Soft summer pollinator 'Mini-border collection'

Soft movement, long-lasting colour and pollinator-friendly flowers come together beautifully in the Soft Summer Pollinator Mini-border Collection. Designed to bring a relaxed, natural feel to sunny borders and patio-edge planting, this combination delivers months of interest while helping to attract bees and butterflies throughout summer.

Airy flower heads from Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue' float above compact mounds of foliage, producing soft lavender-blue blooms that are constantly busy with pollinators. Woven through the planting, Geranium Rozanne provides an easy spread of violet-blue flowers over fresh green foliage, flowering reliably from early summer well into autumn.

Adding height and softness, Pennisetum villosum produces silky, creamy flower plumes that catch the light and bring gentle movement to the border. The warm pink blooms of Salvia × jamensis 'Malabar Pink' complete the mix, adding upright colour and nectar-rich flowers that are especially attractive to bees.

This mini-border collection suits sunny, free-draining spots and works works particularly well in informal planting schemes, gravel gardens and wildlife-friendly borders. The planting style feels relaxed and natural, but the plants are easy to grow and low maintenance once established, making it ideal for adding colour and pollinator interest without creating extra work.

Carefully curated to deliver on style and performance, and grown to order on the Crocus nursery, our mini-border plant collections create beautiful displays that come back year after year. The collections comprise six, 9cm plants.

Each collection is suited to fill a 1m² space in the border, and has been designed to enable you to either place them on their own, intersperse them with other plants, or weave them in multiples to create a cohesive, considered look to your planting scheme.