19 April 2025
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Michael looks at the best new plants from Hillier
In this week ’s clause , I ’m look at top performing plant life for your summertime garden . Many of these will be uncommitted to buy arrive into bud at this prison term of year , just bursting to give you a full summer of enjoyment .
There ’s a few choices that you might not have considered before , such as outdoorGerberaand patioPhysocarpus . There ’s a mix of shrubs and perennials , all of which I ’ve discovered are usable at Hillier Garden Centres up and down the UK . Look out for their Modern varieties too , as they also spawn their own specimens .
Cordyline ‘ Torbay Dazzler ’
To a father gardener , they often wo n’t conceive that cordylines are hardy and able to be raise in the UK . But plants can flourish down to -5C , and can give a substantial exotic touch to your border or patio . ‘ Torbay Dazzler ’ is an honor - winning selection with creamy stripes along the leaves , offering extra vibrant appealingness . It ’s a late survival with a name acknowledge the UK ’s ‘ Cordyline res publica ’ of Torbay and Torquay , where you ’ll see many amazing ripe specimens grow at their very best . Being grown at Hillier in peat - spare compost vocalize pretty good to me too .
Coreopsis ‘ former Sunrise ’
If you ’ve always loved the colour of sunflowers , then Coreopsis are awesome flora to count out for . They are unashamedly yellow and also a really easy - going hardy perennial that is comparatively unfussy about soil . This exceptional cultivar , ‘ Early Sunrise ’ , begin flowering early and goes correctly through the summer . grim growing , it ’s perfect for the front of borders , or mixing into your pots with your annual .
Gaura ‘ Sparkle White ’
An excellent ‘ stitching plant ’ , by which I think of it is a plant that you may apply to occupy gaps in the edge , this Gaura will twist and wrick and stitch together your whole display with color and social class . ‘ Sparkle White ’ propose a endearing frothy presence , with shimmering white flowers over a long summertime time of year . It ’s a cool hot plant for Hillier right now – try Gaura as a filler for borders , gage and vase .
Gerbera garvinea‘Orangina ’
You will really get the neighbor babble when they see these Gerbera plant into your borders , since people are mostly used to seeing them as shorten blooms in a vase . The Garvinea Series is a nurture discovery from the Netherlands , and looks just as at domicile nudging up to your lupine and delphinium as it does with your banana plants andFatsia japonica . This orange sort sure packs a punch , and I roll in the hay it !
Salvia ‘ Hot Lips ’
Perhaps one of the most recognisable plants in the UK , ‘ Hot Lips ’ has become very popular at Hillier thanks to its use in landscape painting planting in common and gardens . That ’s a really good sign , because it shows that it ’ll execute on a kitchen stove of unlike site and conditions , and it ’s bound to do just as well in your own garden . The two - tone flowers look fresh and funky in crimson and whitened , and you might even get a full cerise one or a full ashen one from time to time . Do n’t draw a blank to brush the foliage though , it smells of blackcurrant . A long-lived and long - lasting works .
Physocarpus opulifolius‘Nugget ’
I have it away aPhysocarpus , not just for their colourful foliage , but also for their use as a vase filler . I ’m often choke to buy a crowd of heyday at the supermarket , and then raiding my garden for branchlet of this shrub to blend in with them – and ‘ Nugget ’ will be ideal for this . Not only has it got gorgeous golden leaves , but it ’s also a very light flora which intend you’re able to also grow it in a terrace container with ease . Shrub breeding , such as they do at Hillier , has developed so much in the past few years that there are now so many adorable variety show to prefer from , so why not give some a go ?
