SILENE chalcedonica
With its domed clusters of flat, cross-like flowers each a vivid scarlet red, it is easy to see how this perennial earnt its nickname 'Maltese Cross'.
SILENE coronaria Gardners' World ('Blych') (d)
Double magenta flowers appear on tall branched stems during summer. 'Gardeners World' flowers for far longer than the straight Silene coronaria. Available for Mail Order from April - September
SILENE fimbriata
Commonly known as 'Bladderwort' or 'Fringed Campion', it carries clusters of single, white flowers with frilly petals and chunky, fresh green calyx, on tall stems above mounds of green foliage.
SILENE uniflora
Another attractive member of the campion family with delicate white tubular flowers with balloon-like calyx that appear over low mounding cushions of waxy, pale green foliage.
SISYRINCHIUM idahoense var. bellum
Native to the western USA, this plant grows in damp meadows and prairies and is attractive to butterflies. A relative of the Iris it enjoys fertile, neutral to alkaline soil that is moist but well...
SISYRINCHIUM striatum
Spikes of soft yellow flowers with darker centres are clustered vertically along upright stems with iris-like fans of pale grey-green leaves. Available for Mail Order from April - August
SOLIDAGO rugosa 'Fireworks'
A more polite and refined form of 'goldenrod' which will not run riot through your garden, 'Fireworks' puts on a long-lasting display of gently arching stems choc-full of small yellow flowers.
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 gigantea
'Giant Golden Oat Grass' forms clumps of arching, narrow green foliage, below a fountain of slender stems with oat-like greenish-purple flowers that shimmer in the breeze. Flowering during the summer,
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'
