Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum'
maple
- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: fertile, moist, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: slow-growing
- Flowering period: April to May
- Flower colour: yellow-green
- Other features: clusters of red winged fruit in late summer
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Striking shrimp-pink leaves maturing to yellow-green and clusters of yellow-green spring flowers. This highly ornamental, spreading sycamore makes an excellent specimen tree. Smaller and slower growing than many other sycamores it is perfect for a small, sunny garden. - Garden care: Add a top dressing of a multi-purpose fertiliser around the base of the plant in late spring. No routine pruning is required, just remove any dead, damaged or crossing branches in late autumn or winter when they are fully dormant.
Helleborus × hybridus Harvington Smokey Blues
Lenten rose hellebore
Unusual, dark purple flowers with a deep blue sheen
£12.99
2 litre pot
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Geranium phaeum
dusky cranesbill
Small, deep maroon flowers. Good for groundcover
£7.99
2 litre pot
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Vinca minor 'Atropurpurea'
lesser periwinkle
Delicious dark damson-purple flowers
£8.99
2 litre pot
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