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Our Favourite Plants
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Gardeners Corner top 20 favourite plants:
| Our Favourite | Plant | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Fragrant | Gardenia florida | Fragrant flowers, lush green foliage and can be grown in the ground or container |
| Indoor | Spathaphyllum ‘Peace Lily’ | Most reliable indoor plant, white upright flowers with glossy green long leaves. Water only when leaves are drooping and grow in low light to bright light. |
| Screening (tall) | Ficus hillii | Easily trimmed, can be trunked for underplanting and has lush green leaves all year round. |
| Screening (small) | Murraya panniculata | Sun tolerant, fragrant white flowers, glossy green leaves, easily hedged and low in maintenance. |
| Camellia sasanqua | Setsugekka | White single flowers with yellow stamens, dark green glossy leaves, sun tolerant, hedged, espaliered or topiary and bird attracting. |
| Camellia japonica | Brushfields Yellow | Double white & cream flowers, dark glossy green leaves, shade loving, hedged, topiary or espaliered. |
| Deciduous tree | Pyrus calleryana ‘Cleveland Select’ | Seasonal changes, red leaves, spring blossoms and glossy green leaves in summer. Extremely tough and are great as a specimen, avenue or screening trees. |
| Evergreen tree | Olive Tree | Hedged, specimen, topiary or espaliered. Tough with edible fruit and gorgeous grey foliage. |
| Conifer | Juniperus chinensis ‘Spartan’ | Tight conical shape, container or garden planted for formal to semi-formal gardens. |
| Palm | Phoenis roebellinii | Architectural foliage creating a tropical feel. Grown in full sun and coastal conditions. |
| Native | Westringia fruticosa | Mauve flowers, hardy low maintenance hedge and tolerates full sun. |
| Container plant | English Box | Easily clipped, great for formal gardens and borders. |
| Groundcover | Convolvulus sabatius | Quick growing, evergreen and hardy with beautiful purple flowers. |
| Citrus | Tahitian Lime | Fragrant flowers, edible fruit and lush foliage. Perfers full sun and can be planted in the ground, in a container, espaliered and hedged. |
| Blossom | Malus ioensis | Deciduous tree, profusion of blossoms in spring making it a brilliant specimen tree. |
| Rose | Iceberg | Long lasting white rose which flowers for almost the whole year. Less prone to black spot. |
| Azalea | Alba magnifica | Flowers late winter, is more sun tolerant and quick growing. |
| Lavender | Avonview | Vibrant purple flowers with bracts that look like rabbit ears. Long lasting flowers for half the year. |
| Climber | Chinese Star Jasmine | Evergreen climber that grows well in the sun or a shadier position. It also has fragrant white flowers that cover the whole wall/fence which stand out against the lush green foliage. |
| Herb | Rosemary | Used in cooking as well as makes a great hedge and border. The mauve purple flowers are attractive against the grey/green foliage. |