Seed Catalogue 2020-21
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Special Plants Seeds 2020/21 Special Plants Seeds £2/packet, add £1.50 postage per order (£5 for Europe, £6 for elsewhere) Choose a free packet for every 10 packets ordered! Minimum order 3 packets. Special Plants Greenways Lane, Cold Ashton, Chippenham, Wilts UK SN14 8LA e-mail:[email protected] phone: +44 (0)1225 891686 All these seeds and more are available online: www.specialplants.net Abbreviations HA - hardy annual (flowers, sets seed and dies in one year) TA - tender annual (protect from frost) HP - hardy herbaceous perennial (lives for years) TP - tender perennial (lives for years if no frost) BHP - borderline hardy perennial (may survive winter outdoors in sheltered position or mild winter) SLP - short-lived hardy perennial (flowers outdoors for more than one year, usually 2, 3 or 4 years) HB - hardy biennial (takes 2 years to flower, then sets seed and dies) BH - borderline hardy M - monocarpic (takes 3 or more years to flower, then sets seed and dies), may be hardy or tender Shr - shrub Tr - tree Bu - bulb Cl - climber AGM - Award of Garden Merit, given by the RHS to plants of outstanding merit # - needs cold to germinate, usually best sown fresh in autumn x - a cross between two species ex -from a named hybrid, won’t come true, but may be interesting Seeds which need to be sown fresh are in a separate list on green paper at the end. They are available from time of harvesting, indicated at end of each entry. They can only be ordered on the website. Acacia baileyana Purpurea Achillea ‘Cassis’ Adlumia fungosa Agastache ‘Apricot AGM Fine blue-grey leaves Dark wine-red flat-topped Hardy biennial climber, Sprite’ Spikes of coral- flushed with purple. Yellow flowerheads, fade to ferny foliage, swags of pale orange tubular flowers, mimosa flowers Feb. Small burgundy. Likes sun & pink lockets. Likes shade fragrant minty-liquorice tree 15ft (5 seeds) BH Tr drainage 24” HP 15ft HB Cl leaves. Sun 20” BHP Agastache Golden Jubilee Agastache ‘Rose Mint’ Agastache rupestris Agrostemma Spikes of blue flowers, Spikes of pink flowers, Coral flowers, fine grey- ‘Ocean Pearl’ bright gold sweet-scented fragrant leaves. Likes sun green fragrant leaves. Beautiful white corncockle. foliage, compact. Likes & drainage 24” HP Likes sun & drainage Faint speckled tan lines on sun & drainage 18” HP 20” BHP petals. Likes sun 36” HA Agrostemma Albuca shawii NEW Alcea rosea nigra Allium carinatum Amsonia hubrichtii Anagallis ‘Blue Light’ Androsace septentrionalis Anomotheca laxa ‘Purple Queen’ Deep yellow nodding Black Hollyhock pulchellum AGM Blue-grey stars early Blue Pimpernel Glistening white flowers. Easy-going iris relative. Silky purple flowers with almond-scented flowers all Blackest of black. Arching sprays of small summer. Very fine leaves, Gentian blue flowers for 6 Fine stems turn dark red, Sprays of little red flowers. white throats. Lovely with summer. Flowers 1st year Perennial but replace often purple flowers like an bright gold in autumn if in months. Tender, grow as tipped with tiny red seeds. Self sows, likes sun & grasses, good cut 36” HA from seed 24” BH Bu to limit rust 5ft HB / SLP exploding firework 24” H Bu sun 24” (10 seeds) # HP annual, sun 10” TA / TP Self sows, likes sun 8” HA drainage 5” (10 seeds) HP Allium carinatum Allium narcissiflorum Allium obliquum Alonsoa ‘Bright Spark’ Anthyllis montana Antirrhinum ‘Black Prince’ Antirrhinum molle Antirrhinum pulchellum album AGM Clusters of pale pink bells Tight round heads of lemon Bright orange flowers, ‘Rubra’ AGM Dark red snapdragon with Perennial Snapdragon ‘Rocket White’ Arching sprays of small in June. Likes sun & yellow flowers in June. blue-green leaves. Easy, Soft pink/red clover flowers dark leaves. Easy, good Velvety grey leaves, white Tall spikes of white flowers. white flowers. Likes sun & drainage 6” # HBu Keeps its angled leaves likes sun, treat as annual above fine silky grey-green cut flower. Likes sun & flowers, pink buds. Hardy if Long-blooming & fragrant. drainage 24” H Bu Sun & drainage H Bu 24” 30” TA / TP leaves 6” (10 seeds) HP drainage 18” HA well-drained, sun 10” SLP good for cutting 30” SLP Alonsoa ‘Peachy Keen’ Althaea cannabina Alyssum spinosum Amaranthus Aquilegia ‘Black Barlow’ Aquilegia canadensis AGM Aquilegia chrysantha Aquilegia Peachy pink flowers all Tall willowy stems of pale Roseum AGM ‘Autumn Palette’ AGM Very double purple-black Scarlet spurs swept back ‘Denver Gold’ NEW ‘Munstead White’ summer. Tender, can treat pink mallow flowers Aug- Fine evergreen grey Arching bronze flower granny’s bonnets. Seeds from yellow eye, on airy Large lemon yellow flowers (=A. vulgaris ‘Nivea’) AGM as annual. Likes sun & Sept. Few leaves, airy leaves, smothered in little spikes. Long-blooming, true if isolated 24” HP stems. Seeds true if with long spurs. Seeds Wide-petalled short-spurred drainage 15” TA / TP effect. Likes sun 7ft HP pink flowers June 12” HP good cut flower 36” TA isolated 30” HP true if isolated 24” HP white flowers 18” HP Amberboa muricata Ammi majus AGM Ammi visnaga Amorpha canescens Aquilegia ‘Tequila Sunrise’ Aquilegia viridiflora Asclepias curassavica Asclepias incarnata Sweet Sultan Giant white cow-parsley 4” white platters of fine Lead Plant. Dense spikes Big swept back coral-red Chocolate Soldiers NEW Bright red-orange Swamp Milkweed Fragrant Fragrant fringed pale flowers, dark green foliage. cow-parsley flowers, fine of tiny deep purple flowers. flower with gold corolla. Fragrant, subtle green and flowers with yellow centres. rose pink flowers summer, purple flowers. Good cut. Excellent cut flower. Likes dill-like leaves. Excellent Fine grey-green aromatic Flowers first year from brown flowers, elegant 12” Long-blooming. Can grow great seedpods. Loved by Likes sun 30” HA sun & drainage 4-5ft HA cut flower. Sun 3-4ft HA leaves. Sun 2-3ft HP early sowing 30” HP (10 seeds) HP as an annual. Sun 40” TP butterflies 3-4ft HP Asclepias tuberosa Aster (= Callistephus) Atriplex hortensis rubra Baptisia australis AGM Carex ‘Prairie Fire’ Catananche caerulea Catananche caerulea Centaurea atropurpurea Butterfly Weed chinensis ‘Hulk’ NEW Purple Orache Spikes of dark blue pea Shining orange-flushed Cupid’s Dart Alba White Cupid’s Dart Wine red knapweed flowers Clusters of bright orange Petal-like green bracts Purple leaves & stems. flowers, handsome leaves, evergreen grassy leaves, Papery soft blue chicory- Papery white chicory-like (similar to C. benoistii) from flowers in summer. Likes around broad yellow and Edible easy annual. Sun, black seedpods. Likes sun red-gold in autumn. Sun or like flowers on thin stems flowers on thin stems beautiful intricate shiny sun & drainage 24” HP white centre. Sun 24” TA self sows 36” HA & drainage 36” HP light shade, not dry 18” HP glossy seedheads 24” HP above neat foliage 24” HP buds. Likes sun 36” HP Bigelowia nuttallii NEW Briza media NEW Brodiaea californica NEW Bukiniczia cabulica NEW Centaurea cyanus Centaurea cyanus Centaurea orientalis Cephalaria dipsacoides Dense haze of fine bright Quaking Grass. Nodding Loose cluster of up-facing Flat rosette of beautifully Cornflower. ‘Black Ball’ Clear yellow knapweed NEW Pale cream flowers yellow flowers, fine leaves. tiny purple-green lockets flared blue-purple flowers mottled pink/grey/brown Bright blue annual, once a Double Black Cornflower flowers from beautiful on airy 5ft stems. Good Likes sun & drainage, not fade to buff. Dry sun. Self on wiry stems. Drainage & semi-succulent leaves 4” weed of cornfields, now Deepest purple 1” heads of intricate shiny buds. Easy, seedheads stand all winter, too rich 12” HP sows gently 20” H SLP sun 12” (15 seeds) HP HB / H M rarely seen 20” HA ragged petals 24” HA likes sun 24” HP Self sows 5ft HP Bupleurum griffithii Calamagrostis brachytricha Calendula ‘Bronze Beauty’ Campanula lactiflora blue Cephalaria gigantea Cephalaria transylvanica Cerinthe major Chamaecrista fasciculata Acid yellow flowers, lime Diamond Feather Grass Pale cream double daisies Seed from deep blue Giant Yellow Scabious Tall airy plant with small Purpurascens NEW Bright yellow flat green leaves. Excellent cut AGM Many-faceted seed- tipped with bronze. Easy plants. Blooms profusely Large pale yellow pale mauve scabious-like Glaucous leaves, deep pea flowers. Acacia-like flower. Self sows gently heads catch dew or frost annual, self sows. Good July, reblooms Sept if pincushion flowers on tall flowers, few small leaves. blue bracts, violet flowers. leaves fold up when 15” HA Aug-Jan. Sun 40” HP cut flower 30” HA deadheaded 4-5ft HP stems, easy 6ft HP Sun & drainage 4ft HA Sun, self sows 18” HA touched 18” HA Campanula patula Campanula punctata Campanula pyramidalis Cardoon Chasmanthium latifolium Chicory Chionochloa flavicans Chionochloa rubra AGM Blue-purple stars on ‘Rubriflora’ Chimney Bellflower Cynara cardunculus Nodding seedheads like Cichorium intybus Graceful arching plumes of Shimmering fountain of fine slender branching stems. Profusion of large drooping Tall spires of blue bells. Ornamental Artichoke ironed hops, green in Wild Chicory flower above 30” tussock of bronze arching leaves year Very pretty, self sows in white bells flushed with red. Or C.p. ‘Alba’ white bells. Big grey cut leaves, edible summer, bronze in winter, Blunt-petalled blue flowers glossy evergreen foliage. round. Sun & drainage poor soils 10-20” HA Flowers in June 30” HP 6-10ft HB young shoots 7ft HP rustle in the breeze 36” HP all summer 4ft HP Sun 5ft HP 36” x 36” HP Cirsium canum Clematis integrifolia Clematis Mongolian Bells Cleome ‘Helen Campbell’ Cosmos ‘Purity’ Cosmos ‘Rubenza’ AGM Cosmos ‘Sunset Orange’ Cosmos ‘Xanthos’ Bold silver-green leaves ‘Blue Ribbons’ Big blue, pink or white AGM White Spider Flower Big pure white flowers 4ft Single deep red flowers NEW replaces ‘Bright Lights’ Pale yellow and white erupt with tall stems of Big deep blue flowers with flowers with twisted petals.