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Full List of Decorative Shrubs & Ferns for Sale
The Best Border Shrubs
The woody shrubs in this section are primarily used in borders, as specimens, in pots, or as decorative edging and low ornamental hedging within the garden, rather than as clipped barrier hedging around it, although bamboo will make a solid barrier. Ferns provide effortlessly lush foliage, and palms are classic architectural plants.
There is often a fine line between a cheaper shrub intended for hedging, and a more expensive cultivar of it intended for ornamental use. Generally, the hedge plant is the coarser, parent variety, grown on a larger scale, while the ornamental shrub is the product of a program of cross-breeding and selection.
All the shrubs in this section are covered by our no-quibble 1 Year Replacement Guarantee, which means you can order with complete confidence. Free delivery on orders over £100. Best advice & friendly support throughout.
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Darwin's Barberry
20-30cms Hedge Plants- Thorny. Small, evergreen leaves.
- Decorative flowers & edible fruit.
- Excellent garden hedging.
- Max. Height: 2m
- Year round delivery.
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Callistemon linearis
- Evergreen. Naturally a large shrub
- Grown single stemmed into a shrubby tree
- Informal screening
- Red, cylindrical brush-like flowers.
- Sizes: Big standard trees only.
- Max. Height: 3-4m
- Bareroot Delivery Only: Nov-Mar.
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Sarcococca confusa
- Great alternative to Buxus
- Evergreen. Slow growing, tolerant of full shade
- Small white fragrant flowers in Dec-Feb
- Decorative, low hedging
- Height: 1m as a hedge, 2m as a shrub
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Pot-Grown Delivery: All Year
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- Narrow, upright habit is ideal for patio corners or hedge rows.
- Purple flowers
- Blooms June-September
- Sweet scent
- Ideal for containers
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- To 2m x 1m
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- Bright pink flowers
- Blooms June-October
- Ideal for containers
- Sweet scent
- Buzz® Collection: Patio Buddleja
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- To under 120cm x 120cm
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- White flowers
- Blooms June-October
- Ideal for containers
- Sweet scent
- Buzz® Collection: Patio Buddleja
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- To under 120cm x 120cm
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- Vivid purple-pink flowers
- Blooms June-October
- Ideal for containers
- Buzz® Collection: Patio Buddleja
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- To under 120cm x 120cm
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- Pale violet flowers
- Blooms June-October
- Ideal for containers
- Buzz® Collection: Patio Buddleja
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- To under 120cm x 120cm
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Californian Lilac
Pot Grown Shrubs
- Evergreen, variegated leaves
- Informal screening.
- Not suitable for clipped, formal hedging.
- Good specimen or wall shrub.
- Blue flowers May-Jun
- Max. Height: 2.5m
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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Rubus tricolor
- Low ground cover.
- Evergreen. Edible fruit.
- Good for dry shade.
- Max. Height 50cms.
- Year round delivery.
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Choisya ternata- 2 Litre Pot - 1m Bushes
- Evergreen. Aromatic leaves, flowers.
- Good garden hedging.
- Max. Height: 4m
- Pot Grown Delivery Only: All Year.
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Choisya ternata
- Evergreen. Aromatic yellow-green leaves
- Flowers May-June
- Informal garden hedging.
- Max. Height: 2.5m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Pot Grown Delivery Only: Year Round
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Rock Rose
- White flowers, yellow centre. June-July
- Evergreen
- Grows on the coast
- Great for containers, rockeries
- Any poor, well drained soil.
- Full sun & shelter.
- Hardiness H4
- To 1m x 1m
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Rock Rose
- Pink flowers, yellow centre. June-July
- Evergreen
- Grows on the coast
- Great for containers, rockeries
- Any poor, well drained soil.
- Full sun & shelter.
- Hardiness H4
- To 1m x 1m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Rock Rose
- Pink flowers, red-purple dots in the centre. June-July
- Evergreen
- Grows on the coast, low windbreak
- Great for containers, rockeries
- Any poor, well drained soil.
- Full sun & shelter.
- Hardiness H4
- To 1m x 1m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Rock Rose
- Vivid pink flowers. June-July
- Evergreen
- Grows on the coast, low windbreak
- Great for containers, rockeries
- Any poor, well drained soil.
- Full sun & shelter.
- Hardiness H4
- To 1m x 2m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Silverbush / Shrubby Bindweed
Pot Grown Shrubs
- Low evergreen Mediterranean shrub
- Good in pots, gravel gardens.
- White flowers May-July
- Thrives in poor soil, loves chalk
- To 60 x 75cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Cordyline australis
- Evergreen, deep red palm-like leaves.
- Suitable for large pots.
- Classic centrepiece for bedding flowers.
- Hardiness H3
- Low maintenance
- Max. Height: 3m
- Pot Grown Delivery Only: Year Round
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Rockspray / Wallspray Cotoneaster
15-25cms Hedge Plants- Size: to 1.5m
- Soil: any
- Use: wall shrub or ground cover
- Colour: White flowers, Red Berries
- Flowering: May
- Berries: November to January
- Bareroot Delivery: Nov-March
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Cupressus sempervirens Pyramidalis
120-140cm Pot Grown Plants
- Evergreen.
- Extremely narrow, upright
- Used for structure
- Max. Height: 20m
- Pot Grown Delivery Only: All Year.
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Elaeagnus × submacrophylla Compacta
Oleaster Hedge Plants
- Formerly known as Elaeagnus x ebbingei
- Glossy, deep evergreen leaves
- Sun or partial shade
- Fully hardy, grows on the coast
- Small, scented white flowers in autumn
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Disease resistant
- Vigorous but tidy
- To 1.5m
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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Sambucus nigra
- Height: 3m
- Dark foliage, red Autumn display.
- Soil: Grows anywhere, shade tolerant.
- Use: Back of the border, informal hedging.
- Fragrant pink-white flowers, decorative fruit.
- Looks best when pruned in Spring.
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Dryopteris erythrosora
- New foliage is Autumnal copper, matures to light green
- Semi-evergreen
- Compact, medium sized
- Height x Spread under 1 metre
- Most soils & positions
- Hardy
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Dryopteris filix mas
- Crested, ruffled foliage
- Semi-evergreen
- Upright
- Most soils & positions
- Hardy
- Native
- Height to 80cm
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Dryopteris affinis
- Bright, yellow-green new foliage
- Crested tips
- Semi-evergreen
- Upright, large
- Most soils & positions
- Hardy
- Native
- Frond length to 1.5-2m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Dryopteris affinis
- Bright, yellow-green new foliage
- Semi-evergreen
- Upright, large
- Most soils & positions
- Hardy
- Native
- Frond length to 1.5-2m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Dryopteris wallichiana
- Bright, pale yellow new foliage
- Semi-evergreen
- Upright, large
- Most soils & positions
- Hardy
- Native
- Frond length to 1.5-2m
- Technical RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Cheilanthes tomentosa
- Silvery-grey foliage, dark purple stems
- Evergreen in most of UK
- Low growing, spreading
- Drought tolerant
- Ideal for rockeries
- Hardiness rating H4
- Height to 40cm
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- Sold year round in 3 litre pots.
- The "original" cultivated fig
- Full sun, and sheltered site.
- Roots must be restricted to control size.
- Ideal for containers.
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- Rich pink outer sepals, white petals
- Blooms June-Sept
- Deciduous shrub
- Bronzed young leaves
- To 75cm x 75cm
- Rated H5: Hardy in most of UK
- Good in pots
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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- White outer sepals, purple petals
- Deciduous shrub
- Quite dark green leaves
- To 1m x 1m
- Rated H5: Hardy in most of UK
- Good in pots
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- Rich pink outer sepals, purple petals
- Deciduous shrub
- Quite dark green leaves
- To 60cm x 60cm
- Rated H5: Hardy in most of UK
- Good in pots
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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- Scarlet outer sepals, purple petals
- Deciduous shrub
- To 1m x 1m
- Rated H5: Hardy in most of UK
- Good in pots
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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- Scarlet outer sepals, white petals
- Deciduous shrub
- To 100cm x 50cm
- Rated H5: Hardy in most of UK
- Good in pots
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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- Evergreen, variegated, pink tinged leaves
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Small lilac-purple flower spikes Jul-Aug
- Grows well in pots
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Max. Height: 75cm
- Magicolors Collection
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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- Evergreen, variegated
- Ruddy-brown stems
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Vivid dark pink flowers May-Jun
- Grows well in pots
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Max. Height: 1m
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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- Evergreen, glossy
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Profuse white flowers late Jun-Aug
- Grows well in pots
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Max. Height: 40cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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- Evergreen, variegated, burgundy-pink tinged leaves in winter.
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Small mauve flower spikes Jul-Aug
- Grows well in pots
- Magicolors Range
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Max. Height: 75cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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- Evergreen, variegated, pink tinged leaves
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Purple flower spikes in June
- Grows well in pots
- Magicolors Range
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Max. Height: 60cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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- Evergreen, glossy, darkens in winter.
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Rich pink flowers, fading to white Jun-Aug
- Grows well in pots
- Max. Height: 60cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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- Evergreen
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Pink flowers, long season
- Grows well in pots
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Max. Height: 60cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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- AKA Mohawk
- Evergreen
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Purple flowers, long season
- Grows well in pots
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Max. Height: 60cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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- Evergreen. Grey-green leaves, red tinged in spring.
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Compact spires of lilac blue flowers Jun-Jul.
- Grows well in pots
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Max. Height: 50cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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- Evergreen, variegated. Pink flush in winter, fades in summer.
- Ruddy-brown stems
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Purple flowers June to September
- Grows well in pots
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Height x Spread: 60cm x 60cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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- Evergreen, variegated.
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Brilliant white flowers Jun-Oct.
- Grows well in pots
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Max. Height: 1m
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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Summer Drinks Collection
- Evergreen, slightly glaucous
- Sprays of white flowers Jun-Aug
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Grows well in pots
- Summer Drinks Collection
- Max. Height: 60cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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Flair And Flavours Range
- Pink flowers with pale green centre
- Dark green leaves
- Type: Lace cap
- Blooms June - October
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
- Low maintenance
- Delivered in 5 Litre pots
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Lavatera × clementii
- Colour: White, maturing to pink with red centre.
- Season: June to September
- To 2.5m x 2.5m
- Use: Ornamental hedging, back of the border, large containers.
- Vigorous, spreading.
- Easy to grow in any sunny well drained location.
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Lavatera × clementii
- Colour: Pink
- Season: June to September
- To less than 2.5m x 2.5m
- Use: Ornamental hedging, back of the border, large containers.
- Vigorous, spreading.
- Easy to grow in any sunny well drained location.
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Trachycarpus fortunei
- Evergreen leaves.
- Large light yellow flowers
- Suitable for large containers.
- Hardiness H5
- Low maintenance
- Max. Height: 3-4m
- Pot-Grown Delivery Only: Year Round
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Chamaerops humilis
- Evergreen. Fan shaped leaves
- Ideal for patio pots.
- Hardy in South England.
- Becomes large shrub / small tree outdoors
- Max. Height: 2-3m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Pot Grown Delivery Only: Year Round
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Mock Orange
Pot Grown Shrubs- Large white flowers, yellow & purple eye.
- Good Scent.
- Suitable for informal hedging.
- Any soil with decent drainage.
- Can grow near the sea on fertile soil.
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Year round delivery.
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- Leaves with salmon pink centres and green margins.
- Flowers irregularly. Blood red, around July
- Grows on the coast
- Hardiness rating H4
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
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- Dark green-purple, almost black leaves.
- Flowers irregularly. Blood red, around July
- Grows on the coast
- Hardiness rating H4
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
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- Green and yellow striped leaves with pink flushes.
- Flowers irregularly. Yellow, around July
- Grows on the coast
- Hardiness rating H4
- Height x Spread: 1.5-2m x 1.5-2m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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- Green leaves with bright yellow-green stripes.
- Flowers irregularly. Rusty-red, around July.
- Grows on the coast
- Hardiness rating H4
- Height x Spread: 1.5m x 1.5m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Photinia x fraseri
- Evergreen.
- Pink washed new foliage matures to green with cream edges
- Vigorous specimen tree or hedge.
- Shade tolerant, colour is best in the sun.
- Grows on the coast, chalk.
- Max. Height: 5m
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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Photinia x fraseri 'Red Robin'
40-125cms Hedge Plants- Requires well drained site, but likes clay.
- Vigorous screening tree.
- Good for formal & informal hedges
- Shade tolerant, but colour is best in the sun.
- Grows on the coast.
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Max. Height: 5m
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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Pittosporum tenuifolium
- Glossy, clear green foliage
- Evergreen shrub
- Small purple flowers with honey fragrance in the evening
- Blooms May-June
- Low maintenance hedging or specimen balls
- Grows on chalk & the coast
- To 1.2m
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Pittosporum tenuifolium
- Purple, with bright green new foliage
- Evergreen shrub
- Doesn't flower much: not much good for bees!
- Light honey fragrance in the evening
- Low maintenance hedging or specimen balls
- To 1m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn'
40-80cms Pot-Grown Hedge Plants- Non-Evergreen. Suitable for hedging.
- Pink Flowers from October-April
- Tolerant of partial shade. Any soil.
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Max. Height 3m
- Pot-Grown, Year round delivery.
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Viburnum tinus 'Eve Price'
40-60cms Pot Grown Plants- Evergreen. Suitable for hedging.
- Flowers October-April
- Shade tolerant. Any soil.
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Max. Height 3m
- Year round delivery.
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White Periwinkle
- White flowers
- Evergreen leaves.
- Flowering: March-Apr/May
- Height x Spread: 15 x 50cm
- Tough, trample resistant ground cover & informal edging.
- Thrives in the shade
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Lesser Periwinkle
- Violet-blue flowers
- Variegated evergreen.
- Flowering: May-June
- Height x Spread: 20cm x 50cm
- Tough, trample resistant ground cover & informal edging.
- Thrives in the shade
- Unpalatable to rabbits & deer
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Yucca gloriosa
- Variegated evergreen.
- Stiff, sword like leaves.
- Suitable for large pots.
- Tall flower spires
- Low maintenance, totally wind resistant
- Max. Height: 2.5m
- Pot-Grown Delivery Only: Year Round
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Rubus fruticosus
30-40cms Plants- Native bramble, thorny.
- Blackberries in late summer.
- Self fertile.
- Excellent ground cover for wildlife.
- Suitable for wild country hedge mixes, in moderation.
- Bareroot Delivery Only: Nov-Mar.
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- Mostly double, lavender blue flowers
- Blooms July-September
- Sweet scent
- Ideal for patio containers
- Does not set viable seed
- To 75cm x 75cm
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Choisya × dewitteana
- Evergreen. Aromatic green leaves
- Flowers Apr-May & Aug-Sept
- Informal garden hedging.
- Max. Height: 1.5m
- Our hardiest Choisya
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Pot Grown Delivery Only: Year Round
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Elaeagnus × submacrophylla Limelight
100-125cms Hedge Plants- Formerly known as Elaeagnus x ebbingei
- Evergreen variegated leaves
- Sun or partial shade
- Fully hardy
- Small, scented white flowers in autumn
- Disease resistant
- Medium to fast growth
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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Sambucus nigra Aurea
60-80cms Hedge Plants- Rich yellow leaves, grows anywhere.
- Rough screening plant.
- Max. Height: 4m
- Bareroot Delivery Only: Nov-Mar.
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Eucalyptus gunnii
- Evergreen, fragrant leaves.
- Blue-ish new foliage.
- Mainly coppiced / hard pruned as a large shrub.
- Tall screening tree, good for windbreak
- Max. Height as a tree 30m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Year Round Delivery.
Out of Stock
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Forsythia intermedia Spectabilis
60-80cms Hedge Plants- Great specimen / flowering hedge
- Soil: Any fertile & well drained, likes chalk.
- Mass of yellow flowers in Mar-Apr
- Bareroot Delivery Only: Nov-Mar.
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- Evergreen, purple-bronze new foliage matures to dark green
- Low maintenance ornamental
- Purple flowers June-August
- Grows well in pots
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Max. Height: 60cm
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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Flair And Flavours Range
- Red-purple flowers with light green-yellow centre
- Dark green leaves
- Type: Lace cap
- Blooms June - October
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
- Low maintenance
- Ideal for shady patios
- Delivered in 5 Litre pots
OUT OF STOCK
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Flair And Flavours Range
- Rich Purple-blue flowers
- Dark green leaves
- Type: Mop head
- Blooms June - October
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
- Low maintenance
- Delivered in 5 Litre pots
OUT OF STOCK
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Flair And Flavours Range
- Purple-blue flowers with pale yellow centre
- Dark green leaves
- Type: Lace cap
- Blooms June - October
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
- Low maintenance
- Delivered in 5 Litre pots
OUT OF STOCK
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Flair And Flavours Range
- Pale blue flowers
- Dark green leaves
- Type: Mop head
- Blooms June - October
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
- Low maintenance
- Delivered in 5 Litre pots
OUT OF STOCK
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Flair And Flavours Range
- Pink flowers
- Dark green leaves
- Type: Mop head
- Blooms June - October
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
- Low maintenance
- Delivered in 5 Litre pots
OUT OF STOCK
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Flair And Flavours Range
- Pink flowers with light green-yellow centre
- Dark green leaves
- Type: Lace cap
- Blooms June - October
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
- Low maintenance
- Delivered in 5 Litre pots
OUT OF STOCK
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Flair And Flavours Range
- Vibrant pink flowers
- Dark green leaves
- Type: Mop head
- Blooms June - October
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
- Low maintenance
- Delivered in 5 Litre pots
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Flair And Flavours Range
- Mauve blue flowers
- Dark green leaves
- Type: Mop head
- Blooms June - October
- Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
- Low maintenance
- Delivered in 5 Litre pots
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Acacia dealbata
- Evergreen
- Fragrant yellow flowers late Jan-early March
- RHS Hardiness H3: Half hardy
- For acid-neutral soil only
- Informal screening shrub
- Max. Height: 10m
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Pot Grown Delivery Only: Year Round
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Photinia x fraseri
- Evergreen. Vivid red-pink new leaves
- Variegated green/cream mature leaves
- Vigorous specimen tree or hedge.
- Shade tolerant, colour is best in the sun.
- Grows on the coast.
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
- Max. Height: 5m
- Pot Grown: Year Round Delivery
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Euonymus japonicus
- Evergreen in all but the harshest Northern winters
- Variegated green leaves with variable white margins
- Grows on the coast, poor soil, chalk
- To 1.5-2m
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Japanese Snowball 'Mariesii'
60-80cms Pot Grown Shrubs- Suitable for rough screening.
- White Flowers in May
- Tolerant of partial shade.
- Any fertile and well drained soil.
- Max. Height 3-4m
- Pot-Grown, Year round delivery.
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Purple Periwinkle
- Rich purple flowers
- Evergreen
- Flowering: Apr-Sept
- Height x Spread: 20 x 50cm
- Tough ground cover & informal edging.
- Thrives in the shade
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Lesser Periwinkle
- Pale blue-violet flowers
- Evergreen
- Flowering: May-Oct
- Height x Spread: 20 x 30cm
- Tough ground cover & informal edging.
- Thrives in the shade
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