Sarah Lowe

Piet oudolf planting at dreampark, enkoping, sweden: Echinacea purpurea 'magnus', scutellaria incana, astilbe chinensis var taquetii 'purpurlanze'

Sedum, grasses, allium, salvia - in the sun, along the gravel

One of my very favourite garden flowers is Verbena bonariensis and today's blog post features some images of it growing at RHS Wisley in Surrey.

Discover different kinds of cottage garden plants from experts at HGTV. Learn tips for using cottage garden plants in your yard.

Caradonna is a beautiful Old World sage with tall, very dark purple flower stems and stunning blue-violet flowers. The plant has a strongly vertical habit and is a superb nectar source for honeybees. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric).

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NEW! A stunning plant for creating year round interest in the garden, Euphorbia wulfenii (Euphorbia characias) is an evergreen shrub that provides upright blue green foliage highlighted by lime green flowers in Winter and Spring. Drought tolerant and able to withstand light frosts, this stunning plant vreates a great highlight in the garden over the cooler months. Hard prune in mid spring as flowers are fading to tidy up the clumps. Supplied as a potted plant

Alchemilla mollis also known as Lady's Mantle is a low care, non-demanding old-fashioned clump forming herbaceous perennial. In summer they produce...

Fast-Growing, Cold Hardy, and Aromatic Why Eucalyptus Plants? From its incredible aroma to its fast, easy growth, the Eucalyptus Plant is second to none. In fact, it grows up to 6 feet each year, providing unmatched fragrance and iconic good looks that are unmatched. This is one of the most fragrant Eucalyptus Plants available. Some other varieties are faint or have no smell at all...but this Eucalyptus offers fragrance without fail, like perfume for your garden or indoor spaces. Plus…

24-36" tall x 24-36" wide. Have some fun in your garden with ‘Hot Lips’ – an ornamental salvia that will have your visitors chuckling at the well-deserved name and will give your hummingbirds the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation they need all season long. Whether you plant this sun-lover in the back of the border or in a meadow or naturalistic garden, make sure you plant it somewhere where you can see those pollinators visiting the white and lipstick-red blooms. Low maintenance and floriferous…

Potted Stipa Plant - DescriptionPotted Stipa Grass PlantAKA Golden OatsTall Stipa GrassVariety: GiganteaCan Reach Over 2m in HeightPotted Grass PlantPot Size: 2 LitreCurrent SIze: 20cmPotted Stipa Plant - CharacteristicsExcellent, award winning plantTall, arching stems for dramatic impact in bordersMature size: 2.5m in height x 1.5m in widthFoliage: Long, strips of arching leaves are produced from the base of the plantFlower: Tall, slender panicles of feathery purple heads appear in late…

Beautiful garden of Box balls Stipa tennuisima Salvia nemorosa Peony Astrant

Sizzling color for your hot, dry problem areas. Lustrous, ruby red, succulent foliage opens with a hint of mint green on compact, low growing, upright plants that are multi branched from a single stem. In late summer, intense, hot pink flower clusters bloom on cherry red stems and last for weeks. Use the vigorous, drought tolerant plants as a dramatic edger, in containers, as a perennial groundcover, to attract butterflies to your garden. Thrives on neglect in average to poor soils.

A fast growing evergreen eucalyptus to give beautiful, flickery, silver leaves all year.

Erigeron daisies are low-maintenance flowering perennials that resist marauding deer, bloom enthusiastically for many months, and can be used as a ground cover or to softens edges in a garden. See more tips from the editors of Gardenista.