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 and the [...]
Semiarundinaria Fastuosa Bamboo Plants – An incredibly popular due to their stately erect habit (Fastuosa), these bamboos are very popular among those in need of evergreen screening. […]
When it comes to Black or Golden Bamboo, we are often asked which bamboo to choose. Unlike tropical bamboo, both Phyllostachys nigra (black bamboo) and Phyllostachys aurea (golden bamboo) are UK hardy and retain their evergreen foliage all year round. Phyllostachys aurea has golden yellow canes. Phyllostachys nigra has striking black [...]
Contemporary Gardens – The Porsche Gardens by Flemons & Warland (cloud trees supplied by Paramount Plants) We’re pretty sure you don’t need us to tell you that modern life is stressful. We live in a fast-paced world, where everybody wants something and they want it now! With this [...]
In this post, we talk you through the steps involved in creating a Japanese garden. We focus on plants suitable for Japanese Gardens such as Japanese Acers, Azaleas, Bamboo, Cloud Trees, Japanese Camellias and Pine Trees. We begin with creating a Japanese Garden from scratch and we have been lucky [...]
Bamboo Hedging Plants are fast growing and very dense. In fact using bamboos for hedging provide the ideal attributes when you have a narrow lateral space for planting, yet you need plants for tall evergreen screening, for privacy reasons. In this scenario, there is nothing quite like the luscious stems and foliage of Golden Bamboo, [...]
