A Selection of Middle of Border Plants
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CROCOSMIA paniculata 'Cally Greyleaf'
Wide, heavily pleated grey-green leaves, and long slender funnel-shaped orange flowers on dark purple stems, late summer to autumn. Needs space, it's big!
1.20m £5.00
GALEGA officinalis
Lovely plant to scramble through shrubs, with lavender pea flowers making a good display over summer. Well drained soil in sun.
1.50m £5.00
SALVIA verticillata 'Smouldering Torches'
Whorls of deep, dusky blue-purple flower spikes in summer, over a good clump of heart-shaped foliage. Sun to part shade.
80cm £5.00
CROCOSMIA 'Mex'
Dramatic, large red outward-facing flowers well above the foliage, on dark purple stems. Vigorous, and definitely one of the best!
1.20m £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
SANGUISORBA 'Sangria'
One of the tallest Sanguisorba, this has maroon fingers on open branching stems July-August.
2.00m £5.00
MISCANTHUS sinensis 'Samurai'
Silvery-brown plumes, leaves and stems are also tinged with brown.
1.40m £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'Guido en Gezelle'
New, from Jan Spruyt, has lavender-blue daisies August-October.
1.00m £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM laeve 'Nightshade'
Dark purple stems bear sprays of blue flowers late summer.
90cm £5.00
POLYGONATUM verticillatum 'Himalayan Giant'
A robust form, with whorls of narrow leaves along tall stems, emerging purple-brown then green. Small pendulous purple-speckled white flowers, then red berries in autumn.
1.20m £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novi-belgii 'Farncombe Lilac'
Double lilac-pink flowers August-October. HPS Conservation Scheme plant, well worth trying!
75cm £5.00
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