Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Amethyst spires mini-border collection

Crocus plant collection

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This amethyst-themed collection combines striking purples and soft golds for a vibrant, eye-catching display. With unique textures and rich colour...

6 × 9cm plants

£57.99 £9.67 each

available to order from summer

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Plant description

This amethyst-themed collection combines striking purples and soft golds for a vibrant, eye-catching display. With unique textures and rich colour contrasts, it creates a dynamic yet balanced effect perfect for adding drama to your garden.

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 Cirsium rivulare 'Trevors Felley Find' (PBR): Stunning ornamental thistle for a sunny garden but not with blue flowers as the name implies, but a deep rich purple. These gorgeous flowerheads either grow singly, or in clusters of 2 or 3 on tall straight stems above long dark green, prickly edged leaves. Loved by butterflies and bees alike, these flowerheads fade to a form a lovely seed head in the autumn garden. Grows to 1.5m.
2 x Deschampsia cespitosa 'Goldtau': A superbly versatile, mound-forming, evergreen grass, 'Goldtau' thrives in both sun and light shade. Silvery, reddish-brown flower spikes appear from early to late summer above dense mounds of slender, arching, mid-green leaves that persist well into autumn. The feathery inflorescences of this elegant, award-winning, ornamental grass mature to a soft golden yellow and shimmer like a golden cloud as it catches the light. Compact and easy-to-grow, it looks gorgeous spot-planted among perennials, in groups towards the front of a border, or in a rock garden. Grows to 75cm.
1 x Linaria purpurea 'Canon Went': Easy to grow and flowering prolifically in a sunny spot, this undemanding perennial is wonderful in naturalised planting schemes, gravel gardens or herbaceous borders. Throughout summer, the slender upright spires of Linaria purpurea 'Canon Went' are covered with small, snapdragon-like flowers in a pretty shade of shell pink, which not only look attractive, but act as a beacon for bees and other beneficial insects.Grows to 90cm.
1 x Verbena hastata f. Rosea: Long-flowering, upright perennials that produce slender, branching spires, which are crowded with buds that open slowly from the base, to small, clear pink flowers throughout summer. Their interesting form makes them ideal for creating vertical interest towards the back of the border. Grows to 1.5m.

Flowering period

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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.

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