Border Plants

There’s nothing better than perennial plants for creating a vibrant, colourful display of flowers all summer long - and the great thing about perennials is that they bloom again year after year. Whether you’re filling gaps between existing plants in your borders or creating a whole new feature, we’ll help you design, choose and care for your perfect perennials.

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  • 30cm Heuchera 'Huckleberry' | 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Heuchera 'Huckleberry'

    Colour changing silver and purple tones

    • Unique purple with silver-hue foliage
    • Low-growing, amazing for vigorous ground-cover
    • Adds year-round vibrance to your garden space
    • Creates a brilliant canvas for summer flowers

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Geum 'Lady Stratheden' | 10.5cm Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £10
    From £10

    Geum 'Lady Stratheden'

    Spectacular flowers of golden yellow every year

    • Bright golden yellow flowers towering in summer
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
    • Flowers from June to September
    • Fully hardy even in the harshest winter conditions

    Currently out of stock

  • Heuchera 'Indian Summer Cranberry' | 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £10
    From £10

    Heuchera 'Indian Summer Cranberry'

    Juicy-red leaves for year-round colour

    • Rich red foliage with a hint of berry purple
    • Low-growing, amazing for vigorous ground-cover
    • Buy an almost mature plant of significant size
    • Produces tiny pink flowers in the summer

    Currently out of stock

  • Delphinium 'Pure White' Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Delphinium 'Pure White'

    The brightest whites in the border!

    • Crisp white clusters of flowers with bright lime green centres
    • Flowers from June to August
    • Ideal accent plant for a cottage garden border
    • Suitable for containers

    Currently out of stock

  • Heuchera 'Marmalade' Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Heuchera 'Marmalade'

    Loves the shade, deserves the limelight!

    • Incredible two-toned red and orange foliage
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
    • Hardy evergreen perennial
    • Adds year-round vibrance to your garden space

    Currently out of stock

  • Heuchera 'Wild Rose' | 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Heuchera 'Wild Rose'

    Powerfully purple, all year long

    • Happy in full sun to partial shade
    • Add purple to pots and borders
    • Flowers June to August
    • Hardy and evergreen for year-round interest

    Currently out of stock

  • Heuchera 'Lime Marmalade' Perennial Bedding
    From £10
    From £10

    Heuchera 'Lime Marmalade'

    Add a dash of lime to your garden space

    • Stunningly vibrant lime-green leaves all year round
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
    • Adds year-round vibrance to your garden space
    • Buy an almost mature plant of significant size

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Geranium 'Rozanne' | 1L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £16
    £18 From £16

    Geranium 'Rozanne'

    An RHS Award winning hardy Geranium

    • Delicate blooms of violet through summer
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
    • Fully Hardy in the UK–flowers year after year
    • Flowers from June-September

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Lupin Legendary 'Shades of Blue' |1L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Lupin Legendary 'Shades of Blue'

    Towers of sweet summer blue

    • Happy in full sun to partial shade
    • Perfect to create interest at the back of borders
    • Flowers May to July
    • Essential cottage garden plant

    Currently out of stock

  • Delphinium 'Dark Blue White Bee' Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Delphinium 'Dark Blue White Bee'

    Indigo and white cottage garden classic

    • Loves a spot in full sun
    • Reaches showstopping heights in borders
    • Flowers June to August
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Salvia 'Blue Marvel' |3L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £16
    £18 From £16

    Salvia 'Blue Marvel'

    An award winning Salvia with massive blooms

    • Uniquely large violet purple flower spikes
    • Flowers all summer long and into Autumn!
    • Hardy and very easy to grow and care for
    • Buy an almost mature plant ready to bloom!

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Geum 'Totally Tangerine' | 1L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £12
    From £12

    Geum 'Totally Tangerine'

    Profusions of sweet tangerine orange flowers year after year

    • Loves a spot in full sun
    • Add splashes of orange to borders
    • Flowers May to September
    • RHS Plants for Pollinators status

    Currently out of stock

  • Agapanthus 'Lapis Lazuli' 2L Pot Perennial Plants
    From £18
    From £18

    Agapanthus 'Lapis Lazuli'

    Jewel-toned evergreen Agapanthus

    • Happy in full sun to partial shade
    • Add height and drama to containers and borders
    • Flowers June to September
    • Highly drought-tolerant

    Currently out of stock

  • Verbena bonariensis Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Verbena bonariensis

    Tall, swaying stems of warm lilac

    • Tightly clustered lilac flowers on stems up to 180cm high
    • Long flowering from June to September
    • Plant in borders to attract butterflies
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit winner

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Salvia 'Rose Marvel' | 10.5cm Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £15
    £18 From £15

    Salvia 'Rose Marvel'

    Rose towers of bloom from Spring to Autumn

    • Large, vibrant magenta pink flowers all summer
    • Flowers from May to October!
    • Hardy and very easy to grow and care for
    • Compact, neat growth of dark green foliage

    Currently out of stock

  • Peony 'Bowl of Beauty' | 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
    £20
    £20

    Peony 'Bowl of Beauty'

    Tuck in to a bowl of beauty

    • Happy in full sun to partial shade
    • Add fragrance to containers and borders
    • Flowers May to June
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Coreopsis 'lanceolata Sterntaler' | 10.5cm Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Coreopsis lanceolata 'Sterntaler'

    Recreate the wild praises of North America in your garden

    • Bursts of two-toned yellow and bronze wildflowers
    • Flowers all the way from May to October
    • Very easy to grow and care for
    • Create a wildflower prairie aesthetic

    Currently out of stock

  • Eryngium 'Big Blue' Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Eryngium 'Big Blue'

    The deepest blue, with extra texture

    • Blue, thimble-shaped flowerheads circled by a ruff of spiky, silvery bracts
    • Flowers throughout July and August
    • Perfect for borders, pots and cut flower gardens
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit winner

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Geum 'Mrs Bradshaw' | 10.5cm Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £10
    From £10

    Geum 'Mrs Bradshaw'

    Grow the gentle and vibrant beauty of a prairie wildflower meadow

    • Vibrant, scarlet red poppy-like flowers all summer
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
    • Create a prairie wildflower meadow aesthetic
    • Flowers from June-September

    Currently out of stock

  • Knautia 'Melton Pastels' Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Knautia 'Melton Pastels'

    Wildlife-friendly pops of colour

    • Pincushion-shaped flowers in a cheerful mix of reds, pinks and purples
    • Long blooming from May to September
    • Ideal for sunny borders
    • RHS Plants for Pollinators

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Foxglove 'Dalmatian White' |Digitalis| 1L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    White Foxglove | Digitalis 'Dalmatian White'

    Fantastic summer spires of white and purple

    • Happy in full sun to partial shade
    • Add height and drama to borders
    • Flowers June to July
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit

    Currently out of stock

  • Tiarella 'Pink Skyrocket' Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Tiarella 'Pink Skyrocket'

    Shade loving starry spires

    • Star-shaped pale pink flowers on upright stems
    • Flowers from May to July
    • A shade loving plant ideal for cool borders
    • Perfect for pots

    Currently out of stock

  • Salvia 'Lyrical White' 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £16
    £18 From £16

    Salvia 'Lyrical White'

    This season's must-have, in White

    • Clusters of Cotton White flowers on upright spires
    • Flowers from June to October
    • Stunning as a feature in pots
    • Adds height to a Cottage Garden border

    Currently out of stock

  • Ultimate Fragrant Lavender Collection Perennial Bedding
    £26
    £32 £26

    Ultimate Fragrant Lavender Collection

    Packs a properly-perfumed punch

    • Includes wonderful English lavender plants
    • Plant en masse or use to break up borders
    • Flowers from June to September
    • RHS Plants for Pollinators

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Campanula 'Takion White' | 1L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Campanula 'Takion White'

    Starry white bellflowers on elegant stems

    • Unique outward facing bell-flowers in daisy white
    • Great for the front of borders to cover space
    • Brilliant plant to support local bee populations
    • Super easy to grow and incredibly tough

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Foxglove 'Dalmatian Purple' |Digitalis| 1L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Purple Foxglove | Digitalis 'Dalmatian Purple'

    Show Stopping Foxgloves of the most vibrant purple

    • Spectacular spires of speckled magenta purple
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
    • Adds height and colour to your borders and beds
    • Create a classic cottage garden aesthetic

    Currently out of stock

  • 30cm Lupin Legendary 'Shades of Red' |1L Pot Perennial Bedding
    From £8
    From £8

    Lupin Legendary 'Shades of Red'

    A truly legendary red lupin

    • Incredibly vibrant red flowers from early summer
    • Create a Cottage Garden aesthetic
    • Towers 90cm tall–perfect for the back of borders
    • Buy a mature plant ready to shoot up!

    Currently out of stock

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Flowers born in Herefordshire, blooming in your garden

Our bedding plants start life in the rolling Herefordshire hills, where Jack and his team trial over 250 new varieties each year to bring you the best performing and most sustainable plants in the UK. With over forty years of excellence, it’s no surprise that they’ve won the HTA Plant Grower of the Year award two years running.

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How to Make a Flower Bed or Border

How to Make a Flower Bed or Border

A traditional herbaceous border is planted in layers, with taller plants at the back, scaling down in height to the low growing plants at the front. More contemporary schemes tend to use plants of the same height or type for impact. If your bed or border will be viewed from all sides, you can position the taller plants in the middle. Make sure to plant your annuals far enough apart to allow them to spread.

Perfect Plants for Flower Beds and Borders

Perfect Plants for Flower Beds and Borders

For the low growing annual plants, choose Nemesia, Marigolds and Gazanias in coordinating tones or a range of contrasting colours. Our favourite taller varieties for the middle of borders are Petunia, Geranium, Dahlia and Osteospermum - and if you want to add even more height against a fence or wall, take a look at our guide to Tall Perennial Plants. Impatiens and Antirrhinums are perfect choices if you’re planting a block of the same variety.

Plant Care Tips for Flower Beds

Plant Care Tips for Flower Beds

Choose a sunny spot to make your annual border, and make sure all chance of frost is past before planting. Most annuals prefer fertile, well-drained soil, so dig in some compost or manure. Water regularly, feed with a general plant food and remove any dead flowers to encourage new growth.

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