Plants For East-facing Gardens

East-facing gardens usually catch the early morning sun, so are perfect for plants that prefer a bit of protection from the baking hot late afternoon sun.

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Bulbs (441)
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Seeds (211)
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Large plants for instant impact (103)
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Fruit (54)
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Ferns garden (42)
Grasses (38)
Vegetables (37)
Wildflowers (29)
Hedging (23)
Conifers (15)
Plants & pots (9)
Plant combinations (6)
Exotics (5)
Indoor plants (3)
Plants for gifts (3)
Roses (3)
Bamboo (2)

How much sun

Light shade (1020)
Shade (115)
Sun (1396)

Soil type

Acid (613)
Aquatic (58)
Chalky (1188)
Haven't a clue (1067)
Heavy clay (1312)
Light sandy (1320)
Moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil, or peat-free general purpose compost (324)
Moderately fertile, moist, but well-drained soil, or general-purpose loam-based potting compost (31)
Normal (1471)
Peat-free general-purpose compost (97)
Prefers acid soil (34)
Reliably damp or boggy soil (32)

Special conditions

Boggy or damp shade (102)
Coastal conditions (88)
Dry shade (117)
Dry sun (149)
Exposed positions (99)
Tolerate air pollution (268)
Tolerates drought (140)

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February (85)
March (234)
April (491)
May (584)
June (567)
July (573)
August (494)
September (380)
October (141)
November (29)
December (40)

Flower colour

Black (20)
Blue (118)
Brown (4)
Colourful collections / bicolours (228)
Green (48)
Orange (72)
Pink (317)
Purple (185)
Red (131)
White (446)
Yellow (169)

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Deciduous (1190)
Evergreen (267)
Semi-evergreen (92)

Fragrance

All scented flowers (246)
Aromatic foliage (106)
Evening scent (21)
Highly scented (66)
Roses that are slightly scented (2)
Roses with a knockout scent (1)

Attractive to wildlife

Attractive to bees (529)
Attractive to birds (139)
Attractive to butterflies and moths (196)
Attractive to pollinators (479)
Attractive to wildlife (610)

Quick growing

No (86)
Quite (1165)
Yes (544)

Eventual size

Large (247)
Medium (947)
Small (677)

Special features

Architectural silhouettes (328)
Attractive bark (4)
Attractive seedheads (89)
Autumn foliage colour (108)
Berries or fruit (197)
Climate resilient (413)
Coloured leaves (107)
Colourful bark or stems (26)
Columnar (23)
Deciduous (231)
Dinner plate dahlias (1)
Easy to grow (465)
Evergreen / semi evergreen (305)
Fast growing (246)
Flower spires (129)
Flowering (1391)
Invasive (5)
Large leaved (66)
Long flowering (302)
Low maintenance (699)
Makes a good hedge or screen (105)
Non invasive bamboo (2)
Plants that are native (76)
Plants that don't need pruning (144)
Plants that help filter noise (26)
Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (456)
Plants that will cope with the odd football (236)
Plants to deter vandals and burglars (23)
Resistant to diseases (347)
Rose hips (3)
Scented Leaves (28)
Scented flowers (83)
Small leaved (108)
Stylish in the border (468)
Sublime umbelliferas (29)
Suitable for containers (737)
Suitable for hanging baskets (35)
Tough plants that are harder to kill (148)
Weeping (5)
Winter colour (258)

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Conservatories (2)
Hallways and landings (2)
Home office (2)
Living spaces (2)
Offices (2)

Bulb planting time

Autumn planting (440)
Spring planting (40)

Bulb divisions

Dahlia (Division 1) Single-flowered (1)
Dahlia (Division 8) Cactus (1)
Dahlia (Division 9) Semi cactus (1)
Lilium (Division 1) Asiatic hybrids (3)
Lilium (Division 5) Longiflorum hybrids (1)
Narcissus (Division 1) Trumpet (6)
Narcissus (Division 10) Bulbocodium (6)
Narcissus (Division 11) Split-corona (4)
Narcissus (Division 12) Miscellaneous (3)
Narcissus (Division 13) Distinguished by name (1)
Narcissus (Division 2) Large-cupped (18)
Narcissus (Division 3) Small-cupped (1)
Narcissus (Division 4) Double (14)
Narcissus (Division 5) Triandrus (6)
Narcissus (Division 6) Cyclamineus (4)
Narcissus (Division 7) Jonquilla (11)
Narcissus (Division 8) Tazetta (11)
Narcissus (Division 9) Poeticus (1)
Tulip (Division 1) Single early group (6)
Tulip (Division 10) Parrot group (9)
Tulip (Division 11) Double late group (18)
Tulip (Division 13) Fosteriana group (4)
Tulip (Division 14) Greigii group (3)
Tulip (Division 15) Miscellaneous group (18)
Tulip (Division 2) Double early group (14)
Tulip (Division 3) Triumph group (53)
Tulip (Division 4) Darwin hybrid group (17)
Tulip (Division 5) Single late group (9)
Tulip (Division 6) Lily-flowered group (13)
Tulip (Division 7) Fringed group (7)
Tulip (Division 8) Viridiflora group (8)

Bedding planting time

Autumn & winter planting bedding (18)
Spring & summer planting bedding (28)

Chelsea plant of year

2011 (1)
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Centenary (1)

Fruit pollination group

Apple pollination group 2 (2)
Apple pollination group 3 (8)
Apple pollination group 4 (5)
Cherry pollination group 2 (1)
Cherry pollination group 3 (4)
Cherry pollination group 4 (1)
Plum pollination group 2 (1)
Self-fertile (23)

Sowing month inside or protected

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February (43)
March (122)
April (88)
May (37)
June (10)
July (3)
August (16)
September (23)
October (30)
November (16)
December (11)

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January (1)
February (4)
March (57)
April (90)
May (135)
June (36)
July (18)
August (23)
September (72)
October (54)
November (5)
December (1)

Vegetable harvesting month

January (3)
February (3)
March (3)
April (5)
May (10)
June (12)
July (20)
August (22)
September (23)
October (9)
November (4)
December (3)

Vegetable groups

Brassicas (1)
Legumes (4)
Other cooking vegetables (11)
Root vegetables (9)
Salad vegetables (10)

Multibuy packs

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Multibuy vegetables (3)
Selected offers (125)

Ready made borders

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Ready-made border Azure and gold border (2)
Ready-made border Blending purples (3)
Ready-made border Blue and silver (1)
Ready-made border Budget (9)
Ready-made border Chalky soil (6)
Ready-made border Clay soil (12)
Ready-made border Cool grasses and hot exotics (4)
Ready-made border Cool shade (3)
Ready-made border Cottage garden scheme (8)
Ready-made border Dark and light (1)
Ready-made border Divine summer (2)
Ready-made border Dry Mediterranean (3)
Ready-made border Early colour (2)
Ready-made border Elegant and architectural (3)
Ready-made border Fiery summer (2)
Ready-made border Flowers for pollinators (3)
Ready-made border Fresh and wild (1)
Ready-made border Good bedfellows (2)
Ready-made border Gravel garden (2)
Ready-made border Keep it cool (5)
Ready-made border Lime-green and orange (1)
Ready-made border Lush shade (3)
Ready-made border Piet Oudolf Wisley (1)
Ready-made border Planting the woodland edge (4)
Ready-made border Red summer (3)
Ready-made border Sandy soil (1)
Ready-made border Scented garden (4)
Ready-made border Shady pink (4)
Ready-made border Shady sanctuary (3)
Ready-made border Smoky (1)
Ready-made border Soft Summer (2)
Ready-made border Soothing green and white (3)
Ready-made border Spring colour (8)
Ready-made border Stars of high summer (3)
Ready-made border Steamy jungle (9)
Ready-made border Summer savanna (1)
Ready-made border Sun lovers (3)
Ready-made border Sunny pink (1)
Ready-made border The grand experience (1)
Ready-made border Woodland (3)

Planting combinations

Acid shade plant combination (1)
Agastache and Angelica plant combination (1)
Agastache and Helenium plant combination (1)
Astrantia and Digitalis plant combination (2)
Astrantia and Dryopteris plant combination (1)
Astrantia and Geranium plant combination (1)
Attracting wildlife seed combination (2)
Blue and silver plant combination (1)
Bold foliage for shade plant combination (3)
Cool tones plant combination (1)
Create a praire plant combination (1)
Create a prairie plant combination (1)
Cutting garden plant combination (1)
Damp shade plant combination (3)
Dazzling colour weed-smothering plant combination (2)
Drought tolerant plant combination (2)
Dry shade plant combination (3)
Dry sun plant combination (2)
Echinops and Salvia plant combination (1)
Edible flowers plant and seed combination (4)
Evergreen groundcover plant combination (4)
Golden prairie plant combination (2)
Green and gold for damp shade plant combination (2)
Green and white plant combination (3)
Henry Agg Dog friendly plants (5)
Less is more plant combination (1)
Long flowering plant combination (1)
Low maintenance gems plant combination (2)
Low maintenance plant combination (summer) (1)
Lythrum and Campanula plant combination (1)
Pimpinella and Pennisetum plant combination (1)
Pink and purple long-flowering plant combination (2)
Pinks and purple dry shade plant combination (4)
Pinks and purples plant combination (4)
Plants for pollinators plant combination (1)
Prairie plant combination (2)
Pulmonaria and Athyrium plant combination (1)
Purple and gold plant combination (1)
Red and orange plant combination (2)
Rich tones slug resistant plant combination (2)
Sanguisorba and Calamagrostis plant combination (2)
Self seeding seed combination (1)
Shade lovers plant combination (3)
Shady chalk plant combination (3)
Shady clay plant combination (1)
Shady lady plant combination (3)
Slug resistant plant combination for shade (3)
Slug resistant plant combination (2)
Structured shade plant combination (3)
Sun baked plant combination (1)
Sunny chalk plant combination (1)
Thalictrum and Astrantia plant combination (1)
The Highgrove Hosta Collection (6)
The Highgrove Kitchen Garden Collection (4)
The Highgrove Mediterranean Garden Collection (1)
Tiarella and Brunnera plant combination (4)
Vibrant colour for bees plant combination (1)
Vibrant colour seed combination (7)
White flowering seed combination (7)
Year round groundcover plant combination (4)
Yellow and gold plant combination (1)

Hardy

No (89)
Semi (144)
Yes (1376)

Leaf colour

Blue (49)
Bronze (38)
Green (1442)
Purple (52)
Red (33)
Silver (18)
Variegated (80)
Yellow (24)

Ground cover

No (895)
Yes (511)

Position

Arches & pergolas (45)
Back of border (221)
Bottom of hedges (100)
Conservatories (15)
Covering eyesores (63)
Front of border (784)
Middle of border (633)
Next to a patio (278)
Next to a pond (151)
Next to an entrance (313)
Next to seating areas (351)
Steep banks (283)
Through hedges (44)
Walls & fences (128)

Shape

Ball (4)
Bushy (42)
Columnar (2)
Fountain (20)
Hummock (9)
Lollipop (2)
Pyramid (2)
Spreading (5)
Weeping (3)

Soil moisture

Damp (197)
Dry/Sandy (309)
Normal (1499)
Red (1)

Used at Chelsea

2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (15)
2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (15)
2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (7)
2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (12)
2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (9)
2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (19)
2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (14)
2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (9)
2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (3)
2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (16)
2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (11)
2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (12)
2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (12)
2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (11)
2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (18)
2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (16)
2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (19)
2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (6)
2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (7)
2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (8)
2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (16)
2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (18)
2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
2016 - Jekka McVicar - St John's Hospice (1)
2017 - James Basson - M & G (2)
2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (4)
2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (24)
2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (24)
2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (15)
2022 - Andy Sturgeon - Mind Garden / Crocus (20)
2023 - Sarah Price - Nurture Garden (24)
2024 - Tom Stuart-Smith - National Garden Scheme (16)
2024 - Ula Maria - Muscular Dystrophy (19)

Kitchen garden planting guidelines

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Suitable for compact container gardening (25)
Suitable for grow beds (69)
Suitable for large container gardening (80)
Suitable for window boxes (26)
Use cloche (57)

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fig 'Brown Turkey'

£22.95 - £134.99

2 litre pot | 30 - 40cm tall In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

10 litre pot | 40 - 60cm tall In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

9 litre pot | ½ standard In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

5 litre pot | 40 - 50cm tall available to order from autumn

12 litre pot | ¼ standard | 1.2m tall available to order from autumn

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fig 'Dalmatie'

£19.99

2 litre pot In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

fig 'Dauphine'

£19.99

2 litre pot | 30 - 40cm tall shipped within 2 weeks

forget me not 'Sylvia Blue'

£13.49 - £26.99

20 seedlings Delivered mid September

40 + 20 FREE seedlings Delivered mid September

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forget me not 'Sylvia White'

£16.49 - £32.99

20 seedlings Delivered mid September

40 + 20 FREE seedlings Delivered mid September

Forsythia 'Lynwood Variety' - Flowering hedging

£50.97

3 × 2 litre pots In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

10% off

Fragrant indoor daffodil collection

£29.66 - £59.31

1 × collection | 25 bulbs Delivered during September

2 + 1 FREE collections | 75 bulbs Delivered during September

10% off

Fritillaria meleagris

£4.49 - £25.19

10 × bulbs Delivered during September

20 + 10 FREE bulbs Delivered during September

100 × bulbs Delivered during September

9cm pot | 3 per pot available to order from winter

2 + 1 FREE 9cm pots available to order from winter

0.5 star 1 star 1 star 1 star 1 star 4.4 5 13

10% off

Fritillaria meleagris collection

~~£10.95~~ £9.86

1 combination | 20 bulbs Delivered during September

10% off

Fritillaria meleagris var. unicolor subvar. alba

£5.39 - £14.40

10 × bulbs Delivered during September

30 × bulbs Delivered during September

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Fritillaria pallidiflora

£5.39 - £13.50

1 × bulb Delivered during September

3 × bulbs Delivered during September

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Fuchsia 'Alice Hoffman'

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2 litre pot In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

Fuchsia 'Army Nurse'

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2 litre pot In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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9cm pot available to order from autumn

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Fuchsia 'Mrs Popple'

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2 litre pot In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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9cm pot available to order from autumn

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2 litre pot In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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2 litre pot available to order from autumn

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9cm pot In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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2 litre pot In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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2 litre pot In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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Fuchsia magellanica 'Arauco'

£19.99

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Fuchsia microphylla subsp. hemsleyana 'Silver Lining'

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gage 'Imperial Gage'

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bare root | SJA root stock | 1.2m available to order from autumn

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Gaillardia × grandiflora 'Burgunder'

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Galanthus 'S. Arnott'

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