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 (92)
- Fruit (64)
- Perennials (55)
- Climbers (46)
- Bulbs (40)
- Seeds (31)
- Herbs (20)
- Large shrubs for instant impact (19)
- Grasses (18)
- Plants for gifts (13)
- Hedging (11)
- Alpines & rockeries (6)
- Conifers (6)
- Trees (5)
- Wildflowers (5)
- Bedding plants (3)
- Vegetables (3)
- Exotics (2)
- Ferns (2)
- Plants & pots (2)
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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 (44)
- Attractive seedheads (9)
- Autumn foliage colour (30)
- Berries or fruit (90)
- Coloured leaves (12)
- Colourful bark or stems (1)
- Deciduous (11)
- Easy to grow (11)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (98)
- Fast growing (13)
- Flowering (405)
- Long flowering (112)
- Low maintenance (124)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (24)
- Non poisonous (372)
- 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 (101)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (56)
- Resistant to diseases (71)
- Rose hips (1)
- Stylish in the border (16)
- Sublime umbelliferas (2)
- Suitable for containers (113)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (1)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (20)
- Winter colour (75)
Bulb planting time
Bulb type
- Dahlia (Division 11) Fimbriated (2)
- Dahlia (Division 6) Ball (5)
- Dahlia (Division 8) Cactus (1)
- Dahlia (Division 9) Semi cactus (6)
- 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
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
- Arches & pergolas (6)
- Back of border (45)
- Bottom of hedges (7)
- Conservatories (1)
- Covering eyesores (10)
- Front of border (115)
- Middle of border (123)
- Next to a patio (11)
- Next to a pond (19)
- Next to an entrance (206)
- Next to seating areas (205)
- Steep banks (21)
- Through hedges (29)
- Walls & fences (39)
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (10)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (13)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 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 (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
Akebia quinata
£19.99
Carex testacea
£11.99
£9.59
Rosa 'Constance Spry'
£29.99
£22.49
Rosa 'Madame Hardy'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Cornelia'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Surrey ('Korlanum')
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Ballerina'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Gertrude Jekyll ('Ausbord') (PBR)
£29.99
£22.49
Rosa 'Climbing Cecile Brunner'
£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 'Arthur Bell'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Fellowship ('Harwelcome') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Golden Wedding ('Arokris') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Margaret Merril ('Harkuly')
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'White Pet'
£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
Lonicera japonica 'Halliana'
£16.99
£11.89
Lonicera japonica Hall's Prolific
£16.99
£11.89
Rosa 'Buff Beauty'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Penny Lane ('Hardwell') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Sweet Dream ('Fryminicot')
£19.99
£14.99
Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low'
£11.99
£8.39
Lonicera × purpusii 'Winter Beauty'
£17.99
£14.39
Magnolia 'Susan'
£24.99
Viburnum × juddii
£19.99
Lavandula angustifolia 'Rosea'
£14.99
£10.49
Phlomis italica
£17.99
Rosa Bonica ('Meidomonac') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Cardinal de Richelieu'
£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 'Königin von Dänemark'
£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
Laurus nobilis
£59.99
Laurus nobilis
£34.99
Laurus nobilis
£89.99
Galium verum
£5.99
Briza media
£11.99
£9.59
Rosa 'Reine des Violettes'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Boule de Neige'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Winchester Cathedral ('Auscat') (PBR)
£29.99
£22.49
Rosa 'Tuscany Superb'
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa 'Ferdinand Pichard'
£19.99
£14.99
Primula veris
£2.79
£2.23
Rosa 'Paul's Himalayan Musk'
£19.99
£14.99
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