Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Juniperus pfitzeriana Plant – ‘Gold Coast’
This elegant Juniper will certainly bring a splash of colour to the garden. Juniperus x pfitzeriana ‘Gold Coast’ has stunning golden foliage that retains its colour nicely throughout winter. With a neat mounding habit it is easily accommodated in borders and rockeries and makes a fine specimen shrub too. Height 91-100cm; spread 91-100cm.
Juniperus communis Plant – Hibernica
Juniperus communis ‘Hibernica’ is a dense, drought tolerant, evergreen conifer forming a large, columnar shrub with erect branches bearing needle-like foliage. Its dull, blue-green young foliage turns dark green with a dot of white near the apex. It is a tall, thin growing variety that will grow 3-4m high and 40-50cm wide. Height 50-60cm. Supplied
Ilex crenata Plant – Stokes
Ilex crenata ‘Stokes’ is an elegant shrub that will add good structure to a formal planting scheme with its small-growing habit and evergreen, dark to mid-green, glossy foliage. Its white flowers are followed by black fruits in winter. Its compact growing habit and small leaves makes it ideal for topiary shaping and also for hedging.
Hydrangea paniculata Plant – Kyushu
Hydrangea paniculata ‘Kyushu’ is a large deciduous shrub with dark green toothed foliage and large loose flowerheads with a few large sterile florets and many tiny fertile florets, giving it the classic ‘lacecap’ appearance. It flowers early, starting in mid-July, and is attractive to bees and butterflies. Height 150-200cm.
Hydrangea macrophylla Plant – Nikko Blue
Hydrangea macropylla Plant – Madame Emile Mouillère
Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Mme Emile Moulliere’ is a deciduous shrub with dark green oval leaves and large round mophead-style white flowerheads in mid and late summer. The flowerheads sometimes take on a pink tinge if grown in full sun. It needs an acidic or neutral soil. A lovely plant for a mixed border. Height 150-200cm. Supplied
Hydrangea serrata Plant – Preziosa
Hydrangea ‘Preziosa’ is a deciduous shrub with large, purple-flushed green leaves and quantities of round mophead-style flowerheads in late summer and early autumn. Flowers start out deep pink and gradually mature to reddish-purple. Hydrangeas need a soil that does not dry out in summer, and do best in partial shade. RHS Award of Garden Merit
Forsythia koreana Plant – Kumsum
Escallonia rubra macrantha Plant
A neat evergreen shrub with a long flowering period, Escallonia rubra var. macrantha makes an ideal informal hedging plant. Rose-red, tubular flowers appear from early summer to early autumn against a backdrop of dark green glossy leaves. Plant in a moist, well drained soil, in sun or partial shade. Height 200-250cm.
Leucothoe fontanesiana Plant – ‘Makijaz’
Leucothoe are known for their colourful foliage, but this one really stands out from the crowd! In spring the new shoots of Leucothoe fontanesiana ‘Makijaz’ emerge in shades of bronze and pink, before maturing to green with fabulous white marbling. The autumn foliage is just as dazzling, turning to burgundy red throughout winter. Flowers April-May.
Escallonia Plant – Dart’s Rosyred
Juniperus procumbens Plant – Nana
Needing very little maintenance; Juniperus Procumbens Nana will flourish in a wide range of conditions. If given ample space, this Decumbent Juniper will spread prostrate, and provide fantastic ground cover. If space is more limited, this Bonin Island Juniper will take a mounded form, but either way is a win-win! The thin, evergreen foliage emerges
Deutzia purp. Plant – Kalmiiflora
Choisya Goldfingers
Choisya ternata ‘Goldfingers’ – Choisya ternata ‘Goldfingers’ is a hardy shrub full of colour. Choisya ternata delicately spreads around 200cm and reaches a height of around also 200cm. For first-time gardeners, this beauty requires barely any maintenance and the Mexican orange blossom is at its show-stopping best when grown in full sun, tolerating most growing
Cytisus Plant – Boskoop Ruby
Cryptomeria japonica Plant – Vilmorin Gold
A dwarf conifer with a dense rounded growth habit, Vilmorin Gold is equally happy growing in rockeries, containers and borders requiring little attention to keep its neat compact shape. The evergreen foliage changes to vibrant shades of red throughout winter to provide year round interest. Height 50-60cm. Supplied in a 3 litre pot.
Cotoneaster franchetii Plant
Cotoneaster franchetii is a semi-evergreen woody shrub, with oval to oblong grey-green leaves about 4cm in length, and small, white flowers blushed with pink in the summer months, followed by round, orange-red berries. A versatile garden and municipal plant that can be used for hedging – its arching stems, flowers and fruit making an all
Strawberry Sweet Colossus
Cornus sericea Plant – Budds Yellow
Yellow or chartreuse stems characterise Cornus sericae ‘Budd’s Yellow’. Known for its multi-stems, and rapid growth, ‘Budd’s Yellow’ looks stunning in a winter border, where its stems glow if there is winter sunshine. As with most shrubby, coloured stemmed cornus, ‘Budd’s Yellow’ needs to be cut to 30cm above soil level in spring to promote