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The following seven plants from Chelsea Flower Show are all easy to grow and provide lots colour, particularly in spring and summer; the optimum times for enjoying the garden!
A tremendous tree for small gardens, with simple but eye-catching white bracts throughout June. This is followed by red fruits at the end of summer and then fiery autumn leaf colour. You could even grow it in a large container!
This multi-coloured foliage plant is perfect for keeping a partly-shaded area of a border looking lush and full. It creates a branching plant that can reach 90cm tall. The v-shaped markings start red, before darkening to brown.
Fragrant stocks would have been one of the most popular plants at the show in years gone and they deserve more time in the limelight. Flowering in spring and summer, it makes a sumptuous home-grown cut flower.
Candelabra primulas are hardy, elegant and perfect for growing in tricky damp spots, where many plants struggle. This one starts off rich pink, then fades to white.
Scores of new roses have been released since ‘Falstaff’ but the impact that these rich, deliciously scented flowers possess is hard to beat. It is a tough shrub rose that flowers all summer and into autumn in a sunny position.
This hardy annual shows off wonderfully unusual grey and purple shades. It loves to seed itself in a free-draining border, so you’ll have it in the garden for years if it likes its location.
To find out about new roses launched at Chelsea Flower Show, click here.
