Achillea filipendulina 'Cloth of Gold' - (Fernleaf Yarrow) is striking statement plant for the summer garden. Growing to around 1.5m those large bright yellow flowers sure stand out plus it has fragrant fern-like foliage. This plant is perfect for dry gardens, cottage gardens and meadow gardens adding an architectural element. Flowers are excellent for adding to floral arrangements.

Noted for their tall, stately bottlebrush plumes of vibrant purple or white and delicate grass-like foliage. The flower spikes range from 40cm to just over 1m in height. Flowers from mid summer to autumn.

'Lisas Peach' starts off as a warm peach fading to the most gorgeous pastel peach colour. Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) is a perennial growing to 60cm with dark green, feathery foliage. The flowers bring in the beneficial insects particularly hoverflies. It makes an excellent dried or cut flower.

In bud 'Ivory Moon' starts off as a cream colour before changing to ivory white. Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) is a perennial growing to 60cm with dark green, feathery foliage. The flowers bring in the beneficial insects particularly hoverflies. It makes an excellent dried or cut flower.

Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) is a perennial growing to 60cm with dark green, feathery foliage, The flowers bring in the beneficial insects particularly hoverflies. It makes an excellent dried or cut flower.

'Bampton' is a hardy, low-maintenance perennial noted for its deep plum-burgundy foliage and continuous lavender-pink flowers from summer to autumn. This plant grows best in full sun, well drained positions. Don't let this plant dry out. Cut plant back during autumn. Height to 80cm.

Large flower heads that are made up of clusters of small daisy like flowers. Flowers can be either single or double. These blooms are held on slender, wiry stems that sway gracefully in the breeze, creating a dynamic yet subtle movement in the garden. Grows to around of 60 to 90 cm high.

Obedient plant, also known as false dragonhead, is a fast-growing perennial that is easy to grow. It prefers full sun and well drained soil that is on the acidic side. Stunning pink flowers appear in summer and continue to autumn. . Flowers open from the bottom of the stalk and work upwards. Plants spread by seeds and rhizomes. I then mine out during my autumn tidy up. Height 1.5m.

Francoa sonchifolia is a delightful perennial from Chile. Spikes of soft pink flowers appear at the start of summer and continue until the start of autumn. Francoa is an evergreen with mounds of crinkled foliage that changes to red during winter. Grows best in mild climates (frost tolerant) in humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil in sun or partial shade. Ideal for dry shade gardens and woodland gardens.

Eryngium yuccifolium is an evergreen perennial with luminous clusters of small, egg-shaped flowerheads, 2.5cm across, tightly packed with tiny greenish-white flowers. Leaves are sword-shaped, spiny-edged and blue-grey in colour. Excellent cut and dried flower offering a long vase life and unique vertical interest.

This is a compact, clump-forming perennial known for its charming deep ruby-red or maroon, button-like bottlebrush flowers, blooming from summer to autumn. Plants form low mounds of blue-green, crimped leaves each finely divided into oblong leaflets. Height 60cm.

Candelabra Primrose is a herbaceous perennial with attractive whorls of deep-pink to purple flowers with a yellow centre. There are up to eight whorls on a stem and they stand tall to 60cm. Plants form flat rosettes of light green, crinkly leaves to 20cm long. Flowering from late spring through summer. The flowers are attractive to butterflies and other insect pollinators.

This perennial plant has broad, grey felted, heart shaped leaves, that form a dense and weed suppressing groundcover. However when in flower during summer it will get to be a large plant around 1.5m high. A real statement in the garden. Grow in well-drained soil and in full sun. Frost and drought tolerant.

This plant self seeded in a different section of my garden to where I grow my Chocolate Lace Flower ('Dara' Daucus carota). This is its first year of flowering and producing seeds. So, I have no idea what the flowers will be like from these seeds. But I am hoping that by sending these seeds out into the world, we will be able to develop a new white variety.

This delicate annual adds a real punch of colour to gardens for several weeks. Grow these plants in full sun in well draining , humus rich soil.

Echinops bannaticus ‘Taplow Blue’ is the best of the taller globe flowers with spherical flower heads up to 7cm in diameter. These steel-blue buds open into large balls of powdery mauve-blue when in full flower.

Heleniums will bring warm colour to your garden from mid-summer into autumn. The daisy-like flowers resemble coneflowers, blanket flowers, and black-eyed Susan flowers. They are 5cm in diameter, with wedge-shaped bright yellow rays and dome-like, protruding center disks that are dull in color.

Arching flower wands swaying in the breeze, resemble a small fishing rod bending under the weight of a fairy's fish. An elegant perennial forming a clump of long, narrow, evergreen leaves, with tall, arching stems bearing nodding, bell-shaped, pink flowers.

An herbaceous perennial to around 1m tall with branched stems bearing lemon-scented, greyish-green, scallop-edged leaves. Small purple-spotted white flowers appear from summer into autumn. This is a very hardy plant that is both drought and frost tolerant.

Coreopsis, commonly known as Tickseed, is prized by many gardeners for its flowers' bright colors and ability to put up with most garden soils.