Plants for the Back of the Border
Taller plants sit well towards the back of the border, adding height as well as providing a backdrop for the front-runners.
By type
Facing
How much sun
Special conditions
Multibuy packs
Chelsea 2019
Soil type
Flowering month
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (46)
- Attractive seedheads (12)
- Autumn foliage colour (7)
- Berries or fruit (21)
- Coloured leaves (17)
- Colourful bark or stems (9)
- Deciduous (5)
- Easy to grow (5)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (56)
- Fast growing (5)
- Flowering (135)
- Long flowering (14)
- Low maintenance (56)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (19)
- Non invasive (3)
- Non poisonous (108)
- Plants that are native (7)
- Plants that help filter noise (10)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (47)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (44)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (1)
- Resistant to diseases (43)
- Stylish in the border (1)
- Sublime umbelliferas (6)
- Suitable for containers (19)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (20)
- Winter colour (45)
House plants by room
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (10)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (5)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (7)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (13)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (5)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2016 - Jekka McVicar - St John's Hospice (2)
- 2017 - James Basson - M & G (1)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (5)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (6)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (4)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (4)
Seed planting guidelines
Carex testacea
£11.99
£9.59
Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. spectabilis
£59.99
£47.99
Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. aureocaulis
£24.99
£19.99
Phyllostachys nigra
£24.99
£19.99
Gunnera manicata
£12.99
sweet cicely
£1.99
Halesia carolina
£79.99
Ilex aquifolium 'Argentea Marginata'
£19.99
£15.99
Mahonia × media 'Winter Sun'
£17.99
£14.39
Taxus baccata
£12.99
£10.39
Melianthus major
£19.99
Ligularia 'The Rocket'
£8.99
£7.19
Phyllostachys bissetii
£24.99
£19.99
Fargesia rufa
£24.99
£19.99
Clematis 'Tekla'
£19.99
Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. spectabilis
£24.99
£19.99
Ilex crenata Dark Green ('Icoprins11') (PBR)
£16.99
£13.59
Campanula lactiflora
£5.99
£3.49
Ilex crenata Dark Green ('Icoprins11') (PBR)
£29.99
£23.99
Photinia × fraseri 'Red Robin'
£12.99
£10.39
Buxus sempervirens
£11.99
£9.59
Carex testacea 'Prairie Fire'
£7.99
£6.39
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