For pollinators

The original old fashioned houseplant, a tender perennial with fleshy stems, making an upright or sprawling plant. Large bright pink flowers over a long period. Can be bedded out in the summer, indoors it makes a nice house plant.

Capable of making a tall plant, with the ability to produce baby plants along the edges. Clusters of large pink pendant flowers Keep frost free and out of direct sun under glass.

A spreading succulent with grey-green leaves and bright orange dasies from late spring to early summer.

A fantastic foliage plant bearing large deeply cut grey-green leaves. In cold areas mulch well with leaf litter for the winter. Full sun and well-drained soil. Evergreen

A shrub from New Zealand with distinctive wiry zig-zag stems and small semi-evergreen leaves. Hardy to minus 5 in well-drained soil. Can be trimmed into curious shapes if desired

Dwarf variety with single, deep red-black flowers. Ideal for where space is limited, containers, baskets or raised beds in the veg garden. 

Tall annual quick growing climber with single flowers in mixed shades of yellow, orange or red. Ideal for growing up an obelisk or leave to spread to cover the ground. 

Bulbous perennial with lovely, large, soft pink trumpet-shaped flowers from September to October, sometimes into early winter if fairly mild.

A tall annual growing to about 5 feet, masses of sweetly scented tubular flowers in summer and autumn.

(Tresco Purple.) Borderline hardy, this should survive in sheltered gardens in free-draining soil, otherwise it can be grown in pots, or bedded out for the summer. Vivid purple flowers appear continuously from summer to autumn, and are great for Bees

A low spreading plant growing from bulbils, with attractive yellow veined leaves and pink flowers. Best in a pot, kept frost free.

Deep green peppermint scented leaves with a central dark blotch make this a very pretty spreading foliage plant. Small pink flowers compliment the display. Sun to part-shade.

Ivy leaved trailing variety with fleshy yellow veined leaves and deep burgundy red semi-double flowers all summer. Great in tubs and baskets

A bushy slightly spreading cultivar with scented leaves and clusters of pretty pink flowers all summer. Great in pots.

A bushy lax growing cultivar with attractively cut pungently scented foliage and bright pink flowers from spring to autumn.

A beautiful cultivar boasting spicily scented leaves plus masses of pinky mauve flowers all summer.