Stubby spikes of very long-flowering white flowers which are magnets for bees and butterflies, are held on stout stems of fragrant aniseed/liquorice scented leaves. These flower spikes remain attractive right into late summer and autumn. Very hardy and perennial in a well-drained spot, it makes a fabulous sight, even in a dark dry corner. ... Learn More

This exquisite South African bulbous plant has strap shaped basal foliage and racemes of white goblet-like flowers, the tepals of which are striped green and the inner tepals tipped yellow. It is found on the edges of rock sheets, gravel and silt patches and rock grassland up to 2800 meters in the Eastern Mountain Region of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. ... Learn More

This is the sensible alternative to ordinary hollyhocks if you have rust problems. The vigorous multi-branching stems are generously laden with typical hollyhock flowers in all colours from white to crimson, but they carry rounded fig-shaped leaves which are very rust-resistant indeed. ... Learn More

This attractive wetland plant has lily-like basal leaves and thin, continuously dividing stems bearing delicate white, pale pink or lilac flowers that open in late afternoon, and close again at dusk. It is a semi-aquatic or aquatic plant that is unrelated to true plantains, which are members of the genus Plantago. Alisma is the ancient Greek physician Dioscorides’ name for a plantain-leaved plant and the specific epithet, 'plantago' is from the Latin for the sole of a foot, referring to the flat leaves. ... Learn More

One of the most alluring alliums, both in fragrance and design, this is a priceless gem. The sizeable spherical flower balls are composed of smaller star shaped white flowers, each with a deep red heart that glows like a ruby. Pictures don’t really do it justice, clustered together in an umbel, the blooms will make an unforgettable sight in your flower bed. ... Learn More

This is the rare and exquisite but easily grown pure white form of this valuable, late-flowering plant. Strong flower stems carry graceful loose heads of icy white, bell-shaped flowers, just like an exploding firework display, for two months or more. If you are lucky, in well-drained soil, it will gently self sow and form handsome drifts. RHS AGM winner ... Learn More

One of the true 'white' alliums, this rare plant with attractive purple anthers, produces heads of sizeable bell-shaped flowers which slowly age to pink. With a clustering habit in the wild, it is found up to extreme heights in South Turkey, Lebanon and Cyprus, where it grows in pine and mixed forest, oak, grassland and limestone slopes at altitudes up to 2800m. ... Learn More

One of the very loveliest, striking, attractive, and longest-blooming of all alliums, this dwarf gem opens its magenta-purple flowers with triangular petals which have crisped, white edges. This rare plant grows in the coast ranges of California south of San Francisco in clay and serpentine soils, where it gets naturally what it thrives in, a sunny, well-drained soil with a dryish summer rest. ... Learn More

A delectable species from the Mediterranean region with narrow leaves and many-flowered, rounded heads of comparatively large, pure sparkling white flowers, in early spring. It is native to southern Europe, north Africa, and the Middle East. ... Learn More

Attractive rounded heads of green-white flowers open from June to August on thick inflated stems. A rare and very lovely plant, originally collected from the Pskem range and Akbulak valley in Uzbekistan by the late great Plant Hunter Jim Archibald with his wife Jenny. It has also apparently been sold as A.cepa 'Kew White'. Few good seeds. ... Learn More

Flowering in June, ample heads of pure white flowers have red veins running down the backs of the tepals, and although this is sometimes confused with Allium tuberosum it is not weedy or agressive. A beautiful, early flowering, clump forming variety, which is native to Siberia, China and Kazakhstan, and is very showy in beds, borders or rock gardens. ... Learn More

Large, globular clusters of yellow-eyed, starry white flowers open on long, strong stems in early summer over short-leaved rosettes of strap-shaped, grey-green leaves. One of the larger alliums ideal for a mixed border. ... Learn More

This native wild flower grows in damp woods and shady places, and bears in spring loose umbels of up to twenty pretty, white, star-like flowers. This is a really useful plant for naturalizing in woods and shady spots which, given half a chance, it will eventually carpet completely. The unmistakable sweet smell of garlic is often the first thing you will sense before you see it in the spring! ... Learn More

Masses of ivory white-faced flowers with prominent yellow anthers spangle this shrubby Peruvian plant. A pleasant change from the common red one. ... Learn More

This tall elegant tree bears large clusters of small, green, very fragrant flowers in October. The slightly rounded, leathery, dark green leaves form attractive whorls, and the regular branching gives the tree a beautiful shape. An evergreen tropical tree native to the Indian sub-continent, Malaysia and Australasia, its bark, known as Dita Bark, is used in traditional medicine to treat various conditions. The generic name commemorates the botanist, Prof. C. Alston of Edinburgh, 1685-1760 whilst the species name scholaris refers to the fact that the timber of this tree has traditionally been us ... Learn More