Where Great Ideas Take Root
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Golden Privet Ligustrum Ovalifolium Aureum is an upright, vigorous shrub with semi-evergreen elliptical shiny dark green leaves margined with a golden yellow. In summer months, clusters of small white, very fragrant flowers appear, followed by black berries. It grows to a medium sized hedge, which needs little maintenance, and is commonly use […]
Privet Hedging Ligustrum ovalifolium, also known as Korean privet, California privet, garden privet, and oval-leaved privet, is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae. The species is native to Japan and Korea. Ligustrum ovalifolium is a dense, fast-growing, deciduous (evergreen/semi-evergreen in warm winter areas) shrub or small tree. […]
Buxus sempervirens is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing up to 1 to 9 m (3 to 30 ft) tall, with a trunk up to 20 centimetres (8 in) in diameter (exceptionally to 10 m tall and 45 cm diameter). Arranged in opposite pairs along the stems, the leaves are green to […]
Beech Tree Fagus sylvatica is a large tree, capable of reaching heights of up to 50 m (160 ft) tall and 3 m (9.8 ft) trunk diameter, though more typically 25–35 m (82–115 ft) tall and up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) trunk diameter. A 10-year-old sapling will stand about 4 m (13 ft) tall. It has a typical lifespan […]