NEW OUTDOOR INSPIRATION
Colourful Perennials
Daisy sales continue to amaze us this season!
Another one hundred Argyranthemum Angelic Daisies this week – Bordeaux, Burgundy, Mars, & Giant Pink, Great non-stop colour, great picking, full sun, 45cm.
Claire
Diana
Ivana
First of the Princess Lilies/Peruvian Lilies (Alstroemerias) this week – white Claire, apricot Diana, pink Eliane, pink Ivana, gold Lisa, claret Tamara, cream Yentl, sun/part shade, 45cm.
More heat-loving Cacti and mixed Succulent bowls for an easy-care option.
Aquilegia selection (incl Alba), long flowering, sun/part shade, 20-30cm.
Lavenders Sensation Blue & Sensation White, full sun, 70cm.
Lavender Thumberlina Leigh, full sun, 15cm.
Polygala Petite Butterflies, prolific flowering, full sun, 80cm.
Verbena Firechief, full sun, good for containers, 20cm.
Cerastium Snow in Summer, low spreader, sun, 10cm.
Carex Evergold, good foliage colour, sun/part shade, 30cm.
Made for the Shade
Lily of the Valley (Convallaria), available in white or pink, scented flowers, light shade, 10-15cm.
Heuchera Lime Marmalade, excellent grade, light shade, 20cm.
Dicentra Spectabilis (Bleeding Heart), light shade, 65cm.
Hydrangea Merveille Sanguine (Marvellous Blood), prefers light shade to prevent burning, 1.5m.
Hydrangea Paniculata Limelight, light shade to avoid burning flowers, 1.5m.
Chatham Island Forget-Me-Nots (Myosotidium Hortensia), 40cm.
Ajuga Catlins Giant, light shade, groundcover, 20cm.
Hydrangea Annabelle, light shade to prevent flowers burning, 1.5m.
Good Colour from Shrubs:
Dorothy Corston
Superb range of Deciduous Azaleas – Dorothy Corston (burnt orange), Glowing Embers, Pavlova, Raspberry Ripple (rosy raspberry red), Sun Chariot, light shade/part shade, 1.7m.
Skimmia Japonica Rogersii, light shade, 1m.
Rhododendron Yakushimanum FCC, light/partial shade, 1m.
Pseudowintera Red Leopard, good foliage colour, hardy, sun, 2m.
Hydrangea Renate Steiniger, full sun/part shade, 1m.
Viburnum Opulus Sterile (Snowball Tree), large ‘ball’ flowers, sun/part shade, 2m.