Plants for a Sensory Garden
Whether filling your garden with perfume, creating a soft rustling sound every time the wind picks up, or producing tasty fruits, each of these plants has something to offer the senses.
By type
- Shrubs (114)
- Roses (62)
- Perennials (48)
- Bulbs (42)
- Connoisseurs Collection (39)
- Climbers (29)
- Seeds (25)
- Fruit (22)
- Grasses (18)
- Large plants for instant impact (18)
- Herbs (14)
- Hedging (8)
- Bedding plants (7)
- Ferns (6)
- Plants for gifts (6)
- Wildflowers (5)
- Vegetables (4)
- Conifers (3)
- Trees (3)
- Alpines & rockeries (2)
- Plants & pots (2)
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Ready made borders
- Ready-made border Add some oomph (1)
- Ready-made border Autumn colour (1)
- Ready-made border Azure and gold border (1)
- Ready-made border Bee and Butterfly (2)
- Ready-made border Cottage garden scheme (2)
- Ready-made border Divine summer (1)
- Ready-made border Dry Mediterranean (1)
- Ready-made border Good bedfellows (1)
- Ready-made border Keep it cool (1)
- Ready-made border Mediterranean (3)
- Ready-made border Piet Oudolf Wisley (1)
- Ready-made border Red summer (2)
- Ready-made border Sandy soil (1)
- Ready-made border Scented garden (1)
- Ready-made border Shades of pink (1)
- Ready-made border Shady pink (1)
- Ready-made border Spring colour (1)
- Ready-made border Summer savanna (1)
- Ready-made border The grand experience (2)
Planting combinations
- Add some oomph plant combination (1)
- Agastache and Angelica plant combination (2)
- Agastache and Echinops plant combination (1)
- Aquilegia and Anemanthele plant combination (1)
- Attracting wildlife seed combination (1)
- Blue and yellow plant combination (1)
- Bold foliage for shade plant combination (1)
- Contemporary plant combination (1)
- Cutting garden plant combination (1)
- Dazzling colour weed-smothering plant combination (1)
- Edible flowers plant and seed combination (1)
- Golden prairie plant combination (1)
- Green and white plant combination (1)
- Prairie plant combination (1)
- Purple and gold plant combination (1)
- Sanguisorba and Calamagrostis plant combination (1)
- Slug resistant plant combination for shade (1)
- Spires and spots plant combination (1)
- Sunny and dry plant combination (1)
- Vibrant colour for bees plant combination (1)
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Flowering month
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (32)
- Attractive seedheads (10)
- Autumn foliage colour (13)
- Berries or fruit (50)
- Coloured leaves (14)
- Colourful bark or stems (1)
- Deciduous (8)
- Easy to grow (7)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (75)
- Fast growing (4)
- Flowering (291)
- Long flowering (75)
- Low maintenance (96)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (20)
- Non poisonous (268)
- Plants that are native (4)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (12)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (68)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (47)
- Resistant to diseases (61)
- Stylish in the border (16)
- Sublime umbelliferas (5)
- Suitable for containers (87)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (19)
- Winter colour (59)
Bulb planting time
Bulb type
- Dahlia (Division 11) Fimbriated (1)
- Dahlia (Division 6) Ball (5)
- Dahlia (Division 7) Pompon (1)
- Dahlia (Division 8) Cactus (1)
- Dahlia (Division 9) Semi cactus (5)
- Lilium (Division 1) Asiatic hybrids (1)
- Lilium (Division 2) Martagon (1)
- Lilium (Division 6) Trumpet and Aureelian hybrids (4)
- Lilium (Division 7) Oriental hybrids (2)
- Lilium (Division 8) Other hybrids (2)
- Lilium (Division 9) True species & selected forms (3)
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Sowing month inside or protected
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Vegetable harvesting month
Vegetable types
Multibuy packs
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (9)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (7)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (9)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (6)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (3)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (3)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (3)
Kitchen garden planting guidelines
Convallaria majalis
£19.98
£7.98
Allium cristophii
£14.99
Carex testacea
£14.99
Rosa 'Ballerina'
£24.99
Rosa 'Albertine'
£24.99
Blechnum spicant
£16.99
Nepeta × faassenii
£14.99
£7.49
Magnolia 'Susan'
£24.99
Rosa 'Goldfinch'
£24.99
Rosa 'New Dawn'
£24.99
Laurus nobilis
£59.99
Laurus nobilis
£34.99
Laurus nobilis
£89.99
Galium verum
£6.99
Briza media
£14.99
Primula veris
£2.99
Calamagrostis brachytricha
£17.99
£8.99
Salvia uliginosa
£17.99
Agastache 'Blackadder'
£7.99
£3.99
Magnolia 'Susan'
£99.99
£69.99
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