Top 10 trends from the Chelsea Flower Show 2008

20.05.2008

Purple planting

Planting schemes this year favoured purple and black flowers and shrubs, with Alliums seen in abundance. For contrast, planting is often interspersed with bright orange or yellow flowers.

Popular purple planting on display:

Black Adder, Agatache
Salvia officinalis ‘Purpurascens'
Aster amellus ‘Violet Queen'
Verbascum Phoeniceum ‘Violetta'
Clematis ‘Viola'

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