Category Archives: Garden Plants
Pittosporum Tobira Nana – Nanum Kohehu – Evergreen Japanese Mock Orange
WINTER SALE – Usually 49.99, today just 29.99 – Save ฃ20!A beautiful, compact evergreen shrub with a rounded, bushy habit. ‘Nana’ is a slow-growing plant mainly grown for its outstanding foliage. Small, ovate leaves are a deep green. The prolific, rounded shape of this shrub makes it excellent at providing architectural contrast to your garden.Small,
Photinia cassini Pink Marble – Hardy, Evergreen Variegated Red Robin Shrub
Thought to be a sport of the ever popular, and top selling Photinia x fraseri Red Robin, the foliage of Pink Marble is extraordinary. Displaying THREE colours, this Photinia has very special variegated foliage displaying green, cream, pink and young red shoots at the same time.There is no other Photinia like it, which is sure
Pieris japonica Katsura – Flame of the Forest
A fascinating Pieris from Japan, ‘Katsura’ boasts large glossy evergreen leaves with eye-catching wine red new growth changing to dark green with age.In Spring, lovely rose-coloured flowers cascade over the foliage creating many seasons of interest. ‘Katsura’ was actually an accidental discovery, on a wooded hillside near a Shinto Temple. The plant is perfect for
Pieris japonica ‘Passion’ – Exclusive New Lily of the Valley Shrub
Exclusive Newer variety of the ever popular lily of the valley shrub with stunning cerise-red-pink flowers. Plants are covered in bloom all Spring, making this handsome new evergreen from Gardening Express an absolute must have, and with a name like ‘Passion’ it surely has to make the ultimate in unexpected Valentines gifts for the gardener
Ruscus aculeatus John Redmond
Ruscus aculeatus is one of a handful of species of this small Mediterranean evergreen plant, also known as Butchers Broom. ”John Redmond” is a compact evergreen shrub up to about 50cm high with a broad upright habit. The dark green twigs carry no leaves, but so-called ‘cladophylls’; leaf-like flattened branchlets. They are ovate, sharp pointed
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
Hydrangea paniculata Grandiflora
Large, conical clusters of creamy-white flowers from August to September, maturing to pinkish-white, and mid to dark green leaves. This vigorous, deciduous hydrangea is ideal for the back of a large shrub or mixed border. Flourishing in sun or partial shade, for the best flowers it’s important to prune annually in early spring. Supplied in
Hibiscus syriacus Ardens – Rose of Sharon
Rose-of-Sharon deserves more attention for its abundant flowering in mid summer. It comes from east Asia and is absolutely frost hardy. There has been a number of cultivars availablesince its discovery, they have various bloom colours, shapes and sizes, as well as variegated leaves. Ardens is a beautiful shrub with double purple flowers which come
Ilex meserveae Blue Angel – Holly
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DEAL – Usually 14.95, today just 4.95 – Save ฃ10!Popular female variety with vivid red fruits and dark olive green leaves. Supplied in approx 3 litre containers.SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DEAL – Usually 14.95, today just 4.95 – Save ฃ10!
Ilex Verticillata – Winter Berry Holly
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DEAL – Usually 34.99, today just 29.99 – Save ฃ5!Unlike many Holly varieties, Ilex Verticillata loses its leaves during winter, exposing masses of bright red berries on its stems.Throughout winter this shrub will provide a bright shock of colour when everything else has started to fade. Not only does it look great in
Kerria japonica pleniflora Golden Guinea
Also known as Jew’s mallow or quite simply as Kerria, this is a popular spring flowering shrub. It will grow almost anywhere, and soon develop into a thicket of tall graceful stems, but it is best kept out of direct sunlight to avoid bleaching the flowers. In this form these are fully double, like golden
Luma apiculata (Myrtus) Glanleam Gold – Variegated Myrtle
From mid- to late summer the branches of this upright, bushy, evergreen shrub are festooned with fragrant, white flowers, followed by purple-black berries. An excellent plant for a mixed or shrub border or for growing against a warm, sunny wall. Its glossy, dark-green edged golf-cream leaves and flowers give off a fragrant aroma when crushed.
Leucothoe Zeblid – Evergreen Scarletta Plants Switch Ivy
Easy to grow and excellent ground cover, these Scarletta Plants will provide colour from Autumn, well into spring. Also known as switch ivy, Leucothoe Zeblid has leathery green to copper foliage in the summer followed by stunning claret purple/red tints in the winter. Dense, compact, bushy habit preferring a moist soil in partial shade. This
Leucothoe fontanesiana Rainbow – Switch Ivy
SPECIAL DEAL – Usually 15.99, today just 10.99 – Save ฃ5!This plant is a truely wonderful evergreen, with slender arching reddish branches bearing glossy, lance-shaped leaves of burnished bronze-red, mottled with cream and pink. In Spring, the stems are clothed in small cream flowers that hang down from the arching branches creating an extra dimension
Leycesteria formosa – Purple Rain – Pheasant Berry Himalayan Honeysuckle
Leycesteria is a shrub with attractive, clean, bright green foliage with hints of red in the new growth. In mid-summer it is covered 4 inch long pendulous drooping clusters of dark purplish-red bracts and white flowers. Dark purple berries are produced in autumn. It is a fantastic plant for the perennial garden or shrub border.
Mahonia Aquifolium
Widely used as ground cover or as a low hedge, this evergreen and has the most beautiful foliage. The leaves are generally green but turn to a lovely bronze or purple in the winter months and are followed by bright yellow flowers in Spring, followed by bloomy-blue berries in Autumn. The plant can be grown
Mahonia Soft Caress – Spine Free Mahonia
An RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year Award Winner, and originally New and Exclusive to us in 2012, Mahonia eurybracteata ganpinensis Soft Caress to give it its full technical name is a sensational Mahonia variety. It has also won numerous other horticultural awards throughout the gardening industry, guaranteeing a truly superb new plant
Hebe Emerald Green Globe
Also know as Emerald Green, this small evergreen shrub has a dense globular habit made up of small branches covered in tiny moss green foliage, and topped with white flowers in summer. An ideal plant for use en-mass to provide ground cover on a dry, sunny site. Strong bushy plants supplied in approx 2 Litre
Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle
Annabelle is a stunning white hydrangea, often producing heads over 10” in diameter. Unlike the better known blue and pink hydrangeas, Annabelle blooms every year even after severe pruning or intensely cold winters. The huge, white ”drumstick” blooms appear in profusion without fail. Some people plant ‘Annabelle’ as a hedge since it can be cut
Hydrangea arborescens ‘Incrediball’ – Strong Annabelle – Giant Football Size White Flowers
This is a brand new variety of Annabelle type Hydrangea from the USA, that boasts giant flowers on very strong stems. The flower heads, probably the largest hydrangea flowers in the world are up to 30cm across!The hardy, easy-to-grow, deciduous shrubs produce strong, sturdy stems which support giant, football-sized blooms – hence the name ‘Incredible’.
