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MATHIASELLA

BUPLEUROIDES 'GREEN DREAM'
A Mexican plant with bracted umbelliferous heads of jade-green flowers, which remind me of Helleborus foetidus flowers, only larger, from April to June. The bracts age to pink and last until autumn. Likes a well-drained soil in a sunny, sheltered situation.

1 m

MECONOPSIS

(FERTILE BLUE GROUP) 'LINGHOLM'
One of the Himalayan blue poppies. Stunning electric, cobalt-blue flowers in midsummer. For those of you with acidic soils in partial shade....a bit of a challenge! Could also be grown in a container with ericaceous compost.

1 m

MELITTIS

MELISSOPHYLLUM
White labiate flowers with purple-maroon lower lip in May-June, occasionally all pink. A woodland plant that prefers moist soil, but not water logged, in partial shade.

65 cm

miscanthus

Wonderful, statuesque grasses showing of their best in late summer and autumn, but continuing to give a good display through the winter months if left unpruned. Make good clumps without becoming invasive. Ideal for those of us with good solid clay soils, though we are discovering that they also seem to do well in much drier soils.

SINENSIS ‘FLAMINGO’
A good tall grass with pinky-red tinted flowers in late summer. Seems slow to clump up with us.

1.5 m

SINENSIS ‘GOLD BAR’
A compact form of Miscanthus sinensis 'Strictus' with the added advantage of the golden bars across the leaves from the beginning of the season. (PBR)

60 cm

SINENSIS ‘KLEINE FONTANE’
Green foliage, reddish pink flower panicles in autumn which turn into wonderful fluffy heads later on. With us it has remained in neat little clumps.

1.2 m

SINENSIS ‘SILVER FEATHER’
(syn. M. SIN.‘SILBERFEDER’)
A tall grass, reasonably slow to increase; non invasive. It has silvery white plumes of flowers approximately 2.2 metres tall. Makes a bold focal point in a border.

2.2 m

SINENSIS ‘STRICTUS’
Grown for its attractive foliage, which emerges plain green in spring, then develops creamy yellow stripes across the leaves. Rarely flowers for us.

1.4 m

SINENSIS ‘UNDINE’
Fine foliage with a silver midrib. Silvery flowers in late summer, early autumn. Makes good clumps.

1.3 m

molinia

CAERULEA ssp. ARUNDINACEA ‘TRANSPARENT’
A tall grass with a cloud of flowers, giving an airy, transparent feel, in late summer. Very popular.

1.6 m

moltkia

X INTERMEDIA (syn. LITHODORA X INTERMEDIA)
Looks like an acid lover but is happy in lime soils. Lovely blue nodding flowers from spring to summer. Spreads well.

20 cm

morina

LONGIFOLIA
Evergreen rosettes of spiny green foliage. Tall stems of unusual small, but long and thin, white tubular flowers with a pink flush in midsummer.

60 cm