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Salvia forskaolli
For Sale
Lilac blue, hooded flowers, typical of a salvia, are born profusely for a long period in summer on a vigorous herbaceous plant, to 1m in rich soil. Easier, and hardier, than many other herbaceous salvias.
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Salvia transylvanica
For Sale
Whorls of deep violet flowers on ranging stems (that may need the support of other plants) are produced over a long period in summer and sometimes into the Autumn, by this underused, tough and hardy herbaceous perennial. Upto 1m, but usually less.
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Sanguisorba officinalis
Greater burnet
Tight "drumsticks" of deep red or maroon flowers are borne on stiff stems up to 1m in summer; herbaceous perennial well-suited to naturalistic planting schemes, combining well with grasses.
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Sarcococca confusa
Christmas Box
Small to medium-sized shrub with glossy green tapering leaves, bearing highly fragrant white flowers in late winter, some time after Christmas despite the name; plant in shade near a well-used doorway for its cheering heady scent in the depths of winter.
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Stipa arundinacea
Pheasant's tail grass
Clum-forming upright evergreen grass turing reddy brown in winter and bearing massess of airy flower panicles of purplish-green. Will self-seed.
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Stipa calamagrostis
Mounds of blue-green leaves produce feathery panicles of buff to purple flowers on lax stems that persist into winter as silvery outlines.
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