Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Pollinator's blue mini-border collection

Crocus plant collection

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This mini border collection brings together cool blues and soft purples for a harmonious display. With tall, spiky blooms and...

6 × 9cm plants

£64.99 £10.83 each

available to order from summer

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Plant description

This mini border collection brings together cool blues and soft purples for a harmonious display. With tall, spiky blooms and delicate, airy flowers, it offers a striking yet calming effect, perfect for adding texture and colour to smaller garden spaces.

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:

Each collection contains the following plants:

2 x Iris 'Perry's Blue': Ravishing, sky blue flowers with white markings in May and June and slender strap-shaped leaves. This lovely Siberian iris is perfect for planting at a sunny waterside on well-drained, neutral to slightly acid soil. Ideal for providing all-year vertical interest and looks stunning planted in bold clumps. Grows to 85cm.
2 x Geranium pratense 'Mrs Kendall Clark': Pearl-grey, saucer-shaped flowers with pale grey stripes on the petals appear in summer among finely cut mid-green leaves. This exquisite meadow cranesbill is one of the tallest and most vigorous hardy geraniums. It is ideal for the front of a sunny border though it can also cope with a fairly shady spot. Try it in a wildflower meadow too, where it can self-seed freely. Grows to 90cm.
1 x Perovskia 'Little Spire' (PBR): With its aromatic, silver-grey leaves and upright spikes of tiny, violet-blue flowers, Russian sage makes a wonderful companion to all kinds of late-summer ornamental grasses and perennials. This is one of the smaller varieties, so is the best choice if space is limited or you find the taller varieties get too floppy. This deciduous sub shrub makes a real impact planted en masse next to a path, where the sage-like fragrance of its leaves can be appreciated, or try it alongside other silver-leaved plants, or in swathes in a sunny border. It also cope with dry, chalky soils and coastal conditions. Grows to 60cm.
1 x Salvia nemorosa Pink Inspiration ('Tuitsalv') (PBR): This new, long-flowering ornamental sage shares many of the characteristics of its much-loved cousin ('Caradonna'), however it's upright, purple-stained stems are crowned with soft pink flowers. A valuable addition to the summer garden, it adds colour and structural interest to the planting scheme, while helping to keep the pollinators topped up with pollen and nectar. Grows to 80cm.

Flowering period

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

Plant features

Position

Full sun

Rate of growth

Average

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.

Warning

Humans/Pets: Harmful if eaten

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