perennial plants - A Selection

Baptisia 'Decadence Vanilla Cream' is part of a series of exciting new hybrids that take the best qualities of Baptisia australis and enhance them with a striking array of vibrant colours, a long blooming season, and a compact growth habit ideal for smaller spaces. This cultivar forms neat, bushy clumps of blue-green foliage, topped with tall spires of yellow buds that gradually open into elegant, creamy-white flowers resembling lupines. Starting in May, the blossoms bloom from the bottom of

Peony 'Pink Hawaiian Coral' is a beautiful variety of peony, that is well suited to small and medium residential garden borders, as it grows to less than 1 metre in height. The petals are coral pink, with yellow stamens in the centre.

Compact variety designed for container growing with large double sugar-pink flowers.

Indulge yourself with the sweet and heady clove-like aromas of Dianthus ?Bicolour Magenta?.

Alpine aster is a compact, early flowering Michaelmas daisy that is ideal for rockeries and the front of dry, sunny borders.

An award-winning variety which produces a mass of long-flowering, dark-pink double blooms with a wonderful clove-like scent! Dianthus ?Devon Wizard? will flower continuously throughout the summer above tidy mounds of blue-green foliage. Ideal for sunny border edges and patio pots as well as making a wonderful cut flower for button-holes, posies and vase displays. Height: 20cm (8in). Spread: 30cm (12in).

A busy plant for lazy gardeners!

Adored by gardeners for their vibrant flowers and intense perfume! Dianthus caryophyllus ?Dwarf Vienna Mix? boasts ruffled flowers above strong stems that arise from neat clumps of slender evergreen foliage. This traditional carnation has a low, mounding habit and will bloom all summer long, adding months of colour to patio pots, borders and gravel gardens as well as making an excellent cut flower to enjoy indoors. Height and spread: 40cm (16).

Bowl of Beauty has huge blooms, up to 20 cm across, and a lovely aroma. This exceptional, early-to-midsummer flowering variety was introduced in 1949 and has remained a top pick ever since. It has also earned the renowned RHS Award of Garden Merit. Huge, rounded pink petals form a massive bowl, with a creamy ruff of smaller, ribbon-like petals in the centre. These massive anemone-like blooms are held on sturdy stems, making them ideal for cutting and resilient to wind and rain. Height: 100cm

Pink and white flowers that smell of cloves

?Bicolor Magenta? is a superb Dianthus, that flowers from May until October. It generates a profusion of scented, bright, pink-coloured blooms, that each feature a prominent white frilly edge. Ideal for window boxes, patio containers and cottage themed landscapes, be sure to position in direct sunlight where it can flourish to a height of 20cm, along with a spread of 30cm. Great for also creating indoor cut flower displays, this hardy perennial will create an attractive, compact focal point

A bushy bedding salvia with aromatic silver green leaves and blue flower spikes

Sedum kamtschaticum var. floriferum 'Weihenstephaner Gold' has a lovely creeping habit that will creep across the front of rockeries and hot, sunny borders, as well as spilling out of alpine troughs and containers. The rust-orange seed capsules take the place of the faded flowers, extending the season of appeal well into autumn. It's not simply the name that makes a statement! The spreading pile of grey-green leaves is covered in sparkling bunches of golden, star-shaped blooms on this

Tree peony Mo Run Jue Lun is truly sumptuous, with silky, multi-petalled blooms densely packed into a rounded flower head, adding an air of romance to spring and early summer borders. The lavish blooms are made up of layer upon layer of ruffled, deep scarlet to burgundy petals that are accented by a central boss of golden stamens. To enjoy the fragrance, bury your nose in the soft and silky flowers. 150cm tall and spread (5). Few shrubs can compete with the opulence of tree peonies. Despite

This quick establishing border plant really is a fantastic choice. With an abundance of strong erect stems topped with plumes of white and green bracts, with maroon undersides, these are superb for giving a colour balance to any garden. Can be treated as a short loved perennial if flowers are removed in second years. Sowing Time: February to March. Sow in trays, pots, etc of good seed compost in a propagator or warm place to maintain an optimum temperature of 15-20°C (60-70F). Surface sow and