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 (42)
- Seeds (30)
- Large shrubs for instant impact (22)
- 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)
Facing
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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 (94)
- Fast growing (9)
- Flowering (395)
- Large leaved (4)
- Long flowering (105)
- Low maintenance (121)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (24)
- Non poisonous (367)
- 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 (96)
- 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 (115)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (1)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (19)
- Winter colour (77)
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 (42)
- Bottom of hedges (6)
- Conservatories (1)
- Covering eyesores (9)
- Front of border (117)
- Middle of border (125)
- Next to a patio (10)
- Next to a pond (20)
- Next to an entrance (196)
- Next to seating areas (195)
- Steep banks (19)
- Through hedges (28)
- Walls & fences (35)
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
Primula veris
£2.79
Rosa × odorata 'Mutabilis'
£24.99
£18.74
Sarcococca confusa
£17.99
£14.39
Calamagrostis epigejos
£11.99
£6.99
Rosa 'Timeless Charisma' (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Rosa Timeless Cream ('Audienz') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Hamamelis × intermedia 'Arnold Promise'
£29.99
£23.99
Eucalyptus gunnii
£14.99
Ribes sanguineum 'King Edward VII'
£14.99
£11.99
mint - basil
£5.99
Rosa 'Phyllis Bide'
£19.99
£14.99
Magnolia 'Susan'
£79.99
Rosa Special Anniversary ('Whastiluc') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
basil 'Sweet'
£1.99
Magnolia Fairy Blush ('MicJur01') (PBR)
£19.99
£15.99
Convallaria majalis
£19.98
£7.98
Rosa Burgundy Ice ('Prose') (PBR)
£19.99
£14.99
Phlox paniculata 'Starfire'
£5.99
£4.79
Lilium 'Anastasia'
£3.99
£3.19
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