Ferns
Three ferns of your choice for £12 (P&P is extra). It would help to nominate a reserve fern, just in case any of your first choice ferns runs out (but please state clearly that this is as an alternative, rather than a fourth plant ordered).
Primula sieboldii
Our ‘starter packs’ have proved to be popular in previous years. We offer three different named cultivars, chosen by us, for £20.00 including post and packaging. We will try to provide a good range of cultivar types. No more than 3 starter collections per order (ie nine different named cultivars), please.
Epimediums
Evergreen Chinese woodlander. Mauve and white spurred flowers. Plant in light shade, away from summer drought and winter waterlogging, but water in well in its first year.
Northern Maidenhair – Delicate, 20-40cm fronds with black stems, spread out into a fan-like circle. Hardy and easy to grow in moist, cool free draining environments in reasonable shade. Deciduous.
Ferns
Himalayan Maidenhair – Hardy deciduous fern, almost evergreen in mild areas, forming a mat of fronds up to 25cm. Moist, cool sites with plenty of shade.
Epimediums
E. grandiflorum var. thunbergianum cultivar from Japan. Pale rose pink flowers.
Primula sieboldii
Palest pink semi-double cultivar of Primula sieboldii. New to our collection in 2015. Our collection of semi-double sieboldii all exhibit a variable trait on the extent of the double-petalling. In good weather years the flowers will show the double nature. In poor weather seasons the flowers will often revert to single blooms for the year. [...]
Primula sieboldii
Small flowered, deep pink with white spots at the centre. Narrow, notched flat snowflake petals. Sourced from Japan, the name translates as “Red Dragonfly”. A very attractive Sakurasu which dates from the late 1800s.
Primula sieboldii
Blue backed and blue shaded white faced thrum. Slender, flat tending to grasp-blooming petals. A floribund and reliable Primula sieboldii cultivar, which dates from the early 1800s in Japan.
Primula sieboldii
Wave blooming, overlap petalled thrum. Pure white flowers. Tends to be lower growing that normal and one of the later cultivars to come into flower. One of our first cultivars, from Martin Nest Nurseries and a very neat and attractive Primula sieboldii.
Asiatic Primulas
Moonlight primula. Early summer flowering, pendant shaped flowers, ranging from white (alba), yellow (luna) through to purple (violacea). Flowers are sweetly perfumed.
Epimediums
Evergreen perennial, with new growth in early spring. Orange/yellow flowers over deep green leaves, in spring and early summer. Plant in light shade, away from summer drought and winter waterlogging, but water in well in its first year. Plant Breeder’s Rights apply