Unlike its taller cousins, this dwarf Anchusa is neat and compact, blending into the front of borders with ease. These early flowering perennials produce their azure blue flowers above coarse, hairy foliage throughout summer.
Yes, this really is a true blue Penstemon, true from seed! Azure blue trumpet blooms in abundance, with green and grey tinged foliage. An added bonus too - as this charming perennial may be treated as a annual, flowering in its first year. Highly versatile for borders, rockeries, bedding or the patio container
A charming, but exquisite stunner for the spring or summer garden. Its habit is branching so it reaches only 4-6in in height yet cascades or spreads for 12in Descriptively it's one mass of 0.5in double blooms, Uniquely the blooms have no consistent colour. The buds are deep pink opening to salmon and maturing to white, conveying this majestic blossom effect. Ideal for hanging baskets, containers and direct sown, or planted out, is a striking carpeting plant of better character and form than alyssum. Occasionally singles will appear in the double forms and should be removed
Achillea 'Cloth of Gold' is an indispensible border plant, with flat, plate-like, mustard yellow flower heads carried above finely-cut, ferny foliage. This free flowering perennial is undemanding and easy to grow, making a bright splash of summer colour in borders and meadows. Achillea flowers make a charming cut flower and can be dried for everlasting flowers too. Height: 15m (59). Spread: 45cm (18)
Attractive Mediterranean annual with the common name of Venus Looking Glass. Plants are covered with pretty purple and lilac blue flowers with a startling white centre which open in sunshine and close up when the weather is dull or wetEasy to grow and gives excellent ground cover.
Probably the most winter-hardy, resilient Penstemon we have ever found! Bushy mounds of deep green foliage are enhanced by unusual frosty white, bicoloured blooms. Flowers throughout the summer in borders or large containers
A plant collector's item for decades. Husker's Red is an unusual Penstemon offering maroon-red , occasionally bronze-green foliage when grown from seed. This is coupled with contrasting spikes of blushed pink flowers making useful late summer colour for bordersHeight: 50-75cm (20-30in)
A rich, shining blue lobelia, producing a cascade of flowers over a long period, that rarely fade in even the brightest of sunshine. Trailing lobelia 'Sapphire Cascade' makes a sparkling addition to containers, flower pouches™ and window-boxes. An easy to grow annual that is deservedly popular for its versatility and long flowering period. Trails to: 25cm (10). Spread: 15cm (6).
Re-usable plastic black labels, that are perfect for adding to pots and planters, so it is clear what the plants and seedlings growing in them are.
Grow these penstemon in your annual beds as well as your perennial borders! They're much longer flowering than antirrhinums and boast larger blooms. Easy to maintain and offering years of performance, they'll flower and flower almost all summer in a superb range of colours, including many bicolours; just remove spent flower spikes once blooms have faded.
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus repens is a low-growing, evergreen shrub that hold a prestigious RHS Award of Garden merit. It produces a generous display of lilac-blue flowers from late spring to early summer. Creeping Blueblossom is native to Coastal California, and is an ideal choice for the front of borders and rock gardens, creating a dense and drought tolerant groundcover. Ceanothus thyrsiflorus var. repens also looks superb in a large container, where its cascading stems and abundant pretty blue blooms form an attractive patio feature and attract bees. Height: 1m (3?). Spread: 2.5m (8?).