A Selection of Prairie Garden Plants
A garden of height, transparency and texture – tall plants among short. Walk through a summer meadow of ornamental grasses, asters and perennial sunflowers. They provide structure and drama through the cold winter months, touched by frost in the morning sun.
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SEDUM 'Matrona'
Soft pink flowers on purple stems August-October, bronze-flushed green leaves.
AGM 75cm £5.00
SANGUISORBA tenuifolia 'Big Pink'
Smothered with bright pink drooping catkins in August and September.
1.50m £5.00
LEUCANTHEMUM x superbum 'Droitwich Beauty'
Rare variety. Ragged white flowers. Similar to 'Aglaia'.
75cm £5.00
ARUNDO donax
Giant reed, growing up to 10ft high! Grey-green leaves. Needs a warm spot in moist soil.
3.00m £7.50
PANICUM virgatum 'Shenandoah'
Deciduous grass with red foliage turning much darker in early autumn. Airy flowers.
1.00m £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM 'Nineteen'
Sprays of small lilac daisies September-November, on maroon stems and dark foliage. Sun.
1.20m £5.00
EUPHORBIA griffithii 'Dixter'
Copper-tinted dark green leaves veined in red. Brick red flowers fade to yellow.
AGM 75cm £5.00
SOLIDAGO 'Foxbrook Gold'
Another selection from John Williams. These three Solidagos should be called 'The Foxbrook Series'! Floriferous, upright and free-standing. Exuberent, like John, and looks good every year with no effort! Full sun.
1.30m £5.00
SANGUISORBA 'Sangria'
One of the tallest Sanguisorba, this has maroon fingers on open branching stems July-August.
2.00m £5.00
MISCANTHUS sinensis 'Morning Light'
Narrow white-variegated leaves, pinkish flower plumes fade to brown from August-November.
AGM 1.20m £5.00
RUDBECKIA fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'
Bigger daisies than R. fulgida, August-October.
AGM 60cm £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'James'
Big, bright purple daisies. A lovely new variety from John Tuite of West Acre Gardens in Norfolk, named after his son.
1.20m £5.00
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