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SPRING 2020 LIST INTRODUCTION (2020 marks 48 years since we started business) Welcome to our new spring list for January 2020. We have tried to get the list out early this year in order to despatch EU orders before any possible Brexit complications. Like every business in the UK, we still have no idea what the deal will be, when it might happen and how it will impact on us or our customers. We hope that our EU customers will bear with us during these times of uncertainty. This list remains valid until our plants start to grow or become unsafe to post. Spring can produce surprises, when plants suddenly start to grow (or get frozen into the ground)! Late availability will vary from plant to plant. Many Helleborus are already in flower, but can still be safely sent in May. Paeonia are in flower here by April and are unsafe to send by March. Tender items are especially affected by long periods of cold weather in transit, and we have to delay or suspend deliveries of these in periods of intense cold. Please bear with us. We will always do our best to get plants to you quickly, but early orders help both us and you. We keep the website (https://rareplants.co.uk) up to date with daily monitoring and changes, so you can always check there too. If we have a plant and it is in stock and safe to send, then it is on the website and available for purchase. If it isn’t for sale on the website, then we don’t have it for sale at all. We do however list many extra plants on the website, where stocks are too small for us to reliably offer them in print. The website came in to its own in summer of 2019, when we were able to offer many small stock items and rarities on the day that they were harvested, with exact stock control. Many plants were so popular that they didn’t last until the planned publication of our printed list. We prepared the list, revised it and re-edited it many times but eventually it simply wasn’t worth us publishing it. Thus no Summer 2019 catalogue was issued. We again have a fantastic selection of double Japanese Hepatica though they are not in our printed list. These are listed on our website only. We lift and divide these in spring, to fill sales. To ease the strain on the plants, we lift these only once, after which the clumps are replanted and withdrawn from sale. Those still listed on our website are still available for purchase. Those not listed, have been dealt with and withdrawn. Our website at https://rareplants.co.uk continues to be more and more popular with our customers and we find it wonderful, without the cost limitations of a paper list, to be able to rattle on at length about our plants and show you pictures of almost everything that we grow. On the ordering side of things, plant reservation, card- checking, paperwork, arithmetic and charging are done online, securely. We don’t see your card details ever. Charging is dealt with on a secure, bank-to-bank basis. Stocks in the online shop are monitored automatically, so if you buy one, it reduces the number available for purchase once payment is made. This means that we can sometimes offer very small stocks without fear of selling more than we have. Thus you will find a much wider range of additional plants on our website. IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ A change in card handling regulations means that mail-order suppliers and most other merchants cannot store your card details or numbers in any form other than for the duration of a transaction. Thus customers who prefer to telephone their orders, with card details, will now need to have their cards charged at once. After which our record of your numbers is securely destroyed. Merchants are not allowed to store card details for the future or defer payments, I am sorry. I hope that you enjoy our new catalogue and your gardening in 2020 - our 48th year of trading. Paul Christian Poison – Many ornamental garden plants are poisonous if eaten. I cannot conceive that our customers would be so reckless as to eat their garden plants, but being sensible for a moment, children may be attracted to brightly coloured berries or bulbs. Asarum, Arisaema, Paris, Podophyllum and Scadoxus are known poisonous plants. Many other of our plants are toxic, unpleasant or damaging if eaten, a few may be fatal. If this concerns you, then you would be best avoiding all of our plants as even a brief search of the Internet reveals known toxicity associated with many garden plants. Please treat them all as being potentially dangerous. They are sold as ornamental plants - do not consume them or allow others to do so. This applies to all other nurseries selling the same plants it is not just ours that are toxic. ACHLYS japonica White wands of flowers in summer over the very decorative, three-part leaf, (which becomes vanilla-scented on drying). Fully hardy with us in a humus-rich soil in part or transient shade .... £18.50 ADIANTUM venustum This Himalayan Maidenhair fern likes light shade, humus-rich soil and humidity. It makes fresh green, almost evergreen foliage on black stems, turning a lovely bronze in autumn. ............... £7.50 ALLIUM geyeri Unusual netted bulbs and pink roots! Slender leaves present with the small, "waisted", pinch-nosed pink blooms. Grows well without ever being a weed in almost any soil .................................... £4.50 insubricum Heads of up to five individually large flowers of bright rose pink, hanging in clustered heads in summer. The flowers of this species are amongst the loveliest in the genus. ................................ £9.50 listera The leaves emerge, shaded with bronze, in Spring. In July, 25-40cm stems bear heads of rounded, creamy-pink flowers on stiff pink tubes. .......................................................................... £8.00 prattii One or two rather long, but quite broad leaves often with a central, paler stripe. Tightly packed buds and loosely packed flowers of a deep, ruby red to purple-violet colour. ................................... £5.50 ANEMONE Many Anemone start their growth very early, please order as soon as possible. flaccida Mount Fujiwara A dwarf, alpine form of flaccida originally found on Mount Fujiwara Dake. It makes small, dark green, silver-marked leaves and small, white flowers held on very short stems. ...................... £10.50 keiskiana An early blooming miniature species from Japan with marked and divided leaves above which hover multi-petalled flowers of a very soft violet so pale you may think they are white. ..................... £10.50 * raddeana Trifid leaves each attractively marked in brown and over-topped by 10cm stems carrying flowers of 2.5-3cm diameter, pure white or faintly purple infused flushed in purple outside............ £7.50 ranunculoides An easily-grown species with small, rhizomes. Bright green, ferny leaves and good- sized, buttercup-yellow flowers in pairs. Flowers early and reliably............................................................... £4.00 Anemone nemorosa clones * Albaplena Flowers of pure white, with a double shuttlecock in the centre. After replanting not all will be fully double in their first year. A worthy plant, often wrongly equated with Vestal ............................... £3.80 Blue Eyes Established plantings throw double flowers with several whorls of white around a gorgeous deep blue-purple centre. Less vigorous than some but increases pleasingly in time. ................... £8.00 Bowles Purple Dark polished purple buds make a flower paler in shade than Allenii but darker than Robinsoniana. In size it also falls between the two, but it has a the purple exterior. ..................................... £4.50 * Ice and Fire White flowers take on a deep pink shade front and back, becoming deep pink all over, the petals edges stay white until the end. Pink flowers and white flowers co-exist ....................................... £5.00 * Lucia AMH.7804 This has medium sized, pink flowers, held over wide leaves which emerge tinged with brown, fading to green on expansion .......................................................................................... £5.50 * Mart’s Blue Flowers of good, slightly violet-infused, blue colouring. The foliage is retained longer in the autumn and is outlined with red purple along the edges ......................................................................... £5.50 * Robinsoniana Large, pale Wisteria blue blooms backed with pale grey. A vigorous clone still going strong after many years from fat rhizomes Named for William Robinson of Gravetye .................................. £2.80 * Royal Blue Small, rich blue flowers over dark green foliage. Smaller than many but with a much more intense and attractive colouring, nicely set off by the deeper foliage .................................................... £3.80 ANEMONOPSIS macrophylla A choice woodland plant with attractive, ferny foliage and nodding, opalescent white flowers in slender elegant spikes. The flower is infused with amethyst-violet on the mouth. ...................... £21.00 macro. flora plena In this form the flowers have twice the usual complement of petals. Both the inner and the outer whorls are doubled and each set of petals is infused with a pink-amethyst colouration. .............. £53.50 ANEMONELLA thalictroides Betty Blake A true double, with lovely symmetrical flowers of pale pastel green, the true colour of nephrite jade. Each bloom consists of stacked whorls of petals. ................................................................ £14.50 thal. Cameo Very soft pink flowers, the colour of candy-floss and fully doubled, with whorl after whorl of petals stacked up on top of each other into a conical star. ............................................................ £14.50 * thal. Double White Full and perfect flowers made up of piled whorls of ghostly white petals enhanced by the tiniest hint of apricot, in the centre of the flower with age............................................................................ £16.50 * thal. Green Hurricane This has a backdrop of broad, overlapping, deep green bracts above which sits a wispy whorl of styles in which the anthers are converted to yellow-green and white petals .......................