RHS Hampton Court Show 2018 RNIB’s Community Garden full list The in this list have been selected by the gardeners of RNIB’s Community Garden, Steve Dimmock and Paula Holland, for their multi‑sensory attributes.

1 Achillea Achillea “Terracotta” Agastache Agastache “Summerwine” “Black Adder” “Blue Boa” Its ferny give Its flattened flower a distinct aroma, Its bottlebrush A hardy perennial with heads are perennial and the rich colour are blue/black in colour blue fluffy bottlebrush and appear over a of its flowers are eye and have anise scented flowers that appear long period in summer. catching. Good for leaves. This plant is a from July to September. The leaves are dark attracting bees and hardy perennial that green and distinctly other pollinators. appears in late summer Agastache separated. Great for and autumn, and are “Blue Fortune” attracting beneficial good for attracting insects including pollinators. Thrives in Smoky bottlebrush bees into the garden. well‑drained soil and flowers with aromatic Tolerant of drought sunny conditions. leaves which appear once established. from July to September and are good for pollinators.

Actaea purpurea A plant with dark cut foliage and bottlebrush flowers which flower later in the year.

2 Agapanthus Artemesia Astrantia “Abbey Blechnum spicant “Headbourne “Powis Castle” Road” “Hard fern” hybrids” Has fine, fern‑like, silver A clump‑forming plant Evergreen fern which is A perennial that has aromatic foliage and that has dark purple feathery and dark green. Ideal for shady areas of the garden. funnel shaped flowers tiny, yellow‑tinged silver bracts on dark upright which are grouped flowers which appear stems. Carex together and come in August. muskingumensis in various shades of blue. This variety has Grass that is creeping narrow shaped leaves and has palm like and blooms from July leaves. This plant grows to September. best in the sun and part shade.

Deschampsia cespitosa “Goldschleier” Elegant mound forming evergreen grass that is thread‑like and has feathery .

3 Dryopteris filix‑mas Eragrostis curvula lindheimeri Hydrangea “Polydactyla” “African love grass” “White gaura” macrophylla “Peppermint” Native male fern Light green tall grass An exceptionally found in most UK which turns red in the long‑flowering, soft Large round creamy woodlands. Deciduous, autumn and has small perennial with white white flowers that flower with a distinct purple flowers. delicate flowers in late summer. Using shuttlecock shape. on slender stems. a plant support when Turns copper‑coloured A drought‑tolerant and the plant is young will in the autumn. sun‑loving plant. help to prevent flowers from drooping. This new Geum “Totally variety is bi‑coloured, Tangerine” flowers on both new and old wood and therefore One of the denser has an extended period clumping geum that of flowering. blooms in the late spring to the summer. Flowers are large, frilly and apricot coloured Foeniculum vulgare which fade over time. “Giant bronze” Great for a border that gets plenty of sun. This giant fennel has feathery, bronze‑purple leaves, followed by flat‑topped, yellow flowers with aromatic seeds. Flowers in mid‑summer. 4 Lavandula Lavandula x Lonicera x brownii Matteuccia angustifolia intermedia “Dropmore Scarlet” struthiopteris “Hidcote” “Edelweiss” “Ostrich fern” Evergreen climber with Has dense spikes of An especially deep pink flowers that A deciduous fragrant, deep violet long‑flowering white are positioned in a shuttlecock fern flowers above slender, variety with intensely tubular way. Often has that produces tall aromatic, silvery‑grey fragrant blooms and berries appearing in the shuttlecock rosettes leaves. This variety of aromatic foliage. winter. with divided fronds lavender is one of the that surround smaller best for edging paths Lophomyrtus fronds. Works best in a and borders. “Magic Dragon” shaded and moist area.

Lavandula An evergreen with angustifolia colourful foliage. When “Munstead” mature, small white flowers with a delicate A compact lavender, scent appear from early named after Gertrude summer. Jekyll’s garden at Munstead Wood. This Luzula nivea variety has a beautiful “Snow rush” aromatic scent. A slow‑spreading, evergreen perennial that forms loose clumps of rough, deep green leaves and small brown flowers.

5 Melissa officinalis Mentha spicata var. Mentha x villosa Nepeta “Six “Lemon balm” crispa “Moroccan” var. alopecuroides Hills Giant” “Bowles’s mint” Also known as lemon A fast‑growing hardy Lavender‑blue flowers balm, this perennial mint that is ideal for Has soft leaves, with an held in clusters of tall has aromatic lemon making mint tea. unusual savoury aroma. upright stems which scented leaves with bloom in June to July. roughly shaped edges. Molinia “Moorhexe” Attractive and aromatic light grey‑green foliage. A short‑growing soft grass for the front of Origanum vulgare a border and offers “Hot and Spicy” a profusion of purple flowers. A bushy perennial herb with aromatic Nepeta x faassenii leaves and tubular “Kit Kat” white flowers.

Dwarf variety with Origanum vulgare slender spikes of “Thumble’s variety” lavender‑blue summer flowers and aromatic, Bright green variety sage‑green leaves. with wonderful foliage A long‑flowering and and good scent. aromatic plant loved by bees.

6 Pannicum virgatum Pelargonium “Attar Pelargonium Pelargonium “Rober’s “Heavy Metal” of Roses” “Pink Capricorn” Lemon Rose” Its deciduous Five‑petalled pale pink A perennial bush with Rose lemon scented ornamental fountain‑like flowers with an amazing soft green ruffled leaves with small pink grass has steely rose scent and aromatic foliage, lemon and flowers. This is a tender coloured blue‑grey to leaves. This is a tender rose‑scented leaves plant which means that blue‑purple leaves, plant which means that and pink‑purple flowers. freezing temperatures which form freezing temperatures This is a tender plant may kill the plant. stiff upright clumps. can kill the plants off. which means that freezing temperatures Pelargonium may kill the plant. “Lara Starshine” A short plant with lemon‑scented leaves and small pink, white or purple flowers. This is a tender plant which means that freezing temperatures may kill the plant.

7 Pelargonium Pennisetum orientale Pennisetum Phlox paniculata tomentosum “Shogun” “Villosum” “David” “Peppermint geranium” A taller variety with The feathery, bob‑tail A perennial tall more upright pink tops of this tufted grass upright shrub with Peppermint scented flower spikelets, are a delight to explore slim leaves with white with soft tactile produced from by touch. Perfect for salver‑shaped flowers heart‑shaped leaves glaucous blue‑green edging a path. that appear in clusters. and small flowers. This foliage. This plant is a tender plant which blooms in the high Perovskia Physocarpus means that freezing summer. “Blue Spire” opulifolius temperatures may kill “Lady in Red” the plant. A plant with aromatic leaves and upright A deciduous shrub spikes of violet‑blue with pink‑tinted white flowers. flowers which flower in June. The leaves are small, dark purple and maple‑like.

Pittosporum “Garnettii” A round shrub with circular leathery textured grey‑green leaves and white and purple aromatic flowers.

8 Pittosporum Polystichum Rosa “C Brunner” Rosmarinus officinalis “Silver Magic” polyblepharum “Rosemary” “Japanese lace fern” A sweetly‑scented A variety with smaller pale pink rose bush A dense evergreen and daintier leaves An evergreen fern, that blooms from July shrub that has than most pittosporum. covered in golden hairs. to October. It has very needle‑like leaves and The leaves are silvery few thorns. is used for culinary green leaves with cream Polystichum purposes. margins which gradually plumosum densum Rosa “Madame Alfred turn pink in winter. Carrière” A soft shield fern which Pittosporum “Tom is evergreen. Fragrant, fully double, Thumb” white pale pink flowers which flower from July A compact, evergreen to September. A good shrub with small, wavy, climber for training dark leaves and dark over a rose arch, young stems. It has fence or wall. a distinctive rounded shape which is a great Romneya coulteri box (buxus) alternative. “Californian tree poppy” A tree poppy that is tall, fragrant and has papery white “poppy” flowers with deep yellow centres. Flowers from July to October.

9 Rosmarinus Salvia “Dyson’s Joy” Salvia “Strawberries Salvia nemorosa prostratus and Cream” “Caradonna” “Roman Beauty” A plant with pink scented flowers and Tubular flowers with This variety flowers for a Evergreen with small aromatic foliage. two lips, with one long period of time and blue flowers that being larger than has upright racemes appear in clusters with Salvia officinalis the other. Our garden of purple flowers and thin shaped leaves. “Common sage” has the cream and grey‑green aromatic This is a trailing variety. apricot variety with foliage which forms a A bushy shrub with aromatic foliage. tall slim‑shaped plant. Salvia “Amistad” aromatic grey‑green leaves that have fine Salvia “Wendy’s A plant with dramatic veins and blue spiky Wish” purple scented flowers flowers which bloom and aromatic foliage. It at the beginning of Has aromatic foliage is frost hardy, meaning summer. and a wonderful it will need protection raceme of strong pink during the winter. Salvia “Pink Lips” flowers which are citrus‑scented. Requires The pink version of salvia free‑draining soil. Hardy “Hot Lips”. This variety (may need winter is bi‑colour with red protection). and white flowers and aromatic leaves which appear in pairs. Blooms in July and August.

10 Salvia nemorosa Stipa gigantea Tellima grandiflora Thymus vulgaris “Ostfriesland” “Golden oats” “Fringe cups” “Common thyme” Intense violet flowers A plant with arching Has tall spikes of An aromatic low above clumps of stems of glistening, bell‑shaped, fragrant growing herb which is wrinkled, green golden oat‑like greenish‑white flowers, ideal for edging paths aromatic leaves that flower heads, above rounded lobed leaves. or for pots on a sunny bloom from July to clumps of evergreen Good for a shady border. patio. September. leaves.

Sambucus nigra Stipa tenuissima “Black Lace” “Mexican feather grass” This plant has black, dissected foliage with Wispy, pale narrow ovate leaves. yellow‑green leaves From May to June pale topped with fluffy pink, musk‑scented plumes of flowers. blooms emerge from A versatile, tactile beautiful creamy‑pink deciduous grass. buds.

Stachys byzantina “Silver Carpet” Tiarella “Pink Trachelospermum Skyrocket” jasminoides Forming a soft carpet, “Star jasmine” this drought‑tolerant Its whorls of upright perennial has silver pink starry flower A highly fragrant leaves which are soft rises above palmate, evergreen climber. and extremely tactile. evergreen foliage. 11 Verbascum chaixii Verbena bonariensis Veronicastrum “Album” “Argentinian vervain” virginicum “Fascination” rnib.org.uk/ A plant with Its tightly packed hamptoncourt white‑cupped spires clusters of lilac‑purple Has upright, leafy stems of flowers with a flowers top the tall topped with racemes of #RHSHampton tawny centre. branching stems. This lilac‑blue flowers. Good Stand HC/426 variety flowers from in the winter for giving a June to September. silhouette in a border.

Verbena rigida “Hardy garden verbena” A neat low‑growing verbena that produces clusters of fragrant, bright purple flowers Image credits: which bloom between iStock, USDA‑NRCS June and September. PLANTS Database, Ideal for pollinators. Wikicommons: Meneerke bloem, Leslie Verbascum Veronicastrum Seaton, Salicyna, Vzb83, “Cotswold Beauty” virginicum David J. Stang, Averater, “Pink Glow” Stan Shebs, Lis Burke, This copper‑peach Magnus Manske, Walter flowered verbascum An elegant plant with Siegmund, SzabolcsKiss makes a wonderful graceful pink spikes vertical accent in a of flowers. This variety © 2018 RNIB reg charity sunny border. is long‑flowering and number 226227 highly attractive to bees. 12