Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Juniperus squamata Plant – Blue Star
A slow growing and blue coloured ground cover variety which keeps its attractive colour all year round. Height 100-150cm. Supplied in a 2 litre pot.
Perovski Plant – Little Spire
Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spire’ is a lower growing variety of Perovskia, but still with the vibrant blue-violet spires that make so much impact in cottage garden and rockery planting schemes. It is ideal for smaller gardens and can be used towards the front of borders. Best grown in loose, sandy soil in a sunny spot,
Rhododendron (AJ) Plant – Palestrina
An evergreen azalea with pale green leaves. The flowers are a beautiful pure white with a greenish centre. Flowers April-May. Height 90-100cm. Supplied in a 2 litre pot.
Taxus baccata Plant – Repandens
A handsome ‘Yew’ which has a naturally low growing habit great for filling an area where a typical ground cover plant may be too low. Happy in sun or shade, the dark, glossy evergreen foliage will thrive in most conditions. Height 301cm+. Supplied in a 3 litre pot. (Please note: toxic if eaten.)
Viburnum plicatum Plant – Shasta
A deciduous rounded shrub growing twice as wide as tall. It has horizontal branches that are smothered in white lacecap flowers in May. Red fruits in autumn turning black as they mature. The foliage turns from a dark green to shades of red and purple. Height 150-200cm. Supplied in a 3 litre pot.
Cornus sericea Plant – Isanti
Cornus sericea ‘Isanti’ is a deciduous shrub and part of a species commonly known as Dogwood. It is a popular species for their bright coloured stems and foliage and sometimes the flowers and berries. It has deep red woody stems that becomes visible more once its foliage has started falling off towards winter after they
Cytisus x praecox Allgold
A free flowering deciduous shrub for your garden, Cytisus x praecox ‘Allgold’ is smothered in spring with the brightest of yellow flowers. This Broom also has an attractive grey-green foliage throughout the growing season which makes it an ideal plant for the back of a border to help show off your other specimens. Easy to
Hydrangea macrophylla Plant – Mirai®
Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Mirai’ is a hardy shrub that is container friendly. Its blooms are quite a display with white mophead flowers in summer with each individual floret edged in a light pink/red. As they mature the colour will deepen giving this shrub a milti-coloured look when there are young and older flower clusters on the
Hydrangea paniculata Plant – Levana
Hydrangea paniculata ‘Levana’ is an easy-to-grow vigorous strong stemmed upright deciduous shrub with dark-green foliage and in late summer and early autumn conical panicles of white flowers florets on long peduncles. These blooms consist of small lightly fragrant fertile flowers which are attractive to bees and butterflies; and larger pure white sterile flowers. It requires
Chamaecyparis p. Plant – Filifera Nana
A compact dwarf conifer that is perfect for smaller gardens and even containers. Filifera Nana forms a mound of dark green foliage with a slight weeping appearance ideal for rockeries and borders. Height 301cm+. Supplied in a 3 litre pot.
Hydrangea serrata Plant – Avelroz®
Hydrangea serrata ?Dolmyf? or know by its marketing name Hydrangea serrata Avelroz is a bushy, compact, hardy, deciduous shrub with beautiful purple-green foliage and beautiful autumn colour. In summer, it produces flat umbrella-shaped groups of dark-pink sterile flowers but with a crown of fertile bright-pink flowers (red in acid soil) with a bright-white centre on
Forsythia Intermedia Nimbus
Forsythia Intermedia Nimbus A small shrub full of big personality! This stunning compact Forsythia Intermedia ‘Nimbus’ may be on the smaller side, but it makes an impressively big impact in the garden in early spring when it erupts into a profusion of vibrant yellow blooms and rich foliage. Growing to 75cm (30") high, it’s characteristics
Hydrangea serrata Plant – Intermedia (Acuminata)
Hydrangea serrata ‘Intermedia’ also known by Hydrangea serrata ‘Acuminata’ is a compact, upright, bushy, deciduous shrub with prominently veined, ovate, pointed, dark green leaves. It blooms from purple-red to blue buds which open to white flowers, often with pink or red edges from mid-summer into early autumn. The compact size of shrub makes it perfect
Cotoneaster Suecicus Coral Beauty
Cotoneaster Suecicus Coral Beauty The Cotoneaster suecicus Coral Beauty produces berries of orange and red shade-providing extra colour and interest, but also giving a feast to the birds! Its evergreen foliage is sprinkled with creamy white flowers during Spring, which forms that beautiful orange and red shaded berries by Autumn. Forming a significantly rounded shape,
Buddleja Argus® Plant – Velvet
Buddleia ARGUS® Velvet is a butterfly bush with beautiful purple flowers. It has been modified to not produce seeds thereby controlling its spread. It is recommended to prune the plant each year and can be done up to knee-height yearly in spring time after the last of the snow which will force the left over
Buddleja davidii Plant – Miss Ruby®
Buddleia ‘Miss Ruby’ is a relatively compact cultivar, producing fantastic deep reddish-pink flower plumes on long arching branches in late summer. Its small size makes it an excellent choice for smaller gardens. It sets almost no seed, so is not invasive, however deadheading will help prolong the flowering period. A lovely way to add some
Buddleja davidii Plant – Purple Emperor
Buddleia davidii ‘Pyrkeep’ or known by it?s marketing name Buddleia davidii Purple Emperor belongs to the English Butterfly Series and is a fast growing compact shrub that?s suitable for container growing as well as borders. The flowers are deep purple and fragrant. Flowers June-~August. Height 150-200cm. Supplied in a 3-4 litre pot.
Ceanothus pallidus Plant – Marie Simon
Ceanothus x pallida ‘Marie Simon’ is a deciduous shrub with long oval mid-green leaves and fluffy clusters of pink flowers in late spring and early summer, sometimes with a second flush of flowers in late summer or early autumn. It needs a sunny, sheltered site and a moist, well drained soil. A lovely and unusual shrub
Chaenomeles spec. Plant – Hot Fire®
The crimson red flowers of Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Hot Fire’ appear early in the spring upon bare, spiny stems. The rounded green foliage that follows provides a fitting backdrop for the showy, yellow autumn fruits that can be made into jams and preserves. Flowering Quince are ideal specimens for the border and make superb wall shrubs
Clematis Plant – The President
Clematis ‘The President’ is an early large-flowered clematis with a long flowering period, producing impressive purple-blue flowers from late spring to early autumn. It is a compact plant ideal for training over an arch or pergola, and can be grown in a container. Best in full sun, with shade at its roots. Clematis ‘The President’
