Category Archives: Garden Plants
Magnolia Soulangeana – Large Specimen Plant
One of the most popular magnolias, with large, dark green leaves that start to appear in mid spring, at about the same time as the huge, deep rose-pink or white, goblet-shaped flowers. This is a good magnolia for smaller gardens, as it remains a shapely shrub for many years, and even when it is mature,
Magnolia denudata Sunrise – Compact Chinese Magnolia – Unique flower colour
Magnolia Sunrise is a recently introduced variety to the wide selection of Magnolia varieties we grow. Originally hailing from the far East, much like the sun rises reliably each morning, this tulip tree is a very reliable garden plant. Loved the world over, Magnolias are known for their magnificent and fragrant blossoms, with this new
Magnolia Stellata – Large Specimen Plant
A popular compact, bushy shrub with mid-green leaves and silky buds which open up to pure white, star-shaped flowers, sometimes faintly flushed pink. The blooms are lightly scented, open very early and before the leaves, eventually covering the shrub for several weeks. This is one of the best magnolias for a small garden. Supplied in
Nandina domestica Obsessed – Heavenly Bamboo Obession
A new Nandina cultivar that has intensely coloured foliage, Obsessed, has fiery red young foliage that ages to green. The autumn colour is also strikingly red with the colour persisting through the winter. It is sure to be a big hit in the near future as the colour is retained through much of the season.
Rhododendron Scarlet Wonder – Dwarf Evergreen Rhododendron
Stunning bright cardinal red flowers appearing in Spring, over a compact evergreen bush of dark green attractive foliage. This is a free-flowering plant with attractive and distinctive glossy ribbed foliage. Compact and neat growing, it grows wider than high. Dwarf Rhododendrons don’t mind the sun or a semi-shaded spot, but they hate too much heat,
Rhododendron Ponticum Variegatum – Compact Evergreen Shrub
This gorgeous compact evergreen shrub with foliage edged in creamy white is a profuse bloomer. Hundreds of lilac-pink flowers are produced from late April into June. A very hardy plant, it grows best in moist soil in sun or part shade. Supplied as strong bushy flowering sized plants growing in approx 5 litre containers.
Rhododendron Goldflimmer – Rhododendron Hybrid
This hard to find German introduction has splashes of sunny yellow in the center of each leaf with lavender flowers in Spring. It is an excellent grower, vigorous, compact and well shaped. Fully Hardy. Due to the novelty value of the leaf varigation, the price normally commands a premium. Supplied as a top quality, very
Syringa vulgaris Ludwig Spaeth – Fragrant Purple Lilac
Gorgeously scented lilacCan be kept as a shrub or grown in to a small tree.Masses of large fragrant flowers every Spring.Heart-shaped, fresh-green leaves.You’ll be thrilled with this new plant in your garden, sure to be the envy of all that see it and chance to sniff it’s heady perfume.Famous around the world for magnificent scent,
Fremontodendron California Glory – Californian Flannel Bush
Fremontodendrons carry exotic looking, showy, saucer-shaped, deep golden-yellow flowers from May to October, these cover their fuzzy stems that also carry lobed, dark green leaves. This long flowering, evergreen shrub provides a great backdrop for a shrub or mixed border with well-drained, neutral to alkaline soil.A vigorous plant that does best in sunny gardens, it
Panicum virgatum Heavy Metal
A beautiful, sturdy, upright, clump-forming switch grass, particularly admired for its light, airy looks. Metallic blue foliage with burgundy tinted seed heads in Autumn. Look stunning planted with sedums or as a back drop to lower growing grasses. Supplied in approx 2-3 Litre containers.
Festuca glauca Elijah Blue – Intense Blue Fescue
A fine mystical blue grass which looks excellent early in the season and will flower later. Delicate cylindrical swards and a spreading habit. Brilliant for the container with other grasses or in the border.Strong established plants supplied in approx 2-3 Litre containers.
Dryopteris filix-mas Barnesii – Fern
A tall narrow form making a neat specimen fern, with arching fronds. Supplied in approx 2-3 litre containers.
Osmunda regalis – Regal Fern
Upright bright green fronds gradually unfurling then turning bronze in autumn. This deciduous regal fern is perfect for the moist margins of a pond or stream in sun or partial shade. Best planted in fertile, humus-rich, acid soil, the lacy-textured foliage contrasts well with plants like rodgersia and skunk cabbage with large, coarse-textured leaves. Supplied
Arachniodes aristata variegata – Evergreen East Indian Holly Fern
The Arachnoides Variegata is a fantastic evergreen fern with brightly coloured fronds. Principally grass-green in colour they are also shaded with gold coloured highlights which makes for an unusual spectacle when planted en-mass or contrasted with other low growing plants such as different coloured Heucheras, or indeed other ferns. Perfect to use as a groundcover,
Dryopteris erythrosora – Rosy Buckler or Autumn Fern
This selection is rapidly becoming one of the most popular garden ferns. Its name ‘Autumn Fern’ refers to the beautiful copper-pink-red colour of the newly emerging leaves which seem to glow against the backdrop of the shiny, dark green, mature fronds.The spore, which are produced in autumn on the underside of the leaves are bright
Large 6ft Specimen Climbing Rose – Rose Pauls Scarlet
The arching stems of this vigorous, climbing rose are smothered with clusters of cup-shaped, slightly scented, double, bright red flowers in June and July.A highly fragrant Climbing Rose supplied in approx. 5.5 litre containers.
Large 6-7ft Climbin Rose – Rose Handel
Handel is a brightly coloured rose with dark stems and glossy dark green foliage. It carries large semi-double flowers, silvery-white in colour with bright pink and red markings on the petal edges. Highly Scented, this is a climbing rose that really stands out that you can not possibly miss if planted in the garden. Very
Acer palmatum Asahi-Zuru (Orido-Nishiki)
Likely to emerge as one of the most popular Acer varieties but it is still very rare.The deep pink and white variegation in Spring is followed by pink, white and green foliage until leaf fall. Not only are the leaves attractively coloured, but the bark also carries variegation of creamy white and pink. New growth
Acer palmatum Butterfly
This is a fantastic variegated Japanese Maple. White edge with pink on bluish-green filigree leaves. Growth habit is narrowly upright and twiggy. Butterfly is spectacular, and one of the most desirable cultivars available. Height is up to 2 metres in ten years, but it can easily be maintained as small as a bonsai with pruning.
Callicarpa bodinieri giraldii ‘Profusion’ – Beauty Berry Large Plants
This Callicarpa, or beauty berry as it is better known carries colourful Autumnal fruits that cannot be rivalled for a jolt of eye catching late season colour. Shaded in bright metallic purple, there is no other shrub with berries quite like it.In summer the shrub is covered with masses of tiny star shaped lilac-pink flowers,
