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Succulents and Arid Plants
For sculptural form, strong leaf shapes and sheer good looks few plants surpass succulents. Succulents are very versatile; they thrive in pots, can create great architectural forms around water features or rock gardens or sit happily in a relaxed informal border.
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Aeonium arboreum
Pretty, jade green succulent with an upright habit and smooth leaves. Yellow, star-shaped flowers appear on larger plants, borne in cone-shaped clusters at the end of the stems.
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Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop'
Has large rosettes of rich, almost black leaves on thick stems and huge spikes of many tiny yellow flowers are produced in summer.
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Agave americana
‘Century Plant' is an excellent, bold, architectural agave with long bulbous fleshy, and beware, spiky leaves that grow from a central rosette.
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Agave americana 'Marginata'
Variegated ‘Century Plant' is an excellent, bold, architectural agave with long bulbous fleshy, and beware, spiky leaves that grow from a central rosette.
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Agave desmettiana
‘Smooth Agave' has pale green coloured leaves, and produces a yellow flower spike in summer on mature plants.
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Agave sisalana 'Variegata'
Has large lanceolate leaves with thick points, sharp tips and generally smooth margins. The foliage is blue-green, and forms basal rosettes.
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Aloe arborescens
Multi-headed succulent with striking grey-green leaves arranged in attractive rosettes, and striking orange/red or yellow flower heads.
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Aloe aristata
Succulent consisting of small tight rosette of grey-green leaves covered in tiny white spikes.
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Beschorneria yuccoides
Clump-forming perennial with grey-green, strap-shaped leaves producing a bright red stem with panicles of yellow-tinted, bright green, tubular flowers.
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Billbergia nutans
Bromeliad which forms a tight rosette of pale green, strap-like leaves, from which arises a slender spike bearing deep pink/red bracts.
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Billbergia windii
Tender evergreen perennial grown indoors. It has dark-green, arching, strap-shaped leaves and in summer, bears pink and yellow flowers on lax stems.
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Dasylirion longifolium
‘Mexican Grass Tree', has a spray of arching strap like leaves. With age the trunk becomes multi-stemmed.
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Furcraea longaeva
A superb architectural succulent with lance shaped green-grey leaves. When mature, huge magnificent fountain-like yellow-white flowers form in May to August.
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Haworthia attenuata
Beautiful species with stiff deep green leaves forming a rosette to 10cm wide.
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Haworthia sessiflora
Miniature bright green translucent rosettes with fine deep green veins and slightly pointed leaves.
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Strelitzia reginae
Bird of Paradise, excellent ornamental plant with spectacular and distinctive orange and blue flowers.
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Xanthorrea glauca
'Grass tree' is very slow growing and can live to up to 600 years old.
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Yucca elephantipes
Distinctive evergreen shrub which develops a thick, branching trunk which is reminiscent of an elephant's foot at the base.
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