A Selection of Back of Border Plants
These are self-supporting tall plants, topped with flowers. They can be used for screening or hiding unsightly features. Choose plants of differing heights to vary the gradient of the border.
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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
PHLOX paniculata 'Ending Blue'
Lilac-pink flowers in daylight, but change to soft purple-violet in the evening. Fragrant too!
1.00m £5.00
CLEMATIS recta 'Purpurea'
A huge clump of deep maroon foliage, and masses of scented white flowers all summer. Prefers full sun.
1.50m £6.00
MISCANTHUS sinensis 'Poseidon'
Very broad leaves and chunky pink flowers. Stunning autumn colour.
2.00m £5.00
SANGUISORBA tenuifolia 'Pieters'
Masses of red bobble flowers on slender stems through summer. Sun.
1.20m £5.00
MOLINIA caerulea ssp. arundinacea 'Bergfreund'
Short pale brown panicles on green upright stems. Shorter foliage. Deciduous.
2.00m £5.00
MISCANTHUS sinensis 'Hercules'
Broad leaves with a white midrib. Strong thick stems, flowers above foliage from September-October.
2.15m - 2.40m £5.00
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
ACANTHUS spinosus 'Royal Haughty'
Pale mauve flowers July-September and deeply cut leaves.
1.20m £5.00
CORTADERIA richardii
Pampas grass with silvery loose arching flower plumes from July-October. Nothing like the 1960s monster!
AGM 2.50m £5.00
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