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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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Plant of the Day

Sunday 28 April 2024

Perfect for a container in a shady place the perennial Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' (Siberian bugloss) provides large, heart-shaped silver leaves edged and veined with green. It produces sprays of small blue flowers in spring.

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Plant of the Day

Saturday 27 April 2024

This was a lovely specimen of the houseplant Aglaonema 'Silver Bay' (Chinese evergreen). This is an upright, clump-forming, slow-growing tropical evergreen perennial which can reach up to 90cm.

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Plant of the Day

Friday 26 April 2024

Today containers of tulips with pink and purple flowers including the cultivars including Tulipa ‘Blue Diamond’, Tulipa ‘Pink Sound’, Tulipa ‘Negrita Double’ and Tulipa ‘Ollioules’.

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Plant of the Day

Thursday 25 April 2024

A striking container display of tulips in yellow and purple with cultivars Tulipa ‘Green Mile’, Tulipa ‘Curly Sue’ and Tulipa ‘Akebono’.

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