Big Leaves / Exotics
We have always been obsessed with the exciting impact big glossy leafed exotics have when planted alongside more structural and sometimes downright spiky and brutal specimens. We’ve been hunting and collecting for over 30 years and there is no better way to indulge your love for botanical forms than by immersing yourself in our collection. It is a fusion of what can be found across the world’s tropical and arid continents. Wrap your garden in Fatsias and fill it with Hostas and Gunnera. Build groves of banana plants with enormous leaves and slender, colourful, flowering Cannas. Counterbalance this with defined arid spaces, framed with flared Dasylirion, recurving Yuccas and succulent Agaves. It’s all here to inspire the tropical retreat of your dreams.
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Acacia dealbata (Mimosa)
View this plantFerny evergreen leaves and lots of yellow flowers in spring. Survives most winters anywhere. Reliably hardy in large cities and near the coast. Grows to 25 ft. in less than 10 years. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Red
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Acanthus mollis (Big Spinach)
View this plantGlossy green leaves to 3 ft with perpendicular white and purple flower spikes to 6 ft. Good in shade. Native to the Med. The inspiration for the capitals on Corinthian columns. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green
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Aeonium arboreum ‘Schwarzkopf’ (Purple Aeonium)
View this plantPurple leaves as long as they have plenty of light. If shaded, they go green. Easy plant in a pot but only leave it outside for winter in very mild gardens. To about 2ft. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Red
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Agapanthus ‘Blue Storm’ (Lily of the Nile)
View this plantA compact (1ft tall), free flowering herbaceous perennial with loads of large, beautiful, blue flowers for a long period during the summer. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Amber
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Agapanthus africanus (African Lily)
View this plantTender evergreen perennial with long, lush, strappy leaves forming clumps 1 to 2ft high. Huge blue or white flower heads on 4 to 5ft stems appear in mid summer. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Red
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Agave americana (Century Plant)
View this plantThe spikemeister. Biggest and toughest of all the spiky plants. Blue fleshy leaves creating a remarkable living sculpture. Keep it in a pot. Shove it in a shed for the winter. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Red
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Agave americana ‘Mediopicta Alba’
View this plantThe one with the white stripe down the middle of each leaf. Slow growing, easy plant, grow it in a pot, bung it in a shed for the winter. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Red
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Agave americana variegata
View this plantYellow 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. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Red