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Plants for your garden

The dormant season is an ideal time to add new plants to your garden, whether you're starting a border from scratch or filling gaps in an existing display. To help you choose the right plants, here are some recommendations. Put your mouse over the pictures for more information.

If you've got space for just one Japanese maple, choose this one. Its deeply cut red-purple leaves take on vivid bonfire shades in autumn. The compact, dome-like habit of this cut-leaf maple makes it an excellent focal point plant for a small garden or for growing in a large container. Gorgeous, glossy, deeply lobed, dark-green leaves turn spectacular shades of red-purple in autumn. Ideal for covering a large north- or east-facing wall, the Boston ivy will need pruning to keep in bounds if space is limited. Established plants are an important wildlife habitat for insects and small birds. A profusion of small, golden-yellow crab apples, and butter-yellow autumn leaves, make this a seasonal favourite, but masses of cup-shaped, pink-flushed, white flowers are also produced in late-spring.
Acer Boston Ivy Golden Hornet
If you want coloured stems that positively glow in the border, I recommend that you choose this relatively new variety of dogwood. Once the foliage has turned orange-yellow in autumn the almost luminous red-tipped, orange-yellow winter stems literally shine out. Planted en masse it will provide a luminous splash of colour in the winter garden. Lily-turf is perfect for edging small spaces - the broad grass-like foliage contrasts beautifully with large-leaved plants. The dense vibrant wands of violet-mauve flowers emerge unexpectedly in autumn, when other summer flowers are starting to fade. This attractive shrub has dark green leaves which turn vivid red in autumn, and insignificant summer flowers. Attractive rosy-pink berry capsules follow the blooms, and are often present on the shrub long after the autumn foliage has fallen.
Midwinter Fire Muscari Red Cascade

 
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