Plants in The Hospitalfield Arts Garden

An arching medium-sized deciduous shrub with reddish branches and slender shoots clothed with tiny scale-like grey-green leaves. Small deep pink flowers in long feathery racemes are borne in late summer and autumn.

Densely tufted semi-evergreen to evergreen grass about, with long rhizomes, forming loose, spreading clumps of arching, pale, steel-blue leaves. Produces stiff, upright stems beraing spike-like racemes of blue-grey then buff spikelets throughout summer.

A magnificent, large euphorbia that really makes a dramatic statement in the garden. It has stiff stems strung with whorls of bright green leaves with a white stripe down the centre and is topped in spring, with small, honey-scented, bronze-tinted flowers. This evergreen shrub is grown as much for its foliage as its deliciously scented flowers. It forms a natural dome shape, and gives structure and an architectual quality to the garden.

Dramatic ferny leaves and pink flowers, a very exotic-looking dramatic plant, ideal for the free-draining sheltered conditions in the garden. Valued for both its impressive, often evergreen foliage (which can develop a red flush in winter), as well as its showy clusters of magenta-pink summer flowers, this cranesbill will often self-seed in the right setting. Native to Madeira and the Canary Islands, it can be perennial if grown in milder regions or sheltered gardens, provided the soil is not too heavy and wet.

A clump-forming evergreen perennial with dense, needle-like dark green leaves and erect stems to 20cm, bearing compact clusters of white, pink or red-purple flowerheads to 2.5cm wide, in late spring and summer.