PERENNIALS

ECHINACEA PALLIDA.

Upright perennial to 3ft flowering from July to September. The flowers have an orange cone and drooping pink petals. Tolerant of heat and dry soils. Z5.

ECHINACEA PURPUREA.

Once called Rudbeckia purpurea and has stout stems and dark green leaves. The flowers borne in summer are 5” mauve daisies with a prominent orange central cone. 4ft x 18”. Z5.

ECHINOPS RITRO

Compact clump forming perennial, with jagged leaves dark green on top white underneath. grey stems carry round bristly heads of lavender blue flowers in late summer. 3ft x 2ft. Z4.

 ECHINOPS SPHAEROCEPHALUM ‘ARTIC GLOW’.

Thistle like plant to 3ft. Dark red-brown stems. Globe shaped spiky white flowers 3in. in diameter from July. Z3. 

EOMECON CHIONANTHUM

Large round leaves forming low clumps and pure white flowers with yellow stamens. For cool moist soil in shade, but dislikes cold heavy soil. 18” x 18”. Z7.

 EPIMEDIUM

Attractive and useful low slowly spreading evergreens for ground cover under trees or shrubs. They have heart shaped leathery leaves and small  rather violet like flowers in early spring. Z5.

There are about 40 species all broadly similar. We offer:   PERALCHICUM FROHLEITEN; 1” Bright yellow flowers 18”;   VERSICOLOR SULPHUREUM;  Dainty leaves, pale yellow flowers, 12”;  WARLEYENSE; Light green leaves, orange flowers,  12”. 

ERIGERON ‘AZURFEE’

Lavender blue  semi-double yellow centred daisy like  flower heads in early and mid-summer. 18” x 18”.Z5

ERODIUM MANESCAVII.

A good tufty plant of the geranium family for the border front. A dense clump of attractive feathery divided foliage. The clusters of flowers held on straight stalksare rich deep pink with deeper blotches. Flowering extends for several months from June. Any reasonable soil in sun. A really good plant. 20” x 24”. Z7. 

ERYNGIUM BOURGATII.

Divided thistle like green leaves with pale veins form a basal rosette and clothe the branching stems, which carry cone shaped blue flowers sitting in cups of spiny leaves from June to August. 1½ft

 EUPATORUIM PURPUREUM

A striking plant, suitable for the  back of a  border.  Tall purplish stems punctuated with pointed leaves and topped in early autumn with flat heads of purplish-pink flowers. Dislikes drought 4ft x 2ft. Z4. 

EUPATORIUM RUGOSUM ‘CHOCOLATE’.

Leaves and stems are deep purple. Heads of white flowers from July to September. An  superb foliage plant, but the flowers are less attractive than purpureum. Not for dry soil. 3ft. Z4.

 EURPHORBIA CHARACIAS WULFENII

A striking plant with erect stems with blue grey foliage and lime green heads of flowers in spring.  Handsome winter foliage.  4ft. Z7.

 EUPHORBIA DULCIS CHAMAELEON

Deep reddish purple foliage and flowers.  1ft. Z6. 

EUPHORBIA GRIFITHII ‘FIREGLOW’

A mass of good dark green foliage with heads of vivid brick red flowers in early summer. 3ft x 2ft. Z5.

 EUPHORBIA MYRSINITES

Strange evergreen perennial with prostrate stems clad in spirals of succulent grey blue leaves bearing heads of greeny yellow flowers April to August. Dryish soil 6” x 18” Z6.

EUPHORBIA POLYCHROMA

Forms a rounded dome of stems, crowned by flat heads of bright yellow tinted with green, following on from daffodils. 18” x 18”. Z5

EUPHORBIA SCHILLINGII.

A spurge with many branched stems, and large impressive yellow bracts in late summer. 3ft x 2ft. Z7.

 EUPHORBIA WALLICHII ‘LEMON & LIME’:

Stout stems to 3ft with dark green leaves with purplish edges. large yellow and lime green bracts July to September. Z8.

 FRAGRARIA ‘PINK PANDA’.