Chinese Bearberry
A prostrate shrub, with the long near horizontal branches up to 6 feet long, rooting where they touch the ground, making excellent ground cover. The small glossy evergreen or semi-evergreen leaves
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False Castor Oil Plant
Large evergreen shrub with glossy, palmate, deeply lobed green leaves and large umbels of cream-white flowers in autumn followed by black berries. For fertile, well drained soil in full sun or light
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Cultivar with dark green leaves with broad white margins. White flowers in early summer are followed by small edible fruit. Sun or part shade in moisture retentive soil. Makes good ground cover for
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Alder Buckthorn
(Rhamnus frangula.) Often found growing on damp ground with alders, hence the name. It is a handsome, thornless, deciduous, bushy shrub. Berries change colour from red to dark purple as they ripen.
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An evergreen rhizomatous, creeping shrub making ideal groundcover in woodland or shady borders. The small glossy leaves are fragrant when crushed. Small white to pink-tinged flowers appear in summer
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Flowering Nutmeg
Quick growing shrub with dark red -purple bracts housing deep purple berries which are good for birds. 2 metres (6 feet). AGM.
£8.50
Honeysuckle
Semi evergreen climber with sweetly -scented white flowers, turning yellow in summer followed by black berries. For moist, well drained soil in sun/ part shade. Completely remove a third of the stems
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This variety has the usual tangled mass of wiry stems, but the leaves are a curious fiddle-shape, i.e. with a marked constriction around the middle (technically pandurate). Will crawl upwards,
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Myrtle
Name uncertain. Appears to be a miniature version of M. communis, identical in habit apart from the smaller leaves, whereas 'Tarentina' appears to have a different, denser, more upright habit. These
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Variegated Common Myrtle
Rounded, variegated, evergreen shrub with fragrant leaves. From July - August, scented, fluffy white flowers appear and are followed by black berries in autumn if it has been a long warm summer. Grow
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Sacred Bamboo
Elegant, semi evergreen shrub with bamboo-like leaves which turn red from autumn-spring and panicles of white flowers in mid summer followed by red berries. For a sheltered site in moist, well
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Black Lilyturf
Perennial (not a grass) with narrow, jet-black leaves and pale lilac flowers in summer followed by dark blue berries. Likes slightly acidic soil in full sun. Spreads very slowly. Good for pots mixed
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Common Buckthorn, Purging Buckthorn
A large deciduous shrub or small tree with spiny branches; yellowish-green flowers are followed by bunches of shining red fruits that mature to black. Like the Alder Buckthorn (Alnus Frangula, q.v.)
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Rose
A beautiful rose with masses of small, double, lightly scented deep yellow flowers appear in April and May, followed by attractive hips. Virtually thornless. Needs a mild, sheltered spot and room to
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Black Elder
(Syn. S. nigra 'Black Lace.') Upright shrub or small tree with black leaves and panicles of scented pale pink flowers in early summer. Moist, well drained soil in sun/part shade. Can be hard pruned
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