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A cottage garden is awash with large showy blooms. We've picked some of the best to recreate that cottage garden look in your own home. From foxgloves to dahlias, and roses to hollyhocks and daisies we've got you covered.
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Lavandula angustifolia Hidcote produces dense spikes of fragrant, deep violet summer flowers above slender, aromatic, silvery-grey leaves. It is possibly the best lavender for edging paths and borders and produces a perfumed fragrance when you brush against it.
Cut back the stalks after the flowers have faded. Carefully trim back in April, taking care not to cut into old wood.
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Leaves of red brown bordered in lime green combined with a beautiful habit and broadly scalloped leaf lobes forming a vigorous mound of dense crowns.
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'Memories' is a brilliant white perennial with a creamy tinge to the centre of the flower and produces a bushy, prolific perpetually flowering plant with amazing fragrant flowers. They are ideal for patio pots, containers or positioned at the front of the border.
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Lavandula angustifolia Vera is an outstanding heirloom English Lavender known for its sweetly fragrant oil, dark lavender-blue flower spikes, and compact growth habit.
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'Rozanne' is a robust and vigorous spreading perennial with neat, dense, lobed foilage and bowl-shaped violet-blue flowers with a white centre, opening from early summer to early autumn. It is an ideal element of the garden patio or balcony.
A prolific bloomer, reliable and fully hardy, 'Rozanne' comes back year after year, bigger and even better than the previous spring.
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A compact lavender, named after Gertrude Jekyll's garden at Munstead Wood. It produces dense spikes of fragrant, bluish-purple summer flowers above slender, aromatic, grey-green leaves.
This is a lovely lavender for edging paths and borders; the aromatic foliage perfumes the air if you brush against it. The flower-spikes are highly attractive to bees and other nectar-loving insects.
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Young Nurseries
Jerusalem Sage. Soft yellow flowers appear from late Spring right through Summer, giving a candlebra effect. The foliage is heart shaped and evergreen. Plant in sun or partial shade, drought tolerent. Attractive to bees and butterflies. Height 80cm.
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Hemerocallis 'Stella d'Or' is a popular reblooming Daylilly. It is compact, vigorous, fragrant and enjoys profuse blooms over an extremely long blooming period. This Miniature Daylily produces masses of golden trumpets with ruffled edges and small green throats atop mounds of arching, blade-like leaves.
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Romneya coulteri is a vigorous, upright, suckering herbaceous perennial or sub-shrub, with divided, grey-green leaves and, in summer, large, white, poppy-like flowers with dark-yellow stamens.
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Aromatic grey-green leaves set off the light blue flowers of this variety beautifully. And, unlike some other catmints, it will continue to bloom throughout the summer.
This plant can have some beneficial impacts on feline welfare. However, not all cats will respond in this way to catmint, some may become agressive. Cats should be supervised when offered catnip/catmint.
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Calceolaria 'Sunset Orange' is a tender, compact, bushy biennial, often grown as an annual container or bedding plant with ovate, mid-green leaves and, over a long period in summer, clusters of orange-red flowers, often with yellow markings.
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This perennial makes a striking architectural clump with lovely arrow-shaped, glossy dark green leaves. Pure white hood-shaped flowers are produced from late spring to mid-summer. Mulch plants in winter and grow in reliably moist soil.
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Boasting a prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticulture Society, the Allium 'Christophii' is an elegant ornamental onion with star-shaped silvery purple flowers forming a wide globe-shaped cluster atop narrow and hairy leaves.
Blooming in late spring to early summer, this Allium enjoys long-lasting blooms and remains ornamental in the garden well into summer. Ideally used in beds, borders, gravel gardens or cottage gardens.
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Agaphantus 'Brilliant Blue' is a compact herbaceous perennial, that grows to about 50cm tall. This plant flowers in the summer showing loose clusters of blue flowers with a striking darker strip running through the petals. Evergreen foliage gives interest all year.
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Rhodanthemum 'Casablanca' is a woody based, compact evergreen perennial with softly hairy, finely divided, grey-green leaves and, from early spring into autumn, erect stems bearing white, daisy-like flowers with orange-brown central discs.
Cut back in late Summer to get a second heavy autumn flowering. Suitable for patio pots or borders and beds. Doesn't like wet soils, so add gravel to help with drainage.
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Achillea 'King Alfred' is a compact, clump-forming, deciduous to semi-evergreen perennial with finely-divided, grey-green leaves and erect, branching stems bearing dense, flattened clusters of tiny, pale yellow flowers throughout summer.
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Branching stems support the spires of glistening, pure white flowers, which glow like illuminated candles arising from mounds of rich green foliage. Prolong the flowering period by cutting back the central flowerspike to its base after is past its best, as this will encourage the smaller, lateral shoots to flourish.
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Tiarella 'Pink Skyrocket' has deeply-divided green leaves with red veins, above which spikes of large, soft pink flowers appear in late spring. Ideally used as ground cover or edging paths in moist, shady parts of the garden.
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