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Summer flowers

These plants thrive in the heat and will bloom for months on end over the summer period.

ACHILLEA 'CERISE QUEEN'

PLANTS: PACCO

‘RETAIL ONLY ADVANCED 140mm’ A tall yarrow featuring fragrant magenta-pink flowers and contrasting white centres. Forming attractive clumps about 60cm across, this vibrant achillea combines well with grasses and blue-flowering plants, such as Eryngium Blue Sea Holly (Eryngium planum). Can be cut or dried.

Member $6.95
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ACHILLEA 'MOONSHINE'

PLANTS: PACM

Flowering for up to four months, from November to February, the butter-yellow heads are held high above grey-green foliage and complement other summer perennials like Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’

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AGASTACHE 'APRICOT SPRITE'

PLANTS: PAGAP

Brighten up your garden from mid-summer to autumn with this zesty apricot agastache. ‘Apricot Sprite’ has a wonderful airy form, combining well with grasses and ground covers such as catmint and Convolvulus sabatius. Striking purple bracts contrast against the compact apricot flowers.

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ANTHEMIS 'E.C. BUXTON'

PLANTS: PANEC

A standout drought-tolerant ground cover with abundant pale yellow daisies over ferny blue-green foliage. Beth Chatto lists this as one of the 10 best plants in her garden. Combine with hot coloured dahlias or blue catmints and salvias. Low maintenance and evergreen in warm climates, this perennial flowers profusely from November to February, an...

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ASTER 'MONCH'

PLANTS: PASF

Lavender-blue daisies with pretty yellow centres are held on tall, self-supporting stems of dark-green foliage. Grow in a sunny or partly shaded position. Asters are brilliant, care-free, colourful additions to the perennial garden, extending the flowering season from late summer to mid-autumn. Great cut flower.

Member $12.95
Non-Member $16.25

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BLOODY DOCK

PLANTS: PRUM

Don't be put off by the name! Bloody Dock is a beautiful foliage plant, the vibrant, green leaves offsetting the striking, burgundy veins. Plant in a shady position in the garden or in ponds as a water plant.

Member $6.95
Non-Member $8.95

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DIERAMA TRICHORHIZUM

PLANTS: PDITR

One look at these mauve bell-like flowers and it’s easy to see how they got their common name of Fairy’s Fishing Rod. Hailing from South Africa, this Dierama is as hardy as it is beautiful. One of the smallest varieties, it requires a well-drained position.

Member $6.95
Non-Member $8.95

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ECHINOPS ‘RITRO BLUE’

PLANTS: PECRB

A classic deep blue globe flower with golf ball-sized blooms atop stiff white stems and dissected grey-green foliage. It rewards with months of colour from late spring into autumn. Pairs beautifully with most pastel perennials.

Member $8.50
Non-Member $10.95

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ECHINOPS 'STAR FROST'

PLANTS: PECN

A dramatic vertical accent plant, producing pure-white globes that sit atop their sturdy flower stems, like whorls of fireworks against the garden backdrop. Holly-like dark green leaves with grey undersides provide foliage colour too, ensuring this tough summer border star has a place in most gardens.

Member $8.95
Non-Member $12.95

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GAILLARDIA 'AMBER WHEELS'

PLANTS: PGAM

Large deeply-fringed sunny-yellow petals surround a glowing mass of amber-red stamens. A compact and tidy herbaceous perennial that is smothered in golden flowers from summer well into autumn. Ideal for planting en masse and for use as a long lasting cut flower. Flowering improves dramatically from its second growing season.

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GAILLARDIA 'BURGUNDY'

PLANTS: PGAB

Stunning cherry-burgundy flowers with yellow centres appear in profusion during summer to brighten any perennial border. Plant en masse in a patch for maximum impact. An excellent cut flower, popular with bees and other beneficial insects.

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LAMB'S EARS 'BIG EARS'

PLANTS: PLAMB

An outstanding silver-leaved ground cover with a soft appearance that belies its toughness. Versatile and vigorous, ‘Big Ears’ tolerates even the harshest of soils. Great to use in hot spots where other plants fail to thrive. This variety is a bold foliage plant that rarely flowers, grown for its thicker velvety leaves, which form a dense, rapid...

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LAMB'S EARS 'BIG EARS' (3 Plants)

PLANTS: PLAMB3

‘MEMBERS SAVE WITH MULTIPACKS’ An outstanding silver-leaved ground cover with a soft appearance that belies its toughness. Versatile and vigorous, 'Big Ears' tolerates even the harshest of soils. Great to use in hot spots where other plants fail to thrive. This variety is a bold foliage plant that rarely flowers. Pack contains 3 plants.

Member $17.95

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MEADOW SAGE 'BLUE HILLS'

PLANTS: PSANB

A compact variety of Meadow Sage, ‘Blue Hills’ produces low mounds of mauve-blue flowers, much adored by bees. Drought-tolerant once established, this floriferous salvia will reward you with flowers from mid-spring until ?mid-autumn.

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MONARDA "DIDYMA"

PLANTS: PMD

Brilliant red, mop head blooms, larger than average, appear in profusion from late summer through autumn providing a dramatic display en masse at the back of a border, as a garden accent or cut flower. Frost tolerant, disease resistant, this bergamot is loved by birds, bees and butterflies. It has edible flowers and mint-scented deep green leave...

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Non-Member $7.95

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PENSTEMON 'BLACKBIRD'

PLANTS: PPEBB

Ever-reliable and hardy, penstemons are long flowering, easy care perennials that are invaluable in the garden. With rich, dark- burgundy tubular flowers that hang elegantly from its stems, ‘Blackbird’ makes a striking combination with grey foliaged plants in the border. Water regularly to promote vigorous flowering.

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PENSTEMON 'FIREBIRD'

PLANTS: PPEF

A reliable perennial for all conditions. An old Swiss variety, `Firebird' (also known as `Schoenholzeri') has a vigorous habit with vibrant, red trumpet shaped flowers displayed in profusion above its attractive, mounding green foliage from spring through to autumn. A great complement to the hot border.

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PENSTEMON 'MIDNIGHT'

PLANTS: PPEM

Ever-reliable and hardy in most conditions, penstemons are invaluable for their long flowering and semi-evergreen foliage in the garden. 'Midnight' has striking, deep velvet-purple trumpet, shaped flowers on self supporting upright stems that glow in the evening light of summer. Its deep green linear leaves and purple flowers provide a striking ...

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SALVIA 'AMISTAD' PBR

PLANTS: PSAAMI

Near-black flower bracts hold deep purple flowers in protruding spikes above mid-green foliage. Named the ‘Friendship Salvia’ (amistad means ‘friendship’ in Spanish) by its discoverer, Professor Rolando Uria of Argentina, this salvia stands out from the pack with its neat upright form and unique colour. A useful and easy garden plant that grows ...

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VERBENA BONARIENSIS

PLANTS: PVEB

Possibly one of the most valuable of summer flowering plants. This beauty from Brazil threads its stiffly upright stems through other perennials, floating hundreds of amethyst hemispheres of bloom. Ideal for the back of the border where it softens the outline of its garden companions.

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VERBENA BONARIENSIS (3 Plants)

PLANTS: PVEB3

‘MEMBERS SAVE WITH MULTIPACKS’ Possibly one of the most valuable of summer flowering plants. This beauty from Brazil threads its stiffly upright stems through other perennials, floating hundreds of amethyst hemispheres o...

Member $9.95

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WORMWOOD 'VALERIE FINNIS'

PLANTS: PWOV

An invaluable silver-foliaged plant with distinctive lance-shaped leaves terminating ?in striking white leaf rosettes, this perennial was named for ‘Valerie Finnis’, a renowned British photographer and gardener. Grown purely for its beautiful foliage, it is an excellent foil in the garden or perennial border, where it maintains its striking silv...

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Non-Member $8.95

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ACHILLEA 'CERISE QUEEN' (3 Plants)

PLANTS: PACCO3

The fragrant, magenta-pink flowers with white centres can be cut or dried. It forms attractive clumps about 60cm across that combine well with grasses and blue-flowering plants, such as Eryngium 'Blue Sea Holly'.

Member $17.95

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ACHILLEA 'TERRACOTTA'

PLANTS: PACT

This variable achillea produces plate-like flowerheads 10cm across which open as a fiery-orange and fade to yellow like sunset on water as the flowers age. An essential plant for our long summers, achilleas flower for two months and, if cut to the ground, they continue their display well into autumn. Contrasts beautifully with Delphinium `Blue S...

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Non-Member $8.95

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Member Exclusives

RHUBARB CROWN GARDEN COLLECTION

PLANTS: PRHCO

Harvest fresh rhubarb all year with this garden collection of rhubarbs. With summer varieties 'Cherry Red' and 'Big Boy' for the warmer months, then abundant short day cropping from 'Winter Wonder' you can grow all your rhubarb needs for the year in 5m square. Two bare root crowns of each, available winter only (6 crowns).

Member $69.95

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2 year membership + Free Seed Sowing Poster and 2 seed packets

2 year membership + Free Seed Sowing Poster and 2 seed packets

Membership: MNE2SP2

A beautifully illustrated heirloom ‘sow what when’ poster for all areas of Australia so that you'll never have to think about what to sow this month again! You will also receive some free Cauliflower 'Mini' and Kale 'Red Russian' seeds to get your garden started.

Member $79.00
Non-Member $79.00

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