Astilbe are gorgeous herbaceous perennials with attractive foliage and plumes. They are the perfect plant to add to shaded areas in any garden, which will provide colour from summer to late autumn/early winter!
Astrantia are beautiful, clump-forming perennials with attractive glossy foliage. The produce stunning flowers which are surrounded by showy bracts which often provide a splash of colour. Astrantia is also known as 'Hattie's Pincushion' or 'Masterwort'.
Barbarea, also known as 'wild cress', can be biennials or perennials, with simple or pinnate leaves and small, 4-petalled yellow or white flowers, followed by slender seed-pods
The deep blue daisy-like flowers of this frost tender plant appear from May till October. Keep indoors in Winter, to protect from frost. Height 15 cm. Spread 20 cm.
Robust plant, suitable for edging, container and front of border. The cup-shaped, white flowers are plentiful and measure 5 cm accross. On show all summer. Height 20 cm. Spread 30 cm.
Robust plant, suitable for edging, front of border and container. The cup-shaped blue flowers are 5 cm accross, plentiful, and on show all summer. Height 20 cm. Spread 30 cm.
All summer long this border plant provides huge drooping bells on upright stems. They are violet blue in colour and very graceful. Height 75 cm. Spread 45 cm
The low foliage is topped with flowerspikes of up to 120 cm high. Big, white open bell shaped flowers last a long time. Suitable for back of the herbaceous border Height 90 cm. Spread 30 cm.
This evergreen vigorous plant is indispensable. Easy to grow and hardy , it will be covered in deep blue flowers all summer long. Height 15 cm. Spread 50 cm.
A tidy mound of slender stems with large drooping purple-blue bells in early to mid Summer. Very floriferous. Prefers a sun or partial shade position. Height 15cm. Spread 30cm.
The double lilac blue flowers seem to have one flower inside another flower, making them striking and extra frilly. Flowering during the summer months. Height 90 cm. Spread 60 cm.
