Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants
www.hardys-plants.co.ukHardy’s cottage garden plants is a a family-run award-winning plant nursery based in Hampshire. Their plant catalogue includes more than 1200 herbaceous varieties. Usefully you will also find an advanced search facility allowing you to select herbaceous plants by season/colour/height etc. Your perennial plants can be ordered through and paid for through the website, or by mail order.
Claire Austin Hardy Plants
www.claireaustin-hardyplants.co.ukClaire Austin Hardy Plants have a plant nursery in Shawbury in Shropshire. Claire Austin is the author of the book “1001 Perennials”. The garden nursery specialises in irises and peonies but has a very substantial range of other herbaceous plants. There is also a useful section on caring for plants the low maintenance way! Orders can be placed through the website or by mail order.
Crocus Online Garden Centre
www.crocus.co.ukCrocus, based in Windlesham, Surrey, has an excellent selection of perennial plants (both hardy and more tender perennials) available at most times of year. These include cottage garden plants, and those suitable for other garden styles. If you are stuck for ideas then use the plant selector to identify herbaceous plants suitable for your garden. Online ordering.
Woottens Plants
www.woottensplants.co.ukWoottens are a specialist garden nursery base in Wenhaston in Suffolk. As well as specialising in auriculas, bearded irises, grasses, hemerocallis and pelargoniums they have a vast general range of herbaceous plants (more than 3,000 species). Use their gardeners guide to select your perennial plants by just about any criteria you can think of! Order and pay for online or pay by post if you prefer.
The Plantsman's Preference
www.plantpref.co.ukThe Plantsmans' Preference have been growing and selling an extensive range of hardy geraniums, ornamental grasses and unusual perennials in Norfolk since 1996. We are a small retail nursery selling to visitors and at shows, plant fairs and sales and by mail order. They aim to provide plants of good quality and to make new, rare and unusual plants available to a wider gardening audience, whilst not neglecting the more commonplace.