Best grown in the shade
Pretty pale pink-white flowers in summer attractive to pollinating bees and butterflies.
Fantastic green/cream spotted stems sprout up in late winter, followed by dark maroon arum shaped flowers. Dracunculus is a fascinating plant to grow in part sun to dappled shade.
Undulating shiny green leathery leaves help accentuate the large pure white single terminal flowers.
A very big growing, I mean really really big growing, hydrangea. Ours is at least 6 metres tall. Very pretty lace cap flowers with central purple florets, surrounded by large ray florets. The colour will depend on your soil. A rather hard to come by plant, but very easy to grow once planted in your [...]
A very pretty hydrangea as the variegated foliage makes it attractive in flower or not. Pretty lacecap flower heads in summer. A must for any serious hydrangea collector, although it is so easy to grow it will add to any garden.
A woodland plant with pretty pendulous yellow flowers flaring as they open. Attractive pleated mid green strappy foliage. Spring flowering.