I’ve only had this plant a year or two. It’s smaller growing than the better known Salvia involucrata ‘Bethellii’ barely making a metre in height and something less across. Dark rich fuchsia pink flowers from similarly coloured bracts are produced on leafy upright stems from, more...

This hybrid between Salvia nemorosa ssp tesquicola and Salvia ‘Wesuwe’ popped up in our dry garden a couple of years ago. It has the early flowering habit and dark flowers of the latter and the showy bracts of the former. A terrific plant which I named for my daughter. Tough,, more...

A stunning German bred plant with dozens of spikes of glowing rich deep violet flowers beginning in late spring. After about 10 weeks of extraordinary beauty the flowers pass their prime and we cut the whole plant to the ground. After 2 or 3 weeks this ruthlessness is, more...

This is one of the best new plants we have in our dry garden with all the virtues of the nemorosa salvias but with a startlingly different flower colour. Stiff leafy spikes of bright magenta rose flowers are in bloom from spring onwards. If spent flower stems are cut to the, more...

I never grow tired of these good tough salvias. S. ‘Caradonna’ distinguishes itself by holding its rich violet flower spikes on stiff black stems. A fairly new plant it has done very well in our dry garden this year where it flowered early on with creamy lemon Lupinus, more...

Thought by some, including me, to be the best of all the taller growing Sedum. Handsome the year round it makes 90cm or more tall stiff maroon stems clothed with waxy blue leaves. These leafy stems are topped, during late summer and autumn, with large cauliflower heads of, more...

There isn’t a lot of difference between this and the Beth Chatto form of Sedum ruprechtii. Both are good plants; both have creamy white flowers although this plant seems more white; both have glaucous foliage with this having a dusky pink overlay. You don’t need both unless, more...