Guest Author - Hellie T.

Here are some plants that will give your space an English Garden feel and grow well in pots.

For sunny spots - that get the sun all day long

• Achillea
• Agapanthus bulbs
• Antirrhinums
• Argyranthemum
• Brachyscome – tiny daisy like flowers
• Diascia fetcaniensis
• Feverfew
• Herb plants with silvery leavese.g.Rosemary
• English Lavender - choose your favourites from the many varieties available
• Nemesia
• Nepeta or catmint
• Pale flowered pelargoniums
• Penstemon – the paler flowered varieties
• Petunias
• Pinks – that will add a marvelous scent to your display
• Salvias
• Sedum spectabile – will attract butterflies
• Sutera cordata – hangs down over the edges of your pots
• Sweet peas- dwarf ones
• Trailing Verbenas to hang down over the sides of the pots

Places that get half a day’s sun

• Aquilegias or Grannies bonnets
• Astrantias
• Cornflowers
• Forget me nots
• Fushias
• Nigella or Love in a Mist
• Roses
• Scabious
• Trailing Lobelias
• Violas

Places that are in light shade all day

• Begonias
• Ferns
• Heucheras
• Lily of the Valley
• Nicotiana

Climbers

• Clematis – the shorter varieties
• Climbing roses – not rambling roses which are too vigourous
• Ipomoea
• Lonerica periclyemenum
• Sweetpeas - Lathyrus odoratus- good for scent

If you have the space add a pot or two of vegetables or fruit – Tomatoes, Strawberries, dwarf peas or colourful cabbages are always favourites. They are easy to grow and delicious to eat!

Enjoy your garden!