Product Description
This Hardy Shrub Collection will provide your garden with year-round interest. From vibrant colours, different textures and an array of heights and shapes, this collection is simply fabulous and a must-have for every garden. Perfect for filling in gaps in existing beds and borders or planting as a standalone specimen in a pot or container, they grow quickly and provide your garden with spectacular displays year after year.
In this collection:
- Berberis thunbergii 'Atropurpurea': A great hedging plant with spiked branches. Yellow flowers appear in late spring, while purple foliage offers perfect autumn colour. Grows up to H150cm x W150cm
- Syringa vulgaris: The common Lilac produces fragrant, lavender-coloured blooms each May. Hardy, and deciduous. Grows up to H800cm x W800cm
- Hypericum Hidcote: Masses of saucer-shaped, buttery yellow flowers from early to late autumn contrast against this compact and bushy semi-evergreen foliage. Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Grows up to H150cm x W150cm
- Deutzia scabra: The 'Fuzzy Deutzia' is a native of Japan and China. Smothers itself in pure white fragrant flowers in June. Grows up to H400cm x W250cm
- Potentilla Yellow: A tall, upright shrub with rich green foliage, smothered in yellow flowers from late spring to autumn. Robust and drought-tolerant even in exposed conditions. Grows up to H150cm x W100cm
- Spirea douglasii: Part of the rose family, often know as 'Rose Spirea'. Easy to grow with pink flowers in early summer, ideal for small spaces. Grows up to H250cm x W250cm
- Weigela rosea: A garden shrub with fabulous pink flowers in May, June, and July. Grows up to H250cm x W250cm
- Forsythia intermedia 'Spectabilis': A spectacular early season shrub with bright yellow blooms. Easy to grow and can be trimmed into a small hedge. Grows up to H300cm x W180cm
- Tamarix tetandra: The 'Tamarisk' or 'Salt Cedar' is an upright, deciduous shrub that arches gracefully with dark branches and needle-like foliage. A superb focal point that produces masses of feathery plumes of tiny pink blossom from April to May. Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Grows up to H800cm x W800cm
- Philadelphus coronarius: The 'Mock Orange' will be clothed in a profusion of creamy white, fabulously fragrant flowers through June and July. Grows up to H250cm x W150cm
- Cornus alba: The 'Red-Barked Dogwood' provides autumn colour with bright red vertical branches. In summer it leafs up and has soft pink flowers in the middle of summer. Grows up to H250cm x W250cm
- Symphoricarpos albus: The 'Common Snowberry' has berries that provide much-needed winter food for wildlife. Grows up to H150cm x W150cm
What Is Supplied
Item 500001 supplied as:
Supplied as 12 freshly lifted 2-year-old bare root bushes, 1 each of the varieties listed.
Will produce new leaves next spring as the weather gets warmer.
Plant Information
Top Tips
- On receipt, soak the roots in water for at least 2 hours (overnight is better). If you can't plant straight away, they should be fine for up to a week if left in a cool, dark, frost-free place - keep the bag around the roots with some water inside. Don't worry if the roots have been cut quite harshly – this is done to encourage the plant to grow.
- Bare root plants are dormant, with no leaves, and with the roots out of the soil.
- The season runs from November to April, depending on the weather. Some larger or slower-growing plants will already be a few years old on supply, and ready to thrive straight away in your garden.
Care Guide
- Select an appropriate spot for your plants, making sure that you give them enough space to grow to their full size.
- Dig a hole twice the width of the roots, forking over the bottom to loosen the soil, and add some good quality fertiliser such as Blood, Fish and Bone.
- Aim to plant at the same depth as the soil mark on the trunk.
- Holding the tree or plant upright in position with one hand, slowly backfill the hole with soil, and gently shake the plant, so the soil falls back around the roots.
- Use your heel to compact the soil around the plant to ensure good contact around the roots.
- If you are planting into pots, place some old rocks, stones or gravel in the bottom of the pot for drainage and ballast. Use the best compost you can buy.
- When the soil and air warm up from late March onwards, you should see the plant burst into life.
- Do not allow plants to dry out in the first four months after planting. Once established for one season, they will become much more tolerant to a lack of water, as the root system develops.
- There is no real need to prune for the first 2 years, then prune to the shape and size you want. Remove any broken, diseased or crossing branches in late autumn or winter to control size.
- Prune established trees in summer using good-quality secateurs, removing weak shoots, and cutting out those that cross over each other, to create an evenly spaced bowl shape.
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Fully Grown Plant dimensions (approx)
100cm
100cm
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