All this season’s biggest garden trends decoded
Purple reign The Pantone colour of the year, ultraviolet, works brilliantly with many others and is robust enough to cope with brave combinations (purple and orange, say). There’s still time to plant tubers of the cactus-flowered Dahlia ‘Purple Gem’ or, for purple foliage, Heuchera ‘Forever Purple’ or ‘Frosted Violet’. For climbers, there are many violet clematis, but I like the compact ‘Edda’, which is ideal for containers.