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Ajuga A useful evergreen ground cover plant with crinkled shiny green foliage variegated pink, bronze and cream, forming a dense mat which in spring is spiked with erect whorls of blue flowers. Spreads rapidly but is not invasive and is particularly effective under deciduous shrubs. Height 2ins (5cm).
Alchemilla a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the Rosaceae, and a popular garden herb with the common name Lady's mantle.
Most species of Alchemilla are clump-forming or mounded, perennials with basal leaves arising from woody fhizomes. Some species have leaves with lobes that radiate from a common point and others have divided leaves—both are typically fan-shaped with small teeth at the tips. The long-stalked, gray green to green leaves are often covered with soft hairs, which hold water drops on the surface and along the edges. Green to Chartreuse flowers are small, have no petals and appear in clusters above the foliage in late spring and summer.
This is an old favourite, with attractive rounded leaves and small yellowish-green flowers in June-August height 9ins
Cerastium is agenus of annual, winter annual, or perennial plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. The around 100 species are commonly called Mouse-ear chickweed; different species are found nearly worldwide but the greatest concentration is mainly from the northern temperate areas of the world. A number are common weeds in fields and on disturbed ground.Cerastium alpinum, commonly called Alpine mouse-ear chickweed or Alpine chickweed is a species of mat forming perennial plant.
Cotoneaster (pronounced Ka'touni,aester) a genus of woody plants in the rose family,Rosaceae, Depending on the species definition used, there are between 70 to 300 different species of cotoneaster. The majority of species are shrubs from 0.5–5 metres (1.6–16 ft) tall, varying from ground-hugging prostrate plants to erect shrubs; a few, notably C. frigidus, are small trees up to 15 metres (49 ft) tall and 75 centimetres (30 in) trunk diameter. The prostrate species are mostly alpine plants growing at high altitude
Cotula a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It includes about 80 species of plants known generally as water buttons or buttonweeds. The species within this genus can vary extensively in their habit, leaf division, involucre, receptacle and achenes. This makes it difficult to define them by comparing their morphology. The genus can only be defined by looking at the corollas of their flowers. Most are disciform (lacking ray florets). These corollas may be tubular, reduced or even absent. Another characteristic are their solitary heads growing on a peduncle.
Epimedium Also known as Rowdy Lamb Herb, Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat, Fairy Wings, Horny Goat Weed, or Yin Yang Huo a genus in the family Berberidaceae. a hardy Perennial. While they can be successfully propagated in spring, best division is done in late August, with the aim of promoting rapid re-growth of roots and shoots before the first frost of winter. Many species of Epimedium are alleged to have aphrodisiac qualities. Icariin is the chemical that is present here.
Erica pronounced eri'ka, a genus in the ericacaea family. Most of the species are small shrubs from 0.2-1.5 m high, All are evergreen, with needle-like leaves 2-15 mm long. Flowers are sometimes axillary, and sometimes in terminal umbels or spikes, and are usually outward or downward facing. Flowers are en mass, and the plants are grown for their floral effect. The seeds are very small, and in some species may persist in the soil for decades.
Euonymus The spindles, genus Euonymus (pronounced / ju:'unimas), comprise about 170–180 species of deciduius and evrgreen shrubs and small trees. They live mostly in East Asia and they also have a distribution in Europe, Australasia and Nth America. The flowers are situated in small groups, inconspicuous and of green or yellow shades. The leaves are opposite (rarely alternate) and simple ovoid, typically 2–15 cm long, and usually with a finely serrated margin. The fruit is a pink-red four- or five-valved pod-like berry, which splits open to reveal the fleshy-coated orange seeds. The seeds are eaten by birds, which digest the fleshy seed coat and disperse the seeds in their droppings. All parts of the plants are poisonous to humans if eaten.
Euphorbia The plants are annual or perennial herbs, woody shrubs or trees with a caustic, poisonous milky sap . The roots are fine or thick and fleshy or tuberous. The main stem and mostly also the side arms of the succulent species are thick and fleshy, 15-91 cm (6-36 inches) tall. The deciduous leaves are opposite, alternate or in whorls. In succulent species the leaves are mostly small and short-lived. Like all members of the family Euphorbiaceae, all spurges have unisexual flowers. Sometimes young plants or those growing under unfavourable conditions are male only, and only produce female flowers in the cyathia with maturity or as growing conditions improve. The bracts are often leaf-like, sometimes brightly coloured and attractive, sometimes reduced to tiny scales. The fruits are three (rarely two) compartment capsules, sometimes fleshy but almost always ripening to a woody container that then splits open.
Genista deciduous shrub, compact in habit. In summer it is covered in cheery, yellow, pea-like flowers genus of Legumes which includes many species of Broom
Cultivation:
Plant in poor, free-draining soil in full sun. Prune with care, as it will not produce new growth from old, pruned wood
Genista/Mount Etna Broom is a large shrub or small tree which can make a small tree to 10 m tall
Geranium Confusingly, "geranium" is also the common name of members of the genus Pelargonium, Geranium maculatum, the Spotted Geranium, Wood Geranium, or Wild Geranium is a woodland perennial grows in dry to moist woods and is normally abundant when found. growing to 60 cm tall, producing upright usually unbranched stems and flowers in spring to early summer. The leaves are palmately lobed with five or seven deeply cut lobes, 10–12.5 cm broad, with a petiole up to 30 cm long arising from the rootstock. They are deeply parted into three or five divisions, each of which is again cleft and toothed. The flowers are 2.5–4 cm diameter, with five rose-purple, pale or violet-purple (rarely white) petals and ten stamens; they appear from April to June in loose clusters of two to five at the top of the stems. The fruit capsule, which springs open when ripe, consists of five cells each containing one seed joined to a long beak-like column 2-3 cm long (resembling a crane's's bill) produced from the center of the old flower. The rhizome is long, and 5 to 10 cm thick, with numerous branches. The rhizomes are covered with scars, showing the remains of stems of previous years growth. When dry it has a somewhat purplish color internally. Plants go dormant in early summer after seed is ripe and dispersed. The plant has been used inherbal medicine, and is also grown as a garden plant.
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Alchemilla
Arabis
Ballota
Bergenia
Calluna
Ceanothus
Cerastium
Cotoneaster
Cotula
Epimedium
Erica
Euonymus
Euphorbia
Genista
Geranium
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