Cottage Garden

Lavandula stoechus Anouk is a compact, upright, evergreen shrub with narrow, silver-green foliage. In summer it has showy heads of dark purple flowers, arranged in vertical stripes, topped with pale purple bracts.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Lavender, French Butterfly
• Type: Evergreen Lavender
• Colour: Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.4m x S-0.4m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Mid-Spring Onwards
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 17cm Pot

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.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Lavender
• Colour: Purple-Blue
• Max. Height & Spread: H 0.6m x S 0.75m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: July to September
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Campanula 'Ambella Pink' is perfect for giving your garden that colour boost with its intense pink, star-shaped leaves. Combine with other Campanula colours for that extra atmosphere.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Bellflower
• Type: Perenial, Patio Plant
• Colour: Pink
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.4m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 12cm

Campanula 'Ambella White' is a beautiful, abundantly flowering perennial that produces star-shaped flowers in a white colour. Perfect for patios or containers.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Dalmatian Bellflower
• Type: Perennial, Patio Plant
• Colour: White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.4m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 12cm

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.

Characteristics

• Common Name: Lavender
• Soil: Moderately fertile, moist but well drained.
• Position: Full Sun
• Flowering Period: July to September
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Rate of Growth: Average
• Max. Height & Spread: 60cm x 45cm
• 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

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.

Characteristics:

• Type: Perennial
• Colour: Orange
• Height & Spread: H-0.75m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June & July
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

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.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: Brown, Green, Lime, Red
• Height & Spread: Height - 20-25cm , 30-40cm
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Bloom Time: April - June
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Agapanthus Summer Love 'White' is an early-blooming white variety of the Summer Love series. It features wispy, bell-shaped, fragrant blooms from early to late summer, making it ideal for mixed borders or seasonal beds.

Characteristics:

• Type: Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: White
• Height & Spread: H-0.45m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Early Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Lavandula stoechas lusitanica is a sturdy variety. Masses of mauve flowers with pink bracts appear during the summer months. French Lavenders have a very long flowering season. The flowers are also especially attractive to bees and other pollinators.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Lavender
• Type: Evergreen Shrub
• Colour: Blue/Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H 0.6m x S 0.6m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 25cm

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.

Characteristics:

• Type: Perennial
• Colour: Orange
• Height & Spread: H-0.75m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June & July
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Hebe Wiri Mist is a compact variety which will produce an abundance of pure white blossoms from June until August. It is well suited for the gardens on the small side and ideal for growing in your pots and planters.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Perennial
• Colour: White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.8m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: June until August
• Position: Full Sun to Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Paeonia itoh. 'Bartzella' is an upright, bushy, herbaceous perennial with dark green leaves divided into nine elliptic or lance-shaped leaflets and, from late spring into summer, strong, erect stems bearing large, lightly fragrant, semi-double to double, yellow flowers with orange-red centres.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous, Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: Yellow
• Height & Spread: H-0.8m x S-0.9m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Late Spring and Early Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 4 Litre

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.

Characteristics:

• Type: Perennial
• Colour: White
• Height & Spread: H 1.75m x S 0.6m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June and July
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

'Spring Magic Yellow' is a compact, mound-forming, herbaceous perennial with deeply-divided, dark blue-green leaves and, in late spring and early summer, upright stems bearing spurred, yellow flowers with paler outer petals.

Characteristics:

• Type: Perennial
• Colour: Yellow
• Height & Spread: H-40cm x S--40cm
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Bloom Time: Late Spring / Early Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 1 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

Bergenia 'Angel Kiss' from the Dragonfly Series features snow white flowers that emerge snow white in early spring later becoming light pink. Winter foliage is very dark by contrast, compact and glossy with red and purple highlights.

Characteristics:

• Type: Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: White, Light Pink
• Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Early Spring and Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Aquilegia 'Spring Magic Navy & White' is a compact, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with deeply-divided, blue-green leaves and, in late spring and early summer, upright stems bearing nodding flowers with white inner petals surrounded by spurred, purple-blue outer petals.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Perennial
• Colour: Purple-Blue, White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Late Spring & Early Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 1 Litre