Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’
Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’ bears spidery, sulphur-yellow flowers with a sweet perfume that carries on the chilly winter air. From December through to February this hardy, deciduous shrub provides a rare splash of colour in the winter garden.
Halimodendron halodendron
A fully hardy, spiny, deciduous shrub with pinnate, silver-green leaves and attractive pea like, violet-pink flowers during June and July. As its common name implies it will tolerate salt-laden winds found in coastal areas, making this an excellent choice for a coastal windbreak.
Hamamelis × intermedia ‘Böhlje’s Feuerzauber’
Witch Hazel are popularly grown for their autumn colour and frost resistant, fragrant, spider like flowers in winter. Hamamelis x intermedia ?Bohlje?s Feuerzauber? is a vase-shaped, slow growing shrub with ascending branches.
Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Arnold Promise’
Fragrant bright yellow flowers. Could you imagine a shrub that flowered it’s heart out, even when it’s chilly and frosty? The witch-hazel is a much-loved garden plant, with fragrant, spidery, bright yellow flowers that cover the bare branches in the depths of winter, a nice January treat for the garden! In autumn, the bright green
Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Orange Beauty’
Witch Hazels are a gardener favourite for their autumn leaf colours and their winter resistant fragrant, spider like flowers on the bare branches during the coldest winter period. Hamamelis x intermedia ?Orange Beauty? produces stunning yellow and orange autumn leaves before falling, followed by deep orange-yellow flowers on the bare branches.
Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Ruby Glow’
Hamamelis are popularly grown for their autumn colour and frost resistant fragrant spider like flowers during the cold winter months. This vase-shaped, slow growing shrub has ascending branches and broadly oval, green leaves. The foliage turns a spectacular display of yellow and orange in autumn before falling.
Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’
Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ is an eye-catching, well branched Witch Hazel. The spreading stems are cloaked in unremarkable green foliage in summer, blending gently into the background while other plants take centre stage. With the onset of autumn, this hardy shrub steps into the spotlight, its leaves turning to bright red and yellow.
Ginkgo biloba ‘Fastigiata Blagon’
Upright and columnar, this narrow form of the well known Maidenhair Tree is ideal for restricted spaces. Ginkgo biloba ‘Fastigiata Blagon’ is cloaked from top to bottom in distinctive fan-shaped foliage which turns to brilliant gold in autumn.
Ginkgo biloba
Dating back millions of years, this is the sole survivor of its genus, instantly recognisable for its unique fan-shaped foliage. Ginkgo biloba forms a handsome, slow growing, conical tree that makes a superb focal point.
Elaeagnus x submacrophylla ‘Gilt Edge’
Suitable as a hedging plant as it is evergreen, fully hardy, has a dense structure, tolerates virtually all soils and can be trimmed to any height and width to 4m (12?) to keep its shape. Elaeagnus dislike very shallow chalky soils and can show chlorosis. Performs best in full sun but will grow in dappled
Scabious ‘Beaujolais Bonnets’
An attractive first year flowering perennial, producing bushy plants with clusters of wiry stems clothed in unusual rich burgundy flowers with contrasting paler outer petals and white stamens. Ideal for attracting butterflies to your borders or containers. Height: 50-60cm (20-24in)
Ginkgo biloba ‘Mariken’
A hardy, deciduous shrub in well drained soil in sun or part shade . Avoid exposed sites with cold, drying winds. Discovered in the Netherlands in the mid 1990?s and named after a historical statue nearby. Growth is very slow and is one of the best Ginkgo for a large container.
Fatsia japonica
Bring a tropical feel to your garden! With its large glossy leaves and strong architectural form, Fatsia japonica really makes a statement in the border, and looks magnificent alongside other exotic, showy plants. What’s more, it is evergreen, fast growing, easy, low maintenance and will thrive in sun or shade. In the summer it has
Fig ‘Brown Turkey’
Our Fig ‘Brown Turkey’ standard trees are supplied with a small head of branches above a straight single stem to create an attractive standard tree that is ideally suited to growing in patio containers. Specially selected for the UK climate, Fig ‘Brown Turkey’ is fully hardy and can be grown very successfully outdoors. This popular
Euonymus alatus ‘Compactus’
A dwarf Spindle with a neat, compact habit ? perfect for small gardens, hedges and confined spaces! The branches have the same conspicuous, corky wings as its larger cousins, which make a lovely feature in winter when the leaves have been shed. Euonymus alatus ‘Compactus’ is second to none for autumn colour.
Daphne x transatlantica ‘Pink Fragrance’
Non-stop blooms from April to October make Daphne x transatlantica ‘Pink Fragrance’ unbeatable for flowers and fragrance. This unusual semi-evergreen Daphne flowers on new growth, so they just keep coming! With a compact, slow growth habit its dusky pink blooms perfume the air with an intensely sweet fragrance. This elegant shrub is perfect for planting
Cortaderia selloana ‘Gold Minipampas’
Fully hardy evergreen perennial. Compact in habit so could be grown in a large patio container in full sun, or as garden plant in well drained, fertile soil in full sun. A tussock of stiff, flat, narrowly linear yellow -green leaves . White flowers are produced from August to October. Protect crowns of young plants
Cortaderia selloana ‘Minipampas’
Fully hardy evergreen perennial. Compact in habit so could be grown in a large patio container in full sun, or as garden plant in well drained, fertile soil in full sun. A tussock of stiff, flat, narrowly linear yellow -green leaves . White flowers are produced from August to October. Protect crowns of young plants
Corylus avellana ‘Twister’
Hardy deciduous shrub grown for its attractive twisted stems (hence its name) forming yellow male catkins February – March. Heart shaped, toothed, mid green leaves are up to 10cm (4) long. Slow growing, of more compact, bushy habit than most Corylus avellana varieties and could be grown in a large patio container in sun or
Corylus avellana ‘Webb’s Prize Cob’
A native hardy deciduous tree particularly on chalky soils but will grow in any fertile, well drained soil in sun or partial shade. Although partially self -fertile it is advised to grow another hazelnut variety nearby if a harvest of nuts is required in the autumn. The sight of golden yellow catkins is a harbinger
