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spring and purple fruit in summer. In autumn, its leaves fade from dark green to gold. A. lamarckii prefers growing in a sunny or part-shady spot in moist soil, and can reach an eventual height of 6m.Amelanchier lamarkii, June berryEasy to grow, Malus

to eradicate the colour green so everything was silver, blue and purple. If I remember rightly it looked weird - not in good way. Judge for yourself.I think I might lose your interest if I go through the whole history and cultural osmosis of the barrow but

- a couple of cabbages, red cabbage, kale and purple sprouting broccoli, but no sprouts. Paul stared at me aghast when I told him. "What! No sprouts for Christmas dinner?" I didn't even think he was that keen on them. "I'm not" he said, "but you have

tail chopped off and then grew a new one. It was easy to spot with its delicate pink newly grown tail contrasting with the old dark purple body. We looked at it thoughtfully for a while, and let it go. I decided not to launch into a lecture on worm

Velvet', will certainly be included in the display. Its petals, true to its name, have a wonderful velvety texture. The French lavenders, Lavandula stoechas are also perfect, so my plants with brown, purple, deep reds and gold colouring are all present

that the anthers are purple and brown (apparently looking like decaying flesh to the average carrion fly); a sprig of hawthorn worn in your hat will supposedly protect you from lightning.Since medieval times is has been used as a heart remedy, a diuretic

business, but I remember pouring over old Kelways catalogues, crammed with colour plates of pristine fields with row upon row of pink, purple, white and red peonies. How I would love to have seen them. People must have travelled miles for a peony pilgrimage

last recorded in 1897. I went back the next month and found it on the B. thunbergii bushes (the purple-leaved cultivar) in the ornamental gardens. Despite close attention to the many hedgerow bushes in East Dulwich and elsewhere, I've not seen it again

spathes in pale shades of pink, yellow and cream through to white, and lance-shaped leaves. Elliottiana hybrids have wonderfully speckled leaves and bright, brash spathes, while the rehmannii hybrids have mainly deeper green leaves and often deep purple

colour is staggeringly good.There are quite a few varieties of Liquidambar available but L. styraciflua 'Worplesdon' is, I think, probably the best. The leaves turn deep red-cabbage-purple first before exploding into flashes of orangey-yellow. For a