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A super rare bromeliad from the cool mountains of Brazil. The stiff recurved leaves turn an amazing deep rich burgundy with red with pinky red flowers in the centre of each roseate. Eventually form a tight clump of many rosettes of leaves and flower...

Agapanthus 'Golden Drop' is one of the few very compact varieties. It was introduced at the Chelsea flower show 2012 and is unique for its yellow edged leaves. The plant is hardy and can also be used as a perennial for bed edging. With its light ...

A fantastic Aloe closely related to Aloe vera which is proven to be hardy down to at least -10 degrees centigrade. Aloe striatula grows fairly quickly into an architectural multi-stemmed specimen around 1 metre in height and spread. Site in a sunny p...

The Monkey Puzzle Tree is instantly recognisable and a well known feature in many gardens throughout the country.  Botanically known as Araucaria araucana, the Money Puzzle Tree originates from Chile where it grows in impressive forest groups.  Ara...

Aucuba japonica 'Rozannie' brings a nice and simple medium-green touch to your garden. Its leaves are glossy and the plant is naturally low and dense, so pruning to reduce size or to increase density is rarely needed. It grows up to 90-120 cm tall a...

A beautiful but not commonly available shrub with gorgeous melon scented, magnolia stellata type creamy white flowers with purple centres in spring and intermittently through summer.  Large, ovate, shiny and bright green leaves.  Deciduous, hardy, ...

Chamaerops humilis, the Mediterranean Fan Palm, is the only truly European palm and one of our most popular due to its remarkable ability to withstand most situations. Its robust nature makes it a good palm for coastal conditions and windy sites and ...

Chamaerops humilis 'Vulcano' was discovered growing on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily and is remarkable for it's tight compact habit and really tough rounded leaves creating wonderfully architectural roseates of foliage. Closely related to regula...

The Choisya ternata is a rounded, medium-sized bushy evergreen shrub, with dark, glossy green leaves divided into three broad leaflets. Members of the genus are commonly known as Mexican orange or mock orange due to the similarity of their flower...

Cordyline australis, the Cabbage Palm is not actually a palm, but it's a good fit with them. It is one of the easiest exotic plants to grow and 'Torbay Dazzler' is a particularly striking variety with green and cream stripes. It is very tolerant of w...

Elaeagnus x ebbingei 'Compacta' is a vigorous shrub with glossy, dark green leaves with a silver sheen and underside. Tiny, very sweetly fragrant creamy white flowers are produced on the stems amongst the leaves in late summer followed by small, oran...

Escallonia 'Iveyi' is an upright, evergreen shrub with small, dark green, glossy leaves.  Pretty pure white trumpet shaped fragrant flowers contrasts well with the dark foliage.  Excellent as a heging plant and thrives in all well drained soils.  ...

Fatsia japonica, the False Castor Oil Plant, is a brilliant shrub, growing to about 2 metres in height with jungly foliage, giving it an exotic look ! It looks great planted in semi-shade and associates well with ferns and Hostas. It is tolerant of c...

New introduction from Taiwan. Interesting and rare form of Fatsia not found so much in the UK. Large palmate leaves with fine 'fingers' compared to its cousin Fatsia japonica. This evergreen adds a tropical effect to the garden. Tolerant of temperatu...

Hedychium aurantiacum is a selected form of Hedychium coccineum chosen beause of it's superb bright orange flowers which are produced in abundanced late summer right up until the first frosts. The architectural narrow grey-green foliage looks stunnin...

Lovely small, dwarf new prize winning variety with abundant flower heads that emerge white in all soil conditions turning light pink in the autumn.  Strong stems.  Ideal for narrow borders, or front of larger shrubs,  flowers in sun/part shade, pr...

The flowers of 'Pinky Winky' actually open as a beautiful, fresh lime greenin early August and as they mature, they turn a beautiful pink, starting at the bottom of the flower cone then the colour 'bleeds' up towards the tipThe flowers also benefit f...

Deservedly popular, 'Vanille Frais' is a very pretty hydrangea with prolific flower cones made up of white flowers becoming pink and red tinged  ice cream effect  flowerheads on upright stems. Flowers last throughout the summer right into autumn. Â...

Laurus nobilis, The Bay Tree, is a conical evergreen tree or large shrub with glossy, dark green, aromatic leaves. During early summer masses of sulphar tiny flowers are produced much loved by bees and other pollinaters. Will respond very well to pru...

Nandina domestica, Sacred Bamboo, is a much under-rated evergreen shrub from China which isn't actually a bamboo..  It reaches no more than 1.8 metres in height and is covered in masses of tiny leaves.  After a good, hot summer and a couple of fros...

Nandina 'Woods Dwarf' Nandina 'Woods Dwarf' is a beautiful compact form of Nandina domestica, often known as Heavenly Bamboo. 'Woods Dwarf' rarely grows more than 120cm in height and has a dense, leafy habit. Perhaps its strongest feature is that the...

Olea europaea 'Frantoio' is a carefully selected variety of olive selected by us a good candidate for cultivation here in the U.K as a potential fruiting tree able to produce olives as well and being wonderfully ornamental olive tree. Olea europaea '...

Olea europaea 'Leccino' is a carefully selected variety of olive selected by us a good candidate for cultivation here in the U.K as a potential fruiting tree able to produce olives as well and being wonderfully ornamental olive tree. Olea europaea 'L...

Olea europaea 'Maurino' is a carefully selected variety of olive selected by us a good candidate for cultivation here in the U.K as a potential fruiting tree able to produce olives as well and being wonderfully ornamental olive tree. Olea europaea 'M...