Andrewr's Garden

Abeliophyllum distichum

Species: Abeliophyllum distichum.

Abutilon megapotamicum

Genus: Abutilon.
Species: Abutilon megapotamicum.

Trained over a south-facing trellis. It flowered all the way through last winter (2006/7)

Aconitum episcopale

Genus: Aconitum.
Species: Aconitum episcopale.

Allium 'Purple Sensation'

Genus: Allium.
Species: Allium 'Purple Sensation'.

Allium azureum

Genus: Allium.
Species: Allium azureum.

Anemone appennina

Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone appennina.

Anemone blanda

Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone blanda.

Anemone flaccida

Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone flaccida.

Anemone nemerosa 'Robinsoniana'

Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone nemerosa 'Robinsoniana'.

Anemone nemerosa 'Virescens'

Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone nemerosa 'Virescens'.

Anemone ranunculoides

Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone ranunculoides.

Anemone sylvestris 'Flore Pleno'

Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone sylvestris 'Flore Pleno'.

Anemone x lipiensis

Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone x lipiensis.

Anthericum liliago 'Major'

Species: Anthericum liliago 'Major'.

Aquilegia canadensis

Genus: Aquilegia.
Species: Aquilegia canadensis.

Aquilegia vulgaris 'William Guiness'

Genus: Aquilegia.
Species: Aquilegia vulgaris.

Arabis

Genus: Arabis.
Species: Arabis.

Arisaema griffithii

Genus: Arisaema.
Species: Arisaema griffithii.

Astelia chathamica

Genus: Astelia.
Species: Astelia chathamica.

Foliage always looks good

Astrantia major 'Alba'

Genus: Astrantia.
Species: Astrantia major.

Azalea 'George Reynolds'

Species: Azalea 'George Reynolds'.

Azalea 'Golden Lights'

Species: Azalea 'Golden Lights'.

Banksia marginata

Genus: Banksia.
Species: Banksia marginata.

In its first year, it carried one flower. This year (its second), it has put on lots of growth and will carry se...

Bearded iris

Species: Bearded iris.

Begonia grandis

Genus: Begonia.
Species: Begonia grandis.

Berberis linearifolia 'Orange King'

Genus: Berberis.
Species: Berberis linearifolia.

Berberis x stenophylla 'Irwinii'

Genus: Berberis.
Species: Berberis x stenophylla 'Irwinii'.

Bergenia 'Beethoven'

Genus: Bergenia.
Species: Bergenia 'Beethoven'.

Bergenia ciliata

Genus: Bergenia.
Species: Bergenia ciliata.

Billardiera longiflora

Genus: Billardiera.
Species: Billardiera longiflora.

Bupleurum fruticosum

Genus: Bupleurum.
Species: Bupleurum fruticosum.

The only shrub with umbelliferous flowers. Initally upright, it gets middle age spread as it gets older!

Callicarpa dichotoma

Genus: Callicarpa.
Species: Callicarpa dichotoma.

Caltha palustris 'Alba'

Genus: Caltha.
Species: Caltha palustris.

Camassia cusickii

Genus: Camassia.
Species: Camassia cusickii.

Camellia

Genus: Camellia.
Species: Camellia.

Camellia japonica 'Adolphe Audusson'

Genus: Camellia.
Species: Camellia japonica.

Camellia japonica 'Marguerite Guillon'

Genus: Camellia.
Species: Camellia japonica.

Campanula pyramidalis

Genus: Campanula.
Species: Campanula pyramidalis.

I have both the white- and blue-flowered forms

Campanula trachelium

Genus: Campanula.
Species: Campanula trachelium.

Useful campanula as it grows in dry soil in shade for me and flowers July/August. Self-sows (but never enough)

Cardamine trifolia

Genus: Cardamine.
Species: Cardamine trifolia.

Cardiocrinum giganteum

Genus: Cardiocrinum.
Species: Cardiocrinum giganteum.

As it takes about seven years to reach flowering size from seed, you've missed it for this year! But I might buy...

Carex elata

Genus: Carex.
Species: Carex elata.

Last year (2006) it seeded all over the place; this year hardly any seedlings

Carex morrowii 'Fisher'

Genus: Carex.
Species: Carex morrowii 'Fisher'.

Carex pendula

Genus: Carex.
Species: Carex pendula.

I only get an occasional seedling from this (it has a bad reputation for seeding) but I am growing it on dry cla...

Carpenteria californica

Genus: Carpenteria.
Species: Carpenteria californica.

On a south facing all, it flowers reliably every year. Just got big enough now to start pruning out the old wood

Caryopteris x clandonensis

Genus: Caryopteris.
Species: Caryopteris x clandonensis.

Prune it hard (like a buddleia) and it makes neat regrowth and is flowering well in September

Centaurea montana

Genus: Centaurea.
Species: Centaurea montana.

I need to deadhead this one or I finish up with too much self-seeding

Centaurea simplicicaulis

Genus: Centaurea.
Species: Centaurea simplicicaulis.

Centranthus ruber

Genus: Centranthus.
Species: Centranthus ruber.

A long flowering season (it started in April and is still going) but a prolific self-seeder. Needs deadheading a...

Ceratostigma plumbaginoides

Genus: Ceratostigma.
Species: Ceratostigma plumbaginoides.

Good colour in September. I might not cut it back next spring and see whether it grows taller and starts floweri...

Cestrum parqui

Genus: Cestrum.
Species: Cestrum parqui.

Sun loving shrub to 2 metres with a long flowering season. In cold winters, it will cut back like a hardy fuchs...

Chaenomeles

Genus: Chaenomeles.
Species: Chaenomeles.

Chaenomeles japonica

Genus: Chaenomeles.
Species: Chaenomeles japonica.

I'm growing three of these (red, pink and white flowered forms) as a garden hedge. But it needs pruing several t...

Chelone obliqua

Species: Chelone obliqua.

Chionodoxa luciliae

Genus: Chionodoxa.
Species: Chionodoxa luciliae.

Chionodoxa luciliae 'Pink Giant'

Genus: Chionodoxa.
Species: Chionodoxa luciliae.

Chrysanthemum

Genus: Chrysanthemum.
Species: Chrysanthemum.

Cichorium intybus

Genus: Cichorium.
Species: Cichorium intybus.

I have white and pink flowered forms as well as the blue. Seems not to be fussy about soil and grows just as hap...

Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum'

Genus: Cirsium.
Species: Cirsium rivulare.

Clematis 'Guernsey Cream'

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis 'Guernsey Cream'.

Clematis alpina 'Frances Rivis'

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis alpina.

Clematis alpina 'Helsingborg'

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis alpina.

Clematis cirrhosa

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis cirrhosa.

I grow Clematis cirrhosa balearica on a northwest facing pergola. In a mild winter, it flowers from November to ...

Clematis florida

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis florida.

I grow Clematis florida sieboldii on a nortwest facing pergola. Supposedly not too hardy but I've had it a few y...

Clematis macropetala 'Clochette Pride'

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis macropetala.

Clematis napaulensis

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis napaulensis.

Clematis recta

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis recta.

Clematis recta purpurea has really deep purple foliage in spring that gradually fades to a muddy purple-green as...

Clematis recta 'Purpurea'

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis recta.

Clematis tangutica

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis tangutica.

I bought a variety called 'Helios' because it was supposedly shorter but it still makes 8 to 10 feet in a season

Clematis texensis 'Gravetye Beauty'

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis texensis.

Clematis viticella

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis viticella.

These are brilliant - mine start flowering in mid summer and go on and on. And they don't get clematis wilt!

Clematis viticella 'Venosa Violacea'

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis viticella.

Clematis x cartmanii 'Moonbeam'

Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis x cartmanii 'Moonbeam'.

Clianthus puniceus

Genus: Clianthus.
Species: Clianthus puniceus.

Got this through one winter outside but lost it in 2005/6. Now I'm growing a replacement in a pot. Snails love t...

Colchicum autumnale

Genus: Colchicum.
Species: Colchicum autumnale.

I accidentally put a spade through the bulb this spring but now I appear to have several plants instead of one!

Convallaria majalis

Genus: Convallaria.
Species: Convallaria majalis.

Boy, do I have this plant!

Convolvulus althaeoides

Genus: Convolvulus.
Species: Convolvulus althaeoides.

Interestingly, this seems to run underground and throw up little clumps here and there. And there was me hoping ...

Convolvulus cneorum

Genus: Convolvulus.
Species: Convolvulus cneorum.

About five years and this starts to de back on me (again)

Convolvulus sabatius

Genus: Convolvulus.
Species: Convolvulus sabatius.

What a cracker. Not overly rampageous and a long flowering season

Cornus canadensis

Genus: Cornus.
Species: Cornus canadensis.

Looks stunning in flower under acer palmatum dissectum 'Atropurpureum'

Coronilla valentina

Genus: Coronilla.
Species: Coronilla valentina.

My original plant flowered three times in the course of a year. Then a vandal broke it off at ground level. Its ...

Corylopsis veitchiana

Genus: Corylopsis.
Species: Corylopsis veitchiana.

Corylus avellana 'Aurea'

Genus: Corylus.
Species: Corylus avellana.

Cotinus coggygria

Genus: Cotinus.
Species: Cotinus coggygria.

I've had the purple leaved form for many years. Lot of dead wood this year after the hot dry summer of 2006 though

Crinodendron hookerianum

Genus: Crinodendron.
Species: Crinodendron hookerianum.

September 2007 - it's flowering for the third time this year! It was planted in 2001

Cyclamen repandum

Genus: Cyclamen.
Species: Cyclamen repandum.

Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Genus: Dactylorhiza.
Species: Dactylorhiza fuchsii.

Two of these self sowed into a planting basket of candelabra primulas in my pond so I'm hoping for some more

Daphne albowiana

Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne albowiana.

Daphne bholua

Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne bholua.

Planted the cultivar 'Alba' as it is smaller on maturity and I have a crowded garden

Daphne mezereum

Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne mezereum.

In full flower for my open garden on 1st April 2007. I've now tracked down a white-flowered form too

Daphne odora

Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne odora.

I've been growing Daphne odora 'Marginata' for several years - excellent plant

Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata'

Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne odora.

Daphne pontica hybrid

Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne pontica.

Daphne tangutica

Species: Rhodotypos scandens.

Daphne x burkwoodii 'Somerset'

Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne x burkwoodii 'Somerset'.

Daphne x houtteana

Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne x houtteana.

Darmera peltata

Genus: Darmera.
Species: Darmera peltata.

A tough cookie. Recently helped with the restoration of a garden planted in the 1920s which had suffered 30 year...

Dendromecon rigida

Genus: Dendromecon.
Species: Dendromecon rigida.

Dicentra 'Pearl Drops'

Genus: Dicentra.
Species: Dicentra 'Pearl Drops'.

Dicentra formosa

Genus: Dicentra.
Species: Dicentra formosa.

Has formed a good clump in a narrow northeast facing border at the foot of a wall