Save yourself years of painstaking work by buying this ready made topiary specimen - already crafted into a dramatic '3 ball' shape by expert nurserymen! Creating a real show-stopping feature, this topiary cypress is the perfect plant to grace a handsome pot and place by patios, terraces or in front gardens as a centrepiece, or plant in pairs and place either side of doorways, gateways, pathwys and entrances, bringing the plantsmans art to your garden to be admired for years to come. This form of Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd' or Emerald Cedar as it is more commonly known, is dense and slow growing so keeps its shape well once trimmed. Easy to care for, there's really very little to do, just give an occasional light trim to maintain the shape to your taste, taking particular care to remove shoots from any bare stems. It will really flourish in a both a sunny or lightly shaded spot. Delivered as a mature pruned plant in 10L pot. Feed regularly during growing season.
'Flavortop' is an extremely vigorous, heavy cropping nectarine that produces large fruit with an exceptionally good flavour. As early as February, beautiful fragrant pink flowers open, followed in summer by gorgeous looking nectarines that have smooth, red skins and deliciously sweet and juicy golden yellow flesh. Although 'Flavortop' is hardy outdoors in the UK, the blossom is susceptible to damage from frost, particularly as it begins to flower so early in the spring. For this reason, we recommend that you grow it in a large pot so that it can be overwintered under cover before moving outside and brought back indoors if a frost is expected. 'Flavortop' will bear good crops in its first two or three years, but after that you can expect much larger harvests as the tree matures, and as it's self-fertile too, although you can increase yields but hand-pollinating the flowers. Very similar in taste and texture to peaches, but without the furry skin, nectarines are delicious eaten fresh from the tree, as well as cooked in tasty desserts, and the flesh of 'Flavortop' falls away from the stone easily and cleanly, making them simple to prepare. Supplied as an established tree in a 7.5L pot, 1.6-1.8m (5-6ft) tall and growing to a height of 3m (10ft) and spread of 2m (6½ft) in 5 years.