STACHYS byzantina 'Big Ears'

'Big Ears' forms a spreading carpet of very large and downy, silvery-white leaves, with furry spikes of small purple flowers. Although it enjoys a long flowering period throughout the summer, this ...

STACHYS byzantina 'Silver Carpet'

'Silver Carpet' forms an ankle-high, spreading sea of furry, silver grey leaves with few flowers. More intensely silver-white than Stachys byzantina, this very tactile foliage plant forms.....

STIPA tenuissima

Commonly known as 'Mexican Feather Grass', this tidy but compact form, produces a dense fountain of very narrow leaves.

STOKESIA laevis 'Klaus Jelitto'

STOKESIA laevis 'Mel's' PBR

Dive right into the large deep lavender-blue slightly shaggy flowers of this wonderful form of 'Stoke's Aster' and you will be a lost cause.

STROBILANTHES 'rankanensis'

Curved trumpet-like deep blue flowers with a network of grey veins, are held on upright, branching, mid green stems above shrubby leaves. Available for Mail Order from April - August

STROBILANTHES attenuata 'Blue and White'

This is a medium sized mound forming semi-evergreen perennial that produces intense blue and white tubular flowers from mid summer to autumn. It has erect branching stems clothed with hirsute, dark...

SUCCISA pratensis

Commonly known as the 'Devil's Bit Scabious', it bears lilac blue pincushion type flowers that gently bob and weave on wiry, branching stems above green oval-leaved rosettes. It is an ideal candidate

SUCCISELLA inflexa 'Frosted Pearl'

A close relative of Succisa or Devil's Bit Scabious, it produces masses of globe-like flowers which open from pink buds to reveal white petals with a hint of lavender-blue.

SYMPHYOTRICHUM 'Vasterival'

Come September loads of lilac-pink single flowers each with a yolk-yellow centre erupt from the deep pink buds that stud the ends of its dark multi-branched stems

SYMPHYOTRICHUM 'Jessica Jones'

In a world of strong autumnal hues 'Jessica Jones' stands out for her large but very pretty and rather delicate lavender pink flowers.

SYMPHYOTRICHUM cordifolium 'Chieftain'

Tall, airy and ever so slightly informal, from September into October and beyond 'Chieftian' is packed with masses of small pale lilac-blue single flowers carried at the ends of multi-branched stems.