(formerly Lippia citrodora) Sometimes called lemon verbena, the leaves of this plant are intensely lemon-scented. It's a good one to plant where you can brush your hands over it! The leaves can be used to make a tisane or place one in the bottom of a cake tin to flavour a sponge. Goes to -5 in our garden if not cut back until danger of frost is over. Can be used in linen cupboards, placed between sheets to give a beautiful scent. Sprays of small white flowers in late summer but the strongly scented leaves are the real attraction. Nobody can pass it without stroking it. 2l. pot
Frost tolerant to -5 here but disappears in winter. Sunny,sheltered site. 7'-8'tall. This unusual shrub is a most welcome late flowering addition to the garden with its lovely purple buds and yellow pea like flowers. It flowers right through October.Half hardy, can disappear in winter and come back in spring. Sheltered spot preferred. 2l.pot
Known as the strawberry tree because of its deep pink pitted fruits. Small pink flowers and attractive shredding red-brown bark. Evergreen glossy leaves. Eventual height 25', Spread 25'. Fruit is edible but said to not be worth the effort!
Low growing, compact deciduous shrub with lovely purpled leaves, splashed white & pink. Yellow, fragrant flowers in spring, red berries in autumn. Thorns! Moist well drained soil of most types. Part shade to full sun. Hardy. 2 litre pot.
Very pretty Berberis with small rounded reddish purple leaves splashed with pink and white. Small yellow flowers. Deciduous with red autumn coloration & berries. Very thorny - good for deterring Bill the Burglar! Any soil or situation. H 3', S 6'
Largest 'bunches' of flowers of any Buddleia, almost in a hand like form. It was found growing in a quarry in Dartmoor many years ago and somebody was lowered down on a rope to collect cuttings! Obviously it's a natural cross. 2l
This unusual Buddleia is not at all like the rather beefier Buddleias we usually think of. It has panicles of elegantly delicate deeply purple flowers in late summer into autumn. It grows to H&S of 6'. Plant in full sun in fertile, well drained soil. 2 litre pot.