Unofficial RHS Level 2 · Plant portfolio

A garden portfolio
for remembering plants

By Robert Conaty

A living garden portfolio of botanical names, identification notes, growing requirements and garden uses — organised for study and easy revision.

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Plant types

Choose a certificate to browse its plant categories. Add as many plants as you need; each entry can be assigned to both certificate schemes.

01 🌿 Evergreen shrubs Woody perennial plants, usually smaller and more multi-stemmed than trees, that retain functional foliage through more than one growing season; most continue to carry leaves through winter, although individual leaves are replaced over time. 1 entry 02 🍂 Deciduous shrubs Woody perennial plants, generally multi-stemmed from the base, that shed their leaves seasonally and produce new foliage during the following growing season. 1 entry 03 🌾 Monocotyledonous plants Flowering plants whose embryos characteristically have one cotyledon (seed leaf); they commonly have parallel-veined leaves and vascular bundles arranged throughout the stem, although exceptions occur. 1 entry 04 🌲 Gymnosperms Seed-producing vascular plants in which the ovules and seeds are not enclosed within an ovary or fruit; many are woody plants such as conifers. 1 entry 05 🌳 Trees Woody perennial plants with a persistent main stem or trunk supporting a crown of branches and foliage, although some trees may develop more than one trunk. 1 entry 06 🌱 Herbaceous perennials Long-lived, non-woody plants that survive for several years, commonly dying back to ground level in adverse seasons while perennial roots, crowns, bulbs or other organs survive and produce new growth. 1 entry 07 🌼 Annuals Plants that complete their entire life cycle — germination, growth, flowering, seed production and death — within one growing season. 1 entry 08 🥕 Biennials Plants that normally complete their life cycle over two growing seasons: vegetative growth and food storage in the first, followed by flowering, seed production and death in the second. 1 entry 09 ✕ Hybrid plants Plants resulting from a cross between genetically distinct parents; the parents may belong to different species, and in some cases different genera, with the resulting hybrid identified by appropriate hybrid nomenclature. 1 entry 10 © Plants with PBR Plants whose particular protected variety or cultivar is covered by Plant Breeders' Rights, a legal intellectual-property system that gives the holder specified exclusive rights to produce and propagate the protected plant for the term of the right. 1 entry 11 ★ Plants with an AGM Plants awarded the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (AGM), recognising plants that the RHS considers to have outstanding garden value and to be reliable in appropriate conditions. 1 entry