A to Z of Our Plants
An A to Z of the Plants which are in our Aberdeen garden in North East Scotland
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Abies Koreana
Abutilon x Suntense
Acer Aconitifolim
Acer Acinitifolium
Acer Aconitfolium
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Acer Palmatum Disectum
Acer Griseum
Acer Palmatum Atropurpureum
Acer Palmatum Ozakazuki
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Agapanthus Campanulatus Albovittatus
Agapanthus Africanus Albus
Agapanthus Bressingham Blue
Alchemilla Mollis
Alchemilla Mollis Auslese
Alchemilla Erythropoda
Alstroemeria Princess Alexandra
Alstroemeria Princess Paola
Alstroemeria little miss Davina
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Anemone Blanda White
Anemone Blanda
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Astilbe x arendsii White Gloria
Astilbe Peach Blossom
Astilbe Rheinland
Anemone Honorine Jobert (Japanese)
Anemone Hupehensis September Charm
Aquilegia Crimson Star
Aquilegia Fragrans
Aquilegia Flabellata Mimistar
Aquilegia Nora Barlow
Aquilegia Nora Barlow
Aquilegia William Guinness
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Aruncus Aethusifolius
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Astrantia Major
Astrantia Maxima
Astrantia Maxima
Astrantia Ruby Wedding
Aucuba Japonica Variegata
Auricula Old Irish Blue
Azalea Glowing Embers
Azalea Glowing Embers
Azalea Luteum
Azalea Maria Elena
Azalea Maria Elena
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Begonia Champagne
Begonia Firecracker
Begonia Flamboyant
Begonia Helen Harmes
Bellis Habanera White with Red Tips
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Bergenia Purpurea
Betula Jacquemontii (Birch)
Blue Fescue
Box Blight
Box Balls
Buxus Sempervirens Elegans
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Brunnera Jack Frost
Buddleja Black Knight
Buddleja Lochinch
Buddleja Silver (Anniversary morning mist)
Bupthalmum Salicifolium
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Callistemon Citrinus
Camellia Donation
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Carex Buchananii
Carex Oshimensis Evergold
Carex Elata Bowles Golden Aurea
Caryopteris Clandonensis Kew Blue
Cedrus Deodara Aurea
Celmisia Spectabilis
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Ceratostigma Willmottianum
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Chelone Obliqua
Cherry Tree Cheals Weeping
Cherry Tree Cheals Weeping
Cimisifuga Racemosa Atropurpurea
Cirsium Rivulare
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Clematis Blue Angel
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Clematis Viticella Etoile Violette
Clematis Montana Mayleen
Clematis Nelly Moser
Clematis Perle d Azur
Clematis Triternata Rubromarginata
Clematis Viticella Madame Julia Correvon
Cornus Alba Sibirica
Corylus Avellana Contorta
Cotinus Royal Purple
Crambe Cordifolia
Crambe Maritima
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Crown Imperial Aurora
Crown Imperial Aurora
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Dactylorhiza Elata Hardy Orchid
Daffodil February Gold
Daffodil Jack Snipe
Daffodil Jetfire
Daffodil Tete e Tete
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Digitalis Exelsior (Foxglove)
Dicentra Formosa Aurora
Dicentra Formosa Pink
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Epimedium Grandiflorum
Epimedium x rubrum
Epimedium x rubrum
Erythronium Lilac Wonder
Erythronium Pagoda
Erythronium Pagoda
Erythronium white beauty
Euonynus Fortunei Emerald n Gold
Euonymus Fortunei Silver Queen
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Detai
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Harts Tongue Fern
Asplenium Scolopendrium Cristatum
Dryopteris Erythrosora
Japanese Painted Fern
Shuttlecock Fern
Filipendula Rubra
Fothergilla Monticola
Fothergilla Monticola
Fritillaria Meleagris
Fritillaria Pallidiflora
Fritillaria Pyrenaica
Fritillaria Pyrenaica
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Geranium Beholders Eye no link
Geranium Beholders eye no link
Geranium Johnsons Blue
Geranium Jolly Bee
Geranium Macrorrhizum Bevans Variety
Geranium Macrorrhizum Bevans Variety
Geranium Macrorrhizum Ingwersens Variety
Geranium Macrorrhizum Ingwersens Variety
Geranium Max Frei
Geranium Nodosum no link
Geramium Sanguineum Bloody Cranesbill no link
Geum Rivale Water Avens
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Hakonechloa
Hamamelis Arnolds Promise
Hamamelis Arnolds Promise
Hamamelis Mollis
Helleborus Party Dress Purple
Helleborus Party Dress Pink
Helleborus Party Dress Picotee
Helleborus Yellow Lady
Helleborus purpurascens
Holly Golden King
Holly Silver Queen
Holly JC Van Tol
Houttuynia Cordata Flore Pleno
Hydrangea Macrophylla
Hydrangea Petiolaris
Hydrangea Petiolaris
Hydrangea Petiolaris
Hypericum Inodorum Magical Beauty
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Iris Katharine Hodgekin
Iris Reticulata Harmony
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Kalmia Latifolia
Kirengeshoma
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Lavatera Barnsley
Lavatera Mont Blanc
Lavender Angustifolia
Lavender Angustifolia Blue Cushion
Lavender Angustifolia Munstead
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Asiatic Lily Lollipop no link
Asiatic Lily Pearl Jennifer
Asiatic Lily Pearl Stacey
Asiatic Lily Rosellas Dream no link
Lilium Golden Splendour
Lilium Longiflorum
Oriental Lily Josephine
Oriental Lily Muscadet
Lilium Regale Album
Lilium Tiger Woods
Lilium Tigrinum Splendens
Tiger Lily Hiawatha
Tiger Lily Sweet Surrender
Tree Lily Anastasia
Tree Lily Honeymoon
Tree Lily Leslie Woodriff
Tree Lily Miss Lily
Tree Lily Robert Swanson
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Lobelia Hadspen Purple
Lysichiton Americanus
Lysichiton camtschatcensis
Lythrum Salicaria Feuerkerze
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Magnolia Soulangeana Alba
Magnolia Stellata
Mahonia Charity
Marsh Marigold Caltha Palustris
Meconopsis Sheldonii Lingholm
Miscanthus Sinensis Zebrinus
Monarda Cambridge Scarlet
Montbretia
Muscari Latifolium
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Nerine Bowdenii Pink Surprise
Nerine Bowdenii
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Peony Lactiflora Adolphe Rousseau
Peony My Pal Rudy
Phlox Franz Schubert
Phormium Firebird
Photinia Fraserii Little Red Robin
Phyllostachys Nigra Black Bamboo
Pieris Forest Flame
Pieris Forest Flame
Pittisporum Garnettii
Pittosporum Irene Patterson
Pittosporum Tom Thumb
Pond Iris Blue flag
Pulmonaria
Pulmonaria Blue Ensign
Pulmonaria Blue Ensign
Pulmonaria Opal
Pulmonaria Opal
Pumila Pampas Grass
Prunella Vulgaris Rose Pearl
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Ribes King Edward V11
Ribes Sanguineum
Ribes White Icicle
Ribes White Icicle
Rhododendron Cilpinense
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Rhododendron Taurus
Rodgersia Pinnata
Rose Angele Pernet
Climbing Rose Compassion
Climbing Rose Seagull
Rose Adam Messeritch
Rose de Rescht
Rose Felicia
Rose Jacques Cartier
Flower Carpet Amber
Flower Carpet Gold
Flower Carpet White
Rose Laura Anne
Rosa Mundi
Climbing Rose Penny Lane
Rose Remember Me
Rose Rhapsody in Blue
Sorbus Aucuparia (Rowan)
Sorbus Cashmeriana
Rowan Joseph Rock
Rowan Pink Pagoda
Rowam Vilmourii
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Sarcococca Humilis
Saxifraga Peter Pan
Saxifraga White Star
Sedum Autumn Joy
Schizostylis Major
Scottish Bluebell Campanula rotundifolia
Schizostylis Mrs Heggarty
Skimmia Japonica Rubella
Snowberry Bush
Snowdrop Sam Arnott
Snowdrop Nivalis
Spiraea Arguta
Stipa Gigantea
Stipa Arindinacea
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Taxus Baccata Robusta
Taxus Baccata (Yew Hedge)
Thalictrum Aquilegiifolium Album
Thalictrum Thundercloud
Thalictrum Thundercloud
Tropaeolum Speciosum
Tricyrtis Hirta
Trillium Erectum
Trillium Erectum
Trillium Albidum
Trillium Albidum
Trillium Grandiflorum Flore Pleno
Trillium Grandiflorum Roseum
Trillium Grandiflorum
Trollius Europaeus Superbus
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Uncinia Rubra
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Viburnum Bodnantense Dawn
Viburnum Mariesii
Viola Riviniana Purpurea
Viola Riviniana Purpurea
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Wisteria Sinensis Prolific
What a delight to find your website. Your garden is amazing and truly gives me renewed hope in my gardening experiences here on the North East coast after the ease of gardening in West Sussex. Could you be kind enough to reccomend a small tree that may be suitable for a not large garden which is about 500 yards away from the sea where we get some strong winds and salty air? I would be very grateful as I want to get some height into the garden. Many thanks, and many thanks for having such a superb site
Best regards
Brian Hill
St Combs
Thanks for the visit Brian, a small tree which I am very fond of is Sorbus Cashmiriana with white berries in Autumn and Winter. Here is a link to my post http://www.aberdeengardening.co.uk/diary/index.php/2010/12/sorbus-cashmiriana/ Hope you dont miss Sussex too much.
I am sure many hours went into creating this A-Z listing! It is super impressive. I will have to come back and visit the listing again when I have more time.
I hope you do come back Jennifer.
Had been on a holiday in Scotland and have taken pictures of so many trees and plants and was looking to identify them and here I am looking at so many pictures of flora!! Lovely site.
I wish I had found this information when i first moved to Aberdeen – it would have saved me a lot of money and time! an excellent site – no gardening book can provide local information like this – very well presented site! Thanks very much.
Thanks for the visit and your comments Robert, hope to see you back again.
very interesting reading thank you for the plesure james penman
Both your garden and your web site are inspirational! How kind of you to share your accummulated experience so generously.
My daughter is helping her friend to tackle a small courtyard-sized neglected patch of garden at his new flat. She has asked for my advice but it is so far from my experience down here in the midlands I am struggling. Would you be kind enough to pass on a few suggestions of half a dozen or so plants to give them a basic structure of year-round form/interest/colour around which they can then experiment with their own additions. The site is on Rosemount, walled all round (E and W by house walls, N by line of outhouses/ex-privies and to S by 6ft wall to street. There is a path on the E and N sides, a small lawn edged with narrow (15″) borders fills the rest. There is a deciduous tree which, while interestingly gnarled, does cut down the sun quota to 2 periods daily as it goes round the tree. My daughter and her friend are both busy young professionals, so minimum maintenance/complicated pampering would be appreciated but, naturally, with maximum wow factor! Quite a tall order, so you can see my dilemma …. with your enthusiastic expertise of gardening in wonderful Aberdeen, any ideas would be gratefully received by all three of us !
Val, talk about tall order. Gardening for all of us is a learning curve. The 15″ borders are so narrow I would simply plant Spring bulbs as a permanent feature then in the last week of May each year I would pay the garden centre a visit and purchase summer flowering annuals placing them in spaces left between the Spring bulbs. However if there are larger areas where shrubs can be placed I would recommend these.
Magnolia Stellata for one of the sunniest positions.
Hypericum Magical beauty
Camellia Donation
Azalea Luteum
Red leafed Acer
Rhododendron Taurus
Pieris Forest Flame
Cornus Alba Sibirica
Good luck, Regards Alistair
Alister
Thank you for a fantastic website I spend ages looking at your lovely garden and plant list
Brenda, thank you. It is always encouraging to get comments such as this.
Hello Alistair,
Thank you very much for sharing your beautiful garden and your knowledge on this great website. I am very much a novice gardener and have just moved into a nice old stone house in New Deer which has a large, sloping, south facing garden. (although still under a fair bit of snow at the moment!) I’ve really landed on my feet as the previous owner is a keen gardener and there are lots of trees, shrubs, alpine/rock garden plants (some have their tags intact so I looked them up!), grasses, and a pond. This is very much to my taste so I’m happy to tend to it and tinker with it as and when. The front garden is a more traditional set up – two rectangles of lawn with a 30-40cm border between the lawn and front wall with what look to my untrained to be pansies poking through the snow. I’d like to replace these with something with a bit more texture but with a fair bit of colour when the weather improves. Do you have any suggestions?
Sarah
Sarah, what you describe sound fabulous. If it is Pansies in the front it sounds like the previous owner liked to have some annual plants in his garden. The pansies will have been planted in the Autumn and they should be reaching their best soon. You could do what many of us do for a splash of colour, in Summer add some bedding plants such as Begonias, French Marigolds, Petunias don’t plant them out until the end of May or even the first week in June and they will bloom right through until Autumn.