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, about 45cm tall, with tiny flowers on long stems as delicate as the legs of a newborn giraffe. It goes beautifully with grasses.Unsurprisingly, pinks don't come in blue, orange or yellow - although it's possible to dye the flowers by leaving a cut stalk

for another list...My favourite late-flowering perennial plants, in no particular order:Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm' - about 75cm high. Flowers until at least mid-October.Agastache 'Blue Fortune' - not one one for very cold parts

of January can be transformed by a smattering of frost and a blue sky. Whether you're capturing wide landscapes or close-up details it's a great time to take a spectacular photograph. Evergreens such as yew are good subjects, but so are less obvious

Tim Burton might have dreamed up for The Nightmare Before Christmas.The culprits are blue tits, who cling on to the stems and peck holes in the body of the seedhead. I always think that they must get an awful shock as their beaks flood with hundreds

for the one with the AGM sticker. But back to my confusing list of alliums, I notice that there are fifteen AGM plants. To make your job of choosing them even simpler, here are my top five:Allium caeruleum: a late-flowering, small-headed blue variety. Height 0

.Semiarundinaria yashadake 'Kimmei' – lots and lots of thin yellow canes with narrow green stripes. 2.5m highThe following are clump-formers:Thamnocalamus crassinoides 'Merlyn' - graceful 4m-high, blue-stemmed plant with tiny leaves. Perfect for the smaller garden