Plant Type

Understand the plant ... use it to your advantage.

• choosing aquatics

  

  Planting where there's plenty of water.
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• choosing trees

  

  Trees can't be matched for their scale or impact.
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• choosing shrubs

  

  Shrubs are an essential element in any garden.
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• choosing perennials

  

  'Perennial' is one term that needs special explanation.
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• choosing climbers

  

  Flexible stems give climbing plants many uses in the garden.
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• choosing grasses

  

  Grasses, bamboos, sedges, rushes and grass-like plants are textural garden features.
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• bamboo: running vs clumping

  

  Why you'd choose a running bamboo over a clumping bamboo.
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• choosing palms ferns & cycads

  

  Palms, ferns and cycads are attractive foliage plants with similar features.
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• choosing succulents

  

  Dry conditions give succulents their distinctive and unusual forms.
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• choosing annuals & bulbs

  

  Annuals and bulbs are celebrated for their generous and colourful displays.
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