perennial plants - A Selection

Salvia ?Hot Lips? will no doubt inject some colour and intrigue into any cottage garden borders, containers or bedding schemes. The stunning and elegant bicolour blooms protrude from the slender stems of this bushy, hardy perennial plant. However, when the weather is hot, the bicolour can sometimes grow in solid red or white instead, which makes for some added interest in summer months. Bring into a sheltered or protected spot in winter to ensure the best life. Height: 90cm (35). Spread: 60cm

Peony 'Bartzella' is an RHS AGM winning variety, producing fragrant, yellow blooms with a lemon citrus scent in late spring. Magenta flushes surround the yellow stamens in the centre of flowers. Makes for a superb cut flower choice, this deciduous shrub is a cross between herbaceous and tree peony, dropping its big, leather-textured leaves in autumn. Height: 75cm (29). Spread: 90cm (35).

Lacy white blooms edged in raspberry pink. Perfect for eyecatching flower arrangements

Soft mounds of mid-green, slightly hairy leaves give rise to long, reddish stems carrying whorls of rich purple flowers that create a buzz with pollinators. Salvia verticillata ‘Purple Rain’ was made famous by the renowned designer, Piet Oudolf, who frequently used it his prairie garden schemes, where it was valued for its resilience, adaptability and long flowering season. This hardy salvia makes a good choice for the front of the border where it softens hard edges with a haze of purple

Happiest in a sunny spot.

Sophisticated white double blooms formed of masses of ruffled petals make Peony ?Double White? the perfect highlight to your early summer planting schemes. This classic cottage garden plant is ideal for both formal and informal styles, putting on a reliable and eye-catching display of blooms from May onwards to get the summer season started with a generous helping of glamour. Resilient and hardy, these perennial plants treat you to a repeat show year after year. If you enjoy cutting flowers

Mid-late season favorite with large, creamy-white, fragrant blooms up to 20cm wide on strong stems, making it ideal for cutting.

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Salvias are bang on trend in UK gardens right now! This one is a stunning half-hardy Gentian Sage, with exquisite, cobalt blue flowers that are quite alluring. This elegant perennial forms a clump of triangular mid-green foliage that cloaks the well branched stems.

This dainty Carnation boasts double, marbled raspberry, pale pink and white blooms that confidently sit amongst compact, silver clumps of evergreen foliage. Making a bold impact wherever placed in the garden, ?Capitan Marco? is just what you need for edging borders, adding to patio pots and planting in alpines. It also sits well in cottage, coastal and cut flower gardening schemes, emitting its aromatic fragrance attracting lots of bees and butterflies. This Dianthus enjoys full sun to thrive

Bury your nose in the silky petals of this sumptuous tree peony!

Dianthus ‘Cherry Daiquiri’ boasts elegant single flowers that are very pale pink with a rich crimson ring around the central stamens.

?Rose Queen? flowers from June until October, it boasts tall, slender spikes that are smothered in magenta pink blooms ? standing proudly amongst thick mounds of aromatic, clump forming foliage. This easy to care for perennial grows best when left in full sun, developing in height to 60cm and spreading to around 30cm. This dramatic Salvia is great for adding vibrancy and flamboyance to cottage and wildlife gardens, whilst adding texture and charm to patio pots and pretty borders.

Sedum spurium 'Dragon's Blood' is a creeping variety with luscious purple-tinged, evergreen foliage which provides all year round interest even before the flowers appear. Star-like, dark red blooms will create a blanket of colour from midsummer, providing superb groundcover. This stonecrop is drought tolerant and looks very effective edging borders and planted in rockeries and crevices in dry stony walls. Height: 10cm (4?). Spread: 40cm (16?).

Experience the excellence of one of the finest dwarf Asters! Compact basal branched plants adorned with intriguing spider-like flowers. Available in captivating shades of blue, purple, scarlet, and rose. Early flowering, ensuring a colorful display in borders or patio containers. Enjoy a prolonged flowering period. Height: 20cm (8in) Supplied as 1 x seed packet (150 seeds)

Sedum Coccineum is a robust and floriferous sedum that blooms from July until October, it generates masses of hot pink, star shaped flowers that smother the low growing, fleshy red leaflets. Ideal for planting in a sunny spot with dry soil, this intriguing perennial requires virtually no care and will be a magnet for pollinating insects. Incredible for creating attractive ground cover, adding into crevices, borders, pathways and onto roof tops, growing in rockeries and adding to alpine and