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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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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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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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'Memories' is a brilliant white perennial with a creamy tinge to the centre of the flower and produces a bushy, prolific perpetually flowering plant with amazing fragrant flowers. They are ideal for patio pots, containers or positioned at the front of the border.
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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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'Rozanne' is a robust and vigorous spreading perennial with neat, dense, lobed foilage and bowl-shaped violet-blue flowers with a white centre, opening from early summer to early autumn. It is an ideal element of the garden patio or balcony.
A prolific bloomer, reliable and fully hardy, 'Rozanne' comes back year after year, bigger and even better than the previous spring.
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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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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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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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The Sphere-like heads of the 'Globemaster' can grow up to 15cm across, and are made up of numerous star-shaped, sterile flowers. This perennial looks great in pots, but they can also be woven through a sunny border. Avoid excessive moisture from late summer when dormant.
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One of the most popular of all the alliums with a striking silhouette which makes them particulary well suited to gravel or prairie-style planting schemes, but also look atractive in pots or mixed borders.
Their heavy packed umbels of deep, star-shaped flowers appear in early summer above star-shaped grey-green leaves (which will have started to die off by the time blooms form). Plant with herbaceous geraniums or ornamental grasses to help mask the leaves as they die off.
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Dianthus 'Kahori' is an evergreen perennial with an erect habit. Its narrow leaves are greyish-green. In summer it bears scented pink flowers.
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Romneya coulteri is a vigorous, upright, suckering herbaceous perennial or sub-shrub, with divided, grey-green leaves and, in summer, large, white, poppy-like flowers with dark-yellow stamens.
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This stylish perennial is perfect for a sheltered, sunny, well-drained area. Its transparent shape makes it stand out at the front or middle of the border. Clusters of lilac-purple flowers on tall, stiff branching stems from June to September.
Verbena bonariensis in cold conditions can suffer dieback if cut back in autumn, leave the plant until spring and cut back the old growth when you see new shoots emerging at the base. Mulch around the base of the plant with a deep, dry mulch in winter to help protect the plant.
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Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' is a beautiful exotic looking vigorous perennial with coppery-orange and golden-yellow flowers that are ideal to brighten up the garden. Adorned with dark burguny streaks, the eye-catching flowers bloom profusely for weeks above handsome foliage of lance-shaped, rich bronze leaves.
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Calceolaria 'Sunset Orange' is a tender, compact, bushy biennial, often grown as an annual container or bedding plant with ovate, mid-green leaves and, over a long period in summer, clusters of orange-red flowers, often with yellow markings.
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This perennial makes a striking architectural clump with lovely arrow-shaped, glossy dark green leaves. Pure white hood-shaped flowers are produced from late spring to mid-summer. Mulch plants in winter and grow in reliably moist soil.
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Boasting a prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticulture Society, the Allium 'Christophii' is an elegant ornamental onion with star-shaped silvery purple flowers forming a wide globe-shaped cluster atop narrow and hairy leaves.
Blooming in late spring to early summer, this Allium enjoys long-lasting blooms and remains ornamental in the garden well into summer. Ideally used in beds, borders, gravel gardens or cottage gardens.
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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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