| Description | Strelitzia reginae
Exotic blue and orange flowers in the shape of a bird give this plant its name, Bird of Paradise.
• Tropical looking broad round leaves
• Looks great in pots, along fence lines and in poolside gardens
• Tolerates drought, light frost and poor soils
• Can also be grown indoors in bright light
3"/7cm pot
| Michelia figo
This magnolia features small shiny deep-green leaves, with heavily scented purple and cream magnolia-style flowers in spring. It is sometimes called the Banana Shrub as the flowers have a banana-like fragrance.
The Port Wine Magnolia is known for its highly fragrant perfume when in flower, particularly at night. Usually evergreen, but can be slightly deciduous in very cold areas and is usually frost tolerant. | Hybrid tea rose 'Fragrant Charm Rose'
Up right and free blooming, producing large double blooms with high centers and a beautiful fragrance and brilliant strong red colour. Available as a bush rose and 3ft standard.
8" pot size, approximately 3ft in height.
Available online ONLY - Not in store. |
| Content | | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last tow centuries although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renown for their flowers and beauty they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit, the rose hip which can be made into an old fashioned jam or for garden uses such as ground covers and hedging.
Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses right up there with your climbers and weeping varieties, amongst all their beautiful colour, variety and hardy nature there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. |
| Additional information |
| features |
Blooms of bright orange and blue sitting in a pointed green bract edged with red, resembling a bird from paradise sit above the large erect spoon-like foliage for a long period
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil, keep protected form heavy frost
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| landscape use |
Specimen, group planting, pots, feature
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| botanical name |
Michelia figo
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| height x width |
3m x 2m
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in rich well-drained neutral to acidic soil
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| landscape use |
Feature, general garden planting,
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