Plants For North-facing Gardens
North-facing gardens tend to get the least amount of sun. That doesn’t mean your garden will be boring though as there are loads of shade-loving plants that will thrive.
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- Perennials (62)
- Seeds (30)
- Climbers (29)
- Ferns (26)
- Wildflowers (21)
- Hedging (16)
- Houseplants (15)
- Plants & pots (13)
- Alpines & rockeries (12)
- Bedding plants (10)
- Large shrubs for instant impact (6)
- Conifers (5)
- Grasses (5)
- Plants for gifts (5)
- Exotics (4)
- Trees (4)
- Bamboo (3)
- Herbs (3)
- Pond plants (3)
- Fruit (1)
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- Architectural silhouettes (26)
- Attractive seedheads (19)
- Autumn foliage colour (20)
- Berries or fruit (24)
- Coloured leaves (24)
- Colourful bark or stems (7)
- Deciduous (10)
- Easy to grow (23)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (98)
- Fast growing (3)
- Flowering (173)
- Large leaved (1)
- Long flowering (17)
- Low maintenance (92)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (25)
- Non poisonous (132)
- Plants that are native (21)
- Plants that help filter noise (14)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (85)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (62)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (5)
- Resistant to diseases (62)
- Stylish in the border (2)
- Sublime umbelliferas (3)
- Suitable for containers (38)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (5)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (52)
- Winter colour (88)
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Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (13)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (10)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (10)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (13)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (7)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (5)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (11)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (11)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (10)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (9)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (14)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (5)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (7)
- 2016 - Jekka McVicar - St John's Hospice (2)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (13)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (11)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (14)
Kitchen garden planting guidelines
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Dicksonia antarctica
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Liriope muscari
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sweet cicely
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Taxus baccata
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Silene dioica
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Alchemilla mollis
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