The distilled essence from our beds of Aquilegia 'Alchemists Mix'. We have separated out the most different and impressive specimens, including dwarf golden and variegated leaf forms, some of which have pom-pom flowers and are fragrant. These utterly new plants are definitely the pot of gold at the end of this line of breeding. ... Learn More

Seeds collected from our 'bizarre aquilegia' and 'unusual oddities' beds in the trial grounds, including some new very dwarf variegated and coloured foliage forms. No-one has ever seen plants like some of these before, so do our further trialling for us. Let us know if anything amazing turns up! ... Learn More

The sprays of deeply doubled, darkest purple flowers quite amazingly become invisible any time after dusk here! As black as you can get in aquilegias, or any flower for that matter. ... Learn More

Large deep blue flowers open on long stems above strong clumps of strong green maiden-hair foliage. This selection from Pink Flamingo is very vigorous and will happily self-seed making attractive drifts wherever it is allowed. ... Learn More

Selected here many years ago, sprays of icing pink pom-poms hover gracefully above the burnished, bright golden foliage. This lovely form looks fabulous as a massed planting and is completely trouble-free, improving yearly. ... Learn More

Sprays of dark blue flowers gently brushed paler around the edge of each petal, adorn this rare columbine in spring and early summer, above a compact display of blue-green, basal 'maidenhair' foliage. We have also been advised that this may be a different species, possibly a form of Aquilegia kuhistanica. ... Learn More

In about 1990 we developed this plant, the world's first golden foliage aquilegia to come almost 100% true from seed with new foliage that appears to glow in a shaded spot. Flowers can range from pure white through shades of pink and reds to many forms of blue and mauve. ... Learn More

This ever-popular old cottage garden plant produces massed heads of very unusual, tightly-compressed green buttons which open into green-cream-purple heavily doubled flowers. Very long-lived and comes reliably true from seed. ... Learn More

This completely new colour range has bicolored flowers in all shade of red, orange and yellow. The occasional 'plum' pops up but adds to the colour scheme! Unlike many aquilegias which give a once-off burst of bloom, these will flower on and on. ... Learn More

This specially selected spurless form produces flowers almost identical to double clematis and in the most deep and rich royal purple. One of the most outstanding new forms we have recently produced. ... Learn More

Bunches of bobbing, pure white pom-pom flowers on branching stems make a delightful sight in May and June. Will self-seed and come true if grown away from other forms. ... Learn More

New aquilegias come around quite rarely. And this lovely, quite compact new flower, which was bred by Jenny Templeman who is one of our customers, and named after her dear mother, has long-spurred golden flowers, most of which are also delicately perfumed. ... Learn More

Dense clouds of puckered deepest blue and white flowers open over a long season, especially if plants are dead-headed. This is one of the most distinctive and best-known of the old fashioned forms and was rescued from obscurity here. ... Learn More

This fast-growing, bone hardy evergreen groundcover can soon spread to form a generous clump of foliage, topped in late spring with open clusters of golden-eyed, lightly scented white flowers. A handsome addition to the alpine bed or rockery, it can also be used to fill crevices in paving, or dry stone walls. It is also a rare native native to the British Isles, where it is only known to occur in a few locations in the Cuillin Ridge of the Isle of Skye. In addition it is native to mountainous areas of Europe, North and East Africa, Central and Eastern Asia and parts of North America. ... Learn More

Pure white funnel-shaped flowers open on branching stems above a carpet of fleshy leaves in earliest spring. An easy-to-grow plant ideal for a rockery in sun or shade. ... Learn More