The theme for the planting is colourful, calming and sensory whilst encouraging pollinators into the space.
A tall, clump-forming herbaceous perennial with feathery, silvery grey-green leaves. It is selected because it is pollinator friendly, and for its flat heads of deep yellow to terracotta flowers, fading to cream.
A peachy-orange flowered cultivar noted for its long flowering season from late spring to autumn. It reaches a height of 90cm. It is selected for its fabulous colour, its height and because it is pollinator friendly.
This small, upright deciduous sub-shrub has white stems bearing deeply-divided and aromatic grey-green leaves. Small, violet-blue flowers in large plumy panicles appear in late summer and autumn.
‘Hidcote’ is a bushy dwarf evergreen shrub with narrow, silvery-grey leaves and small deep violet-purple flowers in dense, aromatic spikes.
A small, broad-crowned deciduous tree with long thorns and glossy broad-oval leaves which turn a dramatic red and orange colour in the autumn. White flowers in spring are followed by deep red fruits in the autumn.
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