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LASER TRILOBUM

Convex heads of open lacy grey-green flowers May-Jul, pretty mounding grey-green aquilegia-like foliage, neat 60cm. Eastern Europe.

LATHYRUS GRANDIFLORUS

Papilioniaceae

Large rosy-purple flowers in few-flowered spikes Jun-Jul, climber 1-2m. Old-fashioned, persistent, sets little or no seed. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7.

LATHYRUS ROTUNDIFOLIUS

Papilioniaceae

Lovely clashing brick-pink flowers Jun-Jul, 1.3m. Easy. The Persian Pea. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7.

LATHYRUS TUBEROSUS

Papilioniaceae

Neat sprays of magenta flowers over a long season Jul-Oct, bushy 40cm. Usefully late to appear (plant in the same space as something going over). Easy. Edible root tubers - they taste of RHS Hardiness Rating: H7.

LEONURUS CARDIACA 'GROBBEBOL'

Lamiaceae

Crisped and curled grayish green foliage, whorls of soft pink flowers from pinkish calyces and bracts Aug-Sep, 60cm. Motherwort, central Asia. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7 .

LEUCANTHEMELLA SEROTINA

Asteraceae

Tall graceful white daisies with a greenish cast Sep-Oct, 175cm, from Hungarian marshes. Any soil but the driest, sun or light shade. This is an autumn delight that everyone should have. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7 .

LEUCANTHEMUM X SUPERBUM 'GOLDFINCH'

Asteraceae

Cut-petalled flowers open yellow and mature paler creamy yellow Jun-Aug and later, dark foliage, shapely 60cm. PVR - propagation for resale prohibited. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7 .

LEUCANTHEMUM X SUPERBUM 'SNEHURKA'

Asteraceae

Neat semi-double fimbriated flowers Jun-Jul and later, sturdy, 45cm. Easy. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7 .

LEUCOJUM AESTIVUM 'GRAVETYE GIANT'

Amaryllidaceae

Summer snowflake. Green-tipped large white flowers Mar-May, 55cm. Not hot dry sites. This has prolific flowers bigger than the species and each tip of the corolla turns back. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7 .

LEUCOJUM VERNUM

Amaryllidaceae

Full Pots. Broad box-pleated white bells in winter Jan-Mar with prominent green spots, sympathetic broad foliage, 20cm. Easy. (Snowflake.) RHS Hardiness Rating: H7 .

LILIUM FUSION

Liliaceae

Lilium pardalinum x Lilium longifolium with the vigour of a hybrid. Open heads of up to 12 wide reflexed coral flowers with clotted cream centres with brown-maroon spots Jun-Jul, 1m. Tolerant of RHS Hardiness Rating: H7 .

LINARIA 'DIAL PARK'

Scrophulariaceae

Large mauve-pink flowers, broad grey-green foliage, 1m. Very nice. Probably a hybrid between L.dalmatica and L.purpurea from Olive Mason. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7 .

LOBELIA LAXIFLORA VAR.ANGUSTIFOLIA

Campanulaceae

Long heads of muted orange-red flowers Jul-Oct, elegant narrow foliage 85cm. RHS Hardiness Rating: H4 .

LONICERA 'LEMON BEAUTY'

Caprifoliaceae

Really lemony variegated foliage, evergreen, smart. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7.

LONICERA ACUMINATA VAR.ACUMINATA

Caprifoliaceae

Reddish purple flowers Jun-Jul and later, 3-5m. Synonym L.alseuosmoides, L.henryi, L.giraldii and many more. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7.

LONICERA JAPONICA 'PRINCESS KATE'

Caprifoliaceae

Evergreen variegated climber, scented yellow and cream flowers May-Aug, 1.75m. Easy. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7.

LONICERA KOROLKOWII

Caprifoliaceae

Pink flowers in clusters May-Jul, greyish leaves, 2m. Scandent. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7.

LONICERA PERICLYMENUM 'GRAHAM THOMAS'

Caprifoliaceae

Cream flowers fade yellow over a LONG season May-Oct. Sun or shade, climber. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7.

LONICERA PERICLYMENUM 'RED GABLES'

Caprifoliaceae

Dark reddish-purple foliage, maroon-red flowers with cream interiors Jun-Aug and later, climber or bushy (1m) (in the open). Very nice. Better colours in sun or half shade. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7.

LONICERA X TELLMANIANA

Masses of apricot-coloured flowers Jun-Aug, climber, lovely. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7.

LOPHOSPERMUM 'RED DRAGON'

Scrophulariaceae

Plentiful large deep red trumpets Jul-Oct, Half-hardy climber. Synonym Maurandya 'Red Dragon'. RHS Hardiness Rating: H3 .

LOROPETALUM CHINENSE RED IN BLACK

Virtually black evergreen foliage with winter to spring tufts of red-pink flowers, 75 x 150cm.

LUNARIA REDIVIVA

Brassicaceae

Perennial honesty, smaller flowers and pods than the annual kinds but a superb far-reaching scent, 50cm. Easy in shade, even dry shade. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7 .

LYSIMACHIA CANDIDA

Primulaceae

Dark green and white - delightful. Dark green foliage, pretty long open spikes of white flowers like Veronica or Veronicastrum but held less stiffly Aug-Oct, 60cm. RHS Hardiness Rating: H7 .