Aloe
There are some 330 species in the genus Aloe, all evergreen succulents ranging from low growing perennials, shrubs and climbers to 15m tall trees. The lance-shaped leaves grow in rosettes at the stem or branch tips, are usually toothed or spined. ... [... more]
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Aloe Vera Bra
Aloe vera is a clump-forming perennial with dense rosettes of thick, spiky grey-green leaves and tubular yellow flowers in summer. The young leaves are often spotted red. A. vera var. officinalis has softer leaves, which are spotted and streaked ... [... more]
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Print fact sheet - Yuccas
Members of the Agave family, yuccas are native to southern USA and Mexico. There are around thirty species, and most have stout woody trunks, rosettes of spiky leaves and big clusters of creamy white flowers. In the wild these fascinating plants ... [... more]
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Dietes - Plant of the Week
One of the great things about our Plant of the Week is that it is virtually unkillable. A clump-forming, rhizomatous perennial from South Africa. It has dark green, strappy foliage, which grows in fan-like rosettes. In spring it produces white, ... [... more]
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Dividing an Elkhorn
Some unusual plants to grow in your garden are the elkhorns or staghorns. The difference between these two plants is the elkhorn (Platycerium bifurcatum) has thinner, wispier leaves and multiple "eyes" or rosettes of foliage whereas the [... more]
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Capeweed (Arctotheca calendula )
A flat or low spreading rosette, with long narrow, deeply lobed, greyish-green leaves spreading from a central point. Flowers are typical daisies, with cream to yellow petals and a black centre. A weed of bare ground such as road verges, and ... [... more]
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Giant mullein or lamb's tongues (Verbascum thapsus)
Both erect annual or biennial herbs, up to about 1m high, which are usually single stemmed or occasionally branched after the growing tip has been damaged. Leaves are clustered in an erect basal rosette, from which a tall flowering stem arises. ... [... more]
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Yucca
Some Yuccas are trunkless and some have a branching habit, but all form an attractive permanent rosette of narrow spear-like leaves from its base, or from the trunk/branches. The leaves are stiff, thin and 50cm or longer, depending on the ... [... more]
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Gerbera
Hardy perennial with large (8-10cm) daisy-like flowers on 30-40cm stems emerging from a rosette of long large leaves. The flowering period is from late spring into autumn. Flowers come in singles or doubles with colours ranging from red, pink, ... [... more]
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