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Thyme

30. March 2012

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Latin name: Thymus vulgaris Description: All Thymes are sun-loving evergreen perennials grown for their aromatic culinary uses and often attractively coloured foliage. Thymus vulgaris, the common thyme (25 x 30cm) is a wiry stemmed shrubby plant with small, very dark green leaves, where as T. caespitius is much more prostrate at 5 x 36cm with […]

Rosemary

30. March 2012

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Latin name: Rosmarinus officinalis Description: An absolutely essential Mediterranean shrub, grown for its dense, strongly aromatic, evergreen foliage, and of course as an indispensable herb for cooking. A woody stemmed shrub that has dark green needle-like leaves which are white felted below. Dainty mauve and dark-blue tubular flowers are bourne from mid-spring to early summer […]

Sage

30. March 2012

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Latin name: Salvia officinalis Description: This deliciously aromatic evergreen sub-shrub is widely cultivated for its ornamental foliage as well as being widely used as a culinary herb. It is a fairly compact shrub with rough, greyish-green, oblong pointed leaves. The flowers are in shades of blue and purple on short spikes intermittently throughout the summer. […]

Sedum Autumn Joy

30. March 2012

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Latin name: Sedum spectabile Description: There are many different sedums, from small low mounding to tall forms like Sedum spectabile. This well known garden classic has light green stems and opposite pairs of thick spoon shaped glaucous greyish-green leaves. In late summer it produces large heads up to 15cm across with small densely packed, star-shaped […]

Blue Yucca

30. March 2012

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Latin name: Yucca rostrata Description: Yuccas are well known desert plants and there are many to choose from. One in particular – Yucca rostrata is very handsome indeed. It is a stout, single trunked yucca from the Chihuahua deserts of northern Mexico. From the trunk top, linier, powdery, greyish blue, stiff leaves from 25-60cm long […]

Californian Fuchsia

30. March 2012

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Latin name: Zauschneria californica Description: The abundance of flowers produced by this delightful little evergreen perennial will brighten any border from late summer to early autumn. It has lance shaped, rich green to grey-green leaves giving an overall light feathery appearance. The tubular flowers are produced in abundance all summer and are a bright vermilion-red, […]

Houseleek

30. March 2012

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Latin name: Sempervivum Description: These delightful hardy evergreen succulents are grown for their dense mats of fleshy often highly coloured foliage and are more often associated with rock gardens. They will grow in any dryish situation including on your house roof as they need little food. They consist of a whorl of tightly packed succulent […]

Stonecrop

30. March 2012

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Latin name: Sedum spathulifolium Description: These succulent plants bring pleasing variation in form and colour to the less hospitable parts of the garden where the soil is poor and often parched. For this reason, many of the more prostrate species are used for green roofs on buildings. They range from tiny mat forming species to […]

Trailing Ice Plant

30. March 2012

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Latin name: Lampranthus Description: With warmer winters becoming more prevalent, this fabulous plant will be seen more often in our warmer gardens, giving a truly Mediterranean feel. This gem is a very low growing, spreading perennial succulent, with fleshy, narrowly cylindrical, three sided, bright green leaves which are slightly flushed at the tips. From summer […]

Hardy Bromeliad

30. March 2012

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Latin name: Fasicularia bicolor Description: Amazingly hardy bromeliad from Chile and much hardier than originally thought. Fasicularia bicolor has narrow, stiff, arching, and spiny-edged, glucose leaves up to 50cm long. The innermost leaves become bright red when it comes into flower in late summer. Mature rosettes bear inflorescences with tight clusters of pale powder blue […]

Archive | March, 2012

Thyme

Rosemary

Sage

Sedum Autumn Joy

Blue Yucca

Californian Fuchsia

Houseleek

Stonecrop

Trailing Ice Plant

Hardy Bromeliad

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