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-leaved variety that will light up a shady spot like a 100w lamp. The other is Sambucus nigra 'Black Lace', which has lacy purple leaves and flowers with a slight pink tinge.The most famous contemporary reference to the elder comes in Monty Python and the Holy

. Almost glows in the looming dusk.Rosa laevigata 'Coopers Burmese': a climbing species rose. It only flowers once (though magnificently) but has fabulous hips, deep reddish purple stems and polished evergreen leaves.Feijoia sellowiana: an evergreen silvery

Spring has sprung. All at once. The guinea pig and his hutch are back outside. Shieldbugs, in their purple-brown winter colours, are sunbathing on the fence. The first bumblebee of the year, a queen buff-tailed, floated past and a male feather

are implausibly large. My neighbour on the plot, thought them very vulgar and showy, which is precisely why I love them!  'Otto's Thrill' is a pale pinky-orange. 'Babylon' red is a tomato red, while 'Babylon' purple is a beautiful magenta red colour.If I'm very

late summer flowering plant that will tolerate a bit of shade (provided it is not too dry). The pinky-purple flowers look like the mouths of giant carp. Gets to about 45cm high.Metasequoia glyptostroboides - the dawn redwood is a deciduous conifer from

plantain's thickened stem and forked flower-head, and the daisy squashed and stretched like a plasticine model. And now there was the regular appearance of broad purple inflorescences just outside my kitchen.Apparently, Veronicastrum is prone to fasciation

' and 'Mayan Twilight'. 'Mayan Queen' is a more vigorous cultivar, which yields broader tubers than 'Mayan Gold', with red eyes. 'Mayan Twilight' is a maincrop salad potato, producing high yields of small tubers with a cream and purple flesh.Potato - 'Mayan

our Top 10 salad potatoes for flavour, below.This is our top tasting salad potato, without a doubt. It has great depth of flavour and copes better than many other varieties if growing conditions are less than ideal.'Nicola' (second early)Purple skin

winter.I'm not aware of any rust-resistant garlic varieties, or of any chemical controls to treat rust (even if I wanted to use them). But this year I may try garlic variety ‘Early Purple’, as this variety has been found to show more resistance than

, mauves or white are held on strong, medium-tall wiry stems that don't need supporting.Japanese anemoneThis must-have plant has short stems of large bell-shaped flowers in purples, pinks and blues. It's drought tolerant and pretty hardy, although it