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RANUNCULUS ACONITIFOLIUS 'FLORE PLENO'

£5.50

Tight white button flowers over dark leaves Apr-Jun 45cm. Good soil, part shade, not too dry. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

RANUNCULUS CONSTANTINOPOLITANUS 'PLENUS'

£5.50

A very letter-rich plant. Large to very large tightly double green and yellow flowers May-Jun, 30cm. Easy to grow but very slow to propagate and say. Bobs Score=8.0.

RANUNCULUS FICARIA 'BRAZEN HUSSY'

£4.00

Dark maroon-brown leaves and yellow flowers in spring, 15cm. Easy. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

RANUNCULUS FICARIA 'RICHARD AND VAL'

£4.00

Metallic bronze leaves marked with black, yellow flowers, 10cm. Photo.

RANUNCULUS GRAMINEUS

£4.50

Buttercup flowers, grassy greyish leaves, 25cm. Not invasive and much better than it sounds. Any soil, sun or half shade. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

RANUNCULUS MONTANUS 'PLENUS'

£4.50

Neat double gold flowers May-Jul and later, shortish branched flower stems 25cm. Doesn't run. Photo.

RHAMNUS ALATERNUS 'ARGENTEOVARIEGATA'

£6.50

Shining evergreen shrub, greyed dark green foliage with cream edges makes everything look better. Good cut foliage and will take any amount of clipping, 1-4m depending on pruning. Sun or half shade. Mouth stretching exercise. Bobs Score=8.0.

RHEUM PALMATUM 'BOWLES' CRIMSON'

£8.50

Sumptuous crimson leaves Feb-May turn greener later but may improve in autumn, amazing carmine flowers Apr-May, 2m. Easy. Underplant with cheap red tulips to cause fainting in spring. Vegetatively propagated. Formerly wrongly sold as 'Hadspen Crimson'. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

RHEUM PALMATUM 'RED HERALD'

£8.50

Sumptuous red foliage goes greener but retains much red in summer, startling red flowers May-Jun, 2m. Divisions not seedlings. Bobs Score=9.0.

RHEUM RIBES

£5.50

Large crumpled grey-green leaves, short spikes of green and red flowers May-Jun, 50cm. Easy. Look in Phillips and Rix, Perennials, p132. Very impressive. Bobs Score=7.5.

RHODOHYPOXIS BAURII 'LILY JEAN'

£4.50

Double sugar-pink flowers Jun-Sep and later, 12cm. easy in a pot or container or in sharply drained soil. Bulbous. A Japanese variety. Bobs Score=8.0.

RHODOPHIALA 'HARRY HAY'

£6.50

'Hardy amaryllis'. Relatively large deep blood red flowers in multi-heads Aug-Sep, 25cm. R.granatiflora?

RHODOPHIALA BIFIDA

£6.50

'Hardy amaryllis'. Clusters of 4-7 oxblood-red trumpet flowers Aug-Sep. 25cm. RHS A-Z says summer active but my experience is that it is winter active and summer dormant and so, although theoretically hardy, it is best kept in a pot. Argentina, Uruguay.

RIBES LAURIFOLIUM 'MRS.AMY DONCASTER'

£6.50

Lots of stubby heads of pale green hermaphrodite flowers Jan-Apr - good bumble bee fodder for winter, evergreen, 1m. Lovely fan-trained against a wall under a window. Bobs Score=8.5. Photo.

RIBES SPECIOSUM

£6.50

Red fuchsia-like flowers (Nov)Mar-May - eventually in red waterfalls, spiny wall plant 2-3m. California. For me the leaves colour and fall in Oct when the new leaves appear - making it virtually evergreen. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

RIBES x GORDONIANUM

£6.50

Lovely russet-apricot flower tassels Mar-May, shrub 1-2m. Easy. Ribes odoratum (not R.petraeum as is often quoted) x R.sanguineum Donald Beaton1837. He named it after his employer, William Gordon. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

RODGERSIA 'HERKULES'

£5.50

Large shiny red-flushed foliage, heads of pink flowers Jun-Aug fade deep brownish-reds Sep-Oct, 1m. Nice

RODGERSIA 'LA BLANCHE'

£5.50

Large shiny foliage, heads of white flowers Jun-Aug, 1m. Photo.

RODGERSIA PINNATA 'CHOCOLATE WING'

£5.50

Heads of pink flowers May-Jun, red-brown foliage greens up later but retains some red flushes making it attractive throughout the season, 85cm. Easy in moist place or at least somewhere not too dry.

ROHDEA JAPONICA 'GODAISHU'

£8.50

Vigorous upright dwarf form, creamy-white marginally variegated evergreen leaves matures to creamy-yellow, 18cm. Good for dry shade. Bobs Score=6.5.

ROHDEA JAPONICA 'GUNJAKU'

£8.50

Vigorous dwarf form, creamy-white streaked dark green evergreen leaves, 15cm. Good for dry shade. Bobs Score=6.5.

ROHDEA JAPONICA 'MIYAKONOJO'

£8.50

Leathery clusters of evergreen cream-edged dark green leaves, flowers like miniature corn-on-the-cob Jun-Aug, 25cm. Good for dry shade. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ROHDEA JAPONICA 'TALBOT MANOR'

£8.50

Broad leathery irregularly margined and striped cream evergreen leaves, flowers like miniature corn-on-the-cob Jun-Aug, 25cm. Good for dry shade. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ROHDEA JAPONICA 'TAMA-JISHI'

£18.50

Coiled white-edged leathery evergreen leaves, flowers like miniature corn-on-the-cob Jun-Aug, 18cm. Good for dry shade and a good pot subject. Bobs Score=7.0.

ROHDEA JAPONICA 'TSUNESHIGE ROKUJO'

£8.50

Clusters of narrow leathery cream-smoked evergreen leaves, flowers like miniature corn-on-the-cob Jun-Aug, 15cm. Good for dry shade. Bobs Score=5.0. Photo.

ROSA 'LA SÉVILLANA'

£5.50

Vermilion semi-double flowers more or less continuously Jun-Nov, compact 1m. No disease problems. Meilland 1982. Bobs Score=10.0. Photo.

ROSA 'WESTERLAND'

£5.50

Shapely apricot flowers smell of oranges May-Dec, 1-2m, tough. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ROSA BANKSIAE 'LUTEA'

£8.50

Banksian Rose. Bunches of small double creamy-yellow flowers Apr-Jun that begin to appear when the plant is verbally threatened, thornless evergreenish climber 2-7m depending on support. Prune hard after flowering if you wish. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ROSA BANKSIAE var.NORMALIS

£8.50

The most delightfully highly perfumed rose I have met. Thornless. Sprays of small single soft creamy-white flowers Mar-Jun (depending on the location and the severity of spring frosts). Vigorous climber to 8m or more. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

ROSA CHINENSIS 'BENGAL BEAUTY'

£8.50

Large loose red flowers astonishingly Jan-Dec (all year) in reasonable years in normal gardens (and I don't mean a few odd flowers left over, but strong flowering), 2m. a.k.a. 'Single Red China' and R. x odorata 'Bengal Crimson'. Bobs Score=9.0. Photo.

ROSA CHINENSIS 'BOB'S BEAUTY'

£8.50

A selected seedling from R.'Bengal Beauty'. Neater (1.3m x 1m) deeper blood-red single flowers, redder foliage, Apr-May, Jul-Aug, Oct-Nov, Jan-Feb and in between! Relatively thornless. Photo.

ROSA CHINENSIS 'MUTABILIS'

£8.50

Continuous succession of rose-madder and buff flowers Jun-Nov, airy bush, 2m. (synonym R.x odorata Mutabilis.) If planted with shade on one side (side of a building) it usually climbs (and needs minimal fixing). Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

ROSA PIMPINELLIFOLIA 'DUNWICH ROSE'

£5.50

Massed single cream flowers May-Jun, pretty foliage, reddish winter stems, neat bush to 1m. Synonym Rosa spinosissima 'Dunwich Rose'. Bobs Score=7.5. Photo.

ROSULARIA LIBANOTICA RCB RL-20

£4.50

Small fleshy pink rosettes, pink flowers Apr-May, 5cm. Narrow rock crevices in high mountains. Collected top of pass Bekaa Valley to Faraya, N33.59.496, E35.55.752, 6851 feet altitude. Hardy. Photo.

RUBUS FRUTICOSUS 'VARIEGATUS'

£5.50

Cream variegated blackberry, unripe pink fruits also variegated. Good as a climber. Treat it nicely, it is special and not as vigorous as wild blackberries. No reversion. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

RUBUS IDAEUS 'AUREUS'

£4.50

Bright yellow foliage (and small white flowers) to lighten dry shade under trees, deciduous, 40cm. A cultivar of our native raspberry. Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

RUDBECKIA 'BERLIN'

£4.50

New to me and ordered on impulse (such a good way to buy plants). I suppose it will have yellow flowers Jul-Sep and be about 60cm.high and be easy to grow. We'll see!

RUDBECKIA FULGIDA var.DEAMII

£4.50

Free flowering black eyed susan Jul-Nov, 80cm. Easy and very neat. A lovely rounded bush. Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

RUDBECKIA LACINIATA 'GOLDQUELLE'

£4.50

Soft textured double yellow flowers among softening green foliage Aug-Oct, 75cm. Lovely. Bobs Score=8.0.

RUDBECKIA LACINIATA 'HERBSTSONNE'

£4.50

Elegant bright pure yellow flowers with green central cones and matching green foliage Aug-Oct, 2m. This variety keeps its bottom leaves whilst in flower so looks neat. It's fairly magnificent really. "Autumn Sun". Bobs Score=8.0. Photo.

RUDBECKIA LACINIATA 'STARCADIA RAZZLE DAZZLE'

£4.50

Soft yellow flowers with prominent darker yellow central bosses Jul-Sep, a clumper (some forms run) 1.5m x 60cm. Photo.

RUDBECKIA MAXIMA

£4.50

Unlikely broad glaucous grey leaves and dramatic pale gold and black flowers Jul-Oct, special, leaves 55cm. flowers 1.6m. Easy. Bobs Score=7.0.

RUMEX ACETOSA subsp.ACETOSA 'SAUCY'

£4.50

Autumn, winter and spring leaves are remarkable - marbled pink, white and pale green - like some human flesh I can name, 20cm. Summer foliage dull cream variegated but can be reinvigorated by shearing to the ground. Good in any soup. Bobs Score=6.0. Photo.

RUMEX ALPINUS

£4.50

Large rounded dock leaves Apr-Dec and greeny-red flowers Jun-Jul (although rarely for me), impressive, 60cm. Easy. Good for that pseudo tropical effect or as a hosta substitute. Bobs Score=7.0. Photo.

RUMOHRA ADIANTIFORMIS RCB RA-D-2

£5.50

Like haresfoot fern but the rhizomatous feet just subterranean, broad flat deltoid 3-pinnate fronds, 60cm. Spores collected Lakeshore Lake Nahuel Huapi, 764m altitude, Patagonia. Not normally hardy but this is.

RUSCUS ACULEATUS 'JOHN REDMOND'

£5.50

Dwarf, compact ever-berrying form. Large green berries turn vermilion all year and look wonderful at Christmas AND in July, dark green foliage, 25cm. Shade even dry shade. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited. Bobs Score=5.5. Photo.

RUSCUS HYPOGLOSSUM

£5.50

Broad dark evergreen phyllodes, red berries, insignificant flowers Mar-Apr, compact thick plant, 50cm.