| Description | Agave geminiflora
Twin Flower Agave is a perfect architectural feature plant for containers, desert gardens, waterwise planting. It can grow in both full sun, and full shade; cold tolerant to around -5C. Requires low maintenance. These plants have an interesting life cycle, flowers after around ten years with a huge 4m spike of yellow blooms, usually dying afterwards. What a way to go out. | Phoenix roebelenii 'Pygmy Date Palm'
Date Palms feature an interesting, classic palm trunk that forms and grows larger as it matures. They have a crown of elegant dark green lacy fronds cascading from the top of this. A mature Date Palm will reach 2-3 meters tall.
Old, dead fronds are best pruned off to expose the trunk as the tree ages and to keep it neat. The Date Palm is another good plant for creating a tropical feel in the garden which does well down South. | Rosa 'Paradise' Hybrid tea
Paradise has striking pink-mauve blooms with each petal flushed with deep rose pink. A truly unique colour combination on a bush that is healthy and vigorous. Hybrid Tea Roses provide a colourful display from late spring to late autumn. The upright bushes produce classically shaped blooms on long stems making them ideal to grow as cutflowers. Hybrid Tea roses are hardy, vigorous, repeat flowering and disease resistant making them ideal plants to have in large pots or as hedges or borders.
2ft Standard Rose. | Anthriscus cerefolium
Chervil, sometimes called garden chervil or French parsley, is a delicate annual herb related to parsley. This plant is a native to the Caucasus, which is a mountainous region between Turkey and Russia. Chervil was spread through Europe by the Romans, and is now naturalised. The plants can grow up to 70cm tall and 30cm wide, and produces small white flowers. This herb is referred to as gourmet's parsley, and is used particularly in France to season poultry, seafood, spring veg, soups and sauces. It has a faint taste of liquorice and aniseed. Chervil is one of the four French "fines herbes" which are essential to French cooking. The other three are tarragon, chives and parsley. Unlike stronger herbs like thyme and rosemary which can withstand long cooking times, these "fines herbes" are added at the last minute. Traditionally, chervil has had many medicinal uses. It has claimed to be used as a digestive aid, for lowering blood pressure, and used infused with vinegar for curing hiccups! It has also been used as a mild stimulant. It prefers a cool and moist location, and regular harvesting of leaves helps to prevent it rapidly going to seed, which will bring the plant to the end of its production. |
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| botanical name |
Phoenix roebelenii
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| height x width |
Up to 2m but slow growing
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Pots, courtyards, plazas, specimens, general landscaping
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| botanical name |
Anthriscus Cerefolium
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