Every plant

The complete list, for anyone who wants to know exactly what they are looking at.

Climbers

  • Star jasmine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, around fifteen, several grown as standards
  • Pink Showers star jasmine
  • Clematis armandii ‘Snowdrift’, three
  • Climbing hydrangea, three
  • Chocolate akebia, two
  • Cathedral Gem holboellia, three
  • China blue evergreen vine, three
  • White Banks rose
  • Iceberg climbing rose
  • Wisteria macrostachya ‘Summer Cascade’, over the pergola
  • Ivy ‘Glacier’

Trees

  • Kay Parris magnolia
  • Red Pygmy Japanese maple
  • Red Japanese maple, Acer palmatum Atropurpureum
  • Purple leaf plum, along the fence
  • Gardenia Aimee, grown as a standard

Rhododendron and camellia

  • The mature rhododendron over the gate, pale pink, which flowers in May
  • Rhododendron in deep purple, along the fence
  • Sir Charles Lemon rhododendron
  • Camellia in red, against the fence
  • Debutante camellia
  • Camellia japonica ‘King’s Ransom’
  • Camellia japonica ‘Kramer’s Supreme’
  • April Remembered camellia
  • High fragrance camellia

Hedging and large shrubs

  • Emerald green arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis ‘Smaragd’, eight
  • English laurel ‘Schipkaensis’, four
  • Willow leaf laurel, two
  • Sprinter boxwood, three
  • Wintergreen boxwood, six
  • Compact strawberry tree
  • Katsura pieris, two
  • Valley Valentine pieris
  • Valley Rose andromeda
  • Pieris japonica ‘Mountain Fire’
  • Purple Daydream dwarf loropetalum, two
  • Eleanor Taber Indian hawthorn
  • Snow White Indian hawthorn
  • Juniper ‘Spartan’
  • Diamond Spire gardenia, eight
  • Angyo Star fatshedera
  • Fatsia ‘Spider’s Web’
  • Fatsia japonica ‘Camouflage’
  • Japanese false aralia, two
  • Kitty Hawk hydrangea
  • Reblooming light pink dwarf azalea
  • Double Knock Out rose, grown as a standard
  • Plum Perfect Sunbelt rose
  • Shrub roses in red, pink and white through the beds
  • California lilac ‘Diamond Heights’, two
  • Gold spirea

Hebes and New Zealand flax

  • Hebe ‘Wiri Blush’
  • Hebe ‘Great Orme’
  • Hebe ‘Patty’s Purple’
  • Dwarf hebe anomala
  • Hebe ‘Alicia Amherst’
  • Phormium ‘Black Adder’, three
  • Phormium ‘Platt’s Black’
  • Phormium ‘Tom Thumb’

Grasses and sedges

  • Black mondo grass, thirty five and more
  • All Gold Japanese forest grass, four
  • Lilyturf ‘Royal Purple’, two
  • Sedge ‘Moon Falls’
  • Sedge ‘Evergold’, the pale striped mounds
  • Red hook sedge
  • Carex testacea
  • Mexican feather grass
  • Fescue ‘Beyond Blue’
  • Fescue ‘Elijah Blue’

Ferns

  • Sword fern, Polystichum munitum
  • Tassel fern, Polystichum polyblepharum
  • Hart’s tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium
  • Holly fern, Cyrtomium fortunei ‘Clivicola’
  • Maidenhair fern, Adiantum venustum
  • Dryopteris pulcherrima
  • Autumn fern

Shade planting

  • Hosta, plain green and white edged
  • Bergenia ‘Dragonfly Angel Kiss’
  • Bergenia ‘Pink Dragonfly’
  • Bergenia ‘Spring Fling’
  • Bergenia ‘Tubby Andrews’
  • Helleborus ‘Blue Diamond’, three
  • Helleborus ‘Glenda’s Gloss’
  • Helleborus ‘Molly’s White’
  • Helleborus ‘Painted’
  • Helleborus ‘IR Red’

Heuchera

  • ‘Spellbound’
  • ‘Forever Purple’
  • ‘Black Forest Cake’
  • ‘Plum Pudding’
  • ‘Green Spice’
  • ‘Petite Emerald’
  • ‘Petite Plum’
  • ‘Cajun Fire’
  • ‘Shimmer’
  • ‘Huckleberry’
  • ‘Berry Marmalade’
  • ‘Wildberry’ and Dolce Wildberry
  • ‘Midnight Rose’

Ground cover

  • Dead nettle, ‘Pink Pewter’, ‘Ghost’, ‘Beacon Silver’ and ‘White Nancy’
  • Carpet bugle, ‘Burgundy Glow’, ‘Black Scallop’ and ‘Princess Nadia’
  • Creeping jenny, Lysimachia nummularia
  • Creeping red thyme
  • Irish moss, Sagina subulata, nine
  • Scotch moss
  • Vinca minor
  • Forget me not

Perennials and seasonal

  • Crocosmia, in orange
  • Allium
  • Lavender ‘Hidcote’, ‘Winter Bee’ and ‘Dark Violet Compact’, with Spanish lavender through the pergola bed
  • Iberis ‘Masterpiece’, ‘Mermaid Lavender’ and ‘Pink Ice’
  • Dianthus ‘Berry a la Mode’, ‘Angel Enlightenment’, ‘Cherry Pie’, ‘Fire Star’, ‘Appleblossom Burst’ and ‘Georgia Peach’
  • Oxalis triangularis
  • Campanula ‘Blue Waterfall’, ‘Birch’s Hybrid’, portenschlagiana and poscharskyana
  • Armeria ‘Rubrifolia’
  • Erigeron ‘Profusion’
  • Euphorbia ‘Glacier Blue’
  • Iris ‘Flight of Butterflies’
  • Lilium ‘Frontera’, ‘Firebolt’ and ‘Roselily Anouska’
  • Astilbe ‘Fanal’, ‘Ostrich Plume’ and ‘Younique Salmon’
  • Fuchsia ‘Isis’, ‘Beacon Rosa’, ‘Whiteknights Pearl’, ‘Delta’s Celia’ and ‘Dollarprinzessin Black Cherry’
  • Cape fuchsia, Phygelius ‘Winchester Fanfare’ and ‘Colorburst Deep Red’
  • Penstemon ‘PepTalk Hot Pink’ and ‘PepTalk Purple’
  • Delphinium ‘Delgen Chantay’ and ‘Aurora Lavender’
  • Echinacea ‘Sweet Sandia’
  • Coreopsis ‘Nova Opal’, ‘Nova Jewel’ and ‘Star Cluster’
  • Sedum ‘Dark Magic’
  • Toad lily, Tricyrtis ‘Seiryu’ and ‘Dark Beauty’
  • Tradescantia ‘Pink Paradise’
  • Parahebe ‘Delight’
  • Barbed skullcap, Scutellaria barbata, two
  • Sarah Bernhardt peony
  • Pink Cloud gaura, two
  • Achillea ‘Rosa Maria’ and ‘Saucy Seduction’
  • Cambridge Blue geranium, two
  • Ever Amethyst agapanthus, two
  • Fashionably Early Flamingo phlox
  • My Castle lupine, two
  • Angelonia
  • Calibrachoa
  • Torenia

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