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Has rhizomes to spread
Elymus repens, Festuca rubra
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Has stolons to spread
Chlorophytum comosum, Fragaria x ananassa, Ranunculus repens
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Spreads by runners - roots are produced where the tip if a shoot touched the ground
Rubus fruticosus
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Acid loving cross plant, buds susceptible to frost, sping flowering, bright red, double flowering
Camellia x williamsii 'Ruby Wedding'
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A non double camilla with an AGM the would better to plant than a double flower as it is better for pollinating insects. Is also red like Ruby Wedding
Camellia japonica 'Adolphe Audusson'
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Woodland plant associations for chalk soil H A V N A
Hyacinthoides non-scripta, Anemonoides nemorosa, Viola odorata, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, Allium ursinum
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Trees with resistance to fire
Sequoiadendron giganteum, Quercus suber
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Plant for formal hedging/topiary and problem it faces
Buxus sempervirens, Box blight and box moth
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Plants for formal hedging to avoid box blight Ln Pa Lm
Lonicera nitida, Phillyrea angustifolia, Lonicera microphylla
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Tree ideal for cloud pruning
Phillyrea latifolia
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Plants for parterres in formal rennaisance gardens
Buxus sempervirens, Taxus baccata
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Trees for formal gardens AGM
Taxus baccata, Fagus sylvatica, Ilex aquifolium
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Indicative of order, pleached trees play on the historic theme of man ruling over nature. They provide height, but allow views beneath. Small leaved lime
Tilia chordata
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Evergreen tree best for a formal garden
Quercus ilex
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Viburnums lend themselves to a formal setting. Evergreen types can provide underplanting or hedges while some white-flowered deciduous cultivars offer structural form or timeless romanticism This one is upright go good for vertical lines and has bright white flowers held above. Deciduous
Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Mariesii' AGM
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Plant for stabilising sand dunes because of its far reaching rhizomes
Ammophila arenaria
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Plants with aerenchyma tissue to give bouyancy to leaves Aerenchyma is air filled tissues which aids bouyancy of leaves and also allows air to percolate to roots for respiration in waterlogged conditions
Nymphaea alba, Trapa natans, Nelumbo nucifera
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Plants that have or may develop aerenchyma to withstand waterlogged conditions
Equisetum arvense, Ranunculus repens, Carex spp.
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Lesser celandine
Ficaria verna
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Annual Honesty
Lunaria annua
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Perennial honesty, grows in damp woodland on lime substrates. White flowers tinged with lilac, scented. Transluscent seedheads often used in flower arranging
Lunaria rediviva AGM
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Pollinated by beetles, contains no nectar. A huge evergreen plant with thick glossy leaves dark green on top and bronze underneath. Large white flowers in late summer and autumn, striking seed heads provide ongoing interest. Wants full sun/partial shade, any soil, but needs to be sheltered.
Magnolia grandiflora
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Pollinated by beetles no nectar. Flowers open in spring before the leaves. Fuzzy buds over winter. Smaller in size good shrub for a smaller garden as is slower growing. The flowers are white or tinged pink in the Rosa version.
Magnolia stellata
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A beetroot with resistance to bolting (which is a risk if sown early)
Beta vulgaris 'Boltardy'
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Historic Potagers Garden Plants seen as historically grown for food at Weald Museum Ap Fv Su La Sr So
Allium porrum, Foeniculum vulgare, Symphytum x uplandicum, Lavandula angustifolia, Salvia rosmarinus, Smyrnium olusatrum
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Why is Symphytum x uplandicum the preferred Symphytum over officinale
Hybrid vigour
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Semi-evergreen perennial. Early spring flowering plant with speckled leaves, very hardy H6, shade or partial shade. Spreads by rhizomes so good for ground cover. RHS Plants for Pollinators award. In your garden. Good alternative to Hostas if slugs are a problem.
Pulmonaria officinalis
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Grape hyacinth
Muscari armeniacum
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Mound forming alpine perennial with white flowers and string nughttime scent, attracting moths
Zaluzianskya ovata
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Yellow wildflower, The fruit is a dry capsule, with loose, rattling seeds. Creates sound in wind in late summer. It is hemiparasitic and grows on Poaceae and Fabaceae.
Rhinanthus minor
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Garlic mustard
Alliaria petiolata
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Has rhizomes AND stolons to spread
Lysimachia nummularia
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Bulbs for scent
Hyacinthus orientalis, Narcissus 'Silver Chimes'
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A grass with an interesting nodding seedhead, creates noise blowing in the breeze, adds interest to a mindful garden. Best planted in groups.
Briza maxima
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Tall, graceful grass for a mindful garden deciduous grass to 60cm, forming a compact upright tuft of thread-like leaves, with narrow, arching, feathery flowering panicles in summer AGM
Stipa tenuissima
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Granny's Bonnets, tall flowers that would compliment the green of Briza maxima
Aquilegia vulgaris
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Purple Wallflower
Erysimum bicolor 'Bowles Mauve'
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Yellow archangel
Lamium galeobdolon
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A stoloniferous perennial forming a mat of prostrate leafy stems, with purple, white or pink flowers in spikes in summer. Perfect for Pollinators
Lamium maculatum
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A hosta with leathery blue green leaves that are less appealing to molluscs AGM
Hosta (Tardiana Group) 'Halcyon' AGM
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A salvia with a recently awarded AGM, blue flowers, aromatic foliage, very long flowering season and a bee magnet! Compact upright growth and blue green foliage Genus selling name ('cultivar') AGM
Salvia MYSTIC SPIRES BLUE ('Balsalmisp') AGM
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Whitebeam
Sorbus aria
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Ornamental red current
Ribes sanguineum
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Cape fuchsia evergreen shrub or herbaceous perenial in cooler areas
Phygelius capensis
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African daisy, can tolerate drought by going into a dormancy but will lose its flowerheads. This one is a white rhizomous perennial, H3 1 to -5 mild areas of Britain. Good for clinate change and good for groubd cover and pollinators.
Osteospermum juncundum
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Roman chamomile
Chamaemelum nobile
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Bay leaf
Laurus nobilis
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Scarlet pimpernel
Anagallis arvensis
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A white flower not to chose because it has been bred not to have pollen - no stamen at all- and has no nectar but is double flowered What you could plant instead They are H6 and ericaceous/neutral TOXIC if eaten wear protective equipment
Lilium orientalis 'My Wedding', Lilium orientalis 'Casa Blanca' AGM
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What is the word for the study of the change in flowering times and seasons over a long period called?
Phenology
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Purpleflowering bellflower, mat forming habit, groundcover. AGM quickly forms an evergreen mound
Campanula portenschlagiana
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An alpine with silvery trichomes on leaves to protect from high UV light at altitide
Leontopodium alpinum
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Two plants from the mediterranian region (Maquis biome) which have silvery trichomes in leaves to protect from strong sunlight and drying winds First one has Perfect for Pollinators Second one has AGM
Stachys byzantina, Jacobaea maritima 'Silver Dust'
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Name a monocot that can be propagated from all or part of a leaf with the new plants forming from the cut veins or from the petiole
Dracaena trifasciata
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An example of protogyny and explain system
Plantago lanceolata, Stigma mature first and stamens emerge after
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Example of Protandry and explain mechanism Stamen mature first while style is held below then stamen curl back and style is raised up
Clerodendron speciosissimum, Stamen mature first while style is held below then stamen curl back and style is raised up
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A plant that uses scent in winter to attract early bees from a greater distance as there are fewer of them
Sarcococca confusa
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A plant that uses the smell of rotting meat to attract flies and also can be grown outside in the UK but you wpuldn't want to plant it in a garden because of the smell!!
Dracunculus vulgaris
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An example of heterostyly Pin is Thrum is
Pin and thrum eyed Primula vulgaris, Pin is stamen at top, Thrum is style at top
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A plant that will self pollinate as a fallback to not being cross pollinated:It will only open in sunny weather when pollinators are more likley flying. If it doesn't open, the stamen will curl back to touch the style and self pollinate inside the closed flower
Crocus vernus
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A flower that produces a few seeds larger seeds
Iris foetidissima
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A plant that splits its seedpod to fling the seeds a distance
Cardamine hirsuta
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A plant with fleshy seedpods
Impatiens walleriana
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A seed that needs the dark to germinate best
Solanum lycopersicum
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A seed that has a seedcoat that can prevent water entering the seed by keeping the micropyle blocked
Lathyrus odoratus
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A seedcoat that is soo hard for the radicle to physically break through
Prunus spp.
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A seedcoat that won't let oxygen i to the embryo
Beta vulgaris
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A fruit where the surrounding fleshy tissue produces chemical inhibitors which prevent the growth of the embryo
Solanum lycopersicum
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A seed where the embryo contains inhibitor chemicals which break down over time
Fraxinus spp.
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A seed where the embryo is not fully developed when the seed is shed and needs time to be ready to germinate
Ilex aquifolium
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Ash
Fraxinus excelsior
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Plants that self seed are useful as pollinator attractors in veg gardens because they don't have to be replanted so the soil can be left alone. name two
Limnanthes douglasii, Calendula officinalis
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Ornamentals that self seed are useful in some design styles. Name one for Artd and Crafts
Erigeron karvinskianus
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Name a plant whose seed has an ELAIOSOME - a fleshy mix of fats and protiens attached to the seed that ants will move to their nests and eat, thus dispersing the seed
Cyclamen spp.
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A yellow flowering plant with a verticallister inflorescence. is hairy, has a woolley white coating to underside to leaves creating a boundary layer and preventing water loss in full sun, deciduous, Lamiaceae. Is a Plant for Pollinators and has an AGM.
Phlomis russeliana
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Name 5 alpines Tp dd Aj Cc Gm
Thymus praecox, Dianthus deltoides, Armeria juniperifolia, Campanula carpatica, Geum montanum
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Plan to extend flowering season Winter ephemerals x 2 Early spring ephemerals x2 Early flowering evergreen Semi-evergreen spring flowering x2 Late flowering spring bulb Early summer herbaceous perennials x 3 Late summer tender perennials Flowering occasdionally through winter if conditions are appropriate tree
Galanthus nivalis, Eranthis hyemalis, Crocus vernus, Narcissus spp., Helleborus niger, Pulmonaria officinalis, Primula vulgaris, Tulipa, Aquilegia vulgaris, Acanthus spinosus, Achillea millefolium, Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff', Canna indica, Eucomis comosa, Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis'
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A tree with a slender fastigiate shape A tree with a broad canopy A tree with a weeping form A tree with an open vase shape
Populus nigra, Fagus sylvatica, Betula pendula, Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis'
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Three deciduous gymnosperms/conifers
Ginkgo biloba, Taxodium distichum, Larix decidua
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An alpine flowering plant good for greening a wall Where is it native
Campanula portenschlagiana, Croatian mountains
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Rose campion
Silene coronaria
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Hardy begonia Low growing Good for shade Hardy down to 0⁰C H2 Pink and white flowers in summer, green leaves, red stems Tolerant of some drought doesnt like waterlogging Has AGM
Begonia grandis subsp evansiana
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Basil
Ocimum basilicum
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Lettuce
Lactuca sativa
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Name a plant that grows quickly, can be used for canes and is 35% more efficient in producing oxygen and 5X more efficent at absorbing carbon dioxide than other trees
Phyllostachys aurea
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What not to plant as a hedge as it is prone to dieback if pruned harsh but grows really quick What to plant instead
X Cupressocyparis leylandii, Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens'
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Name three half hardy annuals (HHA) for bedding
Cosmos bipinnatus, Tagetes patula, Nicotiana alata 'Lime Green'
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Name three hardy annuals for summer bedding
Calendula officinalis, Nigella damascena, Limnanthes douglasii
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Name three summer bedding tender perennials which are grown as annuals and discarded
Impatiens walleriana, Pelargonium zonale, Lobelia erinus
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Name three tender shrubs for aummer bedding dot plants which are protected over winter for next year
Cordyline australis, Fuchsia magellanica, Abutilon megapotamicum
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Name three short lived perennials grown as biennials for winter/spring bedding and discarded to make way for summer bedding
Myosotis sylvatica, Bellis perennis, Erysimum cheiri
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Name three low growing shrubs suitable for evergreen colour in a winter container
Cupressus macrocarpa 'Goldcrest', Skimmia japonica, Hedera helix 'Variegata'
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Teasel
Dipsacus fullonum
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An example of a recalcitrant seed Avocado Mango Chocolate Blue Water Lily
Persea americana, Mangifera indica, Theobroma cacao, Nymphaea caerulea
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Horse chestnut
Aesculus hippocastanum
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What is a nut
Dry fruit, Single seed, Hard shell, Protective husk
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Plants for butterflies E B V L
Echinops ritro, Buddleja davidii, Verbena bonariensis, Lonicera periclymenum
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An important plant for the common blue butterfly, green hairstreak larvae
Lotus corniculatus