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Chalky soils can often be free draining, shallow and have low nutrient levels but they are always alkaline. You cannot grow acid loving plants such as rhododendrons and camellias in them successfully but there are many colourful plants that thrive in these soils including clematis climbers. Browse our best selling Chalk Tolerant Plants online. For our full range, please visit us in-store.
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Privet is an upright semi-evergreen shrub commonly used as hedging. It is easy to clip but if left unpruned it becomes a shaggy tree. Pollinators love the small white fragrant flowers in early summer. The cultivar Aureum has rich yellow leaves which are sometimes variegated and holds an RHS Award of Garden Merit.
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Also known as Winged Spindle, Euonymus alatus is a large spreading shrub with distinctive corky wings on its stems. With stunning red autumn colour and bright pink fruits that open to reveal bright orange seeds it is a magnificent shrub and a real talking point for the colder months. In summer it has dark green foliage perfect as a backdrop for herbaceous planting. Plant it at the back of a border or as part of a mixed hedge. The best autumn colour comes from planting it in full sun. Blade Runner is a medium sized shrub with particularly prominant corky wings on the stems.
Ceratostigma are really useful plants in the garden with a long season of interest. Bright blue flowers smother the plant from August to October when the leaves turn beautiful shades of greeny-red. Totally deserving of its RHS Award of Garden Merit plant it somewhere prominant.
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Berberis thunbergii are spiny compact deciduous shrubs whose leaves turn lovely colours in the autumn along with scarlet berries. Its flowers are good for pollinators Harlequin has deep purple foliage splashed with cream and pink. It holds an RHS Award of Garden Merit. Perfect for the front of borders in full sun or partial shade.
Abelias are mostly evergreen shrubs with smallish glossy leaves in a range of colours. They flower for a long period from summer to autumn and will grow in most soils except waterlogged.
Grandiflora has arching branches of green leaves and pale pink flowers from mid-summer.
Fuchsias are popular easy to grow garden shrubs loved for their hanging bell-shaped bi-coloured flowers that look like little brightly coloured ballerinas. They flower all summer usually up to the frosts. Some require winter protection. Mrs Popple is a popular small variety with an RHS Award of Garden Merit. It has dainty single blooms with a bright pink-red outer skirt and legs and purple inner skirt.
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Nepeta are dependable perennials which flowers for months in summer with soft silvery aromatic foliage and mostly lavender-blue flowers. Also known as Catmint, they need good drainage and prefer full sun and have a lax habit making them good for softening the edges of borders or hard landscaping. Six Hills Giant is a vigorous variety with lavender-blue flowers. It holds an RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Panicum are deciduous grasses often upright in habit but compact. Foliage is often green to blue with some producing good autumn colour and often holding its shape through winter. Grow in full sun. Squaw has airy flower spikes from mid-summer and the tips of the foliage turn red-purple in autumn.
Panicum are deciduous grasses often upright in habit but compact. Foliage is often green to blue with some producing good autumn colour and often holding its shape through winter. Grow in full sun. Heavy Metal has metalic blue-grey leaves turning yellow in autumn and large airy flower spikes early autumn. It holds an RHS Award of Garden Merit.
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Mexican Flea Bane is much easier to pronounce than its Latin name!. This is a small daisy flowered perennial forming mats and clumps and will happily seedi itself into cracks in walls and pavements. It bears white and pink flowers in profusion all summer and often through autumn only being halted by the frosts.. It holds an RHS Award of Garden Merit and pollinators love it too.
A sprawling plant with marbled foliage and lovely open magenta flowers over a long period, ideal for ground cover.
Genii is an erect medium sized deciduous fuchsia with lime-green foliage and small purple and cerise dainty flowers like ballet dancers wearing brightly coloured tutus. Holds an RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Abelias are mostly evergreen shrubs with smallish glossy leaves in a range of colours. They flower for a long period from summer to autumn and will grow in most soils except waterlogged.
Grandiflora has arching branches of green leaves and pale pink flowers from mid-summer.
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Erigeron Sea Breeze is a low growing, carpeting perennial with blue-grey leaves and masses of lilac-pink flowers with yellow centres throughout summer. Drought tolerant when established and perfect for coastal gardens and gravel gardens.
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An essential culinary herb with aromatic leaves and blue flowers loved by pollinators. Drought tolerant once established and perfect for a sunny spot in well drained soil.
Alliums are perennial bulbs often with onion or garlic scented foliage and produce tall flowers spikes topped with balls of tiny flowers. Pollinators love them. Lavender Bubbles grows to 50cm with dark lavender flowers in summer.
The Buddleja Buzz series of shrubs are dwarf varieties of the larger more well known 'Butterfly Bush' named for its ability to attract butterflies. The Buzz series have soft grey to green leaves and masses of scented flower panicles from summer through to the frosts if they are regularly deadheaded.
Cistus are tough drought resistant evergreen shrubs which flower in profusion in summer. The delicate flowers are like tissue paper and last only one day but they make up for it by flowering with gusto. They like free-draining poor soil in full sun and hate to be sitting in wet soggy highly fertile soil. Confusingly its common name is Rock Rose but so is the common name of the alpine Helianthemum which is why we use Latin names as they are unique to each type of plant.
The variety 'Alan Fradd' is bushy and rounded with green leaves and large white flowers with yellow centres and a crimson spot at the base of each petal.
Cistus are tough drought resistant evergreen shrubs which flower in profusion in summer. The delicate flowers are like tissue paper and last only one day but they make up for it by flowering with gusto. They like free-draining poor soil in full sun and hate to be sitting in wet soggy highly fertile soil. Confusingly its common name is Rock Rose but so is the common name of the alpine Helianthemum which is why we use Latin names as they are unique to each type of plant.
The variety 'Sunset' is low and spreading with green leaves and bright pink flowers with yellow centres. It holds an RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Abelia Sunshine Daydream is a wonderful bushy evergreen variegated shrub. Its new foliage is flushed red then turns green with a yellow margin. Its flowers for a long time through the summer with small white tubular flowers with a tinge of pink. It loves moist well drained soil in full sun and is also beautiful in a pot.
This is a popular deciduous grass with green leaves tipped in red in early summer. Airy pink-red flower pannicles appear in early aurumn and the foliage turns butter yellow. Grow in full sun and leave standing through the winter until cutting back in early March.
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Calamagrostis is a robust upright clump forming grass which stands up to windy, wintry very well providing structure in the garden through the coldest months. Overdam has yellow to cream striped leaves with pinkish feathery plumes in summer which turn brown in autumn.
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Calamagrostis is a robust upright clump forming grass which stands up to windy, wintry very well providing structure in the garden through the coldest months. Karl Foerster has an RHS Award of Garden Merit. It has a very upright habit and forms clumps of tall golden brown stems with feathery plumes in summer. Leave it standing through the winter as it look stunning when catches the frost. It makes a perfect screening plant to section areas of a garden but also is very effective in groups in a prairie style garden.
Berberis thunbergii are spiny compact deciduous shrubs whose leaves turn lovely colours in the autumn along with scarlet berries. Its flowers are good for pollinators Admiration is a compact berberis with beautiful orange-red colour foliage with a thin golden yellow margin - A real show stopper which is why it has an RHS Award of Garden Merit. Perfect for the front of borders in full sun or partial shade.