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and was interested to see how the buddleia colours vary. I had always assumed that the bog standard "railway" buddleia was a mauve colour, but along this journey I noticed various shades of deep blue/purple, deep red/purple, and through to the pale mauve that I had

are out of control - should have dealt with them last year - after flowering I will pull lots of them up. They seem to come up easily.  My purple sensation are well behaved....too well behaved. I add to my stock every year.Dead heading is the answer I

.6m, flowers May/June.Allium 'Globemaster': a huge and spectacular mauvey number, with tight packed petals. Height 0.8m, flowers May/June.Allium hollandicum: probably the most popular variety. Dark purple, perky tennis ball sized flowerheads. Height 1m

help me? Thanks Hi Trubill, I'm pretty certain it is Borage (Borago officinalis), very similar to Comfrey, but has open blue flowers instead of the bell-shaped (and usually purple) ones which Comfrey has. Alkanet? Yup. Green alkanet. It is indeed green

I have 3 plants in my garden that are driving me mad, the reason being is I don't know what they are. They are very woody and have a spread of about 90cm, the leaves are thin and about 6cm covering most of the stalks and they have a dark pink/purple

, delphiniums, lupins, taller salvias like guaranitica. All are true blue. Felicias and a penstemon called Eileen grenfell too. Mind you purple is good too.....as in osteospermums, which are fairly hardy with me. I really want long flowering. Well behaved

Dealing with cuckoo spit on fuchsiasHow to deadhead flowersPruning plantsBrowse a selection of fuchsiasChoose plants with purple flowers

cats out of garden My purple sprouting broccoli has grown beautifully tall with lots of yellow flowers!Shall I pull them out? Are they going to seed? This is the first time that I've managed to grow them this far, I'm so disappointed what have I done

dark purple tuft of stamens and in autumn the flowers come out a very soft green with dark purple stamens, it's really lovely and it survived temps of -5 and 6 it's worthy of a space in any garden check it out at your next garden show you won

here, partly because I never remember where anything is and when it flowers. I like yellow and blue too, got lots of it i the garden at the moment with grape hyacinths and primroses.  Also orange and purple and red and green.  But I am a bit likr