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GALANTHUS 'ATKINSII'

£4.50

Tall graceful white flowers (Dec)Jan-Feb, grey-green foliage 20cm. Easy, vigorous and good for interplanting with herbaceous perennials. Photo.

GALANTHUS 'BRENDA TROYLE'

£5.50

Pick these to scent a room. Tall white flowers with large outer tepals Jan-Feb, 20cm. Photo.

GALANTHUS 'HIPPOLYTA'

£5.50

Reckoned to be the best of the Greatorex Double Snowdrops. Perfect even double heavily green centres (the segments notched) with 3 lifted white skirting petals (Dec)Jan-Feb, 15cm. Easy. Bobs Score=9.0.

GALANTHUS 'MAGNET'

£4.50

Largish snowdrops on thread like pedicels that move in the wind Jan-Feb,15cm. Easy. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GALANTHUS 'S.ARNOTT'

£5.50

Large flowers, 15cm. Easy. Full pots. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

GALANTHUS 'STRAFFAN'

£5.50

Noted for its second flower. Large white flowers Feb-Mar, 15cm. Easy, vigorous.

GALANTHUS ELWESII

£4.50

A tall robust form, good grey leaves, large white flowers Feb-Apr, 30cm. Easy. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GALANTHUS ELWESII var.MONOSTICTUS 'HIEMALIS'

£5.50

This clone flowers from late Nov-Jan, 20cm. Good broad white flowers that impress even me, grey foliage.

GALANTHUS NIVALIS

£4.00

Snowdrop. White flowers Jan-Feb, 12cm. Easy - even dry shade, naturalises. British native. Full pots. Bobs Score=8.0.

GALANTHUS NIVALIS 'LADY ELPHINSTONE'

£6.50

At its best the centre of the upturned flower appears to be filled with poorly whisked scrambled egg. At other times it may be flecked or even wholly, green (a good green not a mouldy green). This variation is random and reversible Jan-Mar, 15cm.

GALANTHUS NIVALIS 'VIRIDAPICE'

£4.50

A snowdrop with large white flowers with obvious green-marked outer tepals Jan-Mar, 15cm. Easy. Full pots. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GALANTHUS NIVALIS f.PLENIFLORUS 'PUSEY GREEN TIP'

£5.50

Originally found on the banks of the Thames. Double white flowers the outer tepals are tipped green as well as the inner Feb-Mar, 15cm. Easy, vigorous. Photo.

GALANTHUS PLICATUS

£4.50

Broad plicate foliage paler in the centre, white flowers Jan-Feb, 12cm.

GALANTHUS PLICATUS 'AUGUSTUS'

£5.50

Attractive globular white flowers relatively early season Dec-Feb, 12cm. Easy. Named by Amy Doncaster for E.A.Bowles.

GALANTHUS REGINAE-OLGAE subsp.VERNALIS

£6.50

A vigorous grower. White flowers from leaves with white channels Dec-Feb, 12cm. Photo.

GALANTHUS WORONOWII

£5.50

Small white flowers with the inner segments green-tipped Jan-Feb, deep green foliage, 18cm. Bobs Score=6.0.

GALEGA 'HIS MAJESTY'

£4.50

Spikes of coconut-scented lavender-blue and white flowers Jun-Sep, 1m. Easy. Non-seeding hybrid. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GALEGA ORIENTALIS

£4.50

Good spikes of blue pea flowers May-Jul, and sometimes Aug-Sep, 60cm. Easy in sun or part shade. Mild runner. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GALEGA x HARTLANDII 'ALBA'

£4.50

Young leaves white variegated, fat spikes of creamy-white coconut-scented flowers Jun-Sep, 1m. Easy. A stalwart of the Edwardian herbaceous border. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GASTERIA NITIDA var.NITIDA VARIEGATED

£4.50

Neat tight bilaterally symmetrical translucent dark greenish-cream plant, spikes of greenish-yellow tipped orange flowers from pink stems May-Jun, foliage 8cm, flowers 30cm. Synonym G.obtusa variegated. Photo.

GAURA LINDHEIMERI 'CRIMSON BUTTERFLIES'

£4.50

Deep red flowers Jun-Oct, dark red foliage ages dark green, compact 40cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

GENTIANA MACKINOI 'MARSHA'

£5.50

Thick heads of up-facing deep blue flowers from dark stems Aug-Oct, 40cm. Herbaceous perennial. Lime-tolerant? Nice soil with generous organic content. PVR- propagation for resale prohibited.

GERANIUM 'ANN FOLKARD'

£4.50

Superb deep rosy purple flowers with dark eyes Jun-Nov, yellowish leaves, 55cm. Easy, will scramble through shrubs or over arches. (G.psilostemon x G.procurrens.) Bobs Score=8.5.

GERANIUM 'BLUE SUNRISE'

£4.50

Gold leaves go lime green in summer, flat blue flowers with purple veining 3-4cm wide like G.magnificum Jun-Oct, 25cm. Lovely. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

GERANIUM 'BOB'S BLUNDER'

£4.50

Totally hardy and happy even in my thick clay. Pewtered bronze leaves and big soft pink and white flowers with rounded form 2cm wide May-Nov, 30 x 50cm. I will not tell you how it got its name. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERANIUM 'BROOKSIDE'

£4.50

Large deep clear blue bowl-shaped flowers turn slightly mauver Jun-Oct, dissected foliage, 55cm. G.pratense x G.clarkei 'Kashmir Purple'. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

GERANIUM 'COOMBLAND WHITE'

£4.50

Large heavily veined cupped white (actually palest pink) flowers over khaki tinted foliage (especially good in winter), good shaped plant, 25cm. G.lambertii 'Swansdown' x G.traversii. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

GERANIUM 'DUSKY CRÛG'

£4.50

Wonderful! From Bleddyn Wynne-Jones with one of its parents G.x oxonianum. Broad chocolatey-maroon-grey foliage with lots of relatively large sugary pink flowers over a VERY long season May-Dec, 20 x 40cm. Good perennial EVEN ON CLAY. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

GERANIUM 'MAVIS SIMPSON'

£4.50

Mid-pink flowers on a sprawling plant over a long season May-Nov, silvery leaves, 35cm. but can scramble higher. Well drained soil, sun. Hardy but hates winter in unimproved clay. Bobs Score=6.5. Photo.

GERANIUM 'MELINDA'

£4.50

A cross between G.sylvaticum 'Mayflower' and G.endressii with the best characteristics of both - the shape of G.sylvaticum and long blooming of G.endressii. Plentiful medium-large pale rose-pink flowers lined with darker pink Apr-Aug, 40cm. Easy.

GERANIUM 'PATRICIA'

£4.50

This is an exceptional plant. Large magenta flowers with a black eye over a long season May-Oct(Nov), good clumped form unlike other G.psilostemon hybrids, 75cm. (G.endressii x G.psilostemon.) Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

GERANIUM 'ROZANNE'

£5.50

This is a superb plant. Large slightly cupped out and up-facing blue flowers with paler centres May-Nov, 40cm. Earlier flowers are less blue. Easy. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

GERANIUM 'RUSSELL PRICHARD'

£4.50

Magenta flowers over a long season May-Nov, scandent, 45cm. Well drained soil, sun. Hardy but hates winter in unimproved clay. Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

GERANIUM 'SABANI BLUE'

£5.50

Large pale navy blue (in other words - slightly dirty blue) flowers with darker veining - dramatic against the foliage, early (Apr-Jun), 40cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=9.5. Photo.

GERANIUM 'SALOME'

£4.50

Large dark violet flowers with a black eye Jun-Oct, yellowish leaves, compact 25 x 55cm. Easy. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERANIUM 'SANDRINE'

£4.50

Like Geranium 'Ann Folkard' on steroids. Black-eyed purple-magenta flowers 5cm wide May-Oct, yellow-green foliage, herbaceous clamberer. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited. Photo.

GERANIUM 'SANNE'

£4.50

White flowers over red-brown flushed foliage May-Sep, 20 x 50cm. Sun. Photo.

GERANIUM 'TANYA RENDALL'

£4.50

Shiny chocolate-coloured foliage with lots of small bright pink flowers over a VERY long season May-Dec, prostrate 12 x 40cm. Good winter-hardy perennial. PVR Europe - propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERANIUM LIBANI

£4.50

Winter leafer, dormant summer, heads of large blue flowers early in the season Apr-May, 30cm. A good plant for dry shade under trees. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERANIUM LIBANI RCB RL-B-2

£5.50

Clusters of large delicate blue-mauve flowers paler in the centres with purple veins. The petals overlap making a rounder shape than the commonly available clone, Mar-May, wintergreen foliage. Suitable for dry shade under trees. From Ehden, Lebanon.

GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM 'VARIEGATUM'

£4.50

Bright magenta flowers with red calyces May-Jul, scented evergreenish leaves with irregular creamy-white margins, 30cm. Easy. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM 'WHITE-NESS'

£4.50

Pure white flowers from green calyces May-Jul, pale green scented foliage, 30cm. Easy, even dry shade where it jumps to life in the gloom. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

GERANIUM MACULATUM 'ELIZABETH ANN'

£5.50

Evenly coffee-coloured foliage and medium-sized pink flowers May-Jun, 40cm. Bred by Leslie Grayson. Bobs Score=9.5.

GERANIUM MACULATUM 'ESPRESSO'

£5.50

A wonderful cultivar with dark brown foliage and bright pink flowers Jun-Jul, 35cm. Easy and tough. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

GERANIUM MADERENSE 'GUERNSEY WHITE'

£5.50

Rare white-flowered form. Massed heads of white flowers fade shell pink - complimenting the pink stamens and stigma Mar-Jul, large divided foliage, 55cm. Very nice but sadly tenderish for me (almost everyone else has better luck). Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERANIUM MALVIFLORUM

£4.50

Large purple flowers early (Apr)May-Jun, wintergreen, summer dormant, 45cm. Easy even dry shade. Interplanted with G.Buxton's Blue or similar, you'll get continuous effect for no more space. Bobs Score=8.0.

GERANIUM PHAEUM 'MARGARET WILSON'

£5.50

Deep violet flowers Apr-Jun, nice creamy-yellow striped palmate foliage, compact 25cm. Easy. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERANIUM PHAEUM 'SÉRICOURT'

£4.50

Bright yellow spring foliage, deep red-brown flowers,50cm. Easy even dry shade. Bred by Yves Gosse, Séricourt, Pas de Calais, France. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERANIUM PHAEUM 'TAFF'S JESTER'

£4.50

Cream, maroon, grey and green marked leaves especially in spring, maroon flowers Jun-Jul, 50cm. Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

GERANIUM PRATENSE 'BLACK BEAUTY'

£4.50

Mauve flowers Jun-Aug, disease-free black foliage, compact 50cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

GERANIUM PRATENSE 'PLENUM VIOLACEUM'

£5.50

Lovely rich violet-purple fully double flowers like little roses Jun-Jul, 65cm. Easy. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

GERANIUM PRATENSE 'SUMMER SKIES'

£5.50

Tightly double pale sky blue and white flowers Jun-Jul, 65cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=5.0. Photo.

GERANIUM PRATENSE var.PRATENSE f.ALBIFLORUM 'GALACTIC'

£4.50

Clean fresh white flowers Jun-Aug. The foliage is fresh green without any hint of pink. 75cm.

GERANIUM PRATENSE var.PRATENSE f.ALBIFLORUM 'PLENUM ALBUM'

£5.50

Loose double white flowers with faint purple hairline markings in the flower centre Jun-Jul (later than other varieties), 75cm - uncommon. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

GERANIUM PSILOSTEMON

£4.50

Deep rosy purple and black flowers Jun-Aug, scarlet autumn leaves, 60cm. Good soil, half shade best. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

GERANIUM PYRENAICUM 'BILL WALLIS'

£4.00

Deep violet-purple flowers Apr-Oct, 30cm. Easy and lovely. With a cool wet summer and a mild winter it will bloom all year. Nicely self-seeds. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERANIUM SYLVATICUM 'AMY DONCASTER'

£4.50

Lovely large pale-eyed true blue flowers May-Jun and sometimes later, upright growth 65cm. Easy and very long-lived. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

GERANIUM SYLVATICUM 'MAYFLOWER'

£4.50

Deep violet-blue flowers May-Jul, larger than, and over a longer period than, other G.sylvaticum cultivars, upright bushy plant, 50cm. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERANIUM WALLICHIANUM 'CRYSTAL LAKE'

£4.50

heavily lined open saucer-like grey-blue flowers, the lines purple and with black stamens Jul-Nov, 30cm. Easy. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

GERANIUM x MAGNIFICUM

£4.50

Large blue flowers May-Jul on a bushy plant, 50cm. Good autumn colour. Old and neglected garden favourite. This was the geranium everyone grew before anybody grew geraniums. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

GERANIUM x MAGNIFICUM 'BLUE BLOOD'

£4.50

Geranium x magnificum type, almost navy blue flowers with red veins May-Jul, foliage colours orange before the autumn (from June in 2006), 35cm. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERANIUM x OXONIANUM 'WAGENINGEN'

£4.50

Relatively abundant bright salmon-pink flowers May-Nov, 35 x 75cm. A good (and old) plant. WAH - GEN - INGEN! Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GERBERA 'ORANGINA'

£4.50

Hardy gerbera. Orange-yellow flowers, short 45cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

GERBERA 'PAM'

£4.50

Hardy gerbera. Bright pink flowers, short 45cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

GERBERA 'RACHEL'

£4.50

Hardy gerbera. Red flowers, short 45cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

GERBERA 'SUNNY'

£4.50

Hardy gerbera. Orange flowers, short 45cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited.

GEUM 'BELL BANK'

£4.50

Medium-sized flowers with slightly reflexed soft pink petals with nice deckled edges ("Like a tudor rose" - Mallett), May-Jun, 45cm. Nice. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GEUM 'FLAMES OF PASSION'

£4.50

Neat circular up-facing soft red flowers from dark stems on a plant that reblooms Jun-Sep, 50cm. PVR - unlicensed propagation for resale prohibited. Photo.

GEUM 'PRINSES JULIANA'

£4.50

Pure orange flowers Apr-Jul and later, 45 x 75cm. Easy. A lovely colour early in the year and fabulous with maroon-leaved heucheras. Geums need pulling apart and replanting every 3 years or so. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GEUM 'STARKER'S MAGNIFICUM'

£4.50

Large up-facing orange flowers May-Jul, 40cm. Easy. Similar to but not so arm-flingy as 'Prinses Juliana'. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GEUM COCCINEUM 'WERNER ARENDS'

£4.50

Pure very rich orange flowers May-Jul and later till Dec on short stems over neat foliage, 35cm. An old scarce variety. Bobs Score=8.5.

GILLENIA TRIFOLIATA

£4.50

Graceful plant with small white flowers May-Jul, orange autumn colour 60cm. Any soil, sun or light shade but prefers lighter soils (common name = indian physic). Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

GLADIOLUS 'ALEXANDRA'

£4.50

Rare heritage bulb. Delicate formed pale scarlet and cream butterfly primulinus flowers Jul-Sep, 70cm. Evening scented. Very hardy, prolific. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

GLADIOLUS 'PEACH BLOSSOM'

£4.50

Rather too perfect small well-formed apricot flowers Jul-Aug, 1m. Seeds true and prolific. This must be one of the few instances where an apricot-coloured flower is called peach and not vv. Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

GLADIOLUS CARINATUS 'PILBEAM HYBRID'

£4.50

Relatively large classical gladiolus-shaped mauve to purple flowers March-May, 60cm. Minimum -5C.

GLADIOLUS CARINATUS x TENELLUS

£4.50

Scented pale cream flowers with fawn and purple markings each flower 4cm long x 2.5cm wide Feb-Jun depending on degree of winter protection. (Pilbean hybrid). Minimum -5C. Photo.

GLADIOLUS COMMUNIS subsp.BYZANTINUS

£4.50

Full pots. Reliably hardy but and self-seeds in sandy soils. Spikes of bold, upsetting, wonderfully vulgar magenta flowers May-Jun, 75cm. Easy. The true plant. For real upset plant near orange oriental poppies. Bobs Score=9.5. Photo.

GLADIOLUS FLANAGANII

£4.50

Large red flowers on short stems in condensed spikes - most un-gladiolus-like Jul-Aug, 25cm. Hardy summer-active bulb suitable for banks, very high Drakensberg Mtns. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GLADIOLUS SPLENDENS

£4.50

Very different. Synonym Anomalisea splendens. Coral-red flowers similar to Chasmanthe in shape that is narrow and laterally compressed Apr-Jun, grey-blue stems and foliage, 60cm. ?Tender winter grower or maybe, hardy. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

GLADIOLUS UNDULATUS

£4.50

White and green wavy-petalled flowers Apr-May, 1.5m. Cold greenhouse. Photo.

GLAUCIUM FLAVUM f.FULVUM

£4.50

(Horned poppy.) Lovely blue-white prettily divided evergreen foliage which is a winter delight, tomato-coloured poppies May-Nov, 45cm. Formerly wrongly called Glaucium corniculatum by us. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

GOMPHOSTIGMA VIRGATUM

£6.50

Very hardy. Spikes of delicate white flowers above fine grey leaves Jun (or earlier if winter mild)-Nov, 1-1.5m. Can be pruned like a buddleja.From SA Mountains. Easy but seems to prefer clay. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

GREVILLEA 'CANBERRA GEM'

£6.50

Small shrub with evergreen grey ovate leaves and clusters of frost-proof orange-red flowers between Sep-Mar (which start to form in July), shapely 2m eventually.

GREVILLEA LANIGERA 'PROSTRATA'

£5.50

Pink flowers overwinter Sep-May, low woolley green bushette, 30cm.

GREVILLEA ROSMARINIFOLIA

£6.50

Clusters of red flowers from late autumn to spring overwinter Oct-May, attractive bushy evergreen 1-5m. Now considered hardy. Supposedly an acid-lover but grows well in my soil pH 8.5! Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

GREVILLEA VICTORIAE

£8.50

Hardy to -18C or below. Small shrub with evergreen grey ovate leaves and clusters of frost-proof orange-red flowers overwinter between Sep-Mar (which start to form in July), 1.5m eventually. Not limy soils. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

GUNNERA PERPENSA

£6.50

Rare hardyish African species (hardy for me, even 2008-9 winter). Kidney-shaped bristly leaves, compact 50cm, elongated cones of flower Jun-Aug, above the foliage 60cm. Moist (not wet) sheltered site. Photo.

GUNNERA TINCTORIA

£10.50

The largest green leaves for damp sites, 4m eventually. I swear one lovely Irish woman asked for gonorrhoea for my wet spot! Bobs Score=7.5.