Category Archives: Garden Style
Phormium tenax variegata – New Zealand Flax – EXTRA LARGE SPECIMEN – 150-200cm tall
A pretty, multi-coloured variety of Phormium, tenax variegata carries more subtle tones than some other cultivars but is certainly not lacking in colour.Striking grey-green leaves have golden-creamy margins with a delicate red or orange edging. Like all Phormiums, this tough, reliable, easy to grow evergreen is ideal for creating real impact wherever it is planted,
Magnolia acuminata Blue Baby
Magnolia ‘Blue Baby’ is a sensational brand new variety of Magnolia that you’ll struggle to find anywhere else. It’s a deciduous hybrid obtained by cross-pollination of Magnolia ‘Blue Opal’ (also known as Henry Blue’), that reveals itself as a more intensely blue shaded form that it’s parent – yes, that’s right, it’s a blue flowered
Nandina domestica Obsessed – Sacred Bamboo
Nandina Obsessed is a fantastic form of Sacred Bamboo, a compact evergreen shrub grown for it’s attractive fiery red foliage. Emerging in Spring in the brightest most vibrant shade, it will fade to green as it ages whilst producing more new red leaves. In the autumn and winter, the entire plant can flush bright bronze-red
Nandina domestica Gulf Stream – Heavenly Bamboo – Large Specimen
A real show stopper for autumn and winter with glorious colour to the attractive evergreen foliage, Nandina Gulfstream is a shrub that makes a superb stand alone specimen on it’s own or grouped with other plants, perhaps even in a container on the patio.Starting the year with purplish leaves on new growth, Nandina domestica ‘Gulfstream’
Hydrangea paniculata Little Lime
A smaller selection of Hydrangea ‘Limelight’, ‘Little Lime’ reaches around half the size, but remains equally impressive packing a punch with its glorious lime-green flowers in late summer that fade through creamy white to a soft shade of blush-pink. This compact paniculata variety is perfect for smaller gardens and containers, where it copes well in
Convolvulus cneorum – LARGE SPECIMEN
This hardy evergreen Convolvulus is a wonderful shrub with beautiful silvery foliage on display all year round.As an added bonus, cup-shaped, white flowers with pale yellow centres appear in several flushes from late spring in to the autumn.Perfect for problem dry areas, it will even be happy in a hot sunny well drained spot, where
Polystichum Munitum – Western Sword Fern
Known as the Western Sword Fern, this Polystichum has lustrous, rich, dark green fronds up to 90cms (3ft) long.These are produced in a distinctive, loose shuttlecock-like shape.An evergreen, the name is very apt due to the fronds resembling large swords. It is ideal for providing all year foliage interest for a mixed border in full
Hydrangea aspera Gold Rush – Golden Velvet Leaf Hydrangea
Introduced by the famous Hillier Nurseries at the 2018 Chelsea flower show, this new Hydrangea aspera โ€Gold Rushโ€ brings a new dimension to one of the countries most popular garden flowers.Gold Rush is surely one of the most showy Hydrangeas you will find, not just because of the large lavender blue-mauve flower heads, complimented by
Davidia Involucrata – Handkerchief or Dove Tree – 120-150cm
An unusual, deciduous tree with gorgeous heart-shaped, dark green leaves with soft white down underneath and large, white bracts that surround the small flowers in late spring. It is from these bracts that it gets its common names – dove tree or handkerchief tree – as they supposedly look like doves resting on the branches
Standard Topiary Tree – Corksrew Stem Salix integra Flamingo – Corkscrew Standard Tree
These Flamingo Salix are an extremely popular plant, but you’ll struggle to find this unusual form anywhere else, these have been specially trained as a corkscrew trunked tree just for us here at Gardening Express to share with just a few lucky customers that snap them up quickly!Elegant and fast-growing with new shoots which are
Large Specimen Acer palmatum dissectum Firecracker – Japanese Maple – Approx. 110-150cms
The Acer palmatum dissectum Firecracker is a spectacular plant with finely cut, deep purple foliage that turns to red in the Autumn.A mound forming variety it is ideal located near to a water feature where you can benefit from double the effect as it’s reflection dances on the waters surface.Supplied in approx. 10-12 litre containers
Magnolia Yellow Bird – Tulip Tree
BLACK FRIDAY DEAL – Usually 39.99, today just 12.99 – Save ฃ27!Magnolia Yellow Bird is a very special hard to come by variety with bright yellow-cream flowers that appear from huge goblet shaped flower buds throughout Spring – a signal that warmer weather has finally arrived after a chilly winter.Later flowering than many Magnolia varieties,
Sarcococca confusa – Sweet Box Sarcococca – LARGE Fragrant Plant
Christmas, or Sweet Box as it is also know is one of the best shrubs available for the winter period.It has smart dark-green foliage throughout the year but really comes into its own in the winter months, the stems clothe themselves in small clusters of creamy-white flowers, these are sweetly scented and can be detected
Magnolia Daphne – Sensational Yellow Tulip Tree
Magnolia Daphne is perhaps the best yellow blooming variety available producing dark yellow blooms on a compact plant, meaning it is perfect for smaller gardens.Bred in Belgium, it’s not readily available, so we are pleased to offer some good quality stock. Supplied in approx. 5 litre containers.
Magnolia New Pink – New, Rare Tulip Tree with Soft Pink Blush Flowers
NEW & EXCLUSIVEMagnolia New Pink is an absolutely stunning variety of Magnolia. It produces delightful, very large goblet-shaped blooms in masses, whilst retaining it’s bushy, compact growing habit. The flowers are lightly fragranced and the creamy-white, near translucent petals are blushed pink eminating from their base, creating a spectacular two-tone display. A superb addition to
Convolvulus cneorum – Convolvulus – Silver Bush
This hardy evergreen Convolvulus is a wonderful shrub with beautiful silvery foliage on display all year round.As an added bonus, cup-shaped, white flowers with pale yellow centres appear in several flushes from late spring in to the autumn.Perfect for problem dry areas, it will even be happy in a hot sunny well drained spot, where
Nandina domestica Firepower – Sacred or Heavenly Bamboo Plant
This dwarf form of heavenly bamboo is perfect where border space is limited. In summer clusters of small star-shaped white flowers appear, above the bamboo-like leaves, in autumn, these turn a fabulous shade of red.As the temperatures drop the foliage colour of the heavenly bamboo will intensify from a combination of brilliant yellow, orange and
Laburnum x watereri ‘Vossii’ – Voss’ laburnum – 150-200cm Heavy Grade Golden Rain Tree
Laburnum is an easy to grow tree that will make a lovely specimen in any size garden, being easy to maintain at a small size, even as a large shrub if required, or allowed to grow larger. It will also bloom at a very young age, even when less than a metre tall flowers can
Cistus salviifolius – White Rock Rose
This hardy low growing shrub is suited to sunny dry borders. Vivid white blossoms are borne through out the summer, complimenting attractive gray-green foliage and a spreading habit. Growing around 100cms wide x 80cms tall, no other flowering shrub will tolerate such tough dry conditions yet continue to produce blossom for so long and with
Miscanthus Sinensis Ferner Osten – LARGE SPECIMEN
This ‘clump-forming’ deciduous grass has fine narrow arching leaves that turn a dull orange in autumn/early winter. These plants produce feathery flower panicles that open up with a deep red colour, after a while these mature to be a pink-silver colour.Large well established specimen plants supplied in approx 12 litre containers.
