We like the planters on our Gardens Illustrated Chelsea stand to reflect what you'll find in the magazine - rare and unusual plants that you'll want to grow in your garden.
This year Hortus Loci kindly provided the plants to include
![GI planter](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/40/2019/05/GI-planter-d34464c.jpg?webp=1&w=1200)
Iris sibirica 'Silver Edge'
Salvia nutans
Geum 'Totally Tangerine'
Bupleurum longifolium 'Bronze Form'
Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote'
Lunaria annua 'Corfu Blue'
Geranium Rozanne
Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low'
Iris sibirica 'Silver Edge'
![Iris on stand2](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/40/2019/05/Iris-on-stand2-cc58708.jpg?webp=1&w=1200)
This iris featured in our May selection of Plantsman's Favourites as chosen by head gardener Tom Brown - so we are delighted to have it included in our planter. Here's what Tom wrote about the plant: If you have space for just one Siberian iris then 'Silver Edge' is hard to beat. Its abundant and large flowers are a rich blue colour and have a distinctive silver edge that gives them a real presence. They appear above grass-like foliage in May and June and are most floriferous if they are given a sun drenched position with a reasonable level of moisture during the summer. AGM.
Height 1m
Conditions Fertile, moist but well-drained soil; full sun.
Salvia nutans
![Salvia on stand](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/40/2019/05/Salvia-on-stand-f40e514.jpg?webp=1&w=1200)
This is an aromatic plant found of steep steppic slopes. It forms bluebell-like crowds that are visible from a distance. The flower clusters become erect in fruit. This particular plant was grown from seed collected under licence by Hortus Loci from a meadow in Romania and as such is pretty special and precious to have in our planters. In fact it is on the Romanian IUCN Red List as being a threatened species in the wild. If you're at the show we do hope you have a chance to admire it.
Here is it growing wild in a Romanian meadow
![Salvia nutans c. Richard Bloom](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/40/2019/05/Salvia-nutans-cRichardBloom-f9b62b9.jpg?webp=1&w=1200)
• With huge thanks to Hortus Loci for this gorgeous plant selection
Don't miss our reader day with Hortus Loci coming up on 22nd June.