Summer Flowering

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.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Californian Tree Poppy
• Type: Deciduous, Herbaceous Perennial
• Colour: White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1.5m x S-2.5m
• Hardiness: Tender in Frost
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 3 Litre

Achillea 'Tutti Saucy Seduction' is an upright, clump-forming, deciduous to semi-evergreen perennial with finely-divided, aromatic, grey-green leaves and erect stems bearing dense, flattened clusters of magenta to deep rose-pink flowers in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Semi-Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.65m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Geranium 'Dreamland' is a compact, mound-forming, herbaceous perennial with rounded, deeply-lobed, dark green leaves and erect, branching stems bearing single, cup-shaped, veined, pale pink flowers from late spring to early autumn.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Cranesbill, Bremdream
• Type: Deciduous Perennial
• Colour: Pale Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.4m x S-0.4m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer and Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

'Wide Brim' is a clump-forming perennial with broadly heart-shaped, puckered dark green-blue leaves broadly-margined with creamy-yellow. Funnel-shaped pale lavender flowers on stems to 60cm in summer

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Plantain Lily
• Type: Herbaceous Perennial
• Colour: Variegated Green, Yellow
• Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 3 Litre

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.

Characteristics:

• Colour: White Flowers
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.3m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: May to October
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 1 Litre

Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve' is an upright, bushy evergreen perennial with narrowly lance-shaped, dark grey-green leaves and erect racemes of mauve to purple flowers from late winter into summer.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Wallflower
• Type: Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.75m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Late Winter into Spring and Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Nepeta mussinii 'Cat's Pyjamas' is a compact, mound-forming, deciduous perennial with upright stems bearing aromatic, softly hairy, ovate, scalloped, dark grey-green leaves and terminal spikes of whorled, tubular, lavender to lavender-blue flowers from early summer into autumn.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Catmint
• Type: Deciduous Perennial
• Colour: Lavender-Blue
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.4m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer and Autumn
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria' is a popular, upright, clump-forming perennial boasting a profusion of flower spikes densely packed with fiery scarlet, two-lipped blossoms from midsummer to early autumn.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Perennial
• Colour: Red
• Height & Spread: H-1m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: August - October
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

This showy, dwarf species is often grown in rock gardens, used as an edging, or in tubs and pots. Plants form a spreading patch of small green leaves, bearing loads of open lavender-blue bells beginning in early summer and blooming for weeks on end.

Characteristics:

• Type: Mat Forming Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: Purple
• Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Peony are a cottage garden favourite! Forms a large shrub clump of dark green deeply cut foliage. In Summer, the large fragrant blooms are showstoppers! Red buds open out to very pale pink flower petals, double and ruffled, which mature to bright white.

A wonderful cutflower! Garden plant for flowerbed in moist but well drained soil in full sun or partial shade. Good in beds, borders, cottage gardens.

Characteristics:

• Common Name:
• Type: Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: Pale Pink, White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: June and July
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 3 Litre

Scabiosa columbaria 'Flutter Rose Pink' is a compact, mound-forming, branching biennial or short-lived perennial with oblong to spoon-shaped, toothed, dark grey-green leaves and upright, wiry stems bearing lightly fragrant, double, deep rose-pink flowers throughout summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Perennial
• Colour: Rose-Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.35m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 3 Litre

Ajuga reptans 'Braunherz' is an outstanding perennial with deep bronze green foliage. Upright spikes, up to 8"/20cm tall, of deep blue flowers appear from April to June. A real steady choice that thrives in shade.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: Purple/Blue
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.2m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: April-June
• Position: Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 1 Litre

Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus' boasts deep pink daisy-like flower heads with a dark centre, flowering from early Summer. Plant in a sunny position in well drained soil. Height 70cm. Attractive to bees and butterflies.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Purple Coneflower
• Type: Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer and Autumn
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

'Summer Break' has pretty pink outer edges with a white flecked throat and light green foliage. Its long lived flowering season extends from late May right through until late autumn.

Alstroemeria, also known as the Peruvian Lily, are one of the best high-performance summer perennial plants and a beautiful border and patio plant.

Characteristics:

• Soil: Fertile, Moist but well drained soil
• Position: Full sun or partial shade
• Flowering Period: May to September
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Rate of Growth: Average
• Height & Spread: H-70cm x S-40cm
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Salvia 'Bumblesnow' is a compact, mound-forming, deciduous perennial with upright stems bearing ovate, toothed, aromatic, wrinkled, dark green leaves and dense, erect racemes of two-lipped, white flowers in summer.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Sage 'Bumblesnow'
• Type: Deciduous, Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.3m x S-0.4m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 3 Litre

Alstroemeria 'Summer Breeze' is an upright, clump-forming, tuberous perennial with narrowly lance-shaped, dark green leaves and open clusters of funnel-shaped, red flowers with brown-flecked, yellow-orange flowers from early summer into autumn.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Peruvian Lily
• Type: Deciduous Perennial
• Colour: Yellow-Orange
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Hardy but Tender in Frost
• Flowers: Early Summer into Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Calceolaria 'Purple Pink' is a herbaceous perennial with strange but beautiful flowers in a purple and rose pink colour, heavily marked externally with deeper purple or rose-crimson spots.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Slipperwort, Pocketbook Plant
• Type: Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: Purple, Pink, Amber
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Late Spring, Early Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Dahlia Dahlietta 'Cindy' from the 'Surprise Series' offers a striking display for beds or containers with vibrant blooms from early summer. 'Cindy' produces bright red flowers with large yellow centres.

Characterisitics:

• Type: Summer Perennial
• Colour: Bright Red, Yellow
• Height & Spread: H-0.4m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: June to September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre