| Description | Protea neriifolia
Protea 'Limelight' is an eye-catching variety of Protea neriifolia, known for its soft lime-green flower heads edged with feathery black-tipped bracts. Blooming through autumn and winter, the flowers contrast beautifully with the plant’s slender grey-green foliage. Ideal as a feature plant, hedge, or cut flower, 'Limelight' offers bold colour, texture, and structure to low-maintenance gardens.
- Mature Size: Approx. 1.5–2m tall x 1–1.5m wide
- Flowering Season: Autumn to winter
- Uses: Feature plant, cut flowers, native gardens, screening, wildlife habitat
6" / 14 cm pot | Betula pendula youngii 'Weeping Silver Birch'
Weeping Silver Birch is a beautiful tree that is medium sized. Grows best in a position of full sun to partial shade. Silver Birch is great for larger gardens and parks etc. It's bark remains white at the base.
This tree is easy to grow and will thrive in most types of soil. This Weeping Silver Birch is deciduous and bears lovely small green leaves.
12" pot size, approximately 6ft tall. | Melissa officinalis 'Lime'
Lime Balm is a perennial herb that shares many characteristics with its cousins lemon balm and mint. It is as easy to grow with a distinct lime fragrance. When planted in the garden it enjoys a moist soil with dappled light. Like Mint, Lime Balm can grow quite quickly, spreading to its garden borders, so be sure to plant it in a contained garden bed or pot should this be an issue. Also like its cousins, Lime Balm will die down or back completely in the colder months, but rest assured it will return every year as lush and leafy as ever!
Lime Balm can be used in many culinary dishes as well as dried for tea or pot pourri! And if none of these tickle your fancy, this plant is absolutely gorgeous along garden edges in Cottage, Potted or Culinary gardens, adding that gorgeous lime fragrance when you brush past.
4"/10cm pot size. |
| Additional information |
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| botanical name |
Betula pendula ?Youngii?
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| height x width |
Height of the standard x 3m at 20 years
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| features |
Silver/white peeling bark, bright green small leaves, graceful long weeping branches
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| conditions |
Plant in full sun to part shade in well drained mulched soil
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| landscape use |
An excellent specimen for any garden, may be trimmed into more of an umbrella shape or left to weep to the ground
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| botanical name |
Melissa officinalis "lime"
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