E MacGregor Cat 2009.indd - Elizabeth MacGregor Nursery

Campanula ‘Samantha’ £ 4.10
Very compact cultivar with bright blue upward
facing saucer shaped flowers. Long summer
season especially if dead-headed. Excellent
edging or for underplanting roses. Ordinary
garden soil, 25cm. high.
Campanula ‘Sarastro’ £ 4.10
A new hybrid, producing large deep violet-blue
bells. Clump forming, 60cm. high.
Campanula takesimana £ 4.10
‘Beautiful Truth’
Very unusual with the white bell shaped flowers
split into narrow segments, creating a spidery
effect. 40cm. high.
Campanula ‘Van-Houttei’ £ 4.10
A lovely old hybrid, producing large smokeyblue
bells for a long Summer period. 45cm.
CENTAUREA
Centaurea atropurpurea £ 4.10
Deep crimson-purple thistle like flowers on tall
upright stems. June to September. 120cm.
Centaurea ‘Jordy’ £ 4.10
This has become my favorite centauria, making
clumps of grey-green foliage which shows the
maroon-black cornflowers to perfection. Easy
in ordinary soil and sun. 35cm. Plate B
Centaurea montana ‘Carnea’ £ 4.10
A good pink form of the Mountain Knapweed,
with its cornflower like blooms. In flower early
summer. Prefers sun. 40cm. high.
Centaurea pulcherrima £ 4.10
Clump former with deeply-divided silver foliage.
In mid-summer, semi-double rose-pink
flowers emerge from papery buds held on stiff
wiry stems. For full sun and free-draining soils.
30-40cm. high.
Centaurea ruthenica £ 4.10
Pale yellow flowers in July and August. This
is considered to be the choicest yellow Knapweed.
Best in a poor dry soil. 90cm. high.
CEPHALARIA
Cephalaria gigantea £ 4.10
Giant Scabiosa with tall airy stems holding large
pale yellow flowers, lovely at the back of the
border. 3m. high.
CICHORIUM
Cichorium intybus £ 4.10
The culinary Chicory makes an unusual ornamental
plant with startlingly blue dandilion-like
flowers studding the tall stems during the summer
months. For a sunny spot & well drained
soil. 120cm. high.
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Cichorium intybus ‘Roseum’ £ 4.10
Rose-pink miniature dandilion-like flowers
studding the tall stems all summer. For a sunny
& well drained site. 120cm. high. Plate B
CIRSIUM
Cirsium rivulare ‘Atropurpureum’ £ 4.50
A very ornamental thistle, producing stout stems
with dark maroon-red thistle flowers. Long
summer season & deservedly very popular.
90cm. high.
CLEMATIS
Clematis ‘Buckland Beauty’ £ 7.50
Tiny pink ribbed bell flowers, pale inside, which
darken as they mature. A hybrid of C. texensis.
Flowering mid summer. 2.5m. Plate B
Clematis ‘Duchess of Edinburgh’ £ 7.50
This double white clematis dates back to 1875.
Flowers May to June, 1.5-2m. high.
Clematis florida var. flore-pleno £ 7.50
An unusual old Japanese cultivar, producing
very double rosettes of cool greenish-white
flowers. From early summer until autumn. For
a warm sheltered wall. 2-3m. high. Plate B
Clematis florida var. sieboldiana £ 7.50
Creamy white flowers with a contrasting purple
centre makes this a unique and outstanding
variety. Grows best against a sheltered sunny
wall, or in a container. Very long flowering,
June to September. 2-3m. high. Plate B
Clematis ‘H. F. Young’ AGM £ 7.50
Very large flowers, 20cm. across, in a bright
and beautiful mid blue, with contrasting creamy
stamens. Flowers profusely from ground level
in May to June and again in September. 2.5m.
high. Plate B
Clematis integrifolia £ 6.00
An easily grown herbaceous Clematis with rich
blue nodding bell-shaped flowers from July to
September. 90cm. tall.
Clematis ‘Lasurstern’ AGM £ 7.50
A reliable, very floriferous old cultivar. Large
deep lavender-blue flowers with contrasting
cream stamens and pointed petals with wavy
margins. First flush of flowers in May to June &
again in August to September. 2.5m. high.
Clematis montana rubens £ 7.50
Bronzed foliage makes a good foil for dark pink
flowers which are vanilla scented. Flowering
May & June. Very vigorous, to 6m. high.
Clematis ‘Niobe’ AGM £ 7.50
A compact cultivar with large, deep-burgundyred
velvety flowers, produced very freely for