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Rose ‘Kew Gardens’

One of David Austin’s English Roses with musk rose blood, it flowers season-long in the manner of the old musk ‘Buff Beauty’, starting apricot and maturing to white. This one is more upright and completely thornless, so it might make a great hedge. David Austin Roses 01902 376300 www.davidaustinroses.com

Rose ‘The Sun and the Heart’

Here’s a very full yellow rose with crimson petals buried at its heart. A compact and floriferous Floribunda type. If the temptation to dig for crimson appeals sufficiently, then it could last well. Harkness Roses 01462 420402, 0845 3313143 www.roses.co.uk

Iris ‘Broadleigh Fenella’

Cream and maroon-purple. It’s time the Pacific Coast Hybrid irises became popular at last. Evergreen, May-flowering and not needing support, they are the perfect skirt planting for shrubs, not least rhododendrons. Broadleigh Gardens 01823 286231 www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk

Iris ‘Coeur d’Or’

Cayeux are masters at breeding frilly, French-knicker irises, and here’s another. They are fun to grow but only time will tell if a new hybrid will last. This one is white with a blue rim. Cayeux Irises 01939 291475 www.iris-cayeux.com

Clematis ‘Ooh La La’

More frills here, this time in pink, and with stripes thrown in. One of the modern, less rampant varieties that settles down chest-high. Still far too few people grow these manageable modern varieties. Raymond J. Evison 01481 245942 www.raymondevisonclematis.com

Cordyline ‘Sunrise’

Cordylines — cabbage palms — are a mainstay of coastal and city gardens, and over years they can become small trees. The less green-leaved varieties grow more slowly and this one is so pink of leaf that it promises to make an excellent container plant. Hillier Nurseries 01794 368733 www.hillier.co.uk

Scabiosa africana ‘Jocelyn’

A pink version of this mauve border perennial, which flowers knee-high. It’s a good flower for picking and has that appealing, rather rag-headed look of our native scabious, only it’s bigger and better. Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants 01256 896533 www.hardys-plants.co.uk

Actaea pachypoda ‘Silver and Pearls’

A very trendy perennial barely on the market yet, shown by the Hardy Plant Society and coming from the nurseryman Kevin Hughes at Heale House garden near Salisbury. A statuesque woodland perennial with spikes of pearly white berries, but in this case with silvery foliage. Plant enthusiasts will want to collect. Hardy Plant Society Administrator 01386 710317 www.hardy-plant.org.uk

Ginkgo ‘Pixie’

The fan-shaped leaf of the ginkgo is appealing, but it’s ultimately a big tree and sparsely gawky in youth. Here’s a tidy, upright variety, found as a seedling, which in a pot gets to only head-high in ten years. Big Plant Nursery 01903 891466 www.bigplantnursery.co.uk

Echinopsis

The hedgehog cactus from South America. If you like cacti this is a good place to start. Echinopsis, featured large on this stand in new-bred varieties, have fat, clumpy stems and remarkably large flowers. Southfield Nurseries 01778 570168 www.cactusland.co.uk

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