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.
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Soil type
Flowering month
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (37)
- Attractive seedheads (10)
- Autumn foliage colour (34)
- Berries or fruit (88)
- Coloured leaves (12)
- Colourful bark or stems (1)
- Deciduous (9)
- Easy to grow (7)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (98)
- Fast growing (12)
- Flowering (381)
- Large leaved (1)
- Long flowering (113)
- Low maintenance (108)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (26)
- Non poisonous (346)
- 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 (19)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (99)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (55)
- Resistant to diseases (80)
- Rose hips (1)
- Stylish in the border (14)
- Sublime umbelliferas (3)
- Suitable for containers (102)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (1)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (21)
- Winter colour (76)
Bulb planting time
Bulb type
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 (47)
- Bottom of hedges (9)
- Conservatories (1)
- Covering eyesores (9)
- Front of border (120)
- Middle of border (105)
- Next to a patio (11)
- Next to a pond (17)
- Next to an entrance (198)
- Next to seating areas (197)
- Steep banks (26)
- Through hedges (28)
- Walls & fences (38)
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)
- 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 (5)
- 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)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 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 (4)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (4)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (6)
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