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Native to northern hemisphere grasslands and grassy banks, it’s ideal for erosion-prone areas. 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 mounds of blue-green, crimped leaves each finely divided into oblong leaflets. Height up to 1.8m when in flower.

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.

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.

Tall growing Iris to 1.5m elegant flowers and attractive foliage. Well drained soil and full sun are best conditions. Leave undisturbed and allow to form large clumps for a great display.

These irises have a delicate beauty about them but they are very hardy and easy to grow. They are a clump forming perianal that grows between 60 and 90cm with a mature plant capable of producing many flower stems. Flowering starts in spring and continues to early summer.

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.

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.

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

Monarda 'Donnerwolke' is a clump-forming perennial boasting masses of shaggy rich violet purple flowers that rest on a whorl of decorative bracts. Long flower period from mid summer to early autumn. Even after the petals have fallen, the seed heads can remain a feature into winter. The leaves are deep green and have a delicious mint fragrance and are used in teas.

A bulbous perennial from the Liliaceae (lily family). It is native to the Mediterranean area. Cuban lilies flower in late winter to early spring. They push up a cone shape flower head supported on a very thick flower stem. The flower head is made up of 50 or more small star shaped flowers.

Ixias are a hardy corm perennial that is well suited to the warmer climates. They have fine grassy foliage and masses of starry brightly coloured flowers with even brighter markings on tall arching stems. Their flowers come in a range of colours such as white, orange, red, purple / mauve and yellow blooms which have a dark center. Ixia flower late in Spring into early Summer.