Imperata cylindrica | Red Baron | Blood Grass Cut flower garden Plants should be divided every

Plants should be divided every few years to ensure strong flowering

Also known as "Bugle"

but can be shaped after flowering to encourage more flowers

Teucrium scorodonia | Crispum Marginatum also known as woodland sage or woodland germander spreads by rhizomes and is a mounding groundcover that has the most exquisitely ruffled leaves with a teeny touch of white on the edges

Pinching your asters back by taking out the growing tips in spring will also help to keep your plants nice and compact

Imperata cylindrica | Red Baron | Blood Grass Cut flower garden Plants should be divided everyA striking grass that has stunning appeal in the garden. It is a winter dormant plant but come spring it pops up with bright green blades of grass like foliage that turn cranberry red in summer and progresses to a dark burgundy colour by autumn before going dormant again in winter. Blood Grass as it is also known will easily and reasonably quickly form a dense clump of around 40cm in height and by about the same in width and spreads by underground