A Selection of Cottage Garden Plants
An informal, romantic style. Plants are packed together, with lush, contrasting textures and colours, from soft and gentle to hot and fiery. Anything goes!
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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
SANGUISORBA 'Prim and Proper'
Our introduction last year, a chance seedling found in our garden. A tidy, compact plant, upright red drumstick flowers on straight stems. Great for front of a sunny border!
60cm £6.50
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
ARTEMISIA ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis'
Lovely silver foliage plant, useful for edge of border as a foil for darker plants. Dead-head to keep her at her best! Sunny, well drained spot.
AGM 60cm £5.00
HELENIUM 'El Dorado'
Big bright yellow flowers with a large, dark central cone. My current favourite!
75cm £5.00
AGAPANTHUS 'Windlebrooke'
Deep indigo buds open to form beautiful heads of dark blue flowers with darker veining, over a tidy clump of narrow leaves.
60cm £6.50
VERBENA officinalis var. grandiflora 'Bampton'
Shimmering cloud of narrow, dark purple stems and tiny pink flowers. Sun.
60cm £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
SALVIA 'Royal Bumble'
Rich red flowers on dark stems from early summer to October. Sun.
AGM 60cm £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'Septemberrubin'
Large rich purple-red flowers September-October.
1.30m £5.00
ANEMANTHELE lessoniana
Syn. Stipa arundinacea. Arching evergreen leaves turn orange-brown in late summer. Drooping flowerheads hold clouds of tiny flowers. Sun or part shade.
60cm £5.00
SALVIA verticillata 'Purple Rain'
One of Piet Oudolf's favourites! Dark green leaves, and upright, purple branching stems carry purple-blue flowers through summer. Full sun.
75cm £5.00
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