Get to know 16 plants selected from Halab. Discover their scientific names, identifying features and growing needs.
Cicer arietinum
More commonly known as the Chickpea, this annual legume has small, green feathery leaves either side of the stem and produces fat green seedpods containing two or three peas to each pod in spring or early summer. Crops are usually ready fo
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Aloe vera
An evergreen perennial to 0.6m, forming rosettes of fleshy, narrow, dull green leaves with spiny margins, with long racemes of tubular greenish-yellow flowers 3cm in length in racemes to 90cm in length
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Ocimum basilicum
An aromatic tender annual or short-lived perennial, 30-60cm tall and 30cm wide, with bright green, elliptic leaves approximately 5cm long and 2-3cm wide. Many different cultivars available, varying in size and colour. Small, tubular white o
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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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Beta vulgaris
This is the original plant from which our cultivated beet plants have been selected. It has deep green, fleshy leaves which are edible, as in leaf beet and colourful stems making it extremely ornamental as a foliage plant, as in chard. In s
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Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
K. blossfeldiana is a bushy evergreen succulent perennial to 40cm, with fleshy, ovate leaves, and terminal panicles of tubular red flowers spreading lobes in early spring
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Vitex agnus-castus
A deciduous shrub, reaching up to 2.5m, with pleasingly aromatic foliage. This is a distinctive shape with 5-7 splayed leaflets. Upright panicles of fragrant, lavender flowers are borne in autumn
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Calendula officinalis
A fast growing annual or biennial with aromatic leaves and heads of vivid orange daisy-like flowers, borne in long succession in the summer and autumn until the first hard frosts
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Ecballium elaterium
A tender, bushy or trailing perennial grown as an annual. Dark greyish-green, five-lobed leaves are carried on long, bristly stems. Pale yellow flowers, about 2cm across, appear in summer, followed by hairy, blue-green fruit that are touch-
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Robinia pseudoacacia
R. pseudoacacia is a fast-growing, spreading tree to 25m tall with deeply furrowed rough bark and spines formed from stipules on twigs and suckers. The dark green leaves comprise 5-11 pairs of oval leaflets. Dense, drooping clusters of slig
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Gardenia jasminoides
A large evergreen shrub with deep glossy green, elliptic leaves and very fragrant, broadly funnel-shaped white flowers 8cm across in summer and autumn
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Cucumis melo
A wild species of melon from which all other cultivars have been bred. It's a deciduous annual, spreading, twining plant to 1.5 m long, with large, soflty-haired leaves and unbranching tendrils. It produces yellow separate male and female f
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Sorghum bicolor
An upright plant with green strappy leaves. Flower spikes are covered in small, yellowish-green flowers, followed by pale, sometimes rusty coloured seeds. Seeds can ripen in the UK if given a long hot summer. Can be grown in the UK as a ten
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Eruca vesicaria
A hugely variable annual which may grow between 20 and 100cm tall, depending on conditions. It is very similar to UK native wild rocket. It has green, frondy leaves and 4-petalled, off-white or cream flowers veined with dark red. All of the
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Ailanthus altissima
This plant is listed on Schedule 9 of The Wildlife (Northern Ireland) Order (1985), as amended, as an invasive non-native species and is banned from sale. See cultivation notes for further details\r\n\r\nA spreading tree, often suckering,
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Daucus carota
The wild carrot is a tap-rooted biennial, its solid, ridged stems reaching 75cm in height. In summer it bears white umbels, tinged with pink in bud and sometimes in flower and the very central floret is dark red. Only this flower produces n
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