This collection includes fantastic perennials that are perfect for a long lasting colourful garden with a selection of popular hardy perennials which deserve a prime spot in the garden. The blooms of this collection are long-lasting and continue well into autumn and get stronger and larger each year. Undemanding and easy to grow, they're perfect for cutting and bringing indoors for a floral display for years to come.
This superb collection is the easy route to a stunning bright and colourful pink themed cottage garden scheme. Plant these fabulous perennials in sunny borders for a colourful display that will last all summer long. These top quality plants will establish quickly, increasing in size and performance year after year.
Including a stunning range of peonies! They are a cottage garden staple, and will last a lifetime in the garden, getting bigger and better with age, so are always worth the investment. Make use of the addictive blooms in cutflower displays too.
Your collection will include the following varieties:
- Alstroemeria 'Garden Hybrids' (6 tubers) -
These hardy, compact perennials are so easy to grow; just perfect for adding a bright splash of late summer colour to cottage garden borders and patio containers.
- Lupin ‘Russel Hybrids’ (3 bare root plants) -These elegant lupins produce tall spires of tightly packed flowers, that rise above palmate foliage in a magical array of colours.
- Astrantia 'Major Venice' (3 bare root plants) - Stunning pincushion flower heads of deep ruby-red, verging on burgundy. Often seen mingling among cottage garden borders.
- Geranium 'Summer Skies' (1 bare root plant) - Plant swathes of this gorgeous mauve-pink geranium in your cottage garden borders and enjoy dreamy summer skies all summer long.
- Peony 'Sarah Bernhardt' (1 bare root plant) - Gorgeous rose pink, double flowers appear in profusion early in the summer season, a large bloom that has ruffled inner petals to create a simply stunning effect.
- Peony 'Karl Rosenfield' (1 bare root plant) - Blowsy, deeply ruffled double magenta blooms that will add a touch of drama to your early summer border display.
- Peony 'Shirley Temple' (1 bare root plant) - extending the peony season by being one of the latest flowering varieties, red buds will open to reveal pale pink double blooms which slowly fade to white, giving the flower a subtle two tone appearance.
- Peony 'Candy Stripe' (1 bare root plant) - With a classic shape and a modern twist of marbling this peony boasts large silky powerpuff blooms perfect for a statement garden.
Growing Information
The herbaceous perennials in this collection can be grown in any moist, fertile soil, in sun or semi shade. Work some compost or general fertiliser into the top 20cm of the soil prior to planting.
