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Category Archives: Unusual

News update 28 August 2020

Posted in: Colour, Herbaceous, Herbaceous Perennial, Spring colour, Unusual | August 28, 2020 at 17:08 , by Downside Nurseries

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Here’s the link to our latest news update sent out on 28th August. which includes looking forward to herbaceous plants we’ll have available next spring, for which the images below for Dianthus barbatus Dash Magician, Allium Millenium, Lavender intermedia Phenomenal and Nepata Purrsian Blue refer....

Cordyline australis Can Can

Posted in: Evergreen Shrub, Unusual | October 11, 2015 at 08:26 , by Downside Nurseries

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Image of Cordyline australis Can Can-Cabbage Palm is a tropical looking evergreen with spiky foliage is a tropical looking evergreen with spiky foliage

Cordyline australis Can Can (Cabbage Palm) is a tropical looking evergreen with spiky foliage – a striking clump forming variety, rather than making a stem. The new foliage emerges with an attractive variegation pink on red and ages to cream on green. An excellent plant as a focal point in a border or...

Carex plyllocephala Whirling Sparkler

Posted in: Autumn colour, Unusual | October 3, 2015 at 13:00 , by Downside Nurseries

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Image of Carex plyllocephala Whirling Sparkler

Lorraine is really pleased to have been able to source this once again, as it has been unobtainable for several years. It is nice grass and always popular ‘Sparkler’ is an evergreen sedge with whorled, strap-like leaves that are light-green with cream margins on an upright stem which create a...

Nigella Hispanica (Spanish love-in-a-mist)

Posted in: Hardy annual, Seed, Unusual | March 7, 2015 at 17:04 , by Downside Nurseries

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Special Offer for members of the Bath University Gardening Club for Nigella Hispanica (Spanish love-in-a-mist) seeds Members of the Bath University Gardening Club who went on the Hampshire outing last summer will remember the lovely, tall, dark blue hardy annual Nigella hispanica (Spanish love-in-a-mist) filling in the herbaceous borders at Bury Court....

AlbiziaTrees

Posted in: Unusual | October 21, 2014 at 09:19 , by Downside Nurseries

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AlbiziaTrees AlbiziaTrees are small shrubby deciduous trees growing to 5–12 m tall, with a broad crown of level or arching branches and delicate feathered leaves. Lorraine saw a splendid specimen of one in the summer when on a visit with the University of Bath’s Gardening Club to Grange-over-Sands. She is particularly delighted therefore...