AUGUST AVAILABILITY LIST 2008

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Minimum order: 8 trays x 60 plugs (480 plugs) - Order in multiples of 60 

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New ABELIA Grandiflora Aurea - A vigorous shrub with gold leaves and pink flushed, fragrant, trumpet-like flowers on arching branches. Height: 1.4m Flowers: June-Oct

ABELIA Grandiflora - A semi-evergreen medium-small shrub with dark green foliage turning bronze in winter. Pinkish-white tubular, fragrant flowers. Flowers: May onwards. Height: 3' - 6'

AUCUBA japonica Variegata - Evergreen, bushy, dense shrub grown for it's yellow spotted leathery leaves. Requires any reasonable soil. Will thrive in sun or shade. Height: 7ft. Spread: 7ft.

New BUDDLEJA davidii Black Knight - Dense spikes of fragrant, dark purple flowers which attract butterflies. In Autumn the pointed grey-green leaves turn a butter-yellow. Flowers: July - Sept. Height: 3m

BUDDLEJA x Lochinch - Violet-blue, fragrant, spikes to 20cm long are born in profusion from spring to autumn. Grey green, velvety foliage on a large arching shrub. Attracts butterflies. Height: 2.5m

BUDDLEJA Royal Red - Dense spikes of fragrant, deep 'royal-red' flowers which attract butterflies. In Autumn the pointed grey-green leaves turn butter-yellow. Flowers: July - Sept. Height: 3m

BUDDLEJA davidii White Profusion - Dense spikes of fragrant white flowers, which attract butterflies. In autumn the pointed grey-green leaves turn butter-yellow. Flowers: July - Sept Height: 3m

BUXUS microphylla Winter Gem - Excellent densely branched dark green evergreen suitable for small hedges. Retains foliage through winter. Height: 1.5m

CARYOPTERIS incana Blue Cascade - An abundance of fragrant, soft violet-blue flowers radiate from silvery-green, spicey-scented foliage. Flowers: late summer - autumn. Height: 90cm

CARYOPTERIS x clandonensis Kew Blue - A lovely, compact, low-branching, rounded bush with aromatic grey-green foliage and spikes of dark blue flowers. Flowers: Aug-Oct. Height: 80cm

CEANOTHUS Impressus - Evergreen shrub with blue flowers and tiny crinkly leaves. Flowers: Spring. Height: 2.5m

CEANOTHUS thyrsiflorus repens - Evergreen shrub with shiny green foliage covered with lots of attractive sky blue flowers. Flowers: Apr - Jul. Height: 20cm to 1m.

CISTUS x purpureus Alan Fradd - Large, white, papery flowers splashed maroon at the base of each petal. Rounded in habit with upright, sticky, red-flushed shoots. Flowers: Jun. Height: 1m x 1m

CHOISYA Aztec Pearl - Evergreen shrub has perky panicles of soft blush white flowers that have an intoxicating spicy scent with narrow, glossy green leaves. Height: 2.5m. Flowers: Apr-May and Aug-Sep

CHOISYA ternata - Rounded, medium-sized shrub with shining, dark green leaves. The star shaped, white flowers are sweetly scented. Flowers: Apr-May and Aug-Sep. Height: 1.5m - 2m

CISTUS x dansereaui Decumbens - Bears large, white flowers with crimson basal blotches on dark green, sticky foliage. Flowers: Jun-Jul. Height: 60cm x 1m

CISTUS x argenteus Peggy Sammons - Graceful shrub with large grey/green foliage large delicate, silvery pink flowers. Flowers: Jun-Jul. Height: 1m x 1m

CISTUS Purpureus - Dusty-green, rounded shrub with large hot-pink tissue-paper flowers spotted with crimson waves in Spring and Summer. Height: 1m x 1m

CISTUS cyprius Sunrose - The white flowers have a 'crinkled paper' texture and the resinous scent of the evergreen foliage surrounds the shrub on warm days. Flowers: Apr-Jun. Height: 1.8m

COTONEASTER Coral Beauty - This Cotoneaster is evergreen, with masses of cream-white flowers in early summer, followed in the Autumn with masses of orange red berries. Height/Spread: 30cm x 90cm

DEUTZIA x kalmiiflora Magician - Deciduous shrub with bright green leaves and a rounded habit bearing distinctive pink flowers with white edges that cover the plant. Flowers: June. Height: 90cm

DEUTZIA gracilis 'Nikko' - Ground cover like shrub, delicate white flowers in spring and excellent burgundy colour in Autumn. Mature Height: 36" - 5' (90cm - 1.60m)

EUONYMUS Emerald Cushion - Bushy habit. Dwarf mounded shrub densely clothed with emerald green foliage. Height: 1m

EUONYMUS fortunei Emerald n Gold - Evergreen bushette with bright green leaves edged yellow. Pinkish in winter. Clusters of tiny green flowers in May-June. Suitable for dwarf hedging. Height: 75cm

EUONYMUS fortunei Silver Queen - A dense, bushy, evergreen shrub with toothed, leathery, glossy, green long leaves with creamy coloured edges. Height: 2.5m - 3m. Spread: 1.2m - 1.5m.

EUPHORBIA grif. Fireglow - A dramatic plant with attractive dark green foliage, each leaf with a reddish midrib, while the flowers are bright fiery brick red and fairly long-lasting. Height: 90cm

FORSYTHIA intermedia - A vigorous, deciduous shrub with upright stems that slightly arch at the tips bearing a profusion of golden-yellow flowers in early spring. Height: up to 3m.

HALIMIUM libanotis - Upright habit with golden flowers and linear leaves. Flowers: May/Jun. Height & Spread: 1m x 50cm

HEBE Autumn Glory - Rich violet flowers on reddish-brown branchlets with rounded leaves, with a red margin, forming an open bush. Flowers: Jul-Oct. Height: 65cm.

HEBE Rakaiensis - Forms a tight dome of light green foliage. The leaves are spear-shaped, slightly glossy, light green bearing white flowers. Flowers: June - July. Height: Up to 90cm

HEBE albicans Red Edge - Tiny grey-green leaves with a striking red margin. In spring, leaves take on a pink hue. From summer to autumn pink flower buds open lilac and fade to white. Height: 45cm

HEBE Wiri Mist - An attractive rounded bush of fresh green foliage, growing up to 60cm, and carrying many sturdy white flower spikes throughout the summer. Flowers: Jun-Jul

HEDERA variegated - Ground-covering, glossy green leaves edged in creamy white variegations.

HEDERA alger. Gloire de Marengo - Light silvery green leaves, with variegated creamy white edges. Height: 4m

HYDRANGEA Leuchtfeuer - A rich motley of dark rose, purple-rose and deep purple carries on into the autumn with mid-green foliage. Flowers: summer to midsummer. Height: 120cm

HYDRANGEA macr. Madame Emile Moulliere - Large white mop heads/ Flowers: June onwards

HYDRANGEA macrophylla Masja - Compact variety with deep red mop heads from Mid Summer to Early Autumn. Height & Spread: 1m x 1.5m

HYDRANGEA Renata Steniger - Large blue mop heads. Flowers from June

New HYDRANGEA macrophylla Tricolor - Broad ovate variegated green, grey and pale yellow leaves with pale pink to white lacecap fowers in mid to late September. Height: 1.2 m - 1.8 m

New HYDRANGEA serrata Bluebird - Small deciduous shrub, mid-green leaves turning dark red in autumn, bearing blue lace cap flower heads,surrounded by large pale pink florets.

HYPERICUM x moserianum Tricolor - Variegated leaves white rose-pink and green on reddish shoots; overlapping golden petals with central tuft of pinkish stamens. Flowers: Jul-Sep. Height: 3-5ft

JASMINUM Beesianum - Dark green leaves with scented pinkish, red flowers. Height: 5m

JASMINUM Nudiflorum - (Winter Jasmine) Bright green, long flexible stems give an evergreen impression, bearing tiny bright yellow flowers. Flowers: Dec-Feb. Height: climber

LAVATERA Barnsley - Semi-evergreen, erect shrub that produces abundant clusters of hollyhock-like, blush white flowers with red eye. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 2m

LAVATERA thuringiaca Bredon Springs - Vigorous semi-evergreen with deep pink flowers and rich green foliage. Height: 2m.

LAVATERA Burgundy Wine - Semi-evergreen, erect shrub that produces abundant clusters of hollyhock-like, deep purplish-pink flowers and lobed, sage-green leaves. Flowers: June onwards: Height: 2m x 2m

LAVATERA maritima (Bicolor) - A semi evergreen shrub with grey leaves and stems. In summer it bears pink or lilac flowers with purple veins and centre. Height: 1.5m

LAVATERA olbia Rosea - Semi-evergreen, erect shrub that produces abundant clusters of hollyhock-like, deep pink flowers with lobed, sage-green leaves. Flowers: June onwards. Height: 40cm-50cm.

LONICERA Henryii - Evergreen, green glossy leaves bearing fragrant purplish-red flowers. Flowers: Early Summer

LONICERA Tellmaniana - Climber with deep green leaves. Bright clusters of copper orange flowers from late Spring to mid Summer. Height: 5m

LONICERA Japonica - Flowers start out white, sometimes tinged with purple, and age to yellow in their second day. Fruits are blue-black. Height: 30' in length.

LONICERA japonica Halls Prolific - Japanese honeysuckle. Dark green leaves with very fragrant white ageing to yellow, followed by blue-black berries. Height: 6m

LONICERA nitida Baggesens Gold - Excellent shrub, not at all like a Honeysuckle but with tiny golden, evergreen leaves and creamy-white flowers in Spring. Height: 1.5m. Spread: 1.5m

LONICERA Nitida Lemon Beauty - Evergreen shrub. Lime green foliage.

PASSIFLORA caerulea - Semi-evergreen climber produces beautiful flowers with pale pink petals, banded with blue or purple in summer. These are followed by egg-shaped, yellow fruit. Height: 10m

PASSIFLORA caerulea Constance Elliot - Great climber which produces a constant flow of exotic shaped flowers throughout the summer. Produces bright orange fruits. Height: 2-3m.

PASSIFLORA x violacea - A vigorous evergreen climber with dark green three-lobed leaves and large lavender-mauve flowers with a maroon centre. Height: 8-10m

PENSTEMON Apple Blossom - Blush pink, tubular, flowers from June to September on leafy stems, mid-green leaves, evergreen. Height and Spread: 45cm.

PENSTEMON Burgundy - Burgundy, purple, tubular, flowers, from June to September on leafy stems, mid-green leaves, evergreen. Height: 60cm

PENSTEMON Charles Rudd - An excellent variety with large magenta purple tubular flowers with pure white throats. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 60cm

PENSTEMON Hidcote Pink - Spikes of small, crimson-lobed, pale pink, foxglove-like flowers from July to October and lance-shaped, mid-green leaves. Height: 75cm

PENSTEMON King George V - Large flowers of salmon red with white throats streaked in cranberry. Narrow mid-green foliage. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 20" x 18"

PENSTEMON Osprey - Large cream and green trumpets with a soft pink mouth. Easy except in dry shade. Flowers: Jun-Oct. Height: 50cm

PENSTEMON Port Wine - Very dark in colour, the tubes being claret, the lobes a dark red and the throat white with claret guide-lines. Flowers: Jun-Sep. Height: 3' x 3'

PENSTEMON Pennington Gem - Bright pink flowers, pale creamy throat. Flowers Jul-Oct. 80-100cm

PENSTEMON Ruby Fields (Rich Ruby) - Red purple stems and large burgundy-red blooms with distinct white stamens in the lower throat. Flowers: Jun-frost. Height: 3' x 3'

PENSTEMON Snowflake - Tall elegant spikes, loosely packed with flared tubular flowers for persistant late season colour. Flowers: Aug-Sep. Height: 60cm

PENSTEMON Snow Storm - Semi-evergreen perennial with large white flowers, becoming pink tinged with brown anthers. Height: 60cm. Flowers: Jul-Oct

PENSTEMON Threave Pink - Narrow mid green serrated foliage with small red-purple flowers and white striped magenta throat. Flowers: Jul-Sep. Height: 30cm

PENSTEMON Alice Hindley - Very showy with large pale mauve flowers, an open white throat with the upper corolla of lilac fading to white in the lower tube. Flowers: Jul-Sep. Height: 120cm

PENSTEMON Evelyn - Small shell pink, tubular flowers, June to October. Narrow mid-green leaves, evergreen. Height 45cm. Spread 45cm.

PENSTEMON Firebird - Semi-evergreen perennial with large scarlet flowers from mid-summer onwards. Height: 75cm

PENSTEMON Mother of Pearl - Ivory, tubular, flowers, with a veined throat, from June to September on leafy stems, mid-green leaves, evergreen. Height and Spread: 60cm.

PENSTEMON Raven - Large, dark purple flowers with a white throat. Flowers: June onwards. Height: 60cm x 30cm

PENSTEMON Windsor Red - Long, bright-red flowers with a white throat, pencilled red. Purple-red stems. Flowers: May-Sep. Height: 75cm

PENSTEMON Garnet - Garnet-coloured trumpets above reliably hardy, narrow-leaved foliage. Flowers: Jun-Nov. Height: 75cm

PENSTEMON Purple Bedder - Deep-purple flowers with a purple throat, streaked dark-red above purple stems. Flowers: Jul-Sep. Height: 70cm

PEROVSKIA atriplicifolia Blue Spire - Greenish-gray foliage producing stems of delicate purple flowers along their entire length. Foliage is very aromatic. Flowers: Jul - Sep. 100cm

PHILADELPHUS Silver Showers - Fragrant, small, semi-double, cup shaped, white flowers which appear in clusters June to July. Height: 30cm - 40cm

PHILADELPHUS Virginal - Large panicles of semi-double, pure white flowers that are strongly scented of orange blossom. Flowers: Summer. Height: 3m

PHYGELIUS Indian Chief - Dark evergreen leaves. Pale red flowers in Summer. Height: 1 - 2m

PHYGELIUS Yellow Trumpet - Evergreen plant with pale green leaves. Creamy yellow tubular flowers in the summer. Flowers: July - October Height: 1m

POTENTILLA fruticosa Red Ace - Spreading with stunning bright red flowers with yellow centres above small grey green leaves. Height: 40cm. Flowers: Summer through to Autumn

POTENTILLA Tangerine - Bright orange flowers in shade, yellow in sun, with wide spreading with layered branches. Flowers: from early spring to late autumn. Height: 2' - 4'

RIBES sanguineum King Edward VII - A deciduous, spring-flowering, shrub with pendent clusters of deep crimson, tubular flowers, followed by spherical, blue-black fruit. Flowers: Apr-May. Height: 2m

RIBES sanguineum Pulborough Scarlet - A deciduous, spring-flowering, ornamental shrub with pendent clusters of dark red, tubular flowers which smother the bush in April. Height: 3m

SPIREA vanhouttei Gold Fountain - Unusual variety with golden-yellow scalloped edged foliage with clusters of white flowers in summer. Height: 1.5m Flowers: July - August

SPIREA Little Princess - Rosy crimson flowers

VINCA difformis Jenny Pym - Vigorous green groundcover with pink and white striped flowers. Flowers: March onwards.

VINCA major Surrey Marble - The central splash of golden-yellow diffuses outwards over the leaves with light red stems and bright blue flowers add interest.

VINCA minor Atropurpurea - Shade loving evergreen groundcover with distinct burgundy flowers. Trailing habit. Flowers: Apr-Jun. Height: 60cm Spread: 90cm

VINCA minor Aureomarginata - Creeping groundcover with gold variegated foliage and light blue flowers. Flowers: Apr-Jun. Height: 60cm. Spread: 90cm

VINCA minor Bowles Variety - Glossy, deep green leaves with lavender blue flowers. Excellent ground cover. Flowers: Apr-May. Height: 10cm-20cm

WEIGELA florida Red Prince - Showy red trumpet shaped flowers above dasrk green foliage. Flowers: May-Jun. Height: 1.5m

WEIGELA florida Nana Variegata - Rose-pink, funnel-shaped flowers appear singly or in clusters with variegated green leaves edged with creamy white. Height: 2.5 to 3'

WEIGELA Newport Red - Bright red flowers in May - June. Fresh green, well veined leaves. Height: 1.5m

WEIGELA foliis Purpurea - Fast growing, upright, deciduous shrub that has purple leaves and contrasting pink flowers shaped like a bell open in early summer. Height: 150cm

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