Thursday, 10 July 2014

Another Stunning Plant Combination

The Alstomeria 'Friendship' was selected as a BEST BUY Alstomeria by Which?.  These are a brilliant source of sparkling colour (grows to 100 x 50cm - it is available from Viv Marsh Postal Plants).

Pair it with the deep salmon pink evergreen perennial, Diascia personata (grows to 60-90 x 45cm - it is available from Hopleys).

Another great companion is Ferula communis.  This is a tall fennell with long-lasting cascades of acid yellow flowers and mounds of lacy light-green leaves (size: 250-400 c 50-100cm - available from Beth Chatto Gardens).

Try also Digitalis purpurea f.albiflora.  Some maintain that there is nothing more beautiful than these wild foxgloves.  These are usually biennial (size 250 x 50cm - available from Crocus).

Finally: Clematis x durandii.  This is an unusual clematis; it doesn't clime but wanders aimlessly through adjacent plants.  It doesn't get clematis wilt and flowers for months.  It is described as a non-climbing sub-shrub (grows to 150 x 150mm - available from Burncoose Nurseries).

All these plant like sun or partial shade and need well drained soil.  Although the Digitalis doesn't like the soil too dry.

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