An awesome mix of hard-to-find cultivars with many leaf forms and coloured patterns. All have beautiful trumpet shaped white to pale purple flowers (some are fragrant) on straight stems hence it's common name of 'Plantain Lily'. Flowers are fragrant on some varieties and range in colour from...
A lovely rounded leaf hosta with dark green leaves with an irregular creamy margin. Nice pucked leaf texture. Lavender coloured flowers are borne on tall stems. Medium sized hosta (60 cm diameter).
A lovely woodland perennial that comes up in early March in our garden. Its large unmarked broad fleshy strap like leaves unfold and by early April gorgeous blue bell flowers hang in loose clusters on sturdy stems that arch with the weight of the blooms. Blooms have a slightly darker blue stripe...
A valuable rare herbaceous perennial of the Eastern North American forests. Single stems appear in early to mid Spring from golden yellow rhizomes. White flowers open even before the large lobed leaves unfurl. Red berries follow and are often taken by birds.
Semi evergreen sub shrub growing to 1 meter tall with equal spread. Small lance shaped aromatic leaves and near mid blue flowers, arranged on decent sized spikes, are enjoyed by the bees. Suitable for creating a small hedge.
Velvety purple-black flowers with contrasting gold veining that looks like gilding. Not as robust as Iris siberica, but just as hardy in my garden. Makes great clumps of grassy strap like leaves to 1 meter.
A hard to find sino-siberian iris. Exotic looking mid May blooms of rich colours with lovely markings held on a stately 1 meter tall stems above lovely pointed strap like green leaves. Will form clumps most if not all iris do. Needs moisture during Spring for proper blooming. Flowers have a...
If you love iris, you're heart will skip a beat with this prolific blooming evergreen species. Its not very tall (45 cm), and in late spring is absolutely covered with as many as 50 stunningly beautiful blooms on each plant. Colours range from deep royal purple to the palest baby blue but all...
In your mind's eye imagine a primrose to lemon yellow flowered iris with short streaks of purple along the falls held above graceful grass like 45 cm long sword like leaves. This beauty is sweetly scented too...something hard to find in a nonbearded species. Simply gorgeous and non invasive...
