Platycodon grandiflorus 'Astra Blue' (Balloon Flower)
£5.90Beautiful blue flowers open from buds which resemble hot-air balloons. Flowers from June into autumn... [full details]
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Soil Type: Mainly dry; Most Types; Well-Drained
Colour: Red
One of the best shrubby Salvias. Fully hardy in our experience and highly floriferous and with a compact structure. The flowers are loved by bees.
Enjoys sun but we have a plant in full shade and it does very well there too.
Scarlet flowers from May-November. Drought tolerant once established.
Height and spread: 60 x 40cm
The word Salvia comes from salvere, to save. The Romans called culinary Sage "herba sacra", and it was also highly valued by the Chinese as it was thought to prolong life. The Greeks and the Romans thought it banished melancholy. The Chinese imported sage tea from western Europe at five times the price we paid for their tea.
Rich purple flowers are borne in loose clusters on slender, upright stems above a dense clump of att... [full details]