a l t e r n a t i v e s  Plant List 2002

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# 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.  

MALVA   MALLOWS

M. sylvestris.  Common Mallow.  Relatively short-lived, but robust plants which seed freely and flower generously until the frosts. 

M. sylvestris 'Highnam' - A vigorous form seen more than once on the highways around Gloucester, this has very pale lilac (almost white) notched petals, conspicuously veined with purple.  Can produce occasional pinker-flowered seedlings.  SEED ONLY (£1.50/pack).

MENTHA   MINTS

M. ‘Oma Streib’ – Ulrike Paradine’s grandmother’s mint from Stuttgart.  Very like corn mint M. arvensis in habit and flower but the dark green leaves have a different scent.  Sweet but delicate, it makes an excellent herbal tea.  Probably a hybrid.  Available from summer. £3.00

MIMULUS   MONKEYFLOWERS, MUSK

M. ‘Orkney Gold’ – This lovely form of musk (an introduced wildflower) has rich golden-yellow hose-in-hose flowers in summer and is ideal for damp soils and pond margins.  ‘Orkney Gold’ is the proper cultivar name for the plant entered in The RHS Plant Finder as ‘yellow hose-in-hose’. From Alan Bremner’s Orkney garden. £2.50