Ceanothus ......
- Possible extra
- Different varieties have slightly different coloured flowers but they are mostly blue
- Leaf size varies too but this is the most common type.
Laurus nobilis
- Bay. Leaves used as a herb to add flavour to sauces, not to be consumed.
- Used for topiary, Italian renaissance style 1600's.
- Has small white flowers.
- Leaves are stiff, shiny, and dark green.
Pachysandra terminalis
- Possible extra.
- Evergreen ground cover
- Compound palmate leaves
Eucalyptus gunni
- Blue/green powdered leaves
- Camouflage bark
- Leaves are smooth and have entire margins
Quercus ilex
- Narrow dark green waxy leaves, pale underside
- Southern European (used in Italian renaissance gardens, clipped)
- Leaves grow in elongated whirls
- produces acorns
- New stems are dusty
Cotoneaster damerae
- very low growing ground cover
- Woody
- Dark green rough small leaves
- some red berries (but not a predominant characteristic)
Viburnum davidii
- Leaves have three distinct main veins/ribs
- Dark green shiny leaves
- crimson/burgundy petioles
- Low growing, spreading by self layering, good ground cover.
- Flowers in late spring
Hedera helix 'Parsley Crested'
- Ivy with crinkled leaf margins
Lonicera pileata
- Has quite long low angled stems/branches
- Dense small leaves, base of leaves have a longer point than tip
- Leaves grow from stem at 90 degrees alternate crossing
- Fruits are small purple berries but not abundant
Griselinia littoralis
- Smooth greasy lighter/brighter green leaves, entire margins, hairless.
- Upright growth habit, vigorous
Drimys lanceolata
- Dark crimson petioles
- Black berries
- Grows more vigorously in milder climates, can be clipped then.
Ruscus aculeatus 'Lanceolatus'
- Berries grow from phylloclads, out of what appears to be the leaves but they are not the true leaves, they are cladodes.
- Cladodes have a sharp spikey tip and razor margins.
- Berries are spherical and about the size of a cherry.
- on Lanceolata the cladodes are narrower, longer, and lighter in colour.
Ruscus aculeatus 'Hermaphrodite From'
- As above the berries form on phylloclads in the centre of the cladodes.
- Cladodes are fatter and darker green
Danae racemosa
- Produces small white flowers and red berries
- Foliage used in floristry
- parallel veins in leaves = monocot
Magnolia grandiflora
- Large waxy polished leaves, underside rust coloured and felty
- In warmer climates would grow into a tree
- Has larger white/pink flowers May/June
Buxus sempervirens
- 'Box'
- Natural shape is scrambling but smaller leaved variety often used as a clipped hedge
- Likes to grow on chalk and under a canopy
- Leaves look like privet (ligustrum), are small and leathery.
Hydrangea serratifolia
- Climbing hydrangea with white flowers
- Leaf margins are not serated and are slightly arched.
