1. ribbon plant
Chlorophytum comosum
A clump-forming evergreen perennial with mid green linear-lance shaped leaves. Racemes of tiny white flowers are borne on long stems, with plantlets forming along the branching flower stems
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2. jade plant
Crassula ovata
A bushy succulent evergreen sub-shrub growing slowly to 2m, with rounded fleshy dark green leaves often edged with red, and flat clusters of small starry white or light pink flowers in late summer
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3. Belgian evergreen
Dracaena sanderiana
A slender, erect shrub with cane-like stems and glossy green leaves with longitudinal white stripes. Makes an easy houseplant
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4. evergreen spindle
Euonymus japonicus
A bushy, medium-sized, evergreen shrub or small tree to a height of 4m, with dark green oval leaves. The flowers are small and greenish in colour; fruits are pink and orange, with a hint of white, but seldom produced
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5. lady's eardrops
Fuchsia magellanica
An attractive hedge in milder areas, where it can remain semi-evergreen. Flowers have scarlet sepals with a purple corolla
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6. Rhododendron indicum
Rhododendron indicum
A compact evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub, to about 1m high, with small, glossy green leaves that often turned red or purple in autumn. Produces open funnel-shaped reddish pink flowers, borne singly or in pairs, in late spring and early s
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7. peace lily
Spathiphyllum wallisii
S. wallisii is an evergreen perennial with erect, lance-shaped, glossy dark green leaves, and ovate white flowering spathes to 15cm in length, each with a slender cream spadix within
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8. arrowhead vine
Syngonium podophyllum
S. podophyllum is an evergreen climber, to 2m tall, compact when young with large arrow-shaped leaves veined and suffused with silvery-white; adult leaves are divided into 5-11 finger-like leaflets. Arum-like flowerheads with cream spathes
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9. arum lily
Zantedeschia aethiopica
A clump-forming herbaceous or semi-evergreen perennial with erect, long-stalked, dark glossy green, arrow-shaped leaves to 40cm in length and funnel-shaped white spathes to 25cm in length, with yellow spadices
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10. cosmea
Cosmos bipinnatus
A tall, bushy annual to 2.5m, with very finely divided, mid-green leaves, and large flowers to 8cm across, usually white or pink the wide outer rays surround a central disc of tightly clustered, usually yellow, inner disc florets. Flowering
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11. hortensia
Hydrangea macrophylla
A large, rounded, deciduous shrub with rather coarse, oval, dark green leaves to 20cm long. In mid- and late summer produces large, flattened flowerheads consisting of a few sterile, pink florets with large petals and many small, fertile, b
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12. white clover
Trifolium repens
Small-leaved white clover is a creeping perennial that roots at the nodes. Between May and October, on long stalks, it bears rounded heads of creamy white flowers, sometimes with a hint of pale pink that fade to brown. Leaves are trifoliate
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13. sweet corn
Zea mays
Sweetcorn is relatively easy to grow and without a doubt tastes so much better that shop bought. There's a great range of varieties to grow, both heritage and modern, and something to suit most gardens and the shorter British summers. If y
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14. common winter cactus
Schlumbergera truncata
A cactus with erect stems that then become pendent-forming as a bushy, trailing plant with flattened and toothed, oblong stem segments. Flowers produced at the stem tips in autumn and winter are usually in shades of purple, pink or red
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15. bread wheat
Triticum aestivum
A hardy annual utilised for centuries as a cereal crop. Greyish-green leaves are long and narrow. Flowers appear in summer, with seeds ripening in late summer and autumn
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16. African marigold
Tagetes erecta
A bushy annual from 50 to 120cm high with pinnate leaves divided into lanceolate leaflets up to 5cm long. Double flowers 5-10cm wide in shades of yellow, orange and white are produced from summer into autumn; both leaves and flowers are aro
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17. barley
Hordeum vulgare
An annual grass, more commonly known as barley with erect green stems and alternate leaves. Green flower spikes and kernels appear in the summer and wave in the breeze, turner paler golden brown as they mature. The number of rows on the f
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