Pick your very own delicious fresh lemons and add a Mediterranean feel to your home or garden! Packed full of vitamin C, these fruits are not only delicious, but good for you as well! Use your fruits in everything from freshly squeezed lemonade, to scrumptious lemon meringue pies, and save loads of money on supermarket prices! This lemon tree will produce blossom from late spring through to the end of the year. From the blossom, small lemons will be produced, which will quickly swell into ripe and juicy fruits these will be ripe for picking late summer up to the end of the year. To ensure youll be picking delicious fruit year after year, we advise you keep your trees in their pots, and place in a sunny, sheltered position. Protect from frost during the winter time either by bringing indoors into a conservatory, or by covering with a plant cosy.
Bring a warm Mediterranean feel to your garden this summer with this fantastic standard olive bush. These well-established plants have been professionally grown with a wonderful ball of foliage aloft an elegant stem. Despite their Mediterranean heritage, olives are surprisingly tough and will happily grow in the UK down to -8C in winter, although best of you can protect them a little. With its neatly shaped, evergreen grey-green foliage, this olive is perfect in a border or patio pot they will also look great in a pot in a conservatory. They love hot, sunny spots and thrive in free-draining soil. They produce small, but insignificant creamy flowers in spring, which self-pollinate, and may produce small fruits in hot, dry summers with plenty of time to ripen. They look so exotic and Mediterranean though, you should grow them anyway. Olives are low maintenance, easy to grow and very slow growing - ideal for small gardens or busy gardeners. Great value and will add a touch of class to your patio. All our Olives are sourced from specialist growers who are regularly inspected and tested for plant pests and diseases, including the new disease threat Xylella. We do not source Olives from High Risk areas. This is followed by further checks and inspections on our own Lincs nursery by DEFRA.
This attractive doormat is not only great to look at but thoroughly functional too. Being manufactured from a hardwearing and durable natural coir it is perfect for scraping off mud from boots and shoes. It also benefits from a non-slip backing so it will always remain in place. If it gets dirty, simply allow to dry and then brush clean. Height: 1.5cm Length: 45cm Width: 75cm
Protect your investment in fruit trees, with our high quality, easy to use and low cost tree planting kit. Comprising two treated and tanalised softwood support stakes, each 1.2m long x 3.2cm across, and two super-soft 38cm long rubber tree ties, to firmly hold the tree trunks in place while the root system establishes. Supplied as 2 x 1.2m long x 3.2cm wide stakes and 2 x 38cm rubber tree ties.
Get into the festive mood with these wonderful, decorated mini-Christmas Chamaecyparis Thyoides or as they aremore commonly known 'Top Point'. They are so cute! At just 20-25cm tall, they are perfect for instant windowsill or tabletop displays, or perhaps for an easy to look after tree in the children's bedrooms. Each pot grown real conifer is given a dusting of magical fake snow, for a real traditional festive feel. Not only that, but they are also supplied ready to display in an attractive red zinc pot, and complete with miniature decorations! Just unpack, and they are ready to go. The perfect living decoration - if kept watered indoors this Christmas, they can be planted outside, and will grow slowly over many years - the snow will of course wash off in the rain, but perhaps if planted in a bigger pot, can be brought inside each year and re-decorated. The perfect and easy to look after living tree gift or decoration this year. Note - exact decoration may vary.
As well as offering wood and charcoal fuels, timber for buildings and ships, latex rubber, dyes, shade, shelter from the weather, fruits and nuts to enjoy and poisons to avoid, trees provide the world with oxygen while their roots stabilise soil to prevent flooding and erosion. Moreover, bark, roots, leaves, flowers, fruits or seeds also offer medicinal products. Meanwhile, the forest has ever been a magical place inspiring writers and poets such as C S Lewis, J R R Tolkien, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Coleridge. The Secret Language of Trees explores fifty different species of tree. It looks at the history of the tree, its medicinal and other uses, as well as its language meaning and symbolism. Each entry is supported by a beautiful watercolour of the tree itself as well as its leaves and fruit. 152 Pages
British Wildflowers and Trees Handbook features exactly 100 species that can be spotted throughout the British Isles. Young nature enthusiasts aged 8+ can add their own photographs, drawings and observations to the fact-packed spreads, which all feature a description of each plant, a realistic illustration with labels, areas to tick off each species when spotted, plus lots of useful stats. Also included is a photograph to help with the identification process. Endorsed by both The Woodland Trust and The Wildlife Trust, this comprehensive guide is both fun and practical to use. 224 Pages
Treat yourself to a pair of these gorgeous Italian Cypress trees, and add a touch of Mediterranean class to your garden. Seen all over Italy, these spectacular architectural conifers will add height and year-round interest wherever you plant them. With their elegant, pencil thin form, they'll look simply stunning framing a door or gateway, or in a terracotta pot. Not to be confused with vigorous Leylandii, these slender, manageable beauties are slower growing and wont get out of hand - you can even grow them on your patio! They are of course very drought tolerant, but also completely hardy and evergreen, so they'll thrive here in the UK and look magnificent all year round whatever the weather! For best results, remove the cones that appear, as these can pull the branches apart, losing shape. Supplied as a pair of established trees approx. 1.2-1.4m tall in 20cm pots, ready to plant out, reaching a height of 10 m (33 ft) and width of 1.5 m (5 ft) in 20 years. Note - image of plants in courtyard are about 10 years old - plants supplied are thinner when immature, as per other images shown
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.
We are delighted to offer you the chance to grow the Nation's favourite fruit trees in your garden, on a balcony, terrace or patio. Thanks to recent breeding breakthroughs, we can now bring you plums and cherries on compact plants so that everyone can have a go at growing them!Grown on dwarfing rootstocks, Plum 'Victoria' and Cherry 'Athos' will both produce a heavy crop of fruits in the summer - all at a height that's convenient for you.Easy to grow and very productive, you can be assured a great crop of tasty fruits as both are self-pollinating - so even the newest of gardeners will get success! Cherry AthosThe delicious fruits are super sweet and have an old fashioned mouth-watering aromatic flavour - each totally winter hardy bush will produce up to 5kg (approx. 12lb) of fruit per year once fully established.Because it grows in a naturally dwarf BUSH habit and on its own roots, (rather than as a tall grafted tree) you can pick your heavy crop of tasty cherries from each branch, easily and from the safety ground level every summer ... from early July here in the UK - no 'Cherry Pickers' required!Athos is perfect for any garden and is even suitable to grow in a large pot - it could even be grown as the ultimate productive hedge! Plum 'Little Vic'Clever fruit tree grower Will Sibley has teamed the ever-popular best-selling 'Victoria' with a very dwarfing and compact new VVA1 rootstock, which removes most of the vigour that can sometimes be the downfall of Plums. It's like someone has shrunk the tree yet kept the fruit the same - just as big and juicy as the normal variety. It still produces lovely pure white spring blossom displays, and is self-fertile, so no other plums needed for fruit - just the bees that need to do their thing!Perfect in large patio pots (minimum 30cm diameter) for 5 years or so, it produces big, juicy crops of classic red Victoria plums, yet stays small, manageable and perfect for everyone.
There are few sights and smells more arresting in the garden than a Katsura or 'Toffee Apple' Tree in mid autumn. Its heart-shaped green leaves turn shades of yellow, purple and red before falling to the ground and releasing a distinctive and intoxicating fragrance thats similar to fairground candy floss or sweet toffee apple, hence it's name, Heavenly! Peter experienced this last Autumn while walking in a lovely parkland setting, where the scent truly filled the air, as the Autumn colours were at their very best and richest, and now he is a big fan too! Growing to around 5m in a decade, this tree can eventually reach 15m and will do well in a really sunny spot or light shade. For a breathtaking display of autumn colour, plant in moist, well drained soils, and making a perfect speciment tree, plant Katrusa trees for years of pelasure.
Protect your investment in fruit trees, with our high quality, easy to use and low cost tree planting kit. Comprising 3 treated and tanalised softwood support stakes, each 1.2m long x 3.2cm across, and 3 super-soft 38cm long rubber tree ties, to firmly hold the tree trunks in place while the root system establishes. Supplied as 3 x 1.2m long x 3.2cm wide stakes and 3 x 38cm rubber tree ties.