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 Plant list: Plants less susceptible to honey fungus
Honey fungus, like many diseases, doesn’t attack healthy plants.These perennials are safer than woody trees and shrubs.
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| Latin name: | | Phyllostachys nigra |
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| Common name: | | Black bamboo |
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| Type of plant: | | Bamboo |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | N/A |
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| Leaf colour: | | Mid-green |
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| Height and spread: | | 8m x indefinite (27ft x indefinite) |
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Clump-forming bamboo with graceful arching canes that turn from green in the first year to mottled brown and black in the second and third years. The canes of var. henonis (Henon) turn yellow brown as they mature.
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| Latin name: | | Taxus baccata |
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| Common name: | | Common yew |
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| Type of plant: | | Tree |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | N/A |
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| Leaf colour: | | Dark green |
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| Height and spread: | | 22m x 9m (74m x 30ft) |
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An evergreen conifer with dark green, flattened needles. The female plants bear fleshy bright red fruits in winter. It clips well and is perhaps the most elegant of all hedging plants. Note: seeds are poisonous.
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| Latin name: | | Carpinus betulus |
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| Common name: | | Common hornbeam |
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| Type of plant: | | Tree |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | Green |
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| Leaf colour: | | Dark green |
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| Height and spread: | | 25m x 20m (83ft x 67ft) |
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Deciduous tree with grey, fluted trunk, good on both clay and chalk soils. The leaf looks similar to beech, but darker and turning yellow/orange in autumn. The flowers look similar to hops.
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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 to 2.5m (6in to 8ft x 1ft to 8ft) |
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Evergreen shrubs grown as much for the spikes of flowers as their foliage. Hebes grow well in coastal locations. They require full sun and well-drained soil.
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| Latin name: | | Fagus sylvatica |
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| Common name: | | Common beech |
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| Type of plant: | | Tree |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | N/A |
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| Leaf colour: | | Green or purple |
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| Height and spread: | | 25m x 20m (83ft x 67ft) |
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Deciduous tree with oval, wavy-edged leaves, pale green when young turning dark green, then orangey-brown in fall. Clipped hedges retain the dead leaves throughout the winter. F. sylvatica Purpurea group have blackish-purple leaves.
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