Hedera
Algerian ivy
A fast-growing evergreen climber with large glossy leaves that clings to walls and fences by itself, giving year-round cover.
Plants grown in the garden, with growing notes and photos.
Choisya
Choisya ‘Sundance’ (Mexican Orange Blossom)
A golden-leaved evergreen shrub with sweetly scented, star-shaped white flowers in spring.
Salvia
Common sage (Salvia officinalis)
An evergreen culinary herb with soft, silver-grey-green aromatic leaves and spikes of violet-blue summer flowers loved by bees.
Echinops
Echinops bannaticus (Globe Thistle)
A pollinator magnet with round steely blue flowerheads held above spiny grey-green leaves through the second half of summer.
Lathyrus
Everlasting Sweet Pea
A vigorous perennial climber with winged stems and clusters of bright purple-pink pea flowers right through the summer.
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.
Hylotelephium
Hylotelephium ‘Autumn Joy’ (Sedum)
A fleshy-leaved succulent perennial with clusters of starry flowers in late summer, thriving in sun and quick-draining soil.
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.
Penstemon
Penstemon ‘Pensham Amelia Jane’
Penstemon ‘Pensham Amelia Jane’ is a long-flowering perennial with tubular, foxglove-like purplish-pink flowers that bees love, blooming from early summer well into autumn.
Penstemon
Penstemon ‘Pensham Plum Jerkum’
A semi-evergreen penstemon with plum-purple, white-throated flowers from summer into autumn, loved by bees and butterflies and happy in sun or part shade.
Penstemon
Penstemon ‘Summertime Pink’
A long-flowering, semi-evergreen penstemon with soft rose-pink, pale-throated flowers from June to October, good in pots or at the front of a border.
Persicaria
Persicaria affinis ‘Donald Lowndes’
A neat, mat-forming, semi-evergreen groundcover with spikes of pale pink flowers that darken with age, and dark green leaves that turn red in autumn.
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 ‘Belle de Loire’
An upright sage with scented grey-green leaves and long spikes of pink and white flowers from spring 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.