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A cottage garden is awash with large showy blooms. We've picked some of the best to recreate that cottage garden look in your own home. From foxgloves to dahlias, and roses to hollyhocks and daisies we've got you covered.
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A compact lavender, named after Gertrude Jekyll's garden at Munstead Wood. It produces dense spikes of fragrant, bluish-purple summer flowers above slender, aromatic, grey-green leaves.
This is a lovely lavender for edging paths and borders; the aromatic foliage perfumes the air if you brush against it. The flower-spikes are highly attractive to bees and other nectar-loving insects.
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Lavandula angustifolia Hidcote produces dense spikes of fragrant, deep violet summer flowers above slender, aromatic, silvery-grey leaves. It is possibly the best lavender for edging paths and borders and produces a perfumed fragrance when you brush against it.
Cut back the stalks after the flowers have faded. Carefully trim back in April, taking care not to cut into old wood.
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Lavandula angustifolia Vera is an outstanding heirloom English Lavender known for its sweetly fragrant oil, dark lavender-blue flower spikes, and compact growth habit.
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Aromatic grey-green leaves set off the light blue flowers of this variety beautifully. And, unlike some other catmints, it will continue to bloom throughout the summer.
This plant can have some beneficial impacts on feline welfare. However, not all cats will respond in this way to catmint, some may become agressive. Cats should be supervised when offered catnip/catmint.
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Hemerocallis 'Stella d'Or' is a popular reblooming Daylilly. It is compact, vigorous, fragrant and enjoys profuse blooms over an extremely long blooming period. This Miniature Daylily produces masses of golden trumpets with ruffled edges and small green throats atop mounds of arching, blade-like leaves.
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Lupin 'Gallery Blue' is truly a cottage garden favourite. It features spikes of fragrant blue flowers above fresh green foliage in early summer. Plant in a sunny border in well-drained soil.
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Noted for its variegated flowers and foliage, Euphorbia 'Ascot Rainbow' is a bushy dwarf evergreen perennial of great ornamental interest. It forms a mound of stunning rosettes of lance-shaped grey-green leaves adorned with a golden yellow edge.
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Campanula muralis 'Blue Sky' is a compact, mat-forming, evergreen perennial with kidney to heart-shaped, mid-green leaves and loosely-shaped panicles of funnel-shaped, violet-blue flowers in summer.
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Agapanthus 'Blue' from the Summer Love Series has been specially bred to be much more floriferous, starting in May and continually flowering right through to September. This compact perennial features clusters of open, trumpet-shaped blooms, creating spherical flower heads.
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Young Nurseries
Jerusalem Sage. Soft yellow flowers appear from late Spring right through Summer, giving a candlebra effect. The foliage is heart shaped and evergreen. Plant in sun or partial shade, drought tolerent. Attractive to bees and butterflies. Height 80cm.
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Leaves of red brown bordered in lime green combined with a beautiful habit and broadly scalloped leaf lobes forming a vigorous mound of dense crowns.
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Dianthus 'Tickled Pink' is an evergreen perennial with an erect habit. Its narrow leaves are greyish-green. In summer it bears scented, double, rose-pink flowers.
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Tully Nurseries
Agapanthus 'Silver Moon' is a clump-forming, evergreen perennial with narrow, strap-shaped, green and white, variegated leaves and erect stems bearing umbels of open, bell-shaped, mid-blue flowers from midsummer into early autumn.
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Irish
Tiarella 'Pink Skyrocket' has deeply-divided green leaves with red veins, above which spikes of large, soft pink flowers appear in late spring. Ideally used as ground cover or edging paths in moist, shady parts of the garden.
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Achillea 'King Alfred' is a compact, clump-forming, deciduous to semi-evergreen perennial with finely-divided, grey-green leaves and erect, branching stems bearing dense, flattened clusters of tiny, pale yellow flowers throughout summer.
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Branching stems support the spires of glistening, pure white flowers, which glow like illuminated candles arising from mounds of rich green foliage. Prolong the flowering period by cutting back the central flowerspike to its base after is past its best, as this will encourage the smaller, lateral shoots to flourish.
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Rhodanthemum 'Casablanca' is a woody based, compact evergreen perennial with softly hairy, finely divided, grey-green leaves and, from early spring into autumn, erect stems bearing white, daisy-like flowers with orange-brown central discs.
Cut back in late Summer to get a second heavy autumn flowering. Suitable for patio pots or borders and beds. Doesn't like wet soils, so add gravel to help with drainage.
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Persicaria 'JS Caliente' is a robust, upright, clump-forming perennial with large, ovate to lance-shaped, pointed, prominently-veined, mid-green leaves and long-stalked spikes of bell-shaped, red flowers from midsummer to early autumn. Height 80cm.
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