Acer Palmatum ' Bloodgood' is a deciduous Japanese Maple tree. Bloodgood is a popular choice for residential gardens because of its size, it has a maximum height of 5 metres and and maximum spread of 5 metres. The tree has deeply cut dark red / purple leaves which remain red for most of the summer, turning bright red in the autumn. 
It develops on multiple branches which gives a strong sculptural element to the shape of the tree - it can look lovely when used for night time illumination of the garden.
Acer Palmatum Bloodgood is hardy but prefers partial shade. Back-fill with soil mixed with peat substitute and a suitable fertiliser.
Paramount Plants has a wide selection of different varieties
of Japanese Acers
View our Blog Post on Japanese Acer Trees

Acer Palmatum Diss Garnet is one of the world's most popular of the Japanese Maple cultivars.
One of the smaller Japanese Maples, it is a stunning tree with red leaves. Forming a dome shaped compact tree with deep cut filigree leaves - starting out purple in the early part of the season and changing to bronze and then shades of orange and red in the autumn. 
It is relatively slow growing and its size, Max Height 3m. Max Spread 3m. makes it the perfect choice for the smaller garden or for container growing - care must be taken not to let it dry out.
Acer Palmatum Diss Garnet is a deciduous tree which is fully hardy and unusually for Acers, be grown in full sun. 
Growing Tip: Back-fill with soil mixed with peat substitute and a suitable fertiliser - likes neutral / acidic soil.    
Acer Palmatum Diss Garnet has an RHS Award of Garden Merit
View our Blog Post on Japanese Acers

Himalayan Birch, Betula Jacquemontii or White Stem Birch is also known as Jacquemonts Birch after the French naturalist - a tall upright fast growing tree that can be grown in moist soils. Similar to Silver Birch but this tree is better as white stems.

The Himalyan Birch is a deciduous tree and is one of the most popular trees for sale at Paramount Plants. Originating from the Himalayas it's unusual bright white bark provides interest in the winter landscape.
Betula Jacquemontii has dark green leaves which turn to ochre yellow in the autumn and  each Spring the white birch tree produces attractive yellow brown catkins - this tree provides valued all year interest.

Photo below with the tree during the Summer months in foliage.

See also multistemmed betula jacquemontii
 

Butia Capitata Hardiest feather palm. Graceful silvery-blue feather like leaves arch outwards. For best results grow in well-draining soil in well-sheltered gardens near larger trees for protection.  Preferably grow in pots.  

Read our blog for more information on palms and many other plants.

Buxus Sempervirens is commonly known as the box or boxwood shrub. It is a bushy, rounded shrub or small tree with glossy, dark green leaves, which are notched at the tips.

Buxus Sempervirens is slow growing. It should be trimmed lightly twice a year to keep it in shape.

The Buxus boxwood is hardy and likes sun or partial shade. Water thoroughly before planting.

Topiary: You may also be interested in Buxus Balls and we also  striking Buxus Box Cones.

Buxus Sempervirens or Boxwood is a small leaved dark green evergreen shrub most commonly used for creating Box Topiary Trees.
Slow growing, Box can be easily trimmed into Box cones, pyramids, spirals and lollipop shapes.
It is one of the most popular shrubs for Topiary, it is a very hardy plant which creates fantastic shapes in the garden.
Paramount is renowned for its Topiary range for sale at the nursery in North London.

Camellia Japonica, more commonly known as camellia, is an evergreen flowering shrub with masses of colourful flowers over fine glossy foliage.

Camellias tend to flower in early spring. After flowering, it retains is role as a decorative evergreen shrub for the remainder of the year due to the luxuriant dark green foliage.

As well as making a striking stand-alone flowering shrub, Camellia Japonica can also be used as an evergreen screening hedge. View our Blog feature on Spring Flowering Shrubs.

Camellias prefer acidic well drained soil so you will need to use ericaceous compost.  Other camellias include:

Camellia Japonica Erebo

Camellia Japonica Kramers Supreme

Specialists in Evergreen Trees and Trees suitable for screeening.

Camellia Japonica Erebo - evergreen flowering shrubs.  Beautiful lilac / mauve flowers appear from early to late Spring.  This is a slow growing camellia shrub which is easy to grow and maintain.

Paramount Plants have a wide selection of evergreen flowering camellias available to buy online or in our Plant Centre.  Dark green foliage and mauve-purple flowers Camellia Japonica Erebo is an easy to grow variety with lots of strong flowers.  Suitable as a luxurious hedge or ornamental plant in a pot or planted in the ground. 

Prefers acidic soil so either keep in a pot or plant using ericaceous compost and feed regularly with ericaceous feed.

Other varieties include:

Camellia Japonica Dr Burnside

Camellia Japonica Kramer Supreme 

Camellia Japonica Spring Festival

Celtis Australis is also known as the Lote Tree or European Hackberry or European Nettle Tree. It has elegant long leaves rough on top with a furry underneath. The leaves are a grey green colour and fade to yellow in the autumn. The tree is deciduous and has a smooth grey bark which develops with age to a corky appearance. The tree has flowers small and green and fruit, dark berries in clusters which attract birds and other wildlife. The Lote Tree prefers warm, well-draining soils and can grow in poor conditions.  Fairly drought-tolerant it prefers a dry area. Available in sizes from 5m at Paramount Plants and Gardens - Max height 20m.

More from our range of Specimen Trees - also now available  to buy online. 

Chamaerops Humilis is a hardy fan palm producing multiple stems creating a bushy appearance. Stiff dark green fan shaped leaves. It is frost and cold tolerant and is an essential plant for palm-lovers. The yellow flowers produced in early Summer are followed by green fruits which turn purple.

More on tropical plants on our blog. 

Chamaerops Humilis Cerifera is a hardy palm tree suitable for growing in the UK.  Originating from Morocco in North Africa this extremely hardy palm is also known as the Blue Mediterranean Fan Palm.

The New Zealand Cabbage Palm is the common name for the Cordyline Australis tree. This is an erect, palm-like tree with arching narrow green leaves. This tree belongs to the Dracaena family.
A mature Cordyline Australis trees bear plumes of tiny, creamy white flowers, followed by white or blue-tinted berries. It reaches a maximum height of 5 metres with a maximum spread of 1.5 metres.

The Cordyline Australis flowers from June to July and fruits in August. It prefers full sun/partial shad and will tolerate any soil except soil that is waterlogged.  The New Zealand Cabbage Palm is hardy and fast growing. It is drought tolerant and also wind and salt tolerant.

The Cabbage Palm is just one of the many specimen palm trees available at Paramount Plants - the palm tree specialists.

Also available Cordyline Australis as multi-stemmed ie more than one branch growing from the base of the plant.   
Please also read about caring for Cordylines on our blog

Cordyline Australis - more commonly known as the New Zealand Cabbage Tree.
A Hardy Palm like tree with strap like long green leaves can grown quite tall - is hardy enough for the UK climate.
Produces a white flower in the summer months.
Paramount specialises in Hardy Palms - we have many varieties for sale at the nursery in Crews Hill, North London.

Read more on how to care for Cordylines in the UK Climate.

Cordyline Australis Purpureum is commonly known as the Purple leaved New Zealand Cabbage Palm.
This beautiful erect, palm-like tree has arching narrow, purple leaves. Mature trees bear tiny, creamy white flowers, followed by white or blue-tinted berries.
Grows to a Max Height 3m to 10m. Max Spread 1m to 4m.
Flowers June to July. Fruits August. 
Paramount has a great selection of hardy palms including Cordyline Australis

Please view our Blog post on Looking After Cordylines

Japanese Cedar, latin name Cryptomeria Japonica.
A coniferous shrub with mid to dark green leaves which spiral around the branches. This low growing shrub is very slow growing.  Max height is around 1.4m height so the extra large cryptomeria shrubs available for sale at our plant centre & our online shop are full sized.  Winter foliage is bronze changing back to dark green in the Spring and Summer months.
Growing Tip: Prefers full sun/partial shade, this hardy shrub will grow in most soils even very acidic soil but needs to be protected from very cold winter winds.
Also available as a topiary shrub.

Topiary - Cupressus Macrocarpa Goldcrest 3 balls 
 Goldcrest is a beautiful, ornamental golden coloured, conifer with a lovely citrus scent. Easily grown for the patio or for container growing (must be kept well watered) this conifer is particularly well adapted for use as a topiary tree. These stunning specimens can add a new dimension to your garden design. 
Goldcrest conifers can be trimmed into many shapes - this design is between 2 - 3 metres high and is clipped into 3 diminishing sized balls. The three ball shape is very easily maintained by trimming twice annually.
Goldcrest Column and Ball shapes are also for sale in London and online at Paramount Plants topiary nursery.

Cupressus Leylandii trees are often referred to as simply Leylandii, these are fast growing evergreen conifers that are mainly used for hedging and evergreen screening.  Cupressus trees make excellent roosting places and may also be used as nest sites for birds such as greenfinches, robins, dunnocks, wrens.

Cupressus leylandii are excellent screening trees if correctly maintained. Leylandii should be trimmed back twice or three times each year to keep their shape. 
Leyland Cypress should not be cut back too hard beyond the green foliage as they do not re-shoot from wood. So they need consistent trims each year rather than letting them go and cutting back hard.
Leylandii trees are still the fastest and most cost effective way of achieving a neat tall hedge or screen in the garden.
They grow up to 1m per year (2-3ft). 
We also recommend Thuya Plicata for Hedging and Screening 
View our Blog post on Using Plants for Screening

Cupressus Topiary Trees are available in Spirals and 3 Ball shapes.  Now in stock these Cupressus Leyland Cypress Pon Pon Trees.  Beautifully shaped like cloud trees and easy to maintain.

Prune twice per annum and keep well-watered.   Ideal for pots or to plant into the ground.

Italian Cypress Trees - latin name Cupressus Sempervirens is also sometimes known as the Mediterranean Cypress or the Tuscan Cypress.
No other tree epitomises the Tuscan landscape as this tall, narrow coniferous tree - its pencil shape is often used in Italianate garden design and in formal gardens around the world.
Cupressus Sempervirens is a beautiful evergreen upright conifer that is easy to grow in our UK climate, it is hardy and tolerates all conditions, grow it as a specimen tree in its own right or if a group are grown alongside each other it makes for an extremely effective, yet very elegant evergreen screen.

Please read more about Tuscan Cypress on our blog.

Feijoa Sellowiana is an evergreen tree or shrub with silver grey leaves (similar to an olive). Feijoa is fairly drought tolerant with unusual flowers with pink petals and crimson fluffy tentacles inside.
Copper coloured gnarled bark on trunk and stems. Fully Hardy.
Feijoa as a shrub habit can make a stunning looking evergreen hedge when planted as a group, it is easily pruned into shape and specimen shrub size can give instant evergreen screening.

Ilex Aquifolium - evergreen holly shrubs aka English Holly is available to buy at our Plant Centre.  These evergreen shrubs have wonderful glossy sharp tipped leaves and brilliant red berries in the late autumn and winter months. Fully hardy this shrub makes an good hedge or can be used as an ornamental and shaped as a pyramid or globe.  Grows well in all soil conditions.  Other Hollies available to buy include Ilex Nellie Stevens

Ilex Nellie Stevens is a hybrid of the Horned Holly Ilex Cornuta and Ilex Aquifolium.  Nellie Stevens Holly an evergreen Shrub growing to 4m by 5m - fairly slow growing. This shrub is adaptable to all soil types although prefers slightly moist areas. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.

Attracts birds and wildlife to feed or nest

Trachelospermum Jasminoides is also known as the Star Jasmine or Evergreen Jasmine.
This beautiful twining evergreen climber has glossy dark green leaves, turning bronze-red in winter. Pure white, heavily fragranced flowers from mid to late summer. This is the variety of Jasmine flowers that are used in perfume manufacture. 
Banks of this plant grow wild in the Mediterranean, particularly in the South of France - filling the air with their heady scent. 
Max Height 5m. Flowers July to August. Full sun/partial shade. 

Ligustrum Japonicum is known as Evergreen Privet or Wax Leafed Privet. Originating from Japan and Korea this tall full standard tree has thick covering of shiny, dark green leaves all year round making it an excellent evergreen screening plant. Because of its tall elegant trunk the mature evergreen trees work particularly well when used as stilted hedging for above the fence line screening. White flowers are followed by shiny black fruit in the late Summer. 
Handy Tips: Trim to shape in late winter; if you clip during the late summer you will lose the flowers and the berries.

Ligustrum Japonicum Variegated Tree is a beautiful evergreen tree. Leaves are thick and shiny with bright green and cream variegation it has a lovely light presence and will brighten the darkest corners of a garden. The evergreen leaves give year round interest and the white small flowers in late summer become shiny black berries.
Ligustrum is also known as Japanese Privet and is incredibly adaptable and can be used as an evergreen specimen tree, for hedging or for topiary.
Clear stem height 2m plus 1.5-2m head - known as Full Standard Trees these clear stemmed trees create a bushy hedge effect above the fence line.
Also available as dark green trees Ligustrum Japonicum for the same special offer price
Photinias go well with Ligustrums view our Photinia Red Robin Trees for sale.

Magnolia Liliflora Susan is a hardy bushy tree, deciduous, with dark green leaves. Magnolia Susan is a showy Magnolia with sumptuous, goblet-shaped, very dark purple-red flowers produced in late spring / early summer and intermittently into autumn. 
Max Height 3m. Max Spread 1m.
Full Sun/Partial Shade. 

Paramount Plants is a specimen tree nursery with a special interest in Magnolias, large stocks of Magnolia Grandiflora to buy from the nursery in North London, UK

Magnolia Stellata Rosea.  The pink star Magnolia is a deciduous shrub with the same shaped flowers as Magnolia Stellata but in pale pink rather than the customary pure white flowers.

Our mature specimens are circa 10-15 years of age and they are already 2m in height priced at a very reasonable £125.00, they give instant impact. These shrubs are slow growing and buying smaller versions will take years to mature to this size.

We have a large selection of flowering Magnolias including Magnolia Soulangeana and Magnolia Heaven Scent which is also an early pink flowering variety for sale at our North London garden centre in Crews Hill. Order Magnolias online - we offer nationwide UK delivery.

Olea Europea - Olive Tree
 Paramount Plants is a specialist Mediterranean nursery with an extensive selection of olive trees for sale, ranging from young olive trees through various sizes to the large mature specimens and full standard olive trees.
Olea Europea is an evergreen rounded tree with grey-green leathery leaves and tiny fragrant, creamy white flowers followed by edible green fruits ripening to black. The flowers appear from June to August and the fruits develop in August. Olive Trees need full sun and they are frost hardy. They prefer well-draining soil and will do well in a large pot or container.
Century Old Olive Trees for Sale
Paramount has a wonderful range of very mature Olive Trees (up to 100 years old), these are very popular for those wanting an instant garden effect - with their gnarly trunks and wide girth - they can appear to have 'always been there' in the garden landscape.
Our specimen Olive trees are frost hardy, tolerating quite cold winter temperatures. These ancient Olive trees are very large specimen trees and can reach up to 100cm in the girth of the trunk.

View our Blog post on Olive Trees
 

Photinia Red Robin is a popular evergreen shrub and is also known as Photinia Christmas Berry - latin name Photinia Fraseri
This upright, ever green shrub is frost hardy, very easy to grow and will thrive in most locations. Photinia Red Robin has wonderful year round interest and works very well as an evergreen hedging plant with a maximum height of 4 metres and a spread of 2 metres. 
Red Robin's attractive young leaves are bright red in colour gradually turning green as the leaves age - so the shrub has a wonderful range of leaf colours throughout the growing season, usually May - June. It also forms small white flowers and fruits in August.
If used as for evergreen hedging and pruned regularly - it will keep the new growth coming and encourage the red coloured leaves for which this shrub is renowned.
As it is easy to shape, Photinia is also a popular choice of shrub for use in topiary - Red Robin Half Standard or Photinia Red Robin Full Standard for a screening tree.
Photinia Red Robin is one of Paramount's most popular shrubs. We have a wide range of suitable plants for evergreen screening at the nursery in North London.
 

Photinia Full Standard Tree also commonly known as Photinia Red Robin.
This hardy beautiful full standard (clear stemmed) tree with the evergreen foliage of the Photinia, bright red in early Spring and further red growth is encouraged by gentle trimming.
An attractive tree is used often for evergreen screening because it is tall above the fence line and has such attractive foliage.

Photinia's are amongst the most popular trees and shrubs at Paramount - also for sale is Photinia Red Robin Espalliered and Photinia Red Robin as Topiary.

Please read our blog post on Growing Photinias

Specialists in Evergreen Trees and Trees suitable for screeening.

Photinia Red Robin is a very popular plant used for hedging, tall screening trees and topiary.  It is one of our bestselling plants at our plant centre because it is easy to maintain, the foliage changes red in Spring, it flowers and has a medium growth rate.

It is very hardy and always looks good at any time of year.

These beautiful shaped trees have been formed as pom poms or cloud trees.  The "cloud" part of the tree will continue to grow but there will not be any significant growth on the stems.

Other photinia topiary available photinia red robin half standard formed in a lollipop shape.  As with the cloud trees above they look great outside a front door for a formal look.

Of all the Bamboos - Phyllostachys Aurea or Golden Bamboo performs as one of the best large, clump forming variety of bushy Bamboo for our climate here in the UK, where it is fully hardy. 
Golden Bamboo produces luscious green canes which as its name suggests become more golden yellow as the plant gets more mature. Phyllostachys Aurea is also sometimes commonly referred to as Fishpole Bamboo and will only achieve it's full height and spread in the more sheltered settings.
Bamboo is extremely popular in British gardens and is often used as an evergreen screening plant - they work well when planted as a bamboo hedge - offering a tropical feel to the garden design whilst successfully screening off any undesirable areas.
Paramount has a wonderful selection of Bamboos to buy and large very bushy, mature Bamboo Plants up to 6-7 metres in height - also available from our online shop.
Read more about bamboo on our blog...

Black Bamboo or Phyllostachys Nigra is a popular choice from the range of Bamboos at Paramount Plants. This dramatic tall clump forming bamboo has very striking, beautiful black stems and is easily maintained.  
Phyllostachys Nigra is a hardy evergreen which is ideal as an ornamental plant in an exotic garden design scheme, or is very useful as an elegant bamboo hedge with its light green leaves and contrasting black stems.
For these attributes Black Bamboo plants make a modern style hedge and are great when used as evergreen screening plants. 
NOTE: This plant has RHS Award of Garden Merit
Read more about Bamboo on our blog...

An upright, evergreen shrub with glossy dark green leaves, red when young, turning pink, white and finally green. Clusters of pendent white flowers in spring. Max Height 2m. Max Spread 1m. Flowers April to May. Full Sun/Partial Shade. Frost hardy.

See also Pieris Flaming Silver

Pieris Flaming Silver are low growing brightly coloured evergreen shrubs.  Foliage has a variegation which appears silvery in bright sunlight.  Partial Shade or Shady areas recommended.

See also Pieris Forest Flame

Pittosporum Tobira shaped as a Full Standard (clear stemmed) Tree.

Rarely available in these beautiful shapes, the Pittosporum Tobira is one of our favourite shrubs and is stunning as a tree and perfect for above the fence or wall screening.  

The dark evergreen leaves (have a tropical appearance) and with small highly fragrant creamy/white flowers this tree is excellent and suitable for all garden aspects.

Cherry Laurel, Laurel. A dense bushy shrub with glossy green leaves. New shoots bright green. Fragrant white flowers on upright spikes in spring, followed by red fruit ripening to black. Flowers April to May. Full Sun/Partial Shade. Excellent hedging or screening plant.

Other hedging plants include Photinia Red Robin

Prunus Lusitanica Angustifolia is a wide bushy evergreen shrub.  Very similar to the Prunus Lusitanica but has slightly narrower longer slimmer leaves and has a more compact growth habit.

A very useful plant as a hedge or as an ornamental shrub this evergreen has beautiful white flowers in summer (around June to August). 

See other similar plants including photinia red robin.

Quercus Ilex Trees Full Standard - also known as Holm Oak Tree and the Holly Oak Tree.
The Holly Oak or the Holm Oak is a native to the Eastern Mediterranean. A naturalised oak in the UK it was introduced sometime in the 1500's and is one of the very few evergreen oak trees found in Britain today. Holm Oak lends itself well to shaping - the shrub/bushy part of the tree is reasonably fast growing (the stem stays the same height) - this full standard is easily kept in shape with an occasional trim.
Quercus Ilex Full Standard is a large specimen tree - it has dark glossy silvery green leaves and a darker trunk or stem.
Specialists in Evergreen Trees and Trees suitable for screeening.

Rhododendrons are evergreen shrubs with large leaves, clusters of pretty, showy flowers in late spring. Slow growing.  Flowers April to May. Partial shade. Hardy.

View our Blog post on Rhododendrons and Summer Flowering Shrubs

These are fairly slow growing.  Plants available are bushy and available in various different colours so choose plant colour you like.

Most suitable in woodland conditions with moist soil and cool, shady areas.

 

Taxus Baccata Fastigiata Aurea is more commonly known as Irish Yew
This is a fully hardy, narrow columnar, beautiful yellow green coloured evergreen conifer.
Densely compact this slow growing golden conifer has an upright habit and conical shape which adds interest to the garden all year round - a beautiful architectural shape with a vertical accent the dark green leaves have variegated golden patches, prefers sun or partial shade. Irish Yew also works well as an evergreen hedging.
 

Thuja Plicata or Western Red Cedar are native to North America.

This is a tall attractive very dense and busy evergreen conifer with cinnamon-red bark and aromatic bright green leaves (smells like pineapple), although slower growing than Leylandii Thuja Plicata is still a fast growing tree which can quickly screen out any unwanted sights but can be more easily controlled than Leylandii. Grows well in any soil conditions.

Western Red Cedar is hardy - it has spreading branches and prefers a sunny/partial shady position, this is a valuable tree for evergreen hedging and  evergreen screening. 

Thuya attracts birds and other wildlife due to its thick dense bushy foliage.

Read more on Thuya on our blog...

Trachycarpus Fortunei is the hardiest palm in the world.  It is commonly known as the Chusan Palm and also the Chinese Windmill Palm, this is a much in demand architectural palm tree with beautiful segmented fan shaped leaves. The leaves fan out from the trunk and the trunk has a hairy appearance.
The Trachycarpus Fortunei palm has a maximum height of around 4m and a maximum spread of around 2m.
Trachycarpus Fortunei flowers from May to August. It is fully hardy and likes a position of sun or partial shade.
We have a variety of sizes in stock, ranging from younger palm of approx. 1 metre in height to large specimen palm trees of up to 4 metres.
Further information provided in our blog Architectural Plants for your garden
You may also be interested in the Trachycarpus Wagnerianus

Viburnum Tinus Eve Price - An attractive and distinct shrub with slender pointed leaves. Flower buds from late autumn until early Spring.  Dark pink buds turn to white flowers in late Spring.

Long lasting buds and flowers. Slow-growing. Max Height 3m. Max Spread 1.4m. Flowers May to June. Fruits - black berries in August. Full sun/partial shade. Hardy - can be slightly tender in extreme frosts.

Useful for hedging or as an ornamental shrub.  Feed with ericaceous feed 2-3 times per annum. 

Also available as a topiary tree.

Taxus Bacatta Spirals or Yew Spirals.  These premium quality yew spirals are thick and dense.  Excellent topiary - very slow growing so minimal pruning.  Can be kept in pots or planted in the ground.

Lots of topiary plants available other spirals include Goldcrest Conifer Spirals.