Wiry

The finest of all the Cotoneasters. Small semi-evergreen tree with white flowers in spring and enormous quantities of red berries in autumn and through the winter. To 20ft after after 30 years. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

Low with an undulating, hedgehoggy texture. Visit Cambridge Botanic garden for full appreciation and brew it up for an ephedrine charged hallucinogenic experience. 1ft tall. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

Very perpendicular and lots of it. Dies down in winter but always comes back. Can be a bit on the rampant side, so good to containerise it. To 3ft tall. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

A mat of tiny evergreen leaves. Normally prostrate, it’ll scramble over anything. It’s a ground cover, fence cover, shed cover etc. Each plant forms its own little pyramid. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

One of the most distinctive small trees that can be grown in Britain. Elegant and easy, masses of yellow flowers in July. 15ft after 10 years. Can reach 25ft. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

As the name would suggest, rosemary-like. Greener, shinier, more vigorous with masses of spectacular red flowers in summer. Can reach 5ft in 4 years. Makes a lovely hedge. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

A tiny leafed, vigorous, scrambling sort of thing. It’s evergreen and looks quite jungly. Best in shade and very salt tolerant. Clips beautifully. Please contact us for other stock availability and sizes.

Probably the best known flowering plant in the world. Evergreen shrub (6ft tall x 4 ft wide after 10 years) in pink, red, white. Frost hardiness? The red end of amber. Read on.