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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ERYNGIUM x zabelii 'Violetta'
Darkest blue form of the sea holly, has spiky, deep indigo flowers in summer.
80cm £7.50
SANGUISORBA 'Ivory Towers'
Formerly S. sp. Witt ex Engeland. One of my all-time favourite Sanguisorbas, deserves a proper name! Early, long-flowering white bottlebrushes all through the plant. Stands up in a gale!
1.20m £5.00
MOLINIA caerulea ssp. arundinacea 'Cordoba'
Unusual form with gracefully curving flower stems, arching over lower planting.
1.80m £5.00
EUPATORIUM maculatum Atropurpureum Group
Huge clusters of small purple-pink flowers on upright red stems with bright green leaves, July-September. Sun or part shade.
AGM 2.00m £5.00
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
MISCANTHUS sinensis 'Hercules'
Broad leaves with a white midrib. Strong thick stems, flowers above foliage from September-October.
2.15m - 2.40m £5.00
STACHYS macrantha 'Robusta'
Slowly spreading plant with deep purple flowerheads from June-July. Full sun.
AGM 60cm £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
SEDUM 'Red Cauli'
Purple-tinted grey-green foliage, and intense deep red flowers resemble cauliflowers.
AGM 40cm £5.00
SANGUISORBA tenuifolia 'Pieters'
Masses of red bobble flowers on slender stems through summer. Sun.
1.20m £5.00
CROCOSMIA 'Paul's Best Yellow'
Tall, vigorous grower with large, outward-facing golden-yellow flowers.
1.20m £5.00
AGASTACHE 'Blue Boa'
New form, with chunky, deep violet-blue flower spikes July-October. Seems to be long-lived! Sun.
PBR 60cm £5.00
ARMERIA 'Brutus'
'Mega-thrift' from Desirable Plants, with white flowers above a dome of glaucous broad leaves. Flowers for months.
40cm £5.00
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