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WEBThe Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place. The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK's leading gardening charity, join us for days out at stunning gardens, exclusive access to flower shows & expert advice.
Lavender (Lavandula) / RHS
WEBLavender are popular, aromatic, drought-tolerant garden plants. They are easy to grow and associate well with other shrubs, perennial plants and roses. Long-lived and hardy border plants include cultivars of the English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia and L. × intermedia). Other lavenders, including French lavender (Lavandula stoechas), are ...
Rudbeckia - RHS Gardening
WEBRudbeckia. Botanical name: Rudbeckia. Common name: Coneflower or black-eyed Susan. The starry flowers of these robust, long-flowering plants can shine in borders, summer bedding, containers and prairie-style plantings. Perennials tend to be yellow flowered, whereas those grown as annuals are available in a wider colour range, with shades of ...
Honeysuckle (Lonicera) / RHS
WEBHoneysuckle. Botanical name: Lonicera. Besides the much loved climbers, honeysuckles include a number of useful shrubs. Some of them are evergreen and ideal for hedging or topiary pieces, others are winter flowering and highly perfumed. The climbing honeysuckle is a classic addition to a romantic cottage garden or even a wildlife haven.
Camellia - RHS Gardening
WEBThe Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place. Among the most glamorous shrubs, camellias are upright or spreading, glossy-leaved evergreens, with white, pink or red flowers. Impressive in shrub borders, they are also ...
Box (Buxus) / RHS
WEBBox. Botanical name: Buxus. Box is usually grown as a clipped, formal plant or hedge, although there are many types that are ideal for naturalistic planting too. While box has been a traditional stalwart in gardens for centuries, it is now proving more difficult to grow well due to pests and disease marring its neat appearance.
Tips for growing orchids at home / RHS - RHS Gardening
WEBFive tops tips for for growing moth orchids (Phalaenopsis) Use rainwater or boiled water for misting and watering - they don't appreciate the chlorine in fresh tapwater. Also, make sure water is at room temperature. When they've finished flowering, cut the flower spike back to the highest node, and they may well re-flower.
10 award-winning (AGM) late-flowering perennials - RHS Gardening
WEBAster × frikartii ‘Mönch’ bears loose clusters of long-lasting daisies. Aster × frikartii ‘Mönch’ is one of the finest of all sun-loving perennials: neat and well branched but elegant, prolific, long-flowering and with soft lavender-blue petals surrounding a yellow eye. Lovely with grasses, sedums and schizostylis, it’s also good ...
How to grow buddlejas - RHS Gardening
WEBWater in well and keep the soil moist but not soggy while the plant established (this typically takes 18 months). Planting dwarf buddlejas in a container, use a peat-free multipurpose potting compost with added John Innes. Add some slow-release fertiliser to the compost to provide feed for the first summer.
How to grow foxgloves / RHS - RHS Gardening
WEBCheck that the off-shoots have roots and can be removed without damaging the parent plant. Using a sharp, clean knife, cut off your selected side-shoots with roots attached. Pot up in a 10cm (4in) pot of compost and re-plant the parent plant. Water your cuttings and place outdoors in a warm, sheltered spot or in a.