A wide variety of coastal plants for all keen gardeners
This is a great evergreen shrub with waxy leaves making it able to handle sea salt laden winds by the coast. The leaves are strongly variegated apple green with a neat cream edging. The new growths in spring are golden edged. Best grown in full sun in free draining soil. Makes an excellent hedge.
Lily of the Nile. A clump-forming perennial with strap-shaped green leaves. Rounded clusters of large bell-shaped, white flowers in summer. 2-3ltr pot
An upright bush with bronze-tinted green foliage. Masses of single flowers with red tubes and sepals, dark purple petals. 3ltr
Enormus blue flowerhads appearing on tall stems during summer. 3ltr pot
Mountain Flax. A clump-forming perennial with narrow, arching apricot and pink stripped leaves with bronze margins and yellow-green flowers in summer.
The classic cordyline. Palm tree with arching narrow, light green to yellow-green leaves. 3ltr pot. 60cms high
A spiky leafed acanthus with wonderful purple and white flower spikes. Excellent as an architectural foliage plant.
This silver green foliage mound forming plant provides an attractive evergreen carpet of foliage. White trumpet shaped flowers are borne throughout the summer. Well suited as a rockery plant in dry / coastal conditions or as a container or front of border plant. 60cm tall x 80cm spread. 2ltr pot
The charming 'blue false indigo' from East America. The false indigo was grown as a cheap alternative to true indigo by the Cherokees for a source of blue dye. A deciduous perennial with glaucous blue foliage & lupin like spikes of dark blue flowers in summer, followed by black seed pods. Best in full sun in well drained soil. Hardy & easy.
New Zealand Xmas Tree. A magnificent small to medium sized evergreen shrub Flowers coppery-scarlet with golden stamens, appearing in summer. Moderately lime-tolerant but not suitable for chalk soils. 2-3ltr pot
A fragrant, dense shrub rose with leathery, veined, dark green leaves. Pretty single, red, pink or white flowers in early summer followed by orange-red hips.
An evergreen bush with green variagated leaves above, white beneath and clusters of daisy-like, white flowers in summer. An excellent plant for salt laden gardens. Creates an excellent shelter belt. 2-3ltr