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T KEY *
Plants with nectar- and/or pollen-rich
flowers for insects. (S) Plants of which seed is either currently available or expected in 2009 (@ £2.70/pack)
Click on plant names in green for photos. All photos are the copyright of Rosemary Castle. Prices include first class postage and packing within the UK as at 1 January 2009.
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TEUCRIUM GERMANDERS
Teucrium scorodonia 'Binsted Gold'* A
super form of wood sage with leaves that are conspicuously golden in spring and
summer, greening later. From Mike Tristram.
A good proportion of seedlings will be
true. For drier soils in sun or shade. Bees
love the cream flowers in late summer. £4.50
Teucrium scorodonia 'Crispum Marginatum’* A wonderful form of wood sage: the leaves have an elaborately ruffled margin dabbed with white and are most effective in spring when they have a sort of lime-mousse freshness. For drier soils in sun or shade. Bees love the cream flowers in late summer. £4.50
THYMUS THYMES
Thymus ‘Orkney White’* (Formerly listed as Thymus polytrichus ssp. britannicus ‘Orkney White) A fine form of wild thyme with pure white flowers over dense mats of small, rich green, slightly hairy leaves. Can be very free flowering in the right conditions. For well-drained soil in sun. From Alan Bremner in Orkney. £4.50
TRIFOLIUM CLOVERS
Trifolium pratense*. Red Clover. The heads of pink or reddish pink flowers are sweetly scented and very attractive to bees.
In this artistic form of red clover each leaf has a pale inner ‘triangle’ with or without random splashes of green. A very avant-garde foliage effect. Heads of reddish-pink flowers. £5.00
Trifolium repens*. White Clover. Plants make wide-spreading mats of rooting stems. Forms of white clover can look pretty in pots as well as in the lawn. The flowers are sweetly scented and very attractive to bees.
Trifolium repens ‘Good Luck’* A vigorous form of white clover
discovered by John Carter’s daughter’s pony in Devon.
The
green leaflets come in a mixture of threes, fours and fives. The
sort of plant you think you’ll never lose until it’s too late.
Blush white flowers. £4.50
Trifolium repens ‘Green Ice’* A form
of white clover with leaflets in a cool combination of pale and dark green, the
darker inner zone tinged brown at certain times. Usual heads of white flowers.
£4.50
Trifolium repens ‘Harlequin’* A handsome form of white clover similar to ‘Green Ice’ but feathered with dark red along the midribs. Heads of white flowers
flushed maroon at the base. £4.50
An
unusual variegated form of white clover with a very random white variegation to
the otherwise plain green leaves in spring and summer. The variegation comes
and goes, sometimes whole leaflets are white, but often there is just a splash
of white on the odd leaflet. Fun to grow in a pot but even better in the lawn,
where you can track its progress by
the tell-tale white splashes. Usual white flowers.
£4.50
A
pretty form of white clover with two-tone flower heads in pale and dark
pink. Plain green leaves. £4.50
Trifolium repens 'Purpurascens Quadrifolium' A four- and five-leafleted clover with
a mouthful of a name and dark chocolate-coloured leaves finely edged with green. £4.50
A
spontaneous cross between Martin Cragg Barber’s beautiful purple leaved
cultivar T. repens ‘Wheatfen’ and
the pale- and dark-green
T. repens ‘Green
Ice’. The resulting foliage
combines seasonally-changing shades of pink, russet, plum
purple, mahogany, smoky grey and green and the flower heads are
rich deep magenta.
Vigorous.
Sheer magic from the late William Lyall of Manor Nursery. £4.50
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