Beautiful, dainty, five-petalled, yellow-eyed, rosy-pink flowers appear in late spring on this rare and delicate cushion plant. Although it is totally frost hardy, it will do best either in tufa, a sheltered rock garden or a pot in the alpine house, where its flowers will retain their perfection. In the wild it is found mainly on alpine grass and rocks in the high peaks of the Massif Central, and more rarely in the Vosges, the Cevennes, the eastern Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Mountains. ... Learn More

Quite similar to A. obtusifolia, this diminutive plant has rosettes only to 1.5cm across with narrower leaves and flowers are usually salmon pink and only occasionally white. It is native to the Central Balkans where it lives in screes, moraines and short grassland, at 2000-3000m. Very easy to accommodate, it simply requires a well-drained, acidic soil. ... Learn More

This strong-growing plant makes tight rosettes of shining green leaves, and in spring large white flowers with a yellow centre, in broad loose clusters of five or six. It will do best in a gravel bed or scree with good drainage, and will usually self seed freely around. In the wild it inhabits limestone rocks from 3000 to 4500 feet, from the Cevennes through the Alps into Austria. ... Learn More

From narrow-leaved rosettes arise long slender stems carrying fountains of pure white flowers. A charming annual member of the primula family which will actually self-seed when happy. ... Learn More

This robust and easily grown plant forms cushioned tufts made of large rosettes of spoon-shaped leaves fringed by fine hairs, and short downy stems carrying from one to six white or rosy flowers with a yellow eye. It grows at over 1600m in the Alps and Carpathians. ... Learn More

This delightful dwarf member of the primrose family, also called the pygmy flower or rock jasmine, grows high on the the Fell Fields of California, where it produces small rosettes of crinkled leaves from which arise thin stems carrying small yellow-eyed, creamy white flowers. ... Learn More

Androsace strigillosa has neat rosettes of small leaves in winter, and much larger leaves in summer. It has upright stems with a loose umbel of a few flowers, white when they are open. But what makes this highly sought after is the reverse of the petals, seen also in bud, which is a deep, dusky pink, outlined with white. It has grown well outside for many years, eventually making a wide clump. A variable species forming loose clumps or hummocks depending on altitude. Central Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan) above 2500m in light woodland and among scrub, smaller forms higher up in alpine meadows ... Learn More

A beautiful, long-lived plant bearing golden-eyed, creamy-white flowers in spring and early summer on shortish stems holding jaggedly bisected leaves. It grows, predictably, on Mount Baldo in Italy! ... Learn More

China is the home of this delicate new discovery. Repeatedly branching thin stems carry clusters of numerous fragile, blue-backed pure white flowers. Superficially like Anemone leveillei, but bearing smaller and many, many more flowers. ... Learn More

This is one of the easiest and long-lived of the clump-forming Anemones which improves with age, bearing dense sprays of white waxy-petalled flowers with a blue reverse. An exceptionally beautiful flower from China. ... Learn More

Large, golden-eyed, ivory-white flowers flowers open en-masse in spring, almost covering the clump of insignificant basal foliage. When the entire plant is in flower this splendid specimen is magnificent, it is truly one of the top three hardy anemones. Very few good seeds collected. ... Learn More

Anemone rivularis, commonly known as 'riverside windflower', is a clump forming perennial. The white saucer shaped flowers, tinged with blue on the reverse and indigo in the middle are borne on erect, branched stems in late spring and early summer. ... Learn More

Nodding white flowers with yellow centres open in late spring, this plant getting its common name from the way the flower buds emerge on bent stems, so they hang like snowdrops. They then straighten up and face outwards as the perfumed flowers start to open, petals catching the breeze, making them look like butterflies. ... Learn More

This lovely Chinese species gives a valuable late summer and autumn display of large rose pink flowers in profuse clusters on long stalks, which make perfect cut flowers. Clouds of decorative woolly seed pods remain on the plant until shredded by the winter storms. ... Learn More

Beautiful pink, semi-double flowers are balanced on well-branched deep red stems above a clump of mid-green vine-shaped leaves. An ideal plant for smaller gardens, it is easy to grow once established when the plants will spread to form a patch in a rich moist site. Shorter than many other anemone cultivars, it works well in smaller gardens or towards the middle of a border, and flowers from late summer well into autumn. Plants grown from these seeds may give a variety of forms and colours. Winner of a Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (1997). ... Learn More