Little Diggers
Gardening with children is a rewarding experience! Their curiousity, genuine outlook and fun approach will provide a lasting memory that is well worth the time! This special group of plants has been selected because they are great for kids - safe to touch, simple to grow and have unique attributes like bold flowers and funky foliage. Not only perfect for the garden, these plants are suitable for containers, hanging baskets or other creative projects.
Lollipop Astilbe
- Bushy mounds of delicate, finely cut lacy dark green foliage
- Dense plumes of pale pink flowers with reddish stems
- Grows in shade
Apple Slice Pinks
- Tall wiry stems hold the deep velvety red double flowers with pale pink/white centre
- Foliage is a grassy mound of blue-green
- Ideal for sunny borders, the front of beds or in mixed containers
- Grows in sun
Valentine Bleeding Heart
- Vigorous growing clumps of dense dark green foliage
- Arching red stems of dangling deep red heart shaped flowers
- Grows in partial shade
Blue Hobbit Sea Holly
- These unique steel blue flowers on short stems, remain attractive for weeks
- Great for cutting, drying
- Ideal for sunny borders, in the front of beds or in mixed containers
- Clumps are easily divided in the spring
Sunflower Happy Days
- Upright bushy clump of coarse green foliage with late summer display of golden yellow flowers make this a popular pick for the back border
- Great for naturalized areas, meadows, cottage gardens and borders
- Clumps may be divided in spring
Strawberry Candy Daylily
- Very large coral pink blooms with a strawberry red eye
- Grassy like dark green sword shaped foliage remains attractive
- Plant in groups as an edging plant or use in container gardens
- Good cut flower
- Grows in partial shade
Sugar Plum Coral Bells
- Silvery pink flowers rise on tall, wiry stems in summer
- Unique frost purple-plum foliage in a large evergreen mound makes a wonderful contrast in the garden
- Ideal as a border or edging plant
- Mixes well in container gardens
Popcorn Hosta
- Thick, cupped, rounded leaves are deeply textured with creamy yellow centres and blue-green margins
- Pale lavender bell shaped flowers are produced in summer
- Grows in shade
Miss Manners Obedient Plant
- Bright white spikes that bloom from June to September
- Waxy, dark green foliage
- Prefers full sun, will tolerate some afternoon shade
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Plant in well-drained soil
Piglet Fountain Grass
- A dwarf selection that forms a tidy knee high mound of arching green leaves
- Summer brings spikes of silvery-white flowers that turn tan as they dry
- Plant in large groupings for a stunning effect
Cobweb Hens & Chicks
- Grows in a low carpet of fleshy leaves
- Small plants grow in circles around mature rosettes of pale green with a silvery webbing
- Short spikes of pastel flowers in summer
- Useful as a ground cover, in a container or rock garden planting
Fuzzy Wuzzy Lambs Ear
- A popular foliage perennial that grows a dense carpet of soft and fuzzy silver leaves
- Upright spikes of magenta-lavender flowers in the spring
- Useful as a ground cover, in a container or rock garden planting
- Grows well in sun
Fairytale Speedwell
- Compact bushy mound of silver-green foliage
- Flower spikes with a two-tone look from the soft pink blooms with darker stamens
- Ideal as a border or edging plant
- Mixes well in container gardens
- Grows well in sun
Birthday Party Stonecrop
- Compact habit
- Come from the Party Hardy™ Series
- Huge, deep rose pink flower heads bloom in late summer through fall
- The leaves provide interest with the purple brown tinted edges
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Grows best in well-drained, lean soil
