Cottage Garden

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.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous, Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: Blue
• Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• 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

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.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Perennial
• Colour: Blue
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Late Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

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.

Characteristics:

• Common Name(s): Euphorbia × martini 'Ascot Rainbow' or Martin's Spurge
• Type: Evergreen, Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: Variegated
• Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Late Spring and Early Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

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.

Characteristics:

• Type: Summer Flowering Perennial
• Colour: Blue
• Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer and Autumn
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

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.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Knotweed
• Type: Deciduous, Clump-Forming Perennial
• Colour: Red
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.7m x S-0.7m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer and Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

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.

Characteristics:

• Type: Perennial
• Colour: White
• Height & Spread: H 0.9m x S 0.6m
• Hardiness: Borderline Hardy (Needs Winter Protection
• Flowers: May to June
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre