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Ideas For Every Kind Of Garden

Six garden styles with the plants, design ideas and care tips that make each one work. Open an idea for a plant palette drawn from our catalogue, then ask us about availability.

A cottage-style border overflowing with roses, delphiniums and foxgloves

Full sun · Informal

Cottage borders

Generous, overflowing planting where roses, perennials and self-seeders mingle.

  • Hardy geranium 'Rozanne'
  • Catmint 'Walker's Low'
  • Regal lily
  • Sweet pea 'Matucana'
A gravel garden with drought-tolerant plants, lavender and ornamental grasses

Full sun · Low water

Gravel and dry gardens

Sun-loving, drought-tolerant planting in free-draining ground, with a gravel mulch.

  • English lavender 'Hidcote'
  • Wood sage 'Caradonna'
  • Ice plant 'Herbstfreude'
  • Rosemary
Ferns, hostas and hellebores in a shady woodland-style garden

Part shade · Moist

Shade and woodland planting

Cool, leafy planting for under trees and north-facing walls.

  • Lenten rose
  • Plantain lily 'Halcyon'
  • Snowdrop
  • Native honeysuckle
Raised vegetable beds with flowers and a wooden fruit cage

Full sun · Productive

Kitchen gardens

Attractive, productive beds mixing vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers.

  • Cherry tomato 'Gardener's Delight'
  • Runner bean 'Scarlet Emperor'
  • Strawberry 'Cambridge Favourite'
  • Rhubarb 'Timperley Early'
A small paved courtyard filled with potted plants and a climbing plant on the wall

Containers · Climbers

Courtyards and small spaces

Make the most of vertical space and pots in compact, paved gardens.

  • Clematis 'Jackmanii'
  • Rosemary
  • Winter-flowering pansies and violas
  • Tulip 'Queen of Night'
A wildlife garden with a native hedge, long grass and a small pond

Native · Pollinators

Wildlife gardens

Food, shelter and water for birds, bees, butterflies and hedgehogs.

  • Native mixed hedging
  • Hornbeam hedging
  • Coneflower
  • Japanese rose

Ready to plan your border?

Tell us about your garden and which style appeals, and we will suggest suitable plants.

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