Verbena rigida 'Santos' (Slender vervain 'Santos')
Other names: Hardy garden verbena 'Santos', Veined verbena 'Santos', Rigid vervain 'Santos', Verbena rigida 'Santos Purple'
'Santos' is a tender, bushy, spreading perennial, often grown as an annual, with oblong, toothed, rough, dark green leaves and dense clusters of small, purple flowers from early summer into autumn.
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1.2m max. spread |
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0.3m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
Other names: Rigid blue yucca, Silver leaf yucca, Palmilla, Yucca rupicola var. rigida
Y. rigida is an evergreen shrub slowly forming a trunk-like stem topped with rosettes of stiff, sword-shaped, sharply-pointed, blue-grey to blue-green leaves and panicles of bell-shaped, creamy-white flowers in late spring.
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1.5m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Ceratophyllum demersum (Hornwort)
Other names: Cedar moss, Coon tail, Fish blankets, Morass weed, Rigid hornwort
C. demersum is a submerged, aquatic perennial with whorls of forked, brittle, dark green leaves. Tiny flowers, white male and green female, bloom in summer from the leaf axils.
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1.5m max. spread |
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0.1m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Other names: Sisal hemp, Agave rigida var. sisalana, Agave amaniensis, Agave segurae, Mescal
A. sisalana is a half-hardy, evergreen, monocarpic, succulent perennial forming a rosette of sword- or lance-shaped, spiny-tipped, blue-green to grey-green leaves and a long, sturdy, erect stem bearing a dense cluster of pungent, yellow flowers in summer.
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2m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Microlepia strigosa (Lace fern)
Other names: Hay-scented fern, Rigid lace fern, Palapalai, Dennstaedtia strigosa, Microlepia speluncae
M. strigosa is a tender, terrestrial, clump-forming, evergreen fern with soft, ovate to lance-shaped, bi- or tripinnate, arching, dark green fronds.
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2m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Calystegia hederacea 'Flore Pleno' (Japanese false bindweed 'Flore Pleno')
Other names: Creeping verbena 'Flore Pleno', Calystegia japonica 'Flore Pleno', Convolvulus japonicus 'Flore Pleno', Californian rose 'Flore Pleno', Japanese bindweed 'Flore Pleno'
'Flore Pleno' is a vigorous, dense, deciduous, twining perennial climber with triangular to arrow-shaped, mid- to light green leaves and double, pink flowers from summer to early autumn.
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1m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
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