The Mead Nursery, Brokerswood, Westbury BA13 4EG
The Mead Nursery, Brokerswood, Westbury BA13 4EG The Mead Nursery, Brokerswood, Westbury BA13 4EG
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Introduction
Glossary
Terms and conditions

To find a plant:

1. Click on the first letter of the genus in the A to Z list above

2. Scroll down the genus list and select a genus.

3. Scroll down the plant list to view each plant with a brief description including height and preferred situation.

Key to symbols

New this year new this year
Sun sun
Semi-shade semi-shade
Shade shade
Ready in July ready in July
Bulb bulb
Likes boggy areas likes boggy areas
Happy anywhere happy anywhere
Liked by bees liked by bees
Grass grass
Likes troughs likes troughs

Glossary

awn a slender bristle-like terminal part, i.e. grass flowers

bract scale or leaf-like upper leaf surrounding a flower or inflorescence, or from whose axil the flowers arise.

cordate heart-shaped, with the point at the tip

labiate having lips, or lip like parts, i.e. nettle flowers

linear very narrow, as a straight line

ovate egg-shaped

palmate, digitate branched or lobed like the fingers of a hand

pinnate in two opposite rows along a common axis

rosette an arrangement of leaves, usually at the base of the stem

sagittate arrow head-shaped

sessile stalkless

spathe a sheath enclosing a flower branch

syn. synonym

umbel umbrella-shaped inflorescence, with flower stalks all arising from the same point