Rose
This is a lightly scented red floribunda that has attractive, glossy green leaves and good disease resistance. Like other floribundas, it needs to be hard pruned in February by anything from one-half to three-quarters, before the new growth ... [... more]
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Cornus Alba Sibirica
 The leaves are green but turn red in the autumn. The young stems are a brilliant red in winter but the plant needs cutting to the ground in spring to produce new growth for the following winter. It can grow to 3m but pruning restricts this. [... more]
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Lawson Cypress
One of the most attractive, medium-sized, blue conifers, with sprays of lacy-textured foliage glistening in a particularly satisfying shade of silvery blue, especially in late spring when the flush of new growth occurs. A good specimen plant in a ... [... more]
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Lenten Rose
Large clusters of saucer-shaped flowers with white, pink, red, and creamy yellow appear from mid winter to mid spring. The large leathery-looking, evergreen foliage may die down in a cold winter, but fresh new growth appears just ahead of the ... [... more]
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White Cedar
A neat small conifer, this makes a compact, squat-conical shape with rather stringy textured foliage which, in summer, is brassy-gold. In late spring, the new growth adds pinkish-bronze highlights, especially towards the top of the plant and, in ... [... more]
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White Spruce
A charming dwarf conifer with heaps of character, this forms a dense, upright cone of close-packed stiff, short, deep green needles. In late spring, the new growth at the tips of the shoots is bright, almost lime green. Although this is not a ... [... more]
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St. John's Wort
One of the most popular and reliable hypericums, originally found in a garden and probably a hybrid of 'Rose of Sharon'. It is generally very hardy - where prolonged hard frost may reduce some of its stems to ground level, new growth reappears in ... [... more]
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Shrubby Honeysuckle
Perhaps the best known of the shrubby honeysuckles that are used for hedging. It's dense and fast-growing quickly producing a bushy hedge. The variety 'Red Tips' produces bright scarlet new growth that gradually fades with maturity. The new ... [... more]
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Purple Plum
The purple plum comes highly recommended by Anne Swithinbank. Like other gardeners who grow this beautiful tree, she loves the pink spring blossom which is one of the first of the season. Bronze-coloured new growth follows this display, gradually ... [... more]
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Cape Leadwort
Technically a South African shrub, it's typically treated as a climber and is best grown against a conservatory wall. The sky blue flowers (though there is a white version) appear at the ends of the whippy new growth, and last from summer to ... [... more]
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How To Prune Trees
The exceptions to the 'deciduous tree' rule are maple, horse chestnut, birch, walnut and cherry trees which all bleed extensively, even towards the end of their dormant season, so prune these in mid-summer after new growth has matured. Most ... [... more]
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Tamarisk
A small deciduous tree or large, shapely shrub which is grown for its lovely light, open, wispy foliage and dense covering of pink flowers. They appear from late summer to the first half of autumn on the new growth. It is commonly grown in ... [... more]
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