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<i>Soft summer pollinator</i> 'Mini-border collection'

<i>Soft summer pollinator</i> 'Mini-border collection'

Soft summer pollinator 'Mini-border collection'

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Soft movement, long-lasting colour and pollinator-friendly flowers come together beautifully in the Soft Summer Pollinator Mini-border Collection. Designed to bring...

6 × 9cm plants

~~£65.99~~ £52.79 £8.80 each

available to order from summer

with large zinc dolly pot Ø46 × H40cm

~~£138.98~~ £114.83

available to order from summer

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~~£155.98~~ £129.28

available to order from summer

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Plant description

Soft movement, long-lasting colour and pollinator-friendly flowers come together beautifully in the Soft Summer Pollinator Mini-border Collection. Designed to bring a relaxed, natural feel to sunny borders and patio-edge planting, this combination delivers months of interest while helping to attract bees and butterflies throughout summer.

Airy flower heads from Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue' float above compact mounds of foliage, producing soft lavender-blue blooms that are constantly busy with pollinators. Woven through the planting, Geranium Rozanne provides an easy spread of violet-blue flowers over fresh green foliage, flowering reliably from early summer well into autumn.

Adding height and softness, Pennisetum villosum produces silky, creamy flower plumes that catch the light and bring gentle movement to the border. The warm pink blooms of Salvia × jamensis 'Malabar Pink' complete the mix, adding upright colour and nectar-rich flowers that are especially attractive to bees.

This mini-border collection suits sunny, free-draining spots and works works particularly well in informal planting schemes, gravel gardens and wildlife-friendly borders. The planting style feels relaxed and natural, but the plants are easy to grow and low maintenance once established, making it ideal for adding colour and pollinator interest without creating extra work.

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. The collections comprise six, 9cm plants.

Each collection is suited to fill a 1m² space in the border, and has been designed to enable you to either place them on their own, intersperse them with other plants, or weave them in multiples to create a cohesive, considered look to your planting scheme.

What's included:

Each collection contains the following plants:

2 x Scabiosa ‘Butterfly Blue’: Lovely, lavender blue, pincushion like flowers from July to September held on delicate stems above clumps of lance shaped, grey green leaves. This long flowering blue scabious is ideal for a sunny, well drained rock garden or container planting. As its name suggests, the charming pincushion like flowers of 'Butterfly Blue' are highly attractive to butterflies and they make very pretty additions to fresh and dried flower arrangements. Grows to 40cm.
1 x Pennisetum villosum: A deciduous, perennial grass with fine leaves that form a loosely tufted bunch in spring. The greeny-white, wheat-like flowers emerge from this clump in mid summer and these are the real stars of the show. They float like little clouds above the foliage, catching the breeze and bobbing about. Their fluffy texture will soften surrounding planting schemes and they look particularly good when the sun catches them from behind. Grows to 60cm.
2 x Geranium Rozanne ('Gerwat') PBR: An award-winning perennial celebrated for its long blooming period and stunning lavender-blue flowers with a white eye and purple veining. Flowering from early summer to mid-autumn, this fabulous cranesbill forms a spreading, mounding habit with deep green, lobed foliage that takes on reddish tints in autumn. Grows to 60cm.
1 x Salvia × jamensis Malabar® 'Mighty Pink': A Crocus exclusive with bright pink blooms with pale throats and maroon calyces appear in succession on upright stems, flowering from early summer into autumn. This long-flowering, large blooming (up to 1in across) salvia attracts bees and other pollinators and adds strong colour to mixed borders or pots. Grows to 60cm.

Flowering period

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Plant features

Position

Full sun / light shade

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.

When potting up, use a good quality general-purpose compost, and make sure the plants are kept well watered, particularly during warmer weather.

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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