Autumn Planting
Digitalis Purpurea “Sutton’s Apricot”
Price: £3.50
Pot size: 10cm
Flowers: May to July
Height/Spread:
Likes: Full sun, part shade
This is a half hardy biennial, English cottage garden plant so flowers every 2 years, although self seeds easily. It's a lovely soft apricot pink colour, adds height and structure to your borders. Bees and insects love it.
Verbena Rigida
Price: £3.50
Pot size: 10cm
Flowers: June - Sept
Height/Spread:
Likes: Full Sun - Well drained soil
RHS Award of Garden Merit, RHS Plants for Pollinators
Digitalis Purpurea f. Albiflora
Price: £3.50
Pot size: 10cm
Flowers: May to July
Height/Spread:
Likes: Full Sun, Part shade
This is a half hardy biennial, English cottage garden plant so flowers every 2 years, although self seeds easily. It's a lovely cream colour, adds height and structure to your borders. Bees and insects love it.
Verbena Bonariensis
Price: £3.50
Pot size: 10cm
Flowers: June - Sept
Height/Spread:
Likes: Full Sun
RHS Award of Garden Merit, RHS Plants for Pollinators
Erysimum Bowles Mauve
Price: £3.50
Pot size: 10cm
Flowers: March - July - Some flower all year round
Height/Spread:
Likes: Full sun
RHS Award of Garden Merit, RHS Plants for Pollinators
Erigeron Karvinskianus
Price: £3.50
Pot size: 10cm
Flowers: May to October
Height/Spread:
Likes: Full Sun
RHS Award of Garden Merit, RHS Plants for Pollinators
Summer Flowers
Geum Mrs Bradshaw
Price: £3.50
Pot size: 10cm
Flowers: June - August
Height/Spread: 60cm x 60cm
Likes: Full sun/partial shade
RHS Award of Garden Merit
Heuchera “Buttered Rum”
Price: £8
Pot size: 2L
Flowers: Late Spring - Summer
Height/Spread: 20cm x 40cm
Likes: Partial shade
This semi evergreen plant has lovely caramel coloured leaves, looks especially good in the autumn with other autumnal colours. In spring it has frothy creamy white tall spires of flowers. Likes a moist but well drained soil, works well in borders or pots.
Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Ruby Port'
Price: £4.30
Pot size: 10cm
Flowers: May - June
Height/Spread: 60cm x 40cm
Likes: Full Sun, Partial Shade
This perennial is a beautiful deep maroon colour. Likes dappled shade and will self seed easily in the right conditions so if you don't want it spreading around the garden, cut the flowers down after flowering. You can also collect the seed heads and place them around the garden in the spots you would like them to grow. This colour combines well with grasses and contrasts well with acid green and yellows.
Nepeta “Six Hills Giant”
Price: £3.50
Pot size: 10cm
Flowers: June - July
Height/Spread: 90cm x 60cm
Likes: Full sun /partial shade
RHS Plants for Pollinators
Heuchera “Sweet Tea”
Price: £8
Pot size: 2L
Flowers: Spring - Summer
Height/Spread: 45cm x 35cm
Likes: Partial shade
This compact semi evergreen plant has lovely burnt orange plumy coloured leaves, looks especially good planted with other autumnal colours. In spring it has frothy white tall spires of flowers. Likes a moist but well drained soil, works well in shady borders or pots.
Amemanthele Lessoniana - Pheasants tail grass
Price: £3.50
Pot size: 10cm
Flowers: June - July
Height/Spread: 1m x 1m
Likes: Full sun / partial shade
RHS Award of Garden Merit
Grasses are great for adding structure or softening borders or adding height to your winter or summer pots. This grass adds all year round colour, greens in spring turning to yellow, orange and red streaks in the autumn/winter. Currently the grass is about 30cm tall but it will grow to 1m tall.
Heuchera “Wildberry”
Price: £8
Pot size: 2L
Flowers: Spring - Summer
Height/Spread: 40cm x 40cm
Likes: Partial shade
This compact semi evergreen plant has lovely purple pink coloured leaves, looks especially good planted with other reds, oranges and green autumnal colours. In spring it has frothy white tall spires of flowers. Likes a moist but well drained soil, works well in shady borders or pots.