Bamboo for Screening and for Hedging One of the most revered 'woods' in Chinese culture, bamboo has been robustly embraced by garden designers in the UK for the creation of contemporary gardens and Japanese style gardens. It has proved especially useful in urban gardens where space is at a premium [...]
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Flowering Dogwood UK - from top left, Cornus Florida Clear Moon, Cornus Kousa Miss Satomi, Cornus Florida Rainbow and Cornus Kousa China Girl It’s almost time for flowering dogwoods to burst into bloom and produce their showy bracts. Our Cornus Kousa and Cornus Florida stocks are replenished [...]
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Pleached Trees for Screening are not quite the same as full standard clear stem trees. All clear stem trees, whether pleached or full standard, can be used as an alternative hedging or screening option. Clear stem or clear trunked trees have been trained so that the foliage appears at the top of a [...]
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Detail from Allt-y-Bela Garden, Monmouthshire Wales Meandering up the long narrow lane, the first hint that something very special lies ahead are slender exotic tulips that begin to pepper the grassy verges among the wild flowers. Next, topiary sentinels seem to appear out of nowhere… Exotic [...]
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Common Lilacs From Top Left: Syringa Vulgaris Michel Buchner, Syringa Vulgaris Nadezhda; Syringa Vulgaris Sensation; Madame Antoine Buchner, Belle De Nancy and Ruhm Von Horstenstein It’s funny to think that the gorgeous lilac tree has become something of a rarity in the contemporary gardens of [...]
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Sourcing frost-hardy Mediterranean trees and shrubs in all manner of sizes and maturities has long been a particular speciality at Paramount Plants. We work hard to ensure we always have a good selection of all types of olive plants. From smaller bushy olive shrubs which are ideal for hedging, right [...]
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