Please note the plants below cover both sun & shade options – the final plants you receive may vary a little depending on season and availability, but without ever impacting the final result!
Cottage Starter Pack
Price range: £52.00 through £156.00
A colourful collection of beautiful perennial plants to help fill gaps or start you off with our Cottage theme.
- Sun & Shade options available
- Colour palette of dusty pinks, soft lilacs, deep purples & bright greens
- As good in pots & planters as in the ground
- Plant as you like, or use our planting plan included with delivery for guidance
- Always delivered in established plants in 1.5 – 2 litre pots
What plants to expect in your Cottage starter collection
Nepeta ‘Walkers Low’
Deep violet to lilac-blue summer flowers and aromatic mid-green leaves. This violet-lilac catmint makes an excellent, long-flowering plant for a sunny border.
Alchemilla mollis
No garden should be without this beautiful and useful perennial. It has scalloped, bright green leaves and from June to September, a frothy haze of tiny, chartreuse yellow flowers.
Erigeron karvinskianus
Masses of small daisies - emerging white then turning pink with yellow centres - give this plant a lovely two-tone effect. Ideal for spilling onto pathways or cascading over a raised bed.
Salvia ‘Sensation Rose’
Slender spires of intense violet-pink flowers from July to September above clumps of wrinkled, mid-green leaves. This compact form of salvia is perfect for adding a splash of colour and height to a flower bed.
Geranium ‘Mavis Simpson’
Loose clusters of funnel shaped, light pink flowers with paler centres and grey-green leaves. This vigorous, light pink geranium is an excellent groundcover plant for a cottage garden or herbaceous border.
Verbena bonariensis Lollipop
This dwarf variety of the
classic Verbena creates
fluffy sprays of lilac flowers
on upright, dark-purple
stems above clumps of
fern-like, grey-green
leaves. Light and airy.
Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Pink Glow’
Distinctive narrow spires of
densely arranged tiny
flowers top strong, leafy
stems. An elegant
perennial, providing a lofty
vertical element to a late
summer garden.
Astrantia major ‘Florence’
The staple of any [cottage] garden, this Astrantia has sumptuous white-pink, pincushion flowers with pink-purple tips, crowded together in a dome-shaped flower cluster. Stunning.
Tiarella ‘Spring Symphony’
A plant native to damp,
woodland of North America
- running trails of pretty
pointed green leaves form
complete evergreen cover.
In spring a mass of foaming
creamy-white flowers
spikes arise.
Salvia ‘Viola Klose’
Spires of intense dark violet hooded flowers appear from July to September above clumps of mid-green leaves.
This compact form of salvia is perfect for adding a splash of colour at the front of a border.
