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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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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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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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'Hot Lips' is a bushy plant, about 100 x 100cm, evergreen if not cut back by frost, with small, ovate, aromatic green leaves.
Flowers are borne in loose terminal racemes, red in midsummer, bicolored red and white in July and August, sometimes completely white when the days shorten. Very floriferous in all its colour stages, continuing to the first frost.
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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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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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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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Calceolaria 'Calynopsis Dark Red' is a tender, compact, bushy perennial, often grown as an annual container or bedding plant, with ovate, toothed, veined, softly hairy, dark green leaves and, throughout summer, clusters of two-lipped, maroon to dark red flowers with small, inflated upper petals and larger, pouched lower petals.
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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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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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Award winning Nepeta racemosa 'Walkers Low', commonly known as 'Catmint' is a herbaceous perennial noted for its massive lavender-blue blooms on short spikes stop aromatic, grey-green foilage in early summer, continuing through autumn if spent flowers are regularly removed.
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