Osmanthus × burkwoodii
osmanthus
- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: fertile, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: April and May
- Hardiness: fully hardy
- Garden care: Minimal pruning is required. Remove misplaced, dead or diseased branches in late spring and apply a generous 5-7cm (2-3in) mulch of well-rotted garden compost or manure around the base of the plant.
This popular, rounded, evergreen shrub has glossy, finely toothed, dark green leaves beautifully offset by highly scented, jasmine like, white flowers in mid and late spring. In flower, it will light up a shady corner of the garden and as an evergreen, makes a lovely foil for other flowering plants and ferns.
Matteuccia struthiopteris
shuttlecock fern
Fabulous, large, shuttlecock fern
Lamprocapnos spectabilis
bleeding heart (syn. Dicentra spectabilis)
Arching sprays of pink, heart-shaped flowers
Dryopteris filix-mas
male fern
Ideal for the woodland garden
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An evergreen saved from ignominy by pure heads of sweetly fragrant white flowers in mid spring - good at lighting up a semi-shady corner behind ferns or glimmering white narcissi
Val Bourne - Garden Writer