Philadelphus 'Belle Etoile'
mock orange
- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: fertile, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: June and July
- Hardiness: fully hardy
In June and July this lovely mock orange is smothered with highly fragrant, single, cup-shaped flowers with distinctive splashes of purple at the centre. The delicious orange-blossom fragrance floats on the breeze on warm summer evenings. This compact variety produces abundant, gorgeous, bridal-white flowers set off perfectly by oval, deep green leaves. This is an essential, low-maintenance shrub for a sunny mixed border, and it can also cope with poor soil, urban pollution and salt-laden air. - Garden care: Mulch around the roots in spring with a deep layer of well-rotted garden compost or manure. Prune in late summer, immediately after flowering, removing one in four of the older stems to ground level.
Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora
foxglove
Elegant, white flowers on tall stems
£7.99
2 litre pot
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
Campanula poscharskyana 'E. H. Frost'
bellflower
Groundcover with white flowers
£7.99
2 litre pot
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
Clematis armandii
clematis (group 1)
Fantastic evergreen climber
£14.99
2lt pot (60cm cane)
within 2 weeks
Betula utilis var. jacquemontii
west Himalayan birch
Brilliantly creamy-white bark
£47.99
10lt pot (1.5-1.8m)
available to order from summer 2013
August pruning of trees, shrubs and climbers
Late summer is the best time to prune many midsummer-flowering shrubs to keep them vigorous and flowering well. It is also the ideal time to prune several trees that are prone to bleeding if pruned at other times, and it’s...
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Early-summer- flowering shrubs can be pruned this month to keep them vigorous and flowering well. It is also the ideal time to prune several trees that are prone to bleeding if pruned at other times, and it’s not too late...
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A restrained philadelphus ( reaching man-height) with large white flowers splashed in maroon-purple - deliciously fragrant and deliciously fresh
Val Bourne - Garden Writer