 |  Plant list: Plants for alkaline soil
Alkaline or chalky soils will support a wide range of plants, although not the colourful acid-lovers, such as rhododendrons and camellias.
| | | | Latin name: | | Syringa | | | | Common name: | | Lilac | | | | Type of plant: | | Tree | | | | Hardiness: | | Hardy | | | | Flower colour: | | White to purple | | | | Leaf colour: | | Mid-green | | | | Height and spread: | | 1.5m to 4m x 1.5m to 5m (4.9ft to 13.1ft x 4.9ft to 17ft) | | | | Description: | |
These cottage garden favourites produce scented spring flowers. To encourage the best displays cut back a few branches hard every year.
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| | | | Latin name: | | Weigela | | | | Common name: | | Weigela | | | | Type of plant: | | Shrub | | | | Hardiness: | | Hardy | | | | Flower colour: | | White to pink to red | | | | Leaf colour: | | Green or variegated | | | | Height and spread: | | 1.5m to 2.5m x 1m to 2m (4.9ft to 8.2ft x 3.3ft x 6.6ft) | | | | Description: | |
Easy to grow in a sunny position, these deciduous shrubs produce masses of funnel-shaped flowers in late spring and summer. Cut out a third of the stems after flowers.
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| | | | Latin name: | | Lilium candidum | | | | Common name: | | Madonna lily | | | | Type of plant: | | Bulb | | | | Hardiness: | | Hardy | | | | Flower colour: | | White | | | | Leaf colour: | | Mid-green | | | | Height and spread: | | 2m x 25cm (6.6ft x 10in) | | | | Description: | |
One of the finest lilies, its stiff flowering stems carry 15 to 20 trumpet-shaped flowers which flare widely at the mouth.
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| | | | Latin name: | | Dianthus | | | | Common name: | | Pink | | | | Type of plant: | | Annual or perennial | | | | Hardiness: | | Hardy | | | | Flower colour: | | White, yellow, pink and red | | | | Leaf colour: | | Silver-grey | | | | Height and spread: | | 45cm x 35cm (1.5ft x1.2ft) | | | | Description: | |
One of the most popular lime-loving plants on account of the scented flowers that are produced throughout the summer. Great planted en masse as a bed filler or in containers
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| | | | Latin name: | | Philadelphus | | | | Common name: | | Mock orange | | | | Type of plant: | | Shrub | | | | Hardiness: | | Hardy | | | | Flower colour: | | White | | | | Leaf colour: | | Dark green | | | | Height and spread: | | 3m to 5m x 3m to 5m (9.8ft to 17ft x 9.8ft x 17ft) | | | | Description: | |
Deciduous, open branched shrub with oval, leaves that set off the masses of flowers that smell like orange blossom, and appear in clusters on short side branches.
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