Anemone Japonica

Many gardens have soil that is too poor to be worth improving particularly when some perennials would thrive there anyway. Here is a top 14 selection of perennial plants that are tolerant of poor conditions.

Spring Flowering

Alyssum - yellow flowering

Aquilegia - mixed colours likes light  shade

Digitalis - Foxgloves with purple or white spikes

Doronicum - early yellow flowers, die back quickly

Lamium - ground cover bicoloured leaves and purple flowered

Vinca - arching stems with a prostrate habit and blue flowers

Summer Flowering

Acanthus - bears breeches, spikey leaves with purple flowers

Geranium - species with low habit and pink, blue or white flowers ( not Pelargoniums)

Hemerocalis - Grass like foliage Day lilies

Hypericum - St Johns Worts shrubs with yellow flowers

Nepta - silvery foliage cat mints

Saxifrage - white and pink starry shaped flowers on a neat mound

Autumn Flowering

Anemone Japonica - Pink or white flowers clump forming

Solidago - Erect yellow flowers best in a limy soil