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Plant of the Day
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Native to China and the Himalayas Adiantum venustum (evergreen maidenhair fern, Himalayan maidenhair fern) is a deciduous fern but usually remains evergreen to -10 °C when it will be deciduous. This plant needs a moist environment with soil containing a large amount of humus.
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Plant of the Day
Tuesday 14 May 2024
This small meadow included a planting of Narcissus bulbocodium (hoop petticoat daffodil). This small bulbous perennial has golden-yellow flowers with large, funnel-shaped trumpets and very narrow perianth segments.
Jill Raggett
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Plant of the Day
Monday 13 May 2024
Making a show in the window display of the houseplant shop ‘Rooted’ in Aberdeen was a specimen of an Alocasia species (giant taro, elephant’s ears). This architectural plant has impressive foliage and will thrive in a shady corner.
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Plant of the Day
Sunday 12 May 2024
On the top of a wall in Aberdeen, this low-growing evergreen shrub, probably Veronica pinguifolia 'Pagei' (hebe), was covered in a foam of white flowers.
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Plant of the Day
Saturday 11 May 2024
In Aberdeen, Scotland, the parks were full of Prunus avium 'Plena' (double gean, double wild cherry) in full flower. This double flowering form of the wild cherry forms a spreading, deciduous tree.
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Plant of the Day
Friday 10 May 2024
In Union Terrace, Aberdeen, the slide allows great views of the Helleborus argutifolius (holly-leaved hellebore) flowers and new foliage. This clump-forming, evergreen perennial can take the space of a small shrub once established.
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Plant of the Day
Thursday 9 May 2024
A blend of daffodil cultivars including Narcissus 'Actaea' (daffodil) have been planted through this long border in Union Square, Aberdeen. These bulbous perennials are great for providing an early display.
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Plant of the Day
Wednesday 8 May 2024
In this exotic foliage garden the Fatsia japonica 'Tsumugi-shibori' (Japanese aralia 'Spider's Web', ​false castor oil plant) provides interest even in the winter. This evergreen shrub has dark-green leaves heavily-speckled with white, particularly at the edges, but the white variegation can sometimes spread across the whole leaf.
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Plant of the Day
Tuesday 7 May 2024
In a dry garden the Grevillea juniperina f. sulphurea (spider flower) was flowering. The needle-like leaves of this evergreen shrub are well adapted to a well-drained soil in full sun.
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Plant of the Day
Monday 6 May 2024
This container provided a display all winter with cut stems of Salix (willow) and Cornus (dogwood) cultivars edged with the evergreen Carex 'Feather Falls' (sedge).
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Plant of the Day
Sunday 5 May 2024
Coming into leaf now but first there was a display of catkins on the Betula utilis subsp. albosinensis (Chinese red birch). This medium-sized, deciduous tree has beautiful orange-brown bark with a white-bloom when young and peels to reveal a cream underlayer.
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Plant of the Day
Saturday 4 May 2024
Rhubarb, known as the ‘fruit of Orkney’ is busy growing in the gardens of these Scottish islands. Rheum rhaponticum (common rhubarb) is a species that may have been involved in the parentage of the hybrids now used as culinary rhubarb. This plant is a large herbaceous perennial which overwinters as a low crown.
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Plant of the Day
Friday 3 May 2024
In this dry garden the Rhodanthemum hosmariense (Moroccan daisy) was covered in flowers early in the year. This plant creates a woody, spreading base covered with silvery leaves above which the white daisy flowers appear.
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Plant of the Day
Thursday 2 May 2024
A clump-forming, bulbous perennial Muscari latifolium'Grape Ice' (grape hyacinth) produces unusual spikes of small, bell-shaped, fragrant flowers that are deep purple at the base and pure white at the tip.
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Plant of the Day
Wednesday 1 May 2024
An early spring flowering shrub Stachyurus chinensis 'Celina' (Chinese stachyurus) has a spreading habit with purplish young branches that are covered with hanging racemes of pale yellow cup-shaped flowers before the leaves emerge.
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Plant of the Day
Tuesday 30 April 2024
In this front garden the variegated foliage and flowers of Euphorbia characias 'Silver Swan' (variegated spurge) were creating a display. This shrubby, evergreen perennial plant, has maroon-flushed dark stems that are clothed in grey-green leaves.
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Plant of the Day
Monday 29 April 2024
A container full of tulips with flowers in pink, cream and purple. The cultivars are Tulipa ‘Aafke’, Tulipa ‘Cheers’ and Tulipa ‘Purple Flag’.
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