Annuals and Biennials
Includes biennials. All of these plants will also appear in one of the Camden Park catalogue categories, usually Herbaceous Plants.
Lavatera trimestris L. var. alba
Fully-hardy annual with rounded, shallowly lobed leaves, to 6cm long, and, in the variety alba, open funnel-shaped white flowers, to 10cm across, produced singly from the leaf axils in summer. In the species the flowers vary from white to blush pink. To 1.2m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Linum album Kotschy ex Boiss.
No description at present.
Linum grandiflorum Desf.
Hardy annual, branched at base, with linear-lanceolate leaves, somewhat erect, and large usually rose-coloured flowers but variable in colour, in loose panicles in summer. To 30cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Lupinus paniculatus Desr. var. pubescens (Benth.) Wedd.
Hardy annual with violet-blue flowers with a white centre. To 90cm. [RHSD, Hortus]. Said to be a hybrid of Lupinus paniculatus var. pubescens, the other parent not given.
Malope trifida Cav.
Fully hardy, erect, somewhat branching annual with broadly trumpet-shaped, heavily veined pale to dark purple-red flowers from summer to autumn. To 90cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Martynia fragrans Lindl.
Tender annual with broad leaves, usually five-lobed, and racemes of fragrant deep purplish-crimson flowers. To 60cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Matthiola incana ‘Autumnal Stock’
A cultivar of Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. See Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Stock' for a brief description of the type. Probably a form of Ten-week stock, flowering late in the year from spring sown seed. Today there are several forms, dwarf, bushy and tall. Robinson classifies these as Intermediate stocks and gives their origin as Mattthiola sinuata. [Robinson - The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds 10th Edition, p.680/1907].
Matthiola incana ‘Branching Stock’
A cultivar of Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. See Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Stock' for a brief description of the type. Johnsons' Dictionary gives the common name of Branching Stock to Matthiola incana alba.
Matthiola incana ‘Brompton Stock’
A cultivar of Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. See Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Stock' for a brief description of the type. Queen or Brompton Stocks are typically double-flowered biennials in shades of red, pink, purple and white. Usually summer sown they flower in late winter or early spring.
Matthiola incana ‘Prussian Stock’
A cultivar of Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. See Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Stock' for a brief description of the type. ‘The German growers have a formidable list of kinds [of Ten-week Stock], many of which are more curious than showy. There are, however, sufficient good colours among them, such as crimson, rose, purple, violet, and white, to yield distinct hues.’ [Robinson - The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds 10th Edition, p.680/1907].
Matthiola incana (L.) R.Br. var. graeca
See Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Stock' for a brief description of the type. Summer flowering with white flowers. [JD]. ‘There is a very distinct type [of Stock] known as Wallflower-leaved, which was introduced many years ago from the Grecian Archipelago, and which has shining deep-green leaves, not unlike a Wallflower.’ [Robinson - The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds 10th Edition, p.680/1907].
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.
Frost tender, annual, carpet-forming succulent with thick, fleshy leaves with undulating margins and groups of 3-5, white, narrow-petalled flowers, to 3cm in diameter, in summer. To 10cm, spreading. [RHSD, Hortus].
Nemophila menziesii Hook. & Arn.
Fully hardy, fleshy-stemmed, spreading annual with solitary, saucer-shaped, bright blue flowers in summer. Unlike many other species of Nemophila, menziesii lacks dotting or veining in lighter or darker shades. To 20cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
