English Garden Plants
The english love of gardens and gardening is legendary.
English garden plants. English gardens are renowned for their lavenders such as the much sought after munstead with its purple blue flowers and the rich purple flowers of hidcote. These varieties are well suited to england s misty temperate climate. Lavender smells great and you can take clippings from the plants to make lovely smelling potpourri for your home. Functional gardens attached to workers cottages first made an appearance in england several centuries ago.
Clematis climbs over the arch with beds filled with fuchsia catmint campanula delphiniums foxgloves hardy geranium herbs and lavender below. For a formal english garden include hedges of some type. It is a wonderful ornamental herb that will fill the spaces between your other plants. There is still a lavender for you to grow.
One of the best plants to grow in an english garden is lavender. Annual vines that work as english garden plants include morning glory ipomoea spp cup and saucer vine cobaea scandens moonflower ipomoea alba and black eyed susan vine thunbergia alata. This is a plant that grows best in zones five through eight. Shop english garden books.
If you live in less than temperate conditions take heart. This enchanting english cottage garden is a mix of perennials vines and shrubs. It has been said that by and large we are a nation of gardeners.