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Medicinal Plants

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Plants with medicinal or healing properties originate from many different continents. Some medicinal plants have been known about for centuries while others have only been discovered as having medicinal properties by modern medicine or herbal treatments and may be better known as herbs or fruiting trees. Other medicinal plants play an important role in the search for cures for serious diseases.

Our full plant list can be found by using the a-z on the right hand menu or using the keyword search top right, if you need something specific.

ACHILLEA 'Cerise Queen' >

Yarrow

Cerise pink everlasting flowers

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AESCULUS hippocastanum >

Common horse chestnut, Conker tree, Horse chestnut

white flowers, spiky 'horse chestnuts' (conkers)

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AILANTHUS altissima >

Copal tree, Tree of heaven

Spreading tree with fern-like foliage

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AKEBIA trifoliata >

Chocolate vine

3 rounded leaflets which open bronze and then turn dark glossy green. Purple flowers in long pendent racemes

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ALBIZIA julibrissin 'Rosea' >

Persian acacia, Pink siris

Ferny foliage, pink flowers

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ALOYSIA citriodora >

Lemon plant, Lemon verbena, Lemon-scented verbena

(syn. triphylla) - (formerly LIPPIA) - lemon-scented foliage and pale lilac flowers

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BAMBOO Phyllostachys nigra >

Black bamboo

Graceful arching habit, canes green at first becoming mottled dark brown or black. Prefers a sunny position

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BETULA pendula >

Common silver birch, Lady of the woods

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BUXUS sempervirens >

Common box, Dudgeon

Please ask for quotes and exact sizes on quantity orders

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CASTANEA sativa >

Spanish chestnut, Sweet chestnut

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CHAENOMELES speciosa 'Nivalis' >

Flowering quince, Japanese quince

This variety has medicinal properties and pure white flowers. Upright habit

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CHIONANTHUS retusus >

Chinese fringe tree

handsome tall medicinal shrub with snow white flowers in midsummer and damson-like fruits

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CINNAMOMUM camphora >

Camphor tree

hugely aromatic leaves and medicinal properties, attractive reddish shoots. Suitable only for milder climates, very rare

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CRATAEGUS >

Hawthorn

All Flower MAY

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CYNARA cardunculus >

Cardoon

silvery leaved perennial with purple thistle heads and medicinal properties

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DIGITALIS >

Foxglove

All JUN-JUL

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DIOSPYROS kaki >

Chinese persimmon, Japanese persimmon.

oval glossy green leaves which turn yellow orange and purple in autumn. Female plants bear conical yellow fruits

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ECHINACEA purpurea >

Purple coneflower

Purplish-pink flowers growing up to 5 feet

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ERIOBOTRYA japonica >

Japanese loquat, Loquat

Large handsome corrugated leaves with clusters of white hawthorn flowers followed, in a hot summer, by yellow pear-shaped edible fruits. Hardy outside in milder areas

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FICUS carica 'Brown Turkey' >

Common fig

Free-fruiting fig with a good yellow autumn colour. The fruits have purple-brown skins when ripe and are rich and sugary which makes this an excellent dessert variety

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