
Aromatic, light yellow and red-edged, greyish-green, heart-shaped foliage and tiny, yellowish-green flowers surrounded by white, petal-like bracts.

This tall, exotic-looking spherical perennial is perfect for adding vertical interest in a sunny, well-drained border.

This lovely orpine looks great planted in bold drifts in the middle of a sunny, well-drained border.

This lovely, long lived, late flowering peony is perfect for a border in full sun or partial shade.

Pasque flowers are often found growing on ancient earthworks or at the edges of Roman roads.

This multi-coloured penstemon continues flowering until the first frosts if deadheaded regularly.

This vibrant, easy-to-grow perennial commemorates an 18th century German astronomer.

This delightful perennial phlox is perfect for a 'cool' planting scheme based on blue shades.

Perennial Phlox (syn. Mount Fuji)
This long-flowering perennial phlox is perfect for a mixed or herbaceous border in sun or partial shade.

This low-growing, evergreen perennial is excellent all year ground cover for the front of a damp border in sun or partial shade.

This spreading, semi-evergreen phlox creates a beautiful fragrant edge for a well-used path in partial shade.

This splendid, summer-flowering, evergreen shrub is ideal towards the back of a sunny, well-drained mixed border, sheltered from cold drying winds.

A striking hardy perennial that was introduced last year and is ideal for growing in borders or in pots on the patio.

The glossy foliage of this handsome hosta are, allegedly, less likely to be demolished by slugs and snails.

Smooth, heart-shaped, grey-blue foliage with golden centres and spikes of lavender-grey flowers in June and July.

Unlike other flowering perennials of similar height this handsome plume poppy seldom requires staking.

This wonderful prairie mallow tolerates a variety of soil conditions, except water-logging.

Ideal for the middle of the border where the spikelets will catch every breeze and last well into fall.

Long, narrow spikes of bright red flowers are borne from midsummer to eary fall above semi-evergreen, lance-shaped, classical green foliage.

These fiery, torch-like flowers are excellent for a planting scheme based on hot colours.

An incrediably common lily wide range with almost clean white flowers and orange anthers and the huge trumpet-shaped blooms are highly perfumed too.

It soon forms a strongly aromatic carpet of deeply cut, pale green foliage, which colour beautifully in fall.

An unusual variation on the common foxglove which looks lovely in a shady corner of the garden.