Topiary Bay Tree Half Standard - Laurus Nobilis is more commonly known as the Lollipop Tree.

These topiary bay trees are shaped into a lollipop (half or quarter standard) shape. This evergreen and aromatic shrub is fully hardy and prefers sun or partial shade - very happy to grow in containers and they look particularly elegant in terracotta planters on either side of an entrance doorway or driveway.

Paramount Plants is a topiary specialist nursery with a huge range of topiary specimen plants other bay varieties include the Column and Ball Bay shape and the Full Standard Bay.

Other bay available are bay shrubs from 60cm height up to 3m height.

Also available Bay Tree Half Standards with a Twisted or Spiral Stem - photo shown below.  Price £125 for 1.8-2m height

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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.

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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.

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.   

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Cornus Sanguinea  winter beauty

A charming dogwood famous for the orange red stems it show off in winter. Also has good autumn colour turning deep red in oct/nov.

Grows in any fertile well drained soil in an open sunny position. looks especially effective planted in groups around a pond or lake.

Prune this plant every now and again during April to promote good colour on the stems.

 Please read our blog on best shrubs for autumn colour.

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Liquidamber Styraciflua is commonly known as Redgum or American Sweetgum Tree and is a medium to large deciduous tree. 
The leaves have a maple-like appearance with five pointed lobes and this is one of the best trees for autumn colour.
The Redgum tree's autumn colours are reds, yellows, purples and smoky browns. The American Sweetgum is a very popular ornamental tree with intense autumn colour.

Paramount is a specialist tree nursery with a huge range of deciduous, coniferous and evergreen trees - suitable for all aspects.



 

New Zealand Flax. Green.
Clump-forming perennial with upright narrow leaves, red flowers in summer. Flowers July to August. Full sun. Frost hardy.
Also available as a variegated phormium.

Please also read our blog re phormiums.

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

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Yew. A broadly conical evergreen conifer with narrow dark green leaves. Produces cones. Max Height 10m to 20m. Max Spread 8m to 10m. Full sun/partial shade. Hardy. CAUTION toxic if eaten. Back-fill with soil mixed with peat substitute and a suitable fertiliser.

Containerised Yew in stock.  Rootball available from October/November to February. See also Yew.

We also stock Irish Yew Trees
Please view our Blog post featuring Yew on Evergreen Screening Plants.

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Taxus Baccata (Yew) shapes extremely well and we have these beautiful structural globes available in 80cm and 100cm+ widths. 

One of the largest globe shaped topiary plants you will find - extremely good quality and very slow growing.

Fully hardy this coniferous plant is slow-growing.  Taxus Baccata is the longest living plant in Europe.  Dark green evergreen with berries in winter months.  Copes well in all areas in the garden and is attractive to birds in winter.

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Evergreen succulent long pointed deep green leaves. Very long panicles of bell-shaped white flowers in Summer-Autumn.