An herbaceous perennial with palmately divided (five serrated 'fingers') leaves. Plant in moist, fertile, humus-rich soil in sun

An easily cultivated plant, it succeeds in a sunny position in most fertile well-drained soils. Division in spring.

Raised readily from seed, Cardiocrinum giganteum develops and builds up a bulb to flowering size over a period of 4 to 7 years. They grow best in rich, moist but well drained, acid soils, to which liberal dressings of farmyard manure and leaf mould have been added.

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A fuchsia that is ideal for hanging baskets.

Masses of double flowers of red, edged with yellow, are produced on compact plants during the summer.  Well drained soil in full sun.

Hollyhocks are very drought resistant, and do well in full sun locations that might be too hot or dry for other plants. They produce large, flat coin-shaped seeds (1/2" diameter) that seem to grow easily wherever they drop. While an individual plant might only live a handful of years, by that time chances are good it will leave plenty of descendants. They have very long taproots which make transplanting difficult.

The cultivation required by the different types of iris run the whole gamut from arid desert conditions in full sun, through damp conditions in shade to permanent immersion in water. The wrong conditions will kill off the plants, so care should be taken to supply as correct a growing position as possible before buying the iris, and especially before planting it.

Common name - Pheasant berry and Himalayan honeysuckle. Upright deciduous shrub producing pendulous clusters of purple-red bracts. Cut back when necessary to reduce size. May be cut back hard.

The genus Lilium are herbaceous flowering plants normally growing from bulbs, comprising a genus of about 110 species in the lily family, Liliaceae. They are important as large showy flowering garden plants. 

Bright and cheery marguerites are tender perennials and flower prolifically from late spring to early winter.

An easy to grow plant in well drained conditions.  Once flowering becomes sparse cut back hard and it will reward you with a second flush.

Of all the bright color masses you can get from hardy perennials, one of the most striking is given us by the globeflower. Only tulips can rival them in glory of color. Their flowers are not so overlarge and they do not stand up separately. You might say they appear to be small ­flowered tulips with permanent roots. They differ from the buttercup botanically in that there is no green calyx covering the borders; the colored "petals" are really the outer sepals.

Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on the water surface. The leaves are round, with a radial notch in Nymphaea and Nuphar, but fully circular in Victoria.

Horticulturally, water lilies are divided into two main categories: hardy and tropical. Hardy water lilies bloom only during the day, but tropical water lilies can bloom either day or night, and are the only group to contain blue-flowered plants.

The Welsh poppy (Meconopsis cambrica) is a perennial plant of the family Papaveraceae. Its habitat is damp shady places on rocky ground, and it is native to south-western England, Wales, Ireland and Western Europe. In its most western locations, it is increasingly found on more open ground with less cover.