Category Archives: Shrubs & Trees
Euonymus fortunei Dan’s Delight
This lovely upright evergreen is a smashing, low-growing plant that will make a great addition to a patio pot, or when used to add splashes of colour at the front of the border. Grown for its colourful foliage, which is an eye-catching blend of grey-green and creamy white, it will offer a fresh, bright feel
Buddleja davidii Pink Panther – Buddleia – Butterfly Bush
Buddleja Pink Panther is a new variety with bright pink flower panicles. It flowers abundantly from summer to autumn. One of its main features is that it flowers at a young age already. The flowers attract lots of bees and butterflies so it is a great plant for biodiversity.The plant shape is very neat and
Ilex meserveae Blue Angel – Potted Holly
Blue Angel is a very popular, compact and dwarf Holly Bush that is smothered with red berries in winter. Perfect to grow for years to come to bring annual festive cheer, this female ‘Blue Angel’ holly is one of the most prolific berry-producing hollies, giving good displays from a young age.In the garden it will
Hydrangea paniculata Candlelight
This elegant paniculata Hydrangea carries conical, creamy white blooms on deep red stems to create an outstanding display. As the blooms age, the summer flowers slowly colour to pale pink. A stylish, deciduous shrub that is very hardy and easy to grow, it has strong upright growth, that ensures the blooms are held upright and
Metasequoia glyptostroboides Gold Rush
Metasequoia glyptostroboides ‘Gold Rush’ is a fully hardy, special kind of deciduous conifer with the most brilliant golden yellow foliage. It will make a fine specimen tree for a large garden where it can be afforded enough space to reach its potential of 8 metres tall or more.A form of Redwood, the stunning golden-yellow foliage
Daphne Cneorum – Garland Flower or Rose Daphne
Daphne Cneorum is a choice and rare form of Daphne that is rarely offered. Supplied in approx 2-3 litre containers.
Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle – Large Specimen
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
Euonymus fortunei Wolong Ghost – Evergreen Euonymus
Euonymus fortunei Wolong Ghost is a fantastic ground covering evergreen with dark green leaves and prominent white veins. It was originally found growing above the Wolong Panda reserve in western China.The elongated leaves are very distinctive in appearance, and the stems will spread to either provide a fabulous ground cover or climb walls and trees
Multi-stem Toffee Apple Tree – Cercidiphyllum japonicum – Katsura Tree
An attractive small tree or often grown as a large shrub with heart-shaped leaves. Also known as the Toffee Apple Tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum has very good autumn foliage colour in subtle hues of pale yellow and smoky pink, the leaves are sweetly pungent and smell of burnt sugar when crushed – hence the other alternative
Rhamnus frangula alnus ‘Fine Line’
Frangula alnus ‘Fine Line’ is an attractive new columnar garden shrub with fine, dark green leaves, that will turn a beautiful buttery-yellow in autumn before they fall. Multi-stems with a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit, it will form an excellent textural effect in any garden.Once fully established, Frangula ‘Fine Line’ wil also display mottled
Pittosporum tenuifolium Gold Star – Evergreen kohuhu
Pittosporum tenuifolium Gold Star is a fantastic evergreen with multiple seasons of interest. It is loved for its unusually coloured leathery foliage, pale yellow when young and darker green when mature. In late spring and early summer it will fill the air with a lovely perfume from insignificant honey fragranced, dark purple flowers.This highly decorative
Pittosporum tenuifolium Gold Star (Abbotsbury Gold) – Large
Pittosporum tenuifolium Abbotsbury Gold is a fantastic evergreen with multiple seasons of interest. It is loved for its unusually coloured leathery foliage, pale yellow when young and darker green when mature. In late spring and early summer it will fill the air with a lovely perfume from insignificant honey-fragranced, dark purple flowers. This highly decorative
Azalea japonica Silver Sword – Dwarf Japanese Rhododendron
Japanese azaleas are short growing, evergreen shrubs, and Silver Sword is an exceptional variety, carrying masses of bright red flowers above variegated leaves.Azalea japonica Silver Sword has glossy green and silver leaves and produces trusses of funnel shaped single scarlet red blooms in late Spring, heights can reach up to 60cm. Azaleas thrive in acidic
Berberis thunbergii Red Chief – Red Leaf Barberry
Red Chief is a fantastic compact form of the popular berberis shrub with red-tinted foliage carried on arching stems. The deep red-purple leaves turn a vibrant scarlet in the Autumn months, adding a real highlight to the garden when there are less flowers around. Pale yellow flowers appear in mid-spring and these are followed by
Red Japanese Maple Tree – Acer Palmatum Trompenburg
Acer palmatum Trompenburg is a really attractive Japanese maple with an upright habit that broadens with age. If allowed to grow to full size it can reach as high as five metres or a little more, it is however easily kept at a compact small size. The foliage is beautifully palmate unfolding dark reddish-purple turning
Caryopteris clandonensis Kew Blue
A compact form of Caryopteris, Kew Blue is a fantastic late summer flowering deciduous shrub, much loved by bees, thanks to it’s nectar rich blue flowers. These appear from mid-summer in to autumn. It is a very easy to grow and care free plant, just needing a hard prune in spring and a free draining
Caryopteris clandonensis Stephi – Pink Caryopteris
A spectacular and unusual new variety, Caryoterpis Stephi is a compact, upright shrub bearing masses of pretty flowers. The flowers display various vibrant shades of pink through to a delightful lilac. The wonderfully fragrant flower clusters bloom from July to September above aromatic, lance-shaped green leaves. This is an excellent choice for pot growing, or
Cytisus Apricot Gem
Cytisus Apricot Gem is drought resistant and an insect friendly Broom with a fine apricot-golden colour.It will grow into a robust and ever more abundantly flowering shrub in a short period of time.Once in full bloom this shrub will attract many bees and butterflies. Supplied in approx 1-2 litre containers.
Euonymus japonicus Marieke – Ovatus Aureus
This large leafed Euonymus, also known as Ovatus Aureua, carries bright green and gold foliage, forming an attractive evergreen shrub.The fabulous golden yellow variegated leaves are brightest in Spring and Summer, yet retain the colouration all year round, only requiring an occassional clip to keep them neat and tidy.If you want something that will look
Berberis x frikartii ‘Amstelveen’ – Barberry
Berberis Frikartii Amstelveen is an evergreen flowering shrub, loved for its decorative foliage and flowers, combined with being easy to grow, tough and hardy. It has small neat foliage with a silvery underside that is complimented by masses of yellow flowers in Spring. These are followed by blue-black berries in the autumn before they are
