Half Hardy and Summer Patio

Spreading succulent with grey-green leaves and bright mauve dasies from late spring-summer. Grow in loam based compost with added grit in full sun. Should take a touch of frost but won't like winter wet.

Spreading succulent with grey-green leaves and bright yellow daisy-like flowers from late spring-summer. Grow in loam based compost with added grit in full sun. Should take a touch of frost but won't like winter wet.

Slightly tender species of Lavender with attractively toothed, aromatic green foliage, topped by pale mauve flowers in summer. Hardy to -5C but needs protecting from wet in winter.

Shrubby perennial from South Africa with eye-catching orange hairy flowers held in whorls up the stem in late summer. Needs a large pot and winter protection

A frost-tender climber or trailing plant with lovely white , trumpet-shaped flowers in summer. Can be used in hanging baskets or trained up a short obelisk

The rare white form of S. rantonettii. Makes an arching shrub, needing support against a wall, for a cool conservatory or sheltered city garden. Long flowering. Can be pruned hard in spring.

A vigourous hybrid,grown either as a climber or trailer, with masses of vivid red or pink trumpet-shaped flowers. Dies down to a tuber in winter.

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

Half-hardy shrub sporting masses of beautiful large orange flowers all summer. For sun and well drained soil and is ideal in a container.

(syn M. x harrisonii). A hybrid between M. cardinalis and M. lewisii making a spreading plant with cheerful rosy red flowers.

Seed raised white flowered form, the spicily scented flowers open late afternoon into the evening, lovely in the evening garden. Half hardy

Bought as M. axillaris, but appears to be a larger leaved form of M. complexa, A low growing, spreading shrub with masses of rounded green leaves up to 1 cm across. Good for covering rough ground or old tree stumps.

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

Large, vivid pink, trumpet-shaped flowers from September-October, sometimes into early winter if fairly mild. Likes a sunny position and well drained soil. Resents disturbance.

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