Plants for Clay Soil
Find plants for heavier garden soil, including Hydrangea, Viburnum, hostas, daylilies and other suitable perennials. Choose for your light and drainage as well as the soil texture.

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Pauls' Scarlet Climbing Rose 4.5 Litre
Pauls' Scarlet is a rose for training over a suitable wall, fence or support, with scarlet red blooms. Its main flowering display arrives in early ...
View full detailsPeace Hybrid Tea Rose 3.5 Litre
Peace is a hybrid tea rose with individual flowers that stand out in a rose border, with yellow edged with pink blooms. Enjoy its summer flowers in...
View full detailsPeace Hybrid Tea Rose 4.5 Litre
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Peace is a hybrid tea rose with individual flowers that stand out in a rose border, with yellow edged with pink blooms. Enjoy its summer flowers in...
View full detailsPear 'Clapp's Favourite' 10 Litre
Pear 'Clapp's Favourite' produces large, juicy yellow-green pears with a red flush and sweet, melting flesh. White spring blossom is followed by an...
View full detailsPear 'Conference' 10 Litre
Pear 'Conference' is a dependable garden variety producing sweet, juicy pears with fine, melting flesh. White blossom appears in spring and the fru...
View full detailsPear 'Williams' 10 Litre
Pear 'Williams' is a classic dessert pear producing aromatic, juicy yellow fruit with smooth, melting flesh. White spring blossom is followed by an...
View full detailsPerennial Lobelia 'Starship Blue' | Lobelia × speciosa 'Starship Blue'
Deep purple-blue flowers stand on tall spikes above fresh green foliage. A moisture-loving perennial, 'Starship Blue' brings strong vertical colour...
View full detailsPerennial Lobelia 'Starship Scarlet' | Lobelia × speciosa 'Starship Scarlet' (2 Litre)
Scarlet-red flowers rise on upright spikes above a compact clump of foliage. This perennial lobelia is at its best in a moisture-retentive border, ...
View full detailsPersicaria 'Flamingo Feathers' 2L
Persicaria 'Flamingo Feathers' is an upright perennial with fresh green foliage and airy spikes of soft rose-pink flowers from midsummer into autum...
View full detailsPersicaria 'Red Dragon' 2L
Persicaria 'Red Dragon' is a striking foliage perennial grown for its dark red-purple leaves marked with a distinctive silvery chevron. Small pale ...
View full detailsPersicaria amphibia P9
Persicaria amphibia 'Aurea' is a versatile and attractive aquatic plant, known for its vibrant foliage and charming flowers. This perennial species...
View full detailsPersicaria bistorta P9
Persicaria bistorta, also known as Bistort or Snakeweed, is a perennial plant that is valued for its striking, tightly-wound, spike-lik...
View full detailsPhlox paniculata 'Famous Pink' 2L
This hybrid compact selection, part of the Early Start series, blooms earlier than other traditional paniculata types and produces large clusters o...
View full detailsPhotinia 'Red Robin' | Photinia × fraseri (140 × 100 cm Frame, 45 Litre)
Photinia ‘Red Robin’ is an evergreen screening plant with bright red young leaves that mature to glossy green. This 45 litre specimen is trained on...
View full detailsPhotinia fraseri 'Little Red Robin' (2 Litre)
Photinia fraseri 'Little Red Robin' is a compact cultivar of the popular Photinia shrub. Known for its vibrant young red foliage that matures to a ...
View full detailsPhotinia fraseri Chico 2L pot
Photinia Chico is a very popular option for planting in a border or a low hedge due to it is fantastic colour and hardiness. With bright red foilag...
View full detailsPhotinia fraseri Red Robin (7.5 Litre | 80-100cm)
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Photinia × fraseri 'Red Robin' is a widely admired hedging plant known for its vibrant red young leaves that gradually mature to a glossy green. Th...
View full detailsPhotinia Serr. Red Robin Espallier 180cm x 120cm
A splendid shrub with red & green leaves. It has beautiful red, glossy young foliage, and large, rounded heads of ivory flowers, this versatile...
View full detailsPhotinia × fraseri 'Carré Rouge' 5 Litre
Photinia × fraseri 'Carré Rouge' is a compact evergreen shrub valued for its vivid cherry-red young growth, which matures to glossy dark green. Nat...
View full detailsPink Cloud Climbing Rose 4.5 Litre
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Pink Cloud is a rose for training over a suitable wall, fence or support, with cerise pink blooms. Enjoy its summer flowers in a sunny, well-prepar...
View full detailsPlum 'Damson' 10 Litre
Plum ‘Damson’ The Plum ‘Damson’ is a traditional and highly valued fruit tree, known for its small, dark purple fruits and rich, tart flavour. Unli...
View full detailsPlum 'Opal' 10 Litre
Plum ‘Opal’ The Plum ‘Opal’ is a popular early-season dessert plum, originally bred in Sweden. It produces medium-sized, oval fruits with a reddi...
View full detailsPlum 'Victoria' 10 Litre
Plum ‘Victoria’ The Plum ‘Victoria’ is the most popular and widely grown plum variety in the UK, prized for its reliable cropping and delicious fla...
View full detailsPolemonium caeruleum 'Bambino Blue'
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Polemonium caeruleum Bambino Blue, commonly known as Jacob's Ladder, is a compact and charming perennial plant with delicate, fern-like foliage and...
View full detailsWork with your clay soil
Clay holds moisture and nutrients, but its drainage and workability vary. Hydrangeas and Viburnum offer shrub options, while hostas, Bergenia, Astrantia and daylilies bring foliage or flowers to suitable sites. Choose each plant for sun or shade and avoid treating clay as a single set of conditions. Soil that stays saturated needs a different approach from heavy soil that drains between showers. Improve soil structure where appropriate and avoid trampling or digging when it is very wet. Our team can help interpret your garden photos and choose for the actual conditions.
Notice how long water remains after rain. Clay-tolerant does not automatically mean tolerant of standing water.
Avoid working saturated soil. Prepare a broad planting area and discuss suitable organic matter with our team.
Hostas and hydrangeas have different needs from sunny-border daylilies. Check the individual variety.
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