| Pair orangey-yellow day lilies with sweetly fragrant phlox and burnt orange Helenium 'Moerheim Beauty' with long-flowering purple Aster frikatii. |
| First-year flowering perennials which can be sown early in heated propagators then grown on in a greenhouse or cool room include achillea, helenium, echinacea and salvia. |
| For example, herbaceous perennials such as yarrow, baby's breath and Helenium can be staked with bushy hazel, birch or beech twigs. |
| Add instant late summer colour with dahlia, red hot pokers and helenium blooms. |
| Perennials which benefit from dividing every few years include hostas, cranesbill geranium, montbretia, rudbeckia, helenium and aster. |
| Ward's paste, consisting of black pepper and the powdered root of helenium Enula. |
