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As well as making excellent foils for intense and hot colours, silver plants, which are adapted to reflect the sun’s heat, are some of the toughest you can grow. Ideal candidates for sunny, dry gardens, they’re often salt tolerant, too, and so work well in coastal gardens. Karen Platt’s Silver Lining (Black Tulip Publishing, £16.99) is packed with silver, white, pearly, glaucous and variegated species. To order online, visit www.karenplatt.co.uk

Green spaces of all styles and sizes are the subject of a summer photography exhibition by members of the Garden Photographers’ Association, which opens on July 5 at the Geffrye Museum, 136 Kingsland Road, London E2. It is open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun noon-5pm (020-7739 9893; www.geffrye-museum.org.uk).

The Ewerbeck, from Oxford Planters, is part of a range of large oak planters that make superb containers for single- specimen plants, such as box or bay. This one is finished with distinctive lead flashing and finials and comes in two sizes, 70cm x 70cm x 75cm (£630) and 90cm x 90cm x 95cm (£800); delivery is extra. The Oak Collection can be finished with teak oil while other planters, made from a variety of hardwoods from sustainable sources, can be supplied painted. Times readers who make an order by July 22 can get a 10 per cent discount on all products. To see the range, visit www.oxfordplanters.co.uk; to order call 01295 722056 quoting Times Offer. There is a four-week delivery on most items.