Half Hardy and Summer Patio

The original old fashioned houseplant, a tender perennial with fleshy stems, making an upright or sprawling plant. Large bright pink flowers over a long period. Can be bedded out in the summer, indoors it makes a nice house plant.

Tender evergreen climber from South Africa with very sweetly scented white flowers from summer to autumn. This is not hardy although it can happily be grown in a pot and put outsside for the summer.

Tender evergreen shrub with small tubular white flowers surrounded by yellow coloured bracts which last long after flowers have faded.

Tender shrub of open habit with green leaves and spectacular, large plumes of bright pink tubular flowers from mid summer-autumn.

Capable of making a tall plant, with the ability to produce baby plants along the edges. Clusters of large pink pendant flowers Keep frost free and out of direct sun under glass.

A species with tubular pink flowers with flared mouths that are green liberally spotted with purple. From high up in the Colombian Andes so reasonably cold tolerant.

Half hardy bulbous plant from South Africa with spotted leaves and red and yellow drooping tubular flowers in spring. For a cool greenhouse or a sheltered frost-free garden.

Spreading succulent with grey-green leaves and bright mauve dasies from late spring-summer. Grow in loam based compost with added grit in full sun. Should take a touch of frost but won't like winter wet.

Spreading succulent with grey-green leaves and bright yellow daisy-like flowers from late spring-summer. Grow in loam based compost with added grit in full sun. Should take a touch of frost but won't like winter wet.

Shrubby perennial from South Africa with eye-catching orange hairy flowers held in whorls up the stem in late summer. Needs a large pot and winter protection

A frost-tender climber or trailing plant with lovely white , trumpet-shaped flowers in summer. Can be used in hanging baskets or trained up a short obelisk

A frost-tender climber or trailing plant with lovely deep wine-red, trumpet-shaped flowers in summer. Can be used in hanging baskets or trained up a short obelisk

The rare white form of S. rantonettii. Makes an arching shrub, needing support against a wall, for a cool conservatory or sheltered city garden. Long flowering. Can be pruned hard in spring.

A dainty tender climber with a twining habit and a plentiful supply of purple snapdragon like flowers all summer. Will also trail, so ideal for baskets is sun to part shade

A vigourous hybrid,grown either as a climber or trailer, with masses of vivid red or pink trumpet-shaped flowers. Dies down to a tuber in winter.