Some Good Garden Plants: Containing Descriptions of the Plants which Have Received the Award of Garden Merit 1922-1963 |
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April attractive August autumn Award given Award of Garden Awards given June axils beautiful berries blue flowers branches bush China clusters colour corymbs crimson cultivation deciduous deep Dierama E. H. WILSON evergreen feet high feet in height flowers flowers are borne foliage forms frost fruits full sun Garden Merit GARDEN PLANTS genus grown grows habit herbaceous border hybrid Illustrated inches long inflorescence introduced J. E. Downward FIG J. E. Downward Photo Japan japonica July March Messrs moist N. K. Gould FIG native October Osmanthus delavayi Osmarea pale panicles perfectly hardy petals pink flowers Primula pruning Prunus purple racemes raised from seed reach a height received the Award Rhododendron ROBERT FORTUNE rock garden scarlet seedlings sepals September serrulata shade shoots shrub small tree Smith FIG species speciosa spikes spreading spring stamens stems subhirtella variety Viburnum vulgaris well-drained soil white flowers winter Wisley yellow flowers young