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JEFFERSONIA
DIPHYLLA
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Clump
forming N. American perennial that needs its natural habitat of woodland
edge conditions to give of its best. Apple green leaves on 10 inch stems
are deeply bilobed with very scalloped edges. The pure white flowers
are almost 2 inches across and most attractive. |
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DUBIA
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When we
started opening the garden several years ago, we had more requests for
this than anything else in flower in spring, and we had not propagated
it. Good stocks now, ready for spring when the kidney shaped, glaucous
leaves unfold on fine violet stems, followed by inch wide pale lavender
blue flowers. Needs some shade. 6 in. |
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| LACTUCA
INTRICATA
NEW |
Do
not be put off by the fact that this is a member of the lettuce
family, nothing less like a lettuce can be imagined. From a deep
tap root grow narrow, almost dandelion like leaves to about 4
inches and from May onwards right through the summer months a
much branched flowering stem produces a succession of delicate
lilac starry flowers. Proving completely hardy here on a sunny
rock garden 6 ins. |
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LAMIUM
MICROPHYLLUM |
Another
of Robert Rolfe's introductions from Turkey. The smallest leaved form
that makes a tidy low mat producing on semi procumbent stems, several
narrow upright typical deadnettle flowers almost an inch long. Basically
lilac shaded white but heavily veined with purplish pink, most
prominently on the lower lip. Evergreen and seems hardy. Fully described
and illustrated in AGS Bull. vol 65 pp 422/3 when awarded a P.C. |
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LATHYRIS VERNUS
‘ALBO-ROSEUS’
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An early
flowering member of the pea family that produces a small shrubby plant
covered in long narrow leaves. In early spring these leaves disappear
under the mass of pale pink and cream ‘pea flowers’ up to 8 per stem. 10
in |
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LEWISIA x 'GEORGE
HENLEY'
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An
Ingwersen raised cotyledon hybrid forming neat congested rosettes. It
produces an abundance of brick red flowers on 4 inch stems through early
summer. Lives quite happily here on a semi shaded trough. |
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| NEVADENSIS 'ROSEA'
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An
easy going deciduous species that grows easily from seed and
when happy will soon build up a colony on the rock garden or
scree bed. Narrow leaved rosettes with a central boss of almost
stemless pink tubular flowers. 3 in. This can be quite
variable , these are seed grown from our own very good form |
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TWEEDYI
'ROSEA'
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Selected
form that has deep rosy pink flowers over a long period. |
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| LITHOPHRAGMA
PARVIFLORUM |
A North American woodlander much admired
in late spring. From grain-like tubers just below the surface, arise a
mat of soft hairy leaves about an inch high, followed by delicate heads
of soft pink flowers on 6 inch stems. |
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| LONICERA
JARMILAE
NEW |
This has developed well here on a
very lean raised bed where in 4 years it has proved to be very
prostrate and makes about 2 inches new growth each season - yet
to flower |
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| LYCHNIS
FLOS CUCULI ‘LITTLE ROBIN’
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A
compact form of this well known plant. Basal rosettes of deep
green leaves and tufted stems carry panicles of large rose red
flowers. Does well on a trough here. 8 in. |
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MAIHUENIA
POEPPIGII
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When does
a cactus become an alpine? This Andean member of the Cactaceae is at the
juncture of the two 'schools'. Almost flat mats of deep green spiky
foliage decorated in June/July with 'voluptuous silky pale sulphur
‘water lilies’ their centre a fuzz of yellow stamens,' John Watson's
description when he first saw Maihuenia in the Andes which is exactly as
I remember seeing them in the rock garden at Gothenburg Botanic
Gardens. |
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