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When space is at a premium as it is in most small town and city gardens then unusual plants can be used as a feature and focal point in your garden, helping you to add the "wow" factor which sets your garden apart form the rest.
Many plants thrive just as well in containers and pots and by planting then in containers and pots in your town or city garden, you have more flexibility to ring the changes in your garden on a regular basis.
On this page we hope to feature the more unusual and perhaps exotic plants which you might not usually consider and certainly would not find on your weekly trip to the local chain of garden centres. We will provide you with information on planting, care and positioning along with suggestions as to how they can be grouped to the best overall effect. This is a page for those of you who want to be a little more daring in your plant selection and our features on unusual plants and unusual seeds should encourage you to take the plunge and try something new and slightly more exotic in your garden. Our range of containers and pots will provide the perfect home for many of these exotic and unusual plants and seed Unusual Plants | Exotic Plants | Black Bamboo 'Phyllostachys nigra'  With this unusual bamboo plant, the canes start out green and over several months they turn dark black. During the process of turning the canes have a beautiful, green and black mottled appearance. A beautiful tall arching bamboo with polished ebony-black mature canes and dark green leaves, looks perfect in a contemporary, minimalist garden. An excellent exotic plant will bring a tropical look to your garden. Will require cutting back each year to keep shape
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 This tall, hardy, slender and exotic looking banana with bright green leaves makes a very architectural and unusual plant in the garden. It soon develops suckers to form a clump effect so reminiscent of the bananas seen in tropical countries. If you protect the main stem and keep out the winter rain out but allowing the plant to breath, this may keep the main growing stem alive. It should then continue to grow the following spring with the plant making enough growth in our summer to possibly reach flowering size. The flowers are creamy yellow with large brown bracts and are arranged on a pendant spike. Behind the flowers the fruit, small inedible bananas, form.
Likes a sunny position, plenty of water and is hardy to -20c | Olea Europea  Olives are an ideal unusual plant for a town garden, bringing a touch of the Mediterranean to your back yard. Olives thrive well in pots and containers as long as they have free drainage. As your Olive tree grows, be sure to move on to a larger pot. Ideally the tree should be in full sunlight for best growth. In the UK it is highly unlikely that your olive tree will bear fruit as the in order to produce fruits olives need extended periods of sunshine which very few areas in the UK are fortunate enough to have. Mature olives are frost tolerant but young trees may need some care and should be brought inside for the winter to avoid frost damage. Pruning of Olive trees should be done once a year in the early summer before it flowers. Olives need very little care, and are mainly pest and disease free. Feeding is also unnecessary since in their native habitat they survive on very thin soils.
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Unusual Plants 
