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
Flowering month
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (34)
- Attractive seedheads (72)
- Coloured leaves (9)
- Deciduous (8)
- Easy to grow (24)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (21)
- Fast growing (1)
- Flowering (226)
- Long flowering (54)
- Low maintenance (76)
- Non poisonous (179)
- Plants that are native (9)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (64)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (4)
- Resistant to diseases (98)
- Stylish in the border (7)
- Sublime umbelliferas (23)
- Suitable for containers (43)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (3)
- Winter colour (20)
Bulb type
- Narcissus (Division 10) Bulbocodium (5)
- Narcissus (Division 2) Large-cupped (1)
- Narcissus (Division 5) Triandrus (1)
- Narcissus (Division 6) Cyclamineus (1)
- Narcissus (Division 7) Jonquilla (3)
- Narcissus (Division 9) Poeticus (1)
- Tulip (Division 15) Miscellaneous group (9)
- Tulip (Division 5) Single late group (1)
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Multibuy packs
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
Shape
Soil moisture
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 (7)
- 2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (13)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (14)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (9)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (9)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (13)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 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 (3)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (6)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (3)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (5)
Seed planting guidelines
Stipa gigantea
£12.99
Stipa tenuissima
£11.99
Briza media
£11.99
Primula veris
£2.79
Ammi majus
£2.29
Lunaria annua
£1.79
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