Salvia nemerosa Blue Marvel

If you're after colour from May until late summer then this generous, easy to grow plant is one for your list!

Deep violet blue flowers open from darker spikes of wine coloured buds to 50cm tall and wide above deep green aromatic leaves. Hums with bees and drought tolerant once established too

Salvia nemerosa Caradonna

Upright clumps of slender beetroot coloured stems carry deepest violet blue flowers from May to late summer up to 80cm tall. Nice, neat deep green leaves. Drought tolerant and good bee plant

Salvia nemerosa Lubecca

Fresh green foliage sets of purple tinted spikes that open to deep violet blue flowers from May until late summer with a little bit of dead heading to help it along. Drought tolerant and great bee plant too. Up to 50cm

Salvia nemerosa Rose Marvel

If you're after colour from May until late summer then this generous, easy to grow plant is one for your list!

Pink flowers open from darker spikes of wine coloured buds to 50cm tall and wide above deep green aromatic leaves. Hums with bees and drought tolerant once established too

Salvia uliginosa

Salvia verticilata Endless Love

Large mounds, up to 60cm x 1.2 across with hairy lyre-shaped leaves and small, reddish-purple flowers borne in long, dense, interrupted spikes on reddish stems in summer. Always packed with bumble bees.
Grow in sun on well drained soil, will cope with some drought

Sanguisorba obtusa

Low, bushy clumps of grey green serrated foliage throw up wiry stems with drooping pink bottlebrush flowers throughout late summer. Sun or light shade on a reasonably retentive soil. Hardy, easy and hoverflies love it

Sanguisorba officinalis Chocolate Tip

Low basal rossetes of toothy foliage throw up masses of branching stems that terminate in flowers that resemble a a mass of chocolate maroon thimbles from July, fading gradually in colour to become seed heads worthy of a place in the winter border. Likes a sunny spot on any reasonable soil that doesn't get overly dry 1.4 metre tall

Sanguisorba officinalis Tanna

40cm. Low mounds of dark green foliage produce a masses of slender stems topped by small burgundy flower heads, each resembling a small raspberry.
Grow in sun on a retentive soil

Sanguisorba tenuifolia Pink Elephant

A tall perennial to 1.8m, with rosettes of dark green, pinnate leaves and short spikes of bottlebrush-like flowers in summer and early autumn. Flowers open deep pink and soften to pale pink.
Grow in sun on retentive soil

Saxifraga fortunei Wada

Useful late interest in a lightly shaded border. Nice, neat rosettes of rounded slightly succlent leaves are deep green on top and coloured deep red underneath. Sept - October a froth of creamy white flowers is produced 30cm above leaves, sometimes ruined by an early frost. Likes well drained, humous rich soil that doesn't bake dry out of direct sun

Saxifraga urbium Miss Chambers

Carpets of evergreen rosettes make excellent ground cover in light shade. Apr - Jun a cloud of starry white flowers open from pink buds and, on closer inspection, have prominent pink stamens and divine pink freckles. Light shade, any reasonable soil