| Description | Camellia japonica
Royal Velvet is a fantastic flowering garden shrub, that is very hardy and drought tolerant once established. Suitable for growing in containers in small courtyards. Flowers appear from Winter through to Spring with shiny dark green foliage. Grows to approximately 1.5-4m in height. | Grevillea lanigera
Grevillea Ellabella is a striking natural hybrid that makes for a lively groundcover. With its soft green leaves and stunning red spider flowers blooming from autumn to spring, it adds a vibrant touch to any landscape. This plant is perfect for adorning embankments or cascading gracefully over retaining walls. Thriving in full sun, it’s adaptable to a variety of soil types, including coastal areas, and is a favorite among nectar-feeding birds. Once established, it can handle dry spells and benefits from light pruning to maintain its compact shape. It typically reaches a height of 1 meter and spreads about 3 meters wide.
6"/14cm pot | Rosa ?Flower Carpet Appleblossom?
A vibrant low growing shrub, the Appleblossom carpet rose is a stunning addition to any garden. This rose produces an abundance of light pink blossoms in the spring with dark, compact glossy green foliage. It produces best results in well drained fertile soil and in a full sun to part shade position (more sun, more blooms!)
It is quite tolerant of pests and diseases and only requires a light prune during late winter to early spring.
Available online only, NOT in store | Rosa floribunda
Love Affair produces masses of fluffy pink flowers from spring through summer. It has vigorous upright growth, a light fragrance, and can handle frosts when established. Plant in full sun with well-drained soil.
| Prunus subhirtella pendula 'Rosea'
'Rosea' Weeping Cherry is a superb pink blossoming tree that has both spectacular floral and foliage beauty. Subhirtella weeping cherry's grow wider than their other relatives, which makes them the best choice for a weeping shade and feature tree. You can literally sit under an umbrella canopy of blossoms in the spring! And it's adaptable to a wide range of conditions including heat and moderate drought, the trunk only growing as tall as its graft height. A wonderful little landscape feature!
'Rosea' weeping cherry is best kept out of the wind so as to retain the blossoms and autumn leaves for longer. Weeping cherry's don't like soggy roots so plant in well draining soil or in a mound above the soil line to assist with drainage.
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16''/40cm pot - 6ft/1.8m graft | Hybrid tea 'Papa Meilland'
Papa Meilland produces velvety crimson blooms with a high centre, highly fragrant.
Available online ONLY - Not in store. | Camellia japonica
Japonica varieties of Camellia are better suited to shaded locations so that their foliage does not burn. They will be fine in morning sun, but not hot afternoon sun, and protect from high winds.
Great Eastern Camellia has dark green, glossy, evergreen leaves and from early winter to spring it will show gorgeous blooms of delicate bright red flowers. Upright growth, perfect for screens and hedging, formal gardens, pot plants and more. Water and mulch well. It will reach 3-4m. | Camellia japonica ‘Nuccio’s Pearl’
Camellia ‘Nuccio’s Pearl’ variety showcases large, semi-double blooms in creamy white with a delicate blush of pink at the petal edges, creating a luminous effect throughout late winter and spring. Perfect for shaded garden beds, hedges, or container displays.
- Pruning: Light pruning after flowering to shape and encourage bushy growth
- Flowering Season: Late winter to spring
- Mature Size: Approx. 1.5–2.5m high x 1.5–2m wide
6" / 14 cm pot | Rosa floribunda
Pumpkin Patch rose has a spectacular display of large, ruffles orange blooms from late spring.
It is known to have a sweet fragrance. It is frost tolerant when established and will require a full sun position with well-drained soil. |
| Content | | | | | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last twu centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | | | |
