Family: Linaceae
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Common name: Arboreum Flax, Tree Flax, Shrubby Flax
This dwarf, evergreen shrub opens its bright yellow flowers successively over a very long period throughout late spring and summer. It will do best in a hot sunny spot and is completely frost hardy.
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This unique dwarf plant makes a bun of greenish-grey leaves studded with dazzling yellow flowers and is reputedly not the easiest to grow. It is probably best in an alpine house or on a protected scree. One of the rarest plants in Europe, this gem is known as a relict species, the entire world population living on a protected four hectare spot about 20 miles north of Budapest.
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Family: Linaceae
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Common name: annual flax, flowering flax
This branching annual produces loose clusters of saucer-shaped, lipstick pink to red flowers with dark centres throughout summer upon narrow leaved foliage, which will grow to around 50cm in height. Best planted in tight groups for maximum effect.
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Family: Linaceae
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Common name: Perennial flax, Blue flax
This entirely graceful plant has a profusion of luminous, ultra-marine blue, five petalled flowers, which are held atop upright stems whorled with small, narrow gray-green leaves. The buds are nodding tear drops that open up into the most gorgeous pool of blue, the seed heads being beige little balls. Few seeds collected.
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L Perenne is a semi evergreen perennial form of linum which produces fairly large pale blue saucer shaped flowers throughout summer. To look at the flowers alone you may mistake this plant for a blue form of Geranium Palmatum but on inspection of the foliage you can see the difference with its long slender foliage which will also form a dome and be covered in flowers.
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