Dry Shade border - 12 plant collection

Head Nurseryman and Gold medal winning planting designer Mike has conceived some border collections using his style of plants which take away the difficulty in choosing the right plants for the right place, and to guide in designing a specific look for your borders. This 12 plant collection for a dry shady spot contains a mix of ferns, grasses and flowering perennials all chosen to compliment each other & will fill an area approx 5 Sq metres in dappled to full shade, with a dry soil.

The set will contain a mix of 4 x Ferns, 4 x Grasses, & 4 x flowering perennials. All varieties will be labelled and positioned on the plans supplied.

4 x Ferns : from these varieties Asplenium, Athyrium, Blechnum, Cyrtomium, Dryopteris, Polystichum, Polyblepharum,

4 x Perennials: from these varieties, Alchemilla, Digitalis, Geranium, Helleborus, Potentilla, Persicaria, Polygonatum, Thalictrum, Tellima, Epimedium,

A full colour, laminated A4 layout plan is included in the pack, to help you place your plants correctly into a border. along with detailed instructions of how to prepare the soil and how to look after the plants in this difficult to grow situation.

Please note: certain plants may have "prefers a moist soil" stated on their labels, but we have found that the varieties we have selected can cope with dry shade as long as the soil has been prepared and the plants are watered regularly in their first season to get them established.

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