Sagina subulata is one of the best low growing ground covers. Irish moss is most often used as a ground cover, softening paths and stepping-stones. It gives a lush accent to rock garden and terraces. For a luxurious carpet of green, few plants can match Irish Moss.

Salvia farinacea ‘Fairy Queen’ is an attractive new variety that bears multiple spikes of bicolour blue and white flowers on dark distinctive flower stems from June to October. With a bushy, compact habit and thick stems. A small white spot on each sapphire blue flower creates the illusion of fairy dust.

Salvia Victoria White is a companion to the more well known Victoria Blue. Flowering in less than four months from seed, it produces its white flowers from summer to autumn. Like all Salvia, it brings butterflies into the garden by the dozen, and makes a wonderful cut or dried flower.

This impressive, fine new variety has been specially bred as a foliage plant, with rosettes of deep bronze-purple leaves. Beautifully veined and held in outstretched layers on low-growing plants, they keep their colour through summer as the plant grows quickly to its mature size.

Blue Queen is one of the finest Salvias we know. This plant is a spectacular source of dark, intense colour and narrow, vertical form. Masses of pencil-thin, vibrantly colourful bloom spires, so densely set that they present a solid wall of colour in the border.

The royal sister of ‘Blue Queen’, ‘Rose Queen’ is a wonderful, long-blooming cultivar with slender spires and beautiful mulberry-rose flowers, which open from dark pink buds in early and mid-summer. This tall, easy-to-grow variety with lance-shaped green leaves possess a pleasant aromatic scent.

Santolina or lavender cotton is a small shrub with soft, woolly, finely divided foliage, that make neat, rounded bushes. They are valuable for mass planting, ideal for knot gardens and small hedging around herb gardens etc. A perfect plant for control freaks as it will stand any amount of clipping and shaping.

"Floral Carpet" has flowers in shades of red, pink and rose. These evergreen, cushion-forming perennials are compact, free-flowering, and easily raised from seed. Plants quickly form a verdant mat. The surface-spreading mossy leaves are evergreen for year-round effect.

Saxifraga x arendsii “Purple Robe” are compact, free-flowering, and easily raised from seed. These charming perennials quickly form an evergreen verdant mat. Excellent as alpine plants for a rockery or trough, use them spilling over low walls, as a path edging or green roof.

These charming perennials become a lovely groundcover in a short time, the surface-spreading mossy leaves form compact cushions of foliage and are evergreen for year-round effect. Saxifrage "Spring Snow” with small white, cup-shaped flowers are compact, free-flowering, and easily raised from seed.

Just when your spring bloomers are starting to fade, the dense mats of Saxifrage become covered with small, cup-shaped flowers held upright on ankle-high, strong stems. Excellent as alpine plants for a rockery or trough, use them spilling over low walls, as a path edging or green roof.

Scabiosa atropurpurea is one of the longest-flowering and most glamorous of flowers. A prodigious bloomer and a tough, hardy garden performer it is fast to flower and blooms consistently throughout the growing season. Perfect for cutting, the flowers have the most delicious sweet perfume.