Plants for a Prairie Garden
Mix a generous dollop of ornamental grasses with herbaceous perennials and wildflowers to add a splash of colour.
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- Ready-made border Bee and Butterfly (3)
- Ready-made border Blue and silver (1)
- Ready-made border Brilliant orange (4)
- Ready-made border Chalky soil (3)
- Ready-made border Clay soil (2)
- Ready-made border Cool grasses and hot exotics (5)
- Ready-made border Cottage garden scheme (5)
- Ready-made border Dark and light (1)
- Ready-made border Dry Mediterranean (4)
- Ready-made border Elegant and architectural (1)
- Ready-made border Fiery summer (4)
- Ready-made border Flowers for pollinators (2)
- Ready-made border Good bedfellows (3)
- Ready-made border Gravel garden (1)
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- Ready-made border Lady Marmalade (3)
- Ready-made border Piet Oudolf Wisley (1)
- Ready-made border Planting the woodland edge (2)
- Ready-made border Red summer (4)
- Ready-made border Sandy soil (2)
- Ready-made border Scented garden (1)
- Ready-made border Shades of pink (4)
- Ready-made border Shady pink (1)
- Ready-made border Smoky (5)
- Ready-made border Soft Summer (2)
- Ready-made border Soothing green and white (1)
- Ready-made border Stars of high summer (2)
- Ready-made border Summer savanna (4)
- Ready-made border Sunny pink (2)
- Ready-made border Woodland (1)
Planting combinations
- Agastache and Angelica plant combination (1)
- Agastache and Echinops plant combination (1)
- Agastache and Helenium plant combination (1)
- Aquilegia and Anemanthele plant combination (1)
- Astrantia and Digitalis plant combination (1)
- Astrantia and Dryopteris plant combination (1)
- Blue and silver plant combination (1)
- Blue and yellow plant combination (1)
- Brazen plant combination (1)
- Contemporary plant combination (3)
- Cool tones plant combination (1)
- Create a praire plant combination (2)
- Create a prairie plant combination (2)
- Cutting garden plant combination (1)
- Dazzle plant combination (1)
- Dazzling colour weed-smothering plant combination (1)
- Drought tolerant plant combination (1)
- Dry sun plant combination (3)
- Echinops and Achillea plant combination (3)
- Echinops and Salvia plant combination (2)
- Golden prairie plant combination (1)
- Heliopsis and Miscanthus plant combination (2)
- Inula and Persicaria plant combination (3)
- Kniphofia and Achillea plant combination (2)
- Lythrum and Campanula plant combination (1)
- Moisture plant combination (2)
- Oenothera and Perovskia plant combination (2)
- Opposites attract plant combination (2)
- Persicaria and Echinacea plant combination (2)
- Plants for pollinators plant combination (3)
- Prairie plant combination (2)
- Purple and gold plant combination (1)
- Red and orange plant combination (3)
- Rich tones slug resistant plant combination (2)
- Sanguisorba and Calamagrostis plant combination (2)
- Sedum and Aster plant combination (1)
- Self seeding seed combination (1)
- Slug resistant plant combination (1)
- Spires and spots plant combination (1)
- Stipa and Verbascum plant combination (1)
- Summer sizzlers plant combination (4)
- Sun baked plant combination (1)
- Sunny and dry plant combination (1)
- Sunny clay plant combination (1)
- The Highgrove Kitchen Garden Collection (2)
- The Highgrove Mediterranean Garden Collection (1)
- Vibrant colour for bees plant combination (2)
- Vibrant colour seed combination (1)
- Yellow and gold plant combination (1)
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- Architectural silhouettes (41)
- Attractive seedheads (79)
- Coloured leaves (8)
- Deciduous (8)
- Easy to grow (12)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (24)
- Fast growing (1)
- Flowering (228)
- Long flowering (64)
- Low maintenance (82)
- Non poisonous (198)
- Plants that are native (8)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (68)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (4)
- Resistant to diseases (94)
- Stylish in the border (2)
- Sublime umbelliferas (19)
- Suitable for containers (34)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (2)
- Winter colour (16)
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Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (15)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (13)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (10)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (11)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (9)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (4)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (7)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (1)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (2)
Kitchen garden planting guidelines
Achillea 'Moonshine'
£14.99
£10.49
Helenium 'Moerheim Beauty'
£14.99
£7.49
Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low'
£14.99
£7.49
Nepeta × faassenii
£14.99
£7.49
Penstemon 'Sour Grapes' M. Fish
£6.99
£3.49
Salvia × sylvestris 'Mainacht'
£14.99
£10.49
Kniphofia uvaria
£16.99
Miscanthus sinensis 'Malepartus'
£16.99
£11.89
Sanguisorba 'Tanna'
£14.99
£10.49
Calamagrostis brachytricha
£16.99
£8.49
Tulipa sylvestris
£4.99
£3.74
Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue'
£6.99
£4.89
Achillea 'Taygetea'
£6.99
£3.49
Narcissus poeticus var. recurvus
£5.49
£4.12
Lunaria annua
£2.29
Miscanthus sinensis 'Ferner Osten'
£17.99
£12.59
Narcissus 'Bell Song'
£6.99
£5.24
Achillea 'Walther Funcke'
£14.99
£10.49
Deschampsia cespitosa 'Goldtau'
£17.99
£8.99
Miscanthus sinensis 'Zebrinus'
£16.99
£11.89
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