1. 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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Get to know 17 plants selected from Orhon. Discover their scientific names, identifying features and growing needs.
Plants to discover
2. bell pepper
Capsicum annuum
This is the wild plant from which many of our cultivated sweet peppers and chillies have been bred. It shows a wide range of fruit shapes, colours, sizes and degree of capsaicin production - from where the heat may or may not be felt. It ha
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3. golden pothos
Epipremnum aureum
An evergreen self-clinging climber to 4m or more, with glossy bright green ovate leaves spotted and streaked with cream or yellow; green flowering spathes appear only rarely in cultivation
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4. Arctic sage
Artemisia frigida
A tufted perennial to 30cm, woody at the base, with semi-evergreen, silky, light grey leaves divided into thread-like lobes and small yellow flower-heads in panicles
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5. Lemon
Citrus limon
An evergreen small tree or shrub with spiny stems, ovate to elliptic leaves, and strongly fragrant white flowers tinged with purple. The oval yellow fruit is juicy and acidic, maturing in autumn. It has a rounded, open canopy and glossy dar
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6. castor oil plant
Ricinus communis
An erect, branching shrub to 1.5m when grown as an annual, with very deeply 5- to 12-lobed, glossy, green, red or bronze leaves to 30cm long, held on red stems. Insignificant yellow flowers are produced in summer; these are followed by brig
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7. royal fern
Osmunda regalis
O. regalis is a robust deciduous fern forming a large clump of bipinnate fronds to 2.5m in height, bearing rusty-brown spore-bearing pinnae at the tips; foliage turns attractive red-brown in autumn
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8. 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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9. lace aloe
Aristaloe aristata
An evergreen perennial to 20cm forming rosettes of fleshy lance-shaped leaves spotted with white and tipped with a soft white spine, with tubular, orange-red flowers 4cm in length in panicles to 50cm in length in autumn
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10. cucumber
Cucumis sativus
The wild species of cucumber from which all other cultivars have been derived. It is a deciduous, annual, vining plant to 2m (6½ft) high, climbing by means of thin tendrils at the leaf nodes and producing yellow separate male and female flo
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11. Geranium
Pelargonium hortorum
Pelargonium hortorum forms bushy, tender perennials with thick, fleshy stems and rounded, scalloped leaves; the leaves often have a dark horseshoe-shaped zone. In summer and into autumn it bears dense spherical flower heads made up of singl
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12. frost grape
Vitis riparia
A vigorous woody climber with heart-shaped, sometimes lobed, coarsely toothed bright green leaves up to 20cm across. Small, scented yellow-green flowers are produced in spring, followed by clusters of blue-black fruits
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13. common olive
Olea europaea
Has a rugged, much-branched habit and slow growth, eventually 4.5-9m. Leaves are narrowly obovate or oval, to 7.5cm long, leathery, silvery beneath. Very small white flowers are borne in axillary racemes to 5cm long. Many cultivated varieti
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14. Umbrella tree
Schefflera actinophylla
Schefflera actinophylla is a fast-growing evergreen tree or large shrub, reaching up to 15 metres in its native habitat but typically 2-3 metres indoors. It features large, palmate leaves with 7-16 glossy, dark green leaflets radiating from
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15. anise hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
An upright, deciduous perennial forming a clump of leafy stems. The leaves are highly aromatic with a distinct aniseed scent, and have white undersides. The flower spikes are short, with broadly ovate bracts, and are a strong violet blue
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16. fern arum
Zamioculcas zamiifolia
an evergreen, rhizomatous perennial. The smooth, shiny leaves, 40-60cm long, arise directly from the ground, and have six to eight pairs of leaflets. One or two green and white, arum-like flowers may appear among the leaf bases in summer, f
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17. Catmint
Nepeta faassenii
Nepeta faassenii is a compact, clump-forming perennial with aromatic, grey-green leaves and terminal spikes of small, tubular, lavender-blue flowers. It typically grows 30–50 cm tall and 60–90 cm wide, creating a soft, billowing mound in th
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