Verbascum 'Temptress Purple' (Mullein 'Temptress Purple')
Other names: Verbascum phoeniceum 'Temptress Purple', Purple mullein 'Temptress Purple'
'Temptress Purple' is a rosette-forming biennial or semi-evergreen, short-lived perennial with ovate, hairy, wrinkled, dark green leaves, and upright stems bearing racemes of purple flowers in late spring and throughout summer.
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0.3m max. spread |
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0.75m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Saxifraga 'Kinki Purple' (stolonifera) (Saxifrage 'Kinki Purple')
Other names: Irregulares Section saxifrage 'Kinki Purple'
'Kinki Purple' is a vigorous, semi-evergreen perennial forming rosettes of fleshy, rounded, lobed and toothed, dark green to dark purple leaves with bright green veins and, throughout summer, short, erect stems bearing loose panicles of star-shaped, creamy-white flowers with three small, red-marked upper petals and two larger lower petals.
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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 |
Agave victoriae-reginae (Royal agave)
Other names: Queen Victoria century plant, Agave considerantii
A. victoriae-reginae is a variable, evergreen, perennial succulent with a basal rosette of thick, straight, triangular to oblong, white-marked, spine-tipped, dark green leaves and, in summer, narrow, erect or arching racemes of creamy white flowers
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Verbascum (Cotswold Group) 'Royal Highland' (Mullein 'Royal Highland' )
'Royal Highland' is an erect, semi-evergreen, short-lived perennial with basal rosettes of ovate to lance-shaped, wrinkled, finely hairy, dark grey-green leaves and, in summer, erect, branching spikes of saucer-shaped, apricot flowers, sometimes yellow or pink and flushed brown.
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0.5m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Digitalis purpurea 'Dalmatian Purple' (Dalmatian Series) (Foxglove 'Dalmatian Purple')
'Dalmatian Purple' is a compact, rosette-forming, hairy, biennial or short-lived, deciduous to semi-evergreen perennial with ovate to lance-shaped, wrinkled, toothed, dark green leaves and upright spikes of bell-shaped, spotted, purple flowers in summer.
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0.4m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
Primula 'Purple Lace Emmy' (Polyanthus 'Purple Lace Emmy')
'Purple Lace Emmy' is a compact, rosette-forming, evergreen or semi-evergreen perennial with oval, puckered, mid- to dark green leaves and, in spring, upright stems bearing umbels of salverform, dark purple flowers with white petal margins and yellow throats.
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0.25m max. spread |
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0.25m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Primula auricula 'Double Purple' (Auricula 'Double Purple')
'Double Purple' is a rosette-forming, evergreen perennial with powdery, fleshy, grey-green leaves and, in spring, fragrant, double, dark purple flowers with white eyes and yellow throats.
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0.25m max. spread |
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0.2m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Berkheya purpurea 'Zulu Warrior' (Purple berkheya 'Zulu Warrior')
'Zulu Warrior' is a rosette-forming, deciduous perennial with oblong to lance-shaped, spiny, grey-green leaves, white-downy beneath, and sturdy, leafy stems bearing pale lilac flowers in summer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Celmisia verbascifolia (Celmisia)
Other names: Fiordland mountain daisy, Purple-stalked New Zealand daisy
C. verbascifolia is a clump-forming, evergreen perennial with loose rosettes of elliptic to oblong, mid- to light green leaves, hairy beneath and at the margins, the upper surface hairy when young. Erect, often purple-flushed stems bear white, daisy-like flower heads with yellow central disc-florets in summer.
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0.2m max. spread |
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0.2m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Tradescantia spathacea (Boat lily )
Other names: Christ in the manger, Cradle lily , Men in a boat, Moses in the cradle, Moses in his cradle, Moses in the bulrushes, Moses on a raft, Oyster plant, Prayer plant, Purple-leaved spiderwort, Three men in a boat, Boatlily, Rhoeo discolor, Rhoeo spathacea, Moses-in-a-basket
T. spathacea is a tender, compact, clump-forming, evergreen perennial with rosettes of semi-erect, fleshy, linear to lance-shaped, dark green leaves, dark purple beneath, and, throughout the year, cymes of white flowers surrounded by prominent, persistent, purple bracts.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.3m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
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