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  • Coreopsis
    • gigantea   CAG02279
      Height1.5mWidth60cmFlowering SeasonSpringWaterLLightFull Sun
      Coreopsis gigantea
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A summer deciduous species from the southern Californian seaside with lush mops of bright green, feathery foliage atop thick, grey, branching trunks. Somewhat palm-like and very succulent looking, growing more so with age. Large, simple, canary yellow, daisy flowers explode on long stems from short, annual, side spurs.

      Easy to grow in very well drained soil, or gutless sand, and an excellent pot subject. Plenty of sun while in growth is essential and its summer dormancy must be respected, though some moisture is required to mimic the regular fog of its native haunts.

      The cusp of an irrigated garden or somewhere convenient for occasional hand watering could see a grove of these make an uncommon spectacle with little care, underplant with Cyclamen graecum and C. persicum for a planting that cool climate gardeners can only fantasise about.

      Frost sensitive. East coast hardiness questionable.

    • tinctoria   CAG00686

      (Plains Coreopsis, Garden Coreopsis, Golden tickseed)
      Height90cmWidth40cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterMLightFull Sun
      Coreopsis tinctoria
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
      SEEDS

      Every new visitor to the nursery during spring or early summer invariably asks the name of this brilliant annual from the North American prairies. Under my conditions it is remarkably fecund and I have a tendency to let it have it's way, mostly. Drifts of diminutive specimens can be found in the paving cracks and you have to wade through their larger siblings that have found more hospitable homes. An opportunistic seedling can usually be found in flower at any time of the year and most customers must go home with at least one or two hitch-hikers stowed away amongst their purchases.

      Even in their thousands there are nearly as many variations in colour and form of flower, from clear yellow, some with cinnamon brushing, to mahogany red and every combination in between, that is yellow with a red centre of varying size. Some plants have flowers with extra smaller petals in the centre so as to appear almost anemone centred, while others have rolled flute-like petals somewhat resembling seashells, which is a name often given this flower form.

      Whatever form the flowers take the foliage is always finely dissected, dark green, occasionally red tinted, glossy and almost fern-like, in a rosette which firsts mounds, then elongates with a sturdy stem, atop which is carried the much branched head of daisy-like flowers.

      Scratch seeds into any bare soil, sand or clay during autumn. They will persist from year to year so long as adequate moisture is available to complete flowering and seed set, a little additional water late in the season is usually required if relying on rainfall.


      Each packet should contain at least 50 seeds. And then some.

  • Crotalaria
    • semperflorens   CAG00795
      Height4mWidth2mFlowering SeasonWinterWaterMLightSun
      Crotalaria semperflorens
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      An ultra fast growing, tree-like, leguminous shrub with large, softly hairy, elliptical leaves bearing dense spikes of sweetly perfumed, bright yellow, 3cm, pea-like flowers in early winter, which are followed by large inflated seed pods that explode loudly during warm spring days.

      Reaches full size of 3-4m within 2 years, with an expected lifespan of 3-4 years.

      Self seeds freely, which is handy as you look forward to it's spectacular display each year.

      Must be planted as a seedling. Seedling stage lasts only a few weeks so is rarely offered.

  • Ferula
    • communis subsp. glauca   CAG02099

      (Giant fennel)
      Height3mWidth1mFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A spectacle.
      From a stiff brooding mound of feathery, dark green, waxy leaves, radiating on stout stalks, thrusts a towering asparagus like stem, 3m or more, bearing large globular clusters of tiny, acid yellow flowers followed by clustered whorls of flattened seeds. This startling display requires three or four years of growth, accumulating energy in its fleshy taproot, before it is produced after which the plant, having exhausted itself, typically dies. Adventitious seedlings usually appear the following winter and you once again get to admire the fabulous foliage while anticipating the next hurrah.

      From limestone soils in the Mediterranean, summer dormant and utterly drought loving it tolerates richer and moister garden conditions but is perhaps most enjoyable and spectacular in barren, well drained, exposed sites where other less impressive plants have failed.

      Quite toxic, unlike its less bold but more commonly encountered cousin Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare).

  • Glaucium
  • Inula
  • Kniphofia

    (Red hot poker, Torch Lily)
    Xanthorrhoeaceae

    Stunning plants with flower heads almost always of strong vertical form and in uncommon colourings. A staple of the garden design palette they are versatile and dependable in well drained soil, either in mass plantings, perhaps in an array of colours, and exceptional when combined with other flowers of simple form eg. Achillea, Echinops. At their best when sited so later season performers obscure their grass-like foliage which can become untidy after flowering and tending to burn in too dry heat.

    Though wild plants are predominantly from seasonally moist habitats in the summer rainfall regions of southern Africa they do survive periods of dryness well thanks to a fleshy root system but they will, with some exception, require a degree of summer moisture to perform and flower in our climate.
  • Linum
  • Lysimachia

    (Loosestrifes)
    Primulaceae

    • ciliata ‘Firecracker’   CAG01444
      Height80cmWidth75cmFlowering SeasonAutumnWaterMLightFilt. Shade
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A semi-evergreen perennial which over winters as flat, nearly black rosettes of broad rounded leaves. Slender branching stems of brown-purple wedge shaped leaves rise from the rosettes in mid-Spring and grow throughout the summer to be followed in late February by small five petalled yellow flowers. Slowly spreading to form dense colonies.
      The winter rosettes are the perfect foil for early flowering small bulbs which are then covered by the Summer growth.
      Cut to ground level when the foliage withers.
      Prefers a moist soil and full sun during winter for best foliage colour.

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