spring, early summer

ASTRANTIA ‘ROMA’

Pretty evenly pink flower heads May-Nov (a gap somewhere in the middle), 50cm. Easy. Sterile non-seeding hybrid. PVR -...

Reckoned to be an improvement on 'Shaggy' but not for the impatient. Large green-tipped white flowers Apr-Oct, 65cm....

A Beschorneria collected in a high winter-cold site from Northern Mexico. It flowers when young then biennially....

This tries to bloom all year - in winter it is stopped by cold. Purple thistle knobs held over a rosette of foliage...

Easily naturalised in walls and paths with pink and white daisies in wiry stems, Mar-Nov, 25cm. Easy, neat, drought...

Lovely cream-edged grey-green evergreen foliage, scented yellow flowers Mar-Jul and later, compact 55cm.

Evenly coffee-coloured glossy foliage and medium-sized pink flowers May-Jun, autumn colour 40cm. Bred by Leslie...

Good in dry shade under trees. Pink-purple flowers Apr-May, 30cm. Old large-bulbed variety.

Three canaries on a perch. Large lemony toadflax flowers over grey leaves for a long season Apr-Nov, 80cm. Easy even...