Phormium cookianum subsp hookeri 'Tricolor'
New Zealand flax
- Position: full sun
- Soil: fertile, moist, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: July
- Flower colour: yellow-green
- Other features: creamy-yellow and green striped leaves, with a thin red edge
- Hardiness: frost hardy
Spikes of tubular, yellow-green flowers emerge in summer above clumps of sword-shaped, creamy-yellow and green striped leaves, with a thin red edge. This highly-decorative mountain flax makes a great all-year feature plant for a sheltered, sunny, site. In frost-prone areas, over-winter container-grown specimens in a frost-free greenhouse or conservatory. - Garden care: Requires minimal pruning. In late spring remove any dead or damaged leaves and apply a balanced fertiliser and a mulch of well-rotted organic matter to stimulate vigorous, new growth.
Liriope muscari 'Monroe White'
lily-turf
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£6.99
9cm pot
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
Agapanthus africanus 'Albus'
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White globes of trumpet-shaped flowers
£4.99
2 litre pot
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Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'
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Magnificent smoke-like plumes
£12.99
3 litre pot
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
Penstemon 'Raven'
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Dramatic, deep purple, foxglove-like flowers
£7.99
2 litre pot
available to order from autumn 2013
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