Cottage Garden Plant Combinations From The Hampton Court Palace Show
Echinacea and Salvia
At the Royal Horticulture Society’s Hampton Court Flower Show earlier this year, I had chance to indulge in one of my favourite pastimes – looking out for flowering plants that are companionable minglers.
Catanache caerulea and Lychnis coronaria
Floral threads included various colours and forms of Achillea, Campanula, Catanache, Digitalis (foxglove), Echinacea, Geranium, Knautia, Lychnis, Nepeta, Salvia, Scabious, Stachys and Verbena.
Salvia, Verbena and Achillea
Lovers of cottage garden plants might find these combinations as dreamy to scroll through as I do.
Agastache ‘Kudos Gold’ and CoreopsisDigitalis, Tanacetum and SalviaGaura and NepetaDiasca, Campanula and SalviaKniphofia, Scabious and SalviaCeratostigma and HydrangeaEchinacea, Scabious, Verbena and SalviaDigitalis ‘Camelot Cream’ and Lychnis coronariaGeranium and AlstroemeriaGeranium and PenstemonKnautia macedonica ‘Thunder and Lightning’, Achillea and LinariaAchillea, Salvia and PittosporumCosmos, Daucus and KnautiaEryngium and achilleaStachys, Salvia and skipperAnisondontea ‘Lady in Pink’, Achillea, PhysostegiaEchinacea ‘Summer Cocktail’, Catanache caerulea and Lychnis coronaria
Even if you have no garden to experiment with plants in, or a tiny one already filled to overflowing, I hope nature’s colours and forms will brighten your day.
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35 Replies to “Cottage Garden Plant Combinations From The Hampton Court Palace Show”
Every combination is beautiful. I always enjoy garden tours.
Me too!
Your usual fine display. Nice of the Skipper to put in an appearance
There were quite a lot of skippers there this year. Perhaps they were on some kind of outing.
🙂
So beautiful.😍
Thank you.
Thank you very much for all these tempting suggestions. I am always looking for new ideas and your pictures will lead me in new directions. Gardening never gets dull!
Especially not when lots of flowers are involved.
This was so much fun! I can’t tell you how exciting it is for me to see something that grows in my own garden! Not many of these, I’ll admit, but still pretty exciting. Your photos are always an education; today’s most startling lesson was the Eryngium. I’d never heard of it, and I think I’ve never seen it. I want some! All the combinations of colors and shapes are very inspiring, and a lovely bunch of thoughts as this year’s season closes out and we think of next year. Thank you!
I have been rather tardy in sharing pictures this year, so the flowering season might just be stretched out, in virtual terms, at least.
Such a pretty post!
RHS Hampton Court always seems the perfect time in the year for flowers.
And I’ve never been. A treat in store?
They are all lovely and inspiring. 😃
Thanks, Cathy.
The colors are so vibrant, they leapt off the screen. Beautiful!
Flowers do like to shine, or so it seems.
So gentle on the eye, but I’ll never remember all those names.
It’s very surprising that I remember as many as I do. Of course you realise I’ll be e-mailing you a test… just 20 questions or so.
🤔💙
Lychnis coronaria is so useful, including the white form. It does very well here in my dry sandy soil and shade. I must grow Eryngium and Catananche!
I like to see the white form too.
A floral feast thanks Susan. Fabulous photos as always 🙂
Thanks, Brian.
Such pleasing combinations, tough to pick one or two favorites.
I know what you mean. I remember being very struck by the Anisondontea ‘Lady in Pink’ at the time.
Susan Rushton 
Every combination is beautiful. I always enjoy garden tours.
Me too!
Your usual fine display. Nice of the Skipper to put in an appearance
There were quite a lot of skippers there this year. Perhaps they were on some kind of outing.
🙂
So beautiful.😍
Thank you.
Thank you very much for all these tempting suggestions. I am always looking for new ideas and your pictures will lead me in new directions. Gardening never gets dull!
Especially not when lots of flowers are involved.
This was so much fun! I can’t tell you how exciting it is for me to see something that grows in my own garden! Not many of these, I’ll admit, but still pretty exciting. Your photos are always an education; today’s most startling lesson was the Eryngium. I’d never heard of it, and I think I’ve never seen it. I want some! All the combinations of colors and shapes are very inspiring, and a lovely bunch of thoughts as this year’s season closes out and we think of next year. Thank you!
I have been rather tardy in sharing pictures this year, so the flowering season might just be stretched out, in virtual terms, at least.
Such a pretty post!
RHS Hampton Court always seems the perfect time in the year for flowers.
And I’ve never been. A treat in store?
They are all lovely and inspiring. 😃
Thanks, Cathy.
The colors are so vibrant, they leapt off the screen. Beautiful!
Flowers do like to shine, or so it seems.
So gentle on the eye, but I’ll never remember all those names.
It’s very surprising that I remember as many as I do. Of course you realise I’ll be e-mailing you a test… just 20 questions or so.
🤔💙
Lychnis coronaria is so useful, including the white form. It does very well here in my dry sandy soil and shade. I must grow Eryngium and Catananche!
I like to see the white form too.
A floral feast thanks Susan. Fabulous photos as always 🙂
Thanks, Brian.
Such pleasing combinations, tough to pick one or two favorites.
I know what you mean. I remember being very struck by the Anisondontea ‘Lady in Pink’ at the time.