New plants last 2024-5 season

FRUITS

Apples – Oaken Pin, Tinsley Quince

Apricot – Isabella

Bullace – hardy close relative of plum and damson

Crab apples – Butterball, Wisley Crab,

Figs – Little Miss Figgy, Yellow Giant

Grapes – Concord, Isabella

Heartnut – Wright seedling

Medlar – Apyrana (seedless)

Peaches – Benedicte, Early Rivers

Pears – Black Worcester, Hessle, Pierre Corneille, Pitmaston Duchess

Sweet chestnuts – grafted varieties

Veitchberry – a delicious blackberry – raspberry hybrid

OTHER PLANTS

Achillea ageratum (English mace, sweet yarrow) – hardy perennial for flavouring and insects

Achillea filipendula ‘Cloth of Gold’ – tall perennial for insects and flowers

Achillea millefolium ‘Cerise Queen’ – pink flowered yarrow for insects and flower

Achillea ptarmica (Sneezewort) – perennial with peppery edible leaves

Agastache rugosa ‘Korean Zest’ (Korean mint) – zesty fragrant anise hyssop relative

Apium graveolens (Wild celery) – the wild perennial ancestor of celery: delicious

Arnica chamissonis (American arnica) – medicinal uses same as for European arnica

Aster oblongifolius (Aromatic aster) – perennial with edible shoots, leaves, flowers

Betula pubescens (Downy birch) – great pioneer/nurse tree for damper / more acid soils

Cardaria draba (Arrow cress) – fiery edible perennial

Cercis occidentalis (California redbud) – N-fixing shrub with edible flowers

Elatostema umbellatum (Dents de Kyoto) – non-stinging nettle relative with edible leaves

Gymnocladus dioica (Kentucky coffee) – tree with pods containing large seeds used for coffee

Hosta ‘Pauls Glory’ – variegated leaves and lavender flowers; edible shoots and flower

Inula helenium (Elecampane) – tall perennial, roots used medicinally and for dyeing

Laburnum anagyroides (golden chain) – small N-fixing tree, for bees and nitrogen

Laportea bulbifera (Bulbous nettle) – Japanese perennial with edible young leaves

Marrubium vulgare (Hoarhound) – European perennial for medicine, dyes and bee plant

Mentha requienii (Corsican mint) – low carpeting species for well drain rocky spots

Monarda fistulosa ssp. menthifolia (Bee balm) – more minty flavouring than the species

Nasturtium officinale (Watercress) – well known edible

Nepeta cataria (catmint) – perennial for bees (and cats!)

Nepeta racemosa ‘Felix’ (catmint) – purple-blue flowered perennial for bees and flowers

Oreganum syriacum (zatar) – Middle Eastern variety with strong spicy leaves

Origanum vulgare ‘Himalayan’ – spicy fragrant oregano variety

Phormium tenax ‘Eamonn’ – a fibre variety of New Zealand flax

Physalis alkekengi ‘Gigante’ (Chinese lantern) – robust perennial with edible sweet fruit in ‘lanterns’

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (Slender mountainmint) – minty edible herb and great flowers for bees

Rumex vesicarius (Arabian sorrel) – drought tolerant sorrel with good edible leaves

Sanguisorba officinalis ‘Little Red Tanna’ (Burnet) – perennial with edible leaves and good flowers

Sedum sarmentosum (Dol-namul) – Ground covering sedum with good edible leaves and stems

Sium sisarum (skirret) – perennial root vegetable, flowers loved by insects

Tanacetum balsamita (Costmary) – perennial with edible leaves and flowers