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Monarch Birch seeds Cat No. 204 The largest leaved of all the Birches and, with its pale orange or grey bark, one of the finest. Easy from seed which should not be covered with soil when sown.
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River Birch, Black Birch, Red Birch seeds Cat No. 204N For planting in damp ground, there are few better species than this attractive tree with remarkably shaggy bark and elegant, deep glossy green, diamond-shaped leaves at first white beneath.
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Canoe Birch, Paper Birch seeds Cat No. 204L A striking and uncommon tree with smooth, white bark, sometimes shaded with pink or pale orange. The rather thick leaves are a very matt dark green and have been described as putty-knife shaped. Yello...
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Silver Birch, European White Birch, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 204Q With its distinctive, smooth, silvery-white bark (actually at first it's shiny, red-brown) and graceful, pendulous (on older trees) branches bearing vaguely diamond-shaped leaves, this must be one of ...
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Himalayan Birch seeds Cat No. 204H Suitable for smaller gardens is this attractive small or medium-sized tree with (at least in the strain offered) white bark that peels off in papery sheets to reveal an inner pink layer, and hard, dar...
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Bur Marigold seeds Cat No. 205D A splendid cultivated variety of a plant originating in Mexico quickly producing dense, fern (or indeed Fennel)-like foliage, and bearing all summer and autumn until frost a profusion of bright yellow...
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Cat No. 205N Ideal for your highly fashionable hanging basket, patio containers or anywhere you would like a plant to trail or tumble is this fine prostrate Bidens. With attractive, much-divided foliage, it bears ...
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Cat No. 204E A good choice for a warm sunny wall (although it will tolerate a little shade) is this splendid climbing plant from Central and South America. With 3-pronged climbing appendages looking just like cat’...
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Price: £1.69 |
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Purple Apple Berry seeds Cat No. 204C This is a very desirable, free-growing climber from Tasmania for the cool greenhouse (it's hardy enough to be grown outside in the mildest parts of the country), freely producing its greenish-yellow o...
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Annatto Tree, Lipstick Tree seeds Cat No. 204A From tropical America comes this interesting evergreen tree with broad, heart-shaped leaves, eventually bearing panicles of large, pale peach-coloured flowers. The dye, Annatto, is prepared from the s...
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Price: £1.90 |
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Sting Lily seeds Cat No. 205B Troubled by trespassers or poachers? Then you could always try this one! Because this lovely plant is armed with viciously stinging hairs – said to be more painful than a Nettle (if only of short dura...
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Price: £1.84 |
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Winged False Aster, Claspingleaf Doll's Daisy seeds Cat No. 206E From moist soils in eastern USA, this is an easily grown, long-lived perennial that will supply your garden with tall umbels of soft pink flowers for cutting in late summer to early autumn. 5-6 ft.
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Cat No. 206B A handsome plant freely branching from the base and bearing in late summer sprays of pinkish-violet flowers. 2-3 ft.
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Peruvian Lily Vine seeds Cat No. 207D This is indisputably the equal of the Chilean Bell Flower, Lapageria rosea (Cat. No. 761E), in beauty - and there are very, very few plants you can say that about! This is a very rare, small, climbing...
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Cat No. 207J This is another beautiful Bomarea, practically unknown, with large, lax, drooping clusters of gorgeous, waxy, orangy-pink blooms with three inner petals a contrasting yellow and green with spots. Pack...
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Cat No. 207F From Colombia and Venezuela comes this superb species that twines its way up to six or eight feet, and bears the most gorgeous, dense umbels, clumps almost, a carillon at least, of red and reddish-yel...
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Cat No. 207G This is a rather charming species from Chile, another twining climber bearing in early summer graceful, pendent umbels of long, delicately stalked, pink or purple, tubular flowers with blue and dark p...
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Price: £4.32 |
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Baquil-blianca seeds Cat No. 209A Unknown in these Islands is this fine climber from Chile with reddish twining stems and graceful, trifoliate leaves. The clusters of small, cup-shaped flowers are followed by berries, about the size o...
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Borage, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 1377 A delightful annual worth growing for the pretty blue flowers beloved by bees. The young tender leaves are used in salads and cooling drinks and the flowers once thought to drive out melancholy, can b...
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White Borage seeds Cat No. 1377A Rarely seen is this lovely variety with sprays of delightful white flowers. Why not grow them both and add a splash of colour to your herb patch? And a little tip – pop a floret in each individual mou...
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