I love Japanese anemones and we have lots in another part of the garden so I dont want anymore, similarly geraniums and poppies but I like the wallflower idea and I was planning kafir lilies (known here as schizophrenia) as I love them.
Japanese anemones are lovely and come in various colours and sizes. Also late flowering rudbeckia, day lilies, Lysimachia ciliata Firecracker, perennial geraniums, Iris, shasta daisy, doronicum, goodness so many to choose from.
What about having a look at the RHS site to see which perennials get their ‘award of garden merit’?
Have you already got Erysimums? Bowles Mauve seems to flower all year long. I’ve recently got a fab red flowered version called Red Jep, it is already flowering away. Particularly lovely set against silver leaved Cineraria.
Has anyone suggestions for a border (west/south west facing) which we want to plant with perennials?
Our garden isnt big, the border is about 4 metres long and 1 metre deep with a wall/fence behind. It has currently got some alliums and a couple of huecheras (cant spell that!).
The wall has pyrocanthas, actinidia and a new winter flowering evergreen clematis growing on it.