Seasonal Planting - Summer

The cooler weather of this year's early summer doesn't mean we won't be able to indulge our plans for the summer garden. Try new planting schemes that run riot with colour - hot tips include planting delphiniums, campanulas and lupins with paeonies, as well as putting roses in the shrub border beside mallows and deutzias - and for added beauty and scent, add philadelphus, the lovely "mock orange" . 

We've put together a list of plants that will work well in our gardens here in the North East. All of the plants listed are readily available here at Raemoir as well as expert advice on hand if you're not sure what will work best for your garden.

Clematis Clematis are a wide ranging genus of deciduous and evergreen climbing plants the large flowering summer hybrids provide spectacular displays all clematis benefit from moist and shaded roots but growing in a sunny shelter aspect for best results, all later flowering varieties need to pruned hard every spring.

Philadelphus Philadelphus is free flowering shrub commonly referred to as the `mock orange` with a rewarding fragrance wide selection of single/double varieties available during the summer months a good shrub for a mixed border cut back shoots to a strong bud each year after flowering on older plants, remove roughly a quarter of the oldest branches each year to encourage new growth