Big Leaves / Exotics

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.

Obscure, dramatic and spiky. Huge trunk forming exotic from the Mexican mountains. 6ft tall x 5ft wide. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes

Exceedingly rare little evergreen tree from S. China. To 20ft after 25 years. As with all Osmanthuses, deliciously fragrant flowers in late winter. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

Vigorous deciduous tree covered in purple flowers (‘Foxglove’) before the leaves. Often coppiced every year to produce 10ft shoots bearing gigantic leaves for the exotic look. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

Greener, laxer and more luxuriant looking than the better known Phormium tenax. Lush and jungly. Yellow flowers on 5 ft spikes. to 5ft tall x 5ft wide. Please contact us for other stock availability and sizes.

A form of the hardy Mountain Flax from N.Z. with dark brown and green striped leaves. 3ft x 3ft after 3 years. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

As Phormium cookianum but with leaves striped green and white with red edges. Elegant and hardy – only showing slight damage in very severe winters. To 4ft tall x 4ft wide Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

Our own form of Phormium. Hardy with straight narrow green upright leaves to 7ft with 10ft flower spikes. Explosive in aspect. To 7ft with 10ft flower spikes. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.