Summer in the Pavilion Gardens

Royal Pavilion gardens

Photo by Maureen Brand

Plants to see in the flowerbeds, No 3 of 4

Continuing this series of pages about which plants can be seen in the Pavilion Gardens, here are the ones to look out for during the summer months:

• Many varieties of pink and white flowered rock rose (cistus)
• Yellow pea-flowered common broom (spartium junceum)
• Rosemary
• Grey-leaved cotton lavender
• Jasmin (jasminum humile revolutum)
• Mock orange (philadelphus coronarius)
• Yellow-flowered potentilla (potentilla fruticosa)
• St John's Wort (hypericum prolificum and hypericum androsaemum)
• Rose-acacia (robinia hispida)
• 15 varieties of old roses

Also the herbaceous plants peeping out from among the greenery will include more:

• Peonies
• Foxgloves
• Sweet Williams
• Blue larkspurs
• Scarlet poppies (papaver bracteatum)
• Double daisies
• Columbines
• Sweet rocket (hesperis matronalis)
• Scarlet Maltese Cross (lychnis chalcedonica)

Happy plant spotting!

[Information from: 'Set for a King: 200 Years of Gardening at the Royal Pavilion', by Mike Jones, Royal Pavilion, Museums & Libraries, 2005; previously published in the 'North Laine Runner', No 180, May/June 2006]