Perennials

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Other perennials (22)
Geraniums (hardy) (18)
Aster plants (10)
Digitalis plants (10)
Penstemon plants (10)
Salvia plants (10)
Astrantia plants (9)
Campanula plants (8)
Hellebore plants (7)
Anemone plants (5)
Persicaria plants (5)
Coreopsis plants (4)
Leucanthemum (4)
Nepeta plants (4)
Phlox plants (4)
Veronicas & Veronicastrum (4)
Pulmonaria plants (3)
Aquilegia plants (2)
Echinacea plants (2)
Geum plants (2)
Rudbeckia plants (2)
Allium plants (1)
Dahlia plants (1)
Monarda plants (1)
Paeonia plants (1)
Sanguisorba plants (1)
Sedum plants (1)

Facing

East (112)
North (53)
South (131)
West (146)

Soil type

Acid (116)
Chalky (135)
Haven't a clue (89)
Heavy clay (116)
Light sandy (128)
Moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil, or peat-free general purpose compost (16)
Normal (157)
Peat-free general-purpose compost (4)

Special conditions

Boggy or damp shade (4)
Coastal conditions (8)
Dry shade (16)
Dry sun (30)
Exposed positions (20)
Tolerates drought (29)

Ready made borders

Ready-made border Add some oomph (2)
Ready-made border Autumn colour (5)
Ready-made border Azure and gold border (3)
Ready-made border Blending purples (2)
Ready-made border Budget (1)
Ready-made border Chalky soil (3)
Ready-made border Clay soil (4)
Ready-made border Cool shade (1)
Ready-made border Cottage garden scheme (7)
Ready-made border Dry Mediterranean (1)
Ready-made border Early colour (1)
Ready-made border Elegant and architectural (1)
Ready-made border Fiery summer (1)
Ready-made border Flowers for pollinators (1)
Ready-made border Fresh and wild (1)
Ready-made border Good bedfellows (2)
Ready-made border Gravel garden (2)
Ready-made border Jewel border (1)
Ready-made border Keep it cool (3)
Ready-made border Piet Oudolf Wisley (1)
Ready-made border Planting the woodland edge (1)
Ready-made border Sandy soil (2)
Ready-made border Shades of pink (2)
Ready-made border Shady pink (2)
Ready-made border Soft Summer (2)
Ready-made border Soothing green and white (2)
Ready-made border Spring colour (4)
Ready-made border Stars of high summer (4)
Ready-made border Summer savanna (1)

Planting combinations

Add some oomph plant combination (2)
Agastache and Angelica plant combination (2)
Agastache and Echinops plant combination (1)
Astrantia and Digitalis plant combination (2)
Astrantia and Dryopteris plant combination (1)
Astrantia and Geranium plant combination (2)
Attracting wildlife seed combination (1)
Blue and silver plant combination (2)
Contemporary plant combination (1)
Cool tones plant combination (1)
Cutting garden plant combination (2)
Damp shade plant combination (1)
Dazzle plant combination (1)
Dazzling colour weed-smothering plant combination (1)
Drought tolerant plant combination (1)
Dry shade plant combination (1)
Echinops and Achillea plant combination (1)
Echinops and Salvia plant combination (2)
Foeniculum and Astrantia plant combination (1)
Golden prairie plant combination (1)
Green and white plant combination (2)
Less is more plant combination (1)
Long flowering plant combination (2)
Low maintenance plant combination (summer) (1)
Lythrum and Campanula plant combination (1)
Pink and purple long-flowering plant combination (1)
Pink and purple plant combination (1)
Pinks and purples plant combination (1)
Plants for pollinators plant combination (3)
Rich tones slug resistant plant combination (3)
Shade lovers plant combination (3)
Shady clay plant combination (1)
Slug resistant plant combination for shade (1)
Slug resistant plant combination (2)
Spires and spots plant combination (1)
Stars of the show plant combination (1)
Structural green and white plant combination (1)
Sunny chalk plant combination (1)
Sunny clay plant combination (1)
Thalictrum and Astrantia plant combination (1)
The Highgrove Kitchen Garden Collection (3)
The Highgrove Mediterranean Garden Collection (1)

Offers

50% off selected alliums (1)
Selected helleborus (5)

Flowering month

January (3)
February (7)
March (9)
April (11)
May (27)
June (79)
July (111)
August (105)
September (84)
October (43)
November (1)

Flower colour

Colourful collections / bicolours (4)
Black (3)
Blue (24)
Green (4)
Orange (5)
Pink (43)
Purple (35)
Red (16)
White (42)
Yellow (13)

Fragrance

All scented flowers (11)
Aromatic foliage (22)
Evening scent (1)
Highly scented (1)

Quick growing

No (5)
Quite (134)
Yes (49)

Eventual size

Large (22)
Medium (95)
Small (61)

Special features

Architectural silhouettes (12)
Attractive seedheads (8)
Coloured leaves (3)
Columnar (1)
Deciduous (3)
Easy to grow (17)
Evergreen / semi evergreen (19)
Fast growing (6)
Flower spires (36)
Flowering (144)
Long flowering (53)
Low maintenance (44)
Plants that are native (5)
Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (40)
Resistant to diseases (23)
Scented Leaves (2)
Scented flowers (1)
Small leaved (3)
Stylish in the border (21)
Sublime umbelliferas (13)
Suitable for containers (21)
Suitable for hanging baskets (1)
Tough plants that are harder to kill (9)
Winter colour (9)

Bulb planting time

Autumn planting (1)
Spring planting (1)

Sowing month inside or protected

January (1)
March (6)
April (8)
May (6)
September (1)
October (1)

Sowing month outside

March (2)
April (4)
May (4)
June (1)
July (1)
August (2)
September (2)
October (2)

Multibuy packs

Multibuy offers (123)
Selected offers (3)

Hardy

No (1)
Semi (19)
Yes (140)

Leaf colour

Blue (4)
Bronze (3)
Green (143)
Purple (7)
Red (1)
Silver (5)
Variegated (5)

Ground cover

No (112)
Yes (45)

Position

Back of border (27)
Bottom of hedges (13)
Front of border (59)
Middle of border (85)
Next to a patio (5)
Next to a pond (9)
Next to an entrance (6)
Next to seating areas (18)
Steep banks (21)

Used at Chelsea

2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (9)
2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (10)
2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (1)
2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (5)
2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (8)
2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (1)
2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (5)
2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (3)
2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (2)
2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (5)
2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (5)
2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (10)
2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (3)
2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (5)
2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (1)
2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (1)
2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (6)
2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (4)
2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (5)
2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (3)
2022 - Andy Sturgeon - Mind Garden / Crocus (2)
2023 - Sarah Price - Nurture Garden (2)

Kitchen garden planting guidelines

Propagate in green house (5)
Suitable for grow beds (6)
Suitable for large container gardening (7)
Use cloche (5)

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