I have a triangular bed I want to plant up, what to plant

Kirsti Peters

Hello
i have a triangular bed that is medium sized with a Trachicarpus Fortunei in the far corner.  What other plants and grasses would be good for a cottage garden kinda mixed with prairie style that bees and butterflies would like but not exclusively.  I have a hot lips and a small weeping acer already there.  It’s 360cm long both sides.

Cambridgerose12

Well, as you already have some slightly tropical-looking plants, why not expand on that? You could pop in Libertia 'Goldfingers', Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm', Verbena bonariensis, some red-foliaged things like Heucheras for low-down interest, a cluster of Festuca 'Amigold'. A reddish Phormium would work well with the sage--there are some lovely forms like 'Sundowner'--or a Cordyline. If your soil is light then things like Coreopsis and Helenium would work with this and would be butterfly magnets.

Kirsti Peters

Cambridgerose12 said:

Well, as you already have some slightly tropical-looking plants, why not expand on that? You could pop in Libertia 'Goldfingers', Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm', Verbena bonariensis, some red-foliaged things like Heucheras for low-down interest, a cluster of Festuca 'Amigold'. A reddish Phormium would work well with the sage--there are some lovely forms like 'Sundowner'--or a Cordyline. If your soil is light then things like Coreopsis and Helenium would work with this and would be butterfly magnets.

Thank you, some great suggestions 

Kirsti Peters

Anymore suggestions gratefully welcomed.

delski

scabiosa 'butterfly blue'.