Plants that Flower in August
Make sure the display in the borders does not start to fade by adding dahlias, penstemons and hydrangeas.
By type
Facing
How much sun
Special conditions
Multibuy packs
Soil type
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (88)
- Attractive seedheads (117)
- Autumn foliage colour (14)
- Berries or fruit (49)
- Coloured leaves (61)
- Colourful bark or stems (2)
- Deciduous (15)
- Easy to grow (45)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (176)
- Fast growing (12)
- Flowering (774)
- Long flowering (191)
- Low maintenance (211)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (40)
- Non poisonous (609)
- Plants that are native (18)
- Plants that don't need pruning (3)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (165)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (59)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (3)
- Resistant to diseases (137)
- Stylish in the border (26)
- Sublime umbelliferas (43)
- Suitable for containers (208)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (9)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (59)
- Winter colour (115)
House plants by room
Bedding planting time
Chelsea plant of year
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
- Arches & pergolas (16)
- Back of border (94)
- Bottom of hedges (21)
- Conservatories (20)
- Covering eyesores (10)
- Front of border (292)
- Middle of border (305)
- Next to a patio (26)
- Next to a pond (47)
- Next to an entrance (88)
- Next to seating areas (131)
- Steep banks (68)
- Through hedges (44)
- Walls & fences (73)
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (9)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (13)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (23)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (17)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (9)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (12)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (23)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (19)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (11)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (15)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (7)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (10)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (10)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (18)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2016 - Jekka McVicar - St John's Hospice (1)
- 2017 - James Basson - M & G (5)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (11)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (13)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (7)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (7)
Seed planting guidelines
Acanthus mollis
£12.99
Carex testacea
£11.99
Clematis 'Henryi'
£14.99
Clematis 'Miss Bateman'
£14.99
£11.99
Clematis 'Niobe'
£13.99
Clematis 'Étoile Violette'
£14.99
£11.99
Clematis 'Madame Julia Correvon'
£14.99
£11.99
Cotinus 'Grace'
£17.99
chives
£5.99
Lonicera periclymenum 'Graham Thomas'
£14.99
£11.99
Passiflora caerulea 'Constance Eliott'
£14.99
£11.99
Fallopia baldschuanica
£14.99
£11.99
Anemone × hybrida 'September Charm'
£11.99
£9.59
Erigeron karvinskianus
£11.99
£9.59
Liriope muscari
£11.99
Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria'
£11.99
£9.59
Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low'
£11.99
£9.59
Nepeta × faassenii
£9.99
£7.99
Penstemon 'Sour Grapes'
£5.99
£4.79
Salvia nemorosa 'Ostfriesland'
£9.99
£7.99
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