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NCG 485
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Monarda fistulosa
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Wild Bergamot, Bee Balm, Horsemint, Oswego Tea
A beautiful perennial well known as a medicinal herb. The masses of pale-mauve blooms are very attractive to butterflies, bees and other pollinating insects, The foliage is scented. |
NCG 099
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Nicotiana langsdorffii AGM
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Langsdorff's tobacco
This unusual tobacco plant first appeared in the garden in the summer of 2011. Height is variable, but can reach 1metre or more, with many branching stems bearing masses of narrow, tubular flowers which are greenish-yellow, with small, usually red-tinged, lips. |
NCG 484
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Nigella damascena 'Mulberry Rose'
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Love-in-a-Mist 'Mulberry Rose'
Like her more common blue/white sister, this cottage garden annual, in shades soft pinks and occasional white, is a must! Everything about it is pretty, from the buds, through flowers to seed pods. The finely cut, bright-green foliage is bedecked with flowers throughout the summer, which develop into seedpods, often… |
NCG 271
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Oenothera odorata 'Apricot Delight' | |
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Evening Primrose 'Apricot Delight'
The blooms of this (sometimes short-lived) perennial variety of evening primrose are scented in the evenings, the fragrance being reminiscent of a combination of lemons and lilies. It has a rather more lax, open habit than the more common Oenothera biennis. The flower buds are a soft creamy-yellow, darkening to… |
NCG 222
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Onopordum acanthium
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Scotch Thistle, Scottish Thistle, Cotton thistle
I don't generally welcome thistles in the garden, but this is an exception! This huge, ornamental thistle, which can reach 3 metres tall and a metre across, has spiny, silver-green leaves on a thick, branching stem, from which beautiful spherical buds develop, opening to gigantic pinkish-purple thistle flowers which are… |
NCG 253
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Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' Syn. 'Kokuryu' | |
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Lilyturf, Ornamental Black Grass, Black mondo grass
Although, true to its common name, this evergreen plant is both ornamental and black, it is not a grass! It forms clumps of glossy, purple-black leaves (some may occasionally be dark-green), with spikes of pale purplish-pink flowers in autumn, followed by glossy black berries. It grows only about 6 inches… |
NCG 766
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Origanum vulgare
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Wild marjoram
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NCG 865
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Oxalis corniculata | |
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Creeping wood sorrel
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NCG 514
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Oxalis corniculata var. atropurpurea
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Bronze leaved yellow sorrel, Procumbent yellow sorrel
A low-growing plant with dark, bronze-red leaves and small yellow flowers followed by upright seed capsules, this variety of oxalis, which is perennial, can be invasive more due to self-seeding than its creeping habit, but if kept in check is a valuable addition to the garden. It grows well in… |
NCG 264
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Oxalis triangularis | |
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False Shamrock
This unusual and delightful plant looks far exotic to be hardy - but it is! Plants will be available later this year. Can be affected by a specific rust - Puccinia oxalidis. |
NCG 260
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Paeonia daurica subsp. mlokosewitschii AGM
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Peony 'Molly the Witch'
This gorgeous paeony, with its blue-green foliage and large, soft creamy-yellow flowers and rich golden stamens, followed by interesting seed pods that are crimson red inside with blue-black seeds, is a much recommended herbaceous perennial. Note: Seeds harvested August 2018. They will be supplied in damp compost or vermiculite to… |
NCG 779
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Papaver cambricum 'Frances Perry' | |
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Welsh poppy 'Frances Perry'
A lovely variant of the familiar yellow wildflower, with orange to vermillion flowers - often with crinkled petals - and rich green foliage. Recently renamed from Meconopsis cambrica. |
NCG 522
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Papaver orientale 'Coral Reef' | |
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Oriental poppy 'Coral Reef'
These lovely poppies, which have pink petals and a black centre, will, unlike many others, come true from seed. All the oriental poppies are gorgeous, with their huge, papery blooms, and are much loved by pollinating insects. |
NCG 096
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Papaver rhoeas - various
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Poppy Mixture
This is a mixture of Field, Ladybird (black-eyed), white-eyed and possibly other similar poppies. Most will be red, but there may be the occasional deep pink or pastel variety. They look lovely planted in drifts towards the front of the border. |
NCG 776
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Papaver sominferum, true red
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Opium poppy, true red
The picture really doesn't do justice to the colour of this opium poppy, which is a true, rich red with a black centre. The seeds were gathered from a plant that appeared well after the other types in the garden had been and gone, so hopefully cross-pollination will have been… |
NCG 040
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Papaver somniferum, red, single
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Opium Poppy, red, single
Harvested from deep-coral-pink plants with a darker eye and occasional fringes, but although common varieties growing near these were removed as soon as identified, it cannot be guaranteed that all these seeds will breed true - however, a very reasonable proportion should do so. |
NCG 263
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Pelargonium 'Ardens' | |
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Ardens geranium
This delicate species pelargonium/geranium, which is a hybrid between P. lobatum and P. fulgidum, is very difficult to propagate and is therefore always in short supply. It has small, bright green leaves and clusters of small, rich vermillion flowers with a darker, almost black, splash on each petal. Like most… |
NCG 262
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Pelargonium sidoides
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Kalwerbossie geranium, Silverleaf geranium
This very dainty species pelargonium/geranium, which originates from Africa, has circular, crinkled, silver-grey-green, aromatic leaves about an inch across and clusters of small, deep magenta - almost black - flowers on fine, long, wiry stems. Like most pelargoniums, it is frost tender, but it will sit happily on a sunny… |
NCG 621
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Penstemon digitalis 'Huskers Red' | |
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Spikes of pretty, pinkish-white blooms contras beautifully with maroon-tinted foliage. Flowering over many months, this is a lovely addition to the garden! |
NCG 498
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Persicaria virginiana var. filiformis 'Lance Corporal'
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Virginia knotweed, Jumpseed 'Lance Corporal'
An interesting shrubby perennial with strong, v-shaped markings (looking rather like bats), which are dark brownish-red - sometimes almost black - on a bright green ground. In the autumn delicate spikes of bright-crimson flowers appear on thin, wiry stems. Although it is recommended to grow in part or full shade… |
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