Best Selling Plants
Beesia calthifolia
A new introduction of great charm. Heart shaped leaves, clump forming, evergreen, dark red in Winter and glossy burnished bronzy green in Summer. Flowers pretty constantly all Summer with lots of white stars from May. Likes a moist shaded spot.
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Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM
A truly magnificent fern with splendid crests and arching fronds, said to be the 'King of the British Ferns'. In time, to 1.2m tall. Very effective in a pot against a north facing wall. Semi-evergreen.
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Gillenia trifoliata AGM
A plant that has become increasingly popular as gardeners recognise its quiet beauty. White star flowers that have a fluttering butterfly quality about them, reddish stems and calyxs, followed by berries and coloured foliage in Autumn. A semi-shaded well drained spot will have this flowering most of the Summer. Use to the front of a shade border to fully appreciate its beauty. A rhizomatous perennial, that is gradually clump forming.
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Asplenium scolopendrium AGM
The native wild form of this easy and very useful evergreen fern. Strap shaped, long undivided fronds giving the plant it's common name Hart's (deer) Tongue fern. Grows better on alkaline to neutral soils. Happy in damp shade but also in dry shade once established. This fern works brilliantly with other ferns, hostas and bergenias.
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Saruma henryii
Very interesting woodlander from China, with yellow flowers in Spring and slightly felted leaves. Well illustrated in Dan Hinkleys book ("The Explorer's Garden").
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Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'
A fine divisilobum form of the soft shield fern. A beautiful, elegant form of this easy very tolerant fern even of dry soils. Makes a very good subject for a container.
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