This beautiful cultivar of the Sneezewort was created in 1912 by French horticulturist Lemoine, who is also famous for several peony hybrids. It is an extraordinary cutting flower and has a very long flowering season. The flowers can be use fresh or dried for floristic needs. Its white umbels consist of a multitude of small double or semi-double flowers, which gives the plant the impression of a huge `Baby`s Breath`. This variety is also know by the synonyms `Snowball` and `The Pearl`.

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Achillea ptarmica `The Pearl` is a very good plant. It is a selection of the wild form of Sneezewort. From this selection was made another selection, resulting in `The Pearl Superior\'. It more compact growing, the flowers are more double and it even comes true to name from seed. Equaly at home ...

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This plant was only recently introduced from Kamchatka to the UK, from where we received seed. Its foliage differs remarkably from other yarrows: the leafs are lanceolate and serrated (slightly resembling ferns), and if touched they feel like leather. From summer until autumn the plant is covered with ...

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This is the  variety of monkshood that is native to central Europe. It is a pretty plant with panicles of dark blue to violet flowers. Like with all monkshoods the flowers are shaped like the helmet of a knight. Flowering period is from July to August. It looks especially pretty in the shadow of ...

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Until recently this plant was regarded as a member of the genus Eupatorium, although it looks quite different to all other Eupatoriums. The foliage resembles stinging nettles (don\'t be afraid, they do not sting!), the flowers are pure white and form small umbels. Flowering season is from summer ...

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A native plant that is very good as a ground cover on moist soils. But be warned: it is really a ground COVER! It spreads vigorously and weaker plants won\'t survive this neighbour. Where it is wanted you can achieve wonderful effects with this plant: a multitude of blue flowers in short `spikes` ...

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This selection of Bugle is a little bit less vigorous than the wild variety - but really just a little bit less. Its foliage is purplish, the flowers blue. If you got a troublesome spot in the shade where nothing grows, try this plant. It is a perfect ground cover for those places.

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 `Jungle Beauty` is a selection of our native bugle that grows a bit larger and which spreads heavily. Its foliage is dark green with a brown flush, the flowers are dark blue. This variety is the right choice for spots were you need a robust grownd cover.

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This attracitve ground covering plant comes to us from the Carpathians and the Balkans. It bears grey- or bluegreen foliage and stalks that often turn redish. During summer panicles of small yellowish flowers do appear.

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This variety of garlic is at home in moist and wet meadows along the great streams Rhine, Elbe and Danube. Once there was a huge population of mouse garlic along the banks of river Danube near the small town of Donauwörth. This population was the foundation of a little industry. The meadows accommodation ...

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Did you expect that there are decorative varieties among chives? `Forescate` is one of those varieties. For chives it is inbelievable big, it can grow up to 60 cm high. Such a big plant bear of course bigger flowers than ordinary chives, and what beauties they are! The plant still is a herb, you can ...

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All in all quite ordinary chives. The only difference is the fact that it does not produce seed and can be harvested over a much longer period. Wild chives grow in moist meadows, so the need a lot of watering in the garden or even a place at the border of the pond.

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An extremely rare variety of Allium and close to extinction in Central Europe. In Germany it grows only in a few isolated locations along the rivers of the foothills of the Alps. In the home garden you can grow it without problems on a moist spot, preferably at the margin of a pond. It ...

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This is the white flowering variety of the marsh mallow. The difference in colour isn`t very great, for the usual marsh mallow blooms in a very pale rose.

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This is the plant that once was used to prepare marshmallow. Marsh Mallow sap whiped with sugar was the main ingredient of the original recipe. Today the Marsh Mallow sap is substituted by gelatin. Even if you don`t know the name it will be obvious at first glance that this plant is...

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A windflower of moist meadows and forests in Western China. In our nursery it does well at the margins of the pond and also in moist soil in full sun to partial shade. Since it flowers it summer, it closes the gap between the flowering season of the springflowering wood anemones and the Japanese anemones of the autumn.

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This windflower is one of the last to flower in spring, and in some years it will produce a second flush in autumn. It performs very well in the mixed border, but it develops into a real show stopper if kept in moist soil at the edge of a pond. It is at in the eastern Himalayas, where it can be found along rivers and other wet places.

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The range of this thimbleweed is divided into two regions without connection. One is in Alaska and the other one separated by several mountain ranges and thousands of kilometers on the eastern coast of Northamerica. It grows along riversides and on gravel banks and on similar places where its roots...

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A selection of the Dwarf Goats Beard with even more intensive autumn colours.

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This is the wild form of Milkweed. It blooms from late summer into autumn with rose-purple flowers. If you compare it with the white flowering version, you will realize that the pigment of the flowers is also present in the leafs and stalks, for they have a definite redish hint. It common name \'Silkflower\' ...

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