Compiled by Norma Stevenson…
- Achillea (hardy perennial)
- Angelica ‘guigas’ (remove flower spike immediately after flowering)
- Calendula (Pot Marigold)
- Cardoon
- Ceonothus (get tree-sized one) scented
- Coca-vita fisifolia (cool-tolerant gourd, instead of butternut squash, can eat stem tips) / known as ‘Sharks Fin Melon’ in south Asia
- Coriander
- Crocus
- Delphinium
- Euphorbia ‘manifura’ (statuesque)
- Gaillardia (dwarf, daisy-like, excellent in bedding and containers)
- Hellebores
- Hollyhock (hardy perennial)
- Lavender (stoicas – French looking lavender)
- Mahonia x Media ‘Buckland’ (e/green shrub, 1-3m tall. Yellow flowers in winter. Hardy. Prefers moist, well drained, fertile soil. Ideal vandal-proof screen.
- Myrtle (makes excellent hedging and is scented)
- Nemesia (small, in a window box)
- Oregano
- Pansies
- Petunia
- Phlox
- Photina (unclipped until after flowering)
- Poached egg plant; limnanthes douglasii
- Rudbeckia
- Salvia
- Sarcococca hookeriana var. Digyna ‘Christmas box’ (shrub, ground cover, e/green, 50-100cm high. Dark green foliage, white flowers in winter, frost hardy. Moist, shady spot. Heady winter fragrance)
- Scabious
- Sea holly
- Skimmia japonica (male; scented)