Choose from Chris & Marie's Landscape Collection
5" pots all $4.50 each or $19.90 for 5 pots |
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Landscape Plant |
Plant Description |
Landscape Use |
Height
X Width |
Tolerances/
Conditions |
Flowering |
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Abelia X grandiflora
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Small to medium shrub with glossy green leaves.
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Can be clipped into a hedge or grown as an individual specimen or mixed with other shrubs.
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4-6ft
x 3-4ft |
Sun to shade, well drained soils and regular watering in summer, like to be pruned heavily |
Small white with mauve flowers in summer, 2nd flush of flowers at the end of summer. |
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Acanthus mollis |
Broad deep green glossy leaved clump forming plant with tall flower stems. |
Good in sheltered positions in moist soils. Mix with other shade loving plants or use in mass for good effect. |
2ft x 4ft |
Sheltered moist positions, fast growing hardy plant. |
Tall flower stems can grow up to 6ft, purple/pinky/white flowers on the tall stems in spring and summer. |
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Ajuga
Ajuga reptans purpurea |
Small rosette forming plant with green leaves and purple flower spikes. |
Excellent mass planted to form a thick weed suppressing groundcover, good mixed with other low growing plants. |
2-3" tall spreads by surface runners |
Frost hardy loves moist soils, sun to shade. |
Spikes of deep blue/purple flowers up to 20cm long in spring. |
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Castlewellan gold
Cupressocyparis leylandii 'Castlewellan gold' |
Beautiful golden soft foliaged conifer. |
Excellent clipped to form privacy screens and hedges, ideal as an individual specimen. |
40ft x 18ft |
Loved to be trimmed, drought tolerant, hardy to frost, wet feet loves full sun positions. |
Used in the landscape for its attractive golden foliage. |
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Choisya ternata
Choisya ternata |
Compact evergreen rounded shrub with glossy green compound leaves . |
Loves to be clipped into hedges and borders, good mid sized specimen plant.
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5-6ft x 4-5ft |
Full sun to part shade, well drained soils, likes slightly acidic soil. |
Clusters of fragrant white star shaped flowers, resembling orange blossoms, flowers in spring and late summer.
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Cistus salviifolius
Cistus salviifolius |
Evergreen shrub covered in saucer shaped crinkled flowers. |
Ideal as a mid sized specimen shrub, cottage style plant. |
3-4ft x 4-6ft |
Warm sunny position, very well drained soils, drought tolerant, moderately frost hardy. |
Blooms for long periods, pure white flowers with yellow middle, late winter to early summer flowering. |
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Coast Rosemary
Westringia fruticosa |
Rosemary like foliage, compact rounded shrub with stiff spreading branches with grey/ green leaves. |
Good to hedge or use as an individual specimen, good for coastal areas.
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6ft x 6ft |
Tolerant of salt laden winds, drought tolerant, full sun to part shade. |
White flowers with purple blotch in the throat, flowers most of the year. |
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Giant Amazon Perennial
Gunnera manicata |
Clump forming plant with large broad leaves |
Interesting specimen plant suited to informal and formal style gardens |
8ft x 8ft |
Moist soils, well drained, full sun to part shade, protect from very hot winds and hot sun. |
Greenish red flower spikes in summer. |
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Golden Choisya
Choisya ternata 'sundance' |
Golden yellow foliage matures to yellow/green compact evergreen shrub |
Can be clipped into hedges or used as a specimen plant mixed with other mid sized plants |
5-6ft x 4-5ft |
Full sun to part shade, well drained soils, likes slightly acidic soils |
Clusters of fragrant white star shaped flowers, resembling orange blossoms, flowers in spring and late summer |
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Golden diosma
Coleonema pulchrum aurea |
Medium sized evergreen shrub with short golden/green needle like leaves, aromatic foliage |
Great used interplanted with conifers, can be used mass planted as small borders
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2-4ft x 2-4ft |
Regular trimming, likes moist well drained soils in full sun and regular fertilising with a complete fertiliser |
Tiny light pink star shaped flowers in winter, spring and sometimes in summer |
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Hebe albicans
Hebe albicans |
Blue/grey tightly bunched leaves |
Ideal as a small border or specimen plant
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1.5ft x 1.5ft |
Frost hardy, loves sun to shade in moist well drained soils |
In early summer short white flower spikes will form |
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Hebe champagne |
Low growing evergreen shrub with dark green foliage |
Ideal in tubs, rockeries and garden situations, can be clipped to create a small hedge or interplanted with other small bushes and shrubs in the garden |
2ft x 3ft |
Frost hardy, ideal in coastal conditions, full sun to part shade, well drained soils, wind tolerant, benefit from a light pruning after flowering |
White flower spikes in spring |
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Hebe lavender lass |
Evergreen shrub with small green leaves
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3ft x 3ft |
Masses of lilac coloured flowers in late spring |
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Hebe inspiration veronica
Hebe inspiration veronica |
Evergreen shrub with mall dark green leaves |
3ft x 3ft |
Lavender flowers spikes in spring |
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Hebe oratia beauty
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Evergreen shrub with green mid sized leaves |
2-3ft x 2-3ft |
Pink bud fading to white in summer |
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Hebe wiri cloud |
Evergreen shrub with small green leaves. |
2ft x 2ft |
White flower spikes with pink colourings in spring and summer. |
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Hebe wiri mist |
Grey/green small leaves closely bunched together.
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1ft x 3ft |
Small white flower spikes in late spring. |
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Hebe wiri splash |
Evergreen shrub with small bright green leaves. |
1ft x 2ft |
Lilac flower spikes in early summer. |
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Japanese windflower
Anemone x hybrida |
Tufts of green leaves close to the ground with tall flower spikes. |
Mass planted for dramatic flower effect, ideal under trees. |
2ft x 1-2ft |
Frost hardy, moist well drained soils, part shade to shade. |
White to deepest rose flowers in autumn to winter. |
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Photinia
Photinia robusta |
Evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves, red coppery new growth |
Excellent clipped into hedges and screens, prune to promote bushiness |
8-12ft x 8-12ft |
Fast growing, sun to part shade, drought tolerant and frost hardy. |
White flower clusters in spring |
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Pittoporum tenuifolium
'Stirling mist'
Pittoporum tenuifolium
'Stirling mist' |
Evergreen shrub with light green small leaves with white margins. |
Excellent clipped into a hedge or screen can also be used individually in the garden. |
12ft x 4ft |
Loves full sun to part shade in well drained soils, frost hardy. |
Used for its foliage. |
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Pittosporum 'James Stirling'
Pittosporum tenuifolium 'James Stirling' |
Evergreen shrub with grey/green small leaves. |
Excellent clipped into a hedge or screen can also be used individually in the garden. |
9ft x 4ft |
Loves full sun to part shade in well drained soils, frost hardy. |
Used for its foliage. |
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Pittosporum eugenoides variegated
Pittosporum eugenoides 'Variegatum' |
Densely foliaged evergreen large pyramidal shaped shrub with light green leaves with cream/white margins |
Ideal for hedges, screens and dust barriers, use individually or mix with other large growing shrubs to form a dense screen. |
40ft x 15-20ft |
Frost tolerant, drought tolerant, moist soils in open sunny positions. |
Small clusters of start shaped yellow flowers in spring. |
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Potato vine
Solanum jasminoides |
Semi/evergreen climber with green leaves. |
Ideal for use as a screen grown along trellis, cottage and formal style gardens. |
15ft x 10ft |
Fast growing, sun to part shade, prefers to be protected from frost, well drained moist soils. |
Showy clusters of white flowers in spring and summer. |
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Prostanthera
Prostanthera |
Evergreen shrub, foliage has a minty smell when crushed. |
Ideal in coastal areas, use individually or mix with other coastal shrubs. |
3ft x 3ft |
Sunny positions in well drained soils, good for coastal conditions. |
In spring and summer 2 lipped trumpet like flowers appear with touches of light mauve, red, purple and yellow colours on the flowers. |
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Silver bush
Convolvulous cneorum |
Small rounded bush with soft silvery leaves. |
Use individually or mass plant for a dramatic effect, good mixed with red or maroon foliaged plants. |
2ft x 2ft |
Most soil conditions, will tolerate exposed sites, loves full sun. |
Small white flowers with a small yellow middle appear in spring and summer. |
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Snow in summer
Cerastium tomentosum |
Vigorous groundcover with silvery grey leaves. |
Use individually or mass plant for a dramatic effect, good mixed with red or maroon foliaged plants. |
5ft x 2-4ft |
Fast growing, likes well drained soils, cold hardy. |
Masses of white start shaped flowers in late spring and summer. |