Tradition has it that a garden plant must have at least three valuable attributes before it is worth growing. Well, try a statuesque shapely frame - erect and almost wiry - with ramrod-straight stems ...

PERENNIALS: Aconitum carmichaelii; Actaea simplex (formerly known as Cimicifuga); Artemisia lactiflora; Japanese anemones (A. hupehensis and A x hybrida); asters (the novi-belgii kinds are prone to ...