| Description | Prunus x yedoensis
Prunus × yedoensis, commonly called Yoshino cherry, is a graceful ornamental flowering cherry tree that typically grows 9-12m tall with a spreading, broad-rounded, open crown. Fragrant white (sometimes tinged pink) flowers, black cherries are followed, which are bitter to humans but loved by birds. Serrate, dark green leaves, Foliage turns yellow and with bronze tints in fall.
Grow in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Best in full sun. Tolerates heat and humidity, but not drought. Adaptable to a wide range of soils. | Cistus ladaniferus
The gum rock rose (Brown-Eyed Rockrose) is an evergreen shrub that flowers with white, red spotted flowers during the summer. It grows to a max 1 meter, and is a good plant for poor soil which is drought tolerant once established. Low maintenance.
6" pot size. | Aucuba japonica variegata
Aucuba Gold Dust produces dense, glossy foliage that is splattered with a pleasing yellow shade. Aucubas can be planted near nearby tree roots, and respond well to pruning.
Combine it with yellow-blooming or variegated plants for great colour harmonies. Grows best in part to full shade. Frost hardy. Grows to approximately 2m in height. | Rosa Hybrid Tea
Double Delight has bushy growth and large masses of double blooms. They stand out with their creamy white petals centered with yellow, featuring a red trim! Repeat flowering and fragrant. Requires little maitenance when established.
8''/20cm pot - approx 2ft tall (60cm) |
| 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 two centuries although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renown for their flowers and beauty they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit, the rose hip which can be made into an old fashioned jam or for garden uses such as ground covers and hedging.
Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses right up there with your climbers and weeping varieties, amongst all their beautiful colour, variety and hardy nature there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. |
