Cotinus 'Grace'
smoke bush
- Position: full sun
- Soil: moderately-fertile, moist, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: fast-growing
- Flowering period: July to August
- Hardiness: fully hardy
In July and August this vigorous, deciduous shrub is festooned with fluffy plumes of purplish-pink flowers that look like a haze of smoke. The large, purple-tinted, oval leaves turn a brilliant shade of translucent red in autumn. This is an excellent specimen plant for a sunny shrub or mixed border. - Garden care: In late winter or early spring remove any misplaced, diseased or crossing branches. Alternatively, to produce larger leaves cut the stems back hard to within two or three buds of the base in early spring. After pruning apply a generous 5-7cm (2-3in) mulch of well-rotted garden compost or manure around the base of the plant.
Phormium 'Sundowner'
New Zealand flax
Strappy leaves with all the colours of the sunset
Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'
black-eyed susan
Large golden-yellow flowerheads
Fuchsia 'Riccartonii'
fuchsia
Delicate, scarlet and dark purple flowers
Photinia × fraseri 'Red Robin'
photinia
Fabulous evergreen with red young foliage
Buddleja davidii 'Black Knight'
butterfly bush
Sumptuous deep purple flowers
Imperata cylindrica 'Rubra'
blood grass (syn. Red Baron)
Mid-green leaves turn blood red
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