This extremely rare, beautiful and valuable new discovery from the Arctic wastes of Eastern Russia bears a long succession of large, chocolate-tipped yellow flowers, which are produced throughout the spring and summer above a solid, soft foil of delicate ferny foliage. In a well-prepared bed it can reach nearly a metre in height and is exceptional on a north bank here. ... Learn More

This diminutive treasure is packed with racemes of large, white or creamy-yellow tubular flowers above finely-divided glaoucous foliage, very early in the year. It will thrive virtually everywhere, making a superb show every spring, along with a gentle increase underground. It may also self sow a little but never to cause a problem, and soon after flowering this amazing plant vanishes underground into hardy tubers for another 9 months ... Learn More

Clumps of blue green, dissected, ferny foliage are the perfect backdrop for the clustered primrose yellow, purple-brown tipped flowers that open from huge clusters of buds in April and May. A focal point in the spring garden, this "Lord of the genus Corydalis" never fails to attract attention and questions from the visitors to our gardens here. ... Learn More

This lovely compact plant is somewhat similar to Corydalis lutea, but has greyer foliage in spring and for most of the summer, below a long succession of striking, bicoloured, greenish-yellow and white flowers. ... Learn More

The Eastern Himalayas is the home of this vigorous architectural plant, which may self-seed when happy. From a dense filigree of fern-like grey-green foliage sprout thick, crunchy, dividing brittle stems carrying masses of red-tipped ivory flowers. ... Learn More

A brand new hybrid discovered here as a single seedling from two quite distinctive and different parents. Your seedlings will vary, but all will have very early sprays of creamy-yellow flowers erupting from bronzed foliage later turning to shades of pink or purple. ... Learn More

This dwarf gem originates from the Caucasus and south-western U.S.S.R., where it grows in light woodland, making small, compact clumps of grey-green foliage. Relatively large flowers of lavender-pink, each with a prominent, protruding crimson tongue, cover the clump in early spring. ... Learn More

A distinctive, rapid growing plant producing large sprays of tubular pink flowers with yellow tips. Will flower the first year if sown early and also self-seed gently where it is happy. ... Learn More

The lovely albino form of this plant. Sown early can make an impressive mass smothered with yellow-tipped snow-white flowers. ... Learn More

This hardy corydalis bears strong spikes of tubular and pale yellow flowers which are arranged in neat racemes. The most unusual feature however, is the maidenhair-like foliage which is a striking, metallic, glaucous grey colour. ... Learn More

This lovely plant displays compact sprays of rich butter-yellow flowers held close to the rosette of finely-divided, glaucous leaves. Although it is an alpine plant, and can easily withstand minus ten degrees C, it grows best in a well drained soil, or a scree mixture as it does not readily tolerate winter wet, and therefore is best suited to a protected scree outdoors, or will perform even better in a raised bed in an Alpine House. ... Learn More

Hazel nuts are an essential addition to Christmas time and are slightly smaller than cobnuts. Used in pralines, Nutella, sweets and cooking. they are also an excellent wildlife plant, giving both shelter and food to pheasants, squirrels, woodpeckers and all of the various rodents who struggle in a hard winter. The catkins are ever-popular for cutting along with daffodils in the spring. These seeds/nuts were collected from our hedgerows surrounding Plant World, and being easy-to-grow, they often sprout up where squirrels have buried them. They do on the lawns at Plant World anyway. They also pr ... Learn More

After many years this astonishing specimen makes a massive gray trunk reaching to 30 m (100 ft.) tall, with an enormous crown, up to 6m or 20 feet wide formed by enormous dark green leaves that can be 3 m (10 ft.) in diameter. The terminal inflorescence, which is formed after 50 to 80 years of vegetative growth, holds the record for being the world's largest flowering structure and produces literally millions of flowers. This tree is monocarpic which means it will die after flowering, but you will be growing them for your grandchildren, so grow several! In nature it grows from northeastern In ... Learn More

Fabulous, rich velvety-maroon-to-almost-black, chocolate-scented flowers open over a very long period from early summer right into the frosts of autumn. Amazed growers cannot resist smelling this wonderful perfume which comes from a chemical constituent very similar to vanilla! Although available for many years as sterile plants, viable seeds had never been produced, but after a spontaneous mutation occurred, one plant was discovered with just a few fertile seeds, and plants grown from these seeds will also produce a very small number of fertile seeds. Incredibly, these plants vary in stature ... Learn More

A compact variety with a dwarf habit compared to many Cosmos but with very large white flowers. A reliable performer which will flower for many months before going to seed. ... Learn More