Plant Collections
By plant type
Showing 24 collections
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Hardy annual (31)
Annual plants complete their entire life cycle - germination, growth, flowering, setting seed and dying - in one year. Their seedlings can survive spring frosts.
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Half-hardy annual (24)
Sow half-hardy annuals, such as sunflowers or tobacco plant, indoors in spring, as they'll be killed by temperatures below 0°C.
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Biennial (6)
Biennial plants complete their life cycle over two growing seasons, germinating and growing in spring or summer of the first season and flowering in the second.
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Hardy perennial (695)
Perennial plants live for at least three years, surviving by means of a storage organ, such as a fleshy root or a bulb. Hardy perennials can survive sub-zero temperatures
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Tender perennial (74)
Tender perennials such as eucomis and melianthus can't tolerate frost, and many need to be overwintered indoors, or require very sheltered conditions.
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Native perennial (3)
Yarrow and bird's foot trefoil are popular examples of perennial plants native to the UK.
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Evergreen tree (50)
Evergreen trees are large, woody, perennial plants with one main stem and a defined crown of branches and foliage, which bear leaves all year round.
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Deciduous tree (81)
Deciduous trees shed their leaves seasonally. Many deciduous trees have attractive bark, which provides ornamental interest through autumn and winter.
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Native tree (4)
The field maple and the common beech are just two of the beautiful trees native to the British Isles, and make handsome trees for medium-to-large gardens.
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Evergreen shrub (184)
Evergreen shrubs are multi-stemmed, woody plants, whose branches grow from the base, not from a single trunk, and they retain their foliage all year.
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Deciduous shrub (296)
Many familiar garden shrubs, such as dogwoods and mock orange, shed their leaves in autumn and winter. Use them to add structure and interest to mixed borders.
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Native shrub (6)
If you're looking for British native shrubs to plant in your garden, browse our selection, including holly, hawthorn and guelder rose.
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Evergreen climber (31)
Climbing plants attach themselves to supports such as walls, trellises, or other plants. They often secure themselves using mechanisms such as twining stems or suckers.
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Deciduous climber (146)
Although without leaves for part of the year, many deciduous climbers, such as winter jasmine and Boston ivy, are spectacular during their main season of interest.
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Fruit (30)
Why not grow your own fruit? Apples, pears, raspberries and plums are just some of the plants in our collection of fruits to raise in your garden.
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Vegetable (32)
If you want to grow your own vegetables, view our choice of some of the best varieties of crops such as aubergine, cabbage, beetroot and lettuce.
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Herb (20)
In addition to having culinary and medicinal properties, many garden herbs are highly ornamental and sweetly scented, and will thrive in pots.
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Spring-blooming bulb (58)
Crocus, daffodils and tulips are just some of the garden favourites in our collection of spring-flowering bulbous plants. The category also includes tubers and corms.
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Summer/autumn blooming bulb (49)
After spring bulbs have flowered there are still many bulbs to enjoy later in the year, including ornamental onions, lilies and nerines.
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General houseplant (12)
A wide range of ornamental, non-native plants will thrive indoors, including spider plants, amaryllis and tropical orchids.
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Conservatory climber (6)
The magnificent blooms of tender, climbing exotics such as the glory vine make them ideal specimen plants for a warm conservatory.
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Cactus or succulent (6)
Cacti and succulents, such as agave and aloe are plants from extremely hot, dry natural habitats, and are specially adapted to retain moisture.
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Aquatic (10)
Aquatic plants such as water lilies and water hyacinth need to grow with their roots submerged deeper than those of marginal plants.
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Marginal (14)
Marginals grow with their roots submerged in the shallow water at the edges of ponds. Bulrush and yellow flag iris are examples of marginal plants
