Plants in The Hospitalfield Arts Garden

Chosen for the striking red stems and dark foliage. It is also an important small tree for climate-adapted gardens of the future in the UK. Arbutus is a spreading, shrubby tree with shredding brown bark and glossy bright green leaves. It is attractive in autumn when the white flowers, often tinged pink, are produced and the fruit from last year are turning red. An excellent tree for costal gardens or in a sheltered spot inland.

Chosen for shape, size, form and texture. Also as a ‘shrub revival’ plant – showing a different use compared to the heather gardens of yesterday. An upright, bushy shrub or small tree with small, linear dark green leaves. Produces long clusters or spikes of tiny white sweet-scented flowers in late winter and spring.

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.