The Magic Carpet Snapdragon is a dwarf, low-growing plant that has a trailing habit that makes it excellent for containers or in window boxes. They are rust resistant and reliable, the blossom-laden flower heads bloom in spring to early summer in a range of exquisite colours.

Stump your garden buddies with this one! Berkheya Purpurea “Zulu Warrior” is a striking tender perennial from South Africa which has an outrageously impressive show of very pale purple-white flowers with dark purple centres. They are definitely a bloom with class and make a useful cut flower, fresh or dried.

Few plants shine as brightly in late summer as the buddleia, and when butterflies frisk the nectar-rich flowers they create a high-summer spectacle second to none. Many butterfly gardeners plan their whole garden around Buddleia.

Buddleia blooms all summer long with an intoxicating scent just as overwhelming as their colour show. There is no denying that these shrubs are butterfly magnets. If you plant one, they will find it. Have your camera ready!

“Crozy Hybrids” are the most cold-hardy of the garden Canna. Growing to around 85cm they produce red to yellow flowers that resemble a miniature gladioli. With their lush tropical foliage and showy flowers they make borders and beds come alive with their bright colours all summer long until first frosts.

The Cupid's Dart, 'Catananche caerulea', is a charming heirloom plant, used for centuries in 'love' potions. “Amor Blue” produces blooms of lavender-blue, star like flowers each with a dark eye and unique papery petals. The blooms rise on single stems above neat clumps of grey-green foliage.

The Cupid's Dart is a beautiful fast-growing perennial. Very easy to grow and often used as an annual “Amor White” produces stunning blooms of white, star like flowers each with a dark purple-blue eye and unique papery petals. Super planted the border, they also make wonderful and a long lasting cut flowers.

Persian Cornflower is an attractive clump forming cornflower, with bushy, branched plants and the unusual characteristic of being perennial and flowering in the first year. Large deep lavender-pink blooms adorn the divided foliage throughout summer.

Native to the meadows and woods of the mountains of Europe, Centaurea montana flowers from late spring with large flowers that are fringed in an intense violet-blue with deep purple centres and most attractive, very deeply cut petals. Easy to grow, it is an excellent garden plant as well as cut flower.

Gardeners everywhere have created their own original designs using the attractive foliage of Dusty Miller. The young leaves are slightly lobed like oak leaves, as the plants mature, they become deeply cut, paler in colour and are covered in a silvery grey fleece. Ideal for edging, mixed baskets and containers.

This uncommon Clematis is a graceful, vigorous and very floriferous climber. During summer and all the way through to autumn the plant is covered with canary yellow nodding lanterns. In the autumn the flowers turn into beautiful large tufts of long silvery, silky seed heads that are just as ornamental.

The Rainbow variety is one of most popular of coleus. This very special blend includes a complete colour range, from cream to deep scarlet. Very easy to grow from seed and of even height, growth and size of leaves. Given a modicum of care, they will flourish from spring until frost.