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Plant list

What you'll find in our garden this year

Here's a list of the plants used in the Cancer Research UK
Chelsea Flower Show 2009 garden.

 

Trees/specimen shrubs

Hedge:

  • Carpinus betulus

Multistemmed trees/shrubs:

  • Rhus typhina 'Dissecta' – "Stag’s Horn Sumach"
  • Rhus typhina – "Stag’s Horn Sumach"

Shrubs (clipped mounds)

Plants in our garden

  • Ilex crenata – "Japanese Holly"
  • Pittosporum tobira 'Nanum' – "Japanese Mock Orange"
  • Santolina pinnata subsp. Neapolitana 'Edward Bowle' – "Cotton Lavender"

Herbaceous

  • Beschorneria yuccoides – "Beschorneria"
  • Bergenia 'Baby Doll' – "Bergenia"
  • Echium pinninan (foligae) – "Echium"
  • Euphorbia mellifera – "Honey Spurge"
  • Geranium renardii – "Cranesbill"
  • Hakonechloa macra – "Grass"
  • Iris pallida – "Iris"
  • Liriope muscari (foliage) – "Blue Lily turf"
  • Ophiopogon japonicus (var) – "Giant Lily Turf"
  • Ophiopogon planiscipus 'Nigrescens' – "Lily Turf"
  • Phlomis russelliana – "Jerusalem Sage"
  • Phormium tenax – "New Zeland Flax"
  • Saxifragia x urbium – "London Pride"
  • Scilla perviana – "Scilla"
  • Sisyrinchium striatum – "Sisyrinchium"
  • Stipa calamagrostis – "Feather Grass"
  • Tellima grandiflora – "Fringe Cups"

Bulbs

  • Allium 'Purple sensation' – "Onion"
  • Agapanthus africanus – "African Blue Lily"

Behind wall

  • Asarum europium – "Wild Ginger"
  • Aspidistra elatior – "Cast Iron Plant"
  • Asplenium scolopendrium – "Harts Tongue Fern"
  • Blechnum chilense – "Hard Fern"
  • Dryopteris wallichiana – "Wallich's Wood Fern"
  • Epimedium youngianum 'Niveun' – "Bishops Mitre"
  • Polystichum setiferum 'Plumosum' – "Soft Shield Fern"

Lines in paving and "lawn"

  • Leptinella squallida OR – "Brass Buttons"
  • Tymus serpyllum 'Minimus' – "Thyme"