The Lust List – Laetitia Maklouf

Names, Origins & Habitat	Description	Soil & Moisture	Aspect	Height & Spread	Flowering Time	Notes
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Adiantum venustum Woodland margins, crevices and streamsides, China, Himalayas Click here.	Evergreen fern with quivering fronds on black stalks that spreads by creeping rhizomes – very, very pretty	Moist, well-drained, moderately fertile	Partial shade	15cm x indefinite	All-year gorgeousness	Simply the most delicate hardy evergreen fern around – put it absolutely everywhere
Alchemilla mollis Lady’s mantle Meadows and light woodland, E. Carpathians, Caucasus, Turkey Click here.	Deeply beautiful perennial with soft, hairy pale green leaves that catch water in diamond blobs, and sprays of acid-green flowers	Moist, humus-rich – but it’s pretty drought tolerant	Sun or partial shade	60cm x 75cm	Early summer to early autumn	The leaves are lovely in salads, and if you collect the dew off them in May (alone, naked and by moonlight, of course) it is said to have rather good anti-ageing properties
Ammi majus Scrub, Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia Click here.	Beautiful annual with lacy umbels in white	Moist, well-drained, fertile	Full sun or partial shade	30–90cm x 30cm	Summer	Lovely stuff for cutting and adding to other flowers or displaying on its own
Anemone x hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’ Wide-ranging habitats, N. hemisphere Click here.	Perennial with creamy white flowers and yellow stamens	Moist and fertile	Sun or partial shade	1.2m x 1.5m	August to October	Simple and pretty, and comes back and back, spreading itself around. You can get it in pink too
Astrantia major subsp. involucrata ‘Shaggy’ Hattie’s pincushion Alpine woods and meadows, C. and E. Europe Click here.	Perennial with tiny flowers that are surrounded by a ruff of papery bracts (a term used to describe something between a petal and a leaf) with green veiny tips and pinky centres	Moist, fertile, humus-rich	Sun or partial shade	30–90cm x 45cm	Early to mid-summer	Ridiculously photogenic; I seem to have more photos of this flower than any other – I see it and can’t resist. The flower dries very well, because of those bracts
Athamanta turbith Rocky slopes, meadows and scrubland, S.E. Europe Click here.	Sensationally beautiful perennial which looks like lace – even the leaves are feathery	Moderately fertile, well-drained	Full sun	50cm x 30cm	Summer	Grow lots and lots of this because it makes friends with anything you care to dump it in a vase with
Chaenomeles x superba ‘Knap Hill Scarlet’ Flowering quince Mountain woodland; a hybrid, so of garden origin Click here.	Deciduous shrub with spreading branches that have scary-looking thorns (very good against a wall to put off burglars) and outrageous blossom that’s so bright it’s almost kitsch	Moderately, fertile, partial shade well-drained	Sun or partial shade	1.5m x 2m	Spring and Summer	Comes in lots of colours, all delightful. Keep it trained, as the spines are lethal
Chimonanthus praecox Wintersweet Woodland, China Click here.	Upright deciduous shrub which looks like nothing special but has a scent that will blow your mind. It has beautiful claw-like, waxy yellow flowers with a central maroon blotch on bare winter stems	Fertile, well-drained	Full sun or partial shade	4m x 3m	November to February	May take a while to establish and flower for you but it’s worth the wait. Train it against a wall. One stem in a vase will scent your home for a week
Corydalis flexuosa Woodland and rocky mountain sites, China Click here.	Perennial with delicate feathery leaves and brilliant blue flowers	Moderately fertile, humus- rich, well-drained, not too wet	Partial shade	30cm x 20cm	April to July	The greek korydalis means ‘crested lark’. The flowers are manifold and quivering, and true, true blue