a l t e r n a t i v e s Plant
List 2002
# denotes name of plant which, to the best of our knowledge, is new to cultivation in the period 2001/2002 or which has not been offered before commercially under any other valid name.
*
means that seed may be available.
+
denotes species beneficial to butterflies and/or moths.
Please note double-flowered forms are of little or no benefit as they
lack nectar.
A
large number of the plants listed are of native provenance and many are local.
IMPATIENS BALSAMS
I.
glandulifera.
Himalayan Balsam.
I. glandulifera ‘Sugar Loaf Peach’# - Awesome alien with flowers in a luscious combination of peach and
raspberry. Deep red stems.
Oh-so invasive and best resisted unless Himalayan balsam is already
rampant in your area. Called ‘Sugar Loaf Peach’ because it was begged from a
lady with a garden at the foot of Sugar Loaf in the Brecon Beacons.
Bees love the flowers. £2.50