Category Archives: Garden Style
Fatsia japonica Spiders Web
An unusual new variety of Fatisia, is primarily grown for its handsome foliage. Fatsia Spider’s Web has wonderfully variegated white and medium green foliage which appears as though it has been dusted with icing sugar.Fatsia’s are superb evergreens providing interest in shady areas where other plants may struggle to grow. They make a wonderful specimen,
Euonymus japonicus Paloma Blanca – Evergreen Japanese Spindle Shrub
This unique varying variegated plant, makes an incredibly decorative addition to your garden or patio. Adorned with pure white new leaves and shoots, contrasted against dark, minty green older foliage, this makes for a very cooling, fresh effect in the garden. Easy to look after, tough and hardy, this is best planted in groups for
Cistus Sunset – Rock Rose
Cistus originate from dry, rocky parts of the Mediterranean and Canary Islands, and so are drought-tolerant and low maintanance. They produce masses of flowers in midsummer. ‘Sunset’ produces a profusion of magenta flowers with prominent yellow centres that look like crumpled tissue paper, offset by wavy-margined, sage-green leaves. It is particularly free-flowering and will tolerate
Diervilla sessilifolia Cool Splash – Bush Honeysuckle – New & Exclusive
Diervilla Cool Splash is a newly developed bush honeysuckle from America, the worlds first variety with variegated leaves.Its white-edged, green foliage holds its colour well and is perfect for illuminating partially shaded spots, where it will tolerate some drought once it has had a chance to become established. A close relative of Weigela, it forms
Pinus mugo Winter Gold – Golden Mountain Pine Minature STANDARD Tree
Pinus mugo Winter Gold is a hard to find dwarf mountain pine, with unusual, dark-green needle like foliage. In late Autumn, the foliage takes on a brilliant shade of golden yellow, retaining this colour throughout Winter and into early Spring. This particular plant is very unusual in that it has been trained to grow a
Taxus Baccata – English Yew – Large circa 80-100cm tall bushy plants
English Yew is an excellent choice for informal hedging, screens or even used in topiary. It has dark-green, needle like foliage with a broadly conical, upright growing habit. Can grow extremely large and this Yew is one of the longest lived trees in Europe. If planted correctly, Yew can be sure to last for many,
Aucuba Rozannie – Japanese Laurel
Lustrous, dark green leaves, and small clusters of red-purple flowers in April and May, followed by large, bright red berries. This compact Japanese laurel is perfect for a small shady site. Tolerant of dry shade and urban-pollution. The berries are highly attractive and retained all winter. Don’t worry, this is not a tall hedging laurel,
Salvia nemerosa x superba Pink – Rose Queen Salvia
Slender spires of bright rose-pink flowers opening from dark pink buds in early and mid-summer. ‘Rose Queen’ is perfect for filling gaps left by spring-flowering plants in the middle of a moist, well-drained herbaceous border. Flourishing in sun or light dappled shade, the flowers are highly attractive to butterflies and bees. Supplied in approx 1-2
Paeonia Sarah Bernhardt – Peony Sarah Bernhart
A traditional favorite, this dependable free-blooming cultivar has fragrant full double flowers in a most elegant shade of apple-blossom pink. Supplied as large strong flowering sized plants in approx 3 Litre containers.
Phlox paniculata ‘Starfire’
Panicles of deliciously perfumed, cherry red blossoms contrast sharply against the deep green foliage from mid to late summer. The tall, sturdy, clumping habit of this variety makes it a good candidate for the back of the border. Phlox paniculata is unequaled for showy blooms over a long period throughout the summer. Though they are
Digitalis purpurea Excelsior – Foxgloves
Tall spires of large, well-spaced, tubular flowers in pastel shades of purple, pink, creamy-yellow or white, spotted maroon or purple inside, from May to July. These pastel foxgloves are perfect for the back of a large cottage-style border. Although short-lived, given the right conditions they will perpetuate by self-seeding. Supplied in approx 1-2 litre containers.
Aster novi-belgii Purple Dome’Michaelmas Daisy
A neat growing variety with violet-purple flowers that have yellow centres from August to October and lance-shaped, mid-green leaves. These pretty Michaelmas daisies look perfect towards the back of a mixed or herbaceous border in sun or partial shade. For maximum results stake the slender, branched stems with bamboo canes in spring well before the
Astrantia major ‘Shaggy’ – Masterwort
Wonderful, white, pincushion flowers with a collar of extra long, green tipped petals on wiry, branched stems above deeply divided, dark green leaves. This astrantia is thought to have originated in Margery Fish’s garden at East Lambrook in Somerset, and christened there and then. It is one of the best pale varieties, with large flowerheads
Allium senescens Millenium – Amazing Summer Flowering Allium
This really is a beautiful allium, and one of our firm favourites. A chance find for us, we’ve sold it for years under it’s botanical name ‘senescens’ and has now been picked up by the wider garden and plant trade going under the name ‘Millennium’ – about the time we first bought it to the
Stokesia laevis ‘Mel’s Blue’ – Blue Stokes Aster
With an appearance halfway between a gigantic blue daisy & scabiosa, Stokesia laevis ‘Mel’s Blue’ is a most appealing large-blooming & long-blooming summer & early autumn flower. The lacy turquoise-blue blooms if ‘Mel’s Blue’ make a showy impact in the garden or for bouquets. It also does well as a container-plant. Supplied in approx 2-3
Echinacea Sun Seekers Salmon – ‘Flamingo Feathers’ Cone Flower
This dazzling new coneflower is a breakthrough in breeding work and opens up yet another colour in echinaceas. This is a stunning plant in flower that is sure to stand out in the garden. SunSeekers Salmon has everything you could wish for, including reliable tolerance to hot, dry conditions in summer and an easy, carefree
Euphorbia ‘Red Wing’ – Spurge
Fleshy blue-green leaves forming a tight mound of foliage with flower spikes in spring that turn a deep red just before they open. When they do the flower clusters are bright gold and so floriferous that the foliage is practically hidden. An excellent plant for a Mediterranean-style garden or sunny herbaceous border. Supplied in approx
Helleborus orientalis Green Spotted – Hellebore
The large, rounded, deep-red flowers which bloom from the upright stems of this vigorous-growing cultivar bring welcoming warmth to the early-spring garden. Evergreen foliage remains decorative for most of the year. Supplied in approx. 2 Litre containers with buds/flowers in season.
Helleborus orientalis Spotted White – Hellebore
A rare colour, we have good stock of this exquisite and highly sought after selection. It’s an easy going plant and carries its pretty white flowers with varying degrees of red speckles, occasionally these are flushed with soft pink, from February to April. The leathery, deep green leaves are usefully rabbit and deer resistant for
