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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GERANIUM sanguineum 'Joanna'
Rarely offered. Large crimson-pink flowers, stunning when grown through a framework.
30cm £5.00
KNIPHOFIA 'Bee's Jubilee'
Purplish buds open to narrow apricot flowers on dark stems. Sun.
1.20m £5.00
EUPHORBIA x pasteuri 'Phrampton Phatty'
From Pan Global Plants. Forms a wide evergreen dome with dense foliage. Fragrant yellow-green flowers in summer. Broader and lower than other E. x pasteuri. Up to 200cm wide! Sun.
AGM 1.30m £5.00
ERYNGIUM x zabelii 'Violetta'
Darkest blue form of the sea holly, has spiky, deep indigo flowers in summer.
80cm £7.50
KNIPHOFIA 'Mango Popsicle'
A repeat bloomer over five months! Tall mango-orange spikes over thin, grassy foliage.
PBR 75cm £5.00
PERSICARIA affinis 'Darjeeling Red'
A mat-forming evergreen perennial, with pink flowers midsummer that turn red as they mature. Sun to part shade.
AGM 30cm £5.00
MISCANTHUS sinensis 'Zwerg Elefant'
Unique dark pinky-red crimped flowers burst out of their bulbous sheaths late summer! Wide foliage. A current favourite.
1.80m £5.00
SALVIA microphylla 'Cerro Potosi'
Large, glowing magenta-pink flowers well above the leaves. Sun.
80cm £5.00
IRIS 'Jane Phillips'
Eye-catching flag iris, with broad sword-shaped grey-green leaves and slightly fragrant flax-blue flowers in May and June. Always remarked upon in our garden!
AGM 90cm £5.00
KNIPHOFIA 'Alcazar'
Fat spikes of red to yellow flowers on stout stems. Red hot pokers prefer good, well-drained soil in sun, but can tolerate part shade.
1.50m £5.00
EUPHORBIA characias 'Black Pearl'
Evergreen, with clusters of lime-green flowers with black centres all summer. Not too tall, shapely plant. Full sun.
75cm £5.00
IRIS 'Broadleigh Dorothy'
Californian Hybrid - Like an old Persian carpet in shades of bronzy-red.
45cm £5.00
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