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Red Tip Photinia Photinia × fraseri, known as red tip photinia and Christmas berry, is a nothospecies in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is a hybrid between Photinia glabra and Photinia serratifolia.It is a compact shrub with an erect habit. Its evergreen, oval leaves are dark green in colour that […]
Common Laurel Prunus Rotundifolia is also known as cherry laurel, common laurel and sometimes English laurel in North America, is an evergreen species of cherry (Prunus), native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe, from Albania and Bulgaria east through Turkey to the Caucasus Mountains […]
Cherry Laurel Prunus laurocerasus ‘Novita’ from the genus Prunus, is also known as the Cherry Laurel. It is an evergreen shrub, upright, and quite dense, with mid green leaves when young.The oblong glossy leaves later become a darker green, and in Spring the hedge boasts fragrant white flowers, which precede red […]
Prunus lusitanica ‘Angustifolia’ is a variety of the Portugal Laurel plant, but more formal and tidier looking. Its leaves which grow on red-purple stems are longer and narrower. Angustifolia will tolerate most soil types, is particularly adaptable to chalky soils, and is most commonly used as a hedging plant. Small white […]
Laurel Hedging Prunus Caucasica, a laurel hedge plant is one of the lesser-known members of the species. It offers very similar characteristics to the popular Common or Cherry Laurel, and is extremely hardy. Its’ foliage is a very deep green and remains so, even throughout winter.Prunus laurocerasus ‘Caucasica’ is an ideal […]
New Zealand Broadleaf Griselinia littoralis is a hardy evergreen shrub that grows up to about 10 metres tall. Griselinia littoralis is round in shape and has dense foliage. The leaves are alternate, leathery, glossy yellow-green above, paler and matte below, 6–14 cm (2–6 in) long, oval with a smooth margin. This tree […]
Add Your Heading Text Here The Leyland cypress, Cupressus × leylandii, often referred to simply as leylandii, is a fast-growing coniferous evergreen tree much used in horticulture, primarily for hedges and screens. Even on sites of relatively poor culture, plants have been known to grow to heights of 15 metres […]
Castlewellan Gold Leylandii Castlewellan Gold is large evergreen conifer, rich with golden yellow foliage and is very similar to the green leylandii variety, and although it grows at a slower rate than the green, it will still form a dense evergreen hedge very quickly. It is ideal when planted for […]
English Yew Taxus baccata is a species of evergreen tree in the family Taxaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe (including the British Isles), northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. It is the tree originally known as yew, though with other related trees becoming known, it may now […]
Common Laurel Also known as cherry laurel, common laurel and sometimes English laurel in North America, is an evergreen species of cherry (Prunus), native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe, from Albania and Bulgaria east through Turkey to the Caucasus Mountains and northern Iran. […]