The border faced the sun for most of the day and the soil was poor and stony. The answer was Mediterranean planting!  I kept the existing rock roses and some of the existing lavender which was doing so well that it was overwhelming the area and replaced it with a mixture of sun loving hardy perennials.

Origanum ‘Rosenkuppel’ – great for bees and lovely pink/purple flowers through the summer,  Sedum ‘Purple Emperor’ – beautiful purple fleshy leaves with dark red flowers which are again a bee magnet,  Lychnis coronaria (Rose Campion) – elegant tall grey leaves topped with brilliant pink flowers,  Gaura lindheimeri – wafting stems topped with white/pink flowers and finally Erigeron karvanskianos – pretty tiny daisies cascading over the edge of the border from June through to Autumn.