marbled with beautifu...
Eupatorium maculatum Atropurpureum
€4.00
Joe-Pye Weed This plant sports rosy-purple heads of flowers, which are extremely attractive to butterflies and other beneficial pollinators, in late Summer. The umbrella-shaped flower clusters are followed by fluffy seedheads which continue into winter, providing food for birds. Forming a huge clump of dark green leaves with burgundy stems, Eup...

Eupatorium rugosum Chocolate
€4.00
Chocolate Boneset, White Snakeroot Sprays of pure white appear over darkly coloured foliage from July to September. A plant with a dramatic colour scheme and quite tall! The fuzzy white flowers of the Chocolate Boneset are fragrant and very attractive to bees and butterflies, a lovely low maintenance specimen for the late border. Eupatorium rug...

Euphorbia amygdaloides Purpurea
€4.00
Wood Spurge Purpurea The soft purple rounded foliage from the evergreen Euphorbia amygdaloides Purpurea makes it a good choice for a backdrop to other shady plants in a woodland garden or winter container, offering colour and texture. Wood spurge Purpurea is valued by landscapers for its ability to tolerate most sites and soils, including dry ...

Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
€10.00
Mediterranean Spurge A stunning, architectural plant with year-round interest, Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii is a medium-sized, fast-growing, drought-tolerant, evergreen sub-shrub with biennial stems. It’s wonderful in a sunny, dry traditional border, in a gravel planting, as a feature plant in a sunny courtyard, or massed. The blue-green ...

Euphorbia characias Tasmanian Tiger PBR
€4.50
Spurge Tasmanian Tiger A very striking form of the species, Euphorbia characias Tasmanian Tiger is an evergreen perennial with an upright, rounded, structural habit and long flowering period. Upright shoots are covered in narrow, pointed grey-green leaves, attractively edged in cream, giving the plant a light, graceful appearance. From early sp...

Euphorbia griffithii Fireglow
€4.00
Spurge Fireglow Known as one of the easiest varieties to grow, Euphorbia griffithii Fireglow is a low growing deciduous perennial producing upright stems of bronze red leaves in Spring, turning green in summer and eventually crimson red in autumn. The exquisite clusters of vivid orange flowers follow in Summer. It will add great colour, textur...
Euphorbia mellifera

Euphorbia mellifera
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Honey Spurge A large, handsome, evergreen shrub, Euphorbia mellifera has a domed shape and an architectural quality. It is grown as a foliage plant; the long, acid-green leaves have a delicate white stripe along the centre and are produced in whorls round the sturdy stems. Small, brownish flowers, heavily scented of honey, are borne in March an...

Euphorbia x martini Ascot Rainbow
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Martin’s Spurge Ascot Rainbow Valued for its unique variegated foliage and colourful contrasting tips, Euphorbia x martini Ascot Rainbow is a low growing soft downy evergreen sub-shrub which produces bushy rosettes of striking foliage all year. The leaves are a mid grey green with bright golden edges, in cooler months the centre is tinged pink....

Filipendula rubra Venusta
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Meadowsweet Venusta A cultivar of our native meadowsweet’s American cousin, Filipendula rubra Venusta is a tall, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial for a bog garden or a damp border in larger gardens. The mid-green leaves are palmate (like a grape-vines), about 7”/20cm wide. In late summer it bears beautiful terminal heads of rich pink, candyfl...