`Emperor`s Cloak` is a `grex` or `strain` that is propagated by seed. All seedling will have curled foliage, most of them will be redish to violet in colour. A few however can be green, cream or even silvery white. All will bear white flowers.
The Wood-Scabious is at home in moist mountain woods in Central Europe. If can be found in the Alps, but also in many lower mountain ranges. Its pale pink flowers appear in summer. In the garden it is happy at a shady spot with ample moisture. The more sun, the more moisture it will need.
Lousiana Phlox is the first of the higher perennial phloxes to flower. `Clouds of Perfume` is an especially beautiful variety with lavender flowers. `Clouds of Perfume` sounds like an understatement. Plant is near your patio and enjoy these delicious clouds.
This candelabra-typ primrose comes from moist forest and meadows in China. In the garden it is best kept in semi-shade, but the moister the soil the more sun it will take. It bears dark wine-coloured flowers, the underside of the foliage is covered with a white powder.
London Pride is an old acquaintance in the garden - so old, that some have already forgotten about it. It is a very grateful and rewarding plant, for it grows mainly in places with no direct sunlight, where other flowers do not work. Its small rosettes soon cover the ground and in early summer it is covered with many flowers.
Symphytum grandiflorume is also called `Creeping Compfrey`. `Wisley Blue` is an English selection of it, with flowers that are pale yellow in the beginning, then turn pale pink and finaly end pale blue. It needs little care and can be used as a ground cover.
Some will know the piggyback plant as a house plant of their childhood. It came out of fashion a bit, which is a pitty. It is no beauty, but it has one charming characteristic: each leaf carries a young plant on its back. Of course this something you want to watch from close, and ...