Plants for a Formal Garden
Formal gardens have lots of geometric shapes and hard lines, with the framework of the garden often being clipped into neat topiary. To soften the overall effect, you also need to include a layer of plants that help add colour and seasonal variation.
By type
Facing
How much sun
Special conditions
Soil type
Flowering month
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (27)
- Attractive seedheads (7)
- Autumn foliage colour (7)
- Berries or fruit (16)
- Coloured leaves (3)
- Deciduous (1)
- Easy to grow (6)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (69)
- Fast growing (2)
- Flowering (129)
- Long flowering (24)
- Low maintenance (37)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (24)
- Non poisonous (75)
- Plants that are native (11)
- Plants that don't need pruning (1)
- Plants that help filter noise (13)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (82)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (24)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (13)
- Resistant to diseases (27)
- Stylish in the border (4)
- Sublime umbelliferas (7)
- Suitable for containers (37)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (2)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (16)
- Winter colour (44)
House plants by room
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (5)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (11)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (10)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (12)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (10)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (10)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2016 - Jekka McVicar - St John's Hospice (1)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (11)
Seed planting guidelines
Allium cristophii
£11.99
£9.59
Allium sphaerocephalon
£11.99
£9.59
Iris 'Jane Phillips'
£12.99
£10.39
Liriope muscari
£11.99
£9.59
Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low'
£11.99
£9.59
Prunus lusitanica
£14.99
Iris 'Silver Edge'
£11.99
£9.59
Allium hollandicum 'Purple Sensation'
£11.99
£9.59
Laurus nobilis
£34.99
Laurus nobilis
£89.99
Iris 'Caesar's Brother'
£11.99
£9.59
Allium 'Globemaster'
£11.99
£9.59
Iris 'Mer du Sud'
£12.99
£10.39
Allium stipitatum 'Mount Everest'
£11.99
£9.59
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
£7.99
£5.99
Iris 'Jane Phillips'
£6.99
£5.59
Digitalis × mertonensis
£6.99
£5.59
Digitalis grandiflora
£5.99
£4.79
Taxus baccata
£5.99
Allium giganteum
£11.99
£9.59
Liriope muscari 'Monroe White'
£8.99
£7.19
Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low'
£5.99
£4.79
Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora
£4.99
£3.99
Digitalis parviflora
£5.99
£4.79
Delphinium 'Astolat Group'
£7.99
£6.39
Digitalis lutea
£6.99
£5.59
Iris 'Kent Pride'
£12.99
£10.39
Iris 'Arpege'
£12.99
£10.39
Iris 'Bishop's Robe'
£12.99
£10.39
Iris 'Black Watch'
£12.99
£10.39
Iris 'Casque d'Or'
£12.99
£10.39
Iris 'Cliffs of Dover'
£12.99
£10.39
Iris 'Indian Chief'
£12.99
£10.39
Iris 'Natchez Trace'
£12.99
£10.39
Digitalis purpurea 'Excelsior Group'
£6.99
£5.59
Carpinus betulus
£29.99
£19.99
Laurus nobilis
£249.99
Laurus nobilis
£49.99
Ligustrum sinense 'Fragrant Cloud' (PBR)
£14.99
£11.99
Laurus nobilis
£199.99
Salix helvetica
£24.99
£14.99
Allium 'Gladiator'
£11.99
£9.59
Iris 'Black Dragon'
£12.99
£10.39
Camellia sasanqua half standard (50cm stem)
£99.99
£69.99
Delphinium 'Dusky Maidens Group'
£7.99
£6.39
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