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Miscanthus sacchariflorus
This is a grass that looks like a bamboo. It has broad bright green leaves with a pale midrib. It grows in clumps, sending up stout canes. In a hot year it will flower, producing white plumes that last into the winter. The leaves rustle in the gentlest of breezes, making a peaceful noise in the garden and muffling sounds of the city.
It forms a very effective screen and can act as a windbreak. It will spread quite vigorously and so be prepared to dig clumps of it up and give to friends if it is becoming too much of a thug. It will grow to 2m.
The stems and plumes are retained into the winter and become a ghostly white. These must be a peaceful noise in the garden and muffling sounds of the city.
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Pittosporum tobira ‘Variegatum’
This evergreen plant makes a large round shrub. On this form the leaves are a greyish green and each leaf has an irregular white margin, giving the leathery leaves a light silvery look. After mild winters this shrub will produce scented white flowers.
It is very drought resistant but not very cold resistant so it does well given the shelter of a south or north facing wall. It is slow growing and requires no pruning.
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Sorbus aucuparia ‘Cardinal Royal’
This tree is a cultivated form of our native Mountain Ash; it is tough and tolerant of British weather. The leaves have a light feathery appearance and the tree doesn’t cast a dense shade. In late spring it bears white flowers and these are followed by decorative red berries in the autumn. ‘Cardinal Royal’ is particularly well suited to city gardens as it is upright in shape rather than spreading, also it has a profusion of berries that look striking against the green leaves. Birds adore them! Before the leaves fall there is a fine display of yellow and gold.
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