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Handsome large dark green shiny leaves deeply lobed, with impressive tall flower spikes in late summer.  Flowers are white with purple-shaded bracts. Outstanding for the back of the border, where this Acanthus will create a stunning effect. Tolerates some shade and dry conditions. Easy to grow.

Headbourne Hybrids are fully hardy, dying back to the fleshy root stock over winter. Available in most Garden Centres but expensive - why not try growing some from seed if you can wait a few years for the plants to mature?

Exotic South American perennials from tuberous roots, producing abundant red, yellow, orange and pink flowers, often strikingly streaked and spotted. Excellent cut flowers. Easily grown in full sun or part shade, preferring rich deep soil. Best left undisturbed and mulched in hard frost areas. We have been growing these for many years with a fantastic colour display for most of the summer.

From Korea an architectural and quite dramatic recent introduction growing to 4’, with huge, bold leaves and striking flowers produced in mid to late summer in large clusters resembling a large Allium. Flowers and stem are a rich, purplish red and the plant won a gold medal in 1993 when it was introduced.

This species grows native from Nepal & Northeast India to south central China. It has exotic looking dark purple to chocolate spathes striped or marked white. The mottled or purple-blotched leaf stem bears a huge tropical-looking shiny palmate leaf, divided to look a bit like three leaves with reddish brown margins. It is called a Double-Whip Cobra Lily because it has two tongues. The first is at the pointed tip of the hood or spathe, the "tongue" common to Arisaemas generally. But much stranger is an unexpected tongue that extends from the head of the spadix or jack. To 2ft.

Described as tortuous because of the extremely long, curling green, sometimes purple, spadix which curves out of the mouth of the spathe tube and bends backwards tapering to a fine tip. The spathe itself is lime-green and the stems are mottled green and maroon and snake like. Hardy and reliable this is robust plant once established, with large divided 2 to 3 leaves and flowering in summer. Height to 1 or 1.5 metres

Jack-in-the-pulpit is a spring woodland wildflower usually growing 1ft to 2ft tall. Flower structure consists of the spadix (Jack) which is an erect spike containing numerous, tiny, green to purple flowers and the sheath-like spathe (pulpit) which encases the lower part of the spadix and then opens to form a hood extending over the top of the spadix. The outside of the spathe is usually green or purple and the inside is usually striped purple and greenish white, though considerable colour variations exist. Two large green, compound, long-petioled leaves (1ft to 1.5ft long), divided into three leaflets each, emanate upward from a single stalk and provide umbrella-like shade to the flower. The fleshy stalk and leaves lend an almost tropical aura to the plant.

Silver spear is a hardy, clump-forming perennial with elegant silvery spear-shaped leaves. In very cold winters in exposed areas plants may suffer frost damage and may benefit from protection. During mid- to late spring long stalks of yellowish-green flowers emerge from female plants that give rise to orange berries in summer. This plant can make a dramatic feature in the garden especially when planted close to purple-foliage plants such as Aeonium 'Schwarzkopf'. It makes an unusual alternative to phormium or New Zealand flax.

Excellent hardy shrubs with specatcular large flower clusters in shades of white, pink, purple and blue. We grow many different coloured hybrids in our garden to attractive the butterflies and to see one of these shrubs in full flower on a late still, warm summer day, covered in butterflies is really quite magical. Can be flowered in the first year from seed from an early sowing, prune back hard in early spring each year to encourage flower shoots.

A large, leafy perennial with pure white tubular bell-shaped flowers in summer. The leaves are nettle-shaped, but not hairy, larger at the bottom of the stem and becoming smaller towards the top. The stem is unbranched, and the flowers are in the axils of the upper leaves. One of our Cottage garden selections to complement your tropical planting.

A large, leafy perennial with dark blue to violet tubular bell-shaped flowers in summer. The leaves are nettle-shaped, but not hairy, larger at the bottom of the stem and becoming smaller towards the top. The stem is unbranched, and the flowers are in the axils of the upper leaves. One of our Cottage garden selections to complement your tropical planting.

Tall 3’ to 4’ tall plants with many bell shaped flowers in blue or white. The flowers are a good size and have a nodding habit borne on slender, almost leafless spikes from a basal rosette of glossy green leaves when not in bloom. Plants do best in moisture retentive soils in full sun to part shade. They have a some-what spreading habit, but not aggressively. Mid to late spring blooming.

An excellent tall 3’ to 4’ tall variety with many bell shaped flowers in a lovely china blue. The flowers are a good size and have a nodding habit borne on slender, almost leafless spikes from a basal rosette of glossy green leaves when not in bloom. Plants do best in moisture retentive soils in full sun to part shade. They have a some-what spreading habit, but not aggressively. Mid to late spring blooming.

An impressive discovery from Korea that is vigorous, easy and floriferous. Attractive glossy foliage supports nodding bells, faintly speckled or spotted maroon within. Excellent for quickly filling a border. Bell Ringers Mix has shades of pink, purple and white all with spotted centres.

Although classed as a lily for many years, this aristocratic woodland plant from the Himalayas is unmistakably different. The bulbs eventually make 8" across, from which a rosette of leaves then appear for 2 to 4 years before an astonishing and stately flower spike erupts, with up to 50, 6" long glistening white very fragrant trumpets. After that the main bulb dies, leaving many smaller ones that take a few years to reach flowering size again. RHS AGM award. Slow from seed but very expensive to purchase bulbs.

The Cordyline is a well known plant that needs little introduction, tolerating about minus 10°C without protection. If planted in more severe conditions it would require some protection, otherwise the growing point would be killed by the frost. However, even cut down to the ground you could expect new suckering growth the following year to compensate for any top growth loss. Many people leave the old leaves on the trunk to provide additional protection, or tie up the crown leaves during the worst weather conditions. This plant is readily available from most garden centres, but it is easy from seed, making it an excellent choice for any summer bedding scheme.

This Cordyline produces an alternative, attractive purple/red foliage. Culture the same as above. Please bear in mind that the non green varieties are not quite so hardy if you are thinking of  a permanent position out of doors.

This Cordyline hybrid has an improved red foliage over the ordinary purple. Culture the same as Purpurea

A magnificent species, growing to 8m, with a truly exotic bold look, this is slightly more tender than australis and not so often seen in cultivation in the UK, frost tender to -5C. It differs from C. australis by having much broader leaves often with a red central midrib.

A popular tall ornamental grass. The large plumes can be harvested and dyed in cold water dyes to make lovely house decorations. If the clump gets too large you can set it alight, but you will need plenty of space as the resulting “bonfire” is awesome! Best set alight in spring on a dry day. The much reduced plant surprisingly survives and soon makes new clean growth from the ashes.

An architectural clump forming plant which if given space really comes into its own. The plant shown in the picture is about 3 years old, already 10' across. Flowers are carried on strong stems up to 10' high and new foliage, beginning early autumn, is a very attractive soft blue grey. The flower form relates closely to the shape of a classic artichoke flower, slightly smaller and more delicate than the edible varieties, topped by a brush of bright blue flowers, quite stunning.  After the flowers fade I cut down the old stems and new growth soon forms from the base. These remain over winter growing slowly and looking very attractive, with only the occasional light frost damage before the spring heralds rapid new growth. Easy to raise from seed but you will need space to accommodate  it permanently. Young plants from off shoots or seedlings make excellent bedding before  becoming too large.

A native shrub from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. The dense clusters of pineapple scented yellow flowers appear in mid summer and together with the silvery grey green foliage present a wonderful sight. For well drained, even dry sandy soils in sun and tolerates frost to about -10°C. We have tried to acquire seeds of this wonderful shrub for a few years and we are really pleased to be able to offer it again. 

Dasylirion is a desert plant for dry positions. This tough plant is a native from Arizona growing slowly to form a dense rosette of silver-blue foliage 4-5 feet tall and wide. The leathery leaves have teeth along the margins, and a spoon-shaped base that gives the plant its name. Dasylirion wheeleri thrives in full sun and reflected heat, and even tolerates some shade and humidity if drainage is adequate, and hardy to -10°C. Often used as an effective impenetrable, hedging barrier.

A very unusual deciduous woodland shrub from Himalaya bearing bright blue beans in the Autumn with typical pea family pinnate leaves. Very unusual and fully hardy apart from late spring frosts.

Wonderful, high quality, 5ft spikes of large, tightly packed florets in a range of beautiful shades with and without contrasting central bees. Stunning in a mixed tropical or cottage garden border.

The first ever F1 Hybrid foxglove seed which will flower the first year from an early sowing A mix of cream, lavender, rose and white flower spikes in a uniform compact habit 2’ to 3'.

Exochorda macrantha ‘The Bride’ from China and Asia, lives up to its name and captures the sense of the season in a very special way. When clusters of showy white flowers smother the tips of its branches in late spring and early summer,