Galtonia candicans | Summer Hyacinth Cut flower garden The plants form a bushy

The plants form a bushy clump of bright green leaves from which the tall erect spires of flowers grow into tall slender columns of blue flowers with a wispy tip  The flowers open from the bottom up If you are also wanting a great flower for cutting then this is also a great choice

They look stunning planted en masse and you can see how effective they are from the photo taken in our garden

You can't go past Achilleas as a must-have plant in a cottage garden

We have so many varieties of Achillea in our garden and we love them all

Galtonia candicans | Summer Hyacinth Cut flower garden The plants form a bushyGaltonia candicans is known as a summer Hyacinth and is a native of South Africa. It has lovely dark green strap like foliage and sends up spikes of beautiful white scented flowers in late summer just as many other summer perennials are coming to an end. The pretty bell shaped white flowers are tinged with green and also make a stunning cut flower. Galtonia is, in fact, a bulb and it prefers a moist full sun position. We mulch ours to keep the