Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Purple haze weed-smothering mini-border collection

Crocus plant collection

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A whimsical blend of cascading blooms, aromatic foliage, and textured mounds creates timeless, low-maintenance appeal while soft colours and pollinator...

6 × 9cm plants

£51.99 £8.67 each

Delivered mid-April

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Plant description

A whimsical blend of cascading blooms, aromatic foliage, and textured mounds creates timeless, low-maintenance appeal while soft colours and pollinator appeal infuse informal borders with captivating long season interest.

Carefully curated to deliver on style and performance, and grown to order on the Crocus nursery, our mini-border plant collections create beautiful displays that come back year after year. Comprising six, 9cm plants, the collections will typically be dispatched from late March to mid-April - perfectly timed for spring planting and robust growth.

Each collection is suited to fill a 1m sq space, and has been designed to enable you to either place them on their own, intersperse them with other plants, or weave them in multiples through your borders to create a cohesive, considered look to your garden.

What's included:

In this collection you will receive the following plants:

1 x Campanula portenschlagiana: Spreading mounds of deep purple, funnel-shaped flowers appear in July and August with heart-shaped to kidney-shaped, mid-green leaves that are retained all year. These low-growing Dalmatian bellflowers look wonderful cascading over a sunny, well-drained rock garden or raised bed, used as edging or tucked in between paving stones or a dry-stone wall. This campanula is very vigorous, so it's best planted away from smaller, less competitive plants. Grows to 15cm.
2 x Nepeta × faassenii JUNIOR WALKER ('Novanepjun') (PBR): When in bloom throughout the summer, the flowers of this new, sterile catmint will be buzzing with bees. A compact grower, with aromatic foliage (that cats will love), it will look great lining the edges of a path where you can enjoy the scent each time you brush past. It will also work really well in a pot. Grows to 40cm.
2 x Alchemilla mollis: No garden should be without this beautiful and useful perennial. It has scalloped, bright green leaves which catch droplets of water that look like quicksilver and from June to September, it produces a frothy haze of tiny, chartreuse yellow flowers. It’s ideal planted en-masse for groundcover or edging paths, it tolerates a range of adverse conditions including heavy clay and, once established, is drought tolerant. Alchemilla mollis takes its name from the Arabic, meaning little magical one, as in the Middle Ages the water collected from its leaves after a morning dew was said to have healing properties. Grows to 60cm.
1 x Geranium sanguineum: In May through to June, this geranium is smothered with cheerful, cup-shaped magenta flowers with white centres and distinctive veins. Thriving in full sun or partial shade, it forms low hummocks of deeply cut, shiny, dark green leaves, ideal for suppressing weeds at the front of the border. It occurs naturally on acid soils, but will flourish in most fertile, well drained conditions. Grows to 30cm.

Flowering period

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Plant features

Position

Full sun / light shade

Rate of growth

Fast-growing

Soil

Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil

Hardiness

Fully hardy

Planting tips:

Prepare the bed well by digging in lots of composted organic matter before you plant.

Where possible, plant in odd numbers, and cluster them together to give impact. Multiples of 3 work really well set out in irregular triangles for an organic feel, while larger numbers can be planted in mercurial clusters or drifts. In bigger gardens, try to repeat your clusters through the border to create a sense of rhythm and cohesion.

Also, when setting your plants out, check their eventual spread and make sure they’ve enough space to fill out. After planting, keep plants well watered for their first year, particularly during warmer weather, and feed them with a good, general purpose fertiliser through the growing season.

Please note:

The plants in this collection will die right back in autumn, then fresh new growth will appear again in spring.

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