This small evergreen shrub is a species of juniper that has soft, feathery evergreen foliage that keeps its color throughout the year. Hannah worked for the NHS for 12 years but also has a level 3 qualification in horticulture and is currently studying for her level 4. The easy-care shrub produces white fragrant flowers in winter before producing blue-black berry fruits.

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Sectored flowers are those that contain a wedge of a sharply different color in a random pattern of appearance, like ‘Festive’. We have propagated these exclusively from the garden of his daughter, Rosemary Legrand, and they have just been named. Shortly after the Second World War, and with ornamental plants in short supply, Ted Millais raised hundreds of Knaphill type seedlings to start planting his garden at Crosswater Farm.The small elongated oval leaves give the bush a compact, neat look, and it responds well to pruning to create a formal short hedge. In addition, flowers may appear as singles, or two or three may form a truss of blossoms at the terminal ends of branches, producing a highly floriferous look.

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With intense large violet blue flowers, with deeper purple red spotting this lovely old variety is very hardy.

Azaleas were originally a separate genus but have been considered in and out of the Rhododendron genus since about 1800, with several hair-splitting debates over the years.