Plants that Grow in Most Soils

If you don’t know what kind of soil you have then you should choose one of the plants on the list below. These plants don’t really care what soil they are growing in - provided they are kept reasonably well fed and watered.

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Attractive to wildlife (54)

Quick growing

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Quite (87)
Yes (39)

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Medium (62)
Small (59)

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Low maintenance (59)
Makes a good hedge or screen (11)
Non invasive bamboo (1)
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Resistant to diseases (40)
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Sublime umbelliferas (12)
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Weeping (1)
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November (3)

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March (8)
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September (8)
October (7)
November (2)

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January (1)
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March (1)
April (1)
May (1)
June (1)
July (1)
August (1)
September (1)
October (1)
November (1)
December (1)

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Ready made borders

Ready-made border Add some oomph (2)
Ready-made border Autumn colour (1)
Ready-made border Blending purples (1)
Ready-made border Brilliant orange (2)
Ready-made border Budget (2)
Ready-made border Chalky soil (1)
Ready-made border Clay soil (2)
Ready-made border Cool grasses and hot exotics (3)
Ready-made border Cool shade (1)
Ready-made border Cottage garden scheme (2)
Ready-made border Dry Mediterranean (2)
Ready-made border Early colour (1)
Ready-made border Elegant and architectural (2)
Ready-made border Fiery summer (1)
Ready-made border Fresh and wild (2)
Ready-made border Good bedfellows (1)
Ready-made border Gravel garden (1)
Ready-made border Keep it cool (1)
Ready-made border Lush shade (1)
Ready-made border Piet Oudolf Wisley (1)
Ready-made border Planting the woodland edge (2)
Ready-made border Sandy soil (1)
Ready-made border Shady pink (1)
Ready-made border Soft Summer (1)
Ready-made border Soothing green and white (2)
Ready-made border Spring colour (2)
Ready-made border Steamy jungle (2)
Ready-made border Summer savanna (1)
Ready-made border Woodland (3)

Planting combinations

Add some oomph plant combination (2)
Astrantia and Digitalis plant combination (2)
Astrantia and Dryopteris plant combination (1)
Attracting wildlife seed combination (2)
Blue and silver plant combination (1)
Blue and yellow plant combination (1)
Create a praire plant combination (1)
Create a prairie plant combination (1)
Cutting garden plant combination (1)
Damp shade plant combination (1)
Dazzling colour weed-smothering plant combination (1)
Drought tolerant plant combination (1)
Dry shade plant combination (1)
Edible flowers plant and seed combination (2)
Foeniculum and Astrantia plant combination (2)
Golden prairie plant combination (1)
Heliopsis and Miscanthus plant combination (1)
Henry Agg Dog friendly plants (4)
Iris and Trollius plant combination (1)
Low maintenance gems plant combination (1)
Low maintenance plant combination (summer) (1)
Prairie plant combination (1)
Rich tones slug resistant plant combination (1)
Sanguisorba and Calamagrostis plant combination (1)
Shady lady plant combination (2)
Slug resistant plant combination for shade (1)
Stars of the show plant combination (2)
Stipa and Verbascum plant combination (1)
Thalictrum and Astrantia plant combination (1)
The Highgrove Mediterranean Garden Collection (1)
Tiarella and Brunnera plant combination (2)
White flowering seed combination (1)
Yellow and gold plant combination (1)

Hardy

No (2)
Semi (7)
Yes (119)

Leaf colour

Blue (2)
Bronze (6)
Green (112)
Purple (6)
Red (2)
Silver (2)
Variegated (8)

Ground cover

No (77)
Yes (41)

Position

Arches & pergolas (1)
Back of border (18)
Bottom of hedges (19)
Conservatories (1)
Covering eyesores (8)
Front of border (54)
Middle of border (62)
Next to a patio (9)
Next to a pond (14)
Next to an entrance (19)
Next to seating areas (21)
Steep banks (27)
Through hedges (3)
Walls & fences (6)

Shape

Ball (4)
Fountain (8)
Hummock (3)
Pyramid (1)
Weeping (2)

Soil moisture

Damp (21)
Dry/Sandy (51)
Normal (126)

Used at Chelsea

2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (11)
2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (15)
2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (5)
2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (10)
2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (13)
2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (17)
2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (12)
2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (9)
2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (7)
2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (14)
2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (12)
2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (10)
2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (16)
2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (8)
2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (18)
2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (12)
2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (17)
2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (7)
2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (3)
2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (14)
2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (8)
2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (13)
2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
2017 - James Basson - M & G (2)
2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (5)
2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (20)
2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (8)
2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (10)
2022 - Andy Sturgeon - Mind Garden / Crocus (17)
2023 - Sarah Price - Nurture Garden (22)
2024 - Tom Stuart-Smith - National Garden Scheme (7)
2024 - Ula Maria - Muscular Dystrophy (12)

Kitchen garden planting guidelines

Propagate in green house (6)
Suitable for compact container gardening (2)
Suitable for grow beds (8)
Suitable for large container gardening (9)
Suitable for window boxes (2)
Use cloche (6)

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Rosa Burgundy Ice ('Prose') (PBR) | Floribunda Bush Rose

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Rosa Boule de Neige | Bourbon Bush Rose

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Rosa Reine des Violettes | Thornless Shrub Rose

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Rosa Wedding Day | Rambling Rose

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Betula pendula

£9.99 - £119.99

2 litre pot In stock (shipped within 3-5 working days)

bare root | 60 - 80cm tall | hedging available to order from autumn

3 × bare root | 60 - 80cm tall | Hedging available to order from autumn

bare root | 1.2m tall available to order from autumn

9 litre pot | 1.5 - 1.8m tall available to order from autumn

12 litre pot | 1.6m tall available to order from autumn

Ajuga reptans

£2.99

approx 50 seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

1 star 1 star 1 star 1 star 1 star 5.0 5 2

Galium verum

£2.99 - £34.99

approx 250 seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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6 × 9cm pots In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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Malva moschata

£2.99

approx 50 seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

Visnaga daucoides 'Green Mist'

£3.29

approx 200 seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

1 star 1 star 1 star 1 star 1 star 5.0 5 2

Centaurea nigra

£2.99 - £34.99

approx 20 seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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

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6 × 9cm pots In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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Linaria maroccana 'Licilia Violet' (Licilia Series)

£2.99

approx 500 seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

Betula 'Fascination'

£99.99 - £129.99

12 litre pot | 1.6m tall In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

9 litre pot | 1.5 - 1.8m tall available to order from autumn

Fagus sylvatica

£34.99 - £164.99

9 litre pot | 1.2 - 1.5m tall In stock (shipped within 3-5 working days)

12 litre pot | 1.5 - 1.8m tall In stock (shipped within 3-5 working days)

bare root | 1.2m tall available to order from autumn

20 litre pot | 1.75 - 2.0m tall available to order from autumn

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Ammi majus

£2.79 - £36.99

approx 500 seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

3 × packets of seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

40 + 20 FREE seedlings sold out

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Geum rivale

£14.99 - £39.99

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

3 × 9cm pots Delivery by trusted supplier within 1 week

3 × 1 litre aquatic pots Delivery by trusted supplier within 1 week

3 litre aquatic pot available to order from summer

Seedballs red campion

£6.99 - £34.99

20 seedballs in gift tube In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

250 seedballs gardener's bulk box Delivery by trusted supplier within 1 week

Seedballs poppies

£6.99 - £49.99

20 seedballs in gift tube In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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250 seedballs gardener's bulk box Delivery by trusted supplier within 1 week

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Seedballs ox-eye daisy

£6.99 - £49.99

20 seedballs in gift tube In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

250 seedballs gardener's bulk box Delivery by trusted supplier within 1 week

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angelica

£2.79 - £16.99

approx 100 seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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

2 + 1 FREE 9cm pots In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

2 litre pot available to order from autumn

1 star 1 star 1 star 1 star 1 star 5.0 5 4

borage | Borago officinalis

£2.19 - £15.98

approx 75 organic seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

9cm pot available to order from autumn

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

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fennel - bronze

£7.99 - £15.98

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

2 + 1 FREE 9cm pots In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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fennel - Foeniculum vulgare

£2.99 - £15.98

approx 200 seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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

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dill

£7.99 - £15.98

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

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chives 'garlic'

£2.19 - £15.98

approx 120 seeds In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)

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

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Phyllostachys aurea

£79.99 - £119.99

18 litre pot | 2.5 - 2.8m tall In stock (shipped within 3-5 working days)

5 litre pot | 1.2 - 1.4m tall available to order from autumn

Morus alba 'Pendula'

£189.99 - £229.99

12 litre pot | 1.6m tall In stock (shipped within 3-5 working days)

9 litre pot | 1 - 1.2m tall available to order from autumn

blackberry 'Oregon Thornless'

£21.99 - £43.98

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

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