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  • Geranium
  • Helleborus
    • argutifolius   CAG00280
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A clumping evergreen perennial. Slender stalks are topped with large, tough, sharply toothed, grey-green, glossy, dissected leaves. In late Winter branching stems are produced bearing many single, pale green, rose-like flowers which persist for several weeks . Provide with an alkaline, well drained soil. Plant the crown below the soil level.

  • Knautia
  • Liatris
    • spicata ‘Floristan Violett’   CAG00461
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A clumping, rhizomatous, winter dormant perennial. Rosettes of dense linear dark green glossy leaves. At the end of Sumer tightly packed spikes of pink-purple feathery flowers rise from the centre of each rosette. Unusually the flowers open from the top down. Feed well and don't let them get crowded out when dormant.

  • Monarda
    • fistulosa   CAG01973

      (Bee balm, Wild bergamot)
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      (Bee balm. Wild bergamot) An evergreen perennial, quickly forming dense clumps of sturdy stems, clothed in softly textured, broadly lance shaped, refreshingly mint scented leaves, each topped in early Summer by a 10cm whorl of furry, lilac pink, tubular, lipped flowers.

      Cut back to ground level in Autumn.

      The over wintering mounds of smaller leaves often take on various grey and purple hues, which I find most attractive.

  • Nepeta

    (Catmint)
    Lamiaceae

    • racemosa ‘Walker's Low’   CAG00495
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A mound forming, densely clumping, woody rootstocked, evergreen perennial, extremely tolerant of dry soils and exposure. Whorls of rich blue-mauve flowers, held along slender stems, are borne profusely throughout the warmer months. Cut to the ground anytime it is looking tatty and you will quickly be rewarded with a new crop of the heart shaped, toothed, grey green leaves.

      A superior plant, of better colour and habit than the generic seed raised N. faassenii commonly encountered and which regrettably seem to have ruined the reputation of Catmints in this country.
      A garden staple.

  • Phlox
  • Salvia

    (Sage)
    Lamiaceae

    A genus whose popularity has risen exponentially in recent times. Offering a diverse range of form and colour there is a Salvia for nearly every garden situation with more and more being discovered and described all the time. The count now stands somewhere in excess of 1000, including subspecies, according to The Plant List. They are found on every continent except Antarctica.

    From a gardeners perspective they can not all be treated the same, they come from many different climates after all, but as a rule of thumb can be grouped into winter rainfall and summer rainfall species and with few exceptions they all prefer well drained soil.

    Soft leaved species from Central and South America are usually autumn and winter flowering. Coming from summer rainfall areas they typically need protection from dry heat and the accompanying high light intensity and they vary in their tolerance of winter damp. As with most plants the larger the leaves the more water they require, this also dictates how fast they grow with many growing several metres in a single season.

    Species from south western North America, South Africa, the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands are all winter growers and are tolerant or demanding of dry heat and summer drought. Slower growing but usually longer lived these all tend to have small, densely haired, silver or grey leaves or a combination of these traits which help them conserve moisture. Most of these require no additional water in Perth and are well adapted to our climate. They tend tend to flower from spring into summer.


    Prune back to where vigorous new basal growth is seen, never to dead wood, they appear to store little food in their stems and without leaves stand a chance of starving to death or at least struggle to regenerate. The exception is those few that are tuberous or clump forming, these can be cut to ground level once the stems start dying back in late autumn.
    • azurea   CAG00571

      (Pitcher sage)
      Salvia azurea
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A sage from south eastern United States, most valued for its delicately showy spikes of azure flowers produced in the dog days of summer when others are gasping. The long, wandy, purplish stems, sparsely clothed in roughly textured, sage green, linear leaves, arise from a deeply rooted central stock in early spring and lengthen until flowering, then die off as they are being replaced with next seasons growth.

      Beautiful, graceful and dependable, easily grown in any reasonably well drained soil where available summer moisture will dictate height and laxity.

      Scatter through any garden area, perhaps with grasses and other summer flowering prairie perennials, for long lasting summer romance. More tasteful and satisfying than a trashy novel.

  • Schizachyrium
    • scoparium   CAG01692

      (Little Bluestem)
      Schizachyrium scoparium
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      An exceptional grass from the American tall grass prairies where it is one of the main forage plants.
      The tight clumps of glaucous blue leaves are tolerant of heat and drought and will grow in both acid and alkaline soils, so long as the drainage is good and there is plenty of sun. Additional height is gained from late summer from the non-descript flower stems. Winter dormant, the leaves turn varying shades of orange, red and purple during autumn and hold their shape throughout winter.

      Cut down to ground level in late winter.

  • Veronicastrum
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