New Plant Items
All of our new and some  reintroduced plant introductions not listed in our 2009 catalogue
 
As part of our continued expansion plans we look for exciting new plants on a regular basis, all of these new items are consolidated each year into our annual catalogue but we like to integrate them into our Web Site as soon as stocks become available. Although these new plants appear within each category, to easily identify them the following is a complete list of all items not in the current catalogue. Many are derived from seed trials and subsequent plant availability, others from propagation and some directly imported from abroad or sourced within the UK.
 
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Asimina Triloba
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Araucaria
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Limited Availability
Hardy PawPaw 1 litre pots 2ft tall ■☻җ җ җ 

This decorative small tree with clusters of purple flowers in the spring, has large tropical looking leaves and grows to about 10' tall. It is native and well known in much of the eastern United States. It produces dark green oblong fruit 3 to 6 inches long with a pulp that tastes like vanilla custard. Harvest when fruit color turns from green to yellow. Take out your spoon and eat. It’s delicious. The pulp has big seeds that are easy to spoon out and discard or plant to grow additional trees. The tree has a tap root and grows slowly at first hardy to around -15°C They grow naturally as an understory tree but can grow in full sun. Fruit ripens in late September and October.

This tree was a favourite of the early settlers to supplement their food shortage and has enough importance to warrant a folk song about the tree. A well known ditty  called "Way down yonder in the Paw Paw Patch" If you are sad enough like me and would like to here the song please click here.

Canna Edulis
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cannaredstripe
New for 2010!
Canna Edulis or "Red Stripe" 3 litre plant
This was sold to us as Black Knight by lifestyle plants but its turned out to be one of the species forms of Edulis with strong red striped foliage. Similar in habit to Musifolia grande and useful as a tall to 8ft foliage specimen but do not expect any flowers in our UK climate.

Canna Firebird
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New for 2010!
Canna Firebird 3 litre plant
This is a very strong green leaved plant with large multiple flower heads of very bright red. Clumps well producing many new flowering shoots and excellent for continuous flowering and mass bedding. 3ft to 4ft tall.

Canna Picasso
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cannapicasso
New for 2010! limited availability
Canna Picasso 3 litre plant

Bright Yellow flowers heavily spotted with Orange and Red certainly encourages this canna to stand out from the crowd! An old favourite growing to 4ft on large green foliage.

Geranium maderense
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Geranium
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Madeira daisy 1 litre plants ■☻

Geranium maderense is a greenhouse or conservatory pot plant for most areas of the UK, requiring a frost free position in full sun. At its peak this geranium stands 5 feet high and its inflorescence is 3 feet in diameter when flowering in late winter to late spring. This is the largest of all Geranium species, a giant aromatic plant with huge beautifully divided leaves. A spectacular short lived perennial plant if you have space for it.

Hedychium Brandie Saito
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Limited Availability
Hybrid Ginger 3 litre plants ■☻җ ♣
A beautiful white hybrid with large Luna Moth type flowers but in larger clusters, with the scent of coranarium! Flowers reasonably short at 4ft to 5ft.

Nerium oleander
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Oleander
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Oleander Bush Double Pink Variegated 3 litre pots ■☻җ

A lovely clone of this well known shrub seen all over the South of France is a tough one, very tolerant of dry conditions and flowers profusely in full sun. Easily over wintered in a cool or cold greenhouse as it will take a light frost without any serious damage.

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To Grow -- Easy ■ Moderate ■ and Challenging ■

May be ok for a dry Conservatory ♣

Hardiness - To -5°C җ To -10°C җ җ Fully Hardy җ җ җ

Needs Shady Position ☻ Sunny Position ☻ Water Loving ♥