Category Archives: Plants

Prostanthera cuneata, common name Alpine Mint Bush. This shrub has a lovely herb fragrance when it’s leaves are rubbed. And if you look closely, it’s small flowers are quite beautiful.

Perovskia ‘Blue Spire’ has silver-grey foliage and fantastic panicles of violet-blue flowers which bloom in late summer and early autumn.

Anemone x hybrida ‘Elegans’. This one with a visiting hover fly!

Malva moschata f. alba is a hardy perennial which grows with an upright habit.

Libertia grandiflora perennial clump-forming evergreen. Works wonderfully as a cut flower.

Scilla peruviana only just starting to open – looking forward to to seeing it in full bloom!

Lithodora diffusa ‘Heavenly Blue’. This low, spreading, evergreen shrub is a real eye-catcher in spring with it’s stunning array of deep blue flowers.

Leucojum vernum looking very much like a tall snowdrop makes a lovely display mixed in with the daffodils.

Tricyrtis hirta is a member of the lily family and commonly known as the toad lily. It’s purple spotted petals are quite gorgeous when seen up close. It will happily grow in dappled to full shade, though here at Potager it is planted in a fairly sunny spot.

The very lovely Amaryllis belladonna which greets you in the entrance to the large glasshouse. Such a treat to have these large bright flowers when so many of plants in the garden have gone over now.