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Jasminum nudiflorum
This indestructible plant will grow in sun or shade cope with drought and the roots of the most vicious kinds and can be grown as a sprawling shrub, a trailing wall cover, a climber or a standard. It is particularly good thrown up through the lower branches of an uninteresting tree trunk. It produces its bright
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Agapetes serpens
This Himalayan shrub can be used in so many ways. It will make a great pot or hanging basket subject and is almost impossible to root bound it due to its small epiphytic root system. Its weeping arching habit makes it ideal as a weeping standard. If left untrained it will grow to about 1.5 metres.
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Bystropogon canariensis
This is an evergreen shrub funnily enough from the Canary Islands with small grey-green leaves with a Pennyroyal scent so plant it near where you walk so as to brush past it. It is however for its masses of fluffy grey flowers produced almost throughout the summer and autumn that you would chiefly grow it.
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Cotinus cogyggria ‘Royal Purple’
This hardy shrub well and truly proved itself through 12 years of drought. Any wonder really as it comes from the Mediterranean south of France. It’s deciduous and grows to 2 metres and revels in a well drained sunny site. Better than a Cercis ‘Forest Pansy’ in this respect. It’s purple foliage lasts from spring
Stephen Ryan