| Description | Crassula muscosa
The Watch Chain Plant is a compact and quirky succulent with tightly stacked, scale-like leaves that resemble a tiny green chain. Its intricate texture and trailing growth habit make it a popular choice for pots, succulent arrangements, and hanging planters.
- Unique, chain-like foliage with fine, overlapping leaves
- Compact, trailing habit – ideal for pots and hanging baskets
- Low-maintenance and drought-tolerant
4"/10cm Pot | Lavandula angustifolia
Traditionally English Lavender was grown for its heavenly fragrance, used in oils and potpourri.
• Small, slender blue-ish purple flowers on tall stems above the foliage
• Grown in pots, as a hedge or in the cottage garden to attract bees and butterflies
• Tolerates drought and dry conditions, preferring well drained soils
6"/14cm pot | Nepeta cataria
Catnip is highly attractive to cats! Some cats like it so much that they lie on it, roll on it. Catnip grows as a loosely branching, low perennial. The plant has tiny white blooms.
Catnip can be grown in containers. For indoor cats, grow several pots that you can rotate between outdoors and indoors. Growing catnip requires a lot of light. This plant will be sure to make you the most popular house in the neighborhood for the cats!
One of the volatile oils in catnip is citronellol, which is useful as an insect repellent when crushed, rubbed or distilled. It's useful against both mosquitos and aphids.
Please order plants before attending the nursery to avoid disappointment.
4"/10cm pot size. | Quercus robur
English Oaks are famous for being solid and strong. The trunk and secondary branches are very solid and are covered in thick blackish-grey bark which makes it quite a sight.
The autumn foliage is a rich, dark brown. As the foliage is smaller than other deciduous trees, fallen leaves are not particularly difficult to eliminate and will not clog drains.
10"/25cm pot | Acer platanoides
The Norweigan Maple or Norway Maples are a classic maple tree that produces shoots that are green at first, soon becoming pale brown. In Winter they bear buds that are glossy red-brown. Norway Maples also produces beautiful small, greenish flowers that appear in early spring.
This tree can grow in a wide range of conditions making it quite popular in gardens and as a street tree. Will reach between 12 and 20 metres in 10 years. | Bidens ferulifolia
Common names: Tickseed, Burr Marigold, Beggarticks.
A low-growing perennial with bright yellow and red-centred five-petalled flowers appearing from late spring to autumn. It is a hardy plant being heat, frost and drought tolerant. Perfect for all garden beds, pots, containers and areas for cascading edges. Mature growth 50x50cm.
10"/25cm Hanging Basket | Ulmus parvifolia
The bark of the Chinese Elm is a real stand out feature, as the tree sheds it in patches, creating the effect of a tapestry of varying browns and greys. Foliage is lush, shiny and green, and the tree is semi deciduous, turning golden in autumn, and keeping its leaves in warmer areas. It has also been noted by many Aussie gardeners in recent years that native birds enjoy the fruit of the Chinese Elm. |
| Content | | | | | | | Video: Chinese Elms as a beautiful, medium size feature tree for a tough spot
|
| Additional information |
|
| height x width |
1m x 1m
|
| planting distance |
For border: 50cm
|
| features |
Narrow aromatic grey-green leaves and slender spikes of tiny fragrant purple flower spikes during summer
|
| conditions |
Sunny open position in well-drained soil, lavender will not tolerate wet feet, please read Wet Feet Kills, prune after flowering
|
| landscape use |
Borders, hedges, single specimens, containers, cut flowers, pot pourri, oil, lavender sachets
|
| | | | |
| botanical name |
Ulmus parvifolia
|
| height x width |
8m x 8m
|
| features |
Small glossy dark-green leaves with silvery serrated edges, they are semi evergreen with the leaves turning yellow and staying on the tree until late winter, the bark is very attractive and mottled grey, green, orange and brown
|
| conditions |
Very hardy, prefers full sun in well-drained soil, good for planting in poor soil
|
| landscape use |
Street planting, avenues, urban planting, specimen, group planting, avenues
|
|
