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A yellow variegated form of sage. Used to flavour poultry and also popular in stuffing, sausages, roast, and strongly flavoured foods. -
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- Position:sunny or partly shaded north facing wall/fence sheltered from frost and strong winds. Plant 1.5m (5ft) apart in rows 1.5m (5ft) apart.
- Soil:slightly acid, moist but well-drained fertile soil.
- After care: Cut back the main branches by one-half after planting. Create a framework of 8-10 branches. Each Winter from year 3 shorten main shoots by one-half. Apply a general fertiliser in Spring.
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- Position: partial shade
- Soil: fertile, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: slow-growing
- Hardiness: fully hardy A pair of these tightly clipped box spheres look great flanking a set of steps, a doorway or a path. One of our recommended plants, they're perfect for planting in a large terracotta pot in a partially shady site, where the glossy, dark-green leaves provide all year foliage, interest and structure. Box are happy growing in a sunnier spot, but the combination of dry soil and full sun may encourage poor growth and leaf scorching. If you have sandy soil it is best to keep them in a partially shady spot in the garden.
- Garden care: Ensure that the soil or compost is never allowed to dry out. Trim plants grown as hedges or topiary in mid- or late summer. If you want to maintain a really precise outline, then you can clip it twice a year - once in June, and then again in August/September. Apply a top-dressing of a balanced slow-release fertiliser such as blood, fish and bone (organic) or Growmore (inorganic) around the base of the plant in spring, making sure that none touches the leaves or stems.
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Grow for its bright golden foliage and stately form, Acer platanoides Princeton Gold is a tall, fast-growing, long-lived, deciduous tree with a bushy, broadly columnar habit. Typical five-lobed maple leaves emerge pale gold on red leaf-stalks, turning a rich golden-yellow as the season progresses. Inconspicuous yellowish flowers are followed by winged ‘helicopter’ seeds in autumn. Tough and easy to grow and maintain, Norway Maple Princeton Gold makes a beautiful specimen tree, colouring best in full sun. Site: Tolerates exposure Soil: Any well drained soil, preferably moist Position: Full sun or partial shade Season of interest: Spring to autumn Hardiness: Very hardy Height: Eventually over 40’ (12m) Spread: 26’ (8m) -
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Hydrangea macrophylla Runaway Bride is a compact, small to medium-sized, vigorous, deciduous shrub, extremely floriferous, with a rounded habit and semi-trailing stems. Unusually for a hydrangea, it flowers all the way along the stems instead of just at the tips, giving it the name of Garland Hydrangea. The ovate, serrated leaves are deep green. From May to September, the shrub is covered with a profusion of pure white lace-cap flowers, often with a pale pink flush as they age; the colour is constant whatever the pH of your soil. Hydrangea Runaway Bride is excellent in large containers along a house-frontage, as well as in a border. Soil: Any moist but well-drained soil, acid to neutral preferred Position: Partial shade Season of interest: Late spring to early autumn Hardiness: Fully hardy Height: 4’ (1.2m) Spread: 4’ (1.2m) -
- Buxus Feed & Protect has been specially formulated to strengthen the plant from within. This 2-in-1 solution comprises of two bottles; the first contains a concentrated Buxus feed for greener, healthier foliage; the second contains a protection concentrate to deter box blight. For use on all types of Buxus plants
- Can be used from early spring through to late summer
- Helps Buxus retain water for a healthier plant
- Sulphur and calcium strengthen from within
- Soil improver to give plants the best start
- Child, pet and bee-friendly
- 2 x 500ml bottles
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TOP BUXUS HEALTH-MIX can be used in two ways. 1. For bright green shiny leaves and to prevent fungal disease, such as Cylindrocladium With TOPBUXUS HEALTH-MIX, you can give your box plants bright green shiny leaves, preventing yellow edges and faded colours. To achieve this, treat your box plants 3-5 times during the growing season from March to October. This will also make your box plants healthier and stronger, resulting in them becoming more resistant to disease, etc.; this will particularly help to prevent fungal diseases such as Cylindrocladium. 2. To deal immediately with an acute fungal disease such as Cylindrocladium With TOPBUXUS HEALTH-MIX, you are able to immediately stop acute fungal disease such as Cylindrocladium. An acute fungal disease is immediately recognisable from the brown points that will swiftly expand to form blemishes. The most dangerous period is when there is protracted rainfall in combination with high temperatures. If you do nothing, the diseased box plant will soon start to lose its leaves and, in the worst case, if you fail to treat it, the affected branches can die, resulting in dead areas in your box plant. The diseased plants will then unfortunately have to be replaced. However, if you promptly use TOPBUXUS HEALTH-MIX after treatment, leaves will soon sprout on the diseased branches and recover. When the onset of disease is evident, immediately carry out the treatment. Under normal circumstances, one treatment is sufficient. It is extremely important to also immediately treat all of your healthy box plants. Should the warm and damp weather persist, repeat the treatment after 1 week. Thorough inspection is recommended in the future, particularly when the weather is warm and damp for protracted periods of time. If necessary, at a later date, you can simply repeat the treatment; this means you will continue to get maximum pleasure from your box plants. Do not use above 25 degrees Celsius. Only use early in the morning or evening in warm, sunny weather Can be used in damp weather, but preferably for use on dry foliage. If seriously affected with lots of brown spots and shedding leaves, we recommend that you first prune the plants considerably and then treat them straight away with TOPBUXUS HEALTH-MIX, which will encourage rapid regrowth -
Gro-Sure Seed Start’s natual blend of mycorrhizal fungi and friendly bacteria improves germination and establishment of seeds and young plants.- 25% better establishment
- Boosts root growth
- Locks in nutrients
- Controls moisture
- Contains mycorrhizal fungi and friendly bacteria
- Water is held around the seed to aid germination
- Mycorrhizal fungi & friendly bacteria enhance root development
- Nutrients are held in the soil and feed the plant during the establishment
- Seeds must be kept constantly moist to soften the seed shell in order for germination to take place
- Seeds must be moist, NOT wet. Insufficient moisture or erratic watering slows down or stops the germination process. Our added wetting agent locks in moisture around the seed and therefore germination is improved
- Added clinoptiloite, a natural zeolite or volcanic rock dust, contains an array of basic nutrients and its crystalline structure grabs hold of other available nutrients in the soil stopping them being leached away
- These nutrients are available to the root system of the plant while its structure also aerates the soil. Roots need to breathe
- Vermiculite opens up the growing medium so young roots can permeate more easily. Holding a considerable amount of moisture like a sponge it can also act as blanket to help keep seedlings warm and is particularly good for lightly covering sown seedlings
- Fortified with beneficial mycorrhizal fungi which attach to the developing plants’ roots in exchange for some plant sugars. They quickly multiply forming their own extensive root supply, which absorbs nutrients and water to feed back to their host plant.
- The plant’s absorptive root system is increased greatly and the plant is able to grow faster and stronger
- Our blend of naturally occurring ‘friendly’ soil bacteria’s including trichoderma and bacillus colonise the root system. Because each pack of Seed Start contains millions of friendly bacteria they out-compete harmful soil pathogens within the soil, which cause plant diseases. It does all of this while also releasing locked up nutrients within the soil for the plants roots to uptake
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A cultivar of the native Irish rowan or mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia ‘Sheerwater Seedling’ is a vigorous, medium-sized to tall tree of upright, narrow habit, the crown widening with maturity. It is often planted as a street tree. Creamy-white flowers appear in April–May, reliably followed by large clusters of long-lasting red berries in late summer. The leaves are grey-green, turning yellow and gold in autumn. A very easy, fast-growing, reliable tree, good for pollinators and birds. Plant in full sun for the best shape. Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Site: Tolerates exposure Soil: Any reasonably well drained soil, acid to neutral soils preferred Position: Full sun Season of Interest: Spring, late summer, autumn Hardiness: Fully hardy Height: 40’ (12m) Spread: 13-26’ (4-8m) -
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Sorbus Joseph Rock is a bright yellow-berried rowan tree very suitable for the small garden. It remains a great choice as a small tree for the small garden. A First-class tree with small, bright green leaflets that turn orange, purple and red in autumn. Clusters of white flowers appear in spring and are followed in autumn by small yellow berries, which birds love. It is an outstanding small tree which can tolerate a wide range of soils and conditions.- Max. Height & Spread: H-12m x S-8m
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Cotoneaster Hybrida Pendula '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. CHARACTERISTICS: HARDINESS: Fully Hardy SOIL: moderately fertile, well-drained soil POSITION: Full Sun or Partial Shade FLOWERING PERIOD: June Fully Grown Height & Spread: 2m x 2m -
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Malus 'Red Obelisk' Crab apple is a upright columnar tree that is perfect for small to medium sized gardens. Beautiful pinky white flowers in April & May with berries that follow in autumn. Plant Size • Mature Height: 3-4 metres • Mature Spread: 1-2 metres • Actual height 180-200cm • Pot size :10L Why We Love It • Fantastic amount of flowers in April and may. • massive amount of fruit in Autumn and winter. • bees land other wildlife love it. • Makes excellent jelly What To Know • Season of Interest: Spring, summer, autumn and winter interest • Position: Will do in sheltered or exposed sites. Likes full sun. • Soil: Moist but well drained, moderately fertile. -
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Betula Pendula Tristis is a tall and graceful tree with pendulous branches that are heavily weeping and twisted at the tips supporting a cloth of blue/green leaves. Catkins appear in the spring and the slightly serrated foliage turns creamy yellow in the autumn. This elegantly shaped birch tree casts a dappled shade and looks particularly attractive in the winter when its majestic form is fully revealed by bare branches. The beautiful, silvery smooth white bark provides year round interest and is a canvas to contrasting dark cracks and fissures that develop with age. Tristis is suited to most soil types and a 20 year height and spread of 7 x 4 metres can be expected. Pot size: 10L Height at the moment: 180cm-200cm -
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Betula Jacquemontii is a vigorous deciduous tree with brilliant white bark on the trunk and larger branches; ovate leaves turn yellow in autumn; yellow-brown male catkins open in early spring. CHARACTERISTICS:- Soil: Moist, well-drained soil
- Max. Height & Spread: H-18 m or higher x S-10 m
- Season of Interest: Spring
- Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
- Hardiness: Hardy
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Plum ‘Opal’ is one of the most reliable garden varieties, and is suitable for growing throughout the country. Slightly earlier to crop than ‘Victoria’, this dessert plum produces a heavy crop of excellent quality, small, yellow skinned fruits with an attractive red flush in July and August. The golden flesh easily separates from its stone and has a delicious gage flavour. This variety is partially self-fertile. For the heaviest crops it is best grown with another or a similar variety.- Size/Root Stock: 7-10 litre pot
- Mature Height : 3m - 4m
- Mature Spread : 3m - 4m
- Flower Colour : White
- Flowering Time : Spring
- Foliage : Deciduous
- Fragrant : No
- Growth Rate : Average
- Hardiness : Fully Hardy
- Position : Full sun
- Soil Moisture : Moist Well-drained, Well-drained
- Soil PH : Neutral
- Soil Type : Loam, Sand
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Acer 'Sangokaku' is a compact, bushy acer growing to.5m tall in 10 years. The leaves emerge green in spring, turning a ellow, orange before falling. Pot Size: 3L Plant Size • Mature Height: 5m • Mature Spread: 2m Why We Love It • Perfect as a spciment plant in cottage gardens, city gardens or for rock gardens an containers • Low maintenace What To Know • Season of Interest: Spring-Autumn • Position: Full sun, partial shade • Soil: Moist but well drained, organically rich How to Care • Pruning should be carried out in the dormant season (November to March) as Japanese Maples bleed during other times of the year, which can weaken the branches. • Water in summer if necessary. • Leaf colour is best in partial shade, although full sun can be tolerated. • Add a top-dressing of a well-balanced fertiliser around the base of a recently planted tree in late spring and keep it well watered. No routine pruning is required, just remove any dead, damaged or crossing branches in late autumn or winter when they are fully dormant. -
Acer 'Sangokaku' is a compact, bushy acer growing to 5m tall in 10 years. The leaves emerge green in spring, turning a yellow, orange before falling. Pot Size: 5L Plant Size • Mature Height: 5m • Mature Spread: 2m Why We Love It • Perfect as a spciment plant in cottage gardens, city gardens or for rock gardens an containers • Low maintenace What To Know • Season of Interest: Spring-Autumn • Position: Full sun, partial shade • Soil: Moist but well drained, organically rich How to Care • Pruning should be carried out in the dormant season (November to March) as Japanese Maples bleed during other times of the year, which can weaken the branches. • Water in summer if necessary. • Leaf colour is best in partial shade, although full sun can be tolerated. • Add a top-dressing of a well-balanced fertiliser around the base of a recently planted tree in late spring and keep it well watered. No routine pruning is required, just remove any dead, damaged or crossing branches in late autumn or winter when they are fully dormant.
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Acer Katsura is a stunning maple with beautiful orange - yellow leaves tinged with a reddish hue that change colour throughout the season. This deciduous variety looks stunning all spring, summer and especially in autumn. Pot size: 3L Position: full sun (but not south-facing) Soil: fertile, moist, well-drained neutral to acid soil Rate of growth: slow-growing Flowering period: April to May Hardiness: fully hardy Garden care: Add a top-dressing of a well-balanced fertiliser around the base of a recently planted tree in late spring and keep it well watered. No routine pruning is required, just remove any dead, damaged or crossing branches in late autumn or winter when they are fully dormant. Eventual Height: 4m Eventual Spread: 4m -
Orange Dream' is a medium sized bushy deciduous shrub, to 3m, with leaf colour varying at different seasons, yellow in spring, greenish in summer, orange-yellow in autumn. Bark is bright green. Redddish-purple flowers may be followed by red fruits Pot size: 3L Plant Size • Mature Height: 2.5-4 metres • Mature Spread: 2.5-4 metres Why We Love It • Perfect as a spciment plant in cottage gardens, city gardens or for rock gardens an containers • Low maintenace What To Know • Season of Interest: Spring-Autumn • Position: Full sun, partial shade • Soil: Moist but well drained, organically rich How to Care • Pruning should be carried out in the dormant season (November to March) as Japanese Maples bleed during other times of the year, which can weaken the branches. • Water in summer if necessary. • Leaf colour is best in partial shade, although full sun can be tolerated. • Add a top-dressing of a well-balanced fertiliser around the base of a recently planted tree in late spring and keep it well watered. No routine pruning is required, just remove any dead, damaged or crossing branches in late autumn or winter when they are fully dormant. -
This lovely, green, dissected leafed Japanese Maple tree makes for a colourful splash in the garden. The lacy foliage is a bright, lime green throughout the spring and mid green in the summer, sometimes with a red tinge, before turning gold and red in the autumn. Acer palmatum dissectum 'Seiryu' is an unusual variety, as it is the only green dissected Japanese Maple tree with an upright growth habit, rather than the usual domed or weeping forms. Acer Seiryu has a striking vase shape which broadens slightly to a rounder form with age, eventually reaching a height and spread of 4 x 4 metres in 20 years. This dissected Acer tree is best positioned in a moist, well-drained soil in slight shade although it is tolerant of full sun. Acer palmatum 'Seiryu' makes a fantastic large shrub or small garden tree that offers an attractive, light canopy throughout the spring, summer and autumn. Pot size: 3L -
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A small deciduous tree that has been in cultivation in Japan for a very long time. The fresh, delicate looking foliage is almost transparent in the sunlight and the overall shape of Japanese Maples make them an excellent choice as a specimen tree in a sheltered spot. Acer Palmatum Atropurpureum is the dark purple-leaved form of the common Japanese maple with exceptionally great Autumn colour. Growing notes: Acer palmatum and its cultivars are slow growing and do not really require pruning, but will tolerate it if necessary - remove damaged, diseased or crossing branches - it is best done during the dormant months. Lower branches can be taken off to shape the canopy over time. Japanese maples all require shelter from wind to avoid wind scorch. The very fine leaved cultivars need extra protection from wind and the sun. Despite being hardy, the fresh growth can be vulnerable to frost in the Spring. They all tolerate growing in a large container, some for a very long time.- Cultivars with green or yellow foliage are best grown in dappled shade as full sun can scorch the leaves.
- Cultivars with purple or red foliage require some sun to fully develop their dark colour.
- Cultivars with variegated foliage require shade from the afternoon sun to prevent scorching.
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Phyllostachys are the most common of the bamboos, tall, clump forming but not invasive and evergreen, the aurea are large with bright green stems that yellow with age. Grows tall up to 4 metres and clumps well in a sheltered position. Makes an unusual but effective hedge.- Size: 12 litre pot
- Actual size: 150-175cm
- Mature Height : 4m - 8m
- Mature Spread : 2m - 2.5m
- Flower Colour : None or Insignificant
- Flowering Time : None or Insignificant
- Foliage : Evergreen
- Fragrant : No
- Growth Rate : Fast
- Hardiness : Fully Hardy
- Position : Full sun, Partial shade
- Soil Moisture : Moist Well-drained
- Soil PH : Acid, Neutral, Alkaline
- Soil Type : Loam
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Reaching up to around a metre tall and wide, the attractive foliage is variegated in creamy white or even light yellow. The show stopping flowers are the real star and what makes this plant unique, being the first ever variegated Pieris variety to carry the masses of lily-of-the-valley-like flowers in deep red-purple. The plant is attractive in bud as they form over several weeks, to burst out in all their glory in Spring, lasting for several weeks. Later on, new shoots on the plant are produced in vivid shades of burgundy-scarlet-red, making for season long interest, and a real winner of an evergreen plant for the patio or garden. The blooms even carry a light fragrance. This Pieris is perfect for a mixed border among dwarf conifers, combined with other shrubs and evergreen, or it will simply also look great in a large pot on a patio.