Plants for a Prairie Garden
Mix a generous dollop of ornamental grasses with herbaceous perennials and wildflowers to add a splash of colour.
By type
Facing
How much sun
Special conditions
Soil type
Evergreen / deciduous
Quick growing
Flower colour
Fragrance
Eventual size
Flowering month
Attractive to wildlife
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (30)
- Attractive seedheads (62)
- Coloured leaves (7)
- Deciduous (4)
- Easy to grow (10)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (25)
- Fast growing (1)
- Flowering (190)
- Long flowering (48)
- Low maintenance (67)
- Non poisonous (169)
- Plants that are native (6)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (45)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (5)
- Resistant to diseases (78)
- Stylish in the border (1)
- Sublime umbelliferas (17)
- Suitable for containers (24)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (1)
- Winter colour (17)
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
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Hardy
Soil moisture
Ground cover
Leaf colour
Position
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 (5)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (14)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (7)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (9)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 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 (7)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (2)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (7)
Shape
Seed planting guidelines
Achillea 'Moonshine'
£9.99
£7.99
Hakonechloa macra 'Alboaurea'
£12.99
£9.99
Panicum virgatum 'Rehbraun'
£11.99
£8.99
Miscanthus sinensis 'Kleine Silberspinne'
£11.99
£8.99
Miscanthus sinensis 'Zebrinus'
£11.99
£8.99
Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln'
£11.99
£8.99
Stipa gigantea
£12.99
Aster × frikartii 'Mönch'
£9.99
£8.99
Knautia macedonica
£5.99
£3.99
Nepeta × faassenii
£9.99
£7.99
Penstemon 'White Bedder'
£11.99
£8.99
Stipa tenuissima
£11.99
£8.99
Oenothera biennis
£2.49
£1.74
Leucanthemum vulgare
£2.49
£1.74
Briza media
£11.99
Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus'
£11.99
£8.99
Miscanthus sinensis 'Malepartus'
£11.99
£8.99
Astrantia 'Roma' (PBR)
£11.99
£8.99
Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah'
£11.99
£8.99
Astrantia major 'Large White'
£12.99
£9.99
Aster × frikartii 'Mönch'
£6.99
£4.99
Anemanthele lessoniana
£6.99
£4.99
Pennisetum villosum
£5.99
£3.99
Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'
£6.99
£4.99
Panicum virgatum 'Rehbraun'
£5.99
£3.99
Agastache 'Blue Fortune'
£5.99
£3.99
Lunaria annua
£1.79
£1.43
Nigella damascena 'Miss Jekyll'
£1.99
£1.59
Nigella damascena 'Oxford Blue'
£1.99
£1.59
Papaver commutatum
£1.99
£1.59
Phacelia tanacetifolia
£1.99
£1.59
Deschampsia cespitosa
£6.99
£4.99
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