Choisya
Choisya ‘Sundance’ (Mexican Orange Blossom)
A golden-leaved evergreen shrub with sweetly scented, star-shaped white flowers in spring.
Woody plants with several stems that form the backbone of the garden and give it shape all year. Some are grown for their flowers, others for their foliage, berries or winter stems.
Fuchsia
Fuchsia microphylla (Small-leaved Fuchsia)
A small-leaved, semi-evergreen shrub with tiny pink-red tubular flowers from May to November, followed by black berries.
Hydrangea
Lacecap Hydrangea
A deciduous shrub with flat, lacy flowerheads in shades of blue, pink or white from midsummer into late summer.
Mahonia
Mahonia
A tough evergreen shrub with prickly leaves and sweetly scented yellow flowers from autumn to spring, followed by dark berries.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Amethyst Lips’
An evergreen sage with scented leaves and two-tone purple and white flowers that keep coming from early summer into autumn.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Blue Note’
A compact little sage with scented, softly downy leaves and bright royal blue flowers from summer right up until the frosts.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Cherry Lips’
A bushy, semi-evergreen sage with scented leaves and two-tone lipped flowers in white and cherry-pink from summer into autumn.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Delice Gold and Wine’
A neat, semi-evergreen sage with dark green and gold leaves and small deep pink and cream flowers all through spring and summer.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Hot Lips’
A popular aromatic, bushy sage with red-and-white flowers whose colouring changes through summer, blooming right up until the frosts.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Javier’
A bushy sage with fragrant bright green leaves and deep purple and violet flowers opening from almost black buds from late spring into autumn.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Joy’
A neat, bushy sage with scented leaves and eye-catching pale pink and white flowers from late spring right into autumn.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Penny’s Smile’
A tall, bushy sage with aromatic green leaves and big bright pink flowers that keep coming from late spring right into autumn.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Pink Pong’
A hardy, shrubby, semi-evergreen sage with small aromatic leaves and deep cerise-red flowers from May right through to November, loved by bees.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Royal Bumble’
A bushy evergreen sage with glossy, scented leaves and vivid red flowers on dark stems from late spring into autumn.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Salmon Dance’
A compact, bushy evergreen sage with slim spikes of salmon-pink flowers in purple-red calyces from summer into autumn.
Spiraea
Spiraea japonica
A neat, mounding deciduous shrub with flat heads of tiny pink flowers through summer, often with colourful spring foliage too.
Weigela
Weigela florida
Weigela florida is a trouble-free deciduous shrub with pale pink, trumpet-shaped flowers that bees adore, opening as late spring turns into early summer.
Weigela
Weigela Variegata
A neat deciduous shrub with cream-edged leaves and clusters of soft pink, trumpet-shaped flowers arriving in early summer.