Taxus baccata fastigiata
Upright (fastigiate) yews for perpendicular purposes. Slow growing. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green
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Taxus cuspidata ‘Niwaki’
Japanese Yew created as a Niwaki in Japan. Hardy, easy, beautiful and a bit pricey, but worth it. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green
Taxus cuspidata var. intermedia ‘Niwaki’
Grown in Japan where – obviously – they use native Japanese yew which is almost indistinguishable from our own. We find these plants take to our climate particularly well. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green
The Acer House
The Acer House We’ve recently completed work building a large shade house. Designed as a place to keep our ever expanding collection of large Acers, it’s a wonderful place to go hunting or just bask in the flurry of colours, leaf shapes, stems and trunks. The Acer House was finished in 2022 spanning over 450…
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Mediterranean Garden Design
Garden Design, Planting & Plants By Us Mediterranean Border Design Designed by Guy, this bold and architectural fusion of Mediterranean and native plants forms a dramatic sculptural border: Cupressus sempervirens ‘Pyramidalis’ (Italian Cypress) under planted with a blobbery of our Taxus Baccata (Yew) & Viburnum tinus (Laurustinus). The stems of the Cupressus have been raised…
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Japanese Garden Design Our Concept of fusion Our concept of a Japanese Garden Design is a fusion of form, texture, colour and contrast. We like to bring together plants which are intrinsically synonymous with Japanese aesthetics and plants which are most definitely not, but do by their habit and shaping (topiarising), compliment each other brilliantly….
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Niwaki
NIWAKI The literal translation of the Japanese expression ‘Niwaki’ is ‘garden tree’ – being distinct from ‘Bonsai’ meaning ‘potted tree’. Niwaki are the bigger, easy ones that go in the ground. Bonsai are the little, difficult ones that stay in pots. We only do Niwaki. One thing they have in common is the Japanese obsession…
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The White Glossary
‘The White Glossary’ For the curious and hungry-for-knowledge, the glossary is stuffed with things you need to know to become a gardener. We make a point to weave, thread and insinuate horticultural, meteorological, botanical, geological and evolutionary knowledge through everything we say, write and do. For us this is as much an essential professional horticultural…
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Planting By Us
GETTING IT DONE – SERIOUS GARDENING Having worked alongside the designers and gained an understanding of your vision, our experienced, strong and capable team will begin the planting. They are masters of precision and care. Everything may have been preordained in a scale plan or there may be a degree of ‘composing on site’ but however the work…
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Sequoia sempervirens
Proper tree this. Can reach 40ft in 30 years and then go on and on and on. Conical, coniferous and ultra-reliable but best grown in groves which it loves. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green