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  • Lathyrus
    • odoratus ‘High Scent’   CAG02804

      (Sweet pea)
      Height2mWidth1mFlowering SeasonSpringWaterLLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
      SEEDS

      A modern Sweet pea considered to be one of the most strongly scented. The vigorous plants bear an abundance of large creamy flowers edged in lavender throughout spring and well into summer if given the chance. Remove the spent plants once the seeds have scattered or been harvested.

      Self seeds reliably and performs brilliantly without irrigation although a few drinks late in the season will greatly extend flowering. Happy in any soil from sand to clay that is preferably alkaline (pH > 7).

      Scatter a few seeds around, preferably near something for them climb on or else they make a lovely weed suppressing ground cover, for an instant cottage garden.

      Each packet contains 20+ seeds, enough to cover the average suburban fence.

  • Lavatera
    • plebeia   CAG01765

      (Australian hollyhock, Flood mallow)
      Height1.2mWidth60cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterL - MLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A short lived but self seeding Winter growing perennial, native to much of southern Australia. The many branched, woody stems, carrying softly haired, shallowly lobed, palmate leaves, produce an abundance 5cm, pale pink, mallow-like flowers from early Spring until mid Summer.

      Adaptable to any well drained soil and sunny position.

      Seedlings are at their best in their second year after which I tend to remove them once they have dropped seed.

  • Leonotis
  • Leucanthemum
    • vulgare   CAG00459

      (Ox-eye daisy)
      Height1mWidth50cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterMLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A charming plant long associated with cottage gardens and found wild in moist meadows throughout Europe. The quintessential daisy, pure white flowers, 6cm across, with a golden centre are held on long slender stems, ideal for picking, above dense clumps of dark green, ruffled, spoon shaped leaves.

      Self seeds in irrigated areas and quite at home in the vegetable garden where it makes a lovely companion plant to attract and feed hover flies, the larva of which feed on aphids, mealy bugs and other soft bodied pests.

      Easily grown in any soil with adequate moisture.

  • Lilium
    • candidum   CAG02228

      (Madonna lily)
      Height1mWidth25cmFlowering SeasonSpringWaterLLightSun - L. Sh.
      Lilium candidum
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      Very much unlike most other other Lilium, L. candidum requires shallow planting, prefers limy soil and grows primarily during winter, forming a basal rosette of glossy, slightly wavy, bluntly lance shaped leaves. With longer days the stem lengthens and by late spring terminates in an elegant bunch of outward facing, 10cm, virgin white, classically shaped Lilium flowers, for which it has been cultivated for millennia.

      The entire plant sensibly retreats to a scaly underground bulb with the onset of summer heat, usually not before shedding it's flat papery seeds which will germinate in unlikely but apparently suitable locations the following winter.

      From Greece, Eastwards into Asia it is ideally suited to our Mediterranean climate, not suffering malaise and early demise as in the East, requiring little if any summer irrigation and is one of the few Lilies that will thrive in the alkaline soil close to the coast.

      For a sunny but sheltered position, possibly amongst low shrubs or other plants, with good drainage, though tolerant of clay if not kept moist in summer.

  • Limonium
    • cosyrense   CAG02787
      Height30cmWidth50cmFlowering SeasonSu - AuWaterLLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A Maltese species with neat rosettes of dark green, rounded leaves forming a low shrubby mound and bearing a profusion of tiny, pale lavender flowers on fine, branching scapes that last all summer.

      Terribly adorable in any well drained soil and remarkably shade tolerant though maximum sun and exposure yields higher definition. Salt tolerance and a love for coastal conditions should be taken for granted as with much of the genus. Cold tolerance questionable though it so far seems able to handle any frosts W.A. can throw at it. Self sows when happy.

      Annual removal of spent flowers should be all the effort ever required to keep it looking its best.

      Makes a fine potted specimen, at least for a few years, easily mistaken by visitors as some challenging alpine and bolstering your horticultural street cred.

  • Linaria
  • Linum
    • grandiflorum var. rubrum   CAG02455

      (Ruby flax, Scarlet flax)
      Height50cmWidth30cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
      SEEDS

      Satiny, saucer shaped flowers of glowing ruby, with a blood red centre, wave on fine leafy stems throughout spring until the heat of summer. Seemingly delicate, this North African annual prefers exposure and poor, hopefully alkaline, well drained soil but will grow just about anywhere that is not shaded, the flowers only open in direct sunlight.

      My favourite winter annual, it never fails to impress with a depth of colour seldom matched and is lusted after by all who see it it in the nursery.

      Press seeds on to lightly raked bare soil, do not cover (they need light to germinate), where they are to grow in autumn or early winter. Will self sow in light soils but will probably need the assistance of a light raking with the first rains in heavier soil.

      Each pack contains in excess of 50+ seeds.

  • Matthiola
    • incana White perennial   CAG01740

      (Perennial white stock)
      Height80cmWidth50cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A perennial form of the common garden stock.

      Highly perfumed single white flowers are born in fat spikes emerging from silver rosettes of lance shaped foliage carried on woody stems and becoming shrubby with age though after several years becoming too woody and then best removed to make way for the plentiful seedlings that usually appear.

      Leaner more exposed positions give more attractive and lasting results but easily grown in any well drained soil, adores alkaline coastal sand. Summer irrigation unnecessary.
      An essential in cottage style or Victorian period gardens.

  • Myosotis
    • sylvatica   CAG01219

      (wood Forget-me-not)
      Height30cmWidth30cmFlowering SeasonSpringWaterL - HLightFilt.Shade
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
      SEEDS

      A garden quintessential that really shouldn't need an introduction but then it is not seen today as often as it once was, so here goes.

      Mounds of softly haired, bright green, broadly lance shaped leaves grow over winter and erupt in spring with clusters of small, five petalled, yellow centred, azure flowers.

      As seen in deciduous woodlands throughout Europe and best sown en masse in similar conditions, or the shady side of your house, where it will hopefully naturalise or even become your most attractive weed. Works in a pot too.

      Intolerant of sunny, dry conditions and snails but otherwise dead easy and gorgeous.

      Scratch into cool moist soil in late autumn or early winter. Each pack contains 50+ seeds.

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