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Talkback: The ornamental cabbage

looks better. Not sure bout ornamental cabbages as cut flower - they'd bring a rather pungent odour to a display. Yes, the purple kale looks rather good - I wonder how tough it is to eat?janerowena Me too, I work in a garden centre and can't stand by Grannyanne

28/11/2011 18:39:59

by Stihl Chain Saw

New Zealand Flax Flower

amazing stripe on the leaves......................but the flowers are the most disgusting dirty mustard. Doesn't fit well with my pink and purple colour scheme. Is this the yellowy green colour flower I have been reading about? Hope mine is the red! Will by seaside oldie

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04/05/2012 08:54:35

by backyardee

plants for part shade/ full shade

as dwarf shrubs...lovely foliage. Mine is in partial shade.Polemonium stairway to heaven is variegated perennial with blue flowers in summer...perfect for your position. Mine is near a dwarf purple berberis for great contrast by Gardengirl..

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09/04/2013 18:36:56

by Verdun

Can you recommend a shrub for this border?

.....plants tend to grow outwards here, rather than up. I'd like to replace it with a shrub which has an upright habit, will show up against the leylandii and (preferably) be evergreen. I'm considering a purple-leaved berberis. What do other people think? (We live by Berkley

19/10/2012 17:08:37

by Daintiness

Help with Identification please

Flowers look like greater stitchwort, but the leaves don't look the same as the photo in my Wild flower book. It looks like common whitlow grass to me. One of the wintergreens? Purple flowers that open in sunlight but close up at night i have by Dave Warner

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27/05/2012 14:37:41

by PenylanSue

climber

every thing. They can grow a lot, are hardy, but very little maintainence, They are amongst the earlier flowering types.Throughout most of the year, mine has an attractive purple (ish) stems & leaves but they do go to stick in the Winter. I have by cherry red

13/08/2012 09:08:49

by lovetogarden

Talkback: Clover

of disclaimer at least.I've bought clover as wildflowers from garden centers and inserted them into my lawn. The bees go crazy for the lovely purple or white flowers. I noticed a small patch of clover in my lawn last year but did little about it except apply by john63brown

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28/06/2012 23:35:37

by Musical Cricketer

Ideas appreciated for shrubs to create structure in my new garden

greens. Prunus cistena crimson dwarf is a real stunner. Pinky white flowers on red foliage. I grow couple of half standards. The foliage colour lasts all summer. A good, similar size and shape is salix .....too late to try the name but it by happycottontail

26/04/2013 23:58:55

by Verdun

Herbaceous/shrub clematis

flowers. It dies back completely in the autumn, so I trim off the dead stalks in the spring: there isn't any 'old wood' to preserve. What am I doing wrong? Thank you I've had 4 forms of this for sevral years and all flower every year - although it looks by smallswan

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29/05/2012 18:08:39

by smallswan

Talkback: Growing kale

I left my flowering leeks last year because the big purple heads were so beautiful and this year I have leeks for free from the seeds that dropped! I left one pentland brig plant in the ground flowering last year, it resprouted and fed us a few by grannyanne

28/11/2011 18:38:44

by Sue

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