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ABROMEITIELLA BREVIFOLIA RCB RA-P-27

£4.50

Spreads to make large patches of small spiny grey-green rosettes 10cm diameter, short heads of very boring three petalled green flowers Apr-Jun. Dry cliffs in Rio Toro Valley, Salta province, Argentina, 2300m asl. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ABUTILON x MILLERI

£5.50

Apricot-orange bells with red veins on the outside from red calyces, several on long wiry stems from each leaf axil, (Apr)Jun-Oct(Dec), 2-3m. Hardy for me since 2002. Enjoys full shade on N.walls but also grows in full sun. Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

ABUTILON x MILLERI 'VARIEGATUM'

£10.50

Apricot-orange bells with red veins on the outside from red calyces, several on long wiry stems from each leaf axil, (Apr)Jun-Oct(Dec), bright cream-speckled variegated foliage, 2-3m. Enjoys full shade on N.walls but also grows in full sun. Photo.

ACANTHUS 'SUMMER BEAUTY'

£4.50

Broad glossy wonderfully figured foliage, white flowers from purple calyces, Jun-Aug, 70cm. Easy. Probably A.spinosus x A.mollis and set to become the norm. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ACANTHUS DIOSCORIDIS SMOOTH LEAF EDGE

£5.50

Dumpy spikes of huge red-pink flowers Jun-Aug, smooth-edged greyish leaves, 25cm. Sun and well-drained. Anatolia. Bobs Score=7.0.

ACANTHUS DIOSCORIDIS var.PERRINGII clone

£4.50

Dumpy spikes of huge intricate pink, white and grey-green flowers Jun-Aug, deeply toothed greyish leaves, 30cm. Sun and well-drained. More vigorous than clone 1. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ACANTHUS HUNGARICUS

£4.50

Distinctive dark green pinnatifid leaves, pale mauvey-green flowers Jul-Oct, 50cm. Easy. Clumper and has never self-seeded for me. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ACANTHUS MOLLIS 'HOLLARD'S GOLD'

£5.50

Beautiful broad shining golden yellow-green leaves, particularly between autumn and spring (and in summer in shady places). Mauve and white flower spikes Jun-Sep, 90cm. shade or half shade. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ACANTHUS SPINOSISSIMUS

£5.50

Spiny white variegated leaves, smart spikes of large purple, white and green hooded flowers Jun-Sep, 60cm. Completely herbaceous. Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

ACANTHUS SPINOSUS FERGUSONS' FORM

£4.50

Good, neat, floriferous and mildew-free. As the Fergusons said (somewhat enigmatically), "First find your clone". White flowers with purple bracts Jul-Oct, dark figured leaves more divided than normal, compact 65cm. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ACHILLEA 'MOONSHINE'

£4.50

Clear lemon yellow flowers May-Jul(Nov), good grey evergreen foliage, 60cm. Open sunny sites. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ACHILLEA 'MOONWALKER'

£4.50

Yellow flowers over unusually bright green foliage continuously reblooming May-Nov, 70 x 60cm. Bobs Score=6.5. Photo.

ACHILLEA 'PROSPERO'

£4.50

Like a cream flowered Achillea 'Moonshine'. Evergreen grey foliage and creamy yellow flowers May-Aug, 60cm. Sun. Bobs Score=7.0.

ACHILLEA 'RED VELVET'

£4.50

Broad heads of strong pure red flowers Jun-Sep that keep their colour (maybe darken to crimson) as they age, 60cm. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ACHILLEA 'ROSE MADDER'

£4.50

Lovely soft red flowers Jun-Jul keep their colour as they die and then (unusually) repeat flowers till Nov, short 55cm. Survives winter wet on clay soil better than most. No vices. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ACHILLEA 'WALTHER FUNCKE'

£4.50

Short fiery orange-red flowers over grey foliage Jun-Aug, 40cm. Easy even in dry shade when established. Hardier than A.Feuerland in wet winters and shorter. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ACHILLEA FILIPENDULINA 'GOLD PLATE'

£4.50

Flat gold flower heads Jun-Aug, 1.2m, feathery leaves. Sun, easy and very long-lived. Good for drying. Bobs Score=7.0.

ACHILLEA TOMENTOSA

£4.00

Flat heads of yellow flowers Jun-Aug, grey woolley foliage, 20cm.

ACIS NICAEENSIS

£4.50

Thought to be extinct in the wild. Pendent waxy white flowers from creamy yellow buds Apr-May, dark narrow foliage 15cm. Easy. Synonym Leucojum nicaeense. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ACIS TRICHOPHYLLA

£4.50

Lovely slender clusters of small pink-flushed flowers Feb-May, 25cm. Easy, different and fairly rare. Synonym Leucojum trichophyllum. Photo.

ACIS VALENTINA

£4.00

Pretty hanging dish-shaped white flowers 2-3 to a stem Feb-May (for St.Valentine's day), 25cm. Easy but uncommon. Synonym Leucojum valentinum.

ACONITUM 'CLOUDY'

£4.50

Violet and white flowers Aug-Oct, 80cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

ACONITUM 'SPARK'S VARIETY'

£4.50

Open airy heads of deep blue hooded flowers from dark stems Jun-Aug, 1m. A sunny open site is necessary or it will need informal support like an adjacent shrub. Easy. Bobs Score=7.5.

ACONITUM 'STAINLESS STEEL'

£4.50

Delightful grey-flushed pale blue flowers from grey-flushed stems May-Jul, sturdy and neat 75cm. Easy. Bobs Score=9.0.

ACONITUM ANGLICUM

£4.50

Blue flowers May-Jul, lovely soft winter foliage,60cm. Easy, tolerant of dry shade under trees. British native - monkshood. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII

£4.50

A healthy stocky plant of great value. Deep blue flowers Aug-Oct, dark green foliage, 60cm. Bobs Score=7.5.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'ARENDSII'

£4.50

Useful late season strong tall blue spires Sep-Oct, 125cm. Easy. Good foliage throughout the season. Bobs Score=8.0.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER ARROW'

£5.50

Young foliage yellow maturing to an attractive yellowish-green with greener edges, flowers deep blue Sep-Nov, short 40cm.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER DEE'

£5.50

Young foliage orange, matures an effective creamy yellow-green with a green edge, deep violet flowers Sep-Oct, short 35cm. Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER DEVON'

£5.50

Short blue flower heads Sep-Nov, 35cm, dark green foliage starts creamier.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER LUGG'

£5.50

The foliage is thick and when young golden yellow, greening-up later, flowers very deep blue Sep-Oct, short 40cm. Photo.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER LUNE'

£5.50

Pure blue flowers with paler throats Sep-Nov, good green foliage, 50cm. Photo.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER MEDWAY'

£5.50

Spidery pink foliage changes to pale green-edged pink and cream and matures green. Blue flowers with brownish crests Sep-Nov, short 55cm.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER NENE'

£5.50

Deep blue flowers Sep-Nov, short 35cm, foliage burnished green with darker green tips. Photo.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER OUSE'

£5.50

The young foliage is yellowish with leaves divided into 3. This greens-up later, deep blue flowers Sep-Nov, 1.3m. Photo.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER SEVERN'

£5.50

Young foliage bronze-yellow with red flush. Good deep blue flowers Sep-Nov, compact 50cm.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER SPEY'

£5.50

Red-backed golden-green juvenile foliage quickly ages green. Heads of blue flowers Sep-Nov 60cm.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'RIVER TEES'

£5.50

Deep purple flowers in neat heads from dark black-red stems Sep-Nov. Young foliage cut and purple-green, 65cm. Photo.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII 'ROYAL FLUSH'

£5.50

The leaves are deep red in spring but become green later, substantial deep blue flowers - a much darker and clearer blue than normal Sep-Oct, shorter than normal at 60cm. Good cut flower. Plant Variety Rights Europe - propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII ex NEPAL ex Kath D

£4.50

Pale to mid-blue flowers Aug-Nov, dark green leaves, short 65cm. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ACONITUM CARMICHAELII WILSONII GROUP 'SP

£4.50

Dreamy clear pale blue flowers shade darker at edges Jul-Oct, good foliage, 1.2m. Bobs Score=8.0.

ACONITUM FISCHERI

£4.50

Clear violet-blue spires of flowers Aug-Sep, compact and sturdy 60cm. Not hot dry sunny places.

ACONITUM INCISOFIDUM

£5.50

Violet-blue flowers Aug-Oct, feathery deep green foliage 40cm. Abies forests; 3700--4000 m. SW Sichuan (Daocheng Xian), NW Yunnan (Zhongdian Xian).

ACONITUM KRYLOVII

£5.50

Short spikes of yellowish-cream 25mm wide flowers, 60cm. Native to Altai Mtns.Siberia, 7000 feet altitude. Photo.

ACONITUM LYCOCTONUM 'DARKEYES'

£4.50

Primrose-yellow flowers with black stamens from dark stems (and darker leaves than normal) Jun-Aug, 75cm. Easy. Developed from a mutant shoot here. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ACONITUM VARIEGATUM subsp.PANICULATUM

£5.50

Good airy heads of bright blue flowers Jul-Oct, tall 1.5m. Very nice and rare. Synonym A.paniculatum. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ACONITUM x CAMMARUM 'ELEANORA'

£5.50

Delightful in leaf, bud, flower and seed! Pure white flowers with violet tips from greenish-white buds in elegant sprays, glossy divided foliage, 55cm. Bobs Score=9.5.

ACTAEA MATSUMURAE 'WHITE PEARL'

£4.50

Scented white flowers from pearl-like buds Aug-Oct, 1.2m. Shade and not very limy soils.

ACTAEA SIMPLEX 'BLACK NÉGLIGÉE'

£6.50

Decorative black foliage, spikes of white scented flowers Jul-Sep, 90cm. Bobs Score=8.0.

ACTAEA SIMPLEX 'BRUNETTE'

£6.50

Very dark black-purple leaves and spikes of scented white flowers Jul-Sep, 120cm. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ACTAEA SIMPLEX 'PINK SPIKE'

£6.50

Black foliage, pink flowers Jul-Sep, 75cm. Photo.

ACTAEA SIMPLEX variegated

£15.50

Pretty and very striking cream-marked foliage, scented creamy-white flowers in tall branched spikes Aug-Sep, 80cm. Part shade, not dry soil. Robust. Photo.

ADENOPHORA BULLEYANA

£4.50

Tall stately spikes of blue bell flowers Jun-Aug(Sep), 1.6m. Easy even dry shade. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ADENOPHORA PERESKIIFOLIA

£4.50

Spires of blue flowers from a mound of foliage Jun-Oct, 80cm. Easy and persistent in bad conditions. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ADIANTUM PEDATUM 'IMBRICATUM'

£5.50

Hardy stalked maidenhair fern with black rhachis and imbricated fronds (each part overlapped like the tiles on a roof), compact 25cm. Good soil, shade. Bobs Score=8.0.

ADIANTUM VENUSTUM

£5.50

Open airy fronds 20cm, hardy. Shaded site not too damp. Maidenhair fern. The foliage is more or less evergreen. Bobs Score=6.5.

ADONIS AMURENSIS

£5.50

Pretty very early large yellow flowers nestling in soft ferny leaves Jan-Mar, 20cm. Good soil (not highly alkaline). Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ADONIS MULTIFLORA 'SANDANZAKI'

£8.50

Large winter flowers which are double and greeny-yellow Feb-Apr nestling in ferny foliage, 20cm. Light leafy acid soil under deciduous trees. Slightly later into flower than the straight species. Synonym A.amurensis FP. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

AEONIUM ARBOREUM 'ZWARTKOP'

£5.50

Vowel-rich large flat rosettes of near black succulent leaves - very good architectural plant for standing out in summer, heads of yellow flowers late summer, 40cm. Tender perennial, sun. Take out the eye with a sharp knife to keep it bushy. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

AEONIUM DECORUM 'VARIEGATUM'

£5.50

Striking coral-edged succulent cream rosettes, nice cream flowers at some time Jun-Nov, 20cm. Tender but mine sits outside from Mar-Nov then goes into windowsill mode. Good in winter. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AEONIUM TABULIFORME

£4.50

Fleshy flat green rosettes, yellow flowers May-Aug, 25cm x 25cm. Tender, Canaries.

AESCULUS x NEGLECTA 'ERYTHROBLASTOS'

£12.50

Shrimp pink leaves in spring, pale even greyish green in summer, bushy 2-3m. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'BLACK PANTHA'

£6.50

Black-purple flowers from dark stems Jul-Sep, evergreen foliage 60cm. PVR in Europe - unlicensed propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=9.5. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'BLUE MOON'

£6.50

Dense round heads of large pale grey-blue flowers on stocky upright stems Jul-Aug, deciduous, 1.1m. Hardy. Lovely. An Eric Smith hybrid. Guaranteed to turn me to song. Bobs Score=9.5. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'BLUE MOON' seedlings

£5.50

The seed parent has dense round heads of large pale grey-blue flowers on stocky upright stems Jul-Aug, 85cm. Hardy. With such a good mother who knows what the progeny will be like?

AGAPANTHUS 'ED CARMAN'

£12.50

Broad bright variegated foliage in golden-yellow and chartreuse, large full heads of white flowers Aug-Oct, relatively short 55cm. Bobs Score=9.5. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'ESSENCE OF SUMMER'

£5.50

Large heads of blue flowers with darker midstripes on relatively short stems, relatively early Jun-Aug, 60cm. Very very hardy. Seed from Kirstenbosch BG as A.inapertus subsp.intermedius via Witton Lane Seed, Somewhere along the line it hybridized. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'FLORE PLENO'

£6.50

Chunky double powder-blue flowers Jul-Sep, good foliage, 50cm. Very nice. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'JACK'S BLUE'

£6.50

This is the one everyone comments on. Prolific deep purple-blue flowers Jul-Oct, tall and straight - 1.2m. A beauty. Hardy. Agapanthus get better year on year. Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'MAY SNOW'

£10.50

The spring foliage is almost white - darkening later. Tall heads of pure blue flowers Jul-Sep, 1m. Hybrid seedling from A.caulescens subsp.angustifolia. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'MEIBONT'

£6.50

Leaves with ugly cream variegated leaf tips, very good dark blue flowers Jul-Sep, deciduous, 90cm. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'NAVY BLUE'

£6.50

The most asked for agapanthus. Dark blue bells in clusters break from a black spathe Jul-Sep, leaves 25cm, flowers 60cm. Easy in sunny sites. Deciduous. Hardy. Bobs Score=10.0.

AGAPANTHUS 'PURPLE CLOUD'

£6.50

Superb deep black-purple flower heads Aug-Sep, 80cm. A hardy inapertus hybrid tough enough to survive -17C here. Bobs Score=8.5.

AGAPANTHUS 'TIMARU'

£6.50

Dense floriferous heads of vivid blue are produced in succession on many stems Jul-Oct, 75cm. A NZ hybrid and very cold hardy. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'TORNADO'

£6.50

Rich blue flowers Jul-Sep, 80cm. One of the best recent introductions.

AGAPANTHUS 'WHITE HEAVEN'

£6.50

Very large heads of exquisite pure white many petalled flowers - up to 80 per head Aug-Sep, compact 85cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited. Hardy. Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS 'WHITE TRIUMPHATOR' seedlings

£5.50

Large tall heads of white flowers Jul-Sep, 1.3m. Hardy, sun, deciduous. Bobs Score=7.5.

AGAPANTHUS 'WINDSOR GREY'

£6.50

Large heads of grey flowers with grey anthers and green pollen, fade slightly pink Jul-Sep, 85cm. The pedicels are dusky green. Easy. Deciduous and very tough. Lovely. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS ARDERNEI HYBRID

£6.50

Prolific heads of lovely white trumpets with brownish pedicels Jul-Oct, 60cm. Deciduous. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS CAULESCENS subsp.ANGUSTIFOLIU

£6.50

VERY tall straight stems, deep blue flowers Jul-Sep, 2m. Hardy, deciduous. Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS CAULESCENS subsp.ANGUSTIFOLIU

£5.50

Very large heads of deep dark blue flowers on very tall straight stems Jul-Sep, leek-like leaves forming pseudo-stems, 2.3m. Hardy, deciduous. Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS CODDII

£6.50

Large heads of soft blue flowers with darker blue stripes Jul-Aug, attractive upright foliage 1.3m. Deciduous, hardy. Very good and easy. Bobs Score=9.5. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS from BIRR

£5.50

Seedlings from deciduous forms at Birr Castle, Co.Offally. Blue and purple flowers - more sturdy than normal Jul-Sep, 1m. Hardy. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS HEADBOURNE HYBRIDS

£5.50

Exotic clusters of bells in shades of blue, 60-90cm. Sunny site. Easy. Bobs Score=7.0.

AGAPANTHUS INAPERTUS

£8.50

Heads of pendant deep blue tubular flowers Jul-Sep, 1.5m. Always upright even in shade. Very hardy, deciduous. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS INAPERTUS subsp.HOLLANDII

£6.50

Long tubular blue flowers Jul-Sep, 1.5m, upright even in semi-shade. Tolerant of hot dry sites. Bobs Score=8.5.

AGAPANTHUS PRAECOX 'VITTATUS'

£12.50

Effective creamy variegated leaves and heads of clear blue flowers on short stems Jul-Sep, 35cm. Hardy-ish and lovely in pots. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS PRAECOX subsp.MINIMUS

£6.50

Blue flowers with bluer stripes in large heads Jul-Sep, 1m. Floriferous and evergreen. Hardy to -10C. Easy in sunny sites. Photo.

AGAPANTHUS seedlings from 'MIDNIGHT STAR

£4.50

The seed parent has starry deep blue flowers in large dense heads from dark black-blue buds, Jul-Oct, leaves 25cm, flowers 75cm. Hardy.

AGASTACHE MEXICANA 'RED FORTUNE'

£4.50

Deep pink flowers from beige-ish calyces Jul-Sep(Oct), 65cm. Lovely. Sun and well-drained soil. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

AGAVE 'CORNELIUS'

£18.50

Thick, wavy blue-green leaves are highlighted by a 2" wide golden border, short 45cm. Not a form of Agave americana. Synonyms: 'Quasimodo', 'Incurva Marginata', and 'Marginata Aurea Monstrosa'. Rare, slow, few offsets. Photo.

AGAVE AMERICANA 'AUREOVARIEGATA'

£5.50

Spiny succulent rosettes of leaves with broad yellow edges, 75cm eventually. Will take frost to -4C. Synonym A.americana 'Marginata'. Bobs Score=7.0.

AGAVE AMERICANA 'MEDIOPICTA ALBA'

£8.50

Makes a wonderful feature pot plant. Hardy to -7C. Central variegation of greyed cream. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AGAVE AMERICANA 'MEDIOPICTA AUREA'

£8.50

Central glowing yellow variegation on each leaf, 55cm. Photo.

AGAVE BOLDINGHIANA

£5.50

Hardy to at least -9C and probably lower. Medium-sized dark rosettes with brown teeth. The flower spikes come out of the leaf axils and later centrally giving flower for about 8 months. The rosettes are not apparently monocarpic. Mexico. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AGAVE CHRYSANTHA 'BLACK CANYON'

£5.50

Usually grows as a single rosette - offsets are rare. Relatively narrow glaucous blue-grey leaves 60cm. Hardy to -14C. Arizona. Nice. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

AGAVE DESERTI NNS 03-7

£5.50

Neat 50cm high rounded spiny plants sometimes in clusters and 5m spires of yellow feathery flowers. Hardy strain from 1250m.high Riverside Co.CA. Hardy to -16C in Badsey. Suffered but not dead at -17C. Bobs Score=7.5.

AGAVE HAVARDIANA DJH 1326

£5.50

Wet and cold hardy to at least -18C. Single blue-green rosettes of broad leaves 50 x 50cm. This collection from 5000ft.altitude Davis Mountains, Texas. Photographed with hoar frost at -12C in the field at Badsey. Bobs Score=8.0.

AGAVE LOPHANTHA CLONE 1

£5.50

Ferocious-looking rosettes of dark bluey green spiny leaves (not as brutal as it looks), orange teeth-like prickles, small 55cm. Each caniculate leaf has a median pale green band. Hardy to -6C. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

AGAVE LOPHANTHA CLONE 2

£5.50

A spherical plant paler than other clones, neat 55cm. Spathulate flat foliage with short white marginal hooks. Each leaf usually has a median chartreuse-green band. Smart. Hardy to -6C. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA 'JULIA ANN'

£4.50

A prettily white-variegated form of bent grass which will cascade out of a pot or hanging basket in a most attractive way, 25cm. Piebald effects when introduced to lawns. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AJUGA REPTANS 'CHOCOLATE CHIP'

£4.00

Miniature form with small spathulate black-purple to dark green leaves make an interesting ground cover, blue flowers May-Jun, compact plant 10cm. Synonym A.reptans 'Valfredda'. Photo.

x ALCALTHAEA 'PARKALLEÉ'

£5.50

Hollyhocks without rust! Lovely satiny yellow-cream semi-double flowers (this varies within the season), dark maroon stamens, sterile and therefore over a long period Jun-Nov (and particularly good Oct-Nov), grey-green leaves, 1.2m. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ALLIUM 'FORELOCK'

£4.50

Rounded purple-black flower head May-Jul age black, nice flat keeled grey-green foliage, tall 2m. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ALLIUM 'GLOBEMASTER'

£5.50

Very large mauve-purple flowers May-Jul (a longer period than most alliums), 1.3m. A.macleanii x A.cristophii. The flowers continue to grow out and cover the faded flowers, the flower head enlarging as a result. Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

ALLIUM 'MERCURIUS'

£4.50

Large lilac-blue balls of flower at least 10cm.wide Apr-Jun, 65cm. PVR applied for - propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ALLIUM 'SILVER SPRING'

£4.50

Dramatic (and pretty) sweetly scented white flowers with rose-pink and black centres May-Jun, keeled bluish foliage, 90cm. Easy. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ALLIUM AFLATUNENSE 'PURPLE SENSATION' sp

£4.50

Selected for size and depth of colour. Large deep purple balls of flowers from deep violet stems, May-Jul, 1.3m. Easy. Ever wondered about the name? Dig, clean and eat one, wait an hour and you'll understand. 3 in a pot. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ALLIUM ALTISSIMUM 'GOLIATH'

£4.50

Very large round lilac-purple flower heads 15cm wide on stems up to 1.75m.high May-Jun. Easy. Originally from Alma Ata BG in 1965. Bobs Score=8.5.

ALLIUM CRISTOPHII

£4.50

Large heads of metallic mauve flowers May-Jul 20cm wide or more, dries well, 40cm. high. Easy except in poor sandy soil. 3 in a pot. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ALLIUM CYATHOPHORUM var.FARRERI

£4.50

Nodding deep violet flowers May-Jul, 15cm. Any soil, sun or light shade. Robust, non-seeding kind. Bobs Score=7.0.

ALLIUM HOOKERI ACE 2430

£4.50

Creamy-yellow flowers Sep-Oct, 45cm. Seed collected Cangshan Mtns, banks and slopes, 3500-3650m. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ALLIUM LENKORANICUM

£4.50

Umbels of buff bell flowers Aug-Oct, grey terete foliage, 25cm.

ALLIUM OCHOTENSE

£4.50

Thick broad green slightly pleated foliage, neat greyish-green-white flower heads with pink pedicels May-Jun, 25cm. Europe, Asia to NW N.America. Forests, dormant in summer. Collected from the wild in Japan. (Synonym A.victorialis var.platyphyllum.) Photo.

ALLIUM OVALIFOLIUM var.LEUCONEURUM

£6.50

Broad (8cm.wide) shapely foliage lined with white (and purple when young), spherical heads of white-petalled flowers from pink pedicels Jun-Aug, 20cm. From 2800m.altitude, China. Rare and demand is high. Photo.

ALLIUM PARADOXUM var.NORMALE

£4.50

Charming large white campanulate flowers for a long season and very early in the year Feb-May, 12cm. A lovely new addition to the late winter/spring garden. Hardy. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ALLIUM PSKEMENSE

£4.50

Round heads of green-white flowers Jun-Aug, pneumatic stems, 85cm. Originally collected Uzbekistan, Pskem range, Akbulak valley by Jim Archibald. Could this be identical to Allium cepa white-flowered form?

ALLIUM SCHUBERTII

£4.50

The most dramatic large purple flower heads (good dried) May-Jul, 50cm. Usefully enjoys the protection of deciduous trees overwinter and the dryness they cause in summer. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ALLIUM SENESCENS var.GLAUCUM

£4.50

Lovely leaves in grey swirls still good at anthesis, mauve flowers Jul-Sep, 25cm. Easy, good for butterflies and bees. Bobs Score=8.0.

ALLIUM SPHAEROCEPHALON

£4.50

Burgundy and green flowers in an egg-shaped head Jul-Aug, 90cm. Any soil, sun or light shade. Loved by bees and butterflies, and me. 9 in a pot. Bobs Score=9.0.

ALLIUM STIPITATUM 'VIOLET BEAUTY'

£4.50

Large half round blue-violet heads May-Jun, 55cm. Easy. Bobs Score=7.5.

ALLIUM SUBVILLOSUM

£4.50

Full pots. Heads of very pure white flowers May-Jun, 40cm. Easy. Spain. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ALLIUM THUNBERGII 'OZAWA'

£4.50

Neat cheering bright purple flowers at a good time of the year Sep-Nov, 20cm. Easy. Synonym A.thunbergii 'Nanum'. Very special. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ALLIUM TUBEROSUM

£4.50

Tidy white flower heads over a long season at a useful time Jul-Nov, scented, 55cm. Easy. Lovely, the leaves are edible and give salads a distinctive and good flavour. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ALLIUM VALIDUM NNS 06-41

£4.50

Flat heads of larger than normal pinkish purple flowers May-Jun, 45cm. Easy. Swamp onion. Western N.America.

ALLIUM WALLICHII black flowers

£5.50

Black-purple flowers with green middles Jul-Aug and later, 40cm. Leaves good at anthesis. Photo.

ALLIUM ZAPRJAGAJEVII

£4.50

Purple spherical flowers in hard 4.5cm wide heads May-Jun, narrow leek-like foliage, 60cm. Tazakstan. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ALOCASIA WENTII

£15.50

Tight clumps of heavily veined glossy bronze-green leaves with purple reverses 30 x 20cm, From the highlands of New Guinea - it should be hardy in UK. Described in 1916 but rare in cultivation.

ALOE STRIATULA

£5.50

Hardy exotic-looking succulent. Candelabra-branched heads of dark green tipped golden-green flowers with exserted orange stamens May-Jul, 60cm-1.5m. Easy. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ALSTROEMERIA 'DANDY CANDY'

£6.50

Large vibrant red, deep rose and white picotee flowers Jun-Sep(Oct), compact 45cm. Good for picking. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ALSTROEMERIA 'FREEDOM'

£6.50

Tall heads of soft rose-madder flowers with a touch of peach (RHS 53D) a bold white pattern and carmine speckles. Reblooms Jun-Oct, 60cm. From the breeding program of Mark Bridgen at the University of Connecticut. Hardy. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ALSTROEMERIA 'MAUVE MAJESTY'

£6.50

Purple-mauve flowers with cream throats Jun-Oct, 60cm. Good cut flower. Bred for hardiness at Cornell University by Dr.Mark Bridgen.

ALSTROEMERIA 'SWEET LAURA'

£6.50

Faintly scented narrow-petalled apricot flowers with maroon flushed backs, Jul-Oct, 50cm. Vigorous and very hardy. Patented in USA and Europe - propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ALSTROEMERIA BRASILIENSIS

£5.50

Sounds tender but it is hardy. Large maroon-pink and green flowers Jun-Nov, 60cm. Likes good soil in shade. Bobs Score=7.0.

ALSTROEMERIA MAGNIFICA subsp.MAXIMA JCA

£5.50

Very large flattish lilac flowers with deep green tips and maroon markings on the upper petals Jul-Oct, 50cm. Probably hardy. Seed collected Chile, Pichidanangui. Photo.

ALSTROEMERIA PSITTACINA 'MONA LISA'

£5.50

Heads of delicately marked green and red flowers Jul-Sep, 55cm - half the height of variegated A.psittacina 'Royal Star'. Photo.

ALSTROEMERIA PSITTACINA 'ROYAL STAR'

£5.50

Formerly sold as Alstroemeria psittacina variegated. Sharp white-variegated dark green leaves, red and green flowers Aug-Nov(Dec), 1m (taller than the unvariegated kind normally available). Good moistish acid to only mildly alkaline soil in half shade. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ALTHAEA ARMENIACA

£4.50

(Formerly sold as A.cannabina.) Tall airy see-through perennial with sprays of small rose pink dark-eyed mallow flowers Jul-Nov, cannabis-shaped foliage (not that I'd know), 1-2m. Easy, no rust problems. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

x AMARCRINUM 'DOROTHY HANIBAL'

£8.50

Amaryllis belladonna x Crinum moorei. Stout heads 5-7 creamy flushed deep pink scented flowers Aug-Nov, 85cm. Hardy. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

x AMARINE TUBERGENII 'ZWANENBURG'

£6.50

Nerine bowdenii x Amaryllis belladonna - both hardy and a good reliable autumn flower. Heads of elegant deep pink flowers Sep-Nov, 60cm. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

x AMARYGIA PARKERI 'ALBA'

£8.50

Loose umbels of up to 12 large trumpet-shaped sparkling white flowers on tall 1m. stems Jun-Aug before leafing. Robust bulbous perennial Amaryllis belladonna x Brunsvigia. More or less hardy (like Amaryllis belladonna). Rare. Bobs Score=8.0.

AMARYLLIS BELLADONNA

£6.50

Astonishing soft sugary pink trumpets Aug-Sep, 75cm. Plant against a SW wall (which should be warm and wet). Probably a named variety but name unknown. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

AMARYLLIS BELLADONNA 'JOHANNESBURG'

£8.50

A free-flowering form, rose-pink flowers with a white throat and a yellowish base Aug-Oct, 70cm. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

AMARYLLIS BELLADONNA 'PURPUREA'

£8.50

Hardy. Heads of trumpet-shaped deep purple-pink flowers from stout stems Aug-Sep, foliage overwinter 75cm. Sunny site with no other plants crowding in.

AMICIA ZYGOMERIS

£6.50

Behaves as a hardy herbaceous perennial in my field. Foliage plant with dramatic leaflets notched and enclosed by pairs of large purple-veined glaucous green stipules, clusters of relatively large pale golden-yellow pea flowers Aug-Nov, 1.5m. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

AMICIA ZYGOMERIS VARIEGATED

£8.50

Yellow sectoral and splashed variegated foliage contrasts badly with the prominent decorative pink stipules, yellow pea flowers Sep-Dec, 1m in UK where it is herbaceous. Spotted by John at Westacre.

AMORPHOPHALLUS ALBUS

£6.50

Upstanding white spathe with a fat yellow spadix May-Jul, followed by pinnately divided green foliage, 75cm. Hardy Z7b-10 (but needs a hot summer). Easier in a pot.

AMORPHOPHALLUS KERRII A-103 (Chen Yi)

£10.50

Leopard palm. Impressive short chrome-yellow spathes with fat out-of-proportion spadices from slender stems Jun-Jul, large bipinnate/pedate foliage, 65cm. Needs as much summer warmth as possible, keep the tuber frost-free in winter.

AMORPHOPHALLUS SP. A-102 (Chen Yi)

£6.50

Dark red flowers Jun-Jul, superb tall branched foliage with spotted stems the base of which is turquoise, 1m or more. Photo.

AMPELODESMOS MAURITANICA

£5.50

A very large graceful evergreen grass with persistent graceful tan flower heads which flower early Apr-Jun and look good for 11 months, foliage 1m flowers 2.5m. Very effective at the end of a long hard winter. N.Africa. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

AMSONIA TABERNAEMONTANA

£4.50

Slatey blue flowers May-Jul (in my variety from dark indigo pedicels), narrow leaves - good yellow in autumn, 75cm. Easy, even in limy clay and a very long-lived trouble-free perennial. Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

ANDROPOGON SCOPARIUS 'PRAIRIE BLUES'

£4.50

Tufted blue-green grass turns purple-red in autumn, 65cm. (Little bluestem.) Synonym Schizachyrium scoparium. Photo.

ANEMARRHENA ASPHODELOIDES

£4.50

Medicinal herb from N.China. Spikes of tiny scented purple flowers Aug-Oct, 60cm. Deciduous, hardy. Bobs Score=2.5.

ANEMONE BLANDA 'WHITE SPLENDOUR' unbroke

£4.00

Splendid large white daisy-like flowers Mar-May, 20cm. Even happy in dry shade. Will self seed when established. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ANEMONE HUPEHENSIS 'OUVERTURE'

£4.50

Lilac-pink flowers Jul-Sep (earlier than normal), 1.3m. Easy.

ANEMONE HUPEHENSIS 'ROTKÄPPCHEN'

£4.50

Short deep dusky red-pink many-petalled flowers Aug-Oct, 45cm. Easy. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ANEMONE NEMOROSA 'GIGANTEA RUBRA'

£4.50

An old Danish cultivar?

ANEMONE NEMOROSA 'HAKUMANE SENJUIZAKI'

£4.50


ANEMONE NEMOROSA 'KNIGHTSHAYES VESTAL'

£4.50

Large pure white button-centred wood anemone with a ring of yellow stamens (Mar)Apr-May, 15cm. Easy, even dry shade when established and lovely in lawns or interplanted. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ANEMONE NEMOROSA 'ROBINSONIANA'

£4.50

A wood anemone with large lilac flowers Apr-May, 20cm, Easy, even dry shade. This is a famously good and robust plant and very stable. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ANEMONE PAVONINA

£4.50

Full red, pink or soft purple flowers Apr-May, 25cm. Avoid winter wet sites and very cold sites but otherwise easy. Native France to Turkey. Photo.

ANEMONE RANUNCULOIDES 'FRANK WALEY'

£4.50

This form has larger than normal flowers and is more robust. Pretty single mid-yellow flowers on a wood-anemone-like plant Mar-May, 15cm. Easy even dry shade under trees. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ANEMONE RANUNCULOIDES 'LACINIATA'

£4.50

Yellow nodding flowers Mar-May, pretty cut foliage with red midribs and sinuses, 10cm. Easy. Photo.

ANEMONE SP.NOV.

£4.50

Rhizomatous, late into growth. White, purple-backed flowers, young leaves dark black-purple but quickly fade. Height 40cm. Moist, sun. Collected by Chris Brickell, China. Photo.

ANEMONE STOLONIFERA double-flowered

£4.00

The flowers are like Anemonella thalictroides but it spreads slowly. Small double white flowers over a long period May-Nov but not continuously, 20cm. Rare. Was wrongly called Anemone trifolia semi-plena. Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

ANEMONE SYLVESTRIS 'MACRANTHA'

£4.50

Large white flowers May-Jun 30cm. Easy half shade, good seed heads. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ANEMONE TRIFOLIA

£4.00

Smart up-facing large white flowers on a slightly spreading plant Apr-May, 12cm. Easy. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ANEMONE x HYBRIDA 'ANDREA ATKINSON'

£4.50

Big single white flowers Aug-Oct, 80cm, robust constitution. An improvement on 'Honorine Joubert'. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ANEMONE x HYBRIDA 'LADY GILMOUR'/'CRISPA

£4.50

Large semi-double pink flowers Aug-Oct but the main attraction is the crisped lettuce-like green leaves May-Nov, 50cm. Puts pay to the phrase, "With fronds like these who needs anemones". Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ANEMONE x HYBRIDA 'QUEEN CHARLOTTE'

£4.50

The true variety. Very large soft semi-double pink flowers with deeper pink bleeding Sep-Nov, 1m. Easy but not dry shade. Bobs Score=9.5. Photo.

ANEMONE x HYBRIDA 'WHIRLWIND'

£4.50

Lovely semi-double white japanese anemone (Aug)Sep-Oct, vigorous, 70cm. Easy, sun or shade. USA 1887. Japanese anemones do not spread in clay. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ANEMONE x LIPSIENSIS 'VINDOBONENSIS'

£4.50

Large creamy flowers the size and shape of good wood anemones Apr-Jun, 15cm, Easy, even dry shade. Identical to other A.x lipsiensis? Photo.

ANEMONELLA THALICTROIDES 'BETTY BLAKE'

£8.50

Sprays of sweet evenly double pale green flowers Mar-Jun, pretty foliage 15cm. Used to be called, "Double Green". It's proved to be an amazingly good garden plant. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ANEMONELLA THALICTROIDES 'DIAMANTE'

£8.50

Perfect bright white flowers Mar-May, 18cm. Vigorous. Shade or part shade. Photo.

ANEMONELLA THALICTROIDES CAMEO

£8.50

Large single pink flowers of great beauty Mar-May and later, lovely soft pink young growth, 15cm. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ANEMOPSIS CALIFORNICA

£5.50

Persistent striking white cone flower heads (white bracts, flowers in a cone) Jun-Aug over deep dusky green foliage, 25cm. Photo.

ANGELICA 'EBONY'

£4.50

Purple-black foliage, intricate purple flower heads May-Jul, 75cm. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ANGELICA GIGAS

£4.50

Domed beetroot red flower heads Jun-Aug, 1.4m. Self-seeding biennial. Very limy soils (which are quite unusual in UK) make the leaves an unattractive yellow-green. Needs a pale backdrop. Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

ANISODONTEA 'EL ROYO'

£5.50

Hardy. Broad saucer-shaped deep slightly orangey-pink flowers particularly in autumn and winter (May)Jul-Nov(Mar), airy 1-2m. Just about flowered through the nasty cold winter 2008-9. Bobs Score=9.0.

ANTHEMIS 'TINPENNY SPARKLE'

£4.50

Greyish divided foliage and relatively large pale creamy-white daisy flowers Jun-Jul, 60cm. An interspecific hybrid from Elaine Horton. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ANTHEMIS MARSCHALLIANA

£4.50

Neat. Nice divided grey-white foliage, neat yellow flowers on relatively long stems Jul-Sep, herbaceous, 30cm. Sun. Synonym A.rudolphiana. Photo.

ANTHEMIS TINCTORIA 'CHARME'

£4.50

Short-rayed button flowers densely studding a compact plant May-Jul, 60cm. Easy in hungry soils (likely to be short-lived on rich ones). PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

ANTHEMIS TINCTORIA 'E.C.BUXTON'

£4.50

Superb acid-yellow flowers, Jun-Aug, 45cm. Sun or half shade. Easy. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ANTHEMIS TINCTORIA 'SAUCE HOLLANDAISE'

£4.50

Creamy yellow daisies Jun-Aug, bushy shape 60cm. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

APIOS AMERICANA

£5.50

Dense clusters of violet-scented flared beige and chocolate-maroon pea flowers Aug-Sep from the leaf axils, 2-3m. The tubers used as a source of starch by Native Americans. Easy herbaceous perennial climber for semi-shade or sun. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

AQUILEGIA BREVISTYLA x VIRIDIFLORA 'FRUI

£4.50

Small puce and red-brown flowers with short spurs late winter and spring (Jan)Feb-May (even Feb 2009!), pretty purple-flushed edges to foliage 35cm. Long-lived plant. Photo.

AQUILEGIA VIRIDIFLORA

£4.50

Green and chocolate flowers May-Jun, neat 30cm, very pretty leaves. Easy. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

AQUILEGIA VULGARIS 'POM POM CRIMSON'

£4.50

The (isolated) parent has smart rounded fully-double strong clean maroon flowers with white centres May-Jul, 70cm. Lovely. Easy. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

AQUILEGIA VULGARIS double pale blue

£4.50

Lovely and very long-lived. Tight soft double powder-blue and greeny-cream flowers set off with stellate creamy-green sepals May-Jun, 50cm. May be A.'Debutante'. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

AQUILEGIA VULGARIS var.FLORE PLENO black

£4.50

Good very dark double flowers with spirally arranged florets Apr-Jun, 85cm. Easy, robust and very perennial. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

AQUILEGIA VULGARIS var.STELLATA 'GREENAP

£4.50

Double whitish green flowers with complimentary foliage May-Jul, 60cm. Easy, nice and persistent. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ARABIS BLEPHAROPHYLLA 'FRÜHLINGSZAUBER'

£4.00

Sells on sight! Deep purple-pink flowers on a tumpy plant, Mar-Jul, 20 x 30cm. Easy in sun or part shade. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ARAIOSTEGIA HYMENOPHYLLOIDES

£8.50

A delightful fern with small intricately divided 4-pinnate fronds and mounding (not creeping) hares-feet, 25cm. Seems hardy. Mountainous N.Borneo (Sabah), Phillipines. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ARAUJIA SERICIFERA

£6.50

Relentless bowers of pink highly scented flowers Jun-Sep in clusters, wavy-leafed grey-green twiner, 4-6m. Notorious because the flowers temporarily hold on to moth tongues (cruel plant). Frost hardy only (survives outdoors in W.Britain). Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

ARISAEMA aff.CILIATUM

£4.50

Like A.ciliatum but the spathe has no cilia.

ARISAEMA CANDIDISSIMUM

£8.50

Hardy scented cream and pink arum flowers Jun-Jul, 45cm, tropical-looking trifoliate leaves Jul-Sep, 55cm. Half shade. The flowers scent a room and last longer if picked. Happy even in my very alkaline clay. Like teenagers it's late to come out of bed. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ARISAEMA CANDIDISSIMUM var.ALBUM

£15.50

Sweetly scented white flowers with green flushed bases Jun-Jul, large tropical-looking trifoliate leaves 55cm (maybe shorter when younger). Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ARISAEMA CANDIDISSIMUM Yunnan Form

£10.50

Sweetly scented puce striped white flowers with green flushed bases Jun-Jul, large tropical-looking trifoliate leaves 55cm (maybe shorter when younger).

ARISAEMA CILIATUM var.LIUBAENSE

£6.50

Clean brown and white striped arum flowers Jun-Jul, enormous decorative parasol leaves (which get bigger year by year), lovely mottled shoots, late appearer, ultimately 1.2m. Rich shade. Hardy and happy in my very alkaline clay. Bobs Score=8.0.

ARISAEMA CONSANGUINEUM

£6.50

Attractive palmately divided leaves. Green and brown spathes with white stripes Jun-Jul, 75cm. or larger when happy. Hardy and happy outside in shade in good soil. Photo.

ARISAEMA CONSANGUINEUM VARIEGATED

£10.50

Each one of the many palmate leaflets has a central silvery band - very striking, green and white striped flowers Jun-Aug, 70cm. Good soil in shade. Yunnan Photo.

ARISAEMA FARGESII

£10.50

Large dark brown-red or red flowers with dramatic white striping. The tip of the spathe ends in a narrow, congested mass of red thread May-Jun. Large trifoliate leaves (like A. candidissimum), 50cm. Photo.

ARISAEMA PROPRINQUUM

£5.50

Similar looking to Arisaema griffithii but much better because it persists after flowering with its tropical-looking foliage quite an adornment.

ARISAEMA TORTUOSUM CC 1760

£6.50

Green-rimmed white arum flowers Jun-Jul, elegant leaves from extraordinary spotted pale green stems which develop and persist after the flowers and are almost as good, 60cm. Robust grower, good woodland soil. Syn.A.helleborifolium.

ARISARUM VULGARE var.TYPICUM

£4.50

Snake going down the hole. Small gently marked greyish-green foliage Oct-Mar, brown striped white flowers with a green and brown hood, spadix long, exserted and golden Oct-Jan, wintergreen, 12cm. Bobs Score=6.5. Photo.

ARISTEA ECKLONII

£4.50

Deep strong blue flowers in clusters Jun-Jul, dark leaves, clumping, 60cm. Hardy for me. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ARMERIA 'VESUVIUS'

£4.00

Deep pink pom pom flowers May-Aug, purple-black foliage 15cm.

ARTEMISIA 'POWIS CASTLE'

£4.50

Useful silver-leaved shrub to 75cm, more or less evergreen, no flowers. Any soil, sun or half shade. Bobs Score=7.0.

ARTEMISIA ALBA 'CANESCENS'

£4.50

Soft grey bottlebrushes, 60cm x 70cm. Easy in sunny site. Unlike some other artemisias this remains neat and shapely for its whole (long) life. Bobs Score=7.0.

ARTEMISIA LACTIFLORA 'GUIZHOU'

£4.50

Striking cut maroon and pewter leaves winter and spring, silvery flowers Jul-Sep, 1m. Sun or part shade, not dry soil. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ARUM CONCINNATUM variegated

£6.50

Mid green leaves with pale green diagonal markings, yellow spathes, 25cm. Easy.

ARUM CRETICUM 'KARPATHOS' (FCC form)

£6.50

Orangeade-scented deep yellow flowers with reflexed spathe Apr-May, 40cm. Very hardy. A wonderful cut flower. Anywhere - even dry shade under trees. Formerly called "FCC form". Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ARUM DIOSCORIDIS JCA 195.197

£4.50

maroon-black spathe with yellow spadix, May-Jun, 25cm. Warm dry places. Seed coll. Izmir, Turkey.

ARUM ITALICUM subsp.ITALICUM good marked

£4.50

Dark green leaves with very broad creamy markings (but not necessarily when young) Oct-May overwinter, green flowers Apr-May, vermilion berries Aug-Oct, 30cm. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ARUM MACULATUM 'PAINTED LADY'

£5.50

Cream and pale yellow variegated wild arum, pale green spring flowers also variegated, 25cm. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ARUNCUS 'HORATIO'

£5.50

Classy. Aruncus aethusifolius x A.dioicus and the best of both. Delicately held cream flower heads with its parts pointed and bronze-tinted on bronzy stems Jun-Aug, divided golden-green foliage, 80cm. Easy. Bred by Ernst Pagels. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ARUNCUS DIOICUS 'KNEIFFII'

£4.50

Delicate bronzey cut foliage, cream flowers Jun-Jul, neat compact and shorter than the species 60cm. Easy. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ARUNDO DONAX var.VERSICOLOR

£6.50

Very large and dramatic cream variegated grass with broad foliage ,2m. Theoretically very hardy (Zone 6) but my experience is that it survives 5 winters out of 6, so grow in pots and put in the garage in winter or, it is hardy planted under water. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASARUM CAUDATUM

£4.50

Big starry brown-maroon flowers at ground level Mar-May, evergreen heart-shaped foliage 15cm. Vigorous. Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

ASARUM DELAVAYI clone 1

£6.50

Black, white and khaki flowers 5cm wide Apr-Jun, large slightly pewter-marked deep green leaves, 18cm. Photo.

ASARUM EUROPEUM

£4.50

Neat glossy dark evergreen leaves in shade, 12cm. Small unobtrusive brown flowers May-Jun. Roots smell of ginger. Even dry shade. Newly awarded an Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

ASARUM MAXIMUM 'SILVER PANDA'

£5.50

Large evergreen silver-marked foliage, prolific clusters of large white-eyed black trilobed flowers Feb-Jun, 25cm. Easy in shade or keep as a magnificent pot plant. Drama incarnate. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ASARUM SPLENDENS

£5.50

Big dark evergreen silver-patterned arrow-shaped foliage, clusters of dramatic dark brown and fawn banded flowers Jan-Jun, 18cm. Very effective in shade. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ASPHODELINE BREVICAULIS RCB TQ-C-2

£4.50

Early spring/late winter AND autumn flowering. Spikes of 4cm wide yellow flowers with a mid green stripe to each reflexed petal Mar-Apr and Aug-Nov, short 50cm. Smart. Seed literally collected on top of the castle at Ardanuc, NE Turkey. Photo.

ASPHODELUS ACAULIS

£8.50

Coral-striped pink flowers on short stems MIDWINTER Nov-Mar, tufted foliage, 15cm. Atlas Mtns. Dies of SUMMER wet so plant in a dry sunny place (or keep a deep pot). One of my greatest winter delights. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ASPIDISTRA 'CHINA STAR'

£12.50

Short broad yellow speckled evergreen leaves, 50cm. Collected by Jim Waddick (QCS-IIM-L13 in China, via Tony Avent. Requires deep shade. Bobs Score=7.0.

ASPIDISTRA 'CHINA SUN'

£8.50

Short broad yellow speckled evergreen leaves, 55cm. Collected by Jim Waddick (QCS-III-L) in China, via Tony Avent. Requires deep shade. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ASPIDISTRA CAESPITOSA 'JADE RIBBONS'

£12.50

Tall narrow dark evergreen leaves, 60cm. Collected by Jim Waddick in China, via Tony Avent. Requires deep shade. Bobs Score=6.0.

ASPIDISTRA ELATIOR

£8.50

Hardy evergreen for dark shade, even dry shade, ?extra broad-leaved form, 40cm. Good cut foliage. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ASPIDISTRA ELATIOR 'HOSHI-ZORA'

£12.50

Old Japanese variety, tall yellow faintly speckled evergreen leaves, 85cm. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ASPIDISTRA ELATIOR 'LENNON'S SONG'

£12.50

Each narrow lanceolate evergreen blade has an irregular central band of muted yellow. Lovely. Good cut foliage. Bobs Score=9.5. Photo.

ASPIDISTRA ELATIOR 'MILKY WAY'

£8.50

Dark, white spotted leaves like the sky at night, 45cm. Evergreen and hardy in very dark dry shade under trees and shrubs. Bright pink starry flowers Aug-Dec at ground level. Good cut foliage. Or, it makes a good houseplant. Protect from slugs and snails. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ASPIDISTRA MINUTIFLORA

£12.50

Narrow evergreen foliage with a paler midstripe, 25cm.

ASPIDISTRA PATENTILOBA

£12.50

Dark glossy evergreen foliage with distinctive long petioles, red flowers Feb-May, 55cm. Was incorrectly sold here as A. longiloba. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ASPIDISTRA SAXICOLA 'UAN FAT LADY'

£12.50

Relatively short broad ovate-lanceolate substantial dark glossy green leaves with central longitudinal paler green markings and a slightly crimped edge, 30cm. Evergreen. A good houseplant - also hardy. Was Sp/var.coll.China BSWJ. Bobs Score=9.0.

ASPIDISTRA SP. (MARBLED LEAVES)

£8.50

A variegated leaf but smaller than normal. Cream striped evergreen leaves, 25cm (so far).

ASPIDISTRA SP. Chen Yi 135

£6.50

Graceful petiolate leaves with both a central paler green stripe and spots, evergreen (of course), 40cm. From Yunnan. Photo.

ASPIDISTRA ZONGBAYI

£12.50

Relatively short (25cm) spotted and lined dark evergreen foliage, dark red flowers Feb-Jun.

ASPLENIUM x EBENOIDES

£5.50

An early (1902) hybrid between Asplenium platyneuron and A.rhizophyllum from Eastern USA. tapered pinnatifid evergreen foliage, 25cm.

ASTELIA BANKSII

£5.50

Graceful narrow shiny silver-leaved evergreen from New Zealand, 60cm. Well-drained soil. Bobs Score=8.0.

ASTELIA CHATHAMICA 'SILVER SPEAR'

£5.50

Startling silver sword leaves. Reckoned to be tenderish but it withstood Worcester winters 1995-2000 (when it finally died), 1-1.5m. (Mine is the most astonishing and undemanding pot plant.) Mercurial especially when lit at night. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTELIA NERVOSA 'WESTLAND'

£5.50

Rosettes of red flushed silver evergreen foliage, 60cm. Hardy. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ASTER 'BAHAMAS'

£4.50

Bright pink flowers Sep-Oct, 45cm, neat dark mildew-resistant foliage.

ASTER 'FELLOWSHIP'

£4.50

Superb large double pinky mauve flowers Aug-Oct,75cm. Good soil, sun or half shade. Mildew resistance due to A.laevis ancestry? Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ASTER 'GLOW IN THE DARK'

£4.50

New. Aster laevis 'Calliope' x Aster laevis 'Fellowship' from Brian Ellis. I've seen it (but have yet to plant it). A really bright disease-free mauve michaelmas daisy from black stems Aug-Oct, dark foliage, compact habit, 60cm. Lovely.

ASTER 'IBIZA'

£4.50

Compact mildew-resistant variety. White flowers over a long season Aug-Nov, dark green foliage, 30cm. Dry shade tolerant.

ASTER 'LITTLE CARLOW'

£4.50

Masses of trouble-free (mildew-free) blue flowers Sep-Oct, 1.3m. Easy, It literally hurts the eyes to look at it in flower because the colour is so intense. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ASTER 'PORZELLAN'

£4.50

Stiffly upright stems have pale grey-indigo flowers Aug-Oct, very dark green foliage 1m. Little or no mildew. Nice. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTER 'PRIMROSE PATH'

£4.50

Any Charles Oliver selection is potentially of great interest. Pretty blue flowers with soft maroon-purple centres in open sprays Aug-Oct, 75cm. Looks like an Aster schreberi hybrid which would explain its dry shade tolerance. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTER 'SAMOA'

£4.50

Compact plant, heads of red-purple flowers Sep-Oct, neat, 30cm. More or less mildew-free.

ASTER 'SUNHELENE'

£4.50

A new relatively mildew-free hybrid. Delightful neat double mauve-blue flowers which make a perfect picture with adjacent unopened greyish green buds Aug-Oct, 110cm. Good cut flower. Like A.'Marie Ballard' without the mildew. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTER 'TONGA'

£4.50

The Plant Finder says this is a cultivar of A.novi-belgii but it has the look of A.novae-angliae and no mildew, semi-double rosy-mauve flowers with orange centres Aug-Oct, compact 40cm.

ASTER AGERATOIDES 'ASHVI'

£4.50

White flowers on a shapely plant over an extraordinarily long season (Jul)Aug-Nov, 85cm, easy and good. Even dry shade. The dead flowers are hidden by new ones erupting around them. Bobs Score=9.0.

ASTER AGERATOIDES 'ASRAN'

£4.50

Shapely plant with pale lilac to white flowers late - Sep-Nov, cut foliage no mildew, 60cm. Easy and good. Even dry shade. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ASTER AMELLUS 'KING GEORGE'

£4.50

Large violet daisy flowers Aug-Oct, mildew-proof plant, 30cm. Sun or half shade, not too dry. Laxish habits. Bobs Score=8.0.

ASTER AMELLUS 'NOCTURNE'

£5.50

Mildew-free, large deep violet purple flowers from dark purple stems Aug-Oct, 55cm. Easy. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ASTER AMELLUS 'PINK ZENITH'

£4.50

Compact mildew-proof pink flowers Aug-Oct, 50cm. Good soil, sun or part shade. Lovely. Synonym A.amellus 'Rosa Erfüllung' Bobs Score=8.0.

ASTER AMELLUS 'ROTFEUER'

£4.50

Redfire'. Compact mildew-proof deep pink flowers Aug-Oct, 50cm. Good soil, sun or part shade. Lovely. Bobs Score=8.0.

ASTER AMELLUS 'VIOLET QUEEN'

£4.50

Compact plant with lovely pale centred deep violet flowers Sep-Nov, 30cm. Good soil, no competition, sun. Disease-free and long-lived. aka 'Veilchenkonigin'. Bobs Score=9.5. Photo.

ASTER ERICOIDES 'ERLKÖNIG'

£4.50

Abundant small pale purple flowers with soft maroon centres Sep-Oct, dark disease-free foliage, 60cm. 1902. Photo.

ASTER ERICOIDES 'VIMMER'S DELIGHT'

£4.50

Lots of small white flowers amongst grey-green foliage Sep-Nov, burgeoning form 80cm. Easy. Nice. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTER ERICOIDES f.PROSTRATUS 'SNOW FLURR

£4.50

Exceptional in form. Low spreading stiff-branched prostrate species with masses of small white flowers Sep-Oct, 15cm x 70cm. Easy and effective even in leaf. Wonderful in a big pot where it will cascade over the sides. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ASTER LAEVIS 'ARCTURUS'

£4.50

A very effective foliage plant as well as for flower. Tall shiny black stems and near black leaves, lilac-mauve flowers Sep-Oct, 1.3m. Easy. Bred at the RHS Chiswick in 1902, languished in Ireland till 1990. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTER LAEVIS 'WHITE CLIMAX'

£4.50

Mildew-free, late icy green-centred white flowers which are very frost resistant and great bee and butterfly food Oct-Dec, 2m. Spreader but pulls up easily. Bobs Score=8.0.

ASTER LATERIFLORUS 'LOVELY'

£4.50

Masses of small white flowers Sep-Oct, 90cm. Easy. An old mildew-free variety. Syn.A.vimineus 'Lovely'. It doesn't look like a normal A.lateriflorus variety. Bobs Score=7.0.

ASTER NEW SEEDLING

£4.50

Mildew-free white flowered seedling aster from A.laevis 'White Climax' but shorter and earlier. White flowers Sep-Oct, 1m. Photo.

ASTER NOVAE-ANGLIAE 'ALMA POTSCHKE'

£4.50

Pure red flowers Sep-Oct, 1m. Moist soil, sun or light shade. Mildew-proof. Attractive to butterflies. Very exciting planted with orange heleniums. Bobs Score=8.0.

ASTER NOVAE-ANGLIAE 'DAPPER TAPPER'

£4.50

Short neat large-flowered cultivar. Large mauve flowers Aug-Oct, 50cm. Photo.

ASTER NOVAE-ANGLIAE 'HARRINGTON'S PINK'

£4.50

Shell pink flowers Aug-Oct, 125cm, mildew proof. Moist soil, sun or half shade. New England asters are naturally bog plants and lose their bottom leaves in dry conditions, attractive to butterflies. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ASTER NOVAE-ANGLIAE 'LACHSGLUT'

£4.50

Striking red flowers like 'Alma Potschke' but slightly paler Aug-Oct, 1.6m. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTER NOVAE-ANGLIAE 'MARINA WOLKONSKY'

£4.50

Dark almost black-violet flowers darken as the season progresses Aug-Oct, 1.2m. Easy. The flowers are dark-centred. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTER NOVAE-ANGLIAE 'PINK PARFAIT'

£4.50

Large tupperware-pink flowers with deeper edges Aug-Oct 1.2m, no mildew. Our own seedling. Lovely with Macleaya Spetchley Ruby. Attractive to butterflies. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ASTER NOVAE-ANGLIAE 'PURPLE DOME'

£4.50

Large dense heads of deep purple-violet flowers on a short plant Oct-Nov, 55cm. This is a great pleasure planted next to Panicum virgatum 'Squaw'. No mildew, easy. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ASTER NOVAE-ANGLIAE 'SAYERS CROFT'

£4.50

Large true purple daisy flowers Aug-Sep, mildew-proof, 1m. Good soil, sun or light shade. New England asters are naturally bog plants and lose their bottom leaves in dry conditions, attractive to butterflies. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ASTER OBLONGIFOLIUS 'FANNY'S'

£4.50

Very late blue flowers Oct-Dec (starts with a smattering in Aug), 1.2m. Many favourable comments. Drought tolerant. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ASTER PEDUNCULARIS

£4.50

Blue daisies Jul-Sep, good broad clumps of hoary foliage, 60cm. Dry shade OK. Himalayas. Wrongly called A.asperulus. Photo.

ASTER SCABER

£4.50

Lovely clear strong purple starry flowers late (Oct-Dec) but not so late that they don't make it before the winter, dark stems, purple flushed foliage at anthesis, 1m. N.E.Asia. Bobs Score=8.5.

ASTER SCHREBERI

£4.50

A good dry shade plant, large starry white daisy flowers Jun-Sep over dark green foliage, mildly spreading 30cm. Easy anywhere even dry shade, no mildew. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTER SEDIFOLIUS 'NANUS'

£4.50

Clouds of delicate pale butterfly-like lilac-blue flowers Aug-Oct, cushions less than 35cm.high. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTER SEDIFOLIUS RCB AM-5

£4.50

Sturdy relatively short wild aster (extinct further West in Europe), ragged blue flowers early - Aug-Sep, 65cm. Seed collected S.of Lake Sevan, Armenia, rocky edge to old lava flow.

ASTER UMBELLATUS

£4.50

Stately heads of small white flowers Aug-Sep, 1.3m. Easy. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ASTER x ALPELLUS 'TRIUMPH'

£4.50

An old and unjustifiably neglected hybrid. Aster alpinus x A.amellus gives large short-stemmed blue-violet flowers for a long period in summer May-Aug, 25cm. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ASTER x FRIKARTII 'MÖNCH'

£4.50

This is the true variety. Large lavender flowers for a very long season Jun-Oct(Nov), 70cm, lax. No mildew, easy. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTER x FRIKARTII 'WUNDER VON STAFA'

£4.50

Like Aster 'Monch' but more upright. Large lavender flowers over a long period Jul-Nov, 80cm. Easy, no disease. Bobs Score=8.0.

ASTILBE x CRISPA 'PERKEO'

£4.50

Very crisped deep green glossy leaves a delight in themselves, short pale shell-pink flowers from pale green buds Jun-Aug, 20cm, a treasure. Easy - even drought tolerant and maybe like A chinensis, a dry shade plant. Bobs Score=8.0.

ASTRANTIA 'BUCKLAND'

£5.50

A hybrid between A.maxima and A.major - so it's sterile, repeat flowers and doesn't self-seed. Pink centres and white and green bracts, 60cm. Vigorous.

ASTRANTIA 'MOULIN ROUGE'

£5.50

Deep black-red and red flowers (a pale green-white backed centre with almost black outer bracts) Apr-Jul, Aug-Nov (with a real gap in the middle), 45cm. Sterile non-seeding, long-flowering hybrid. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTRANTIA 'ROMA'

£5.50

Pretty pink-red flower heads May-Oct, 60cm. Easy. Sterile non-seeding hybrid. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

ASTRANTIA 'RUBY STAR'

£5.50

A new red variety - better than 'Ruby Wedding' and 'Hadspen Blood'. The foliage and stems are also darker than others, the flowers are less dark - but a clear ruby red and a good starry shape, May-Jul and later, 30cm. PVR applied for. Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

ASTRANTIA 'SUPERSTAR'

£5.50

('White Giant'.) Reckoned to be an improvement on 'Shaggy'. Large green-tipped white flowers Apr-Sep, 65cm. Feed astrantias to get the biggest flowers - FYM is good, and wait - 3 years? PVR applied for.

ASTRANTIA MAJOR

£4.50

Pale greeny white flower heads May-Nov (with a gap in midsummer), 55cm. Easy. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ASTRANTIA MAJOR 'HADSPEN BLOOD'

£5.50

The darkest deep maroon compound flower heads over a dark reddish-green plant Jun-Oct, 55cm. Easy. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ASTRANTIA MAJOR 'SUNNINGDALE VARIEGATED'

£5.50

Leaves with strong creamy-green variegated edges in spring, green pink and white flowers over a long period May-Nov (with a short gap in midsummer), 55cm. Easy. Good picked flower. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

ATHYRIUM NIPONICUM var.PICTUM 'RED BEAUT

£6.50

Red-pink and silver fronds, 40cm. Damp well drained soil, shade. Fully hardy, deciduous and doesn't reappear till late April. Bobs Score=8.0.

ATHYRIUM NIPONICUM var.PICTUM 'SILVER FA

£6.50

Wonderful deciduous fern. Silvered dissected fronds Apr-Oct, shade but not dry shade, 35cm. Bobs Score=9.5. Photo.

ATHYRIUM OTOPHORUM var.OKANUM

£6.50

Maroon rhachis and pale creamy-green fronds, deciduous, 50cm. Shade and moisture. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ATRIPLEX HALIMUS

£4.50

Good evergreen grey-leaved shrub, 2-3m. Cut back as you wish (can be stooled or even makes a hedge). Good cut foliage with a pearly glazing particularly noticeable in artificial light. The leaves taste delightfully salty. Virtually flowerless. Bobs Score=7.5.

AUCUBA JAPONICA f.LONGIFOLIA

£4.50

Graceful long leathery deep green evergreen foliage, clusters of small flowers Mar-Apr, red berries a year later. 1-5m but prune to keep in scale when can be a most distinguished plant.
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