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Foxglove Tree. Vigorous young trees, cut down in the spring will grow 8 ft and produce soft leaves 2 ft across, in one season. A Summer Jungle Plant.
Fountain Grass. Small, bright green clump forming grass (3 ft tall, 2 ft wide). Flower heads to 4 ft with a distinctly pink tinge. Brown in the winter.
Green Olive Tree. It's sculptural. To 20 ft with domes and bumps of tight evergreen foliage. Very hardy, very Japanesee, one of the very best.
Canary Island Date Palm. Elegant waving fronds straight from the Riviera. Hardy in parts of London, Falmouth, Sydney etc. Big plant, Marvellous plant.
Mountain Flax. Greener, laxer and more luxuriant looking than the better known Phormium tenax. Lush and jungly. Yellow flowers on 5 ft spikes.
As Phormium cookianum but with leaves striped green and white with red edges. Extraordinarily hardy - only showing slight damage in very severe winters.
New Zealand Flax. The Explosion. 7 ft greeny-blue swords explode from the ground. Huge red flower spikes for extra exoticness. ESSENTIAL.
The purple-leaved one. Flowers the same a Phormium tenax, tends not to grow quite as big and comes in an alarmingly wide range of shades of purple.
Another for the Exploding Garden - with cream variegated leaves. Phormiums do best on heavy clay. Irresistible - even to the true Variegataphobe.
A clever idea from Italy - a bush grafted onto a trunk producing a tidy little evergreen tree with new growth that?s red and frothy white flowers in May.
Aristocratic evergreen (15 ft) with an exotic habit and new bronzy leaves in January. Not to be confused with the better known Roundabout species.
Bamboo. Grow this Bamboo and discover the meaning of the intriguing expression - 'clustered node bases'. Very well behaved. Grows to 15 ft. One of the best.
Large, upright, yellow canes and tough as old boots. Ask for details of this and other bamboos with coloured canes and ludicrous names.
Large, candy coloured canes and tough as old boots. Ask for details of this and other bamboos with coloured canes and ludicrous names.
Black Bamboo. The true Black Bamboo with canes like ebony and fabulous dark green foliage - providing it's cultivated correctly (ask for details). Often in short supply.
Moso or Edible Bamboo. Huge fat canes covered in soft hair and foliage more like fronds than a mere grass. Only available as seedlings though. Sorry.
The biggest of the lot, with yellow canes. Given correct husbandry, time and space, could reach 40ft. A monstrous plant, which is why we like it.
Neat piles of tiny evergreen leaves, brilliant red new growth, lots of hanging white bell flowers, flaky reddish bark, to about 6 ft. Very pretty. Lime Hater.
Large, long, leathery leaves. Evergreen, self clinging (if conditions are right) climber for any aspect - especially shade. Given time, will cover your house.
Shitzu Tree. To many people, simply the most beautiful thing in the world. Vivid green, long soft needles. Grows to 30 ft, needs lots of space.
The Orang-Utan Pine. Another Mexican beauty with long, soft, feathery, hanging needles - like a great big Orang-Utan. To 30 ft. Easy to grow. Chalk hater.
Umbrella Pine. Wonderful, flat topped Pine familiar to all visitors to the Med. ESSENTIAL in any 'Mediterranean' garden, along with the Italian Cypress.
Monterey Pine from California. Large, fluffy and remarkable for two things: its speed of growth and its salt resistance. Could reach 30 ft. in 15 years.
A familiar evergreen shrub or small tree in seaside gardens with its luxuriant, crinkly edged, pale green leaves. Hardy in many inland gardens.
Shiny, tough, evergreen leaves and delicious, powerfully smelly cream coloured flowers in June. Very Japanese. Excellent by the seaside. To 6 ft.
Dwarf (or compact) version of the Pittosporum tobira. Slow growing with a dense, tight habit. Smaller leaves, same flowers, very Japanese. Marvellous in a pot.
Bamboo. The only decent variegated Bamboo. Very similar to P. distichus, but much less vigorous and invasive. Very useful, especially in winter. Clip it.
Maki. Ubiquitous in Japanese gardens. A very architectural little conifer with its long thin leaves. To about 15 ft, very hardy, does well in shade.
Willow Podocarp. From Chile. Piles of luxuriant evergreen foliage - there's nothing else like it. It grows to about 25 ft eventually and is ESSENTIAL.
Evergreen fern forming rosettes of fronds about 3ft across or more, where plenty of moisture's available.
Polly-Polly. Evergreen fern with symmetrical rosettes of remarkably shiny, dark green fronds about 2 ft across or more.
A very nice little hardy fern. Very popular and more or less evergreen, it lays quite flat and forms a rosette of fronds about 3 ft across.
As Polystichum setiferum but a slightly smaller version with leaves (sorry, fronds) that could be described as frothy or frilly or flimsy. Well it's different anyway.
Japanese Bitter Orange. Deciduous. Has big white, typically Citrus, fragrant flowers in Spring, little oranges in Autumn. Makes a great hedge. To 10 ft.
Evergreen Cherry. Well known as a hedge but we grow it as a tree . Fragrant white flowers in April. Grows to 15 ft. Tough as old boots and very pretty.
Portugese Laurel. Well known evergreen, tough as old boots. It has so many uses - we sell it as Mushrooms, Cones, Mop Heads and for Hedging.
Long thin leathery leaves organised in an architectural manner on top of a slender trunk and if you think it sounds odd, it's ordinary compared with Pseudopanax crassifolius
Lancewood Tree. from New Zealand. In its juvenile state, 2 ft long leaves, very thin, hanging at 45° from the trunk. Outrageous. One of our more original designs.
The pretty one. Large glossy evergreen bush. Pseudopanax don't seem to bother much with soppy things like roots - they actually like growing in a pot.
Bamboo. The return of a once much loved Bamboo. It's stopped flowering and so its safe to plant again. Large leaves, open habit, to 15 ft, one of the very best.
A Fern to add to the short list of good hardy evergreen ones. A mass of almost grassy fronds, hardy in Sussex. Stunning when the new fronds first emerge.
Wonderful Pineapple relatives. Silvery, prickly rosettes with extraordinary metallic blue flower spikes, for mild, windy gardens (or pots). To 2 ft x 2 ft
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