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Illustrated Plant Catalogue: A
Mimosa. Ferny leaves and masses of yellow flowers in spring. Red label but grows fast and survives most winters anywhere. Hardy in London. To 25 ft.
Oven's Wattle. Very distinctive small, weeping, evergreen tree (to 20 ft) with curious little triangular leaves. Masses of fragrant yellow flowers in spring.
Bear's Breeches or Big Spinach. With the famous architectural leaf. An herbaceous plant with large very shiny dark green leaves. Up to 4 ft.
Variegated low growing evergreen grassy thing for growing right at the edge of (or even in) the pond. Dense, pretty and very hardy.
This is the much sought after one that remains very deep purple, almost black, all through the year. Slow growing to about 18 in. Very happy in a pot.
Aeoniums are exotic succulents from Africa - hardy west of Penzance. Not sure we've got the name right but we think it's pretty magnificum. 1 ft x 1 ft.
Piles of evergreen, strap-like leaves and ball-like deep blue or white flowers on 4 ft stems. Perfect for terracotta pots. Nearly hardy.
Familiar to all visitors to the Mediterranean - a very spiky statement for mild seaside gardens. To about 3 ft tall, 3 ft across. Almost hardy when large.
Same as Agave americana but much smaller and slower growing, with a wide white stripe down the middle of the leaves. Not very hardy - but who cares?
Yellow stripes down the sides of the leaf, smaller than the non-variegated one, bigger than the one with the white stripe. Brilliant in a terracotta pot.
Fairest of all the Agaves. Soft, powdery blueish green. Hopelessly frost tender but worth going to Madeira just to see. To 3 ft across. Brilliant under glass.
A very green, colony forming Agave from high altitude cloud forest in Mexico. One of the prettiest - a conspicuous feature in Tresco Abbey garden.
The most ferocious plant in a nursery full of fearsome specimens. Brutal, monstrous, beautiful and hurricane resistant. King of all the Vlads.
Pink Sirris or Silk Tree. Like a hardy Mimosa with huge bi-pinnate leaves. Deciduous. Very exotic, needs a hot spot to grow well. To about 15 ft.
Big leafy thing that can be fooled into thinking that an upstairs landing is actually the floor of a sub-tropical forest. Ridiculously easy plant.
The hardiest of the African Aloes - forms a mat of exotic little fleshy leafed rosettes. Orangey-red flower spikes that last for weeks and weeks.
A remarkable discovery. An upright, branching aloe with yellow candle-like flowers that really grows outside in Nuthurst. Grows to about 3ft x 3ft.
The Japanese Angelica Tree. Huge bi-pinnate leaves make it extremely architectural. Terribly hardy but unfortunately deciduous. To about 10 ft.
Monkey Puzzle Tree. A stunningly different tree - highly effective if well placed. It'll grow to 60 ft eventually. A grove is what is needed. Very hardy.
Norfolk Island Pine. A stack of inverted triangles of ever decreasing size. Though tender, a remarkably successful, easy and shapely plant for in-doors.
Red Barked Strawberry Tree. Beautiful evergreen (20 ft) with everything. Fast growing, winter flowering and the most remarkable bark. ESSENTIAL
Mexican Strawberry Tree. Smooth coppery bark, autumn flowering, hardy in Nuthurst for 10 years (now 12 ft). Beautiful shape. Lime tolerance unknown.
Spanish Reed. A vigorous grass to 10 ft or more. Ubiquitous in the South of France, Spain and Italy. Brown in winter but still ESSENTIAL.
Variegated Spanish Reed. Huge green and white striped leaves on 6 ft stems - or taller in mild gardens. Hardiest on clay, rather than sandy soil.
Cast Iron Plant. Bursting leafy evergreen thing that thrives on neglect. House plant, shade plant, garden plant in London and other warm regions. 3ft.
Hart's Tongue Fern. A familiar evergreen British native with bright green entire fronds to 2 ft. OK. on acid soil, but loves very alkaline soil (chalk).
Soft, silvery blue, sword shaped leaves to 4 ft. Wonderful Phormium lookalikes, good in shade or sun. Will regrow well if cut back by frost.
Not as silvery as the one above and not as big either - but much hardier and proving excellent in dense and dry shade. Astelias grow as epiphytes in New Zealand...
Big and very shiny leaves - somewhere between a holly and an oak. Very successful vigorous evergreen that seems happiest in shade. To 8 ft.
Spotted Laurel. Deeply unfashionable due to over use in the past, it's actually fine, architectural landscape plant - i.e. at its best when viewed from afar.
A useful, hardy, evergreen shrub that tolerates shade, drought and neglect to a ridiculous extent. To 6 ft.
Japenese Azalea. A small leafed evergreen - vital in your clipped karikomi Japenese garden. We sell several forms that flower in a variety of garish hues.
Tiny round shiny evergreen leaves and sweet vanilla scented flowers in February/March. Another lovely little tree from Chile that loves our climate.
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