Tall Perennials

If your beds are lacking height, you need tall perennial plants! Growing up to 2m in some cases, these striking plants create a colourful backdrop to any floral display, helping you make the most of your vertical space even in a small garden. Tall perennials look fantastic contrasted with green foliage, in a layered herbaceous border or in containers on their own.

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  • Perfect Plants for Shade | Woodland Wonderland Perennial Bedding
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    Perfect Plants for Shade | Woodland Wonderland

    Bring a shady border to life!

    • Shade-tolerant foliage and flowering plants
    • Plant in a shaded bed or border
    • Flowers from April to November
    • Hardy young plants well-suited to UK growing

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  • English Lavender | Lavandula Angustifolia Perennial Bedding
    £18
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    English Lavender | Lavandula angustifolia

    As iconic as they come!

    • Give it as sunny a spot as possible
    • Thrives in beds and borders in dry soil
    • Flowers from June to August
    • Hardier than French and Spanish lavenders

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  • 30cm Aquilegia 'Spring Magic Rose & White' | 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
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    Aquilegia 'Spring Magic Rose & White'

    Pink and white bursting from a bed of green

    • Sweet blush-pink funnel flowers in abundance
    • Attractive green foliage makes great ground cover
    • A fantastic border bed plant for a cottage garden aesthetic
    • Flowers from May to July

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  • Aquilegia 'Black Barlow' Perennial Bedding
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    Aquilegia 'Black Barlow'

    Intensely dark - a must-have!

    • Deepest purple, almost black pompom shaped flowers on slender stems
    • Flowers from April right through to July
    • Brings colour and contrast to borders
    • Attractive to bees and butterflies

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  • 30cm Aquilegia 'Bordeaux Barlow' | 10.5cm Pot Perennial Bedding
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    Aquilegia 'Bordeaux Barlow'

    A superb red from Bordeaux

    • Layers of crimson red petals atop tall green stems
    • Adds early colour in your garden
    • Grows perfectly well in areas of partial shade
    • Adds dynamic height to your border beds

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  • Aquilegia 'Green Apples' Perennial Bedding
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    Aquilegia 'Green Apples'

    Add apple green to your colour palette

    • Double pompom-shaped flowers which begin apple green and mature to crisp white
    • Flowers from April right through to July
    • Perfect in a cottage garden border
    • Highly beneficial to early pollinators

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  • Aquilegia 'Nora Barlow' Perennial Bedding
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    Aquilegia 'Nora Barlow'

    Dusky pink and pale green pompoms

    • Double flowers in a delightful contrast of pinks and pale greens, on tall slender stems
    • Spring and summer flowering from April to July
    • Essential border colour - and shade tolerant too
    • Attractive to bees and butterflies

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  • Aquilegia 'Spring Magic Blue & White' Perennial Bedding
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    Aquilegia 'Spring Magic Blue & White'

    Enchanting blue and white blooms

    • Blue and white bonnet-shaped flowers with golden yellow stamens
    • Flowers from April right through to July
    • A compact variety suitable for borders or pots
    • RHS Plants for Pollinators

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  • Salvia 'Hot Lips' | 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
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    Salvia 'Hot Lips'

    Summer-long displays of red and white

    • Two-toned white and candy-apple red flowers on tall stems
    • Flowers from July right through to October
    • Compact and colourful for the front of a border
    • Fragrant foliage

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  • 30cm Aquilegia 'William Guiness' | 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
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    Aquilegia 'William Guiness'

    Deepest purple summer blooms from leaves of luscious green

    • Deliciously deep plum purple flowers
    • Makes brilliant ground cover for border beds
    • Flowers from May to July
    • Provides rich early summer flowering

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  • Aquilegia Barlow White Perennial Bedding
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    Aquilegia 'Barlow White'

    Some of the earliest spring flowers

    • Bright white double flowers on tall slender stems
    • Flowers from April right through to July
    • Brings colour and contrast to borders
    • Attractive to bees and butterflies

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  • Early Flowering Aquilegia Collection Perennial Bedding
    £40
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    Early Flowering Aquilegia Collection

    Start flowering season early

    • Features stunning columbine varieties
    • Plant in a sunny, sheltered border
    • Flowers from April into summer
    • RHS Plants for Pollinators

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  • Delphinium 'Light Blue White Bee' Perennial Bedding
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    Delphinium 'Light Blue White Bee'

    Sky blue with a white 'bee' centre

    • Loves a spot in full sun
    • Create height in containers and borders
    • Flowers June to August
    • Bigger and better dispalys ever year

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  • Delphinium 'Pure White' Perennial Bedding
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    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

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

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  • Delphinium 'Dark Blue White Bee' Perennial Bedding
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    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

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  • Verbena bonariensis Perennial Bedding
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    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

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

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

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

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

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  • 30cm Lupin Legendary 'Shades of Red' |1L Pot Perennial Bedding
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    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!

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  • Peony 'Sarah Bernhardt' Perennial Bedding
    £25
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    Peony 'Sarah Bernhardt'

    Steal the show this summer

    • Happy in full sun to partial shade
    • Ruffled blooms perefct for showstopping containers and borders
    • Flowers June to July
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit

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  • Agapanthus 'Silver Baby' Perennial Bedding
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    Agapanthus 'Silver Baby'

    Shimmering white with a hint of blue

    • Loves a spot in full sun
    • Add height and drama in containers and borders
    • Flowers June to September
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit

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  • Lobelia 'Queen Victoria' | 10.5cm Pot Perennial Bedding
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    Lobelia 'Queen Victoria'

    Scarlet spires towering from purple leaves

    • Towers of red flowers in Late Summer and Autumn
    • RHS Award for Garden Merit Winner
    • Provides late colour to take you right into Autumn
    • Stunning purple foliage gives an exotic aesthetic

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  • Magenta Foxglove | Digitalis 'Dalmatian Rose' Perennial Bedding
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    Magenta Foxglove | Digitalis 'Dalmatian Rose'

    Towers of spectacular purple in the heat of summer

    • Profusions of Magenta Purple speckled flowers
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
    • Create a classic cottage garden aesthetic
    • Perfect to plant at the back of your flower bed

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  • Top Tall Perennials l Plants for Height and Structure Perennial Bedding
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    Best Perennial Plants for Height & Structure

    The best for backs of borders

    • An array of tall, striking perennial plants
    • Position at the rear of your beds and borders
    • Blooms from May to October
    • Fill your vase with freshly-cut flowers

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Our perennials 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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Tall Perennials for Borders

Tall Perennials for Borders

Perennial plants are ideal for giving height and structure to the back of a mixed border, providing a colourful vertical backdrop for smaller plants - but there are so many other ways they can be used. Plant them in groups for a dense hit of colour, or use as single accents amongst medium sized plants for a less formal cottage garden style scheme. Tall perennials are also perfect if you want to screen a less than attractive wall or fence - they’re quicker to grow than trees and easier to maintain than a climber.

Tall Perennials for Pots

Tall Perennials for Pots

Tall perennials really shine in a container display. Give them pride of place in the middle of your pot and surround them with more compact upright and trailing varieties, or make a statement by packing the pot with one species or colour. Use your perennial pots to give height and variation to a collection of containers on the patio or place them at either side of your front door as a colourful alternative to trees.

Which are the tallest Perennial Plants?

Which are the tallest Perennial Plants?

If you want jaw-dropping height, you need Hollyhocks! These stunning flowers grow on strong stems up to 2m tall. Close behind them are Delphiniums at up to 1.7m, then Foxgloves, Achillea, Verbena and Gladioli which all come in at around the 1m mark.

Caring for Tall Perennials

Caring for Tall Perennials

Tall perennials can be at risk of bending or falling over in the wind. To prevent this, make sure you plant them in a sheltered part of your garden - against a fence is ideal. For extra support, plant in groups or amongst other tall plants. You can also tie them in to a stake or support structure - using fallen tree branches helps to give a natural look, or you can use rows of string nailed to a fence. Tie your plants in quite loosely to allow for growing space.

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Plants arrived in great condition and very promptly. Well established - much better than the ones I got at my local garden centre.

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Star Jasmine | Trachelospermum jasminoides Climbing Plants
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Yet again this company delivered good healthy plants, exactly as shown in photos, well packaged and within delivery time quoted. Recommend!

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| 2 Jun
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I continue to be so impressed with Roots. Their customer care, knowledge of their subject: from planting hedges to pruning roses and more, has been a great support.

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| 23 Oct
E 'Black Hamburgh' Indoor Grape Vine Soft Fruit
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The plant arrived looking vigorously healthy, which brings a smile to your face, extremely well protected in its packaging.

Martyn Hill

| 5 Jul
E 'Braeburn Hillwell' Apple Tree Fruit Trees
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