Purple border plants

[LemonViolet]

I’m putting together a west-facing border, it’s against a wall and quite narrow less than a metre wide, maybe 3-4m long depending on how far up I take it.

I’ve decided that the theme will be purple, with some lime green accent, maybe some silvery foliage as well for additional contrast.

So far I have some salvia amistad which has been on my wish list forever, an amethyst passionflower and clematis taiga to go up the wall, and a purple stachys to go in. I have some purple/lime dwarf lupins on order with some purple heuchera and green echinacea as well.

I’ll plant some alliums for next year and think will get some calliocarpa bodinieri for some purple berries in winter as well, that’s also been on my wish list forever.

Would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions for purple things, especially for year round interest, and lime/silvery things that might contrast nicely.

Honesty? For height and colour in spring summer then the paper pods for winter. The seeds I tossed in the border last autumn have all come up. I also bought an interesting chocolate leaved one at a plant sale recently, no flowers on it yet but they should be purple too

Veronica is a great plant, sending up purple spires, also comes in white and paler purple shades.

Lambs Ears, Stachys is a lovely silvery soft leaved plant with purple spires of flowers. Great for the front of the border.

Geranium Rozanne for near the front? It has a creeping habit and dies back in winter, reappearing in spring.

Campanula for the front?

Verbena near the back?

Verbena definitely, www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjIsKmo6djwAhVF1xoKHTHrC4sQFjALegQIBRAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rhs.org.uk%2Fplants%2F42079%2FVerbena-bonariensis%2FDetails&usg=AOvVaw3N7Zp1OnPScLOEX-kMMRzs

There are lots of geraniums I'd call purple. I've got an Ann Folkard which has lime green foliage, the flowers may be a bit more towards magenta than you want but it's a great plant which will climb with a bit of support.

Definitely honesty for purple now and silver later. Foxgloves? Some aquilegias.

Purple and lilac shades of crocus and iris reticulata for early spring. Pulmonaria.

And of course you can put in pansies and violas for colour from autumn through to spring as and when there are gaps. Some may establish as perennials and/or self seed.
Aubretia.

...there are so many purple flowers of all shapes and sizes!

i have a purple border too

i love my polemonium!i have a purple scabies,salvia,Aubretia...2 varieties and English Lavender
I have an Erysium but its purple/pink so may move it out.

waiting for some French Lavendar.

www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/485544403549291056/

Lobella for ground cover, lavender and would an acer count or is that too red?

I also came to suggest Polemonium (Jacobs Ladder)

Campanula glomerata, buddleia, lilac, delphinium, cornflower, teasel, camassia, sweet rocket, vinca. Purple foliage could include berberis, cotinus, physocarpus, lorapetalum.

You could grow a solanum crispum glasnevin up against the wall. I have one and it is spectacular at the moment. Needs pruning though or it can get out of control.

I love the combination of lime and purple. How about some euphorbia & nicotiana for the lime. I vaguely remember bells of Ireland being limey???

Thankyou for all the ideas everyone. It’s actually more like 5-6m long when I look at it, am rubbish at estimating distances! I’ve weeded about half of it and need to dig out some brambles and old jasmine roots, but might do some more plant shopping and start planting some things on Sunday weather permitting.

Need to think more about how to plant it up as well, because it’s a long thin border, how to not just have it looking like rows of plants in a line. It’s one thing looking at a picture of a flower and adding it to a Pinterest board....whole other ballgame working out how it will sit with other plants in the garden, in four dimensions!

Asters are good for taking you late into autumn.

I've got some lime heucheras which are lovely, "lime marmalade" IIRC.

Verbena Bonariensis are good, they self seed through my front garden and I end up pulling them out. Give height amd long flowering season as well.

I came on to say heuchera lime marmalade! I love them and they do a good job of making the border look cohesive if you dot them around. They look so bright especially in my pretty dark west facing garden.

also euphorbia x martinii

Thalictrum Delavayi
Purple fluffy flowers with yellow middles and pretty foliage.

Verbena Bonariensis
Eurysium bowlers mauve
Salvia amythest lips (is a nice contrast to the amistad and adds more of the lovely smell)
And definitely honesty (though can come through white or purple but gorgeous in both)

Baptisia "Purple Smoke" Lovley pea -type flowers in spring/summer and interesting pods in autumn here

Lilac
Lavender
Thalictrum
Verbena lollipop as well as bonariensis
Clematis - Arabella does brilliantly in a west facing border
Campanula - the tall ones as well as the groundcover ones
Geranium Rozanne
Erysimum bowles maive flowers all year round here
Rhododendron
Nicotiana (lime, not purple)

Sounds stunning. I would be planting lime green chrysanthemums for the autumn.

We plant Salvia Viridis Blue Denim, there are other named varieties, and it grows about 50cm and has bracts rather than flowers but is great for front of the border and 'flowers' til the frosts. We grow it as a hardy annual from seed, grows very easily. Also, what about agastache? Bees love it. Also cat mint. Again, fab for bees.

Cerinthe major purporescem (check spelling) it’s an annual, but once you get it going it will seed. It’s one of those plants that everyone always says” ooh,what’s that!” So has good stealth boasting properties!