Plants Flowering in August

Clear white with dark centre

Single bright red with dark cone.

Orange ray florets around an orange-brown central cone

Brilliant red, floriferous

Single golden-yellow flowers

Deep pink petals curved forward from the centre. Will tolerate a dry site

Single bright orange flowers with orange-red centre

Bright tomato-red

Single white, lightly fragrant flowers, with large orange cone. Strong floriferous variety

Deep blue flowers

Clear blue thistle flowers

Blue thistle-like flowers, with silver foliage

White flowered thistle

(candicans) - medium bushy shrub with grey-green foliage and short spikes of bluish flowers

(Acanthopanax sessiliflorus) - spiny stems in immaturity, creamy, globular flowers followed by black berries

Violet pink flowers in late summer, aromatic foliage turns red in autumn

Rare tree with bronze coloured young growth and large ovate leaves. It has very seldom flowered in the UK so the sight of its large flattish white pyramidical flowers remains a great challenge

Large reddish-green leaves. Tender

('Darkest of all') - hardy low-growing perennial with purple flowers

Lilac-pink daisy flowers, good in dry exposed conditions

(syn mucronatus) - myriads of white daisies turning pink

(syn. Philotheca myoporoides) - Aromatic dark green leaves. Fragrant pinkish-white flowers

Grows up to 6 feet with tall thistle-like flowering heads

Purple-amethyst coloured flowers, very striking

A new introduction with darker and larger blue flowers on robust stems

Grows up to 3 feet with silvery white flower heads. Will self seed readily.

Large steely-blue prickly flowers which age to dark blue over silver-grey foliage

Clump-forming with light blue flowers and blue green bracts. A useful cut flower with 3 foot stems

Small deep blue thistle flowers

Evergreen marbled leaves with silver blue thistles. Grows up to 2 feet