Melittis melissophyllum 'Royal Velvet Distinction' (Bastard balm 'Royal Velvet Distinction' )
Other names: Baum leaf 'Royal Velvet Distinction' , Honey balm 'Royal Velvet Distinction'
'Royal Velvet Distinction' is a clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with erect, square, hairy stems bearing oval, scalloped, honey-scented, wrinkled and hairy, dark green leaves and, in late spring and early summer, whorls of tubular, two-lipped, white flowers with dark purple lower lips.
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0.4m max. spread |
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0.4m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Leucothoe keiskei 'Royal Ruby' (Keskei dog hobble 'Royal Ruby')
Other names: Keskei fetterbush 'Royal Ruby', Keskei fetter bush 'Royal Ruby'
'Royal Ruby' is a compact, spreading, evergreen shrub with upright to prostrate branches bearing narrowly ovate to lance-shaped, tapered, glossy, dark green leaves, red to dark reddish-purple when young, turning bronze-red in winter. Pendent racemes of urn-shaped, white flowers bloom in summer.
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1.2m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Clematis 'Royal Velvet' (Clematis 'Royal Velvet')
Other names: Early Large-flowered clematis 'Royal Velvet', Clematis 'Evifour'
'Royal Velvet' is a deciduous, perennial climber with pinnate, dark green leaves and, in late spring and early summer, and again in late summer and early autumn, double to semi-double, purple flowers with reddish-purple anthers.
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1m max. spread |
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2.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Rhododendron russatum 'Purple Pillow' (Purplish-blue rhododendron 'Purple Pillow')
Other names: Evergreen azalea 'Purple Pillow'
'Purple Pillow' is a compact, spreading or mound-forming, evergreen shrub with small, oblong to broadly elliptic, dark bronze-green leaves and clusters of broadly funnel-shaped, purple to deep lilac-pink flowers in spring.
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1.2m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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10-20 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 |
Helleborus orientalis 'Purple' (Lenten rose 'Purple' )
Other names: Lenten hellebore 'Purple' , Oriental hellebore 'Purple' , Winter rose 'Purple'
'Purple' is a clump-forming, evergreen or semi-evergreen perennial with palmate, serrate, leathery, dark green leaves and clusters of 2-3 large, cup-shaped, nodding, plum-purple flowers with yellow stamens in winter.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.45m max. height |
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2-3 years to maturity |
Phlox 'Purple Elite' (Perennial phlox 'Purple Elite')
Other names: Phlox paniculata 'Purple Elite', Garden phlox 'Purple Elite', Tall phlox 'Purple Elite', Summer phlox 'Purple Elite'
'Purple Elite' is an upright, herbaceous perennial with broadly lance-shaped, dark green leaves and large, upright panicles of fragrant, purple flowers from summer into autumn.
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0.8m max. spread |
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0.8m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Salix purpurea 'Nancy Saunders' (Purple willow 'Nancy Saunders')
Other names: Purple osier 'Nancy Saunders'
'Nancy Saunders' is a upright to spreading, deciduous shrub or small tree with glossy, maroon stems bearing narrowly oblong, grey-green leaves and small, silvery catkins in early spring.
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4m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Osmunda regalis 'Purpurascens' (Royal fern 'Purpurascens' )
Other names: Buckhorn brake 'Purpurascens', Herb christopher 'Purpurascens', Blooming fern 'Purpurascens', Rusty fern 'Purpurascens', Osmund royal 'Purpurascens', King fern 'Purpurascens', Common flowering fern 'Purpurascens', Ditch fern 'Purpurascens', Water fern 'Purpurascens'
'Purpurascens' is a hardy, deciduous fern, forming a large clump of bipinnate, green fronds. The fiddleheads are flushed purple in spring and the fronds turn golden in the autumn.
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1.2m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Vinca minor 'Bowles's Purple' (Lesser periwinkle 'Bowles's Purple')
Other names: Common periwinkle 'Bowles's Purple', Myrtle 'Bowles's Purple', Creeping myrtle 'Bowles's Purple'
'Bowles's Purple' is a prostrate, mat-forming to trailing, evergreen perennial bearing glossy, ovate, dark green leaves and dark purple flowers from mid-spring into autumn.
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0.4m max. spread |
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0.15m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
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