Aruncus sylvestris | Goats Beard plant Being a double white flower

Being a double white flower it is an excellent cut flower as well as being suited to drying

Each division should have several leaves and a portion of the root system

Verbascums are happy in full sun to partial shade and like a well-drained position

Grows well in sun or shade and can tolerate poor soils but does like moisture so mulching helps

Achillea chrysocoma grandiflora looks amazing in a wild garden and has spectacular feathery limey-green finely divided leaves that look great even when it is not flowering

Aruncus sylvestris | Goats Beard plant Being a double white flowerAlso known as Aruncus dioicus or Goats Beard this lovely plant has plumes of creamy white tiny starlike flowers resembling an Astilbe but it is considerably taller is stature. Aruncus is an attractive perennial with mounds of fernlike leaves so there is a big show from early summer right through until autumn when it loses it leaves and becomes dormant until spring. This clump forming perennial grows quite slowly up to around 1. 2 to 1. 8m in height