Which flowers for my garden?

What is in your garden already? Is it sunny or shady? How tall would you like them to be? Will they be in a sheltered or exposed place?

If you like pink I like hemp agrimony it grows to 1.5m

Purple options: Russia sage, delphinium, veronica

various colours: lupins

All of the above are low maintenance and pollinator friendly options.

Some shrub roses are a nice height.

A good place to start your search is using the RHS plant finder

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-form

If you pick something very tall like hemp agrimony consider planting a ‘mid storey’ layer in front of them as cover as their stalks are not very attractive. I think purple cone flowers, autumn joy, New England asters and oregano work well with it.

Another stunning very tall purple flower is verbena bonariensis, stunning grown en masse.

The only thing about all those options are that they are perennials and will die back to ground level in winter so not great for winter screening I suppose.

what are good flowery plants for an area that doesn't get that much sunlight?

I had to look up hemp agrimony. Turns out I have it in my garden. I don't love it, so i moved it to the back. Will be covered in all sorts of bees and butterflies in the summer

The verbena bonariensis is a great flower but it needs to be cut down at the end of the season and allowed to grow from the base again - it will gain full height every year, or it will make a scruffy and untidy heap. It will self seed quite willingly.

I am very fond of snapdragons - you can get small ones and tall ones, the taller ones seem to be hardier and will also seed themselves. They are easy to grow from seed.

Wallflowers are also easy and give a lovely show and scent - mine are still in flower from last summer.

Alstromarias have lovely flowers and last well. They prefer a more sunny spot.

The tall campanulas are easy and flower enthusiastically. You can also grow the short ones as ground cover.

If you have dry sandy soil in a sunny area lavender is great for the summer.

Heucheras have less showy flowers but lovely leaves in different colours that will sit all year giving you easy winter interest.

I second wallflowers! Love them, I have planted one years ago and has lasted the test of time. It has such a long flowering season, I think mine is actually showing flower buds already and goes on to late November in my garden. A good choice as it holds its leaves in winter, but mine isn’t very tall?

You can buy bulbs ‘in the green’ now which means they’ve already been started in a pot, it’s a more expensive option than bulbs themselves. Technically it’s supposed to be too late spring flowering bulbs but I planted some a few weeks ago as I forgot about them, don’t know how they’ll fair though.

As for shade loving flowers I grow some varieties of Japanese anemones, astilbe and astrantia and they seem to like the shade/partial shade.