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liked by bees	likes boggy areas	semi-shade
ready in July	likes troughs	happy anywhere
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Plant list for this page Click on a genus to go straight to that position on the page

sagina	sedum
salix	sempervivum
salvia	serratula
SANGUISORBA	sidalcea
santolina	silene
saponaria	sisyrinchium
sauromatum	x solidaster
saxifraga	stachys
scabiosa	sternbergia
schizostylis	stipa
scilla	stokesia
scutellaria	symphytum

sagina

subulata var. glabrata 'aurea'
A clump of needle thin golden leaves, which form a ground-hugging mat. Covered in tiny starry white flowers in May and June. 3 cm

salix

LANATA
A grey, felty leaved willow which forms a low deciduous mound, ideal for the larger rockery. 75 cm

SALVIA

BLANCOANA
Grey leaved sage with rather prostrate spikes of light blue flowers, attractive to bees. Prefers well-drained soil. 30 cm

CYANESCENS
White, woolly foliage forms a basal rosette, with spikes of blue flowers in summer. I cannot find any cultural advice in any of our reference books but I am sure it would benefit from protection from winter wet. 15 cm

OFFICINALIS ‘PURPURASCENS’
‘Purple sage’. Purple scented foliage with spikes of blue flowers in June and July. 60 cm

X SYLVESTRIS ‘MAYNIGHT’
(syn. S. X SYL.‘MAINACHT’)
Hairy leaves, good show of indigo-violet flowers on thin spikes, with reddish-purple bracts for weeks from midsummer. Dead-head to prolong flowering. 80 cm

The Mead Nursery - Salvia transsylvanica 'Blue Spire'

TRANSSYLVANICA 'BLUE SPIRE'
Large slightly hairy green leaves at the base, sending up tallish spikes of indigo-blue flowers for weeks, in summer. 80 cm

ULIGINOSA
A hardy Salvia for damp soils, no wonder we like it! Tall willowy stems of sky blue flowers in late summer. When happy, creeps about a bit. 1.3 m

sambucus

NIGRA 'EVA' (syn. S. NIGRA F. PORPHYROPHYLLA 'BLACK LACE')
Cut leaved Black Elder. I know we don't grow shrubs, but we have been asked for this one so much because the one in the car park looks so wonderful each year. An upright bushy shrub with blackish purple finely divided leaves. Distinctive elderflower scent to the pink flowers in early summer, followed by glossy black berries in autumn. Best grown in full sun to get the best foliage colour. (PBR) 3m

SANGUISORBA

menziesii
Maroon bottlebrush flowers on slightly willowy stems, for weeks from May. Prefers moist soil. 70 cm

SANTOLINA

CHAMAECYPARISSUS ‘SMALL-NESS’
The spelling of this name intrigues me, is there a little Nessie from Scotland that this was named after? A compact dwarf shrub. Yellow button-head flowers from mid to late summer. 20 cm

Santolina pinnata 'Sulphurea' neapolitana

PINNATA ssp. NEAPOLITANA ‘SULPHUREA’
Forms a small bush of wonderful thin silver leaves. Sulphur yellow button flowers from July. If dead-headed, will continue to flower for weeks. 45 cm

SAPONARIA

OCYMOIDES
‘Tumbling Ted’. Trailing stems covered in simple four-petalled pink flowers in summer. 10 cm

SAUROMATUM

VENOSUM (syn. S. GUTTATUM)
Large, fragrant (to a bluebottle…), deepest maroon spathe flowers, with striking blotches up the stems of the single divided leaf. Apparently native to northwest India, central Nepal, and southeast Tibet, so for all you intrepid travellers, this could be a souvenir of your trip… 60 cm

SAXIFRAGA

In addition to those listed below,we have small numbers of some varieties of saxifrage especially suitable for growing in troughs.

‘CLARENCE ELLIOTT’
Rosettes of leaves, branching wiry stems of small starry pink flowers in midsummer. 10 cm

‘ESTHER’
Encrusted saxifrage, more spreading than most of the others we grow. Creamy white flowers on a stem; in early spring. 20 cm

'FAIRY'
Green mossy foliage with white flowers from March to May. 10 cm

saxifraga

‘GREGOR MENDEL’
Yellow flowers in late winter, early spring. Cheering early colour for the rockery. 5 cm

JUNIPERIFOLIA
Spiny rosettes form a dense cushion of dark green leaves, covered with bright yellow flowers all over in late winter, early spring. Slow growing. 5 cm

'marianna'
Primrose yellow flowers, over a mound of encrusted looking foliage, in late winter-early spring. Slow growing. 5 cm

The Mead Nursery - Saxifraga oppositifolia 'Theoden'

OPPOSITIFOLIA 'THEODEN'
Forms a low mound of small dark green leaves, producing large rose-purple flowers in early spring. Prefers a moist, cool position in gritty soil. 5 cm

‘RUTH MCCONNELL’
Green mossy foliage with scarlet flowers from March to May. 10 cm

saxifraga

‘SILVER CUSHION’
Silver variegation to the mossy foliage. Pale pink flowers from March to April. 10 cm

SOUTHSIDE SEEDLING GROUP
A mat forming plant with very showy, arching panicles of white flowers heavily spotted red, in late spring and early summer. Prefers well-drained soil. 25 cm

‘WHITEHILL’
Attractive encrusted rosettes tinged with red on outer edge. White flowers in summer. 15 cm

SCABIOSA

atropurpurea 'chile black'
The flowers are like a very dark maroon pin cushion, covered in pink-headed pins, for most of the summer. Needs a very sheltered position, or take cuttings to over winter. Good in a tub. 60 cm

COLUMBARIA ‘NANA’
A dwarf scabious, ideal for the rockery with blue flowers for weeks, from midsummer. Prefers well-drained soil. 25 cm

The Mead Nursery Scabiosa columbaria ssp. ochroleuca 'Moon Dance'

COLUMBARIA ssp. OCHROLEUCA ‘MOON DANCE’
Dainty little creamy-yellow scabious flowers, from May until autumn. Prefers well-drained soil. 30 cm

‘MIDNIGHT’
This hybrid occurred here on the nursery (as you can tell, if you say its name with an italian accent...). The flowers are dark maroon and on branching stems, for weeks from July. Seems hardy if in a sheltered spot and with well-drained soil.
1.1 m

RUMELICA see KNAUTIA MACEDONICA

SCHIZOSTYLIS

Its Iris-type leaves belie the fact that it does best in moisture retentive soils and certainly flowers best if planted in full sun. The flowers open on upright spikes during the autumn.

COCCINEA 'MAJOR'
Spikes of good sized red flowers. An improved version of Schizostylis major. 45 cm

COCCINEA ALBA
Strap-like green leaves send up spikes of white flowers from September until the first frosts. 45 cm

COCCINEA ‘WILFRED H. BRYANT’
(syn. S. COCCINEA 'PINK PRINCESS')
Another beauty Duncan Skene of Abraxas Gardens gave us, it has lovely large softest pink flowers from September until the first frosts. 50 cm

COCCINEA ‘SUNRISE’
Larger flowers and a beautiful sugary pink. 45 cm

SCILLA

All Scillas are harmful if eaten.

MISCHTSCHENKOANA ‘TUBERGENIANA’
Give yourself a few seconds to look at this name, then see if you can remember how to spell it (without looking!)... Difficult, isn’t it! A good early flowering dwarf bulb, of pale blue flowers with darker central stripes. It can start flowering as early as January in a mild winter. Come quickly when we open in February to catch it!
10 cm

PERUVIANA
A wonderfully showy head of blue flowers erupts out of a basal cluster of fleshy green leaves, in June. Seems to clump up easily. 25 cm

HAW. ‘SPRING BEAUTY’
(syn. S. SIBERICA 'SPRING BEAUTY''
It is such a cheering sight in early spring when the gentian blue flower spikes push up through the ground. Ideal for growing under deciduous trees and shrubs.
10 cm

LITARDIEREI
Small fairly broad spikes of soft lavender blue flowers in May. Prefers a well-drained position. 20 cm

SCUTELLARIA

ORIENTALIS
A mat forming rockery plant with yellow labiate flowers in summer. Needs well-drained soil. 20 cm

SCORDIIFOLIA
This delicate-looking plant grows well in sun or shade, and dry shade at that! Deep blue flowers from July to September. Spreads by underground runners. Disappears underground
for the winter. 15 cm

SEDUM

Sedums are an herbaceous group of plants with succulent looking leaves. They flower in late summer, early autumn and are very attractive to butterflies and bees. The taller varieties look attractive to us even when the flowers have gone over, so help add interest to the garden in winter. We have been told Sedums will tolerate some shade if grown in dry conditions, but think it best to grow coloured leaf forms in full sun.

‘BERTRAM ANDERSON’
Trailing purple tinged leaves which darken with age. Reddish-pink flowers in late summer, on prostrate stems. 10 cm

CAUTICOLA ‘LIDAKENSE’
Glaucous leaves, with deep pink flowers during late summer and early autumn. Good for the rockery. 15 cm

The Mead Nursery - Sedum Kamtschaticum var. Kamtschaticum 'Variegatum

KAMTSCHATICUM
var. KAMTSCHATICUM ‘VARIEGATUM’
Cream, red and green variegated foliage, tinting pinker in cold weather. Orange buds and yellow flowers in late summer. 10 cm

sedum

‘MATRONA’
A pretty pink sedum with pink tinted stems and a gentle scent, in autumn. Copes well in dappled shade. 45 cm

sedum

‘RUBY GLOW’
Purple-tinged glaucous leaves with deep pink flowers in late summer. Sprawly habit. 20 cm

SPATHULIFOLIUM ‘CAPE BLANCO’
Rosettes of succulent white ‘dusted’ leaves with yellow flowers in midsummer. 7.5 cm

SPECTABILE ‘ICEBERG’
Flat heads of white flowers in autumn. 30 cm

SPURIUM ‘DRAGON’S BLOOD’
(syn. S. SPUR. ‘SCHORBUSER BLUT’)
Crimson succulent foliage with red flowers in mid to late summer. 8 cm

TELEPHIUM ‘MUNSTEAD RED’
Flat heads of red flowers in late summer, early autumn. 30 cm

TELEPHIUM ATROPURPUREUM GROUP 'PURPLE EMPEROR'
Very dark purple foliage, with heads of red flowers for weeks from July. 50 cm

The Mead Nursery - Sedum telephium ssp. maximum 'Gooseberry Fool'

TELEPHIUM SSP. MAXIMUM 'GOOSEBERRY FOOL'
Flat heads of palest, greeny-yellow flowers attractive to butterflies and bees in late summer. Prefers well-drained soil. 35 cm

‘VERA JAMESON’
Trailing stems of purplish-grey leaves, with heads of dusky-pink flowers in late summer and autumn. More compact than S. ‘Ruby Glow’. 15 cm

SEMPERVIVUM

House Leeks. A group of evergreen succulent plants. They like full sun and very well-drained soil. Any rosettes that flower die, so they produce new rosettes all around the base for self preservation. Ideal in troughs. 4 cm

SERRATULA

SEOANEI
Here is a plant to deceive your friends with – looks like a marigold until it flowers. In September it is covered in many- branched stems of dainty pink cornflower-type flowers. 15 cm

SIDALCEA

These are a good addition to the garden, providing easy upright spikes of mallow-type flowers from July, which can be a help at a bit of an awkward time, between the two main flushes of herbaceous flowering. They like good soil.

candida 'bianca'
Clump forming perennial with attractive, divided green leaves. Upright spikes of white mallow-type flowers, from early summer. 90 cm

‘PARTY GIRL’
Attractive divided leaves, with upright spikes of carmine rose mallow-type flowers, from July. 1 m

SILENE

ALPESTRIS 'FLORE PLENO'
A mat forming plant with stems of double white flowers in summer. 15 cm

CAROLINIANA SSP. WHERRYI
Forms a low dome with small dense clusters of pink or white flowers in late spring, early summer. Prefers a light situation in fairly well-drained soil. 15 cm

UNIFLORA ‘DRUETT’S VARIEGATED’
Variegated foliage; white campion flowers in summer. 10 cm

SISYRINCHIUM

Iris-type leaves, but that is where the similarity ends! They have clusters of flowers, each flower only lasting a day. All like a well-drained, sunny position, and most flower all summer.

‘BLUE ICE’
Large blue flowers with darker veins for weeks, from May onwards. Needs a sheltered spot. 15 cm

‘DRAGON’S EYE’
Lavender-mauve flowers with a distinct purple eye, for months in the summer. 12 cm

IDAHOENSE var. MACOUNII ‘ALBUM’
White flowers. Compact. 10 cm

‘MARION’
An improvement on our un-named purple Sisyrinchium, with larger showier flowers all summer. More compact. 15 cm

PURPLE
Good purple flowers for months in summer, earlier than S. 'Marion'. 12 cm

‘RASPBERRY’
I wouldn’t fancy eating raspberries this colour! More biscuit-coloured like S. biscutella but half the height.
15 cm

solidago

VIRGAUREA SSP. ALPESTRIS VAR. MINUTISSIMA
A very miniature Golden rod, with yellow flowers from July. 4 cm

X SOLIDASTER

LUTEUS ‘LEMORE’
Gently arching stems of soft yellow flowers in late summer, autumn. 70 cm

STACHYS

ALBOTOMENTOSA
Very woolly foliage with white undersides and stems, with peachy-apricot flowers in summer. We are sure it will need a very sheltered, sunny situation, or give winter protection to be on the safe side.

CITRINA
Basal mat of felty-grey foliage. Spikes of tiny cream flowers in summer. 10 cm

DISCOLOR (syn. S. NIVEA)
A basal rosette of slightly serrated leaves, with short dense spikes of white flowers from July. Useful plant for late summer colour in the rockery. 10 cm

OFFICINALIS ‘ROSEA’
Slightly indented foliage. Tall, slender flowering stems, with dense spikes of pink flowers during the second half of summer. Likes heavy soil. A much under-rated plant. 60 cm

STERNBERGIA

LUTEA ANGUSTIFOLIA GROUP
Long strap-like leaves come before the yellow crocus type flowers in late summer, early autumn. Needs a sunny, well-drained position to flower well. 10 cm

STIPA

ARUNDINACEA see anemanthele lessoniana

BARBATA
A fairly upright grass, with long silvery awns on slightly arching stems, from July. Prefers drier soils. 75 cm

GIGANTEA
Forms large grassy clumps with tall oat-like flowers in summer. 2.2 m

TENUIFOLIA
The description will not do this attractive grass justice… A small clump of fine, green leaves with a mass of delicate oat-coloured grass flowers, in summer. Self-seeds. 45 cm

stokesia

laevis
Rosettes of mid-green leaves with long-lasting purplish blue scabious-like flowerheads from July to September. 60 cm

SYMPHYTUM

‘GOLDSMITH’
Golden variegated groundcover comfrey, very useful especially to lighten a shady corner. Pinky buds open to creamy white flowers from spring. Tends to send up the odd reversion now and then. Spreading. 20 cm

X UPLANDICUM ‘AXMINSTER GOLD’
Wonderful golden variegated foliage with tall stems of typical slightly wishy-washy comfrey flowers. We cut down the flowering stems pretty soon so the showy clump of leaves at the base can ‘strut their stuff’. These should be ready in May. 1.1 m

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