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Brunfelsia Fragrant Summer (Plant Called Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

Brunfelsia Fragrant Summer, known as the plant Called Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, is a compact and colourful evergreen shrub renowned its attractive and changing flowers. It grows as a rounded cushion of purple-green leaves to about 1 m tall and the same wide. Through spring and summer masses of sweetly fragrant, pansy like flowers open purple-blue then fade to white. Brunfelsia Fragrant Summer is commonly grown as an informal hedge, added to a mixed planting, planted around outdoor living areas, used in cottage gardens, or mass planted alongside a path or on a bank.

Suited to regions: Subtropical, Temperate
Plant type: Shrubs
Height: 1.00 m
Spread: 1.00 m
Flowering time: Spring, Summer
Garden uses: Banks, Borders, Hedging, Living areas, Paths & Steps, Pool areas
Garden styles: Backyard, City & Courtyard, Cottage, Formal, Frontyard, Japanese, Modern, Tropical

Aspidistra lurida (Cast Iron Plant)

Aspidistra lurida, commonly known as the Cast Iron Plant, is an herbaceous perennial grown for its lush and colourful foliage. It grows as a clump and produces broad and glossy, bronze-green leaves. Small cream-red flowers are borne from spring through summer on short stems as it grows to 50 cm tall and 60 cm wide. Aspidistra lurida is ideal for including in borders or mixed plantings, growing in a container, growing around outdoor living areas, or mass planting either as a groundcover or on a bank.

Suited to regions: Subtropical, Temperate
Plant type: Perennials
Height: 50 cm
Spread: 60 cm
Flowering time: Spring, Summer
Tolerances: Hardy
Garden uses: Banks, Borders, Containers, Living areas, Paths & Steps, Patios, Pool areas
Garden styles: Architectural, Backyard, City & Courtyard, Frontyard, Japanese, Mediterranean, Modern
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