Filipendula ulmaria 'Aurea' (Meadowsweet 'Aurea' )
Other names: Bridewort 'Aurea', Meadow queen 'Aurea', Lady of the meadow 'Aurea', Pride of the meadow 'Aurea', Meadow-wort 'Aurea', Mountain spirea 'Aurea'
'Aurea' is a herbaceous perennial for boggy damp possitions. It has golden-green foliage that fades to golden in a sunny possition. It has fragrant white flowers in summer.
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0.6m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Houstonia caerulea 'Millard's Variety' (Azure bluets 'Millard's Variety')
Other names: Mountain bluets 'Millard's Variety', Blue-eyed babies 'Millard's Variety', Blue innocence 'Millard's Variety', Quaker ladies 'Millard's Variety', Hedyotis caerulea 'Millard's Variety'
'Millard's Variety' is a mat-forming, herbaceous perennial with tiny, oval or ovate, mid- to dark green leaves and, in late spring and early summer, short, erect stems bearing small, blue to violet-blue flowers with yellow centres.
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0.3m max. spread |
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0.15m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Antennaria plantaginifolia (Dog's toes)
Other names: Four-toes, Ladies' tobacco, Love's test, Mouse-ear everlasting, Mouse-ear plantain, Plain-leaved everlasting, Poverty weed, Pussy's foot, White plantain, Woman's tobacco, Pussytoes, Plantain-leaved pussytoes
A. plantaginifolia is a mat-forming, evergreen perennial with erect stems bearing ovate to elliptic, grey-green leaves and clusters of small, softly hairy, pink-flushed, white flower heads from late spring into summer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.3m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Campanula rotundifolia (Common harebell)
Other names: Bluebell, Blawort, Cuckoo shoe, Lady's thimble, Olympia bellflower, Scottish bluebell, Witches' bells, Thimbles, English harebell, Heath bells, Old man's bell, Scotch bluebell, St George's cup, Wind bells, Witches' thimbles, Campanula petiolata, Campanula langsdorffiana, Campanula sacajaweana
C. rotundifolia is a variable, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with rounded to heart-shaped, toothed, light green basal leaves. Erect, leafy stems bear linear to lance-shaped leaves and panicles of nodding, bell-shaped, dark to light blue flowers in summer.
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0.3m max. spread |
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0.3m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Other names: Cow quake, Didder, Dodder grass, Doddering dillies, Doddle grass, Earthquakes, Jiggle-joggles, Jockey grass, Lady's hair, Maidenhair grass, Pearl grass, Quake grass, Quakers and shakers, Shaking grass, Totter, Wagwants, Briza media f. microstachya
B. media is a clump-forming, semi-evergreen perennial grass with flat, linear, blue-green leaves and, from late spring into summer, erect stems bearing open panicles of nodding, heart-shaped, purple-flushed, green flower spikelets turning straw-coloured when ripe.
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0.8m max. spread |
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0.3m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
Visnaga daucoides 'Casablanca' (Toothpick bishop's weed 'Casablanca')
Other names: Toothpick chevril 'Casablanca', Ammi visnaga 'Casablanca', False Queen Anne's lace 'Casablanca', Toothpick plant 'Casablanca', Khella 'Casablanca', Bishop's weed 'Casablanca', Daucus visnaga 'Casablanca', Spanish picktooth 'Casablanca', Spanish carrot 'Casablanca', Toothpick weed 'Casablanca', Carum visnaga 'Casablanca'
'Casablanca' is an narrowly upright annual or biennial with fern-like, pinnate, mid- to dark green leaves and erect, leafy stems bearing large, flattened to slightly domed, branched umbels of bright green buds opening to lace-like, white flowers from early summer to early autumn.
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0.4m max. spread |
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1.2m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
Dianthus caryophyllus (Border carnation)
Other names: Carnadine, Clove carnation, Clove gilliflower, Clove pink, Coronation, Cottage pink, Dainty, Dainty lady, Fair maids of Kent, Gilliflower, Gilly flower, Grenadine, Lusty gallant, Pale pageant, Picotee, Sad pageant, Sops in wine, Wild carnation
D. caryophyllus is a clump-forming, woody, evergreen perennial with flattened, mid-green leaves and, in summer, stiff stems bearing loose cymes of single, strongly fragrant, purple-pink flowers with toothed petals.
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0.3m max. spread |
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0.8m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Verbascum thapsus (Great mullein)
Other names: Aaron's rod, Bullock's lungwort, White mullein, Woollens, Woundweed, Velvet dock, Velvet leaf, Shepherd's club, Torch lily, Torches, Mullein dock , Old man's flannel, Rag paper, Lamb's wool, Light of the Lord, Lucernaria, Lady's foxglove, Jacob's staff, Jupiter's staff , Common mullein, Clown's lungwort, Bullock's lungwort, Adam's flannel, Cow's lungwort, Fluffweed, Hag taper, Hare's beard, Hedge taper , Candlewick
V. thapsus is a biennial with a rosette of large, grey, hairy ovate leaves, and a tall stem bearing pale yellow, saucer-shaped flowers in the second summer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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2.5m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
Oxalis acetosella (Wood sorrel)
Other names: Common wood sorrel, Cuckoo bread, Cuckooflower, Cuckoo meat, Cuckoo sorrel, Fairy bells, French sorrel, Gowk meat, Hallelujah, Hearts, Lady's clover, Little gentle one, Marsh clover, St. Cecilia's flower, St. Patrick's cross, Sleeping beauty, Sleeping clover, Sleeping Molly , Sow trefoil, Stabwort, Stubwort, Wood sower, Sour shamrock, False shamrock, Sourgrass
O. acetosella is a mat-forming, rhizomatous, evergreen perennial with palmate leaves divided into three folded, heart-shaped, edible, bright green leaflets and, from spring into summer, cup-shaped, white flowers with pink veins.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.05m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
Visnaga daucoides 'Green Mist' (Toothpick bishop's weed 'Green Mist')
Other names: Toothpick chevril 'Green Mist', Toothpick plant 'Green Mist', Khella 'Green Mist', Ammi visnaga 'Green Mist', False Queen Anne's lace 'Green Mist', Bishop's weed 'Green Mist', Daucus visnaga 'Green Mist', Spanish picktooth 'Green Mist', Spanish carrot 'Green Mist', Toothpick weed 'Green Mist', Carum visnaga 'Green Mist'
'Green Mist' is an narrowly upright annual or biennial with fern-like, pinnate, bright green leaves and erect, leafy stems bearing flattened to slightly domed, branched umbels of bright green buds opening to lace-like, greenish-white flowers from early summer to early autumn.
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0.4m max. spread |
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1.2m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
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