Trees
Trees add height, which in turn provides cooling shade and screening from nosey neighbours. It is important though when choosing a tree to make sure that it won’t get too big for your garden. For smaller gardens Japanese maples, smaller ornamental cherries or a weeping pear would be ideal.
By type
Facing
How much sun
Special conditions
Soil type
Flowering month
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (51)
- Autumn foliage colour (82)
- Berries or fruit (46)
- Coloured leaves (23)
- Colourful bark or stems (12)
- Columnar (1)
- Deciduous (23)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (11)
- Fast growing (1)
- Flowering (90)
- Large leaved (1)
- Low maintenance (59)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (6)
- Non poisonous (103)
- Plants that are native (7)
- Plants that help filter noise (4)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (7)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (29)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (6)
- Resistant to diseases (17)
- Suitable for containers (20)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (12)
- Winter colour (25)
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (2)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (2)
Acer davidii
£79.99
Parrotia persica
£29.99
Prunus serrula
£74.99
Prunus 'Kanzan'
£74.99
Sorbus aucuparia
£74.99
Prunus 'Spire'
£74.99
Acacia dealbata
£24.99
Acer rubrum
£89.99
Betula pendula
£69.99
Ginkgo biloba
£99.99
Halesia carolina
£79.99
Prunus 'Accolade'
£74.99
Prunus 'Pandora'
£74.99
Prunus 'Fugenzo'
£74.99
Prunus 'Tai-haku'
£74.99
Quercus ilex
£74.99
Quercus robur
£74.99
Sorbus vilmorinii
£74.99
Prunus 'Ukon'
£74.99
Acer palmatum
£79.99
Acacia dealbata
£69.99
Carpinus betulus
£79.99
Eucalyptus gunnii
£69.99
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