Plants for Seating Areas
Aim to surround your seating areas with plants that produce scented flowers - that way you will never want to leave!
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 (9)
- Attractive seedheads (1)
- Autumn foliage colour (4)
- Berries or fruit (30)
- Coloured leaves (11)
- Deciduous (1)
- Easy to grow (2)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (93)
- Fast growing (6)
- Flowering (214)
- Long flowering (37)
- Low maintenance (69)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (12)
- Non poisonous (191)
- Plants that are native (7)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (28)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (35)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (1)
- Resistant to diseases (33)
- Stylish in the border (9)
- Sublime umbelliferas (5)
- Suitable for containers (73)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (10)
- Winter colour (60)
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
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 (2)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (7)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2017 - James Basson - M & G (1)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (2)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (3)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (2)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (3)
Seed planting guidelines
Akebia quinata
£18.99
Clematis armandii
£24.99
Rosa 'Compassion'
£19.99
Wisteria sinensis
£29.99
Monarda 'Cambridge Scarlet'
£11.99
£9.59
sweet cicely
£1.99
Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low'
£11.99
£9.59
Magnolia stellata
£24.99
Sarcococca confusa
£8.99
£7.19
lemon verbena
£5.99
lemon balm
£5.99
thyme - lemon
£5.99
Primula veris
£2.79
Viola odorata
£2.49
tansy
£2.49
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