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Cotoneaster Franchetii

€6.50
Franchet's Cotoneaster is a popular ornamental semi- evergreen shrub that produces masses of white flowers, during the summer followed by bright orange-red fruit in autumn. Its dense foliage makes it sought after by pollinating insects. Its easy to maintain and is fast-growing. Can also be used as a hedge, making it valuable shrub for both the gardener and the landscaper.

Evergreen

Blooms: May - June

Flower colour: white

Full grown: 5 Years

Full grown height: 50 - 75 cm

Full grown width: 75 - 100 cm

Plant location: partial sunny location

Plant spacing: 100 cm

Hardiness: -25 Celsius

Preferred soil: Well drained
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Cupressus Goldcrest Wilma 70cm

€6.99

Cupressus macrocarpa 'Goldrest Wilma' is one of the most attractive golden-foliage columnar conifers. Bright golden-yellow foliage. Any free-draining soil in sun or partial shade. Rate of growth up to 60cm per year. Can be used for hedging but doesn't trim quite as well as leylandii. If used for hedging, plant 60-90cm apart. Can be trimmed to keep at the required height Plant Size • Mature Height: 10m • Mature Spread: 2-3m Why We Love It • These trees work wonderfully as topiaries • Fresh lemony scent • Easy to maintain What To Know • Fruit Season: Fall • Position: Full sun • Soil: Well drained • Rate of Growth: Moderate to fast How to Care • In general, growing lemon cypress is not difficult. The trees require well-draining soil, but are not picky about whether it is loamy, sandy or chalky. They also accept acidic, neutral or alkaline soil. • Water regularly - weekly, or more often in extreme heat or containers. • Trimming/Pruning If this plant is used for hedging, it will need to be pruned regularly. It will have to be trimmed to maintain the required height. Use sharp pruning shears to remove the sucker branches and the errant branches that are growing in the wrong direction or making it difficult to fertilize the tree. Since lemon cypress has a conical habit, trim the tree as per its natural shape. Trimming should be done every week during the summer. • Fertilizer Fertilize with the standard, slow-releasing fertilizer that has an equal amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium once a month. You can also supplement the soil annually with turf fertilizers that contain other nutrients such as magnesium, boron, copper, and zinc

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Cupressus Goldcrest Wilma Spiral

€21.99

Cupressus macrocarpa 'Goldrest Wilma' is one of the most attractive golden-foliage columnar conifers. Bright golden-yellow foliage. Any free-draining soil in sun or partial shade. Rate of growth up to 60cm per year. Can be used for hedging but doesn't trim quite as well as leylandii. If used for hedging, plant 60-90cm apart. Can be trimmed to keep at the required height Plant Size • Mature Height: 10m • Mature Spread: 2-3m Why We Love It • These trees work wonderfully as topiaries • Fresh lemony scent • Easy to maintain What To Know • Fruit Season: Fall • Position: Full sun • Soil: Well drained • Rate of Growth: Moderate to fast How to Care • In general, growing lemon cypress is not difficult. The trees require well-draining soil, but are not picky about whether it is loamy, sandy or chalky. They also accept acidic, neutral or alkaline soil. • Water regularly - weekly, or more often in extreme heat or containers. • Trimming/Pruning If this plant is used for hedging, it will need to be pruned regularly. It will have to be trimmed to maintain the required height. Use sharp pruning shears to remove the sucker branches and the errant branches that are growing in the wrong direction or making it difficult to fertilize the tree. Since lemon cypress has a conical habit, trim the tree as per its natural shape. Trimming should be done every week during the summer. • Fertilizer Fertilize with the standard, slow-releasing fertilizer that has an equal amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium once a month. You can also supplement the soil annually with turf fertilizers that contain other nutrients such as magnesium, boron, copper, and zinc

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Cyclamen

€3.99

The life cycle of hardy cyclamen is unusual. It begins in September when dozens of small pink flowers begin to bloom before the leaves emerge. Each flower is on a separate 4 ” stem and looks just like a miniature florist cyclamen flower with gorgeous reflexed petals. The flowers continue to be produced abundantly in succession through out the months of September and October and sometimes for parts of August and November too. They emerge slowly as the flowers are blooming in late September and take several weeks to reach their full size. “Variable” is an understatement to describe their wonderful shapes, patterns, and colors. They can be round to lance-shaped, lobed or entire, serrated or smooth edged, dark green to silver. And the patterns on the leaves are indescribable. They stay green and fresh all winter! Instead of going dormant in the winter like most of our plants, hardy cyclamen goes dormant for a few months during the summer.

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Dicksonia Antarctica

€400.00

Native to coastal parts of Australia, Dicksonia antarctica is a magnificent, slow-growing, evergreen tree-fern (deciduous in colder areas) and one of the easiest to grow. The brown, fibrous ‘stem’ slowly grows taller, crowned by a rosette of beautiful, glossy, deep green fronds up to three metres long – a wonderfully architectural plant. Winter protection essential in all but the mildest areas – wrap the top of the ‘stem’ in fleece and protect the growing point in the crown with straw or similar insulation, and if pot-grown, bring inside or insulate the pot. Water the stem in hot weather; do not water the crown in winter. Site: Sheltered, sheltered coastal Soils: Moist but well-drained, acid to neutral soil Position: Partial shade or dappled shade Season of interest: Most of the year Hardiness: Frost-hardy Height to 13’ (4m) Spread to 13’ (4m)

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Echinacea Purpurea

€16.99
Echinaceas have grown in popularity in recent years, thanks to the trend for prairie-style planting. They’re easy to grow as they tolerate most soils, and their sturdy nature means that staking is unnecessary. Echinacea purpurea has pink, daisy-like flowers with a large, cone-shaped centre. It’s perfect for growing in drifts among the border or among grasses and rudbeckias in a prairie-style planting scheme, and is extremely attractive to pollinators. Its flowers are long-lived and are excellent for cutting.
Characteristics

Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

Habit: Tall, upright flower

Fully Grown Size: 90-120cm

Flower Colour: Purple / pink petals with orange / brown centre

Flower heads can reach 12cm in size

Flowering Time: Summer to early Autumn

Sow: In early to mid Spring

Spacing: 60-80cm

Hardiness: Hardy

Uses

With big flower heads, Echinacea have grown in popularity in recent years

These tall & brightly coloured, daisy-like flowers are essential in any garden

Suited to both traditional, cottage & modern planting schemes

Plant at back of borders with other herbaceous plants

Best when planted in clumps / blocks

Can also be planted in long sweeping drifts

Companion plants include Rudbeckia, Agapanthus, Verbena, Red Hot Pokers etc..

Ideal for cut flower gardens

Planting Instructions

Soak pots in water before sowing

Choose a location

Grow in full sun

Deep, fertile soil that is well drained

Chose a sheltered spot

Spacing: 60-80cm apart

Prepare bed by digging over soil & adding fertilizer or manure

Dig hole roughly twice the size of the plant pot

Handle pots with care

Squeeze side of pots to remove plant

Firm in well

Soak soil well after planting

Feed every 2 to 3 weeks

Can lift & divide clumps every 3 years
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Elaeagnus Pungens Maculata

€8.50

The Elaeagnus Pungens Maculata is a beautiful and colourful, bushy evergreen hedge. It has scaly leaves that are silver in colour, however they soon turn into a mature yet young looking vibrant yellow and green colour. It produces small, scented, white tubular flowers during the autumnal months that are followed by fruit that is small and juicy in the spring. The Elaeagnus Pungens Maculata prefers soil that is either sand, loam, chalk or clay, but must be well drained. It can either be planted in a sunny position or where there is partial shade, and it doesn’t mind whether that is in an exposed or sheltered position. It can grow up to four metres high and between two and a half to four meters wide in two to five years, which is quicker than the rest of its family. On average, it will grow up to one foot a year. It’s best to prune these during the late spring, preferably in either April or May, once it has finished producing its fruit. When it comes to planting the Elaeagnus Pungens Maculata we would suggest to plant it eighteen to twenty-four inches apart from one another. It works really well as an all year privacy hedge thanks to being evergreen. We have a range of Elaeagnus Pungens Maculata plants available in pot form.

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Euonymus Japonicus Aureo-Marginatus

€71.99
Euonymus japonicus Aureus is an evergreen variety and provides year round interest. Excellent for growing as a specimen shrub or small hedge. Also suitable for coastal areas. The attractive leathery leaves are dark green with bright yellow edges.A Decorative Foliage

Pot size: 7.5L

Height: 4m

Spread: 2m

Leaf colour: variegated

Plant location: sunny

Plant depth: 15 cm

Hardiness: -15 Celsius

Harmful if eaten

Preferred soil: Grows in any soil
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Euonymus Japonicus Aureus

€8.50

Euonymus Japonicus Aureus is an evergreen variety and provides year round interest. Excellent for growing as a specimen shrub or small hedge. Also suitable for coastal areas. The attractive leathery leaves are dark green with bright yellow edges.

Decorative foliage

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Flower Carpet Rose Mixed

€12.99

Lower Carpet Roses – also often referred to as The Carpet Rose – are the world’s number one ground cover rose. Once established, some varieties can produce an astonishing display of up to 2,000 flowers from spring through to autumn. They’re extraordinarily low maintenance and have exceptional disease resistance. Better still, once established their well-developed root system means they’re drought and low-water tolerant: surface roots take up available surface water while deeper roots access lower level water in drought conditions. As for pruning, once a year in late winter or early spring, all you need is a pair of garden shears to cut them back by a third any which way. This is the rose that needs no guessing, no worrying. Really… No kidding. Simple to grow and easy to maintain, it doesn't require spraying. Simply cut back to a third of its size once in late Winter or early Spring. And during the long flowering season, this rose will self-clean so that there's no need for fancy pruning or deadheading. Key Features •Masses of iridescent blooms •Rich glossy green foliage •Attractive bush shape and appearance •Disease-resistance, easy-care maintenance •Easy care •No fancy pruning required

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Gro-Sure Seed Start 150gr

€5.99
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

Why Use A plant treated with Seed Start can take up more water and nutrients quicker due to the larger root system. This allows the plant scope for extra growth which in turn improves root growth and benefits the whole plant. Due to the larger root section the plant can draw water from an larger area, this means in times of drought the plant will be more resilient. Bigger roots = healthier, bigger plants = higher yield and abundant blooms

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

Added Wetting Agent

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

Clinoptiloite

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

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

Mycorrhizal Fungi

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

Trichoderma and Bacillus

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

A healthy, strong plant is more resistant to attack by pest, and stresses caused by heat or drought giving your plant a bigger harvest or flowering period.
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Heather Calluna Vulgaris

€4.99
Calluna vulgaris, also known as common Scotch Heather is a low growing perennial shrub; it blooms with very long lasting, sweet smelling flowers in late summer that will attract many insects with their sweet nectar in late summer. Their dense spreading habit makes them perfect as a ground covering plant or for a charming display on your patio or balcony.

Fragrant

Covers bare spots quickly

Bee Friendly

Blooms: August - September

Flower colour: red

Full grown height: 25 - 50 cm

Full grown width: 10 - 25 cm

Plant location: sunny

Plant spacing: 35 cm

Hardiness: -15 Celsius

Preferred soil: Peaty Soil
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