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*                Plants with nectar- and/or pollen-rich flowers for insects.

(S)             Plants of which seed is either currently available or expected in 2008 (@ £2.70/pack)

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Prices include first class postage and packing within the UK as at 1 January 2008.

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 polytrichus ssp. britannicus ‘Orkney White’*  – NEW

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.

Trifolium pratense 'Nina'*

A beautiful form of red clover with clear, soft yellow leaves, the leaflets typically marked with pale crescents. Heads of pinkish-purple flowers. Low-growing with a delicate, pretty habit, but not the toughest.  It makes a wonderful container specimen in light shade (particularly near Bowles’ golden grass Milium effusum ‘Aureum’) and is well worth the trouble of taking cuttings occasionally.  Found locally about 10 years ago.  Plants expected autumn.  £5.00

Trifolium pratense ‘Speech House’* 

I thought I had lost this variegated form of red clover until seedlings came up in a pot and in our lawn.  The leaves sport a variable, but often intense, minutely streaked and speckled variegation in cream and/or shades of green.  The intensity of the variegation sometimes distorts the leaflets.  Usual pinkish-purple flowers. £5.00

Trifolium pratense 'Splash'* - NEW'

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

Trifolium repens 'Hiccups'*

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

Trifolium repens, pale pink*

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

Trifolium repens 'William'*

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 tjhe late William Lyall of Manor Nursery. £4.50