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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CAMPANULA takesimana - Flore Plena Mix
Campanula takesimana has become my favourite ground cover for shady areas, with the added bonus of incredible flowers in early summer. This new variety has double flowers which I've never seen before, very excited to add to our collection. Our regular takesimana plants took a couple years to settle in before they really pumped out tall chunky stems.

CAMPANULA lactiflora
I love campanulas so we're expanding our collection, we haven't grown too many upright flowering campanulas yet so I'm excited to meet their big chunky lilac-blue flowers. They may take a couple years to settle in and flower, as other campanulas sometimes do.

COREOPSIS rosea
We're a couple flowers into these tiny dainty unbelievably cute pink daisy-like flowers! Absolutely cannot wait until next summer when they're all flowering and the bees are in a frenzy over them!

GERANIUM sanguineum var. striatum - Vision Light Pink
I'm delving into the world of geraniums this season, starting with Vision Light Pink which has lovely soft pink flowers on green foliage.

LYCHNIS viscaria - atropurpurea
We have so many perennials in the works, and I'm still learning their names, so some are just letters with no visuals locked in my head in anticipation, this was one of those. They were were just very happy looking plants that past me thought I should be growing until I just googled them again just now, and I have to say past me was onto something as I got a little excited at was unexpectedly coming our way next season! Atropurpurea has striking dark stems with magenta flowers.

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, one of our plants has been flowering away for a couple or so months now, very pretty for the front of border low growing flowers.

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.

CAMPANULA rapunculus
I've very much gone down the campanula rabbit hole, so this is another new to me species I'm excited to try, it has soft purple coloured flowers, a little more on the airier side compared to some of the more chunky type campanulas. So far it seems to be a very happy plant.

PRIMULA japonica - Deluxe Mix & Alba
I've also gone down the primula species rabbit hole. These plants will be happiest in more moister soils that don't dry out. We planted in one of our drier beds and they limped through summer, but now the rains back and they're big enough I'm hoping a good thick mulch before next summer will see them right. Deluxe Mix is a mix of cerise & light pink, and Alba is white.

PRIMULA bulleyana
These plants are quite large already, so it appears a bit more vigorous than the other primulas. This species should have lovely golden yellow & orange flowers. Also would be best in a moister soil location.