Category Archives: Garden Plants
Weigela florida Variegata
A beautifully compact, densely-rounded shrub. The most spectacular feature of this plant is its variegated foliage which is green and edged creamy white. It also bears lovely rose pink flowers between April and May. This variety is an extremely hardy plant and can be expected to reach a height of approximately 1. 5 metres with
Viburnum bodnantense Charles Lamont
A splendid Viburnum with dense clusters of heavily scented, bright to paler pink flowers on bare stems all the way through from November to March. Dark green finely toothed foliage clothes the stems for the remainder of the year. Viburnum Charles Lamont forms an upright, often vase shaped deciduous shrub, making it a perfect choice
Viburnum davidii – Evergreen Viburnum
Gorgeous evergreen shrub growing around 3-4ft high and wide. Handsome, glossy dark green, deeply veinedfoliage is retained through the harshest of winter weather. Large heads of white flowers persist across the entire plant through Autumn and are a nice contrast to the foliage. These are followed by lovely turquoise berries.Viburnum davidii is perect for mass
Waldsteinia Ternata – Barren Strawberry
Waldsteinia Ternata is a fantastic evergreen shrub that has a low, spreading growing habit. Growing to a height of about 10cm this is ideal for groundcover and the slightly serrated, lobed foliage closely resembles that of the Strawberry plant, hence the common name of Barren Strawberry. It slowly builds and grows into a dense carpet,
Viburnum plicatum Watanabe – Japanese Snow Bush
Viburnum ‘Watanabe’ is a real gardener’s delight. It has a fairly compact conical growing habit and forms a very attractive overall shape, similar to the Cornus alternifolia Argentea, with many different ‘tiers’ of branches being formed. It is a deciduous shrub, the green leaves take on stunning hues of gorgeous red and bronze over Autumn
Viburnum plicatum tomentosum ‘Mariesii’- Japanese Snowball Bush
The Royal Horticultural Society has given it its prestigious Award of Garden Merit to Viburnum plicatum tomoentosum and with good reason. A remarkable shrub, with widely spreading branches that naturally grow up in horizontal tiers. The layered ‘wedding cake’ effect is dramatic at any time, but especially when the snowy white flowers appear, masses of
Tamarix Parviflora tetrandra – Tamarisk
A medium sized shapely shrub with arching, near black branches, it is grown for its lovely light, open, wispy foliage and dense covering of pink flower plumes in late spring. It is commonly grown in coastal gardens where it makes an effective windbreak, and because it tolerates blasts of high winds. Supplied in approx 3-4
Yucca gloriosa Variegata – Adams Needle
A beautiful architectural plant which looks too good to survive frost but it is fully hardy. Looks excellent in a pot for the patio. Grow in dry, well drained soil in full sun. Avoid excessively wet conditions in winter. Supplied as a strong, hardy plant, currently in an approx. 5.5 litre pot.
SNOW BALL TREE – Viburnum opulus roseum – Snowball Tree
In May and June the branches of this vigorous deciduous shrub are smothered with large, snowball-like clusters of white or green-tinted white flowers – hence its common name, the snowball tree. With maple-like, fresh green leaves that become purple-tinted in autumn An excellent ornamental plant for any border. Bushy plants in approx. 2-3 Litre containers,
Forsythia spectabilis Lynwood – Spring Flowering – EXTRA LARGE Specimen
This is a fantastic early Spring blooming shrub, supplied here as a large specimen sized plant to add instant instant impact in your garden.Forsythia are very well know garden plants, and real heralds of Spring, being one of the first shrubs to bloom in the year, adding early cheers after the cold of winter.Tough and
Viburnum bodnantense Charles Lamont – Large Specimen Plant
A splendid Viburnum with dense clusters of heavily scented, bright to paler pink flowers on bare stems all the way through from November to March.Dark green finely toothed foliage clothes the stems for the remainder of the year. Viburnum Charles Lamont forms an upright, often vase shaped deciduous shrub, making it a perfect choice for
Skimmia Fragrant Cloud
Skimmia produce male and female flowers on separate plants. This one is male, with white flowers that carry a lily-of-the-valley perfume held in plump, bell-shaped inflorescence that are composed of many tiny, close packed flowers. These are carried on short, ruddy-brown stalks. There is a soft, two-tone colour effect when the flower is observed at
Stephanandra incisa crispa
This demure Japanese and Korean shrub has a simple elegance all season, with a colourful flourish in autumn when the foliage turns yellow and soft orange shades before falling.The basic species is a dense arching shrub, with slender warm brown stems which zigzag noticeably. The variety ‘Crispa’ condenses this habit into dwarf mounds of crinkled
Syringa Palibin – Dwarf Scented Lilac Bush
The Dwarf Korean Lilac is a compact but spreading, small-foliaged Lilac with showy lavender-purple flowers that are spread over the entire shrub canopy. It is widely used as a foundation plant in the garden and group plantings, also for informal or formal hedges, and as a specimen shrub in its own right. Supplied as strong
Skimmia Kew White
Exceptionally rare, this gorgeous skimmia makes a compact plant with the familiar buds through winter and fragrant white spring blooms. In Autumn, large clusters of unusual white berries appear. Supplied as bushy plants in approx 3-5 litre containers.
Syringa vulgaris Katherine Havemeyer – Lilac
This Gorgeous scented lilac, will grace any garden or patio. Producing a mass of large fragrant double flowers held on elegant panicles next spring and every year, above heart-shaped, fresh-green leaves. You’ll be thrilled with this new plant in your garden, sure to be the envy of all the see it and chance to sniff
Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Goshiki’ – False Holly
This beautiful evergreen shrub has glossy, dark green, holly-like leaves, conspicuously mottled creamy gold and pink when young, and scented, white, jasmine-like flowers from July to September. Slow growing and compact, it’s a perfect container plant, or border shrub, providing all-year round interest in sun or dappled shade.Lovely bushy plants, supplied in approx 2-4 litre
Osmanthus X Burkwoodii – Rounded Evergreen Shrub
Osmanthus Burkwoodii is a very popular rounded evergreen shrub with glossy dark green foliage. This structural foliage is contrasted beautifully by intensely perfumed, jasmine like, white flowers in mid and late spring. In flower, it will light up a shady corner of the garden and as an evergreen, makes a lovely foil for other flowering
Pyracantha Orange Glow – Firethorn
The firethorns are all tough, very hardy shrubs which tolerate a wide range of demanding conditions, including shaded and exposed positions, and make dense thorny evergreen growth ideal for intruder-proof hedging or for training on walls to display their profuse and brightly coloured berries. They also make attractive free-standing shrubs, although growth is then often
Pyracantha Red Column – Firethorn
The firethorns are all tough, very hardy shrubs which tolerate a wide range of demanding conditions, including shaded and exposed positions, and make dense thorny evergreen growth ideal for intruder-proof hedging or for training on walls to display their profuse and brightly coloured berries. They also make attractive free-standing shrubs, although growth is then often
