Buddleja davidii 'Royal Red' (Butterfly bush 'Royal Red')
Other names: Buddlija 'Royal Red', Buddlea 'Royal Red'
'Royal Red' is a large deciduous shrub with arching branches, lance-shaped leaves and long panicles of scented purple-red flowers.
Buddleia are nectar rich plants, which encourage benefical wildlife, such as ladybirds, lacewings and hoverflies into the garden
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4m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Royal Ruby' (Michelmas daisy 'Royal Ruby')
Other names: New York aster 'Royal Ruby', Aster novi-belgii 'Royal Ruby'
'Royal Ruby' is a compact, upright, bushy, deciduous perennial with slender, branched stems bearing lance-shaped, dark green leaves and, from late summer into autumn, panicles of large, semi-double, maroon to red flower heads with yellow centres.
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0.45m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Cryptotaenia japonica f. atropurpurea (Purple mitsuba)
Other names: Purple Japanese chervil, Purple-leaved Japanese parsley, Purple-leaved Japanese honewort
C. japonica f. atropurpurea is an upright, branching, clump-forming, evergreen perennial with dark purple stems bearing wrinkled, deeply-divided, dark purple leaves and umbels of pink to lavender flowers in midsummer.
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0.6m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Alternanthera dentata 'Purple Knight' (Calico plant 'Purple Knight')
Other names: Joy weed 'Purple Knight', Parrot leaf 'Purple Knight', Ruby leaf 'Purple Knight', Black night 'Purple Knight'
'Purple Knight' is a vigorous, upright, spreading, tender, evergreen perennia,l often grown as an annual, with dark purple stems, lance-shaped to elliptic, dark purple leaves and, occasionally, white flowers in summer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
Dyschoriste thunbergiiflora (Purple bells)
Other names: Calophanes thunbergiiflora, Dyschoriste thunbergii, Purple barleria, Mushugushugu
D. thunbergiiflora is a tender, upright, branching, evergreen shrub with elliptic, dark green leaves and, from summer into autumn, trumpet-shaped, lavender flowers, marked dark purple at the throat.
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1.5m max. spread |
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1.8m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Lythrum salicaria (Purple loosestrife)
Other names: Black blood, Long purples, Purple grass, Rainbow weed, Red Sally, Rose loosestrife, Rosy strip, Sage willow, Soldiers, Spiked loosestrife, Willow weed
L. salicaria is a vigorous, clump-forming, deciduous perennial with erect, branched stems bearing downy, lance-shaped, dark green leaves and spike-like racemes of star-shaped, purple-pink flowers from midsummer into autumn.
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0.5m max. spread |
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1.2m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Nicotiana 'Perfume Purple' (Nicotiana x sanderae 'Perfume Deep Purple')
Other names: Flowering tobacco 'Perfume Purple'
'Perfume Purple' is a biennial grown for its star-shaped, fragrant, deep-purple flowers, that are produced from late summer to autumn.
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0.8m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
Angelica gigas (Korean angelica)
Other names: Purple angelica
A. gigas is a vigorous, clump-forming, biennial or short-lived perennial with pinnate leaves divided into ovate to diamond-shaped, lobed leaflets. Erect, branced, purple stems bear umbels of reddish-purple flowers in late summer and early autumn.
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1.2m max. spread |
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1.8m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Pseudorhipsalis amazonica (Purple rhipsalis)
Other names: Wittia amazonica, Disocactus amazonicus, Wittiocactus amazonicus, Epiphyllum 'Wittia Amazonica', Wittiocactus panamensis, Wittia panamensis
P. amazonica is an upright, branching cactus bearing flattened, toothed, leaf-like, dark green stems with prominent mid-ribs and tubular, purple-tipped, magenta flowers in late spring.
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0.2m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
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