Trees

Acer conspicuum 'Red Flamingo' is a very attractive and striking shrub or small tree, with foliage variegated in pink, green and white.

The stunning Red Flamingo' is a slow-growing, deciduous, snakebark maple. A rarely seen collectors plant, boasting beautiful bright pink leaves with white variegation, becoming mottled through the summer, mixed with splashes of green and dark pink.

An excellent hardy shrub or small tree for your garden having year round interest. Stems are a strong red, maturing with white striations to create winter interest.

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Characteristics:

• Type: Decidious
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Soil: Best in moist, free-draining soil
• Flowering Period: All Year Round Foilage
• Size: H-6m x S-6m
• Time until Max Growth: 10-15 years
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Pot Size: 3 Litre

Acer 'Crimson King' is a fast growing deciduous tree that give abundant crimson purple right up to autunm before the leaves fall off. While it is fast growing it can easily be kept at a certain size by simply pruning in once a year in early spring before new growth starts.

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Characteristics:

• Common Name: Norway Maple
• Soil: Thrives in moist, well-drained soils but can adapt to a wide range of soil types
• Max. Height & Spread: H-12 to 15m x S-9 to 12m
• Time until Ultimate Growth: 10-20 years
• Season of Interest: Particularly striking in spring with emerging burgundy foliage, maintains its deep colour throughout summer, and transitions to golden hues in autumn
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Pot Size: 10 Litre

Acer rubrum 'October Glory' is a deciduous tree known for its stunning autumn display. This tree is a cultivar of the Red Maple, prized for its vibrant autumn foliage. It has a moderate growth rate and a rounded to oval shape.

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Characteristics:

• Common Name: Red Maple
• Soil: Well-drained soil, but can adapt to clay, loam and sandy soils
• Max. Height & Spread: H-15m x S-10.5m
• Time until Ultimate Growth: 20 years+
• Season of Interest: Autumn
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Pot Size: 10 Litre

Acer rubrum 'Summer Red' is a strongly growing tree with an oval crown which can grow to a height of 15 metres. The young leaves are purplish-red to red. The summer shoots also bear these coloured leaves, which contrast well with the dark green mature leaf.

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Characteristics:

• Soil: Any soils, prefers acidic soil
• Max. Height & Spread: H-15m x S-6m
• Season of Interest: Summer & Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Pot Size: 10 Litre

Arbutus Unedo, or commonly known as 'Strawberry Tree' is known for its distinctive features. It has dark green, leathery leaves that are elliptical or lance-shaped, providing year-round interest. One of its most unique traits is its fruiting habit.

It produces small, round, strawberry-like fruits that start green and turn reddish-orange as they ripen. These fruits are edible but have a somewhat grainy texture and a mildly sweet flavor.

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Characteristics:

• Common Name: Strawberry Tree
• Type: Evergreen Tree/Shrub
• Supplied Height: 100-150cm
• Max. Height & Spread: H-4m x S-3.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowering Period: Late Autumn to Early Winter
• Fruits: Late Summer to Early Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 15 Litre

Betula Pendula is an elegant medium-sized deciduous tree with slender drooping twigs. Bark white, becoming black and rugged at base. Leaves ovate, yellow in autumn. Flowers in catkins.

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Characteristics:

• Common Name: Silver Birch
• Soil: Moist, but well-drained soils
• Max. Height & Spread: H-Taller than 12 metres x S-Wider than 8 metres
• Time to Ultimate Height: 20-50 Years
• Season of Interest: Spring & Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Hardiness: Hardy

Young's weeping birch develops a dense mass of growth which clusters at the top of the trunk to form a dome- or mushroom-shaped tree with long, pendent, slender branches that often reach the ground. In its early stages it may need some formative pruning to transform an untidy tangle into a graceful cascade of foliage.

Inner shaded twigs may die out and can be pruned as well. Growth can be rapid, up to 90cm (3ft) per year while young. It makes a fine specimen tree on a lawn, casting only light shade and sufficiently airy for bulbs to grow at its foot.

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Characteristics:

• Common Name: Young's Weeping Birch
• Soil: Moist, well-drained soils
• Max. Height & Spread: H-8m x S-8m
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Hardiness: Hardy

Callistemon masotti 'Mini Red' is a dense, borderline hardy, evergreen shrub with upright to lax stems bearing narrowly lance-shaped, blue- to grey-green leaves and bottlebrush-like spikes of red flowers in spring.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Bottlebrush 'Masotti'
• Type: Evergreen Specimen Shrub
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 5 Litre

Chamaecyparis 'Sungold' is a slow-growing, mound-forming, evergreen, coniferous tree, with thin, thread-like, golden-yellow foliage.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Sawara Cypress
• Soil: Moist but well-drained
• Max. Height & Spread: H-3m x S-3m
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Pot Size: 5 Litre

Chamaerops humilis 'Etna' is a bushy evergreen palm making a medium-sized shrub, often stemless or multi-stemmed, with a rounded mass of fan-shaped leaves.

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Characteristics:

• Common Name: Dwarf Fan Palm
• Type: Ornamental Palm
• Max. Height & Spread: 80+ cm
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 50 Litre

'Hybridus Pendulus' is a vigorous prostrate evergreen shrub with large, elliptic leaves and small white flowers followed by profuse red berries in autumn; often top-grafted to form a pendulous small tree to 2m tall.

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Characteristics:

• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Soil: moderately fertile, well-drained soil
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Flowering Period June
• Fully Grown Height & Spread: H-2m x S-2m
• Pot Size: 10 Litre (Half Standard)

Crataegus laevigata 'Pauls Scarlet' is a rounded thorny-tree with spring blossom, lobed green leaves in summer and bright red berries in autumn. Crataegus are ideal small trees, well-suited to urban, windy or exposed situations, ideal for a large number of habitats.

These tough trees will cope with most soils and growing conditions, even thriving in coastal areas.

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Characteristics:

• Type: Decidious
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Light Shade
• Soil: All soils except waterlogged
• Flowering Period: March to May
• Height & Spread: 8m x 8m
• Time to Max Growth: 7-10 years
• Pot Size: 10 Litre 1/2 Standard

'France Bleu' is an upright, bushy, evergreen shrub with narrowly ovate, aromatic, blue-green leaves, elliptic or sickle-shaped when mature, and clusters of small white flowers in summer or autumn.

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Characteristics:

• Soil: Moist, well-drained soils
• Max. Height & Spread: H-3m x S-3m
• Season of Interest: Summer/Autumn
• Position: Full Sun
• Hardiness: Hardy

Eucalyptus gunnii is a large evergreen tree with peeling cream and brown bark. Juvenile foliage bright glaucous-blue, rounded, adult leaves elliptic or sickle-shaped, grey-green. Flowers white, in small clusters.

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Characteristics:

• Soil: Moist, well-drained soils
• Max. Height & Spread: H-12m+ x S-8m+
• Season of Interest: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Hardiness: Hardy

Eucalyptus gunnii, commonly known as Cider Gum or Gunnii, is a distinctive and versatile tree that adds a touch of elegance to gardens and landscapes. Its silvery-blue foliage, aromatic leaves, and tolerance for pruning make it a favorite among gardeners.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Cider Gum
• Type: Evergreen Tree
• Colour: Silvery-Blue
• Max. Height & Spread: H-12m+ x S-9m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowering Period: Late Spring to Early Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 21cm

Euonymus japonicus 'Aureomarginata' is an upright, dense, evergreen shrub bearing oval, leathery, toothed, glossy, dark green leaves with wide, bright yellow margins. Insignificant, green flowers in spring are rarely followed by fruit.

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Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Specimen Shrub
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1.8m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 10 Litre

Fagus sylvatica is a large, vigorous deciduous tree with a broad, spreading crown. Leaves broadly elliptic, yellow-green in spring, rich russet-brown in autumn. Flowers small, green, followed by bristly fruits.

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Characteristics:

• Soil: Moist, well-drained soils
• Max. Height & Spread: H-Taller than 12m x S-Wider than 8m
• Season of Interest: Spring & Autumn
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Pot Size: 10 Litre

Fagus sylvatica 'Atropurpurea' is a large, upright, spreading, deciduous tree with oval to elliptic, glossy, dark purple leaves turning copper to maroon in autumn and inconspicuous, purple flowers in spring followed by bristly, pale brown fruit.

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Characteristics:

• Common Name: Copper Beech
• Type: Deciduous Half-Standard Tree
• Colour: Brown
• Max. Height & Spread: H-20m x S-15m
• Flowers: Purple in Spring
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Pot Size: 12 Litre