The summer season is when many of us spend the most time in our gardens, enjoying al fresco dining on long, warm summer nights. Tropical planting comes into its own, fragrant roses burst into bloom, and there's no shortage of vibrant perennials that flower all summer long to choose from.
This collection features three different varieties, with an array of colourful clumped blooms, each with a long flowering period stretching from July to October.
Amirose is a compact ground-cover rose. Its soft-pink, lightly fragrant blooms, with a deeper-pink centre, open above glossy-green foliage, and will give you an incredible six months of colour with minimal interruption.
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An exceptionally robust variety, ‘Green Twister’ will flower up until the first autumn frosts, carries its flowers on long, straight stems which makes them ideal for cutting.
A collection of three unusual and very pretty salvias, the ’Lips’ series look incredible in a patio pot or in a sunny border! Their bright, two-tone flowers will light up your garden from early summer to the first frosts in October.
Very rewarding, ’Lady in Red’ bursts into life in early summer with arching green to dark purple blades. Then, from late summer, the leaves ignite with deep ruby red tones, for autumn drama when other plants are fading.
Californian Lilac is one of the hardiest and easiest to grow of the ceanothus family. It has a naturally compact habit, and it has been trained onto a trellis making it perfect for growing in a pot if you have limited space.
Marvellous flower-heads with uniquely shaded petals grow in abundance from the healthy plants of Geum ‘Orange Pumpkin’. These provide a show of double ruffled pom-poms all summer long, in an orange shade that almost makes them too hot to handle!
This wonderful Star Jasmine is perfect! It produces waves of gorgeous pure-white star-like flowers across summer, each one releasing a simply stunning fragrance!
Clematis on walls and trellises provide beautiful garden and patio displays. Large-flowered, vigorous varieties such as Clematis montana can transform walls in summer and cover eyesores quickly. Evergreen, winter-flowering clematis such as Clematis urophylla will bring welcome colour during the darker months.
These beautiful penstemons will cause a stir in your garden for years to come. From spring to early autumn, nectar rich, bell-shaped flowers are held on tall, swaying stems and will attract scores of bees and other pollinators.
This compact Scabious Kudo collection is not just for cottage garden borders, it also works well in patio pots. A huge favourite of bees and butterflies, position it in sun, in borders or containers.
This specially curated collection of 10 must-have hardy perennials has been selected to offer a long, successional display from late spring until autumn.
£22-£34
Receive a mix of 12 young begonia plants (8-15cm) with every order of everlasting perennial collection
Add height, drama and sweet perfume to your garden with this double-flowering lilac tree. Slow growing and easy to care for, Syringa ‘Palibin’ has been grafted to create a standard tree shape that will look great for many years with the minimum of fuss.
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The perfect collection for foxglove fanatics – Digitalis Collection contains nine biennial and perennial varieties in all their incarnations from the exotic and fiery Digitalis obscura ‘Dusky Maid’ to the soft spires of ‘Apricot Beauty’. Digitalis Collection adds colour and vertical accents to borders in early summer, instantly evoking that romantic, cottage-garden look.
Support bees, butterflies and other pollinators with this collection of beautiful nectar-rich perennials, which will fill your borders with colour from late spring to autumn.
££27.56
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