Best Garden Plants
Our Garden Gallery: Plants that make you go…ooooh!
Everyone loves a picture of a beautiful flower and these are some of the best garden plants for a small garden. Many of these are grown in my garden, so I know they are well behaved and reliable performers. We hope you enjoy having a browse.
Lots of the plants seen here are used in the border designs available from the shop
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‘I Want to Like my Garden’ by Rachel McCartain is also packed with loads of great design advice. Choosing plants for the garden is made easier with two brilliantly simple design methods; ‘The Plant Wardrobe’ and ‘Planting with Boxes’.
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Plants need to do more than have pretty flowers though..
Plants in the garden should make you feel something, so although these images are lovely to look at, flowers are not the only reason to buy a plant.
When choosing plants for the garden ask yourself ask a couple of questions: ‘How does this plant make me feel’ and ‘when it’s not in flower what else does this plant have that’s interesting’.
Flowers only last for a few weeks of the year, but you still will have to look at the plant for the rest of the year. A really top tip then is to choose plants because they appeal to at least two of your senses. Ensure the plants are alsotactile or scented or maybe have colourful autumn foliage. If plants are chosen because they do more then just look nice, the garden will become more interesting.
Skimmia Japonica Hellebore Sarcococca flowers Rudbeckia Schizostylis Clematis Iris 
Nasturtiums 
Salvia Blue Queen Catananche Nature is beautiful – this was in my garden 
Dianthus Sooty Sanguisorba Nicotiana Sylvestris Cardoon Cyclamen 
Rosa Noaschnee 
Rhododendron Luteum 
Philadelphus 
Gaura 
Clematis 
Borage Crocosmia Hydrangea Annabelle More Clematis ! 🙂 Verbena Bonariensis 
Tulip White Triumphator Can’t ever have too many Clematis’! Paeony Dianthus Arctic Fire Alliustophiim Chri 
Lilac 
Abutilon 
Geranium Johnsons Blue 
Acer palmatum Geum Mrs Bradshaw 
Iris 
R Luteum – amazing scent Geum & Iris Geum tangerine 
Allium Hollandicum 
Echinacea Purpurea 
Geranium Sang’eum Album 
Happy geums 
Libertia Peregrinans 
Physotegia 
Thalictrum 
Allium Hollandicum Aquilega Abutilon flowers 
Echinops 
Tulip Q of the Night 
Tulip W Triumphator 
Tulip Purple Prince 
Pleioblastus Phormium 
Linum G Rubrum 
Libertia 
Geum Tangerine 
Geranium psilostemon 
Gladioli Bizantinnus Fritillaria Meleagris 
Galium Oderatum Cotinue Coggyria 
Brunnera Jack Frost 
Ammi Majus 
Allium M Everest Achillea Terracotta Cosmos Astrosanguineus
The garden is making you feel good. For more amazing garden design advice – buy our book. Available at Amazon and other online book stores.
