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Echinacea purpurea Elton Knight ('Elbrook'^PBR)

purple coneflower [Elton Knight]

A reasonably compact cultivar with strongly branched purple stems to 65cm, and dark green foliage. Flowers are large, to 12cm, the clear magenta rays held flat round the large, rusty-orange cone

Nigella damascena 'Miss Jekyll'

love-in-a-mist 'Miss Jekyll'

'Miss Jekyll' is an upright, bushy annual with sky-blue flowers 4cm across, borne in summer well above the feathery foliage, and followed by decorative, inflated seed capsules

Rosa White Star ('Harquill') (ClHT)

rose [White Star]

A short climbing rose to about 2m with dark green, shiny foliage and small clusters of cupped, white, semi-double flowers in summer and autumn

Salvia × sylvestris 'Viola Klose'

wood sage 'Viola Klose'

A bushy, clump-forming perennial to about 50cm producing upright spikes of rich, blue-purple, hooded flowers from mid-summer to early autumn

Viburnum tinus 'Eve Price'

laurustinus 'Eve Price'

'Eve Price' is a bushy, medium-sized evergreen shrub with broadly oval, leathery dark green leaves and, from late winter, flattened clusters of deep pink buds opening to small, starry white flowers. Berries deep metallic-blue

Sarcococca hookeriana var. digyna 'Purple Stem'

sweet box 'Purple Stem'

'Purple Stem' is a small evergreen shrub with narrow lanceolate leaves held alternately on purple stems. Small, delicate and muskily-scented light red and white flowers are borne in the leaf axils in winter

× Fatshedera lizei 'Variegata' (v)

variegated tree ivy

A sparsely-branched small evergreen shrub with large, leathery, palmately lobed leaves with a narrow cream margin. Flowers small, white, in globose clusters

Ilex aquifolium 'Madame Briot' (f/v)

holly 'Madame Briot'

'Madame Briot' is a bushy small evergreen tree with purple young stems. Leaves broadly ovate, spiny, with a bold golden-yellow margin. Flowers small, white; berries bright red

Ilex aquifolium 'J.C. van Tol' (f)

holly 'J.C. van Tol'

An evergreen self-fertile, female tree to 6m tall, of broadly upright habit with dark-purple young shoots and almost spineless, glossy, dark green ovate leaves. Small white flowers in spring and early summer are followed by abundant, bright red berries

Erica vagans f. alba 'Lyonesse'

Cornish heath 'Lyonesse'

'Lyonesse' is a compact dwarf shrub to 25cm, making a close mat of bright green foliage. Flowers white, in long racemes, with conspicuous brown anthers

Erica carnea 'Ann Sparkes'

heather 'Ann Sparkes'

'Ann Sparkes' is a prostrate evergreen shrub to 15cm in height and 25cm spread with dark golden-yellow to orange foliage, tipped with bronze in spring and flushed crimson in winter, with racemes of rose-pink flowers, darkening to purplish-pink from late winter

Erica carnea 'March Seedling'

heather 'March Seedling'

'March Seedling' is a spreading, evergreen shrub, to 25cm high, with dark green foliage and racemes of rose pink to purple flowers in spring

Erica carnea f. aureifolia 'Foxhollow'

heather 'Foxhollow'

'Foxhollow' is a prostrate evergreen heather to 25cm in height and 40cm wide with yellow-green young foliage, becoming reddish-orange in winter. Flowers pale-pink to pale-purple, in short racemes, from late winter

Phlox paniculata 'Uspekh'

perennial phlox 'Uspekh'

a herbaceous perennial, up to 1.1m high, with green, lance-shaped leaves and scented, violet-coloured flowers, with a starry white eye, in mid and late summer

Bergenia 'Morgenröte'

elephant's ears 'Morgenröte'

'Morgenröte' is an evergreen perennial forming a clump of leathery, rounded, deep green leaves, with erect, crimson stems to 50cm in height, bearing clusters of deep carmine-pink flowers

Heuchera 'Guacamole'

'Guacamole' is a clump-forming variety with striking bright green leaves and creamy-white flowers which appear on upright stems during the spring and summer

Calluna vulgaris 'Kerstin'

heather 'Kerstin'

'Kerstin' is a dwarf shrub with downy grey foliage, with yellow and red tips in spring, and short spikes of mauve flowers in late summer and autumn

Leycesteria formosa Golden Lanterns ('Notbruce'^PBR)

Himalayan honeysuckle [Golden Lanterns]

A vigorous, upright, clump-forming shrub with hollow stems. Emerging growth is orange paling to bright golden yellow foliage all season and in sun. Inflorescences are pendulous with dark bracts and white tubular flowers protuding in summer followed by dark purplish black fragrant berries attractive to birds.

Veronicastrum virginicum 'Album'

Culver's root 'Album'

An upright perennial to 1.2m tall, with whorls of lance-shaped, deep green, toothed leaves and dense, slender, branched spikes of small white flowers in summer and early autumn

Olearia macrodonta

New Zealand holly

O. macrodonta is a vigorous medium-sized evergreen shrub with spiny-toothed, ovate, grey-green leaves, white-felted beneath, up to 9cm in length. Small, fragrant white flowers are borne in large clusters in summer