This ornamental grass makes a strong vertical statement and is widely used in landscape plantings in Europe and the USA. A cloud of hazy mauve flowers on 180cm tall stems are produced during early summer and slowly age to creamy beige and then to golden brown as it moves into, more...

This late summer/autumn flowering shrub has thrived in a really tough spot in the dry garden for years. As the marvellous rich dark blue flowers are produced on new seasons wood it’s best to cut Caryopteris to near ground level during winter. 90cm x 80cm.

This vigorous low growing shrubmakes a dense evergreen dark greenground cover 60cm or a little more tall and 3 metres across. During late winter and spring it produces 10-15 cm heads of gentian blue flowers, softer and less strident than C. ‘Blue Pacific’.Very tolerant of, more...

One of the best and most interesting silver foliage plants growing in our Dry Climate garden, where it has flourished with very little additional watering these last few years. It makes evergreen rosettes of jaggedly cut silvery-white leaves somewhat like a dandelion in, more...

Much loved by gardeners in Victorian times who made a feature of this palm planting it in the centre of the lawn. They will fit well into a mixed planting as well of course. A palm from the hot dry areas of southern Europe and North Africa it is both drought tolerant and, more...

“Chimonanthus, that most heavenly scented of all heaven-scented flowers” Reginald Farrar. Blooming in the depths of winter the flowers, cream coloured and tightly huddled against leafless stems, will fill the whole garden with a delicious spicy fragrance. As it flowers on, more...

A hybrid between Catalpa bignoniodes and Chilepsis linearis this rare, deciduous small tree is ideally suited to our dry inland gardens as well as coastal areas which aren’t humid during summer. For several months, from early summer until autumn, heads of large gloxinia-like, more...

A compact growing broom, sometimes sold as C. ‘Volcano’, with rich dark green leaves and dark green vertical stems. During spring and early summer C. ‘Lena’ is smothered with pea shaped flowers, ruby red and yellow. This is a fine small shrub for hot dry positions. 120cm x 100cm.