Top 10 trends from Chelsea


20.05.2008

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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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