A Selection of Low Maintenance Planting
Some plants need love and attention. Others look after themselves. Choosing low maintenance plants for your garden will reduce the amount of work needed to keep things looking their best.
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HAKONECHLOA macra 'Aureola'
Bright yellow green-striped floppy leaves, slow-spreading, best in light shade and good soil.
AGM 30cm £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
AGAPANTHUS 'Loch Hope'
Very large blue flowers with darker midstripes.One of the tallest and latest flowering. Best in the border, not in a container.
AGM 2.00m £6.50
PERSICARIA amplexicaulis 'Ample Pink'
Rose-pink flowers on branching slim stems, July-October. Sun to part shade.
1.00m £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novi-belgii 'Farncombe Lilac'
Double lilac-pink flowers August-October. HPS Conservation Scheme plant, well worth trying!
75cm £5.00
ASTRANTIA major 'Berendien Stam'
Large green and white flowers flushed with pink May-October.
50cm £5.00
ECHINOPS ritro 'Veitch's Blue'
A shorter variety. Deep violet-blue globe thistle flowers from July-September. Good as a cut flower. Any soil in sun.
1.00m £5.00
PANICUM virgatum 'Squaw'
Red-flushed leaves turn purple-maroon in autumn, panicles of pinkish flowers from late summer.
1.00m £5.00
ASTER 'Moody Blue'
Discovered in our garden, this new aster has mildew-free, fine foliage, and lilac-blue daisies with closely-arranged petals, September-October, on dark stems. A laevis type but less vigorous.
90cm £6.50
STIPA gigantea
Dense base clump of narrow leaves and many tall stems with heads of oat-like flowers which shimmer in the sun. A feature plant throughout the summer. Moist soil in sun.
AGM 2.00m £5.00
HELENIUM 'Luc'
Very similar to 'Sahin's Early Flowerer', but darker and bigger flowers from early July. A current favourite.
90cm £5.00
ASTER peduncularis
Syn. Aster asperulus. Unusual foliage for an aster. Attractive, large violet-blue daisies from August. Everyone loves it on sight in our garden!
30cm £5.00
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