Lovely soft red flowers Jun-Jul keep their colour as they die and then (unusually) repeat flowers till Nov, short...
grey-green
AGASTACHE ‘FIREBIRD’
Coral-orange flowers Jun-Oct, grey leaves, 55cm. Easy in sun or part shade in well-drained soil.
ALLIUM SENESCENS subsp.GLAUCUM
Lovely leaves in grey swirls still good at anthesis, mauve flowers Jul-Sep, 25cm. Easy, good for butterflies and bees.
ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM
3-pinnatifid filiform scented grey-green foliage, chamaephyte, 55cm. Sun. Old man, southernwood, lad's love. Collected...
ASPHODELINE LUTEA
Spikes of large yellow starry flowers May-Jun over useful evergreen grey leaves, ornamental seed heads, 65cm. Easy.
BUDDLEJA DAVIDII ‘BLUE HORIZON’
If I had one buddleia this would be it. A lovely combination of blue-violet flowers in open sprays with grey-green...
CANNA ‘PACIFIC BEAUTY’
Orange flowers over grey-purple foliage Jul-Sep, 1-2m. Superb. Synonym Canna 'Smaphore'.
CHRYSANTHEMUM ‘BRETFORTON ROAD’
Hardy, bright purple flowers late autumn/early winter Oct-Dec, dark greyish-green foliage, 65cm. An interim name for a...
DIANTHUS ‘FETTES MOUNT’
This is a special plant. Vigorous (even in clay) spreading neat grey clumps (ignore how it looks in a pot), sprays of...