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 Plant list: Plants for alkaline soil
Alkaline or chalky soils will support a wide range of plants, although not the colourful acid-lovers, such as rhododendrons and camellias.
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| Latin name: | | Syringa |
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| Common name: | | Lilac |
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| Type of plant: | | Tree |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | White to purple |
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| Leaf colour: | | Mid-green |
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| Height and spread: | | 1.5m to 4m x 1.5m to 5m (4.9ft to 13.1ft x 4.9ft to 17ft) |
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These cottage garden favourites produce scented spring flowers. To encourage the best displays cut back a few branches hard every year.
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| Latin name: | | Weigela |
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| Common name: | | Weigela |
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| Type of plant: | | Shrub |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | White to pink to red |
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| Leaf colour: | | Green or variegated |
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| Height and spread: | | 1.5m to 2.5m x 1m to 2m (4.9ft to 8.2ft x 3.3ft x 6.6ft) |
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Easy to grow in a sunny position, these deciduous shrubs produce masses of funnel-shaped flowers in late spring and summer. Cut out a third of the stems after flowers.
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| Latin name: | | Lilium candidum |
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| Common name: | | Madonna lily |
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| Type of plant: | | Bulb |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | White |
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| Leaf colour: | | Mid-green |
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| Height and spread: | | 2m x 25cm (6.6ft x 10in) |
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One of the finest lilies, its stiff flowering stems carry 15 to 20 trumpet-shaped flowers which flare widely at the mouth.
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| Latin name: | | Dianthus |
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| Common name: | | Pink |
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| Type of plant: | | Annual or perennial |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | White, yellow, pink and red |
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| Leaf colour: | | Silver-grey |
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| Height and spread: | | 45cm x 35cm (1.5ft x1.2ft) |
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One of the most popular lime-loving plants on account of the scented flowers that are produced throughout the summer. Great planted en masse as a bed filler or in containers
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| Latin name: | | Philadelphus |
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| Common name: | | Mock orange |
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| Type of plant: | | Shrub |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | White |
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| Leaf colour: | | Dark green |
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| Height and spread: | | 3m to 5m x 3m to 5m (9.8ft to 17ft x 9.8ft x 17ft) |
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| Description: | |
Deciduous, open branched shrub with oval, leaves that set off the masses of flowers that smell like orange blossom, and appear in clusters on short side branches.
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