Dieramas are graceful, drooping, rosy-pink perennials.

Dieramas are the prima ballerinas of the garden: willowy, graceful, quite impossible-looking, in many ways. Their perfect little pink bell flowers hang from thin stems which droop daintily. Their common name is ‘Angel’s fishing rod’, and it’s not a great struggle to see why.

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Plant in clumps with grasses and other painterly plants such as nepeta, salvia and eryngium.

They are evergreen perennials which grow to just over a metre when mature, and have very little spread at the base.

This is part of the dream garden series on plants for a new F&F garden.

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