KEY
- Award of Garden Merit (RHS Award) indicating a plant that is rated excellent for garden use, of good constitution, and not requiring specialist conditions to grow well.
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- Fully hardy
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- Hardy to -5°C
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- Unlikely to withstand a frost
- T
- Tender
- #
- New addition to this year's catalogue.
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Veratrum
nigrum
60-120 x 60cm. Striking, large, pleated, basal leaves, producing a showy spike of very dark reddish brown flowers in mid to late summer. It requires deep, fertile, moist but well-drained soil in part shade, or full sun if it does not dry out. Protect from slugs.
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