A Selection of Middle of Border Plants
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IRIS 'Jane Phillips'
Eye-catching flag iris, with broad sword-shaped grey-green leaves and slightly fragrant flax-blue flowers in May and June. Always remarked upon in our garden!
AGM 90cm £5.00
ACANTHUS mollis free-flowering
Large leaves, mauve and white flowers. Very free-flowering for me!
1.20m £5.00
CIRSIUM rivulare 'Atropurpureum'
Ornamental thistle, with dark maroon-red thistle flowers all summer.
AGM 90cm £6.00
PERSICARIA amplexicaulis 'Cottesbrooke Gold'
Hard to find perennial. Golden-yellow foliage and coral-red flowers above. Very striking plant in shade!
90cm £5.00
LEUCANTHEMUM x superbum 'Elworthy Sparkler'
Buttercream buds open to single white daisies. It really does sparkle!
75cm £5.00
AMMI majus
Indispensable hardy annual, a brilliant filler plant for mid to late summer, as seen this year at Great Dixter! Lacy white cow-parsley flowers and delicate ferny foliage. Well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. 3 for £10!
AGM 1.80m £4.00
CIRSIUM rivulare 'Trevor's Felley Find’
Another great plant from Trevor Edwards, also called ‘Trevor’s Blue Wonder’, a fabulous tall ornamental thistle with rich blue-purple flowerheads on silver-purple stems mid-late summer. Full sun in rich soil.
PBR 1.20m £6.50
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'Dapper Tapper'
Large mauve flowers on a shorter plant, August-October.
50cm £5.00
PHLOX paniculata 'Alba Grandiflora'
Border phlox with conical heads of white flowers. Sun or part shade.
AGM 1.00m £5.00
HESPERANTHA coccinea 'Major'
Syn. Schizostylis or Kaffir Lily. Bright red flowers in autumn, often into winter. Prefers sun and good, moisture-retentive soil.
AGM 75cm £5.00
SANGUISORBA tenuifolia 'Big Pink'
Smothered with bright pink drooping catkins in August and September.
1.50m £5.00
ACANTHUS spinosus
Glossy, spiky leaves. Purple-hooded, white-lipped flowers. Very architectural!
AGM 90cm £6.00
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