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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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  • Acacia retinoides 3L

    Acacia retinoides 3L
    Evergreen shrub/small tree.  Unlike many of the mimosa's, this form has strappy willow like leaves. It bears clusters of fluffy yellow flowers during the summer.  Average height 8-9ft  Partial shade
    Price: £18.00
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  • Acacia mimosa cone 70cm

    Acacia mimosa cone 70cm
    Common name: Mimosa An open evergreen tree with fern-like, silvery-green soft leaves. Long striking racemes of round, fragrant yellow flowerheads are produced from January to April. Average height...
    Price: £38.00
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  • Quercus buckleyi 4L

    Quercus buckleyi 4L
    Common name: Buckley's oak A small-medium sized tree with dark green foliage.  It has exceptional autumn colour with vivid reds & oranges.  Average height 25-45ft. Heat and drought tolerant - ideal...
    Price: £25.00
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  • Carya ovata

    Carya ovata
    Common name: Shagbark hickory A conical tree with highly ornamental peeling grey/brown bark.  It has large leaves which turn golden yellow in the autumn. 
    Price: £75.00
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  • Pseudopanax ferox 2L

    Pseudopanax ferox 2L
    Common name: Toothed lancewood A highly unusual upright, evergreen tree from New Zealand . Young plants have coarsely toothed leathery leaves with sharp points that hang stiffly downwards. As they...
    Price: £28.00
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  • Eucalyptus nichollii 3L

    Eucalyptus nichollii 3L
    Common name: Nichol's willow-leafed peppermint A vigorous tree with weeping branches with brown bark and red stems bearing long, narrow grey-green leaves. The leaves smell like peppermint when...
    Price: £18.00
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  • Maianthemum salvinii 2L

    Maianthemum salvinii 2L
    A semi-evergreen shrub with upright stems of shiny green leaves. It produces pendant lilac flowres on the tips followed by red berries.  Average height 1.5ft. Partial or full shade.  Hardy .
    Price: £12.00
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  • Aloisya citrodora 'Spilsbury Mint'

    Aloisya citrodora 'Spilsbury Mint'
    Common name: Lemon verbena A highly scented shrub with mint-scented foliage.  It produces panicles of pale purple flowers.  Full sun in a sheltered position.  Uses: Culinary, medicinal, aromatic -...
    Price: £12.00 - £15.00
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  • Wollemi pine (3ft) 12L RARE

    Wollemi pine (3ft) 12L RARE
    This specimen is approximately 3ft (90cm) from top of pot. An amazing and rare tree that was only recently discovered. It has been around since the dinasours were walking the earth and is considered...
    Price: £850.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £18.00
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  • 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...
    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...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Helwingia chinensis (Narrow Leaf Form)

    Helwingia chinensis (Narrow Leaf Form)
    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...
    Price: £18.00 - £28.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £28.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £15.00
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  • 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. Avereage...
    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...
    Price: £30.00
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  • Spiranthes odorata 'Chadd's Ford'

    Common name: Lady's tresses or fragrant spiranthe A spectaular clump-forming terrestrial orchid with a basal rosette of narrow folliage. In the autumn it produces spikes of fragrant white flowers...
    Price: £12.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £15.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £12.00
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  • 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

    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...
    Price: £12.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £35.00
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  • Pittosporum eugniodes 'Red'

    Pittosporum eugniodes 'Red'
    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 - £30.00
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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...
    Price: £12.00
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  • 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'

    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 beatiful shades of red and purple in autumn. Tall, conical white flowerheads becoming pink and then...
    Price: £20.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £12.00
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  • Helwingia himalaica

    Helwingia himalaica
    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...
    Price: £18.00 - £28.00
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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...
    Price: £12.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £12.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £20.00
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  • 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 'Lilly Lovell' 2L

    Geranium phaeum 'Lilly 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

    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...
    Price: £12.00
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  • 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,...
    Price: £15.00
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  • 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 particuarly large...
    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...
    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...
    Price: £20.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £25.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £15.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £12.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £15.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £15.00
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  • Stewartia rostrata

    Stewartia rostrata
    Common name: Beaked Stewartia 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...
    Price: £150.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £85.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £120.00
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  • 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...
    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...
    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,...
    Price: £28.00
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  • 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.
    Price: £30.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £55.00
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  • 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...
    Price: £38.00
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  • Ginkgo biloba 'Gold Flame' 4L

    Ginkgo biloba 'Gold Flame' 4L
    Common name: Maiden hair tree A new variety which is particularly narrow in form and has golden yellow foliage.  An attractive medium-sized tree  - average height 15-18ft Hardy
    Price: £45.00
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  • Carpinus 'Orange Retz' 4L

    Carpinus 'Orange Retz' 4L
    Common name: Hornbeam 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...
    Price: £45.00
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  • Stevia rebaudiana (11cm pot)

    Stevia rebaudiana (11cm pot)
    Latin name: Stevia rebaudiana Tender, bushy perennial often grown as an annual crop with dark green, elliptic to lance-shaped leaves that may be harvested for use as a natural sweetener and loose...
    Price: £3.50
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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...
    Was: £30.00
    Now: £20.00
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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...
    Price: £18.00
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