A Selection of Seaside Garden Plants
To recreate a coastal garden in the heart of the West Midlands, think gravel, sparse planting, focus points of found objects while beachcombing – driftwood, weathered wooden posts etc. Emphasis on silver or glaucous foliage, sea hollies, achillea, artemisia.
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SUCCISA pratensis
Unusual perennial found in boggy grasslands. Low-growing rosette of leaves and small violet pincushion flowers midsummer. A good cottage garden plant.
30cm £5.00
LEUCANTHEMUM x superbum 'Droitwich Beauty'
Rare variety. Ragged white flowers. Similar to 'Aglaia'.
75cm £5.00
BRIZA media 'Limouzi'
A much improved selection of perennial 'Quaking Grass' with blue-green leaves and larger purplish flowers. Sun or part-shade.
45cm £5.00
AGAPANTHUS 'Kingston Blue'
Shorter variety, with mid-blue flowers late summer. Very hardy, good for a small garden or in a container.
45cm £5.00
GERANIUM sanguineum 'Joanna'
Rarely offered. Large crimson-pink flowers, stunning when grown through a framework.
30cm £5.00
AGAPANTHUS 'Arctic Star'
Large, solid heads of pure white flowers from July-September. Hardy. Well-drained good soil in sun.
60cm £6.50
GERANIUM sanguineum 'Belle of Herterton'
Large gentle pink flowers from May, tolerant of most conditions.
20cm £5.00
CHAEROPHYLLUM azoricum
Fresh green crimped, serrated and felted leaves, white umbels above. Quietly impressive!
60cm £5.00
STEMMACANTHA centauroides
Syn. Centaurea pulchra 'Major'. Purple-red flowers in summer attract bees and butterflies. Drought tolerant when established. Hard to propagate so rarely available.
75cm £5.00
ERYNGIUM x zabelii 'Big Blue'
Branching heads of large electric blue flowers on blue stems June-September. Upright and butch!
80cm £7.50
CIRSIUM rivulare 'Trevor's Felley Find’
Another great plant from Trevor Edwards, also called ‘Trevor’s Blue Wonder’, a fabulous tall ornamental thistle with rich blue-purple flowerheads on silver-purple stems mid-late summer. Full sun in rich soil.
1.20m £5.00
IRIS 'Broadleigh Peacock'
Californian hybrid - Pale bronze and amber flowers with deeper markings.
30cm £5.00
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