The plants
The Surrey Youth Offer team have supported the planting for the show garden, growing some from seed and looking after the plants. Plants were purchased from local nurseries, supporting small businesses in Surrey and reducing our carbon footprint. We also grew Cosmos, from seed, to show that communities can get involved and produce good quality plants with minimal resources and expertise.
All the plants that have been grown and purchased will be relocated to Guildford, Walton and Cranleigh.
We used peat free compost made in our recycling centre at Chertsey for the plants and for the compost in the show. The compost was made from Surrey residents' food and garden waste.
Trees and shrubs
- Field maple - Acer Campestre
- Eastern redbud - Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'
- Franchet's cotoneaster - Cotoneaster franchetii
- Bay tree - Laurus nobilis
- Mountain pine - Pinus mugo
- Rosemary - Rosmarinus officinalis
- Yew - Taxus baccata
Herbaceous perennials
- Perennial wallflower - Erysimum 'Bowles's Mauve'
- English ivy- Hedera helix
- Rose campion - Lychnis coronaria
- Maidenhair vine - Muehlenbeckia complexa
- Lambs ear - Stachys byzantina 'Silver Carpet'
- Mullein - Verbascum 'Pink Domino'
- Mullein - Verbascum 'Gainsborough'
Trees and shrubs
- River birch - Betula nigra
- Mexican orange blossom - Choysia Aztec Pearl
Herbaceous perennials
- Pheasant's tail grass - Anemanthele lesonianna
- Masterwort - Astrantia 'Roma'
- Montbretia - Crocosmia 'Buttercup'
- Tufted hair grass - Deschampsia cespitosa 'Golden Veil'
- Daylily - Hemerocallis ''Catherine Woodbury'
- Sedge - Carex
- Willow-leaved loosestrife - Lysimachia ephemerum
- Ostrich fern - Matteuccia struthiopteris
- Caradonna sage - Salvia Caradonna
- Ninebark - Physocarpus
- Purpletop vervain - Verbena bonariensis
- Calla lily - Zantedeschia aethiopica
- False goats beard - Astilbe
- Knotweed - Persicaria
- Cardinal flower - Lobella
- Anise hyssop - Agastache
Trees and shrubs
- Black elder - Sambucus nigra 'Black Lace'
- Star jasmine - Trachelospermum jasminoides
Herbaceous perennials
- Masterwort - Astrantia Major 'Claret'
- Masterwort - Astrantia Major 'Star of Love'
- Japanese thimbleweed - Japanese Anemone
- Cranesbill - Geranium 'Johnsons Blue'
- Giant blue hosta - Hosta sieboldiana 'Elegans'
- Coral bells - Heuchera lime Marmelade
- Coral bells - Heuchera 'Marmalade'
- Ladys mantle - Alchemilla mollis
- Siberian bugloss - Brunnera 'Jack Frost'
- Siberian bugloss - Brunnera 'Variegata'
- Bishops hat - Epimedium 'Orange Queen'
- Pheasants tail grass - Anemanthele lessoniana
- Wood spurge - Euphobia amydaloides 'Purpurea'
- Soft caress mahonia - Mahonia eurybracteata 'Soft Caress'
- Soft shield fern - Polystichum setiferum
- Foamflower - Tiarella