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 Plant list: Domed or rounded plants
Mounds of plants are soft on the eye, and help to provide a contrast in a display. But large mounds can look ‘heavy’ so stick to smaller domes plants
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| Latin name: | | Hebe |
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| Common name: | | Hebe |
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| Type of plant: | | Shrub |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy to half-hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | White, pink, violet and purple |
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| Leaf colour: | | Green to bronzy |
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| Height and spread: | | 15cm to 2.5m x 30cm (1ft) to 2.5m (6in to 8.2ft x 1ft to 8.2ft) |
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Evergreen shrubs grown as much for the spikes of flowers as much as their foliage. Hebes grow well in coastal locations and require full sun and well-drained soil.
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| Latin name: | | Lavandula |
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| Common name: | | Lavender |
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| Type of plant: | | Shrub |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy to half-hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | Lavender blue |
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| Leaf colour: | | Silver-grey |
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| Height and spread: | | 60cm to 1m x 60cm to 1m (2ft to 3ft x 2ft to 3ft) |
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A wonderful evergreen plant to brush past, as the leaves fill the air with perfume. Can be planted to form an attractive hedge, and the flowers dried for perfuming laundry or rooms. Needs a well-drained soil.
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| Latin name: | | Erica |
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| Common name: | | Heather |
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| Type of plant: | | Shrub |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | White, pink and purple |
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| Leaf colour: | | Vivid to dark green |
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| Height and spread: | | 15cm to 6m x 40cm to 1.5m (6in to 20ft x 5in to 5ft) |
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Heathers come in all sizes, but the small, spreading types are most commonly grown for their masses of tiny, bell-shaped flowers which appear among the needle-like leaves. There are many cultivars to choose from, some of which will tolerate lime.
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| Latin name: | | Rhododendron yakushimanum |
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| Common name: | | Rhododendron |
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| Type of plant: | | Shrub |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | Pink-white |
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| Leaf colour: | | Silvery maturing to very deep green |
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| Height and spread: | | 1m x 1.5m (3ft x 5ft) |
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A neat, compact, dome-shaped rhododendron that withstand a touch of lime. Parent of many hybrids that have flowers ranging from white to pink through yellow. Perfect for a small garden.
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| Latin name: | | Festuca glauca |
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| Common name: | | Blue fescue |
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| Type of plant: | | Perennial |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | steel blue |
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| Leaf colour: | | Grey blue |
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| Height and spread: | | 15cm to 30cm x 20cm to 25cm (6in to 1ft x 8in to 10in) |
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| Description: | |
Tufty, evergreen ornamental grass with narrow leaves that form a domed mound. In summer it sends up stiff stems with violet tinged flowering plumes. It does best in sun.
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