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

Perennials (543)
Seeds (246)
Shrubs (242)
Bedding plants (161)
Connoisseurs collection (159)
Climbers (151)
Pond plants (99)
Roses (79)
Grasses (65)
Alpines & rockeries (50)
Indoor plants (50)
Large plants for instant impact (42)
Wildflowers (42)
Bulbs (40)
Plant combinations (29)
Herbs (25)
Fruit (14)
Plants for gifts (13)
Exotics (11)
Plants & pots (11)
Hedging (10)
Vegetables (9)
Trees (3)
Ferns garden (2)

Facing

East (711)
North (278)
South (1330)
West (1323)

How much sun

Bright light (9)
Bright, indirect light (31)
Indirect light (4)
Light shade (644)
Shade (27)
Sun (1383)

Soil type

Acid (629)
Aquatic (85)
Chalky (969)
Good quality loam-based potting compost (8)
Haven't a clue (728)
Heavy clay (903)
Light sandy (1115)
Moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil, or peat-free general purpose compost (260)
Moderately fertile, moist, but well-drained soil, or general-purpose loam-based potting compost (15)
Normal (1315)
Peat-free general-purpose compost (103)
Prefers acid soil (2)
Reliably damp or boggy soil (32)
Specialist compost (11)

Special conditions

Boggy or damp shade (56)
Coastal conditions (99)
Dry shade (27)
Dry sun (282)
Exposed positions (51)
Tolerate air pollution (151)
Tolerates drought (272)

Flower colour

Colourful collections / bicolours (168)
Black (12)
Blue (151)
Brown (7)
Green (33)
Orange (76)
Pink (363)
Purple (248)
Red (207)
White (321)
Yellow (123)

Evergreen / deciduous

Deciduous (1044)
Evergreen (204)
Semi-evergreen (127)

Fragrance

All scented flowers (239)
Aromatic foliage (149)
Evening scent (32)
Highly scented (92)
Roses that are slightly scented (27)
Roses that are well scented (25)
Roses with a knockout scent (19)

Attractive to wildlife

Attractive to bees (527)
Attractive to birds (49)
Attractive to butterflies and moths (273)
Attractive to pollinators (514)
Attractive to wildlife (592)

Quick growing

No (43)
Quite (1028)
Yes (560)

Eventual size

Large (251)
Medium (723)
Small (624)

Special features

Architectural silhouettes (166)
Attractive seedheads (154)
Autumn foliage colour (24)
Berries or fruit (81)
Coloured leaves (78)
Colourful bark or stems (4)
Columnar (13)
Deciduous (49)
Dinner plate dahlias (4)
Easy to grow (195)
Evergreen / semi evergreen (288)
Fast growing (203)
Flower spires (122)
Flowering (1317)
Invasive (2)
Large leaved (50)
Long flowering (600)
Low maintenance (393)
Makes a good hedge or screen (81)
Plants that are native (59)
Plants that don't need pruning (38)
Plants that help filter noise (3)
Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (290)
Plants that will cope with the odd football (118)
Plants to deter vandals and burglars (52)
Resistant to diseases (257)
Rose hips (16)
Scented Leaves (12)
Scented flowers (64)
Small leaved (72)
Stylish in the border (220)
Sublime umbelliferas (51)
Suitable for containers (519)
Suitable for hanging baskets (85)
Tough plants that are harder to kill (79)
Winter colour (110)

Indoor plants by room

Bathrooms (17)
Bedrooms (12)
Conservatories (25)
Hallways and landings (5)
Home office (20)
Kitchens (32)
Living spaces (39)
Offices (16)

Bulb planting time

Autumn planting (3)
Spring planting (39)

Bulb divisions

Dahlia (Division 1) Single-flowered (4)
Dahlia (Division 10) Miscellaneous (1)
Dahlia (Division 11) Fimbriated (2)
Dahlia (Division 12) Star (1)
Dahlia (Division 14) Paeony-flowered (3)
Dahlia (Division 2) Anemone-flowered (4)
Dahlia (Division 5) Decorative (8)
Dahlia (Division 6) Ball (2)
Dahlia (Division 8) Cactus (2)
Dahlia (Division 9) Semi cactus (4)

Bedding planting time

Autumn & winter planting bedding (2)
Spring & summer planting bedding (149)

Chelsea plant of year

2010 (2)
2012 (1)
2013 (1)
2014 (1)
2018 (1)
2019 (1)
Centenary (1)

Sowing month inside or protected

January (28)
February (64)
March (132)
April (112)
May (49)
June (6)
July (2)
August (10)
September (19)
October (41)
November (26)
December (21)

Sowing month outside

January (1)
February (5)
March (101)
April (124)
May (166)
June (46)
July (14)
August (30)
September (104)
October (86)
November (5)
December (1)

Vegetable harvesting month

January (1)
February (1)
March (1)
April (1)
May (1)
June (1)
July (7)
August (8)
September (8)
October (6)
November (1)
December (1)

Vegetable groups

Legumes (2)
Other cooking vegetables (5)
Salad vegetables (3)

Multibuy packs

6 packs (8)
Multibuy offers (732)
Selected offers (23)

Ready made borders

Ready-made border Add some oomph (1)
Ready-made border Autumn colour (11)
Ready-made border Azure and gold border (5)
Ready-made border Bee and Butterfly (4)
Ready-made border Blending purples (2)
Ready-made border Blue and silver (1)
Ready-made border Brilliant orange (6)
Ready-made border Budget (14)
Ready-made border Chalky soil (9)
Ready-made border Clay soil (5)
Ready-made border Cool grasses and hot exotics (5)
Ready-made border Cool shade (1)
Ready-made border Cottage garden scheme (15)
Ready-made border Dark and light (1)
Ready-made border Divine summer (1)
Ready-made border Dry Mediterranean (10)
Ready-made border Elegant and architectural (2)
Ready-made border Fiery summer (10)
Ready-made border Flowers for pollinators (4)
Ready-made border Fresh and wild (2)
Ready-made border Good bedfellows (6)
Ready-made border Gravel garden (5)
Ready-made border Jewel border (2)
Ready-made border Keep it cool (13)
Ready-made border Lady Marmalade (3)
Ready-made border Lush shade (1)
Ready-made border Mediterranean (4)
Ready-made border Piet Oudolf Wisley (2)
Ready-made border Planting the woodland edge (2)
Ready-made border Red summer (12)
Ready-made border Sandy soil (10)
Ready-made border Scented garden (1)
Ready-made border Shades of pink (7)
Ready-made border Shady pink (3)
Ready-made border Shady sanctuary (1)
Ready-made border Smoky (7)
Ready-made border Soft Summer (2)
Ready-made border Soothing green and white (2)
Ready-made border Stars of high summer (6)
Ready-made border Steamy jungle (5)
Ready-made border Summer savanna (5)
Ready-made border Sun lovers (3)
Ready-made border Sunny pink (4)
Ready-made border The grand experience (2)
Ready-made border Woodland (2)

Planting combinations

Acid shade plant combination (1)
Acid sun plant combination (2)
Add some oomph plant combination (1)
Agastache and Angelica plant combination (3)
Agastache and Echinops plant combination (2)
Agastache and Helenium plant combination (3)
Aquilegia and Anemanthele plant combination (2)
Astrantia and Digitalis plant combination (2)
Astrantia and Dryopteris plant combination (1)
Astrantia and Geranium plant combination (1)
Attracting wildlife seed combination (1)
Blue and silver plant combination (2)
Blue and yellow plant combination (1)
Bold foliage for shade plant combination (1)
Contemporary plant combination (5)
Cool tones plant combination (3)
Create a praire plant combination (3)
Create a prairie plant combination (3)
Cutting garden plant combination (3)
Damp shade plant combination (2)
Dazzling colour weed-smothering plant combination (4)
Drought tolerant plant combination (2)
Dry shade plant combination (1)
Dry sun plant combination (6)
Echinops and Achillea plant combination (3)
Echinops and Salvia plant combination (3)
Edible flower seed combination (2)
Edible flowers plant and seed combination (4)
Evergreen groundcover plant combination (1)
Featured combinations (3)
Foeniculum and Astrantia plant combination (2)
Golden prairie plant combination (5)
Green and gold for damp shade plant combination (1)
Green and white plant combination (2)
Heliopsis and Miscanthus plant combination (3)
Henry Agg Dog friendly plants (10)
Inula and Persicaria plant combination (2)
Kniphofia and Achillea plant combination (1)
Less is more plant combination (1)
Long flowering plant combination (3)
Low maintenance gems plant combination (4)
Low maintenance plant combination (summer) (2)
Lythrum and Campanula plant combination (3)
Moisture plant combination (2)
Moody plant combination (1)
Oenothera and Perovskia plant combination (3)
Opposites attract plant combination (3)
Persicaria and Echinacea plant combination (2)
Pimpinella and Pennisetum plant combination (1)
Pink and purple long-flowering plant combination (3)
Pink and purple plant combination (1)
Pinks and purple dry shade plant combination (2)
Pinks and purples plant combination (2)
Plants for pollinators plant combination (6)
Prairie plant combination (2)
Purple and gold plant combination (5)
Red and orange plant combination (5)
Rich tones slug resistant plant combination (1)
Sanguisorba and Calamagrostis plant combination (2)
Sedum and Aster plant combination (1)
Self seeding seed combination (2)
Shade lovers plant combination (2)
Shady clay plant combination (3)
Slug resistant plant combination (1)
Spires and spots plant combination (3)
Stars of the show plant combination (3)
Stipa and Verbascum plant combination (1)
Structured shade plant combination (2)
Summer sizzlers plant combination (4)
Sun baked plant combination (2)
Sunny and dry plant combination (2)
Sunny chalk plant combination (1)
Sunny clay plant combination (3)
Thalictrum and Astrantia plant combination (1)
The Highgrove Hosta Collection (5)
The Highgrove Kitchen Garden Collection (7)
The Highgrove Mediterranean Garden Collection (2)
Vibrant colour for bees plant combination (2)
Vibrant colour seed combination (9)
White flowering seed combination (8)
Woodsmoke plant combination (2)
Year round groundcover plant combination (2)
Yellow and gold plant combination (4)

Hardy

No (220)
Semi (279)
Yes (1019)

Leaf colour

Blue (49)
Bronze (21)
Green (1310)
Purple (42)
Red (14)
Silver (31)
Variegated (49)
Yellow (18)

Ground cover

No (922)
Yes (269)

Position

Arches & pergolas (86)
Back of border (164)
Bottom of hedges (23)
Conservatories (44)
Covering eyesores (68)
Front of border (555)
Middle of border (628)
Next to a patio (194)
Next to a pond (107)
Next to an entrance (264)
Next to seating areas (331)
Steep banks (110)
Through hedges (84)
Walls & fences (178)

Shape

Ball (9)
Bushy (12)
Columnar (1)
Fountain (45)
Hummock (7)
Lollipop (6)
Spreading (2)

Soil moisture

Damp (137)
Dry/Sandy (465)
Normal (1293)
Red (1)

Used at Chelsea

2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (9)
2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (8)
2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (1)
2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (10)
2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (18)
2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (17)
2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (4)
2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (8)
2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (7)
2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (14)
2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (17)
2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (7)
2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (19)
2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (7)
2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (20)
2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (13)
2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (16)
2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (2)
2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (5)
2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (12)
2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (7)
2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (19)
2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (3)
2017 - James Basson - M & G (4)
2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (13)
2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (9)
2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (5)
2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (10)
2022 - Andy Sturgeon - Mind Garden / Crocus (12)
2023 - Sarah Price - Nurture Garden (22)
2024 - Tom Stuart-Smith - National Garden Scheme (6)
2024 - Ula Maria - Muscular Dystrophy (3)

Kitchen garden planting guidelines

Propagate in green house (56)
Suitable for compact container gardening (25)
Suitable for grow beds (81)
Suitable for large container gardening (87)
Suitable for window boxes (27)
Use cloche (68)

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Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum'

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Deschampsia cespitosa

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Heuchera villosa 'Palace Purple'

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Salvia 'Hot Lips'

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Scabiosa 'Pink Mist'

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Teucrium × lucidrys

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Rosa rugosa Alba | White Japanese Rose Hedging

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Achillea millefolium 'Cerise Queen'

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Achillea millefolium 'Pomegranate' (Tutti Frutti Series)

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Astrantia major 'Star of Billion' (PBR)

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Campanula poscharskyana

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Helenium 'The Bishop'

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Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln'

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Rosa 'Climbing Iceberg' | Climbing Floribunda Rose

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Salvia Love and Wishes ('Serendip6') (PBR)

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Vinca minor

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Vinca minor 'Atropurpurea'

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Trusted friend container plant collection

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Nemesia 'Wisley Vanilla'

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Allium sphaerocephalon

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Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears'

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Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'

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Hydrangea paniculata Vanille Fraise ('Renhy') (PBR)

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Lavandula angustifolia 'Arctic Snow'

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