Alchemilla mollis

Common name: lady's mantle

Description: A classic cottage garden perennial with soft, rounded, scalloped, pale green leaves that catch and hold droplets of dew and rain beautifully, and airy sprays of tiny, frothy lime-green flowers throughout summer.

Other benefits: excellent ground cover and edging plant, self-seeds readily, popular with flower arrangers

Wildlife attraction: bees, hoverflies

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 0.5m x 0.6m

Position: full sun or partial shade

Soil pH: neutral to alkaline

Moisture: moist but well-drained

Winter hardiness: fully hardy to below -15°C