REGULAR LIST
prices £2, unless otherwise stated. Post and Packing 90p per plant, except Equisetums, £1.20 per plant.
Aegopodium podagraria 'Dangerous' like variegatum but reverting with
interesting intermediate foliage. Pto
Ajuga reptans 'Flisteridge', a pale blue flowered form found in Flisteridge woods, near Minety, Wiltshire, circa 5 years ago.£3
Ajuga reptans 'Brean Down', yellow streaks to the leaves like 'Rainbow' but without the purple and slightly less ugly (but who am I to censor the gardener's palette?) £3
Alchemilla glaucescens blue green foliage on this small Lady's mantle,late Alchemilla minima,, please ask.
Allium babingtonii perennial native leek with bulbils and flowers, bulbils in autumn 20p, plants £1.40
Anthriscus sylvestris 'Kabir', a yellow foliage form, discovered in the verge on Hill Hayes Lane, Hullavington, whilst dog walking, spring 2002 -, one only spare at the moment, £4, but seed sown.
Arum maculatum Tar Spot Group. A form so heavily marked with purple as to produce little dents to leaf, also purple marks to spathe. missing
Asarum europeum, shiny evergreen leaves, ground level brown flowers
Berberis vulgaris 'Wiltshire Wonder', a variegated form coming from seed, one only. £5, straight B. vulgaris £3, some smaller at £1.50.
Carex pallescens 'Wood's Edge', a white margined form of pale sedge
Carex greyii the sedge with flowers looking like ancient maces, £2
Cynosurus cristatus, pseudoviviparous form, crested dog's tail with flowers replaced by plantlets
Epilobium hirsutum 'Pistils at Dawn', a strange petal-less form
EQUISETUM
Equisetum affine the tall, pink flushed form of Dutch rush, £3, late
Equisetum 'Bandit', named by Monksilver Nursery and originally from Japan, like a yellow variegated version of E. hyemale. £3. Late. C.
Equisetum x bowmanii, the wonderful hybrid between sylvaticum and telmatiea, feathery foliage, up to 2 and a half feet, £3, candidate for Britain's rarest plant.
Equisetum camschatense, very tidy evergreen horsetail of the hyemale group, £4.50
Equisetum x dycei, rather a spindly horsetail, for the collector, from Spain
E. hyemale, evergreen with upright green stems and black bands, £3 C.
Equisetum scirpoides the smallest safest horsetail, about 9inches, sometimes looking like balls of green wire, £1.50p
Equisetum sylvaticum, the most feathery of the deciduous horsetails, grow in shade, £4.50 not postable; delayed
Equisetum ramosissimum, not branched at all, but with grey bands around stems. Our material blue-green from Turkey. £3
Eupatorium cannabinum 'Spraypaint', yellow splashes on leaf, £2
Festuca vivipera, small fescue with flower heads replaced with heads of tiny plantlets which then root, our material from Roman Steps in Wales.
Galium cruciatum, crosswort, attractive yellow flowers on this creeping relative of cleavers
Hedera helix: arborescent forms, £3, , also a few larger plants, prices up to £7 .atropurpurea, leaves a good purple in winter ,
Hedera h 'Don's Papillion', with thickened and gathered leaves like a butterfly taking off, discovered by Don Sharpe, £2.50p C.
Hedera helix 'Hullavington', green edge and yellow centre to leaf, smart
Hedera helix 'Chedglow fasciated' a curious form with stems and petioles thickened into band-like tubes, roots from the petioles when I am paying sufficient attention. £2.
Hedera helix 'Cheltenham Blizzard'(n.c.v.) very fine mottling of white on normal green background, discovered about 8 years ago outside Cheltenham. £1.50
Helleborus foetidus 'Chedglow' , the yellow leaved form of native stinking hellebore. In my opinion misnamed Golden Nugget which is merely a descendent. £3.
Juncus bulbosus, from Anglesey Mynydd Bodavon, with red stems on older growth when slightly stressed and in winter. £2
Ligustrum vulgare 'aureovariegatum', ( Already described by Weston in Bot. Univ. 1:152, 1770).yellow variegation, probably virus induced,. £3.
Luzula sylvatica 'Barcode', very fine bars down the leaf, best in summer, found and named by Maurice O'Sullivan. £3..
Mercurialis perennis Ringsbury Camp yellow green dog's mercury,£2.
Milium effusum 'Yaffle', yellow centre to leaf
Phragmites australis variegatus mustard yellow variegated leaves on reed.
Plantago lanceolata 'Bomi-noka series' aberrant heads on plain, white and
RANUNCULUS FICARIA, lesser celandine, all foliage forms rather than flower anomalies,
'Sheldon Silver' good silver grey background, with some purple to the centre,
'Coy hussy' occasional sectors of green to the purple background preserve her dignity,
'Martin Gibb's progeny' originally a yellow leaved form was found at Sheldon in Wiltshire, but it has partially reverted to yellow and green sectors to individual leaves, thence remaining quite stable.
'Green Rim' probably a sport of Suffusion, with the slightest green rim around the outside of the leaf, purple centre.
'Art Nouveau' marked in purple and silver, and with undulating leaves, somewhat larger than normal.
'Suffusion' a gradual movement of purple through the leaf.
Rubus sanctus (Schreb.) To the story of this eastern Mediterranean bramble is told in our booklet, That Burning Bush is Odd., so far it has proved quite hardy in Wiltshire but not yet flowered.
Sambucus nigra viridis, The green or yellow fruited elder, £3,
Sambucus nigra 'Purple Pete', a smart form with purple petioles, £4
Sorbus anglica small tree with crimson fruit, a few at £4, seedlings at £2
arranensis like aucuparia but rare. Sorbus aucuparia 'Winterdown', 2 only, £7,
Sorbus croceocarpa Golden berried whitebeam, small plants, £2, also larger
S. devoniensis fruit brown, ripening later in autumn. Ask priceSorbus eminens, nicely scented flowers (for a whitebeam) conventional red fruit in autumn. £4 Sorbus lancastriensis, large shrub with obovate leaves scarlet berries. 1 Sorbus wilmottiana
Sorbus porrigentiformis, small variable tree with scarlet fruit,1 only £3
Tanacetum parthenium 'Malmesbury' the rediscovery of the narrow petalled feverfew which occurred in the garden of Jean Wall, Malmesbury.
Teucrium scordium, water germander, pink flowered waterside perennial, ex Cambridgeshire, LATE
Urtica galeopsifolia, fen stinging nettle, often stingless, few, two pounds.pto (temporarily mislaid)
Urtica dioica gracilis procera, purple foliage, from America, not entirely hardy here, yet. £3. (It's that or the slugs that caused loss of stock plant)
Urtica dioica 'Chedglow 2' (n.c.v.) Mottled and sectored variegation in cream and green. From beneath beech hedge at Chedglow, spring 2004. Probably similar to 'Dusting' and 'Ingdust' £2.
Urtica dioica 'Winter yellow' (n.c.v.) A sport on common green nettle growing at the back of field behind our cottage, yellow in spring, green in summer and now back to yellow again. £2.
Cheques to Natural Selection, 1, Station Cottages, Hullavington, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 6ET. Closed 19th February to 7th March.