Short stems carry disproportionately large, distinguished, rose coloured flowers, attractively marked with crimson and yellow. Has spread steadily for several years here giving a large bone-dry rock garden a reliable mid-summer blaze of colour but setting very few seeds. White-deep lilac flowers ... Learn More

Alstroemeria polpaicana (also called Polpaico Lily) is an extremely rare perennial plant outside of its native envoroment in the Andes of Peru and Chile. It has long, thin stems and bright green leaves. The flowers are usually bright yellow with occasional white stripes and have a long, tubular shape. It grows in moist, well-drained soils and can tolerate some shade. Image is representative and may not be 100% true until we have flowered this plant here at Plant World. ... Learn More

This erect, very rarely-seen, British native wildflower will thrive in damp conditions and gives a lovely late summer display of multiple soft pink flowers, (which occasionally are pure white with pink anthers!) on tall softly hairy stems with attractive grey-green leaves. It is an herbaceous perennial and so will return for several years after dying back over winter. ... Learn More

Amaryllis 'Snowy White', commonly known as Snowy White Amaryllis, is a stunning cultivar that produces large, trumpet-shaped blooms in pristine white. Each bulb produces one or more flower stalks, each bearing up to four blooms that add elegance and serenity to any indoor or outdoor display. The pure white flowers are long-lasting and make a striking contrast against the plant's dark green, strap-like foliage. This easy-to-grow bulb thrives in full sun to partial shade and performs exceptionally well as a potted plant or in garden beds in warmer climates. Indoors, place the plant in bright ... Learn More

Wonderfully fragrant soft 'powder puff' like blooms appear from June to September in romantic pastel shades of rose, lemon, lilac and white. It is quick and easy to grow for summer bedding, mixed borders and cut flower bouquets. ... Learn More

This delightful everlasting flower is a must for the cutting garden, where its silvery white flowers with bright yellow centres on winged stems are borne throughout the summer, and will make a long-lived superb display indoors and out, and even all winter long if dried out! ... Learn More

A spreading alpine plant with yellow-eyed, white daisy type flowers sitting just above the grey-green, ferny foliage . The flowers close at dusk or on cloudy days to show a fuchsia underside. Best in a sunny spot with well-drained soil. Suitable for rock gardens and even stone walls. ... Learn More

This tiny "Rock Jasmine" has small loose rosettes of dark green leaves, with short stems bearing clusters of white flowers. It is excellent for a trough or raised bed and does not need winter protection. It is a fairly easy-to-grow plant when established in sun to part shade in gritty, sharply drained soil. ... Learn More

This is one of the choicer dwarf species and is also one of the easier to grow. A tiny plant, very much like Androsace ciliata, it comes from the same regions in the Pyrenees, where it forms mossy tufts of rounded cone-like columns, each less than an inch high, covered thickly with hairs, with white flowers nestling in the centre during April and May. ... 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