Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam'
tickseed
- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: fertile, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: July to September
- Hardiness: fully hardy
This lovely, exceptionally showy, long-flowering, pale yellow tickseed is perfect for extending the season of a summer border in sun or partial shade. As long as it's deadheaded regularly, it produces a succession of slender-stemmed, single, daisy-like flowers with orange-yellow centres from June to September. The flowers are also attractive to bees and butterflies. - Garden care: Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering and water well during hot, dry spells. Cut the faded flower-stems back down to ground level in autumn and compost.
Anemanthele lessoniana
pheasant's tail grass (syn. Stipa arundinacea )
Versatile and colourful
Potentilla fruticosa Marian Red Robin ('Marrob') (PBR)
shrubby cinquefoil
Small shrub with bright red flowers and long season.
Verbena rigida
verbena
Iridescent magenta flower heads
Stipa tenuissima
stipa ( syn. Stipa tenuifolia )
Lovely architectural Grass
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