This scheme promotes experiencing plants through a variety of senses. Foliage from the Acer, Miscanthus, Crambe and Thymus provide a tactile experience, while the Syringa, Crambe and Thymus provide scent. There is plenty of visual impact throughout the seasons too. 

Additional benefits include attracting pollinators helping to increase your garden’s biodiversity. 

The Thymus will help provide groundcover, which can help to reduce soil surface erosion and moisture loss, as well as aiding in weed suppression.

Using an organic mulch, preferably homemade compost, while the plants establish can help to provide the same benefits. Mulches should be spread when the soil is already moist to help trap some of that moisture before it dries out in summer.

1 - Acer palmatum ‘Orange Dream’

2 - Crambe cordifolia

3 - Prunus incisa ‘Kojo-no-mai’

4 - Aruncus dioicus

5 - Syringa microphylla ‘Superba’

6 - Miscanthus sinesis ‘Flamingo’

7 - Thymus ‘Pink Chintz’

2 - Crambe cordifolia is herbaceous perennial with bold, dark green lobed leaves and branched sprays of small, scented white flowers held high above the foliage. 

3 - Prunus incisa ‘Kojo-no-mai’ is a shrub with zig-zag branches and dark red autumn leaves. It flowers before the leaves emerge in early spring, with petals that are white or palest pink, becoming deeper pink in the centre. 

4 - Aruncus dioicus is a vigorous herbaceous perennial forming large clumps, with broad, light green leaves and arching plumes of tiny, creamy-white flowers.

5 - Syringa microphylla ‘Superba’ is a bushy deciduous shrub with small, dark green leaves and loose heads of fragrant, rosy-pink flowers through the summer.

6 - Miscanthus sinensis ‘Flamingo’ is a reliably flowering herbaceous grass, with narrow, arching foliage and feathery silver flowerheads in late summer.

7 - Thymus ‘Pink Chintz’ is an evergreen sub-shrub forming a low, wide mat. It has small, aromatic, dark green leaves and pink flowers that are loved by bees.