Category Archives: Shrubs & Trees
Large Acer Japanese Maple Tree – Orido Nishiki (Asahi-zuru)
Orido Nishiki is an absolutely breath taking Japanese Maple.You’ll be seduced by the magnificent foliage, for it is one of the very best variegated upright growing Acers available. Each Spring the new growth will emerge with an array of bright colours. Many Japanese maples change colour as the year progress, but this tree comes in
LARGE 80-100cm Specimen Acer palmatum dissectum Seiryu – Japanese Maple Tree
Seiryu is a fantastic form of Japanese Maple with finely cut bright foliage and an upright habit, making it the perfect choice small tree in any garden or patio planter.The lace like leaves are a striking green throughout the spring transitioning to a darker pea green shade in the summer, often with a red tint
Magnolia Satisfaction – Large Flowered Tulip Tree
Magnolia ‘Satisfaction’ 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 petals are flushed with a raspberry-pink on their exterior, creating a spectacular two-tone display. A superb addition to any mixed or shrub
Photinia serratifolia Pink Crispy
Photinia Pink Crispy is a surprising new variety with superb marbled foliage splashed with light and dark green. Just released on to the market and already a gold medal winning variety in the Netherlands where it was first unveiled in the last week of August, Gardening Express are proud to add this New & Exclusive
Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’
This is a fantastic late Spring blooming Magnolia with stunning near-black, tulip-like flowers, and one of the darkest available on any magnolia!The near black blooms are actually, a very dark purple with contrasting chalk-white interiors. Black Beauty flowers later than many other varieties, meaning it’s blooms are less likely to be affected by late spring
Arbutus Unedo – Strawberry Tree – Large Plant
WINTER SALE – Usually 59.99, today just 29.99 – Save ฃ30!Spreading, shrubby tree with shredding brown bark and glossy bright green leaves. It is attractive in autumn when the white flowers, often tinged pink, are produced and the fruit from last year are turning red. The tree gets it’s name from these fruit, which look
Camellia japonica Bonomiana – LARGE Specimen
Camellia japonica Bonomiana is a fantastic upright evergreen shrub that covers itself in attractive and unusual double flowers, pink in colour with pink and white stripes. The flowers open from early spring above deep green foliage and will be much admired. Supplied as large bushy specimen plants in approx 10 litre containers, covered in buds
Acer palmatum Shaina – Japanese Maple
The new foliage of this striking Japanese maple emerges in spring a vibrant red, and as it ages it deepens in colour, turning rich claret until the autumn when it becomes a brighter shade once again before it falls. In shadier conditions, where the foliage is shaded by the outermost leaves, it may turn greenish,
Giant Cycad – Cycas revoluta – King Sago Palm Tree Specimen – 60-80cm
Cycas revoluta is one of the most primitive living plants, they are very unusual and popular ornamentals.The rugged trunk, topped with whorled feathery leaves has lead to the common name ”Sago Palm” – our customers often refer to them as looking like Pineapples! They are of course not edible!! Cycads are also often called ”living
Ficus benjamina Twilight – Weeping Fig Tree – House Plant
Twilight is a lovely decorative form of Weeping Fig tree that will make a stunning leafy addition to your home. Happy in virtually any situation that avoids direct blazing sunshine, the glossy foliage has a really ornamental appearance being green edged in ivory white. Twilight is very adaptable and easy to grow be it in
Cycad – Cycas revoluta – King Sago Palm Tree 40-60 cms
Cycas revoluta is one of the most primitive living plants, they are very unusual and popular ornamentals. A rugged trunk, topped with whorled feathery leaves has lead to the common name ”King Sago Palm” – our customers often refer to them as looking like Pineapples! They are of course not edible!!Cycas revoluta, one of the
Syringa vulgaris Sensation – Fragrant Picotee Lilac
Gorgeously scented lilacCan be kept as a shrub or grown in to a small treeMasses of large fragrant flowers every SpringHeart-shaped, fresh-green leavesYou’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,
Ginkgo biloba – Maiden Hair Tree
Famed as a herbal supplement by the ancient Chinese, this plant has been around since the dinosaurs. Very tough and hardy, specimens in Japan actually survived the Hiroshima bomb of WWII and are growing today.These trees can live a long time, so you, your children, and generations to come can enjoy this incredibly beautiful tree
Albizia julibrissin Summer Chocolate – Purple Silk Tree Albizzia – LARGE – Circa 100cm
An amazingly hardy shrub or small tree, doing best in sheltered gardens in the south. Also known as the Silk Tree it displays beautiful feathery pink clouds of flowers in late summer on arching branches of fern-like, soft downy foliage. The added interest comes from the chocolate coloured foliage. Supplied in approx 5 litre containers.
Magnolia Susan – Tulip Tree
A bushy, upright shrub with large mid-green leaves. From mid-spring to mid-summer, narrow goblet-shaped, fragrant flowers emerge from slender, dark purple-red buds. These open to slightly twisted petals of purple-red on the outside and paler on the inside. A glorious deciduous magnolia ideal for a small or larger garden. Supplied in approx 3 litre containers,
Magnolia Stellata – Tulip Tree
WINTER SALE – Usually 19.95, today just ฃ9.95 – Save ฃ10A 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
Cercidiphyllum japonicum – Katsura Tree – LARGE
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
