The English Garden – September 2019

SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ENGLISH GARDEN 33

Hampton Court’s DUAL-PURPOSE PLANTS

Bright flowers fill the kitchen garden with colour, as well as luring pollinating insects

ANGELICA GIGAS
Plum-purple domed flowerheads on a
statuesque 1.2m plant with bold leaves
attract all kinds of pollinators.

LUPINUS ‘BLUE JAVELIN’
This scented, delicate annual lupin
flowers over a long period. Soak and
sow the hard-coated seeds in spring.

TRIFOLIUM INCARNATUM
Gail uses red clover as a green manure
in vacant vegetable beds to replenish
soil fertility as part of her crop rotation.

HELIANTHUS

‘SOLAR FLASH’

Abundant bicolour flowers on this

compact, multi-headed sunflower.

TITHONIA ROTUNDIFOLIA

Sow this half-hardy annual in mid-spring

and plant out after the frosts for long-

stemmed flowers in vibrant orange.

CYNARA CARDUNCULUS

Architectural artichokes are a real focal

point, with their large silver leaves and

bold, thistle-topped flower stems.

DAHLIA ‘KARMA

FUCHSIANA’

Seedlings of this dahlia spring up, with

flowers tending towards being single.

HELIANTHUS ANNUUS

‘MAGIC ROUNDABOUT’

Pale-yellow petals with a circular flare

of crimson on this 1.8m tall sunflower.

LILIUM ‘AFRICAN QUEEN’

This L. longifolium hybrid has elegantly

elongated trumpets with superb scent.

It’s gorgeous paired with blue eryngium.