If you have a large area of the garden to cover or are simply looking for plants to fill in some gaps between larger plants, it’s important to find the best plants for groundcover. These range from plants that grow wide without a great deal of height, for example, the evergreen shrub Vinca, to those that grow a little wider and a little higher, such as Cotoneaster horizontalis. They are a great way for suppressing…

Heuchera, also known as Coral Bells, is a traditional foliage plant and today it brings with it many different varieties, some of which come in the most amazing colours. Heuchera plants create round mounds and they have a woody crown at the base with bell-shaped flowers on the ends, which is where their common name of coral bells derives from. The leaves are evergreen in milder parts of the UK, even if they get covered…

Lupin flowers produce some of the most breathtaking masses of colour. They have sturdy, erect spikes from which flowers are produced and the fan-shaped foliage emerges horizontally. The flowers are very similar to those you would find with sweet peas because they grow in densely packed groups. The colour of the flower spikes ranges from pink to white, deep blue, purple and even yellow. This is a fairly long-lived perennial that doesn’t require a great…