Plants for Sunny Gardens
Make the most of a bright garden with fragrant lavender, flowering salvias, airy verbena and colourful perennials. Explore sun-loving plants for borders and patio pots, choosing for your soil, space and shelter.

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Apple 'Cox's Orange Pippin' 10 Litre
Apple 'Cox's Orange Pippin' is a celebrated dessert apple with aromatic, richly flavoured fruit and attractive spring blossom. This two-year bush t...
View full detailsApple 'Elstar' 10 Litre
Apple 'Elstar' produces crisp, juicy dessert apples with a balanced sweet-sharp flavour and an attractive red flush. Spring blossom is followed by ...
View full detailsApple 'Gala' 10 Litre
Apple 'Gala' is a popular dessert variety producing sweet, crisp and juicy apples with red-striped skin. Its pink-white spring blossom is followed ...
View full detailsAutumn Raspberry 'Heritage' | Rubus idaeus 'Heritage' (2 Litre, Single Cane)
An autumn-fruiting raspberry producing red berries on the current season's canes, usually from late August into October. A sunny sheltered site imp...
View full detailsBlackberry 'Thornless Evergreen' | Rubus laciniatus 'Thornless Evergreen'
A vigorous thornless blackberry with deeply cut leaves and black berries in late summer and autumn. Foliage may persist in mild winters; provide a ...
View full detailsGrape 'Boskoop Glory' | Vitis 'Boskoop Glory' (2 Litre, Single Cane)
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A hardy grapevine bearing seeded dark blue-purple fruit, generally ready in September or October in a sunny sheltered position. Useful for eating, ...
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 detailsBuild a sunny border with colour and texture
Repeat lavender, Nepeta or compact salvias along the front of a border, then add Achillea, Echinacea or Rudbeckia for flowering colour. Verbena brings light, airy height, while Festuca adds fine-textured foliage and low sedums suit free-draining edges. Plan flowering times and mature sizes before combining plants. A sunny site can still have damp or heavy soil: match each plant to its preferred moisture and drainage, and check hardiness for more tender salvias and French lavender. Explore our cottage, coastal and seasonal collections below, or bring garden photos to our horticulturists in Clondalkin for advice.
Check how much direct sun reaches the planting area through the day, allowing for shade from trees and buildings.
Group plants with similar needs. Lavender and sea thrift need good drainage; Helenium and Rudbeckia appreciate moisture-retentive soil that drains well.
Compare flowering months and combine different heights. Water new plants while they establish and check patio pots regularly in warm weather.
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