Rosa 'Catherine Petre'
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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Tamarix ramosissima
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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Plumbago auriculata
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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Prunus cerasifera 'Nigra'
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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Lonicera nitida 'Red Tips'
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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Hypericum 'Hidcote'
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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Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Conica'
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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Thuja occidentalis 'Rheingold'
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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Pinus wallichiana
This is a very elegant, broadly conical, conifer with long, blue-green, pendent needles. The colour is most intense in late spring when the new growth at the tips of the shoots is a shade lighter. The bark is smooth and grey-green on young trees, ... [... more]
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