Echinacea Big Kahuna

Large, honey-mango coloured daises freely produced on sturdy plants July-Sept. Grow in open, sunny border on well drained soil that doesn't bake dry

Echinacea pallida

75cm. Lovely species form with drooping, spidery, narrow petals arranged around a prominent central 'cone' of stamens. Likes an open sunny border on a reasonably well drained but not terribly dry soil.

Echinacea purpurea Magnus

As Echinacea go, Magnus is a good doer; perennial with narrowly oval leaves and flowerheads to 10cm wide, with drooping deep pink rays and an orange-brown central cone.
Grow in an open, sunny border on any reasonable soil

Echinacea purpurea White Swan

Large, upward facing white daisies held on stiff stems around 45cm high from mid summer onwards.
Looks spectactular grown in big drifts and associates well with grasses. Grow in sun on any reasonable soil

Echinacea Sombrero Lemon

A vibrant Coneflower with an abundance of brilliant golden-yellow flowers, 7 cm across, adorned with a skirt of wide, overlapping, drooping petals surrounding a copper central cone. Well branched, its numerous flowering stems are sturdy and held upright.

Echinacea Sombrero Orange

A compact, clump-forming perennial to 60cm tall with dark green, hairy foliage. Flowers up to 7.5cm in diameter are borne from summer into autumn on well-branched, sturdy stems and comprise overlapping, slightly drooping orange ray florets surrounding an orange-brown central cone

Echinops ritro

1.4m. Upright clumps clothed in grey green thistle like leaves and topped by spherical, golf ball sized blue flowers from Jul -Sept. Likes an open, sunny border on any reasonably well drained soil. Also makes an absolute magnet for bees

Epimedium Pink Elf

Wiry stems to 25cm carry soft pink flowers with reddish brown centres April - May and again in September. Evergreen, deer resistant leaves make dense, weed smothering ground cover in light shade.

Cut foiage off in late winter  to display flowers better

Epimedium pubigerum Orange Queen

30cm. Great evergreen ground cover for a lightly shaded corner: Sprays of small bowl shaped apricot orange flowers appear in early spring before copper tinted green foliage appears. Leaves are evergreen but should be cut back in late winter so that spring flowers can be seen clearly. Grow in light shade on any reasonable soil, can cope with dry shade once establish

Epimedium Purple Pixie

Striking  purple pink flowers with contrasting white spurs are freely produced in early spring just before the spring foliage opens fully. Makes good ground cover for a shady border on humous rich soil that drains well but doesn't bake dry

Epimedium x peralchium Frohnleiten

Excellent, strong-growing evergreen ground cover with leathery leaves composed of up to five ovate leaflets, and sprays of chartreuse yellow flowers 2cm wide, held well above the foliage
grow in light shade on any reasonable soil

Erigeron karvinskianus

Mexican Fleabane. Low mounds are studded with pink and white daisies from May right through until frosts; the flowers open white and turn pink once they are pollinated, giving a lovely multi tonal overall effect. Very drought tolerant, it grows in borders, pots, hanging baskets, paving cracks, you name it!

Erigeron Quakeress

55cm. Lovely old variety of Erigeron with palest lavender daisies from mid summer right through until early autumn. Very easy, Likes sun or light shade on any reasonable soil

Erodium manescavii

From late spring, through to frosts, intricately veined magenta flowers are freely produced in clusters at the top of slender stems above mounds of downy disected foliage.
Grow in full sun on well drained soil, tolerates drought once established

Erodium pelargonifolium

30cm. Incredibly floriferous from early summer to the end of the autumn, the tidy domes of pretty foliage will fill crevices in walls or provide excellent groundcover for drier areas of your borders. Related to Geraniums, Erodium are their alpine cousins, enjoying a sunny spot on well drained soil

Eryngium giganteum Miss Willmott's Ghost

Self seeding biennial. Low clumps of  dark green foliage in first year and stout, branching stems topped by chunky silver thimble shaped flower heads, each surrounded by a showy silver 'ruff'. Excellent cut flower, fresh or dried. Prefers full sun on well drained soil

Eryngium planum Blaukappe

Basal clumps of deep green, leathery foliage. Branching stems to around 60cm tall are topped by steely blue thimble shaped flower heads, each surrounded by a spikey looking ruff. Flowers start appearing in July but usually look good well into autumn.
Likes full sun on well drained soil, makes a good cut flower fresh or dried and loved by bees and hoverflies too

Erysimum Apricot Twist

Compact plants to 45cm x 45cm are smothered in deep purple buds that open to pale tangerine flowers ageing to a deep, warm copper orange. Start flowering in mid spring and is still going strong in late summer
Plant in full sun on well drained soil

Erysimum Bowles Mauve

An old variety that has stood the test of time by being one of the longest flowered garden plants you can plant. Deep mauve flowers start to open early spring as weather improves and goes on through to late summer.

Plants often become woody and need replacing by end of third season. Likes full sun on well drained soil and tolerates drought once established

Erythronium Pagoda

Naturally a spring flowering woodland bulb, this little beauty will do well left to it's own devices at the back of herbaceous borders and under deciduous shrubs, where it will shaded out as other plants come into growth too.
March-April, expect glossy green leaves with a subtle snakeskin like mottling and lovely reflexed yellow flowers. Clump up and self seed where happy on well drained but retentive, humous rich soil.

Eupatorium fistulosum Atropurpurea

Back of border clumps up to 3 metres depending on how retentive and deep soil is. Purple stained stems clothed in lightly toothed , simple shaped leaves are topped by dome shaped flower heads in dusky mauve from August-Oct, followed by nice fluffy seed heads. Sun or light shade on good soil

Euphorbi cyparisss Fens Ruby

30cm. Creeping herbaceous ground cover for sun or light shade. Smallish foliage starts dark green and colours red in spring sunshine, setting off rounded heads of lime green flower bracts April-May

Euphorbia characias subsp Wulfenii

An erect, sparsely-branched medium-sized sub-shrub with oblong, grey-green leaves and large, rounded heads of greenish-yellow flowers in late spring add a zing to any border. Grow in sun on any reasonable soil

Euphorbia myrsinites

Prized for it's sprawling stems clothed in blue-green leaves arranged in spirals and gorgeous chartreuse or bright yellow bracts that are surrounded by bright yellow bracts produced in in early spring.
Ideal for rockeries, tumbling over low walls or ground cover for sunny borders with well drained soils

Euphorbia segueriana

Low mounds of willowy stems clad in small, narrow grey green leaves terminating in clusters of acid green flower bracts from mid summer into early autumn. Very drought tolerant, growth can be lax on richer, retentive soils. Good for pollinating insects