Plant Trials

Selection of plants we're trialling and have spares to share. We haven't grown these out before so don't have any flowers photos just yet.

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AGASTACHE aurantiaca
Shades of orange coloured Agastache. Agastache has one my most favourite scented foliages, the perfect sweet hint of mint (without actually being too minty which I don't like), we're trialling the straight species (Apricot Sprite) as well as the Tango hybrid selection to see if there is much difference.

CALAMINTHA nepeta
Shorter, compact bushy perennial with white or blue flowers.

CENTRANTHUS ruber - Albus (White Valerian)
Upright white perennial. I can't believe I've never grown any Centranthus before now! I'm very excited about these!

CENTRANTHUS ruber - Rosenrot (Red Valerian)
Upright bright carmine perennial. I can't believe I've never grown any Centranthus before now! I'm very excited about these!

CENTAUREA scabiosa
Magenta purple flowers with cornflower like (pinapple-esqe) buds - I love cornflowers and anything scabiosa-like, so I'm pretty excited to see these in person.

GERANIUM maderense - Guernsey White
White with a magenta centre flowers, surprisingly I've never grown any geraniums before, but so far it is already very clear Guernsey White is going to be the most gung-ho of them all! It has taken off in it's pot soo much fast than the other geraniums.

LYCHNIS chalcedonica - Carnea
I'm completely obsessed with the Silene species, which I think Lychnis is very closely related to, so I'm excited to trial it and see how similar or not it is to silene. I'm very excited about the salmon pink colour of this Carnea!

LYCHNIS chalcedonica - Rauhreif
Delightful white perennial - white flowers are always endlessly useful so I'm always on the look out for anything new & white to trial.

NEPETA tuberosa
Something a little different for me, but I'm trialling a few other similar species so I'm trialling this long purple spired one while I'm at it this year.

PENSTEMON ovatus
I'm definitely getting more and more obsessed with penstemons, and also finding myself embracing more sky blues in the field - so this blue/mauve penstemon totally had my name on it!

RUDBECKIA occidentalis
I'm intrigued to meet this textural flower in person, it's all cone and no petals.

SILENE caroliniana
Groundcover bright mid pink silene.

SILENE dioica
I'm pretty sure this has to have been the species of silene I spied in the wild a few years ago. I didn't know what it was but I absolutely loved it! Silene in all its wispy airy glory, with dark buds and magenta flowers.

ACHILLEA millefolium - Cassis + ACHILLEA millefolium - Cerise Queen
I've only grown mixes of Achillea before but do like the deep cerise in the berries mix so I'm trialling these similar-ish two to see which one I like better.

PHUOPSIS stylosa
I'm always looking for interesting groundcovers (better on purpose plants than weeds right!), and from just the foliage alone I'm already really intrigued. I can't wait to see it's pink flowers.