Potsize: 9cm Common Name: bellflower Family: Campanulaceae Description: Vigorous, spreading perennial with rounded mid-green leaves. Arching sprays of small starry pink-purple flowers Flowers: June-September Height: 20cm Spread: 45cm Position: Sun or part shade in most soils. Use: Good groundcover or trailing over walls.
Potsize: 9cm Common Name: juniper-leaved thrift Family: Plumbaginaceae Description: Dense evergreen cushions of needle-like leaves with short stems of white globular flowers in spring & early summer Flowers: March-June Height: 5cm Spread: 10cm Position: Light, well-drained soil in full sun. Use: Alpine troughs, scree beds, rock garden.
Potsize: 9cm Common name: yarrow Family: Asteraceae description: A low growing, compact form of yarrow with soft grey green leaves and pale primrose-yellow flowers which fade to cream with age. Trim off spent flower heads to encourage new buds & prolong the flowering season. Flowers: May-August Height: 10-15cm Spread: 20cm Position: Most well drained soils but poor chalk soil in a sunny position is preferable.
Common Name: New Zealand burr, sheep’s burr, scarlet piripiri/bidi-bidi Family: Rosaceae Description: Vigorous prostrate mats of plum-purple coloured fern-like foliage covered with small white flowers in summer. These small pom pom like flowers develop into bronze-red barbless seedheads unlike the other varieties. Flowers: July-September Height: 5cm Spread: 50cm Position: Poor soil in an open sunny position, but …