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Rare & Unusual Plants 

 We stock a varied selection of rare and unusual plants in the nursery. Stock changes throughout the year, with more available in spring and summer. The majority of these plants are hardy in the UK climate and make an exciting change from the usual garden favourites

 

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  • Ficus 'Panache' (Tiger Fig)

    Ficus 'Panache' (Tiger Fig)
    Common name: Tiger Fig tree A small deciduous tree with attractive, large, deeply lobed green foliage. In late summer, edible figs are produced in abundance with striking yellow-green striped skin. The sweet flesh is yellow and red inside. Average...
    Price: £18.00
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  • Ficus 'Desert King'

    Ficus 'Desert King'
    Common name: Fig tree A small deciduous tree with attractive, large, deeply lobed foliage. In mid-to-late summer, edible figs are produced in abundance with yellow-green skin. The sweet flesh is yellow and red. This variety will sometimes crop twice...
    Price: £45.00
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  • Corylus 'Rote Zellernus' (Red-leafed hazel) 10L

    Corylus 'Rote Zellernus' (Red-leafed hazel) 10L
    Common name: Hazel 'Rote Zellernus' A spreading, deciduous shrub or small tree with rounded leaves that are an attractive red colour instead of the usual green. In early spring pink catkins appear followed by edible hazel nuts in autumn. Average...
    Price: £45.00
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  • Caryopteris icana 'Sunny Blue' 3L

    Caryopteris icana 'Sunny Blue' 3L
    Common name: Bluebeard A useful, compact shrub to add a late pop of colour to the garden with clusters of pale blue flowers that are attractive to pollinators. This variety has golden-tinted leaves for extra interest throughout the growing season...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Heptacodium miconiodes 'Temple of Bloom'

    Heptacodium miconiodes 'Temple of Bloom'
    Common name: Seven Son Flower Tree A large shrub or multi-stemmed tree with peeling bark and dark green leaves with deeply marked veins.  From August to September clusters of scented white flowers are produced  that fade to expose striking...
    Price: £48.00
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  • Helwingia chinensis (Narrow Leaf Form) 3L

    Helwingia chinensis (Narrow Leaf Form) 3L
    An unusual evergreen shrub with narrow dark green leaves that are flushed with burgundy when young.  A smattering of small greenish cream flowers are produced in April and May. The leaf stalk and the flower stalk are unusually fused together...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Lavandula angustifolia 'Valence Dark Violet' 3L

    Lavandula angustifolia 'Valence Dark Violet' 3L
    Common name: English Lavender 'Valence Dark Violet' A great compact variety of English Lavender with shorter than usual stems topped with highly fragrant deep violet flowers all summer long. Ideal for pots, edging a path, filling gaps at the front of a...
    Price: £9.50
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  • Staphyllea pinnata 2L

    Staphyllea pinnata 2L
    Common name: Common Bladdernut A large, upright shrub with pinnate foliage and descending panicles of scented white flowers from May to June. Unusual papery seed capsules follow the flowers. Average height 16-17ft Full sun/Partial shade Hardy
    Price: £28.00
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  • Sorbaria sorbifolia 'Sem' - 3L

    Sorbaria sorbifolia 'Sem' - 3L
    Common name: False Spiraea An upright shrub with long leaves made up off many small leaflets. The foliage is tinted orange in spring, later turning green and eventually a stunning red in autumn. White flowers are borne in panicles in mid-summer. Good...
    Price: £12.00
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  • Phillyrea angustifolia var. rosmarinifolia 7.5L

    Phillyrea angustifolia var. rosmarinifolia 7.5L
    Common name: Jasmine Box A compact evergreen rounded small to medium sized shrub. Leaves are narrow dark green, happy in all types of soil. Creamy yellow small fragrant flowers bloom mid to late June. Due to its hardiness this variety is often used...
    Price: £38.00
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  • Teucrium chamaedrys 2L

    Teucrium chamaedrys 2L
    Common name: Wall Germander A bushy aromatic subshrub with glossy light green leaves. It produces clusters of mauve-pink flowers from mid-summer to early autumn that are loved by bees. Average height 1.5-2ft. Full Sun. Hardy.   
    Price: £9.50
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  • Styrax fargesii

    Styrax fargesii
    Common name: Japanese snowbell A beautiful small tree that origniates from Japan and Korea.  It's graceful branches are adorned with masses of white, bell shaped flowers in the spring. Average height 25-30ft. Full sun or partial shade. Hardy.
    Price: £30.00
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  • Spiranthes odorata 'Chadd's Ford'

    Spiranthes odorata 'Chadd's Ford'
    Common name: Lady's tresses or fragrant spiranthe A spectacular clump-forming terrestrial orchid with a basal rosette of narrow foliage. In the autumn it produces spikes of fragrant white flowers that smell like vanilla.  Average height...
    Price: £12.00
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  • Sinnigia tubifolia 2L

    Sinnigia tubifolia 2L
    Common name: Trumpet-flowered sinningia or hardy gloxinia A tuberous perennial from South America. It produces unusual drooping tubular, highly scented flowers from spring to autumn. Best grown in a container as the tubers like to be congested to...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Rudbeckia 'Green Wizard' 3L

    Rudbeckia 'Green Wizard' 3L
    Common name: Coneflower A clump-forming perennial with mid-green leaves. Curious flowers of black cones with small green sepals and no petals from late summer to mid-autumn. Average height 3-4ft. Full sun or partial shade. Hardy. 
    Price: £12.00
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  • Rosa Belle Epoque 3L

    Rosa Belle Epoque 3L
    Hybrid tea rose A beautiful free flowering variety with two-toned effect blooms that are produced from May to September.  Excellent for cutting. Average height 3-4ft. Full sun.  Hardy. 
    Price: £15.00
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  • Potentilla 'Esta Ann' 2L

    Potentilla 'Esta Ann' 2L
    Common name: Cinquefoil A clump-forming perennial with finely toothed mid-green leaves.  It produces attractive yellow flowers with blood red centres in summer. Average height 1.5ft.  Full sun.  Hardy.
    Price: £12.00
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  • Podranea ricasoliana 4L

    Podranea ricasoliana 4L
    Common name: Pink trumpet vine A rambling climber with compound, glossy, deep green leaves. In late summer and through into the autumn pink-purple, tropical looking trumpet shaped flowers. Acid neutral soil.  Average height 13ft  Full sun...
    Price: £35.00
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  • Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Golden Ball' 3L

    Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Golden Ball' 3L
    A great new variety of Pittosporum with a neat, rounded habit and evergreen, variegated gold-green leaves that have attractive wavy margins.  Bell-shaped, honey-scented, brown-red flowers are produced from May to June. Ideal for adding year-round...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Pittosporum eugniodes 'Red' 3L

    Pittosporum eugniodes 'Red' 3L
    Common name: Lemonwood An evergreen shrub with mottled green foliage which has purple-red tips. Small scented brown-purple flowers spring.  Average height 6ft  Full sun or partial shade.  Hardy.
    Price: £12.00
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  • Liriope muscari 'Okina' 2L

    Liriope muscari 'Okina' 2L
    Common name: Lily tuft A low growing evergreen perennial with grass-like dark green folliage. It has striking white young growth & produces spikes of blue flowers late summer.  Average height 1ft. Partial or full shade. Hardy.
    Price: £12.00
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  • Leptospermum scoparium 'Apple Blossom' 5L

    Leptospermum scoparium 'Apple Blossom' 5L
    Common name: Manuka bush A small shrub native to New Zealand. It is a dense, branching, evergreen with small leaves. In late spring it produces an abundance of white, flushed pink flowers covering the whole shrub. Average height 5-6ft. Full sun/partial...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Kniphofia 'Toffee Nosed'

    Kniphofia 'Toffee Nosed'
    Common name: Red hot poker A clump-forming perennial  with long narrow green foliage. It produces spikes of ivory flowers, tipped brown in summer.  Average height 3ft. Full sun. Hardy.
    Price: £15.00
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  • Kniphofia 'Moonstone'

    Kniphofia 'Moonstone'
    Common name: Red hot poker Narrow sword-like folliage topped with spikes of apricot-yellow flowers. Flowers form June to September.  Average height 3ft Full sun or partial shade. Hardy.
    Price: £18.00
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  • Hydrangea quercifolia 'Ruby Slippers'

    Hydrangea quercifolia 'Ruby Slippers'
    Common name: Oak-leaved Hydrangea A majestic shrub with large, lobed mid green leaves which turn beautiful shades of red and purple in autumn. Tall, conical white flowerheads becoming pink and then ruby-tinged with age, are borne from July to September...
    Price: £20.00
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  • Hemeboa subcapitata 2L

    Hemeboa subcapitata 2L
    Common name: Glossy False Sinningia A rare woodland herbaceous perennial with fleshy dark green foliage & a spreading habit. It produces tubular mauve, pink throated flowers in autumn.  Sheltered position.  Average height 1...
    Price: £12.00
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  • Helwingia himalaica 3L

    Helwingia himalaica 3L
    Common name: Himalayan helwingia An unusual evergreen shrub with glossy dark green leaves that are flushed with burgundy when young. The small white flowers form, unusually, in the centre of each leaf in April and May. Average height 4ft. Likes...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Harpochloa falx 2L

    Harpochloa falx 2L
    Common name: Caterpillar grass An evergreen, tuft-forming grass with narrow dark green foliage.  It produces unusual caterpillar-like flowers June-September. Average height 2ft  Full sun partial shade  Averagely hardy. 
    Price: £9.50
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  • Hebe Blue Gem 2L

    Hebe Blue Gem 2L
    Common name: Veronica A spreading evergreen shrub with light to mid-green, glossy leaves.  Long panicles of light mauve flowers are produced over a long period from June to September. Average height/spread 4ft. Full sun/partial shade. Hardy.
    Price: £12.00
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  • Grevillea 'Clearview David' 3L

    Grevillea 'Clearview David' 3L
    Common name: Spider flower A tropical looking evergreen shrub originating from Australia that is surprisingly hardy and easy to grow. Aromatic needle-like foliage and and dense clusters of spidery red & white flowers appear over a long period from...
    Price: £20.00
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  • Gentiana zekuensis 2L

    Gentiana zekuensis 2L
    Common name: Gentian An unusual clump-forming perennial that produces clusters of creamy-yellow flowers that are blue at the base.  Average height 1.5ft  Partial shade.   Hardy.     
    Price: £12.00
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  • Geranium phaeum 'Lily Lovell' 2L

    Geranium phaeum 'Lily Lovell' 2L
    Common name: Dusky cranesbill An unusual type of geranium with stunning deep purple flowers borne in late spring or early summer.  Average height 1ft  Full sun, partial shade or full shade.  Hardy.
    Price: £12.00
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  • Geranium nodosum 'Silverwood' 2L

    Geranium nodosum 'Silverwood' 2L
    Common name: Cranesbill  An attractive perennial with lobed leaves. It produces bright white trumpet-shaped flowers throughout the summer into autumn. Great for growing in dry shady spots or used as groundcover.  Average height 1ft Partial...
    Price: £12.00
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  • Fuchsia magellanica 'Riccartonii' 5L

    Fuchsia magellanica 'Riccartonii' 5L
    Common name: Hardy fuchsia or Lady's eardrops. A robust, upright, deciduous shrub with small dark green leaves that are slightly bronzed. In the summer & autumn it produces small single flowers, with crimson tubes and sepals, and violet-purple...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Euphorbia schillingii 2L

    Euphorbia schillingii 2L
    Common name: Schilling spurge An attractive perennial with veined, deep green leaves that have a central stripe. It produces flowers in early summer and into the autumn which have particularly large yellow bracts which are followed by attractive seed...
    Price: £12.00
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  • Eucalyptus coccifera

    Eucalyptus coccifera
    Common name: Mount Wellington peppermint or Tasmanian snow gum A medium sized tree with highly attractive silvery-blue leaves and stems that have a delicious scent. The young plants have different shaped leaves and change with maturity.  It...
    Price: £20.00
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  • Eucalyptus camphora

    Eucalyptus camphora
    Common name: Swamp gum An amazing evergreen tree with silvery-blue aromatic foliage.  Grow in a moist spot eg. clay soil. Average height up to 32ft - prune regulary to keep in shape & foliage can be used in floristry.  Full sun or...
    Price: £20.00
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  • Darmera peltata 3L

    Darmera peltata 3L
    Common name: Umbrella plant or Indian rhubarb A rhizomatous perennial with architectural large parasol-shaped leaves.  In the autumn these turn an attractive red colour. It produces rounded heads of pink flowers spring upon tall stems...
    Price: £25.00
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  • Clerodrendrum bungei 3L

    Clerodrendrum bungei 3L
    Common name: Glory flower An unusual deciduous shrub that has large leaves that are flushed purple when young that some people say smell like peanut butter (others disagree and suggust the smell is unpleasant).  It produces clusters of small pink...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Astrantia 'Purple Happiness' 2L

    Astrantia 'Purple Happiness' 2L
    Common name: Hattie's  pincusion A clump-forming herbaceous perennial with lobed leaves. It produces clusters of dark purple flowers held above thin stalks. Free flowering from June-September.  Average height 1.5ft  Partial shade...
    Price: £12.00
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  • Agapanthus 'Black Magic'

    Agapanthus 'Black Magic'
    Common name: African Blue Lily A really striking new variety with deep purple (almost black) pendulous bell-shaped flowers and strap-shaped deep green leaves. Flowers are produced from July to August on strong upright stems. Average height 2-3ft...
    Price: £14.00
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  • Anemenopsis macrophylla 2L

    Anemenopsis macrophylla 2L
    Common name: False anemone A refined plant for moist, cool shade. It produces flowers that are purple on the outside and lavender within. They hang in nodding clusters in the summer.  Average height 2-3ft  (Dry summer winds will inhibit its...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Stewartia rostrata

    Stewartia rostrata
    A large deciduous shrub or small tree that is related to the Camellia and bears lovely camelia-like single white flowers for several weeks in late spring. Autumn colour. Good for bees.  Prefers a cool, sheltered spot with neutral to acidic soil...
    Price: £150.00
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  • Stewartia rostrata - 45L

    Stewartia rostrata - 45L
    A large deciduous shrub or small tree that is related to the Camellia and bears lovely camelia-like single white flowers for several weeks in late spring. Autumn colour. Good for bees.  Prefers a cool, sheltered spot with neutral to acidic soil...
    Price: £85.00
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  • Cryptomeria japonica 'Dacrydiodes'

    Cryptomeria japonica 'Dacrydiodes'
    Common name: Whipcord Japanese Cedar A beautiful and unusual coniferous tree with long wiry branches covered in short evergreen foliage. Average height 7-9ft+ after 10 years. Full sun/partial shade. Hardy.
    Price: £120.00
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  • Sorbus caloneura

    Sorbus caloneura
    Common name: Beautifully Veined Mountain Ash A small tree with erect stems and wide-spreading branches in a flat-topped, tiered crown.  The doubly-toothed simple leaves appear in early spring, or even late winter, and are at first bronze-tinted...
    Price: £48.00
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  • Liquidambar styraciflua 'Moraine'

    Liquidambar styraciflua 'Moraine'
    Common name: Sweet Gum A conical tree with large, deeply divided, glossy leaves that turn a beautiful orange-yellow in autumn. More compact and slow grwoing than the species. Makes a excellent specimen or avenue tree. Average height 30ft. Full sun. Hardy.
    Price: £48.00
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  • Rhodotypos scandens 7.5L

    Rhodotypos scandens 7.5L
    A deciduous shrub with arching branches and deeply veined green leaves. White flowers are produced at the stem tips are produced from may to June, followed by glossy black fruit. Average height 4ft, spread 3ft. Full sun/partial shade. Hardy.'
    Price: £28.00
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  • Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Rex' 3L

    Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Rex' 3L
    A thicket-forming shrub or small tree with impressively large, lobed leaves that are soft and pale grey beneath and can be up to 2ft across. Produces panicles of small white flowers in autumn. Average height and spread 15ft. Full sun in a sheltered...
    Price: £30.00
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  • Cornus alternifolia 'Golden Shadow'

    Cornus alternifolia 'Golden Shadow'
    Common name: Golden Wedding Cake Tree A stunning small tree or multi-stemmed shrub with distinctive spreading, tiered branches. The bold yellow-green leaves have an emerald green centre. Small white flowers are followed by blue-black berries. Average...
    Price: £55.00
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  • Nyssa sylvatica (4L)

    Nyssa sylvatica (4L)
    Common name: Black Gum, Sour Gum, Tupelo A medium-sized, deciduous tree with a conical shape. The glossy dark green leaves  turn vivid shades of orange, red and yellow in autumn. Colour is best in acid soil. Average height 12ft+. Full sun/partial shade...
    Price: £38.00
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  • Paulownia 'Fast blue' (Foxglove tree) 7L

    Paulownia 'Fast blue' (Foxglove tree) 7L
    Common name: Foxglove Tree or Bluebell tree A  fast-growing columnar tree with large, soft bright green leaves, up to 30cm in diameter. Panicles of unusual tubular-shaped flowers that are a light lilac blue are borne in May to June Average height 20ft,...
    Price: £30.00
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  • Magnolia gran. 'Goliath' bush 100-125cm (18L)

    Magnolia gran. 'Goliath' bush 100-125cm (18L)
    Common name: Bull Bay A broadly conical evergreen tree with glossy green leaves. Huge, cup-shaped creamy white flowers up to 30cm wide are produced from late summer to early autumn. Average height 25ft, spread 15ft. Full sun/partial shade. Hardy.
    Price: £130.00
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  • Sciadopitys veticillata (Umbrella pine) 5L

    Sciadopitys veticillata (Umbrella pine) 5L
    Common name: Japanese Umbrella Pine An unsual and slow growing, conical pine with red-brown peeling bark. The narrow glossy dark green needles grow in whorls and take on a bronze tint in winter. Produces cones. Average growth per year is 6" Full...
    Price: £38.00
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  • Gordlinia grandiflora (Mountain Gordlinia) 3L

    Gordlinia grandiflora (Mountain Gordlinia) 3L
    1 plant in a 3 litre pot 'Mountain Gordlinia. A semi evergreen multi-stem shrub. In July to September camellia like flowers are borne with 5 petals and a yellow centre. Needs to be planted in ericaceous soil. Average height 20ft, spread 8ft. Full...
    Price: £36.00
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  • Carpinus 'Orange Retz' 10L

    Carpinus 'Orange Retz' 10L
    1 plant in a 10 litre pot 'An exciting new variety of hornbeam that is compact and upright with coppery young toothed leaves that turn bright green in summer and then beautiful shades of orange in autumnn. Perfect for hedging. Average height 16ft...
    Price: £45.00
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  • Humulus lupulus (Hop) 1.5ltr

    Humulus lupulus (Hop) 1.5ltr
    Common name: Hop  A herbaceous perennial climber with light green, deeply lobed leaves. Green then straw-coloured flower spikes in summer. Flowers July to August. Average height 20ft.  Full sun. Hardy.
    Price: £22.00
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  • Schizophragma hydrangeoides 'Moonlight'

    Schizophragma hydrangeoides 'Moonlight'
    Common name: Moonlight hydrangea vine A self-clinging climber with heart-shaped, shimmering leaves. Fragrant, creamy white, lacecap flowerheads with pretty creamy bracts are produced in mid-summer. Average height 8ft+. Partial shade. Moist acid soil...
    Price: £20.00
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  • Coronilla emerus (Hippocrepis emerus) - 3ltr pot

    Coronilla emerus (Hippocrepis emerus) - 3ltr pot
    Common name: Scorpion senna A small evergreen shrub with blue-green leaves and umbels of fragrant, bright yellow flowers in late winter and again in late summer, followed by slender seed pods. Average height and spread 3ft. Full sun in a...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Acer davidii 'Viper' 7L

    Acer davidii 'Viper' 7L
    Common name: Snake-bark Maple A deciduous, upright variety with stunning 'snakeskin' patterened bark in white and green shades. The green foliage develops lovely autumnal shades of mustard yellow and coppery orange. Average height (after 10 years)...
    Price: £48.00
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    Albizia jubil. Summer Chocolate - 3L

    Albizia jubil. Summer Chocolate - 3L
    Common name: Silk tree A striking small tree with finely cut, fern-like deep purple to bronze foliage. Feathery purple and white flowers are produced in summer. The leaves form a domed canopy when mature. Can be planted outside (hardy to -5 C) or in a...
    Was: £30.00
    Now: £20.00
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  • Mathiasella bupleuroides ‘Green Dream’

    Mathiasella bupleuroides ‘Green Dream’
    A lovely and unusual perennial that produces clusters of light green, very long lasting bracts that contain clusters of tiny white flowers. The flowerheads are produced in spring and gradually dry and turn pink. They persist on the plant until autumn,...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Daphniphyllum himalayense macropodum 3L

    Daphniphyllum himalayense macropodum 3L
    Common name: Large-stalked Daphniphyllum  A magnificant evergreen shrub with leathery leaves similar to a rhododendron & stems that are an attractive red.  Male plants produce scented flowers beneath new growth which when in bud look like mulberries...
    Price: £18.00
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