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Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigata’, or ‘Pyramidalis’, is a medium-sized, deciduous tree with a fluted smooth grey bark, narrowly upright, columnar growth habit, and a pyramidal shape. The leaves are ovate, serrated and ribbed, dark green in summer, coppery yellow in autumn. They remain on branches long into winter. This pyramidal variety has neater and denser form and more glossy leaves. Small flowers appear in catkins in spring before the leaves. Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigata’ is a low maintenance and easy to grow plant. It is satisfied with any type of soil, but prefers fertile, dry to moist, well-drained soil, in full sun or partial shade. It is generally disease-free and pest free. It can tolerate drought. Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigata’ is an excellent tree and a nice addition to any garden. It is great as a specimen plant or in a group. Because of its tolerance to pruning, it is perfect for hedges and privacy screens.

Century Plant is an evergreen succulent forming a dramatic rosette of thick, fleshy leaves that can reach impressive proportions over time. The architectural foliage is steel-blue to grey-green, each leaf edged with sharp marginal spines and tipped with a formidable terminal spike, creating a striking sculptural presence throughout the year. The structure is dense and symmetrical, with leaves radiating outwards from a central point to form a bold, geometric shape that provides year-round visual interest in the garden. This plant is monocarpic, meaning it flowers only once in its lifetime, typically after reaching maturity which can take many years. When it does flower, a tall, branching stem emerges from the centre of the rosette, reaching several metres in height and bearing clusters of yellow-green blooms. After flowering, the main rosette dies, though offsets or "pups" often form at the base to continue the plant. Century Plant is particularly well suited to coastal areas, tolerating salt-laden winds and thriving in free-draining, sandy or gravelly soils. It is highly drought-tolerant once established, making it ideal for xeriscaping and Mediterranean-style planting schemes. It performs best in full sun and requires sharp drainage, making it unsuitable for wet or waterlogged sites.

The Azalea japonica, meticulously pruned into a spherical form, presents a botanical masterpiece that stands approximately one meter in both height and width. This exquisite ornamental shrub, celebrated for its captivating beauty, exemplifies nature's artistry.

Throughout the year, this Azalea variety showcases its allure through a symphony of colors and textures. In spring, it bursts into a profusion of radiant blossoms, each petal resembling a delicate work of watercolor art. Shades of pink, red, or white intermingle harmoniously, creating a captivating visual spectacle. The lush, glossy green foliage serves as an elegant backdrop to this floral spectacle.

As the seasons progress, the Azalea continues to enchant with its evergreen leaves, providing year-round interest. The meticulously maintained spherical shape adds a touch of formality and sophistication to any garden or landscape, making it an ideal choice for both traditional and contemporary settings. Its compact size ensures that it can be placed in various locations, from garden borders to pots on patios, offering versatility in garden design.

This one-meter-tall, one-meter-wide Azalea japonica embodies the harmony of nature and human cultivation, a living testament to the enduring appeal of this beloved ornamental shrub.

Corylus avellana is a vigorous, spreading, deciduous shrub or small tree with a dense, round crown. Its has ovate, toothed, hairy leaves, bright green in summer, yellow in autumn. Yellow male catkins appear in late winter and hang loosely from the bare branches. Female flowers are tiny, red and inconspicuous and are followed by edible nuts, hazelnuts, in autumn. Hazelnuts are popular and healthy nuts, full of unsaturated fats and proteins.

Corylus avellana can grow in any type of soil, as long as it is moist, airy and well-drained, but prefers moderately fertile, slightly alkaline soils. It likes full sun or partial shade. It is resistant to frost, wind, and air pollution. Flower buds can be damaged by early frost. Generally, pest-free and disease-free.

Corylus avellana is widely grown for commercial nut production. It has many named varieties. It is perfect for informal, cottage, and woodland gardens. Great for hedges and screens. Suitable for urban and roof gardens.

Pinus 'Marie Bregeon' on a clear stem is an elegant, dwarf variety of pine that is highly prized for its compact growth and vibrant appearance. This cultivar stands out with its bright, emerald green needles and a unique, clean stem that elevates its dense foliage, creating an eye-catching spherical bush at the top. It typically reaches an ultimate height of about 1-1.5 meters, making it a perfect choice for small gardens, rockeries, or as a focal point in mixed borders.

This slow-growing pine thrives in full sun and prefers well-drained soil, making it suitable for a variety of garden settings. It is particularly tolerant of dry conditions once established, requiring minimal maintenance. Gardeners often use Pinus 'Marie Bregeon' to add structure and year-round color to the landscape. Its distinctive form and manageable size also make it ideal for container planting, allowing it to be featured on patios or balconies.

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Ruby Glow' is a captivating deciduous shrub, renowned for its striking winter blooms and vibrant fall foliage. Standing at an impressive height of 150cm, this cultivar of witch hazel makes a stunning statement in any garden.

The most notable feature of 'Ruby Glow' is its unique flowers. During the late winter, when most of the garden lies dormant, this shrub bursts into life with an abundance of ribbon-like petals. These flowers are a deep, ruby-red color, exuding a spicy fragrance that adds a sensory delight to the garden. They contrast beautifully against the bare, woody branches, creating a striking visual display.

As the seasons change, so does the foliage of 'Ruby Glow'. In autumn, the leaves turn a fiery array of colours, from bright yellows to rich oranges and reds, before falling to the ground. This seasonal transformation adds year-round interest to the landscape.

This witch hazel variety thrives in well-drained, acidic to neutral soil and prefers a position in full sun to partial shade. It's relatively low maintenance, requiring minimal pruning, mainly to shape or remove any dead or crossed branches. 'Ruby Glow' is also known for its hardiness, making it a resilient choice for many gardens.

Pinus mugo 'Carsten's Wintergold' is a lovely, small, compact, broadly globose, low-spreading shrub with short, green, needle-like leaves in spring and summer, and rich golden yellow in cold weather, and small, inconspicuous cones. It is one of the best “winter gold” pines.

Pinus mugo 'Carsten's Wintergold' can grow in most soil types, alkaline, sandy, loamy, sandy, or clay, as long as they are well-drained. It thrives in full sun. Once established, it is resistant to drought. It is tolerant of coastal conditions but its colour is most intense in colder climates. Low maintenance plant, doesn’t require pruning. Dwarf mountain pine 'Carsten' is an exceptional shrub, perfect for brightening and adding colour to any cottage, urban, coastal, or rock garden. Excellent as a specimen or accent plant in small gardens. Great as a ground cover or for banks and slopes when planted in groups. Suitable for growing in containers.

Waldsteinia, also known as barren strawberry, is a low-growing, semi-evergreen perennial that forms a dense, spreading mat of foliage. The leaves are trifoliate, resembling strawberry leaves, glossy and dark green, turning bronze-tinted during colder months before fresh green growth emerges again in spring. This cultivar provides good ground cover, spreading steadily via runners to suppress weeds and create a uniform carpet over borders or beneath shrubs. In spring, bright yellow, five-petalled flowers appear above the foliage, similar in appearance to buttercups, adding a cheerful splash of colour at a time when many other ground cover plants have yet to flower. The flowers are held on short stems just above the leaf canopy, creating a pleasing contrast against the dark green foliage. This plant is particularly useful for shady areas, including underneath trees and shrubs where many other ground cover plants may struggle. It tolerates a range of soil types, including clay, and copes well with dry shade once established, making it a practical choice for difficult areas of the garden. It is also suitable for edging paths and borders due to its compact, spreading habit.

Common Hawthorn is a deciduous multistem tree, valued for its naturalistic, characterful structure with gnarled, spreading branches arising from multiple stems at the base. The foliage consists of small, lobed green leaves that provide a light, airy canopy. In spring the tree is covered with clusters of white, strongly scented blossom, typically appearing in May. This is followed in autumn by an abundance of small red berries known as haws, which persist on the branches and provide excellent seasonal interest as the foliage turns yellow before falling. Common Hawthorn is highly valuable for wildlife, with the spring blossom attracting a wide range of pollinating insects, while the dense, thorny branch structure offers excellent nesting shelter for birds. The autumn haws are an important food source for many bird species and small mammals as colder weather sets in, supporting biodiversity throughout the changing seasons. This hardy, adaptable tree tolerates a wide range of soil types including clay and loamy soils, and copes well in exposed or coastal locations. It is a reliable choice for naturalistic planting schemes, wildlife gardens, or as a specimen tree where seasonal interest and ecological value are desired.

Physocarpus opulifolius 'Magic Ball' is a compact, deciduous shrub forming a naturally rounded, dense ball shape, making it ideal for small gardens or as a low-maintenance structural feature requiring minimal pruning. The foliage is a rich, deep purple to bronze colour throughout the growing season, providing consistent colour contrast against green-leaved planting schemes from spring through to autumn. In late spring to early summer, small clusters of pale pink to white flowers appear, adding a delicate contrast against the dark foliage. These are followed by small, reddish seed pods that provide additional interest into the autumn months. The dense, twiggy growth habit offers shelter for small garden birds and beneficial insects, while the flowers provide a nectar source for pollinators such as bees. This shrub is well suited to a range of soil types, including clay and loamy soils, and tolerates both full sun and partial shade. Its compact, rounded form makes it particularly useful for low hedging, border edges, or as a specimen shrub in mixed planting schemes. Once established, it is relatively low maintenance and tolerant of urban pollution, making it a versatile choice for both rural and town garden settings.

The Manchurian Catalpa is a deciduous tree, trained here as a half standard with a clear stem leading to a rounded, dense head of growth, making it a good choice for smaller gardens or more formal settings where a compact crown is desired. The foliage consists of large, heart-shaped leaves that bring a bold, architectural quality to the tree throughout the growing season, emerging with a bronze tinge in spring before maturing to a rich green. In summer, the tree produces clusters of foxglove-like flowers in white, delicately marked with yellow and purple throbs within the throat, creating an attractive display against the large leaves. These are followed by long, slender bean-like seed pods that persist into autumn, adding further interest and giving the tree its common name. The dense, rounded canopy formed on a half standard frame provides a neat, well-proportioned shape suited to formal garden settings, courtyards, or as a specimen tree where a smaller, more contained form is preferred over a full standard. It is a useful tree for creating structure in borders or as a focal point in a lawn setting.

Trachelospermum Jasminoides is a vigorous, evergreen climber, with twining stems, oval, glossy, dark green leaves, bronze purple when they emerge, bronze-red in winter. Clusters of lovely, very fragrant, star-shaped, white to creamy flowers bloom in summer. Star jasmine grows best in fertile, well-drained soils in full sun, but it can tolerate partial shade and most soils and conditions.

It thrives in a south-facing positions and once established it's tolerant of drought and will need to be protected from cold, drying winds. It should be provided a strong support and pruned to promote bushy growth, generally, disease-free and pest-free it is very easy to grow and maintain, ideal for beginners.

Trachelospermum Jasminoides, with is highly fragrant flowers and attractive evergreen foliage, is a beautiful vine suitable for informal, cottage, coastal, and urban gardens. It is perfect as a ground cover or low clipped hedge, excellent for covering walls, fences, pergolas, arbours, trellises and also great for planting in pots.

Liquidambar styraciflua is a large, deciduous tree with narrow, upright crown when young, conical to rounded when mature, and aromatic, lobed, star-shaped, maple-like, dark green leaves that turn beautiful orange, dark red and purple in autumn. Clusters of small, inconspicuous yellowish flowers bloom in spring and are followed by hard, rounded, prickly gum balls in autumn that remain on the tree in winter. Liquidambar styraciflua is an adaptable tree, easily grown in various types of soils, except shallow and alkaline. It prefers moist, slightly acidic, well-drained soils in sunny, sheltered positions. It is tolerant of partial shade, cold, heat, and salty winds. Resistant to urban pollution. Low maintenance plant. Generally, pest-free and disease-free. Liquidambar styraciflua is a large ornamental tree, popular for its wonderful autumn foliage, but it needs a lot of space to grow. Suitable for coastal and urban areas. Tasty, thick sap is harvested from under the bark and used for various purposes.

Acer platanoides 'Emerald Queen' is a robust and fast-growing cultivar of the Norway maple, widely valued for its adaptability, dense canopy, and year-round visual appeal. This deciduous tree typically reaches heights of 40 to 50 feet with a broad, symmetrical crown that provides excellent shade, making it a popular choice for streetscapes, parks, and large gardens.

Its glossy, dark green leaves create a lush summer display and turn a brilliant golden-yellow in autumn, offering striking seasonal interest. 'Emerald Queen' is tolerant of urban conditions, including air pollution, compacted soils, and drought once established, making it ideal for city planting. It also requires minimal maintenance and is relatively pest-resistant.

This cultivar prefers full sun and well-drained soil but is adaptable to a wide range of soil types and conditions. Acer platanoides 'Emerald Queen' is perfect for those seeking a hardy, attractive shade tree with strong structure and reliable performance throughout the seasons.

Sambucus Golden Tower, commonly known as Golden Tower Elder, is a deciduous shrub with a distinctive narrow, upright, columnar habit, making it well-suited to smaller gardens where space is limited. Its finely cut, golden-yellow foliage provides strong colour contrast throughout the growing season, brightening borders and mixed plantings from spring through to autumn. The foliage emerges a vivid gold in spring and holds its colour well into summer, giving the plant sustained visual interest during these seasons. In early summer, flat heads of creamy-white flowers appear, providing a pleasant contrast against the golden leaves. These are followed by clusters of small, dark berries in late summer into autumn, adding further seasonal interest as the foliage begins to take on richer tones before leaf fall. The flowers are attractive to pollinating insects, while the berries provide a valuable food source for birds in the autumn months, making this shrub a useful addition to a wildlife-friendly garden. Its compact, upright form makes it a versatile choice for narrow borders, as a feature plant, or for adding height and colour within a mixed shrub bed.

Mimosa is an evergreen tree, grown here as a full standard with a single clear stem supporting a rounded, airy canopy. The foliage is finely divided and fern-like, silvery-grey to blue-green in colour, giving the tree a soft, feathery texture throughout the year. In late winter to early spring, the tree becomes covered in masses of fragrant, bright yellow, fluffy flowerheads, creating a striking display of colour at a time when little else is in bloom. This flowering period makes it particularly valuable for early-season interest in the garden. The blossom is attractive to early-flying pollinators, including bees, providing a useful nectar source when few other flowering plants are available. Mimosa prefers a sheltered, sunny position and is best suited to milder gardens, performing particularly well in coastal areas where it benefits from free-draining soil and protection from harsh frosts. It is not fully hardy in colder, exposed inland locations and appreciates a warm wall or sheltered spot in such areas. As a full standard, it works well as a specimen tree, bringing height, structure and seasonal colour to a planting scheme.

Crataegus laevigata 'Paul's Scarlet', commonly known as Paul's Scarlet Hawthorn, is a deciduous tree with a feathered form, retaining branches down to ground level for a full, well-furnished structure. The foliage consists of lobed, dark green leaves that provide a dense backdrop throughout the growing season. In late spring, the tree becomes particularly attractive as it produces double, rose-pink to deep red flowers borne in clusters along the branches. These blooms create a striking display and are a notable feature of this cultivar, distinguishing it from the species with its more vivid, showy colouring. The dense branching habit, which this cultivar retains from ground level upwards due to its feathered shape, makes it useful for screening or as a specimen tree where year-round structure is valued. The thorny branches also offer shelter and nesting opportunities for birds, while the flowers provide a source of nectar for pollinating insects during spring. This hardy tree tolerates a range of soil types, including clay, and copes well with exposed or coastal positions, making it a versatile choice for various garden settings.

The Autumn Flowering Cherry is a deciduous tree, grown here as a half standard with a clear stem and a rounded, spreading head of branches. The foliage emerges with a bronze tint in spring before turning mid-green through summer, developing yellow tones in autumn before leaf fall. This cherry is particularly valued for its flowering habit, producing clusters of semi-double, pale pink blossom that opens intermittently from late autumn through the winter months whenever conditions are mild, continuing into early spring. This extended flowering period makes it a useful source of interest during the quieter months in the garden, with branches often studded with delicate blooms against a bare winter backdrop. The early and prolonged flowering period provides a valuable nectar source for pollinating insects at a time of year when few other plants are in flower, supporting bees and other insects during mild spells in winter. As a half standard, this tree is well suited to smaller gardens, borders or as a specimen tree where its winter flowering display can be appreciated at close quarters. It performs well on most reasonably fertile, well-drained soils and tolerates a range of garden conditions.

Acer platanoides 'Royal Red' is a bold and elegant cultivar of the Norway maple, prized for its deep, rich purple foliage that remains vibrant throughout the growing season. This slow-growing, deciduous tree typically reaches a height of 12 to 15 meters with a spread of 10 to 12 meters, forming a broad, rounded crown. Its glossy, lobed leaves provide dramatic color contrast in gardens, parks, and streetscapes. In spring, small yellow-green flowers appear before the leaves, adding subtle seasonal interest. 'Royal Red' is highly adaptable, thriving in a range of soil types and urban conditions, including pollution and drought once established. It is an excellent choice for creating a striking focal point or providing bold, long-lasting color in the landscape.

Acer Autumn Moon, also known as Full Moon Maple, is a deciduous tree trained here as a quarter standard, giving it a clear stem with a rounded, spreading head of growth. The foliage is the main feature of this cultivar, opening in spring with soft orange-yellow tones before maturing to a soft golden-yellow through summer. The palmate leaves are deeply lobed, creating a delicate, textured canopy. In autumn, the foliage turns to vivid shades of orange and red, providing a strong seasonal display and making the tree a focal point in any garden setting. Small reddish flowers appear in spring, though these are not a significant ornamental feature and are followed by the typical winged seed pods common to maples. This tree is best suited to a sheltered position with dappled shade, as strong winds and intense midday sun can scorch the delicate leaves. It prefers moist, well-drained, slightly acidic to neutral soil and benefits from protection against late spring frosts. As a quarter standard, it works well as a specimen tree in smaller gardens, borders, or large containers, bringing structure and colour interest across multiple seasons.