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Species: Abeliophyllum distichum.
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Genus: Abutilon.
Species: Abutilon megapotamicum.
Trained over a south-facing trellis. It flowered all the way through last winter (2006/7)
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Genus: Aconitum.
Species: Aconitum episcopale.
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Genus: Allium.
Species: Allium 'Purple Sensation'.
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Genus: Allium.
Species: Allium azureum.
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Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone appennina.
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Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone blanda.
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Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone flaccida.
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Anemone nemerosa 'Robinsoniana'
Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone nemerosa 'Robinsoniana'.
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Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone nemerosa 'Virescens'.
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Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone ranunculoides.
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Anemone sylvestris 'Flore Pleno'
Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone sylvestris 'Flore Pleno'.
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Genus: Anemone.
Species: Anemone x lipiensis.
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Species: Anthericum liliago 'Major'.
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Genus: Aquilegia.
Species: Aquilegia canadensis.
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Aquilegia vulgaris 'William Guiness'
Genus: Aquilegia.
Species: Aquilegia vulgaris.
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Genus: Arisaema.
Species: Arisaema griffithii.
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Genus: Astrantia.
Species: Astrantia major.
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Species: Azalea 'George Reynolds'.
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Species: Azalea 'Golden Lights'.
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Genus: Banksia.
Species: Banksia marginata.
In its first year, it carried one flower. This year (its second), it has put on lots of growth and will carry se...
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Species: Bearded iris.
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Genus: Begonia.
Species: Begonia grandis.
2 photos
Berberis linearifolia 'Orange King'
Genus: Berberis.
Species: Berberis linearifolia.
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Berberis x stenophylla 'Irwinii'
Genus: Berberis.
Species: Berberis x stenophylla 'Irwinii'.
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Genus: Bergenia.
Species: Bergenia 'Beethoven'.
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Genus: Bergenia.
Species: Bergenia ciliata.
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Genus: Billardiera.
Species: Billardiera longiflora.
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Genus: Bupleurum.
Species: Bupleurum fruticosum.
The only shrub with umbelliferous flowers. Initally upright, it gets middle age spread as it gets older!
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Genus: Callicarpa.
Species: Callicarpa dichotoma.
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Genus: Caltha.
Species: Caltha palustris.
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Genus: Camassia.
Species: Camassia cusickii.
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Camellia japonica 'Adolphe Audusson'
Genus: Camellia.
Species: Camellia japonica.
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Camellia japonica 'Marguerite Guillon'
Genus: Camellia.
Species: Camellia japonica.
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Genus: Campanula.
Species: Campanula pyramidalis.
I have both the white- and blue-flowered forms
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Genus: Campanula.
Species: Campanula trachelium.
Useful campanula as it grows in dry soil in shade for me and flowers July/August. Self-sows (but never enough)
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Genus: Cardamine.
Species: Cardamine trifolia.
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Genus: Cardiocrinum.
Species: Cardiocrinum giganteum.
As it takes about seven years to reach flowering size from seed, you've missed it for this year! But I might buy...
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Genus: Carex.
Species: Carex elata.
Last year (2006) it seeded all over the place; this year hardly any seedlings
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Genus: Carex.
Species: Carex morrowii 'Fisher'.
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Genus: Carex.
Species: Carex pendula.
I only get an occasional seedling from this (it has a bad reputation for seeding) but I am growing it on dry cla...
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Genus: Carpenteria.
Species: Carpenteria californica.
On a south facing all, it flowers reliably every year. Just got big enough now to start pruning out the old wood
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Genus: Caryopteris.
Species: Caryopteris x clandonensis.
Prune it hard (like a buddleia) and it makes neat regrowth and is flowering well in September
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Genus: Centaurea.
Species: Centaurea montana.
I need to deadhead this one or I finish up with too much self-seeding
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Genus: Centaurea.
Species: Centaurea simplicicaulis.
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Genus: Centranthus.
Species: Centranthus ruber.
A long flowering season (it started in April and is still going) but a prolific self-seeder. Needs deadheading a...
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Genus: Ceratostigma.
Species: Ceratostigma plumbaginoides.
Good colour in September. I might not cut it back next spring and see whether it grows taller and starts floweri...
1 photo
Genus: Cestrum.
Species: Cestrum parqui.
Sun loving shrub to 2 metres with a long flowering season. In cold winters, it will cut back like a hardy fuchs...
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Genus: Chaenomeles.
Species: Chaenomeles.
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Genus: Chaenomeles.
Species: Chaenomeles japonica.
I'm growing three of these (red, pink and white flowered forms) as a garden hedge. But it needs pruing several t...
1 photo
Species: Chelone obliqua.
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Genus: Chionodoxa.
Species: Chionodoxa luciliae.
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Chionodoxa luciliae 'Pink Giant'
Genus: Chionodoxa.
Species: Chionodoxa luciliae.
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Genus: Chrysanthemum.
Species: Chrysanthemum.
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Genus: Cichorium.
Species: Cichorium intybus.
I have white and pink flowered forms as well as the blue. Seems not to be fussy about soil and grows just as hap...
1 photo
Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum'
Genus: Cirsium.
Species: Cirsium rivulare.
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Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis 'Guernsey Cream'.
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Clematis alpina 'Frances Rivis'
Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis alpina.
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Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis alpina.
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Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis cirrhosa.
I grow Clematis cirrhosa balearica on a northwest facing pergola. In a mild winter, it flowers from November to ...
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Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis florida.
I grow Clematis florida sieboldii on a nortwest facing pergola. Supposedly not too hardy but I've had it a few y...
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Clematis macropetala 'Clochette Pride'
Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis macropetala.
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Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis napaulensis.
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Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis recta.
Clematis recta purpurea has really deep purple foliage in spring that gradually fades to a muddy purple-green as...
1 photo
Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis recta.
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Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis tangutica.
I bought a variety called 'Helios' because it was supposedly shorter but it still makes 8 to 10 feet in a season
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Clematis texensis 'Gravetye Beauty'
Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis texensis.
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Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis viticella.
These are brilliant - mine start flowering in mid summer and go on and on. And they don't get clematis wilt!
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Clematis viticella 'Venosa Violacea'
Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis viticella.
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Clematis x cartmanii 'Moonbeam'
Genus: Clematis.
Species: Clematis x cartmanii 'Moonbeam'.
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Genus: Clianthus.
Species: Clianthus puniceus.
Got this through one winter outside but lost it in 2005/6. Now I'm growing a replacement in a pot. Snails love t...
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Genus: Colchicum.
Species: Colchicum autumnale.
I accidentally put a spade through the bulb this spring but now I appear to have several plants instead of one!
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Genus: Convolvulus.
Species: Convolvulus althaeoides.
Interestingly, this seems to run underground and throw up little clumps here and there. And there was me hoping ...
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Genus: Convolvulus.
Species: Convolvulus cneorum.
About five years and this starts to de back on me (again)
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Genus: Convolvulus.
Species: Convolvulus sabatius.
What a cracker. Not overly rampageous and a long flowering season
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Genus: Cornus.
Species: Cornus canadensis.
Looks stunning in flower under acer palmatum dissectum 'Atropurpureum'
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Genus: Coronilla.
Species: Coronilla valentina.
My original plant flowered three times in the course of a year. Then a vandal broke it off at ground level. Its ...
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Genus: Corylopsis.
Species: Corylopsis veitchiana.
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Genus: Corylus.
Species: Corylus avellana.
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Genus: Cotinus.
Species: Cotinus coggygria.
I've had the purple leaved form for many years. Lot of dead wood this year after the hot dry summer of 2006 though
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Genus: Crinodendron.
Species: Crinodendron hookerianum.
September 2007 - it's flowering for the third time this year! It was planted in 2001
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Genus: Cyclamen.
Species: Cyclamen repandum.
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Genus: Dactylorhiza.
Species: Dactylorhiza fuchsii.
Two of these self sowed into a planting basket of candelabra primulas in my pond so I'm hoping for some more
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Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne albowiana.
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Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne bholua.
Planted the cultivar 'Alba' as it is smaller on maturity and I have a crowded garden
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Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne mezereum.
In full flower for my open garden on 1st April 2007. I've now tracked down a white-flowered form too
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Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne odora.
I've been growing Daphne odora 'Marginata' for several years - excellent plant
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Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne odora.
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Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne pontica.
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Species: Rhodotypos scandens.
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Daphne x burkwoodii 'Somerset'
Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne x burkwoodii 'Somerset'.
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Genus: Daphne.
Species: Daphne x houtteana.
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Genus: Darmera.
Species: Darmera peltata.
A tough cookie. Recently helped with the restoration of a garden planted in the 1920s which had suffered 30 year...
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Genus: Dendromecon.
Species: Dendromecon rigida.
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Genus: Dicentra.
Species: Dicentra 'Pearl Drops'.
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Genus: Dicentra.
Species: Dicentra formosa.
Has formed a good clump in a narrow northeast facing border at the foot of a wall
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