Salvia
Salvia ‘Joy’
A neat, bushy sage with scented leaves and eye-catching pale pink and white flowers from late spring right into autumn.
Plants grown in the garden, with growing notes and photos.
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.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Salvito Violet’
A neat, upright sage with scented leaves and tightly packed spikes of violet-purple flowers through summer and into autumn.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Strawberry Melba’
A compact sage making a low mound of scented silvery-green leaves, with two-tone pink flowers from spring well into autumn.
Salvia
Salvia ‘Amistad’
A tall salvia with deep purple flowers in near-black calyces over a long season, loved by bees and butterflies.
Salvia
Salvia Pink Amistad
A tall sage with dark green leaves and large pink flowers all through summer and autumn, though it’s tender to frost.
Spiraea
Spiraea japonica
A neat, mounding deciduous shrub with flat heads of tiny pink flowers through summer, often with colourful spring foliage too.
Verbena
Verbena bonariensis (Purpletop Vervain)
A tall, airy, see-through perennial with nectar-rich lilac-purple flower clusters on slender, wiry stems from summer into autumn.
Verbena
Verbena rigida (Slender Vervain)
A spreading perennial with fragrant lilac-purple flower clusters on stiff stems through summer, loved by bees and butterflies.
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.