Grow your own delicious citrus fruit right here in the UK with this easy-grow Orange & Lemon Tree Collection. Mature plants will produce delicious fruits, and are winter hardy to -5C - that's right this pair of Orange and Lemon trees will grow and fruit perfectly in the UK! The sweetly-perfumed white flowers contrast beautifully against the deep green citrus-fragranced foliage, and the fruits smell simply divine - plus they're packed full of vitamin C, they're delicious and good for you too! Both of your trees arrive as young plants, 20-30cm tall including their 9cm pots, and are ready to grow on, making them a great value way to get your hands on a pair of superb citrus plants. You'll receive one of each variety: Lemon 'Citron' - Hardy down to -5C! - Sweetly scented blossom in late spring. - Full-size fruit from August onwards. - Perfect for drinks and cooking. Orange 'Calamondin', also known as 'Panama Orange'. - Hardy down to -5C! - An attractive dwarf orange, a cross of the tangy kumquat and more familiar zesty tangerine. - Packed full of vitamin C. Height to 150cm (60in). Grown from cuttings, these Citrus plants are reliable and will produce fruit.
It would be easy to ignore Pomegranates as a fruit that can be grown in the UK, but you would be wrong. Yes, they do need hot summers and warm spots, but will crop here, and produce spectacular flower as a bonus, so also have good ornamental value. A highly attractive feature tree with the added bonus of producing glossy, versatile fruits in autumn each year! With deep green foliage and bright orange flowers in summer, it will look great in your garden for years to come.The leathery skinned, glossy fruits ripen in the sun each summer and have a wonderful flavour. Pomegranate bushes love hot summers and your bush will thrive in a sunny spot it is perfect for a patio pot. Easy to grow and completely hardy in UK (-7-10C), Pomegranates will easily tolerate our British winters and just need those long hot summers we all look forward to, to maximise fruit yields. The fruits can be used in cooking sweet or savoury and taste great when made into refreshing, fragrant pomegranate juice! They are super-healthy and packed with antioxidants. We suggest growing in a large pot, in well-drained compost, so you can move it into protection in winter, not to protect from frost, but to get it growing as soon as possible in spring. Outdoors they are very late back into leaf, so you lose valuable growing season time. They will produce their dark orange to red flowers in July, and then set and produce small reddish orange fruits, which need to be left on the tree as long as possible in autumn to ripen. Supplied as a standard tree in a 22cm pot, 1.4m tall including pot.
This really is a novelty plant and something different - so different in fact, we've not grown them fully either (yet!). We've located a small specialist grower in Holland who is developing ways to grow Avocados in Northern Europe and these fine trees are a great starting point. Avocados thrive in warm, humid conditions, so will need winter protection in the UK - they can grow outside on patios fine though between late May and September. They will grow quite quickly at 50cm a year and these are already pruned back, so this season will produce side branches. It makes an attractive indoor plant anyway, forming a woody trunk with pleasant glossy leaves. They usually take 5-7 years to produce fruit on a mature tree, and have fruited in UK before - indoors and out. These Avocados are so new though, you will have great fun trying growing them regardless of whether they fruit, safe in the knowledge that virtually no-one else has ever grown one! Very limitted stocks so order yours now to avoid disappointment!
Juglans regia, the English or common walnut is a deciduous, broadleaf tree with shiny, feather-like leaves and fleshy, green fruits which contain the delicious nuts. In spring, the trees produce tiny immature fruits which are wind pollinated by fat male catkins and, although trees are self-fertile, you can greatly improve yield by introducing another type of walnut. The walnuts themselves develop inside a fibrous, leathery casing which splits when the nuts ripen in early autumn. This is when the nuts are at their finest, with a softer texture and distinctive, creamy taste. If you want to store them for Christmas, you are best off drying or freezing them after removing all traces of the outer husk. These fast-growing trees can reach 30m (100ft) high and 15m (50ft) in ideal conditions, and although tend to be smaller in the UK, they're still a plant that likes lots of room to grow. Supplied as an established plant in a 22cm pot, approx. 1.5m tall, ready for planting out. Did you know... That walnuts originated in ancient Persia, where they were reserved for royalty.The best wood is at the base of the tree, so walnuts are often dug up for timber, rather than felled.Walnuts produce a growth inhibitor - juglone - that has a detrimental effect on some species of plants growing nearby and it is believed that this stops other plants growing around them and competing for nutrients - a very clever tree!
Grow sumptious sweet Sharon Fruit - also known as Chinese Persimmon - in your own garden. These exotic trees are surprisingly hardy in the UK - even young trees will survive to -10C and when mature will withstand much more. Trees are self fertile making them easy to cultivate.The foliage alone justifies a space in the garden with large lustrous glossy leaves through summer which change to a glorious coppery plum colour in autumn. The fruits ripen in September and are sweet, juicy and ready to eat as they turn deep orange. Unpicked, they hold on the tree and are gloriously colourful even after leaf fall. Grow in a sunny spot away from wall as Sharon fruit like plenty of air movement around them. A large free standing pot is ideal and the tree will reach a height of around 5-6ft. Treat yourself to this really special and unusual tree!
Here's a lovely evergreen shrub that's perfect for a sunny border or large patio pot. It bears slender, shiny dark green foliage throughout the year and from late spring to autumn becomes smothered with delightful pink lantern blooms. Th Chilean Lantern Tree has lovely pink blooms and gorgeous foliage that is made up of narrower leaves. It's sure to be a plant that none of your gardening neighbours will have! Certain to add a touch of exotic allure to any garden, it's easy to care for as the Chilean Lantern tree thrives in UK gardens, where its exquisite blooms seem to drip from every branch, and will of course delight everyone who sees it. 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, for stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out.
Rare and unusual, Romneya coulteri (also known as the Californian Tree Poppy) produces voluminous, crepe-paper white poppies with golden-yellow centres. Widley admired for its blooms, it begins flowering in early July and goes on until the autumn producing some of the largest flowers in the poppy family - up to 15cm (6in) in width. With its divided, grey-green leaves this native of dry coastal Californian scrubland is hardy and will die down in winter, and although slow to get established, it's vigorous once it's happy. An excellent specimen plant for a sunny mixed border, Romneya is 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, for stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out, growing to a height of 2.5m (8.2ft).
If you want to add dramatic effect to your garden, then you can't go wrong with this popular shrub. One of the first ornamental plants to bloom in the year, Forsythia is also known as the Easter tree as it is often in flower through that calendar period. A robust and easy to care for shrub that is perfect for use as a cut flower the branches of Forsythia are smothered along their length with brilliant yellow blooms and they look simply stunning when displayed in a vase at Easter time.A recent addition to our range of flowering forsythias, 'Mikador' has the same spectacular yellow flower displays in early spring as its relatives, but on a smaller, low maintenance form. A naturally compact variety, Mikador grows to just H100cm (30in) x W100cm (in) wide and is perfect for patio pots and smaller garden borders where it will display all the flower power, but in a fraction of the space! After flowering, 'Mikador' gets smothered in mid-green leaves which turn to orange and gold in autumn giving a delightful display and extending its season of interest. Easy to grow, and perfect if you're short of time or new to gardening, grow Mikador in sunny or lightly shade spots in any soils - from acidic to heavy clays, it's a very easy and very hardy and tolerant shrub - a 'good doer' as we like to call it! Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting out or potting on.
A popular, easy to grow flowering shrub that is perfect for UK gardens. Viburnum opulus 'Roseum' AKA the Snowball Tree, is a bushy, deciduous shrub with striking blooms and lobed, maple-like leaves that turn fiery shades of red and purple in the autumn. Most noted for its voluminous clusters of flowers, this viburnum bursts into bloom from early May, becoming a mass of green-tinted white snowball flowers which become flushed with pink as they age. Unlike the more common Guelder Rose, fruits are not produced as the flowers of the Snowball Tree are sterile, however the show of spring and autumn colour more than makes up for this - plus the flowers are just perfect for cutting and bringing into your home. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, robust and vigorous, and guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for immediate planting. Will reach approx. 4m x 4m and is perfect for a flowering hedge or as a specimen plant in borders.
Add a gorgeous exotic look to your garden or patio with our glorious Tree Mallow, the hardy Hibiscus 'Marina Blue' for years of fabulous late summer floral displays from this ever so easy to grow shrub. 'Marina Blue' boasts beautiful rich lavender-blue flowers with deep crimson centres that appear from bushy green foliage, ideal for sunny borders and even in smaller gardens they can be grown in pots or can be trained against walls and fences. Despite their exotic nature and their delicate appearance, they are very tough and hardy indeed. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Grow it in a warm, sunny spot for the longest lasting and biggest displays - they can be hungry feeders, so give them plenty of feed as they come back into leaf and set buds. Supplied as an established plant in a 13cm pot, ready to plant straight out.
Bring a taste of paradise to your garden this year with this stunning, giant-flowered Hibiscus 'Woodbridge'. Also known as the tree Hollyhock or the Rose Mallow, large, bright pink blooms cover this award-winning shrub from July - not stopping until all buds have opened, sometimes right into autumn. The flowers shimmer faintly with an irridescent lavender in the sun, making this a garden plant with the 'wow-factor'. 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. Fully hardy and easy to care for, 'Woodbridge' deserves a prominent place in any garden, where it will bring a colorful display when other plants are beginning to look tired - filling borders with exotic colour and structure. Not just a pretty face, the upright branches are decked with gorgeous, 3-lobed dark green leaves - making it an ideal feature when grown in a large pot or in your border for a lush, tropical feel. Supplied as an established plant in a 13cm pot, Hibiscus 'Woodbridge' will reach an approximate height of 2.5m.
A real relic, Gingko Biloba, also known as Maidenhair, was long around before man but is more popular than ever right now! Known for its many health benefits thanks to its use in Chinese medicine, and now in western medicine, Gingko Biloba is a truly unique conifer/fern-like evergreen tree that makes a real statement. With bright, fresh green leaves in the spring that often turn an eye-catching yellow in the autumn, the Gingko Biloba tree makes a magnificent centre piece and will grow up to 10m tall if left alone but don't let this put you off if you don't have much space as it can be easily pruned and trimmed to keep to a manageable shape and size! It's a hardy tree and will thrive in a sunny spot in a UK garden. Gingko Biloba has long been studied for its health benefits and is now widely used in medicine across the globe. From improving memory to its antioxidant benefits, it's certainly worth harvesting in your own back garden - even if just for the spectacular foliage display. Supplied as an established plant in a 19cm pot, ready to plant.