perennial plants - A Selection

Bring colour to your late summer borders with this vibrant hardy perennial Michaelmas Daisy. This flamboyant dwarf Aster, with its bright purple-pink flowers, erupt into bloom in August through to October, perfect to bring colour into your beds and borders as the summer colour fades. Aster novi-belgii ‘Dandy’ demands little maintenance, returning year after year, with a compact habit. Ideal for patio pots as well as cottage and wildlife gardens. Height and spread: 30cm (12").

Sedum telephium 'Purple Emperor' is a particularly stylish Sedum, with succulent burgundy-black foliage that adds a touch of drama to the front of borders

Bring gorgeous bursts of deep pink and white to your garden with Dianthus Baby Doll Mixed Garden Seeds. These large, singular flowers are perfect for brightening up patios, borders, or edging. and will prove to be reliable and long flowering, whatever the weather.

Mouth-watering blooms that are richly perfumed. The ultimate in flamboyance to dress up your borders.

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A lovely variety of hardy salvia, which will look great in a border or patio container all summer. It combines striking flowers with attractive, and frequently aromatic, foliage. Flowers June-October. Spread 40-50cm (16-20"). Supplied in a 2 litre pot. Amistad - Glossy green foliage, unique black buds and eye-catching flowers. Plants are hardy (to –10°C) but may need some protection in extremely cold areas. Height up to 1.2m (4').

The flower spikes of this salvia bring a super vertical aspect to front borders, small blue flowers adorn dark stems as they rise above the low foliage. A perfect perennial for planting  as part of a cottage garden scheme. Height: 31-40cm Spread: 21-30Premium perennials are large plug tray plants, roughly the same size as garden ready plants like a potted plant without a pot. They will need to be acclimatised to the garden, and once all chance of frost has cleared can be planted out directly

Towering and impressive

Sedum Atlantis is a plant for our times…drought tolerant, suitable for small spaces and attractive to bees. Its striking foliage forms rosettes of serrated green leaves with thick, creamy margins and tips that turn a pink blush in the autumn. The pink tinged flower buds open to bee magnet yellow flowers. The new leaves emerge in a beautifully creamy white, before developing into an attractive green with striking white borders and gradually forming a half metre wide cushion of drought

A unique variety of China Pinks, these Dianthus Chinensis Chianti are a rich, dark purple with fluttered white edges. Ideal for beds, borders, and containers, these flowers will become a fantastic annual breed in your garden.

Dianthus 'Haytor White' is an RHS AGM winning variety of Carnation, renowned for its attractive, evergreen foliage and pure white, clove-scented flowers. These blooms appear in abundance from June until September, adding a touch of class to scented or cottage gardens and illuminating cut flower displays. For maximum impact, this Pink should be grown in a sunny border or patio container. Height: 40cm (1'4). Spread: 40cm (1'4).

Dianthus ‘Valda Wyatt’ is an RHS award-winning pink boasting large, lavish, rose-like double flowers in rose pink above greyish, strap-like evergreen foliage.

Sunsparkler Lime Zinger is a delightful foliage plant before showing off its nectar-rich flowers in summer, neat foliage is bright green, picked out with rosy-red edges, forming dense cushions to make a superb ground cover. In late summer starry pink flowers will cover the plant which bees and butterflies love. Sedums are superb, easy to grow perennials, ideal for dry borders, rockeries, edging and containers. Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 45cm (18).

Perfect for a well-drained border or a dry, sunny bank.

Bring splashes of brilliant colours late summer into autumn, it forms a neat dome of slender green foliage, this hardy perennial becomes smothered in beautiful purple flowers from late August to October. With a compact, dwarf habit this is perfect for beds, borders and containers, with very little maintenance throughout the year.  Height and spread: 30cm