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Lychnis coronaria 'Alba' AGM

Caryophyllaceae
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Lychnis coronaria 'Alba'
 

Habitat: woods, scrub, stony slopes

Flowering: summer

Height: 80 cm

Width: 50 cm

Soil: best in poor, sandy soil

This genus contains some small alpines (including one that is very rare in Britain), as well as larger plants suitable for a herbaceous border. The white or pink flowers are carried in terminal clusters.

Lychnis coronaria 'Alba' has pure white flowers over densely hairy, soft leaves. This is an excellent plant for a white border, or as a pale accent in a herbaceous border or the sunny side of a shrub border.
2 litre pot £6.00

lychnis_alpina.jpg Lychnis alpina is a European alpine, very rare in Britain, with narrow, shiny, dark green leaves, and heads of 10 to 20 flowers. Our plants are rather taller than wild plants we have seen, and have rosy purple flowers.
lychnis_alpina.jpg Lychnis alpina 'Snow Flurry' has a tight head of small white flowers, giving a distinctive 'snowball' appearance, on a short stem, above dark green, glossy leaves.
lychnis_yunnanensis.jpg Lychnis yunnanensis white-flowered is the white-flowers variety of this clump-forming Chinese species, with pale green tufts of leaves and short stems carrying the clusters of flowers. A relatively unknown and under-used plant for the herbaceous border or the rock garden.