2008 Plant Catalogue

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SALVIA forskaohlei - 3' - £4.00
Large hairy basal leaves from which rise the stems carrying purplish blue flowers with a white throat. Perennial. Needs sun.

SALVIA microphylla var. microphylla - 3'6" - £4.00
Blackcurrant scented foliage, flowers of a crushed raspberry shade from mid-summer to the frosts. Sunny well drained conditions, can be cut to the ground by frost but sprouts from the base.

SALVIA nemorosa 'Carradonna' - 2' - £4.10
Erect, with dark purple stems and spikes of violet-blue in summer. Needs dry conditions and sun.

SALVIA uliginosa - 4' - £4.20
Skyblue flowers in Autumn make this plant worth giving some care. Needs fertile not too dry soil and may need some
protection in cold areas.

SANGUISORBA menziesii - 3' - £4.20
Deep maroon-red bottle brushes above glaucous foliage.

SANGUISORBA obtusa - 3' 6" - £4.20
Grey pinnate foliage, large bottle brush flowers of a beautiful deep pink.

SANGUISORBA officinalis 'Pink Tanna' - 3' - £4.20
Small bottle brush flowers of rose pink. Mid-Summer.

SCHIZOSTYLUS coccinea 'Wilfred H Bryant' - 16" - £4.00
The palest of pink flowers in autumn. Narrow grassy foliage
all year. Previously sold as 'Pink Princess'.

SCOPOLIA carniolica - 16" - £4.10
This was collected by Will McLewin in Yugoslavia. The flowers are yellow inside, brownish-purple on the outside. Needs
moist semi-shade and creeps by fleshy rhizomes. Flowers in April.

SCROPHULARIA auriculata 'Variegata' - 3' - £4.10
Marvellous evergreen foliage splashed with cream. Semi-shade. Flowers best removed.

SEDUM 'Autumn Joy' - 2' - £3.90
Bronzy pink flowers in much bigger heads than S. spectabile.

SEDUM 'Bertram Anderson' AGM - 9" - £3.90
Good dark red foliage on a low growing spreading plant.

SEDUM 'Carl' - 18" - £3.90
Greeny-blue foliage and rosy-pink flowers. An excellent new sedum, they are all useful in the autumn garden.

SEDUM 'Ruby Glow' AGM - 1' - £3.90
Glaucous foliage and ruby-pink flowers in late summer.

SEDUM spectabile 'Septemberglut' - 1'6" - £3.90
Deep pink flowers in September.

SEDUM 'Strawberries and Cream' - 12" - £3.90
Lavender-purple foliage with red and cream flowers.

SEDUM telephium 'Matrona' - 2' - £3.90
Very large heads of pink flowers. A strong grower with upright stems and green leaves becoming bronzey.

SEDUM telephium subsp. maximum 'Gooseberry Fool' - 18" - £3.90
Large flat heads of creamy green in autumn.

SEDUM telephium subsp. ruprechtii - 18" - £3.90
Glaucous foliage, lax habit, creamy flowers.

SEDUM ‘Purple Emperor’ - 16” - £4.00
Previously sold as S. 'Washfield Purple' this has excellent dark foliage and flowers.

SIDALCEA candida  - 3' - £4.00
Good spikes of white flowers in summer. Rather like a small Hollyhock.

SIDALCEA 'Elsie Heugh' - 3' - £4.00
These are very useful plants flowering in August and elegantly upright. This form has rose-pink coloured flowers.

SILENE dioica 'Clifford Moor' - 1' - £4.00
Cream edge to the dark green leaves. Deep pink single flowers. Found by a local herb nursery. Plant Breeders
rights applied for. Propagation is illegal.

SILENE fimbriata - 2' - £4.00 CLICK TO VIEW PHOTO
Like the common white campion but the flowers have fringed petals and are backed by large baggy calyces. Much
admired in late May.

SISYRINCHIUM striatum - 18" - £4.00
Iris-like leaves, spires of cream flowers. Needs good drainage.

SISYRINCHIUM striatum 'Aunt May' - 18" - £5.00
Good form with cream edges to the leaves. Large Pots.

SMILACINA racemosa -2' - £4.00
Fresh arching branches with fluffy cream flowers Apr-Jun. Ornamental berries start cream turn blinding red.

SPIRANTHES cerna odorata 'Chadd's Ford' - 18" - £4.10
Spiralling spikes of heavily scented white orchid-like flowers in October. Vigorous and will sucker. Needs reasonably
fertile conditions.

STACHYS byzantina 'Silver Carpet' - 9" - £3.90
Excellent silver ground cover without the sometimes dingey spikes of flowers.

STACHYS monieri 'Hummelo' - 18 " - £4.00
Pretty rose pink flower spikes above crinkly foliage from early summer until autumn.

STOKESIA laevis 'Mary Gregory' - 12” - £4.00 CLICK TO VIEW PHOTO
A new form with surprising deep yellow flowers in late summer. The daisy flowers are also unusually large.

STOKESIA laevis 'Purple Parasols' - 12” - £4.00 CLICK TO VIEW PHOTO
Deep purple daisy flowers in late summer very useful at a difficult time of year.

STROBILANTHES attenuata - 1' - £4.20
We are delighted that Wisley has been able to name this excellent low spreading plant. Blue flowers in autumn, very
similar to S.atropurpurea.

STROBILANTHES nutans - 2'6" - £4.60
Similar to S.attenuata but with large clusters of drooping trumpet shaped white flowers in autumn. Needs sun and good drainage.

STROBILANTHES wallichii - 3' - £4.20
Syn. S.atropurpureum. The leaves have a violet hue and the violet-blue flowers in September.Best in sun. Spoilt by late
frost but always recovers.

SYMPHYANDRA ‘Paul Furse’ - 2’ - £3.90
Long bells of soft blue on a running plant. A surprise in that it Flowers in autumn when most Campanulas are over. Peter
Lewis says this is not a Campanula- hence the change of name.

SYMPHYTUM ibericum (grandiflorum) - 1' - £3.90
Dark hairy leaves, orange-tipped cream bells in spring, grows in any soil, spreading. Evergreen.

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