The Irish Mail on Sunday

FIVE PERENNIALS TO DIVIDE

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1 HEMEROCALL­IS ‘NIGHT BEACON’

During July and August, this day lily turns heads with its yellow-centred maroon flowers carried on 2ft-tall stems.

2 AGAPANTHUS ‘FIREWORKS’

A lovely form of African lily boasting 2ft-tall stems topped with rounded heads of trumpet-shaped, purple-blue and white flowers.

3 ASTILBE ‘BEAUTY OF LISSE’

Developed in Holland and preferring moist soil, its 2ft-tall spires of soft pink flowers rise above clumps of lime-green foliage.

4 EPIMEDIUM X VERSICOLOR ‘SULPHUREUM’

A ground-covering gem that’s admired for its marbled leaves and sprays of primroseye­llow spring flowers.

5 IRIS ‘CAMBRIDGE’

Making its debut in 1964, this Siberian iris, left, boasts sky-blue flowers on 3ft-tall stems that emerge through clumps of grassy leaves.

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