Apricot 'Aprigold' is the fabulous patio Apricot from the world-leading Zaiger American breeding program. Naturally very compact, and yet self-fertile, it makes the ideal patio fruit tree for large pots on sunny patios balconies and gardens. With the added benefit of lovely soft-pink early blossom, it has a lovely Spring feature too, and as the new leaves emerge they have a lovely orange-red tinge to them, classic of Apricots. Remaining below 1.2M for 10 years or so, this makes it an ideal fruit tree for smaller gardens. Apricots are early fruiters even in the UK, and once established in a year or 2, you should get good crops of tasty, juicy apricots from late July into August every year.
Originally grown in France in the mid-19th century, and often known by it's French name 'Reine Clauide d'Oullins', the 'Oullin's Golden Gage' is a great, self-fertile, garden variety for anyone to grow. It prefers warmer weather than apples or pears, so will fruit later in the year, producing its attractive, golden-yellow, red-specked fruits in abundance in late summer. Very much sweeter and juicier than typical plums, it is a real sweet treat plucked fresh from the tree. There is no greater pleasure than picking a plump, juicy plum straight from your own tree and popping it straight into your mouth! The firm, aromatic flesh is packed full of sweet fruitiness and the juice will delight your tastebuds! If you can resist eating them all, these versatile fruits are perfect for use in cooking, and will freeze well for using later.
What could be more perfect this winter than a twist on a Christmas classic? Create stunning festive displays, frame doorways and entrances or adorn patios and conservatories, with this pair of standard Holly Trees.With a slight blush tinge to the beautiful, deep-evergreen, classic holly leaves and with their rich red berries, they'll look stunning for many years to come and what's best is that these holly trees can be enjoyed year-round, not just at Christmas, thanks to their evergreen nature.This new variety is a female (berry producing) form and is a very prolific berry producer*, so it will bud up and produce masses of rich, red berries in future years. These bushes are slow growing and easy to manage - just one trim a year will keep that standard tree form.Each pair is supplied with a pair of classic 27cm diameter planters that have been hand-finished in a beautiful gold paint, each one unique, for you to plant your hollies into for maximum impact. This also makes them the perfect gift to give to friends, family or neighbours this winter... *this female plant will carry berries in autumn and early winter months. However, trees may arrive with artificial berries.
Also known as New Zealand Flax, Phormium 'Golden Ray' is a robust, fully hardy evergreen which forms a dense clump of upright, strappy leaves - a really great plant for adding a bit of a statement to your garden. Stunning in a border and stylish in a large container, this phormium plant has striking green and yellow variegated leaves, edges with bronze. Phormiums prefer a hot dry site (although will tolerate partial shade) and make a great candidate for a Mediterranean garden or a gravel garden where their upright leaves make a great foil for many other coloured plants. Easy to grow, phormium 'Golden Ray' needs virtually no maintenance - it may even reward you with spikes of flowers in late summer. Ultimately growing to around 2m, we supply well-established plant in a 3L pot ready for immediate planting.
The perfect gift to celebrate a Golden Anniversary. This spectacular rose will give great pleasure to someone special for many years to come. Beautiful, round, deep golden-yellow blooms are borne on dark, glossy foliage throughout summer and into autumn each bloom produces a lovely sweet scent! Golden Wedding is a wonderfully healthy and strong growing variety that repeat-flowers until the first frosts each year. The perfect present for someone special, it will brighten up their garden for years and years! Colour: Golden-yellow Fragrance: 3/10 Note for Gifts: At checkout you can select if you would like to send this as a Gift. If you choose YES (or call our OrderLine), this will: • Allow you to enter a Gift Message, which will appear on the Delivery Note • Remove prices from the Recipients paperwork
The soft, bright golden-yellow foliage of Cupressus 'Goldcrest' will provide your garden with healthy colour all year round and (in keeping with its name) gives off a fresh, lemon scent when foliage is crushed or cut - which is said to deter biting insects from that area of your garden. In the depths of winter, the cooler temperatures give the trees a deeper, richer colouration, giving you added visual impact in your garden. Also known as Monterey cypress, it's such a great all-round garden plant it has been awarded the coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit so you can be sure that it has been trialled and tested and declared garden worthy! Growing to 3-5m tall in 10 years, Goldcrest is naturally upright and slightly 'teardrop' shaped but can be trimmed to suit your required height and makes perfect topiary. It is very easy to manage and can be kept in post on the patio for many years, where it will happily sit at centre stage of your displays. Golden Scented Cypress will grow in virtually any soil and in any location from full sun to partial shade (although for the brightest of golden-yellow colour it is best in full sun and protected from drying winds). It is completely winter hardy throughout the entire UK and is virtually pest and disease resistant too. Supplied as 6 x plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting out into the desired location.
'All Gold' was a chance find amongst a crop of the red variety 'Autumn Bliss', so has inherited many of it's excellent traits, but with a superb golden yellow colour, and a seemingly even more intense flavour too! 'All Gold' is a Primocane variety, so it produces fruits on it's new season stems, in September and October. This saves a whole year of growing time in the garden compared to old-fashioned varieties, and means they are more compact and suitable for pot and patio growing, reaching 4-5ft (1.2-1.5M) on sturdy stems. Because they fruit on same year's growth, they are exceptionally easy to maintain - simply cut all shoots back to ground level when dormant in February.
'Bluegold' is a commercially successful highbush type Bluebrry, producing good sized reliable crops of mid-sized fruit, and is fairly disease and pest free, making it an ideal garden variety. As with all blueberries, they must be grown in Ericaceous (Acidic) soil, so grow in pots in ericacreous compost if your soil is not naturally acidic. Feed well when flowers from, until harvest. Pick the fruit fresh as it ripens over several weeks, packed full of antioxodants - great fresh or in smoothies.. Then enjoy the added bonus fo flame-like autumn leaf colour too as the leaves drop. A real long season productive fruit plant for all smaller gardens.
The perfect size for growing on your patio, whilst still delivering an excellent harvest, and if you're looking for really big, juicy apples, then Patio 'Jonagold' is the variety for you! An attractive garden tree in its own right, white spring flowers give way to huge fruit in October. The apples are yellow with bold, bright red smudges that can sometimes spread to cover most of the skin, and being fabulously juicy with a deliciously sweet flavour and a crisp crunch these are a real treat. They are perfect picked straight from the tree for snacking but this versatile apple is also ideal for cooking, making tasty desserts. By experty grafting to the M9 rootstock 20-30cm above soil level, we've been able to further restrict the already dwarfing habit to produce a wonderful yet productive patio tree. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, harvesting for many years to come. 'Jonagold' is a cross between apples 'Jonathan' and 'Golden Delicious', and is a 'triploid' variety, meaning that it has three sets of chromosomes instead of the usual two. Tiploid varieties are sterile, so they can't pollinate themselves or other apple trees. They need other trees nearby to pollinate them, not an issue if you grow more than one apple in you garden, or if a nearby neighbour does! Supplied as an established tree, 90-110cm (3ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 18cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 1.5m (5ft).
The justifiably popular 'Golden Delicious' is brilliant for growing in your garden. Its fruits have exceptionally sweet, rich flavour and a distinctive golden-green colour. They will look wonderful as they ripen on your tree. It is heavy-cropping and easy to grow - what more could you want? This highly versatile variety will store really well. Use your abundant crops to make delightful desserts and yummy puddings as well as keeping them to eat as they are, and of course, nothing tastes better than your own home-grown harvest. The key is to let them mature on the tree and pick them once they have turned a rich, golden colour. Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
If you want really big, juicy apples, then 'Jonagold' is the variety for you! An attractive garden tree in its own right, white spring flowers give way to huge fruit in October. The apples are yellow with bold, bright red smudges that can sometimes spread to cover most of the skin, and being fabulously juicy with a deliciously sweet flavour and a crisp crunch these are a real treat. They are perfect picked straight from the tree for snacking but this versatile apple is also ideal for cooking, making tasty desserts. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, harvesting for many years to come. 'Jonagold' is a cross between apples 'Jonathan' and 'Golden Delicious', and is a 'triploid' variety, meaning that it has three sets of chromosomes instead of the usual two. Tiploid varieties are sterile, so they can't pollinate themselves or other apple trees. They need other trees nearby to pollinate them, not an issue if you grow more than one apple in you garden, or if a nearby neighbour does! Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
'Golden Smaragd' is a wonderful variety of Thuja, evergreen conifers that grow with a naturally narrow, conical habit. Slow-growing, with sprays of bright yellow-green aromatic foliage, 'Golden Smaragd' is a handsome and colourful decorative tree, ideal as a specimen and perfect for bringing year-round height and structure to your beds and borders, and well suited to container growing too. Thuja and incredibly easy to grow, needs hardy any maintenance and its naturally slow growth means that it doesn't need regular trimming to keep it in shape, particularly useful if you're growing it as a hedge where it'll provide excellent screening but with little effort. It's also amazingly hardy, right down to -45°C, so there is no chance that it'll be damaged in even the harshest British winter, although protection from cold, drying winter winds when young will help it to establish. A versatile tree for any part of the garden, Thuja isn't fussy about soil and will thrive whether it's acid, alkaline or neutral, as long as it's well drained. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting, growing up to 5m (16½ft) tall and 1.7m (5½ft) wide after 20 years.