SILENE fimbriata
Commonly known as 'Bladderwort' or 'Fringed Campion', it carries clusters of single, white flowers with frilly petals and chunky, fresh green calyx, on tall stems above mounds of green foliage.
SILPHIUM mohrii
Tall and architectural, Silphium mohrii is becoming popular among garden designers for its profusion of pale yellow single flowers that dance in the breeze on fuzzy branching stems.
STACHYS byzantina 'Big Ears'
'Big Ears' forms a spreading carpet of very large and downy, silvery-white leaves, with furry spikes of small purple flowers. Although it enjoys a long flowering period throughout the summer, this ...
STACHYS byzantina 'Silver Carpet'
'Silver Carpet' forms an ankle-high, spreading sea of furry, silver grey leaves with few flowers. More intensely silver-white than Stachys byzantina, this very tactile foliage plant forms.....
STIPA gigantea
'Giant Golden Oat Grass' forms clumps of arching, narrow green foliage, below a fountain of slender stems with oat-like greenish-purple flowers that shimmer in the breeze. Flowering during the summer,
STIPA tenuissima
Commonly known as 'Mexican Feather Grass', this tidy but compact form, produces a dense fountain of very narrow leaves.
STOKESIA laevis 'Mel's' PBR
Dive right into the large deep lavender-blue slightly shaggy flowers of this wonderful form of 'Stoke's Aster' and you will be a lost cause.
SUCCISA pratensis
Commonly known as the 'Devil's Bit Scabious', it bears lilac blue pincushion type flowers that gently bob and weave on wiry, branching stems above green oval-leaved rosettes. It is an ideal candidate
SYMPHYOTRICHUM 'Vasterival'
Come September loads of lilac-pink single flowers each with a yolk-yellow centre erupt from the deep pink buds that stud the ends of its dark multi-branched stems
SYMPHYOTRICHUM 'Jessica Jones'
In a world of strong autumnal hues 'Jessica Jones' stands out for her large but very pretty and rather delicate lavender pink flowers.
SYMPHYOTRICHUM 'Little Carlow' (cordifolius hybrid)
Clouds of small, vivid, violet-blue daisies with bright yellow centres are carried on stout stems with mid green narrow foliage. 'Little Carlow' is widely admired not only for the sheer quantity of ..
SYMPHYOTRICHUM ericoides 'Pink Cloud'
Masses of small, pale lilac-pink flowers with rich yellow centres, are held in open sprays on robust stems with narrow, dark green foliage.A favourite of florists for flower arranging, this Michaelmas
