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 (159)
- Roses (89)
- Perennials (61)
- Fruit (52)
- Bulbs (48)
- Climbers (43)
- Seeds (31)
- Large shrubs for instant impact (21)
- Herbs (20)
- Grasses (19)
- Plants for gifts (13)
- Alpines & rockeries (9)
- Hedging (8)
- Bedding plants (6)
- Conifers (6)
- Wildflowers (5)
- Ferns (4)
- Vegetables (3)
- Exotics (2)
- Plants & pots (2)
- Trees (2)
- Pond plants (1)
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Special conditions
Soil type
Flowering month
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (48)
- Attractive seedheads (14)
- Autumn foliage colour (24)
- Berries or fruit (76)
- Coloured leaves (12)
- Colourful bark or stems (1)
- Deciduous (12)
- Easy to grow (11)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (93)
- Fast growing (10)
- Flowering (397)
- Large leaved (4)
- Long flowering (106)
- Low maintenance (122)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (23)
- Non poisonous (368)
- Plants that are native (5)
- Plants that don't need pruning (1)
- Plants that help filter noise (1)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (18)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (97)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (53)
- Resistant to diseases (71)
- Rose hips (1)
- Stylish in the border (18)
- Sublime umbelliferas (6)
- Suitable for containers (117)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (1)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (19)
- Winter colour (76)
Bulb planting time
Bulb type
- Dahlia (Division 11) Fimbriated (2)
- Dahlia (Division 6) Ball (7)
- Dahlia (Division 9) Semi cactus (7)
- Lilium (Division 1) Asiatic hybrids (1)
- Lilium (Division 2) Martagon (1)
- Lilium (Division 6) Trumpet and Aureelian hybrids (4)
- Lilium (Division 7) Oriental hybrids (3)
- Lilium (Division 8) Other hybrids (2)
- Lilium (Division 9) True species & selected forms (3)
Fruit pollination group
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Vegetable harvesting month
Vegetable types
Multibuy packs
Mothers day
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
- Arches & pergolas (6)
- Back of border (43)
- Bottom of hedges (6)
- Conservatories (1)
- Covering eyesores (9)
- Front of border (117)
- Middle of border (125)
- Next to a patio (11)
- Next to a pond (20)
- Next to an entrance (197)
- Next to seating areas (196)
- Steep banks (18)
- Through hedges (28)
- Walls & fences (36)
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (11)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (7)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (14)
- 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 (2)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (8)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (5)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (4)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (6)
Kitchen garden planting guidelines
Sarcococca confusa
£17.99
£14.39
Rosa Sweet Honey ('Kormecaso') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Ribes sanguineum 'King Edward VII'
£14.99
£11.99
Akebia quinata
£19.99
£15.99
Carex testacea
£11.99
Chimonanthus praecox
£16.99
£13.59
Rosa 'Constance Spry'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Cornelia'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Surrey ('Korlanum')
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Ballerina'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Climbing Etoile de Hollande'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Golden Showers'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Climbing Iceberg'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Little Rambler ('Chewramb') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Madame Alfred Carrière'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Madame Grégoire Staechelin'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Schoolgirl'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Warm Welcome ('Chewizz') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Zéphirine Drouhin'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Fellowship ('Harwelcome') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Margaret Merril ('Harkuly')
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Congratulations ('Korlift') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Just Joey'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Peace ('Madame A. Meilland')
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Remember Me ('Cocdestin') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Albéric Barbier'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Albertine'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Paul's Scarlet Climber'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Rambling Rector'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Wedding Day'
£19.99
£14.99
Blechnum spicant
£11.99
Rosa Penny Lane ('Hardwell') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Sweet Dream ('Fryminicot')
£19.99
£14.99
Allium sphaerocephalon
£9.99
£7.99
Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low'
£11.99
£9.59
Nepeta × faassenii
£9.99
£7.99
Hamamelis × intermedia 'Diane'
£39.99
£31.99
Lonicera fragrantissima
£14.99
£11.99
Lonicera × purpusii 'Winter Beauty'
£17.99
£14.39
Magnolia grandiflora 'Little Gem'
£49.99
£39.99
Magnolia 'Heaven Scent'
£29.99
£23.99
Magnolia 'Susan'
£24.99
£19.99
Magnolia × loebneri 'Leonard Messel'
£24.99
£19.99
Viburnum × bodnantense 'Charles Lamont'
£19.99
£15.99
Viburnum × bodnantense 'Dawn'
£19.99
£15.99
Viburnum × burkwoodii
£19.99
£15.99
Phlomis italica
£17.99
Rosa Bonica ('Meidomonac') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Charles de Mills'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Goldfinch'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'New Dawn'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Penelope'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'The Queen Elizabeth'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Ruby Anniversary ('Harbonny') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Thank You ('Chesdeep') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Veilchenblau'
£19.99
£14.99
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