Archive | April, 2008
Blue Passion Flower, Common Passion Flower
Latin name: Passiflora cerulia Description: Beautiful and essential, fast growing evergreen to semi-evergreen climber with attractive, palmate, dark green leaves. The delectable flowers are white with a blue or purple banded corona from summer to autumn followed by ochre yellow egg-shaped fruits. ‘Constance Elliot’ is an attractive white-flowered cultivar. Hardiness: Hardy to -10C and probably […]
Continue reading...Skunk Cabage
10. April 2008
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Latin name: Lysichiton americanus Description: The foliage of this amazing herbaceous perennial is dramatic to say the least and very tropical in appearance, rising up from the ground to 1m or more tall. Each leaf is like a giant paddle, mid-green and leathery in texture and on a mature plant can be 30cm or more […]
Continue reading...Himalayan Honeysuckle
10. April 2008
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Latin name: Leycesteria formosa Description: It is seldom found in contemporary British gardens, though attempts have been made in recent years to popularize the species in Britain with new cultivated varieties appearing in most garden centers. It was much grown by the Victorians. It has soft, hollow, upright green stems which only last for a […]
Continue reading...Hosta
10. April 2008
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Latin name: Hosta Description: Well known garden plants grown for their large, imposing and often beautifully variegated leaves. H. ‘Frances Williams’ is a delightful mid-sized Hosta with large heart-shaped, glacous bluish-green leaves with irregular yellowy-green markings. Off-white, bell-shaped flowers are held above the foliage in summer, which are much loved by bees. Hardiness: Very hardy […]
Continue reading...Day Lily
10. April 2008
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Latin name: Hemerocallis Description: The ever-popular Day lilies are a must for the flower garden. Hemerocallis are ideal in the herbaceous border; the shorter stemmed varieties which are becoming more popular are also excellent grown around patios or used as edging. Mass planting gives a strong show of colour. They all have green, narrow, strap-like, […]
Continue reading...Ginger Lily
10. April 2008
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Latin name: Hedychium coccineum ‘Tara’ Description: Gingers are now become more popular as they are now being stocked at many of our local garden centres and rightly so as they are wonderful plants that really do add a touch of the tropics to the garden. Hedychium coccineum ‘Tara’ for instance is a beautiful and easy […]
Continue reading...Varigated Ivy
10. April 2008
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Latin name: Hedera colchica ‘Dentata Varigata’ Description: Ivey may be considered as a very common climber, though some of the large leaved forms give a very tropical feel to the garden with their dense foliage. ‘Dentata’ for instance has large, light green leaves that droop. ‘Dentata Variegata’ has bold creamy variegations which look very dramatic, […]
Continue reading...Glory Lily
10. April 2008
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Latin name: Gloriosa ‘Rothschildiana’ Description: Very sensual scrambler-climber and always admired for its beauty. Gloriosa grows from tubers planted in the spring and will twine up anything. The leaves are bright apple-green, up to 8cm long and produce tendrils from the leaf tips to attach themselves to anything they touch. In high summer stunning solitary, […]
Continue reading...Canary Island Geranium
10. April 2008
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Latin name: Geranium palmatum Description: If you like Geranium maderense, but can’t grow it because its frost tender Geranium palmatum is an equally attractive alternative. This seductive short-lived perennial has long stems and finely divided mid-green leaves up to 35cm across. The flowers are saucer-shaped, five-petalled, pinkish purple up to 4cm across on large terminal […]
Continue reading...Honey Spurge
10. April 2008
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Latin name: Euphorbia mellifera Description: A very handsome and imposing rounded evergreen shrub with stout shoots, clothed in narrowly lance-shaped mid-green leaves with a predominant cream midrib, to 20cm long. From late spring to early summer, deliciously honey scented heads of golden yellow-terracotta flowers with small bronze-green floral bracts are produced in terminal clusters up […]
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10. April 2008
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