A Selection of Cottage Garden Plants
An informal, romantic style. Plants are packed together, with lush, contrasting textures and colours, from soft and gentle to hot and fiery. Anything goes!
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MISCANTHUS nepalensis
My favourite Miscanthus - pale green foliage on a shorter plant, with long arching stems and silky buff flowers. Very different from other Miscanthus, and good for a small garden.
1.20m £5.00
PERSICARIA amplexicaulis 'Firetail'
Long slender spikes of crimson-red flowers from July.
AGM 1.20m £5.00
AGAPANTHUS 'Martine'
Violet-blue, white-eyed flowers, June-August. Petite, good in a container or small garden. Hardy.
60cm £5.00
GERANIUM himalayense 'Derrick Cook'
Long-blooming large white flowers with attractive veining, from June-October.
40cm £5.00
SANGUISORBA 'Ivory Towers'
Formerly S. sp. Witt ex Engeland. One of my all-time favourite Sanguisorbas, deserves a proper name! Early, long-flowering white bottlebrushes all through the plant. Stands up in a gale!
1.20m £5.00
SOLIDAGO 'Dennis Strange'
Named by John Williams as a tribute to his late friend Dennis, a long-time member of Warks Plant Heritage, this appeared in John's garden, has a majestic habit, with open panicles of golden-yellow flowers on arching, thick dark stems.
2.10m £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'Purple Dome'
Deep purple-violet flowers on a short bushy plant.
75cm £5.00
SALVIA 'Joan'
Shrubby, taller salvia with rich purple-pink flowers in summer and autumn. Sun.
1.20m £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM laeve 'Orpheus'
Stunning plant, has dark stems and leaves, then in late summer beautiful blue daisies. Tall and rangey.
1.50m £5.00
STEMMACANTHA centauroides
Syn. Centaurea pulchra 'Major'. Purple-red flowers in summer attract bees and butterflies. Drought tolerant when established. Hard to propagate so rarely available.
75cm £5.00
CHRYSANTHEMUM 'Helen Harrison'
Named and given to us by the legendary lady we meet at Plant Hunters Fair Dorothy Clive event! Lovely big, rich pink, yellow-centred flowers in autumn. Thank you Helen!
1.00m £5.00
HELIANTHUS 'Happy Days'
Golden yellow flowers with single outer petals and a wide double centre.
1.50m £5.00
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