SOUTHVIEW NURSERIES
CHEQUERS LANE, EVERSLEY CROSS,
HOOK, HAMPSHIRE RG27 0NT
Tel: 0118 973 2206
| Genus | species/name | Description | Price | |
| PATRINIA | scabiosifolia. | From East Asia happy in sun or shade with attractive divided leaves and 90cm stems of illuminatingly bright yellow branches of flower in late summer. | £3.00 | |
| POLEMONIUM | 'Lambrook Mauve' | The very best of all Polemoniums, this plant is smothered in large soft mauve flowers .Not invasive and at only 45cms high this is a very desirable addition to the front of the border. May to June and likes semi shade and rich soil. AGM | £3.00 | |
| POLYGONUM | amplexicaulis | An excellent plant for late summer and early autumn colour. Dark claret flower spikes cover the plant for weeks. Grows well in damp or dry conditions. 90-120cms. |  | £3.00 |
| POTENTILLA | thurberi 'Monarch's Velvet' | A superb plant which our customers cannot resist when in flower. Bears a multitude of brilliant rich raspberry red flowers with deep velvet red centres. 60cms. June to August. Full sun. | £3.00 | |
| POTENTILLA | x hopwoodiana | Strawberry-like leaves with clusters of pretty soft pink flowers on 50cm stems all summer. Sun. |  | £3.00 |
| PRIMULA | 'Dark Rosaleen'. | A smashing old fashioned primula with dark reddish purple leaves and in spring rich red flowers marked with five pale mauve zones and a central eye of yellow. Divide regularly. 15cm. | £3.00 | |
| PRIMULA | 'Wanda Hose in Hose' | The well loved low edger 'Wanda' but with each deep purple flower set within another. A cheerful plant for early spring colour. Rich soil in sun or semi-shade. 10 cm. |  | £3.00 |
| PULMONARIA | 'Blue Ensign' | Invaluable for early colour flowering from March to June with masses of large deep Mediterranean blue flowers. 25cms. Very tough for sun or shade. |  | £3.00 |
| RANUNCULUS | ficaria 'Brambling' | Stunning purple and chocolate coloured leaves topped by golden yellow buttercups. |  | £2.50 |
| RANUNCULUS | ficaria 'Brazen Hussey' | Introduced by Christopher Lloyd. Eyecatching mounds of glossy dark purple-black leaves covered in Spring with contrasting, shining gold flowers. Sun or shade. |  | £3.00 |
| RANUNCULUS | ficaria subsp. Chrysocephalus | (formally R.f 'major'). Super giant yellow celandine flowers in early Spring on 25cm stems above glossy leaves. | £3.00 | |
| SANGUISORBA | armena | A bold plant collected by Bill Baker, having long silver-grey much dissected leaves which resemble those of the much more tender Melianthus major. Bottle brush flowers of white are produced in mid summer on 90-120 cm stems. This is a wonderful hardy plant which makes a good focal point. A rare addition to the garden. Sun or semi shade. Any soil. |  | £3.80 |
| SANGUISORBA | menziesii | An easy plant with attractive foliage and frolicking cats' tails of rich maroon flowers on 30 to 50 cm stems in summer. Sun or semi-shade. |  | £4.00 |
| SANGUISORBA | officianalis. 'Great Burnet'. | Given to us by John Coke from his garden at Bury Court. Up to 120cm stems of dark blood-red flower clusters which dance on the breeze above strong green foliage in summer. Sun or semi-shade. |  | £3.00 |
| SANGUISORBA | 'Tanna'. | Only 30-50cm high with charming blue-green foliage and very many flowers of rich claret from July to September. | £3.00 | |
| SCOPOLIA | carniolica | Fascinating potato relative. From tough woody rhizomes spring crowded clusters of brownish-purple cup shaped flowers from March to May. 20 to 30cm. A native of southern Europe for shade or semi-shade. | £4.00 | |
| SEDUM | acre aureum. | Our native Stonecrop, known as Wall Pepper, or better still 'Welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk'. Will grow in the most hostile dry conditions even on a roof. This form has beautiful vibrant gold foliage and yellow flowers in summer. | £3.00 | |
| SEDUM | 'Matrona'. | Useful purple flushed foliage and pale pink flowers which slowly darken to red in late summer.60cm. Sun. | £3.00 | |
| SEDUM | 'Purple Emperor' | One of the best dark leaved sedums. Deep maroon leaves are topped by red flowers from July to Sept. 40 cms. Needs free draining soil and a sunny spot. |  | £3.50 |
| SEDUM | telephium var. borderi. | Lovely flowers of purple-pink on 30cm plants in July and August. | £3.00 | |
| SELINUM | wallichianum | E.A.Bowles called this 'the most beautiful of all fern leaved plants', and he knew a plant or two. From the foothills of the Himalayas this grand umbellifer has exquisitely cut fern like foliage and bold 1.5m (5ft) stalks topped with large 20cm wide, flat 'umbrellas' of purest snow-white flowers from July to Aug. Bowles also called it 'the queen of umbellifers'. Sun. | £3.50 | |
| SEMIAQUILEGIA | ecalcarata | Introduced in 1915 from western China the flowers are like short spurred Aquilegias of good crimson colour, nodding and beautiful in June, on 30 to 45cm stems. Sun. |  | £3.00 |
| SISYRINCHIUM | 'Dragon Eyes' | Large flowered form. With pale mauve flowers and deeper veining on the petals. 10cms. Full sun. Light soil. | £2.50 | |
| SISYRINCHIUM | 'E K Balls' | A cheerful companion to the above. 15cm plants with dark blue flowers above grassy foliage. Full sun and free draining soil. | £2.50 | |
| SISYRINCHIUM | 'Quaint and Queer' | Grassy leaves and very attractive flowers of freckled pale biscuit on 20 cm plants. | £2.50 | |
| SOLIDAGO | 'Goldenmosa' | This plant is always a winner for late summer colour with masses of stems bearing a great array of pale lemon yellow flowers, easy to grow in sun or semi-shade. 75cm. AGM. | £3.00 | |
| SYMPHYTUM | caucasicum | A beautiful vigorous comfrey from the Caucasus. From strong clumps of leaves spring myriads of pure sky blue flowers on 90cm stems from April to June. Very tough and makes a fantastic ground cover. Any soil. Wet or dry. AGM |  | £3.00 |
| TANECETUM | niveum 'Jackpot' | From a mound of scented silver foliage are produced multitudes of pure white daisy flowers from June to September. Stunning. 1m. Sunny position. | £3.00 | |
| TELLIMA | grandiflora | A versatile ground cover plant with mounds of scalloped shaped evergreen leaves and 45cm dainty spires of cream flowers darkening to red. May. Semi shade and moist soil. 1826. | £2.50 | |
| TEUCRIUM | chamaedrys | Germander. A fine evergreen dwarf shrub, sadly not seen in many gardens. Bedecked in July and August with whorls of tubular rose lipped flowers against low glossy dark green foliage. Used in Elizabethan knot gardens. Sun or shade 25cms. | £3.00 | |
| THALICTRUM | delavayi 'Album'. | Meadow rue foliage is always attractive and this plant has lovely delicate pale green foliage supporting exquisite open sprays of purest white flowers up to 1.5m tall. Humus rich soil in sun or semi shade. China. |  | £3.00 |
| TRIFOLIUM | ochroleucon | A very different clover with pale cream flowers on 10 -40 cm stems. Likes a dry grassy spot and flowers in May. Very choice and unusual. |  | £3.00 |
| TRIFOLIUM | rubens 'Peachy Pink' | Similar to the above but with charming peachy pink flower clusters in June. 40 cms. | £3.00 | |
| TRIFOLIUM | rubens. | Very unclover-like clover. Strong clumps of soft velvety green leaves and many bold, dense spikes of dark red flowers in summer. 60cm. Sun. | £3.00 | |
| UVULARIA | grandiflora | Merrybells. These delicate woodland beauties are like fairies in disguise, this has the biggest flowers in May-June which are rich yellow and hang like exotic 2 inch long earrings.The foliage is attractively grey-green reaching 60cm. Best planted in rich leafy soil in shade. AGM. | £4.00 | |
| UVULARIA | perfoliata | In May and June pale yellow dainty flowers dangle from 30cm stems. The leaves are soft greyish-green. They are everything about the beauty of May in the woods when the leaf canopy is not too dense and these plants quietly dance in the breeze like dryads as the Cuckoo calls. |  | £4.00 |
| UVULARIA | sessilifolia | For the shadier part of the garden. This north American woodland plant has elegant arching stalks hung with lovely creamy yellow flowers from April to June. A choice and desirable plant. | £4.00 | |
| VALERIANA | phu 'Aurea' | Fantastic for the rich gold colour of its Spring leaves Summer flowers in white clusters on 1.5m. stems. Sun, semi-shade. | £3.00 | |
| VERONICA | austriaca 'Knallblau' | Forms neat mounds of creeping stems with large flowers of clear blue. A really lovely but easy plant for the front of a border. Sun or semi shade. 20cms. July to Sept. | £3.00 | |
| VERONICA | longifolia 'Blauriesin' | Piercing candle like spires of sky blue flowers up to 80cm high. A well tempered plant easy in any position. July. |  | £3.00 |
| VERONICA | gentianoides 'Pallida' | A useful 'front of house' edger with creeping leafy stems and May flower spikes of white with the palest hint of blue. Sun or semi-shade. 40 cm. |  | £3.00 |
| VERONICA | spicata 'Red Fox' | This is a handsome spiky speedwell putting on a grand performance of 30cm spires of bright rose-red flowers over much of the Summer above mounds of shiny dark green leaves. Sun. |  | £3.00 |
| VINCA | minor 'La Grave' | Pliny in the 1st century AD wrote of the 'Pervinca'. How pleasant that we still call this superb ground cover periwinkle. Fine for deep shade or sun. Its pure blue flowers are a spring time joy. 15cms. AGM | £3.00 | |
| VIOLA | sororia 'Freckles' | We were first given this plant by the late Bill Archer whose plant generosity was boundless. A neat form of the Confederate Violet will grow in sun or shade wet or dry producing scrumptious large white flowers freckled with blue in April and May. | £3.00 |