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Aleppo Pine is an evergreen conifer with a bushy, informal habit, producing dense, rounded growth rather than a traditional upright pine form. Its foliage consists of long, slender, bright to mid-green needles arranged in pairs, giving the plant a soft, feathery texture that distinguishes it from stiffer-needled pine species. The bark is attractive, developing a reddish-brown, fissured texture as the tree matures, adding interest throughout the year. This pine produces small, ornamental cones that mature over two years, turning from green to a glossy reddish-brown, adding subtle seasonal interest. Male and female cones appear separately on the same plant, with pollination occurring in spring. Aleppo Pine is notably tolerant of poor, dry, and sandy soils, making it a strong choice for coastal gardens where it withstands salt-laden winds and exposed conditions well. It also copes with drought once established, suiting free-draining sites. The dense bushy growth can provide shelter and nesting opportunities for birds, while the cones offer a food source for various seed-eating species, supporting local wildlife in the garden.

Acer palmatum 'Going Green' is a small, compact, dense, rounded, bushy deciduous Japanese maple tree with strong, upright stems, palmate, deeply-lobed bright green to lime green leaves, golden, orange, and scarlet in autumn. Inconspicuous, greenish flowers bloom in spring and are followed by attractive, red, winged seed pods in summer and autumn. Acer palmatum 'Going Green' can tolerate a wide range of soils as long as they are consistantly moist and well-drained, but prefers fertile, slightly acidic, moisture retentive, soils. It thrives in partial shade and leaf colour is best in partial shade, but can tolerate full sun. Lack of soil moisture and excessive exposure can cause leaf scorch. It is resistant to frost, but needs to be sheltered from strong winds. Low maintenance plant. Japanese maple ‘Going Green’ with its sculptural stems and striking autumn foliage can add beauty to any informal, cottage, or urban garden. Perfect as a specimen plant. Suitable for growing in containers.

James Grieve Apple is a hardy, deciduous tree suitable for cold climate zones. It is best grown in northerly areas with cold winters, moderate summer temperatures, and medium to high humidity. It’s an old apple variety, raised in 1893. in Edinburgh, Scotland, by James Grieve from pollination of Cox’s Orange Pippin and most likely Pott’s Seedling apple. Generally, a resilient plant, it needs some protection from harsh winds. It’s a good polliniser for other apples. It cannot be found in supermarkets because it is sensitive to pressure and easily bruised and cannot sustain supermarket handling.

James Grieve apples are medium to large, yellow-green, speckled and striped orange-red, with creamy, refreshing and very juicy flesh. At the beginning of season, it is sharp and perfect for cooking, retaining its shape when cooked. After a few weeks, it becomes milder and sweeter, like a firm pear in texture.

Cuprocyparis leylandii 'Gold Rider' is a golden variant of the popular Leyland Cypress. It’s a large, vigorous, fast-growing, coniferous, evergreen tree with narrowly upright habit and open, horizontal branches covered with bright-yellow tipped lime-green leaves.

Cuprocyparis leylandii thrives on a variety of soils, but prefers fertile, moist, well-drained soils, in full sun. It is resilient to frost, urban pollution and spray salt, therefore, suitable for growing in cities and in coastal areas. Generally, pest-free and disease-free.

Cuprocyparis leylandii 'Gold Rider' is one of the best golden conifers. Its beautiful colour does not fade or turn brown during winter but remains bright and fresh. Perfect for formal garden hedges. Very popular among gardeners because of its dense and fast-growing habit. Ideal for noise reduction, wind protection and for creating beautiful privacy screens. It can also be a nice specimen plant, but it must be regularly trimmed not to outgrow its space in small landscapes.

Malus ‘Red Sentinel’ is a small, deciduous tree with a rounded crown, medium-green leaves, yellow-bronze in autumn, and a profusion of fragrant, white flowers opening from dark pink buds in late spring. Clusters of cherry-like, glossy, deep-red fruits ripe in autumn and hang from bare branches in winter. Fruits are suitable for making jams and jellies. Attractive to birds and bees. Crab Apple 'Red Sentinel' can grow well in a wide range of soils, but prefers moderately fertile, medium moisture, well-drained soils. It thrives in full sun, but tolerates partial shade. Once established, it is resistant to drought. It can withstand frost, wind, and urban pollution. Self-pollinating plant that can be a pollinator for other plants. Resistant to scab. Malus ‘Red Sentinel’, with its lovely white flowers and attractive red fruits, is one of the most ornamental of crab apple varieties. Great as a specimen plant in small informal, cottage, or urban gardens. Suitable for culinary use.

Malus x zumi 'Golden Hornet', commonly known as Golden Hornet crab apple, is a deciduous tree trained in a feathered form, with lateral branches retained down to the base rather than a clear stem. This growth habit gives the tree a full, well-furnished structure from ground level upwards, making it a useful specimen where screening or year-round presence at lower levels is desired. In spring the tree is covered in masses of white blossom, opening from pale pink buds, creating a striking display across the canopy. The flowers appear in April and May and are followed by an abundant crop of small, golden-yellow crab apples that develop through summer and persist on the branches well into winter, providing strong autumn and winter interest once the leaves have fallen. The blossom is attractive to bees and other pollinating insects in spring, while the persistent fruit provides a valuable food source for birds during the colder months, supporting garden wildlife through the winter period. This tree is a reliable choice for adding structure, seasonal colour and biodiversity value to gardens and planting schemes of varying sizes.

Acer platanoides 'Crimson Sentry' is a medium-sized, narrowly upright, deciduous columnar with a dense, egg-shaped crown and beautiful foliage. Shiny five-lobed leaves are raspberry red in spring, dark red to purple throughout the summer, and bright red in autumn. Clusters of inconspicuous, yellow-green flowers emerge on bare branches before leaves in early spring and are followed by winged nuts, samaras. Crimson Sentry Norway Maple can grow in any type of well-drained soil, but it doesn’t like peaty soils and soils with stagnant groundwater. It is ideal for tough positions, even exposed coastal positions because it is resistant to heat, drought and harsh winds. Very resilient and low maintenance plant. Acer platanoides 'Crimson Sentry' is used in parks and as a solitary. It tolerates air pollution well, therefore, it is suitable for planting in cities and industrial areas. Because of its narrow form, perfect for smaller spaces and tighter locations.

Star Jasmine is an evergreen climber valued for its glossy, dark green leaves that provide year-round interest and coverage. The foliage often takes on bronze or reddish tints during colder months, adding seasonal variation to its appearance. This vigorous twining climber is particularly attractive during summer months when it produces an abundance of small, star-shaped white flowers with a strong, sweet jasmine-like fragrance. The flowering period typically runs from June to August, during which the plant becomes covered in blooms that create an impressive display against the dark foliage. The scented flowers are attractive to pollinating insects, including bees, making this climber a useful addition for gardeners looking to support local wildlife whilst enjoying its ornamental qualities. Star Jasmine is well-suited to training against walls, fences, trellises or pergolas, where its twining habit allows it to create dense coverage. It thrives in a sheltered, sunny position and benefits from some protection in colder areas, as it can be susceptible to frost damage in particularly harsh winters. It performs well in well-drained soil and is a popular choice for softening boundaries or adding vertical greenery and fragrance to outdoor spaces.

Malus domestica Blenheim Orange is a very old English apple variety. It’s an attractive, vigorous apple tree with pale pink flowers blooming in April and May and large, golden, flushed red, crisp, nutty, dessert and cooking apples with crumbly texture. Ready for harvesting in September and October. Malus domestica Blenheim Orange prefers moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil in full sun. It can tolerate partial shade, but the crop is best in full sun. It is suitable for northerly, cooler, rainier climates. Resistant to scab and mildew. It can withstand frost, but it needs to be sheltered from harsh winds. It’s a triploid, it needs two other varieties for pollination. Regular pruning is required. Apple ‘Blenheim Orange’ is a vigorous architectural tree perfect for informal, cottage, and urban gardens. Suitable for growing in containers. Fruits can be eaten fresh, cooked to purée or cooked to keep its shape. It is thought to be one of the best dual purpose apples.

Root Stock MM106 is a semi-dwarfing rootstock commonly used for apple trees. It offers a moderate growth rate, producing trees 10-15 feet tall when mature. Suitable for medium-sized gardens, MM106 ensures good fruit yield and adaptability to various soils. It's resistant to woolly apple aphid and moderately resistant to crown rot. Ideal for bush, cordons, and espalier forms. Ensure proper staking in early years.

Rowan is a deciduous tree with an upright, feathered habit, retaining a central leader with lateral branches clothed to the base, giving it a full, well-furnished appearance from a young age. The foliage consists of pinnate, fern-like leaves divided into numerous slender leaflets with serrated edges, creating a light, airy texture throughout the canopy. In spring, clusters of creamy-white flowers appear, providing an attractive flush of blossom across the tree. These are followed in autumn by bright orange-red berries borne in heavy clusters, which contrast well against the foliage as it turns shades of yellow, orange and red, making the tree particularly attractive during both spring and autumn. The berries provide a valuable food source for birds, including thrushes and waxwings, while the blossom is attractive to pollinating insects such as bees, supporting local wildlife and contributing to garden biodiversity. Rowan is a hardy, adaptable tree, tolerant of exposed and upland conditions, and performs well in a range of soil types including poorer, drier soils. Its feathered form makes it well suited as a specimen tree where a naturalistic, softly textured outline is desired, and it is particularly suitable for colder or more exposed sites.

Scots Pine 'Watereri' is a slow-growing, evergreen conifer with a distinctive bushy, dense habit, making it a compact alternative to the species form. Its foliage consists of short, stiff, blue-grey needles arranged in pairs, giving the plant a silvery-blue appearance throughout the year. The needles are retained year-round, providing consistent colour and texture to the garden regardless of season. The rounded, dense growth habit makes this cultivar particularly useful as a structural specimen plant or focal point, as it holds its compact shape without extensive pruning. Small, rounded cones may appear on mature specimens, developing from inconspicuous flowers in spring, though the plant is grown primarily for its foliage and form rather than any floral display. This pine tolerates a wide range of soil types, including poor, sandy or dry soils, and is well suited to exposed or coastal positions where many other conifers may struggle. It prefers full sun to maintain its compact, dense form and blue-grey colouring. Due to its slow growth rate and manageable size, it is well suited to smaller gardens, rockeries, or as part of a mixed conifer border where year-round structure is desired.

Maiden Grass is a deciduous ornamental grass forming a dense, upright clump of narrow, arching leaves with a distinctive fine silver midrib running through each blade. The foliage creates a graceful fountain-like structure, bringing texture and movement to borders throughout the growing season. In late summer and into autumn, feathery, pinkish-bronze flower plumes emerge above the foliage, maturing to silvery-white seed heads that persist through winter, adding interest to the garden during the colder months. The narrow leaves turn attractive shades of orange and gold in autumn before fading to beige, providing seasonal colour change. The upright, clump-forming habit makes it particularly useful for creating vertical accents or as a screening plant in mixed borders. The seed heads provide a source of food for birds during autumn and winter, while the dense foliage offers shelter for small garden wildlife. This grass tolerates a range of soil types and is well suited to sunny, open positions where its architectural form can be fully appreciated. It is also a good choice for coastal gardens, as it withstands exposure to wind. Once established, it requires minimal maintenance, needing only an annual cut back in late winter or early spring before new growth begins.

Pyrus calleryana 'Chanticleer', commonly known as the Chanticleer flowering pear, is a deciduous tree grown here as a full standard with a neat, uniform, conical shape and dense branching habit, making it a popular choice for formal planting schemes and avenues. In spring, the tree produces an abundance of white blossom before the leaves fully emerge, creating a striking display. The glossy, dark green leaves provide good summer cover and turn attractive shades of red, orange and purple in autumn, offering extended seasonal interest. Small, brown fruits may follow the flowers, though these are not a significant ornamental feature. The blossom provides an early source of nectar and pollen for bees and other pollinating insects in spring, supporting local biodiversity. This tree is tolerant of a wide range of soil types, including clay, and copes well with urban pollution and restricted root space, making it well suited to street planting, driveways and smaller gardens. Its narrow, upright form means it fits into tighter spaces compared with many other ornamental trees, while still offering strong seasonal appeal across spring and autumn.

Malus ‘Sun Rival’ is a small, semi-weeping, umbrella-shaped, deciduous tree with elegant, arching branches and mid-green leaves, yellow in autumn. Masses of lovely, lovely, white to soft pink flowers open from bright pink buds along the branches and bloom in spring. Flowers are followed by small, cherry-like, bright red fruits, in autumn. These attractive crab apples persist on branches throughout the winter providing food for wildlife. Crab Apple 'Sun Rival' is an adaptable plant that can grow in various types of soils, except waterlogged, but prefers deep, fertile, loamy, moist, and well-drained soils. It thrives in full sun, but tolerates partial shade. It can withstand urban pollution. Resistant to most of diseases. It’s a self-fertile plant that can be useful as a pollinator for other plants. Requires minimal pruning. Malus ‘Sun Rival’ is a gorgeous flowering tree, ideal for small, informal, cottage, or urban gardens. Perfect as a specimen or accent plant and suitable for growing in containers.

Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King', commonly known as the King's Golden Male Fern, is a semi-evergreen fern prized for its striking architectural form. The fronds emerge in spring with a soft golden hue before maturing to a rich green, and each frond tip and pinnae divide into distinctive crested, tasselled formations, giving the plant a highly ornamental, feathery appearance. The fronds are arranged in a shuttlecock-like rosette, creating a dense, upright clump that holds its structure well throughout the growing season. In autumn the foliage takes on bronzed tones before dying back in colder conditions, though in milder areas much of the foliage persists through winter. This fern thrives in shady or partially shaded positions and is well suited to damp, humus-rich soils, making it an excellent choice for woodland gardens, shaded borders or damp corners where other plants may struggle. It tolerates a range of soil types including clay, provided moisture is retained, and works well as underplanting beneath trees and shrubs. Its dense, textured growth habit provides shelter for small garden creatures and contributes to a naturalistic, layered planting scheme.

Austrian Pine is an evergreen conifer valued for its dense, bushy habit, making it a popular choice for structural planting. Its needles are dark green, stiff and arranged in pairs, creating a thick, textured canopy that provides year-round interest and screening. The bushy form naturally produces multiple stems and dense branching from low down, giving good coverage and a solid, substantial presence in the landscape. The tree produces small yellow-brown male flowers in spring, followed by the development of oval cones that mature over two years, turning from green to a glossy brown. These cones add additional textural interest throughout the seasons and remain on the tree for some time before dropping. The dense foliage offers shelter and nesting opportunities for birds, while the cones provide a food source for various seed-eating species. Austrian Pine is notably tolerant of exposed and coastal conditions, withstanding strong winds and salt-laden air with ease. It also performs well on poor, chalky or sandy soils where other conifers may struggle, making it a versatile choice for challenging sites. Its resilience and adaptability make it well suited to windbreaks, screening and exposed garden positions.

Acer platanoides 'Royal Red', commonly known as Royal Red Norway Maple, is a deciduous tree grown here as a full standard with a strong, upright trunk and a well-balanced, rounded crown. Its foliage emerges deep purple-red in spring and holds this rich colouring throughout summer, providing a striking contrast to green-leaved trees and shrubs nearby. In autumn, the leaves deepen further, often turning a vivid crimson or bronze-red before falling, giving the tree notable seasonal interest across three seasons. In spring, small yellow-green flowers appear in clusters before the leaves fully unfurl, offering an early source of nectar and pollen for bees and other pollinating insects. These are followed by the typical winged seeds (samaras) characteristic of maples, which provide a food source for birds and small mammals later in the year. The tree forms a dense, broad canopy once established, making it useful for providing shade or acting as a specimen tree within a garden or landscape setting. It is tolerant of a range of soil types, including clay, and adapts well to urban or exposed planting positions, making it a versatile choice for both garden and street planting schemes.

Ostrich Fern is a deciduous fern forming an upright, shuttlecock-shaped clump of fronds. The bright green, finely divided fronds arch outwards from a central crown, creating a vase-like structure that gives the plant its common name. Fresh growth emerges in spring, unfurling from tight fiddleheads into tall, feathery fronds that remain attractive through summer before dying back in autumn as temperatures drop. Separate from the sterile outer fronds, shorter fertile fronds appear in the centre of the clump later in the season. These turn dark brown and persist through winter, adding textural interest to the garden once the main foliage has died back. This fern spreads by underground rhizomes and can form colonies over time, making it useful for naturalising in larger borders or woodland-style plantings. It is particularly well suited to shady positions and thrives in moist, humus-rich soil, making it an excellent choice for damp or boggy areas where many other plants struggle. It performs well alongside streams, ponds or in low-lying parts of the garden prone to waterlogging. Once established, it requires little maintenance beyond removing dead fronds in early spring before new growth begins.

Malus Domestica 'Idared' is a spreading tree of upright habit with ovate, toothed, glossy, dark green leaves, and slightly fragrant, pale pink flowers blooming in April to May. Flowers are followed by medium-sized, spherical, mostly red apples with firm, juicy, slightly sour flesh. It crops regularly and abundantly in October. It can be stored until March. Several weeks after harvesting, its sharp flavour becomes milder and sweet. Malus Domestica 'Idared' grows best in fertile, humus-rich, neutral, loamy or sandy, moderately moist, well-drained soils. It thrives in full sun, but is tolerant of partial shade. It is self-fertile and its pollination needs the presence of other variety that blooms at the same time. Pollination group 2. It is resistant to frost, but needs to be sheltered from harsh winter winds. Regular pruning and fruit thinning is required. Apple 'Idared' is a lovely tree mostly grown for its fruit. Excellent for eating fresh, and making apple sauces and pies. Great addition to any garden.

Corkscrew willow is a deciduous tree valued for its distinctive, contorted branches and stems that twist and curl throughout the crown, giving year-round structural interest, particularly striking in winter once the leaves have fallen. As a feathered specimen, growth is retained from close to ground level, creating a dense, bushy outline rather than a clear, lifted stem. The foliage is narrow, bright green and slightly twisted, turning yellow before falling in autumn. In spring, the tree produces slender yellow-green catkins, which appear alongside the emerging leaves and provide an early source of nectar and pollen for bees and other pollinating insects. The combination of twisted stems and fresh green growth makes this tree particularly attractive through spring and into summer, while the bare, curling branch structure becomes the main feature once the leaves drop. This willow benefits wildlife more broadly by supporting insects, which in turn provide food for birds. It is well suited to moist, loamy or clay soils and performs well in wet or occasionally waterlogged ground, making it a useful choice for damp garden areas, pond margins or low-lying sites where many other trees would struggle.