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Category Archives: Perennial

Plants looking lovely at Downside this week – 14th June 2019

Posted in: Herbaceous Perennial, Perennial | June 19, 2019 at 16:37 , by Downside Nurseries

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Plants looking lovely at Downside this week – 14th June – with thanks to Christina for these lovely photographs Agastache mexicana Red Fortune – this Mexican giant hyssop flowers throughout midsummer and reaches a HxS of approx 0.5m. It comes with a wonderful shade of reddish pink with a hint of...

Plants this week at Downside Nurseries – 5th June

Posted in: Perennial, Shrubs | June 7, 2019 at 11:47 , by Downside Nurseries

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Here are a few images of plants looking particularly wonderful this week at Downside Nurseries. Perennial Perennial antirrhinum Pretty in Pink A fantastic perennial snapdragon, bearing masses of pink flowers from summer through to the first frosts. Shrub Phygelius Devil’s Tears A robust suckering shrub with dark green leaves and large panicles...

Hellebores

Posted in: Perennial | February 20, 2018 at 10:27 , by Downside Nurseries

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Hellebores are looking wonderful now. Do not neglect H.foetidus – stinking Hellebore. The leaves only smell if crushed and the sprays of lime green flowers contrast nicely with the finely cut bottle green leaves. Flowering starts in December and continues until March so this can be used to give some...

Herbaceous News – Heucheras, Euphorbias, Pulmonarias, Geraniums

Posted in: Colour, Herbaceous, Perennial | February 26, 2017 at 14:40 , by Downside Nurseries

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Pulmonaria Blue Ensign at Downside Nurseries - one of the many herbaceous plants

Herbaceous borders can be looking a bit sad this time of year. A few heucheras or heucherellas can brighten things up. We have a wide range of colours available from yellow and caramel through dusky pinks and burnt orange to almost black. See the images below for some of the...

Ornamentals

Posted in: Perennial, Roses, Terry Dowdeswell | July 8, 2016 at 15:27 , by Downside Nurseries

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The perennial beds are full of colour. There are Achilleas, Phlox , Monardas , Echinaceas and Rudbeckias. We are particularly pleased with Terry Dowdeswell’s New Millennium Delphiniums – the flower spikes have real quality and some of the stems are like bamboo canes. The roses have survived the wet and...