Pickford Design 3 views ♡

A particularly striking perennialAttractive, long-stemmed, bowl-shaped, golden-orange flowers, 5-7 cm, resembling double buttercups. Moist and sunny is best. A bit of shade can keep them cool in the heat.Ermell, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Mass plant in rotten dark spots. Seeds about too. Perfect!Easy plant for part sun or shade, great under rhododendrons, roses or other shrubs. A wonderful backdrop for pink and red tulips in early spring. A paler mauve purple and green leaves. Slightly less vigorous and less spreading than its purple...

The Tibetan or yellow tree peony, grows about a metre tall with multiple stems. Produces bold, large yellow flowers in spring, freely self-seeding to brighten sun or part-shade spots year after year.Tibetan Tree Peony / Yellow Tree Peony. Lutea is the common name, but incorrect. Easly grown in sun o...

Blue wild indigo or blue false indigo. Looking like a blue lupin but with flower stems distributed throughout the plant, is in the pea family too and from America Used extensively by the new wave perennial movement in many beautiful gardens I visited in the Uk and Europe. Useful as a meadow plant. T...

Commonly known as blue wild indigo or blue false indigo. This one is a smaller variant so better for smaller spaces. Used extensively in beautiful gardens I visited in the Uk and Europe, grown with other movement-filled taller perennials. Read about its bigger cousin for care. 60cm

A hardy, easy-growing gentian with rich blue tubular flowers and pale throats, paired with slender lance-shaped leaves—perfect for rock gardens, troughs, or sunny woodland borders.China, Mongolia. Kansu or Grass-Leaved Gentian. A very easy to grow, hardy one that flowers in late summer. Rich blue...

A tiny, early-spring perennial with kidney-shaped, often silvery-marbled leaves and delicate purple-blue flowers, perfect for shady spots under deciduous shrubs, in rock gardens, or alpine troughs.Native to the Russian Far East, China, Korea, and Japan. A slow-growing herbaceous perennial to 10cm, w...

A hardy, long-lived alpine perennial with larger blue flowers and semi-evergreen, scalloped leaves. It spreads by slender rhizomes, forming elegant patches under deciduous shrubs, in rock gardens, or alpine troughs, thriving in sun to part shade with well-drained, neutral to mildly alkaline soil.Fou...

Quite a dense little shrublet, covers the ground. Native. Mat-forming, 30cm, with slender interlacing stems. Small rounded leaves Flowers to 1cm across, white with prominent red/pink radiating veins, 15cm tall in summer. South Island, mainly east of the main divide, only at montane to subalpine leve...

Violet blooms, mealy - an incredible dusty look, with beautiful globes.A splendid round-headed Himalayan Primrose. Nepal, Burma, Sikkim, Yunnan: mountain meadows. Similar to P denticulata, but smaller and stronger. Lovely mealy, dense, flattened, pom pom clusters of tubular, deep violet-purple flowe...

Sprawling glossy green stems topped with clusters of deep blue, bottle-shaped flowers that nod gracefully in summer.Northeastern North America. A narrow leaved, species of Bottle gentian, (or possibly a hybrid, but the seedlings are all the same).It blooms in summer. The stems are 30 to 60 cm long...

A furry find. A Himalayan treasure.Rare, finely textured, blue-violet and deep black flowers. An unusual demure delphinium from the Himalayas. Lobed silver-hairy leaves, becoming almost rounded with age. Spikes of well-spaced blue-lilac, long-spurred flowers, during summer to autumn. Preferring some...