Giant Bird Of Paradise
This spectacular clump-forming perennial was named in honour of the Russian tsar Nicolas I. Its long stems and large, paddle-shaped leaves are highly ornamental. The blue and white flowers, arising from dark purple bracts, resemble the crest of a ... [... more]
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Hardy Geranium
One of Matthew Biggs' favourite plants for shady spots, Geranium phaeum 'Album' thrives in damp soil. From late spring to early summer, it produces clear white flowers with reflexed petals and golden anthers. Trouble-free to grow, plants can be ... [... more]
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Cow Parsley
Most aptly named is this somewhat macabre variety which has sombre purple-black leaves with beautiful contrasting white flowers with small pink bracts from late spring to summer. An excellent plant for the back of the border. [... more]
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Common Elder
The best place for this vertical shooting, deciduous thicket of a shrub is the wild or cottage garden where it makes a fine hedge. It has sprays of tiny white flowers in early summer followed by small black fruit which can be cooked and eaten, or ... [... more]
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Moss Campion
A good choice for a gravel or rock garden where it makes ankle-high, tufted cushions of bright green leaves with a show of tiny white flowers in summer. Coming from mountaineous sites where melting snow and rain runs quickly down past the roots, ... [... more]
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Greater Butterfly Orchid
A striking British and European native with scented white flowers (up to about 24), up the stem with a green tint, appearing from June to August. Each flower has a downward-pointing lip. In the wild it grows in pastures and on grassland, and is ... [... more]
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Butterfly Bush
A miniature new buddleja which has already undergone a name change from 'Silver Anniversary' to 'Morning Mist'. Its big selling point being the superb, silvery woolly evergreen foliage. The packed tiny white flowers make shorter panicles than the ... [... more]
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Butterfly Bush
A deciduous shrub with striking greyish-white leaves which are almost woolly when young, and deliciously scented white flowers with an orange eye on arching stems in late summer and autumn. Not being completely hardy it can get cut to the ground ... [... more]
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Lemon Verbena
A large, South American shrub, it has rough, lemon-scented leaves (some hang on over winter) which are traditionally used to flavour herbal teas and spice up potpourris. The tiny lavender to white flowers start opening at the end of summer. Since ... [... more]
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Tulip
'Elegance' has beautiful pure white flowers in mid-spring. It is great for growing in a mixed border, especially with bronze leaved fennel or among purple wallflowers. In autumn, plant bulbs 10cm to 15cm (4in to 6in) deep in well-drained, fertile ... [... more]
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Clematis
'Wedding Day' is an early large-flowered clematis. It produces an abundance of rounded, single white flowers with a plain green band on each petal and striking dark-pink anthers. The flowers are 9cm (3in) across and appear from late-spring to ... [... more]
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Rose
'Remember' is a hybrid tea rose with clear white flowers with a pale pink base. These are complemented by the dark green foliage which has a reddish tinge as it matures. It forms a shapely, open plant that is equally at home in the herbaceous ... [... more]
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