Pretty evenly pink flower heads May-Nov (a gap somewhere in the middle), 50cm. Easy. Sterile non-seeding hybrid. PVR -...
spring, early summer
ASTRANTIA ‘SUPERSTAR’
Reckoned to be an improvement on 'Shaggy' but not for the impatient. Large green-tipped white flowers Apr-Oct, 65cm....
BESCHORNERIA SEPTENTRIONALIS
A Beschorneria collected in a high winter-cold site from Northern Mexico. It flowers when young then biennially....
CIRSIUM RIVULARE ‘ATROPURPUREUM’
This tries to bloom all year - in winter it is stopped by cold. Purple thistle knobs held over a rosette of foliage...
ERIGERON KARVINSKIANUS
Easily naturalised in walls and paths with pink and white daisies in wiry stems, Mar-Nov, 25cm. Easy, neat, drought...
ERYSIMUM ‘SUNBURST’
Lovely cream-edged grey-green evergreen foliage, scented yellow flowers Mar-Jul and later, compact 55cm.
GERANIUM MACULATUM ‘ELIZABETH ANN’
Evenly coffee-coloured glossy foliage and medium-sized pink flowers May-Jun, autumn colour 40cm. Bred by Leslie...
HYACINTHOIDES HISPANICA ‘DAINTY MAID’
Good in dry shade under trees. Pink-purple flowers Apr-May, 30cm. Old large-bulbed variety.
LINARIA DALMATICA
Three canaries on a perch. Large lemony toadflax flowers over grey leaves for a long season Apr-Nov, 80cm. Easy even...