An easy to grow Snapdragon for beds and borders, performing well in full sun or semi-shade. With distinctive contrasting bi-colour, purple-red and white flowers (a colour way that is often referred to as a 'silver bi-colour'), the flower spikes are softly fragrant, long-lasting and make a great cut flower option. ... Learn More

This classy snapdragon is actually a small shrub, with grey, softly hairy leaves and quite large flowers, either white or pink with some yellow colouring in the throat. It seeds itself freely but is very liable to hybridize with A. majus forms or with other species, the hybrids being more upright. Comes from Eastern and central Pyrenees ... Learn More

Branching stems, arising above delicate blue green maidenhair foliage, are heavily festooned with diaphanous blue and white flowers. This dwarf treasure was originally collected on Mount Olympus by Joseph Halda. ... Learn More

This outstanding dwarf aquilegia from Japan bears disproportionately large, ivory-white flowers on short dividing stems, all carried just above thick blue-green leaves. It is a very hardy and long-lived plant ... Learn More

Compact rosettes of rubbery grey fan-shaped leaves are the perfect foil for the compact sprays of large, spurred flowers which come in white, pastel pink or blue and white bicolor. ... Learn More

This is an outstanding dwarf variety of columbine from Japan, where it is also known as the Fan columbine after the rounded, curved shape of the leaves. This delightful dwarf cultivar blooms a earlier than most columbines, opening its first flowers in April and continuing on for several weeks. The blooms are disproportionately large, with bright blue sepals with a white corolla, each flower being topped with prominent horns and appearing on short stems above compact, attractive fan-shaped foliage. ... Learn More

This is a completely unique form of aquilegia leaf variegation on an Aquilegia flabellata hybrid! Many years ago we noticed a plant which produced striking cream edging on young foliage. In early summer this new plant is an arresting talking point, the blue and white short stemmed flowers putting icing on the cake. ... Learn More

Proportionately huge, almost stemless, pale blue and white flowers, hover above compact clumps of fern-like, blue-green leathery leaves. This is one of the very choicest of the dwarf aquilegias. ... Learn More

A choice and absolutely exquisite dwarf columbine bearing disproportionately large blue and white flowers on short stems on very compact, glaucous-leaved plants. Superb in a rockery or container. ... 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

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

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

Short white sprays of flowers open in very early spring over a spreading mat of small, thick, slightly rough, rubbery leaves. This tiny plant comes from the European Alps, where it grows amongst rocks and moraines. ... Learn More