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| Acaena inermis purpura | | £1.95 |
| Prostrate ground cover with little beige burrs. | Aeonium Zwartkop | | £3.50 |
| Exotic red/black foliage – just need to work out where to put it in winter | Anethum graveolens | | £1.75 |
| Dill, good for so much more than gravlax. | Anthemis cupaniana | | £4.25 |
| The best silver daisy for edges (and rabbits). | Arenaria montana | | £2.25 |
| A tidy alpine. White flat-faced flowers. | Artemisia schmidtiana | | £3.25 |
| Prostrate filigree silver foliage, don’t let it hear the phrase ‘poor drainage’. | Aster laterifolius horizontalis | | £2.75 |
| Masses of lawn daisies held at right angles to the stem. | Campanula poscharskyana | | £3.25 |
| Common, but if you have a dry sunny spot, it does the job. | Caryopteris Kew Blue | | £2.50 |
| Compact and late and dark blue and whiskery. Insects love it. | Ceanothus thrysiflorus repens | | £2.50 |
| A ceanothus that isn’t upright, good for disguising sunny inspection covers. (A manhole cover for pre-decimal readers) | Dianthus Whatfield Cancan | | £1.95 |
| Soft pink, frilly and fragrant. No wonder it has an Award of Garden Merit! | Dicentra Langtrees | | £2.25 |
| Smart silver foliage and white flowers. Another AGM plant. | Eurybia (Aster) divaricata | | £2.75 |
| More tiny white flowers contrasting with black stems. Can be a bit lax but useful for scrambling up through a boring old hebe. | Geranium Kasmir Purple | | £2.95 |
| Violet flowers with darker veins, worth a closer look. Hey, nice leaf! | Hesperantha coccinea Major | | £1.75 |
| Indispensable for late summer, good red satiny flowers. Schizostylis, it was. | Heuchera Black Pearl | | £2.95 |
| So dark, luscious! Watch out for vine weevil, they adore it as well. | Lactuca Lollo Rosso | | £2.95 |
| Lettuce, yes. | Lavandula Grey Hedge | | £1.95 |
| Biggish, good for….. | Lavandula Hidcote | | £1.95 |
| Dwarf and violet, AGM well deserved. | Lavandula stoechas | | £3.75 |
| The French kind. | Leucanthumum Angel | | £3.95 |
| Smart shasta daisy. | Lippia citriodora | | £1.50 |
| Lemon scented verbena, intoxicating but not keen on winter outdoors. | Lithodora Heavenly Blue | | £1.25 |
| As long as you don’t have chalky soil, what’s not to like? | Lobelia Queen Victoria | | £1.75 |
| Red Red Red and likes moist soils, if you live in a very cold spot, maybe scoot on. | Lunaria Corfu Blue 2 | | £3.25 |
| Ordinary honesty (biennial) but what a colour! | Lunaria rediviva | | £3.50 |
| Perennial honesty, a good gift for a plantsperson. | Menta spicata Tashkent | | £1.95 |
| Crinkly spearmint | Menta x piperata | | £1.75 |
| Peppermint | Mentha gracilis Ginger | | £1.95 |
| What could this smell of? Nice variegated foliage. | Mentha requienii | | £1.75 |
| Creeping, culinary use possibly only for those with jaded palettes. | Mentha spicata Moroccan | | £1.95 |
| Like Tashkent, crinkly flavoursome and disease resistant. | Mentha spicata | | £1.75 |
| Spearmint, a tasty form. | Mentha spicata Crispa | | £1.75 |
| Well, it’s interesting and frilly and actually quite pretty, but it might make you think more of cat than lamb. | Nepeta racemosa Felix | | £2.25 |
| Catmint, they either do or they don’t. | Origanum Acorn Bank | | £1.95 |
| Ornamental pointy yellow leaves and aromatic. | Origanum County Cream | | £1.95 |
| Variegated and hardier than it looks. | Penstemon Hidcote Pink | | £3.50 |
| AGM (The RHS says ‘Yes’) Flowers have darker veins. | Penstemon White Bedder | | £2.95 |
| And this one – an AGM too! A good, untinted white. | Petroselinum French | | £1.75 |
| Hate to admit it, but more vigour and a better flavour | Phaseolus French Cobra | | £2.75 |
| Climbing French Beans, why would anyone want to grow runners? | Phlox Chattahoochee | | £2.50 |
| Fussy but rewarding.Cheery blue flowers with a pink centre. Bit of shade, bit of moisture, bit of absence of waterlogging? | Pieris Little Heath | | £2.75 |
| Dwarf variegated Pieris, a good tenant for a terracotta pot. If rhododendrons thrive, so will she. | Rosmarinus Blue Rain | | £1.75 |
| Very prostrate. | Rosmarinus Prostratus Group | | £2.25 |
| Just ordinarily prostrate. | Salvia Purpurescens | | £1.25 |
| Purple sage, useful and ornamental. | Sedum Cape Blanco | | £2.25 |
| Cracking silver succulent foliage, some people like the yellow flowers, but you can cut them off. | Teucrium fruticans | | £4.50 |
| Blue flowered silver leaved, white stemmed shrub. Grows well on a sunny house wall at 600 feet but the open garden is a step too far. | Thymus camphoratus | | £1.25 |
| Camphor thyme, nice leaf, sagittate would you call it? | | | |