'A Selection of Mediterranean Garden Plants' available from Avondale Nursery

A Selection of Mediterranean Garden Plants

A style to evoke memories of holidays in the sun – lots of terracotta pots and paths, easy-care sun-loving hardy plants in well-drained soil. Focal points of dramatic colour and foliage, Raised beds with softer, fragrant planting.

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ALTHAEA officinalis

Marshmallow! Graceful, tall plant with pale pink, magenta-centred flowers. Bees love it, and the root is used to make marshmallows! Well-drained soil in sun.

1.50m £5.00

KNAUTIA sarajevensis

Lavender scabious-like flowers on thin stems. Neat clump-forming plant for a sunny spot. Will grow in acid conditions where a scabious will not.

75cm £5.00

CAMASSIA leichtlinii ssp. suksdorfii 'Lady Eve Price'

We have a few of this rare, deep violet-blue flowered form, blooming May-June. Sun.

60cm £7.50

CROCOSMIA 'Harlequin'

Very eye-catching plant; yellow flowers with alternate red and orange outer petals. Always requested, never enough, so come early!

60cm £5.00

SEDUM 'Class Act'

A stunning variety, forms a mound of green foliage topped with large, deep carmine-pink flower clusters that age to russet. Sun.

AGM PBR 45cm £5.00

EUPHORBIA epithymoides 'Bonfire'

Forms a mound of rich maroon-red foliage, with contrasting golden flowers in spring. Smoulders all summer long! One of our current favourites.

PBR 30cm £5.00

PENNISETUM macrourum

'Fountain Grass'. An evergreen clump of leaves, and long flower racemes on upright stems.

1.50m £5.00

CROCOSMIA x crocosmiiflora 'Fire Jumper'

Golden-yellow flowers with an orange stripe down the centre of each petal.

75cm £5.00

CROCOSMIA x crocosmiiflora 'Fire Jumper'

SANTOLINA rosmarinifolia 'Lemon Fizz'

This stunning Cotton Lavender has dainty lemon-yellow button flowers through summer on a mound of bright yellow evergreen fine foliage. Well drained soil in sun.

AGM 30cm £5.00