SAXATILIS
Low mound of foliage with round heads of tiny palest pink flowers.
VERBASCUM
‘LAVENDER LASS’
Short stems of lavender-mauve flowers, for weeks from June. Apparently can be cut back when the blooms go over, to flower again. (PBR
protected) 45 cm
‘LETITIA’
Hairy rosettes of grey leaves, with many branching stems of yellow
flowers, for months in summer. 15 cm
PHOENICEUM ‘VIOLETTA’
A basal rosette of dark green leaves with spires of violet-purple flowers, from May to August. Should flower again if dead-headed. Seems to cope okay on heavier soils and is a good perennial. 90 cm
VERBENA
BONARIENSIS
Tall, erect, branching stems with terminal clusters of mauve flowers from mid
to late summer. Gives height to other plantings.
Self-seeds. 1.5 m
HASTATA ‘ROSEA’
Attractive, candelabra spikes of pink flowers, for months from midsummer. 70 cm
VERONICA
CINEREA
Forms a low carpet of woolly grey leaves, with blue flowers in late
spring, early summer. Prefers well-drained soil. 10 cm
GENTIANOIDES
The shiny dark green leaves form a basal rosette, out of which come arching spikes
of pale blue flowers in April to May. 35 cm
GENTIANOIDES ‘ALBA’
Nearly-white flowers. 35 cm
LONGIFOLIA
Upright stems with tapering spikes of blue flowers in late
summer and early autumn. 1.1 m
PROSTRATA
(syn. V. RUPESTRIS)
Flat green mat, with dark blue flowers in summer. 10 cm
PROSTRATA ‘SPODE BLUE’
A flat green mat of foliage, with ice blue flowers in early summer. 10 cm
SPICATA ssp. INCANA
Wonderful silver foliage forms a solid mat, with thin upright spikes of deep
blue flowers, in summer. Can cope with dry soils. 30 cm
UMBROSA ‘GEORGIA
BLUE’
Maroon flushed foliage, with intense blue speedwell flowers on and off throughout
the year. A valuable garden plant. 20 cm
VIBURNUM
OPULUS ‘NANUM’
A dwarf deciduous shrub with sparse white viburnum flowers and dark green leaves turning red in autumn, suitable for the rockery.
VIOLA
The
violas we grow seem to be happy in sun or partial shade.
Some even do well in heavy shade, i.e. V. cornuta types. They all flower for
ages and will flower more if cut back, once straggly,
or regularly dead-headed throughout the season.
CORNUTA
A spreading habit with lilac-purple flowers throughout summer. 25 cm
CORNUTA ALBA
GROUP
White flowered form of the above, not quite so spreading. 20 cm
CORNUTA PURPUREA
GROUP
A spreading habit with purple flowers throughout summer. 25 cm
‘GROVEMOUNT
BLUE’
Similar habit to V. cornuta but flowers are pale blue.
15 cm
'MYFAWNNY
A welcome return of this dinky viola. Mauve-purple flowers going
paler towards the centres all summer, if occasionally dead-headed. 15
cm
‘ROSCASTLE
BLACK’
A tallish Viola, more pansy-like than most of the others
we grow. Rich, deep purple flowers with tiny yellow central markings, for months
from early summer. 25 cm
