Shorter than many Echinacea with bold pure white rays drooping from a dramatic amber-yellow centre June- Sept. Fertile soil. 70cm. H5. 10cm pot. Read more
A tender banana to bed out in summer or display in a pot. A crown of rich purple foliage, a joy to look down on. 1.5m. H2. 2L deep pot. Read more
Deciduous with white flowers flushed pinky mauve appearing March to May. New foliage, the colour of sunrise, arrive at the same time. Free-flowering perennial. 30cm. H5. 10cm pot. Read more
Satisfying evergreen perennial ground cover with broadly pinnate foliage coppery when young. Sets off panicles of rich yellow blossom. Remove old foliage before this. April. 30cm. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
Quite an incredible non-stop performer. Hundreds of small white daisies with a yellow eye produced from June to November. May need support. Short-lived perennial. Will self-seed freely. 1.5m. H7. 10cm pot. Read more
An admirable colonizer of dry walls, this daisy opens white, changing to pink, and flowers all summer and autumn. Perennial. 25cm. H5. 10cm pot. Read more
Miss Willmott’s Ghost. Large-headed biennial with silver grey ruff. A lovely thing. Summer. 1m. Dies after flowering but self-sows freely. H6. 9cm pot. Read more
From the Chelsea Physic Garden, heads of (tiny) purple flowers in autumn. Perennial. 2.5m. H4. 1.5L pot. Read more
A small-flowered and clump-forming sea holly with masses of prickly, bright electric silver-blue flowers produced in open umbels. Adds zing to any border and good with so many colours. Perennial and hardy, flowering from mid to late summer at 90cm high. Prefers full sun in any garden soil, tolerant of drought. H4. 10cm pot. Read more
Evergreen perennial thistle with green heart shaped leaves veined white, and metallic-blue spiky flower heads in late summer. 60cm. H4. 10cm pot. Read more
A terrific perennial strain with large, upright, robust flowers spray-painted in the most electric metallic blue. Has more substance than most other blue sea hollies. H5. 1L pot. Read more
This perennial wallflower makes a sizeable shrub and carries its clear mauve flowers in every month; most effective in spring and summer. 75cm. H4. 10cm pot. Read more