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Honey fungus, like many diseases, doesn’t attack healthy plants.These perennials are safer than woody trees and shrubs.

Phyllostachys nigra, Black bamboo
 Latin name:Phyllostachys nigra
 Common name:Black bamboo
 Type of plant:Bamboo
 Hardiness:Hardy
 Flower colour:N/A
 Leaf colour:Mid-green
 Height and spread:8m x indefinite (27ft x indefinite)
 Description:
Clump-forming bamboo with graceful arching canes that turn from green in the first year to mottled brown and black in the second and third years. The canes of var. henonis (Henon) turn yellow brown as they mature.


Taxus baccata, Common yew
 Latin name:Taxus baccata
 Common name:Common yew
 Type of plant:Tree
 Hardiness:Hardy
 Flower colour:N/A
 Leaf colour:Dark green
 Height and spread:22m x 9m (74m x 30ft)
 Description:
An evergreen conifer with dark green, flattened needles. The female plants bear fleshy bright red fruits in winter. It clips well and is perhaps the most elegant of all hedging plants. Note: seeds are poisonous.


Carpinus betulus, Common hornbeam
 Latin name:Carpinus betulus
 Common name:Common hornbeam
 Type of plant:Tree
 Hardiness:Hardy
 Flower colour:Green
 Leaf colour:Dark green
 Height and spread:25m x 20m (83ft x 67ft)
 Description:
Deciduous tree with grey, fluted trunk, good on both clay and chalk soils. The leaf looks similar to beech, but darker and turning yellow/orange in autumn. The flowers look similar to hops.


Hebe
 Latin name:Hebe
 Common name:Hebe
 Type of plant:Shrub
 Hardiness:Hardy to half-hardy
 Flower colour:White, pink, violet and purple
 Leaf colour:Green to bronzy
 Height and spread:15cm to 2.5m x 30cm to 2.5m (6in to 8ft x 1ft to 8ft)
 Description:
Evergreen shrubs grown as much for the spikes of flowers as their foliage. Hebes grow well in coastal locations. They require full sun and well-drained soil.


Fagus sylvatica, Common beech
 Latin name:Fagus sylvatica
 Common name:Common beech
 Type of plant:Tree
 Hardiness:Hardy
 Flower colour:N/A
 Leaf colour:Green or purple
 Height and spread:25m x 20m (83ft x 67ft)
 Description:
Deciduous tree with oval, wavy-edged leaves, pale green when young turning dark green, then orangey-brown in fall. Clipped hedges retain the dead leaves throughout the winter. F. sylvatica Purpurea group have blackish-purple leaves.



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