Shade

Very grand. The mightiest of all the Evergreen Oaks. To 50ft after 80 years. Often used as posh topiary – interesting geometric shapes like stilted hedges etc. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

The texture is startling. You look at it and instantly fail to recognise it as a Rhododendron. Tight and rounded with pointy leaves. Purple flowers – if you allow them. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

Sweetly scented white flowers December to March followed by glossy black berries. Slow growing and suckering. Best in shade and happy on chalk. To 3ft. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

Jungly, large leafed, hardy Bamboo. Grows to 8 ft. Thoroughly ill mannered (rampant) and everyone loves it. Can be confined to a pot with great success. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

Tremendously erect canes all standing at attention with their rounded little heads and short branches. Can get to 30ft and yet this bamboo hardly strays. So little used.Why? Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

Skimmia japonica is a well known compact evergreen shrub (3ft x 3ft after 3 years) and this form has masses of red flower buds in winter followed by white flowers in spring. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

The male form of the plant. Slow growing to a neat mound – 4ft wide by 10ft tall. Sweetly scented white flowers from March to May. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

Primitive, weird and unique from its evergreen Schefflera-like leaves to its vivid green flowers. Very frost hardy, slow growing to 20ft. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.