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Herringbone Cotoneaster Seed
Cotoneaster horizontalisPrice range: £5.00 through £11.50 inc. VATHerringbone Cotoneaster is low growing deciduous shrub with branches arranged like fish bones. It can be pruned quite hard without suffering. It bears bright red fruits in autumn together with a richly coloured foliage, and the branch arrangement in winter if grown against a wall is most attractive. The bees really enjoy the pink flowers, but the birds are slow to eat the berries.
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Hers’s Maple Seed
Acer grosser var hersii£7.50 inc. VATAcer grosseri var hersii
Hers’s Maple is another Snakebark Maple, with olive green bark, striped with white and cream. It grows to be a small, round headed, graceful tree, sometimes multi-stemmed. The deciduous foliage is almost oval with 3 indistinct lobes. Autumn colour is orange and yellow. No pruning is needed. Useful for a smaller garden.
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Hibiscus or Tree Hollyhock Seed
Hibiscus syriacus£5.00 inc. VATHibiscus is a late flowering, large or medium sized deciduous shrub. The large blue/purple trumpet shaped flowers are most impressive as they open between midsummer and autumn. Twiggy growth that can become congested, but requires no regular pruning. It is very slow to come into leaf, only just appearing alive by mid May. The seeds look like small sea animals with fine cilia hairs round the edges for swimming!
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Himalayan Alder Seed
Alnus nitida£7.50 inc. VATHimalayan Alder is a nitrogen fixing tree good for growing in poor wettish soils and is very hardy. It will enrich the soil it is planted in. Unlike other Alders, the decorative male catkins are produced in autumn, not spring. They are very long. New growth tends to be purplish. It is used as a street tree in Pakistan, but not often grown here in UK.
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Himalyan cotoneaster seed
Cotoneaster simonsiiPrice range: £5.00 through £15.00 inc. VATCotoneaster simonsii is a large upright semi-evergreen with small white/pink flowers in June, bee friendly, followed by persistent red berries. Good as an informal hedge but can also be clipped quite hard into shape. Often known as Himalayan Cotoneaster, but this leads to confusion with other Cotoneasters.
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Holly Seed
Ilex aquifolium£6.00 inc. VATAn evergreen shrub or tree that can be very long lived with leaves that are ovoid, shiny and generally spiky. In winter, bright red holly berries contrast beautifully with the dark green foliage. There are some varieties with yellow berries, and some with non-spikey leaves. Usually a male and a female tree are required to produce berries on the female. Very useful for hedging, it grows quite fast to begin with but slows down as it ages. It can be clipped into shape(carefully!)
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Hollyberry Cotoneaster Seed
Cotoneaster bullatus£6.50 inc. VATHollyberry Cotoneaster is one of the larger cotoneasters. It is deciduous with corrugated leaves that colour richly in the autumn. The white or pink flowers give rise to large red fruits in early autumn which are attractive to birds. It is quite often used in landscaping schemes, roadsides etc and soon spreads, birds taking the berries and spreading the seed. It can be seen a menace but is useful on inhospitable sites.
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Honey Locust Seed
Gleditsia triacanthos£5.00 inc. VATHoney Locust is an elegant, large deciduous tree with frond like leaves that is also very tolerant of polluted atmospheres. Inconspicuous white/green pea like flowers in summer give rise to impressive long brown twisted seed pods in the autumn, and these have been used as cattle feed, since they are sweet.
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Hop Hornbeam Seed
Ostrya carpinifolia£7.50 inc. VATHop Hornbeam is a medium sized round headed deciduous tree with toothed leaves that turn yellow in autumn. The catkins that appear in spring are impressively long and numerous. The following fruits are up to 5cm long with the nutlets being encased in a bladder-like husk. The hard and dense wood was used to make the wooden soles for wood-working planes, and for producing charcoal. Supposedly the tree is resistant to honey-fungus which is useful!
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Hornbeam Seed
Carpinus betulus£5.00 inc. VATHornbeam grows to be a medium sized tree with a grey fluted trunk and toothed green leaves that are an outstanding yellow colour in the autumn. The green catkins in spring give rise to the small winged nuts in the autumn. Can be clipped with impunity and so is brilliant as a hedge where Beech is not suitable or would struggle.
Not for forestry purposes
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Horse Chestnut Seed
Aesculus hippocastanumPrice range: £8.00 through £10.00 inc. VATHorse Chestnut is a beautiful, large, deciduous flowering tree. The white flowers with a yellow central blotch form stout pyramids which look highly attractive in their upright position. Insect friendly. The seeds or conkers as they are known are popular with children in Europe for games. They develop in spiky green cases that split open to reveal the beautiful, glossy chestnut brown seed.
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Indian Bean Tree Seed
Catalpa bignonioides£5.00 inc. VATIndian Bean Tree is a medium sized deciduous tree from the eastern USA. Its leaves are up to 20 cm long and it has attractive white flowers with yellow and purple markings, frequented by bees. The fruiting capsules/bean pods are around 30cm long and 4 to 8 mm wide and remain well after the leaves have dropped in autumn. If pollarded every other year, the leaves grow huge, but can then be shattered by heavy rain.
flower pic courtesy of Le. Loup.Gris. Multi-license with GFDL and CC-BY-SA
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Italian Alder Seed
Alnus cordataPrice range: £5.00 through £10.00 inc. VATA splendid medium sized, deciduous conical tree, with bright green glistening foliage preceded by yellow catkins that appear in the late winter. Like other Alders, it ‘fixes’ nitrogen from the air, so helping soil fertility. Because of this and the fact that it is tough and hardy, it is often used in the planting and reclamation of old industrial sites. The reddish orange timber is not very durable in air but is long-lasting in water. The blackish cones that hold the seed in autumn are larger than the native Alder cones, and quite decorative.
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Japanese Barberry Seed (purple leaved)
Berberis thunbergii atropurpureum£6.00 inc. VATA small deciduous, prickly shrub with a rich reddish purple foliage which grows more intense as the year progresses. It produces an outstandingly impressive low hedge.
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Japanese Berberis Seed
Berberis thunbergii£6.00 inc. VATJapanese Berberis is a small, compact deciduous shrub. It’s autumn colours are outstanding together with its bright red berries. Late in spring it bears pale yellow flowers tinged with red. Insect friendly A useful shrub for creating a low prickly barrier. It can be clipped(carefully!)
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Japanese Dogwood Seed
Cornus kousa£6.50 inc. VATJapanese Dogwood is an elegant, large deciduous shrub or small tree, with abundant, white bract flowers. Moderately slow growing. The leaves turn rich bronze in autumn and are accompanied by the small strawberry like fruits in some years.
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Japanese Maple Seed
Acer palmatumPrice range: £5.00 through £8.00 inc. VATJapanese Maple is noted for its beautiful autumn colours of red, orange or yellow, but in summer this small deciduous tree or large shrub has bright green lobed, deeply cut leaves. It slowly grows into a graceful tree or large shrub, often multi-stemmed, of open habit. No pruning is necessary and when planted in the right spot, it is relatively carefree.
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Japanese Maple Seed (purple dissect)
Acer palmatum atrop dissectumPrice range: £5.00 through £15.50 inc. VATJapanese Maple is a slow growing small tree/shrub with broad arching habit (sometimes looks like a large purple mushroom). Very fine purple-bronze leaves colour to orange in autumn. Excellent in small gardens. Needs no pruning but appreciates mulching with compost in spring.
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Japanese Maple Seed (purple leaved)
Acer palmatum atropurpureumPrice range: £5.00 through £12.00 inc. VATPurple Japanese Maple is the most popularly grown of the Japanese Maples. Leaves are a bronze-crimson throughout the summer before turning brilliant red in the autumn. It makes an elegant large deciduous shrub, often multi-stemmed and is quite slow-growing. Because the shade it casts is quite light, under-planting is usually successful, especially with spring bulbs.
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Japanese Maple var. dissectum Seed
Acer palmatum (dissectum)Price range: £5.00 through £9.00 inc. VATThe Dissect Japanese Maple is a small deciduous tree or shrub with delicate, ferny 5 or 7 lobed bright green leaves. They turn beautiful vibrant red orange and yellow colour in autumn. It usually produces a mushroom-shaped tree which can be under-planted with bulbs effectively. Planted in semi-shade and in shelter, this is a fine garden plant with long season of interest.
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Japanese Pagoda Tree Seed
Sophora japonicaPrice range: £5.00 through £8.00 inc. VATThe Japanese Pagoda Tree is a medium sized round headed deciduous tree with large 30cm leaves made up of 9 to 15 leaflets. It casts only a light shade. On mature trees the creamy pea-like flowers form in large terminal clusters in late summer and autumn. Bee friendly. The long seed pods are persistent.
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Japanese Quince Seed
Chaenomeles japonica£5.00 inc. VATJapanese Quince, also known as Japonica, is a small, low growing, thorny shrub with bright orange red flowers, appearing very early in spring. These develop into rounded yellow fruits in the autumn. This deciduous shrub has small oval mid green leaves. Pruning can be done in the spring after flowering, or carefully in winter whilst making sure that the flower spurs are not being chopped off. Although Chaenomeles doesn’t flower as well in a shady spot, it makes a useful shrub for a north wall.
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Japanese Walnut Seed
Juglans sieboldiana / ailanthifoliaPrice range: £10.00 through £18.50 inc. VATTh Japanese Walnut grows into an impressive medium sized tree with incredible leaves that may be up to 1m long. It fruits with long pendulous strings of nuts which are known as Heart Nuts, because of the shape. They are sweet and tasty. New growth may be tender to late frosts, so shelter is appreciated.
Pic is a young tree in a Cheshire Churchyard
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Japanese Zelkova Seed
Zelkova serrataPrice range: £5.00 through £11.00 inc. VATZelkova is a medium sized graceful wide spreading tree with a round crown and smooth grey bark. The slender oval leaves are up to 12cm long and have narrow pointed teeth. In autumn they turn a bronze red. It is related to Elm (Ulmus) but has proven to be resistant to Dutch Elm disease and so is suggested as a substitute. Pollution tolerant so can be used as a street tree. In Japan it is used as a valuable timber tree.
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