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 (55)
- Autumn foliage colour (84)
- Berries or fruit (46)
- Coloured leaves (23)
- Colourful bark or stems (13)
- Deciduous (18)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (8)
- Flowering (69)
- Large leaved (1)
- Low maintenance (57)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (5)
- Non poisonous (101)
- Plants that are native (4)
- Plants that don't need pruning (1)
- Plants that help filter noise (4)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (8)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (27)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (6)
- Resistant to diseases (13)
- Suitable for containers (22)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (10)
- Winter colour (27)
Plant Seasons
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2016 - Jekka McVicar - St John's Hospice (1)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (4)
Acer rubrum
£84.99
Betula pendula
£64.99
Malus floribunda
£69.99
Prunus serrula
£74.99
Prunus 'Kanzan'
£69.99
Prunus 'Shirotae'
£74.99
Sorbus vilmorinii
£74.99
Arbutus unedo
£12.99
Acer palmatum
£79.99
Taxus baccata
£5.99
Acer griseum
£79.99
Acer davidii
£79.99
Acer griseum
£94.99
Ginkgo biloba
£99.99
Halesia carolina
£79.99
Prunus 'Accolade'
£69.99
Prunus 'Pandora'
£74.99
Prunus sargentii
£69.99
Prunus 'Fugenzo'
£69.99
Prunus 'Tai-haku'
£74.99
Quercus rubra
£74.99
Sorbus aucuparia
£74.99
Sorbus commixta
£74.99
Prunus 'Ukon'
£74.99
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