Baptisia Dutch Chocolate

Spikes of dark chocolate purple pea like flowers from early summer to 1m, followed by nice seed heads if left above bushy clumps of smart greish green foliage.

Likes an open, sunny border on well drained soil and copes well with drought, once established

Baptisia Indigo Spires

Baptisia take a while to settle but in time make large clumps 1.2m x 90cm. In late spring/ early summer lupin like flower spikes are freely produced, followed by interesting seedheads. They enjoy a sunny border and cope well with drought conditions once established.

Baptisia Pink Truffles

Baptisia take a while to settle but in time make large clumps 1.2m x 90cm. In late spring/ early summer lupin like flower spikes of pale dusky pink are freely produced, followed by interesting seedheads. They enjoy a sunny border and cope well with drought conditions once established.

Baptisia Solare Flare

Baptisia take a while to settle but in time make large clumps 1.2m x 90cm. In late spring/ early summer lupin like flower spikes are freely produced, followed by interesting seedheads. They enjoy a sunny border and cope well with drought conditions once established. Solare flare has yellow flower spikes which develop warm rust shades as they age

Bergenia Harzkristall

Compact, low growing plants with rounded, deep green shiny foliage. In spring red tinted stems and buds open to white flowers that take on pinker tints as they age.
Does best in sun on well drained soil but will cope with shade too, even if it is dry. Drought tolerant

Bidens aurea

Travelling clumps to 1.5 metres are topped by fresh pale yellow daisies . Likes sun on well drained soil. Flowers from July right through to frosts - I have had it in flower at Christmas one particularly mild year

Bidens Hannay's Lemon Drop

Travelling clumps to 1.5 metres are topped by usuaual daisies with yellow petals that appear to have had their tips dipped in white paint. Likes sun on well drained soil. Flowers from July right through to frosts - I have had it in flower at Christmas one particularly mild year

Brixa media Golden Bee

Neatly clump forming perennial grass that starts flowering early - mid summer. The individual flowers are like tiny heart shaped beads but are produced in such profusion that they form a cloud effect on top of upright stems around 50cm tall. Fresh green when they first open, they age to a pale biscuit brown by late summer.
Does best in a sunny spot on any reasonable soil that doesn't bake dry 

Briza media variegated

Quaking Grass. Loose clumps of basal creamy white striped leaves with purple tinted when new emerged, send up stems to 60cm with branching tops that carry masses of penedent, trembling heart shaped spikelets with a nice purple tint to them June-August. Likes sun or light shade on any reasonable soil. Good for cutting and drying

Brunnera Alexandra's Great

Reasonably new variety, named for it's silver veined super sized mature foliage that measures up to 25cm across. Sprays of forget-me-not blue flowers in spring. Likes light shade, on any reasonable soil

Brunnera macrophylla

Brunnera make excellent ground cover in shady borders on any reasonable soil.

Sprays of forget-me-not like flowers appear in early spring followed by large heart shaped green leaves. 

Brunnera macrophylla Alchemy Pewter

Metallic, silvered leaves accented with deep green veining. A great shade feature foliage plant, with a bonus of blue 'forget-me-not' flowers in spring.

Bupleurum longifolium

Striking perennial with basal clumps of finger shaped leaves and branching flowering stems to 90cm topped by unusual golden umbels from late spring. Grow in full sun on well drained soil, self seeds where happy and makes a good flower for cutting