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Perennials

At Homestead Nurseries, we stock a very wide range of perennials suitable for all aspects of your garden, whether you have sun or shade, dry or moist soil. The vast majority of which are grown on our nursery here at Kirstead Green.

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Our prices start from just £2.75 for a 1 litre pot.

Please bear in mind that some of our perennials are 'seasonal' and will not therefore be available all year round.
Opening Times
Monday        9am  -  5pm
Tuesday       9am  -  5pm
Wednesday  9am  -  5pm
Thursday      9am  -  5pm
Friday           9am  -  5pm
Saturday       9am  -  5pm
Sunday         10am - 4pm
Bank Hols.   10am - 4pm

WE ACCEPT MOST MAJOR CREDIT AND DEBIT CARDS (EXCEPT AMEX AND DINERS CARDS)
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We mainly grow our perennials in 1 Litre, 1.5 Litre or 2 litre pots. Occasionally larger examples of certain varieties are available. Our stock is always changing as new and interesting plants are added throughout the season. Each year we extend our range with new varieties, as well as continuing to grow the timeless classics such as Aquilegia, Delphinium, Geranium and Lupins etc
CLICK HERE FOR OUR 2022 SEASON LIST
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Acanthus Spinosa
Flower Colour: Purple/white
Description: Upright
herbaceous perennial to 1.2m, with large, deeply lobed and spine-tipped, dark glossy green leaves. Sun/shade
Size: 1.5m x 1m

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Achillea - Cerise Queen
Flower Colour: Deep red
Description:
'Cerise Queen' makes a loose clump of feathery foliage, with clusters of deep pink flowers in summer and autumn. Full sun
Size: 60cm x 30cm

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Achillea - 'Cloth of gold'
Flower Colour: Golden yellow
Description:
Tall, robust perennial to 1.8m, with divided foliage, and large, flattened heads of bright yellow flowers. Good for drying
Size: 180cm x 100cm

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Agapanthus - 'Queen Mum'
Flower Colour: White/blue base
Description: Large white trumpet shaped flowers with a delicate violet-blue base on top of upright stems. Impressive when in flower and is a great feature for a border or in a pot.
Size: 150cm x 75cm

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Alchemilla 'Mollis'
Flower Colour: Yellow
Description: Herbaceous clump forming. Hairy, light green leaves with scalloped and toothed edges.  Small flowers are borne in large sprays just above the foliage. Often seeds freely. Sun/shade
Size: 50cm x 50cm
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Anemone Tormentosa
Flower Colour: Deep pink
Description:
Easy to grow, and hardiest of all the Autumn-blooming Anemone, with a vigorous, spreading habit and reliable late-summer display. Sun/shade
Size: 90cm x 90cm

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Anthemis Tinctoria 'EC Buxton'
Flower Colour: Pink
Description:
'E.C. Buxton' is a clump-forming perennial with finely dissected green leaves and solitary lemon-yellow daisies. Full sun
Size: 100cm x 100cm

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Artemisia 'Powys Castle'
Flower Colour: White (insignificant)
Description: E
vergreen dwarf shrub of low, rounded habit, with finely divided, silvery leaves and, in late summer, insignificant dull yellow flower-heads in narrow panicles. Full sun
Size: 50cm x 100cm
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Bergenia 'Autumn Magic'
Flower Colour: Deep pink
Description: The best Bergenia for autumn flower colour. With large green foliage and bright pink racemes. Sun/part shade
Size: 30cm x 40cm
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Brunnera 'Alexander's Great'
Flower Colour: Blue

Description: These gigantic plants have heavily silvered heart-shaped leaves and sprays of blue forget-me-not flowers which appear in Spring
Size: 35cm x 75cm
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Brunnera 'Jack Frost'
Flower Colour: Blue 
Description: Grown for its large, heart-shaped silver leaves edged and veined with green, and sprays of small blue flowers in spring
Size:50cm x 100cm
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Brunnera 'Looking Glass'
Flower Colour: Blue
Description: Forms a clump of heart shaped leaves, frosted  in shimmering silver. Sprays of bright blue Forget-me-not flowers appear in spring.  Sun/shade
Size: 45cm x 45cm

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Brunnera 'Little Jack'
Flower Colour: Blue

Description: Small ovate heart shaped leaves that are mid-green with bold silver markings. Sprays of light blue, slightly fragrant flowers rise above the foliage during spring. Sun/shade
Size: 25cm x 25cm
Campanula Punctata 'Sarastro'
Flower Colour: Purple
Description: Bushy, compact habit and long blooming season. Plants form a mound of dark green leaves, bearing upright stems with huge drooping bells in a rich deep violet-purple. Sun/shade.
Size: 60cm x 45cm
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Campanula Punctata 'Wedding Bells'
Flower Colour: White
Description: Clump-forming perennial. The foliage is bright green, and the plump, white flowers are hose-in-hose or semi-double
Size: 100cm x 50cm
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Corydalis 'Blue Heron'
Colour: Deep Blue
Description: F
orms a mound of ferny blue-grey foliage, topped for several weeks in the spring with clusters of intense sapphire-blue fragrant blooms.
Size: 25cm x 25cm

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Delphinium 'Astrolat'
Flower Colour: Lavender pink
Description: Plants form a low mound of deeply-cut green leaves, bearing tall spikes of satiny flowers. Full sun 
Size: 150cm x 60cm

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Delphinium 'Black Knight'
Flower Colour: Rosy crimson
Description:
Stately spires of semi-double, deep purple flowers with black eyes open on tall stems with pretty, deeply cut leaves. Full sun
Size: 170cm x 75cm


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Echinacea - 'White Swan'
Flower Colour: White/brown cone
Description: 'White Swan' is a compact perennial of upright growth, with solitary, white flower-heads with dull yellow central disks
Size: 150cm x 60cm
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Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'
Flower Colour: Mauve
Description: 'Bowles's Mauve' is a bushy evergreen perennial, with narrow, dark grey-green leaves and erect racemes of rich mauve flowers 2cm in width. Full sun
Size:100cm x 100cm
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Euphorbia - 'Amyg Purpurea'
Flower Colour: Lime green
Description:  An soft downy evergreen perennial, with deep purple stems and leaves, and contrasting lime-green flowers in spring - early summer. Sun/shade
Size: 75cm x 75cm.
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Euphorbia - 'Martinii Rudolph'
Flower Colour: Lime green
Description:  Evergreen mound of leathery dark-green leaves, developing showy bright-red tips during the winter months. Heads of lime-green flowers  in late spring/early summer. Sun/shade
Size: 60cm x 50cm.
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Euphorbia - 'Martinii'
Flower Colour: Green
Description: Upright, fleshy stems clothed in spring with handsome red-stained, mid-green leaves, followed by clusters of long-lasting, red-eyed, chartreuse-green flowers.
Grow in Full sun 

Size: 75cm x 75cm
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Gaillardia - 'Arizona Sun'
Colour: Deep Rose Pink
Description: Flowers are large flame-orange daisies with golden-yellow tips, appearing from June into the autumn. Thrives in hot, sunny sites. Attractive to butterflies. Full sun
Size:. 30cm x 40cm
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Geranium 'Dusky Rose'
Flower Colour: Rose pink
Description: Forms a low tight spreading mound of gorgeous chocolate-burgundy foliage. From May to September the plant will be studded with soft baby-pink flowers. Sun or part shade
Size: 15cm x 30cm
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Geranium -  'Rozanne'
Flower Colour: Violet blue/white
Description: A  Vigorous spreading perennial with neat, dense, lobed foliage and bowl-shaped violet-blue flowers 5cm wide, with a white centre, opening from early summer to early autumn. Sun/shade
Size: 75cm x 75cm
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Geranium - 'Tiny Monster'
Flower Colour: Magenta pink
Description: Fast-spreading mound of dark green leaves, bearing small magenta-pink flowers from early summer through to Autumn. Good edging or groundcover . Sun/shade
Size: 20cm x 50cm
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Gerbera - Garvinea 'Fleurie'
Flower Colour: Red
Description: This is the first hardy Gerbera. Plant in patio pots, or en masse in the border for a truly eye catching display.  long flowering, from early spring throughout the summer. Sum or part shade
Size: 35cm x 30cm.
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Gerbera - Garvinea 'Pam'
Flower Colour: Pink
Description: This is the first hardy Gerbera. Plant in patio pots, or en masse in the border for a truly eye catching display.  long flowering, from early spring throughout the summer. Sum or part shade
Size: 35cm x 30cm
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Geum -  'Mrs Bradshaw'
Flower Colour: Scarlet red
Description: 'Mrs J. Bradshaw' is a clump-forming herbaceous perennial with hairy, dark green, pinnate basal leaves and purple stems bearing semi-double flowers 4.5cm in width
Size: 60cm x 50cm.
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Hosta -  'A touch of class'
Flower Colour: Pale Lavender
Description: A low growing Hosta with thick, pointy blue-green leaves with a central streak of pale yellow. Part/full shade
Size: 40cm x 60cm
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Kniphofia - 'Red hot poker'
Flower Colour: Yellow/red
Description: This variety produces tall spikes of red flower buds that open to orange and fade to yellow above clumps of evergreen, strap-like leaves. Like full sun or part shade
Size: 120cm x 60cm
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Leucanthemum
Flower Colour: White/yellow eye
Description:  Perennial forming a clump  with narrow, dark glossy green leaves and semi-double white flowers 10-12cm in width. sun/shade
Size: 100cm x 60cm
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Lobelia 'Queen Victoria'
Flower Colour: Pink
Description: Stunning spikes of scarlet, five-petalled flowers rise up in late summer among beautiful, beetroot-coloured foliage.  A splash of vibrant colour to the garden. Sun/shade
Size: 90cm x 35cm
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Lupin - The Chandelier
Flower Colour: Yellow
Description:  'Chandelier' is a perennial forming a clump of palmate foliage, with long racemes of yellow flowers from early summer . Sun/shade
Size: 100cm x 60cm
Lupin - The Chatelaine
Flower Colour: Pink/white
Description:  Upright flower spike creates a spectacular column of colour when the pink flowers, each with a white standard,  Sun/shade
Size: 120cm x 60cm
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Lupin - The Governor
Flower Colour: Blue/white
Description:  'The Governor' is an upright perennial forming a clump with spike-like racemes of deep blue flowers with contrasting white standard petals, in early and mid summer. Sun/shade
Size: 90cm x 60cm
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Lupin - The Pages
Flower Colour: Red
Description:  'The Pages' is a clump-forming perennial with palmate leaves and erect racemes of light red flowers in summer. Sun/shade
Size: 100cm x 50cm
Please note: All plants are for sale and collection at the nursery.
We do not provide Mail Order.
We can deliver locally for a small fee to cover fuel & labour