| Description | Populus nigra x italica
Lombardy Poplar is a common sight around rural Australia and New Zealand. It is a fast growing, columnar tree, it makes the ideal specimen in large lawn areas and properties or in a row as a large windbreak or screen.
Lombardy performs best in moist soils and in full sun, but is quite tolerant of dryer sites. Reaches heights of up to 20m and a 4m width.
3"/7cm pot | Rosa banksiae
The Banksia Rose is a tough evergreen climbing rose with soft ruffled yellow flowers which appear in Spring. Like Iceberg Roses, it's prized as a disease resistant and hardy rose. It works well as a groundcover rose or a climber when given a support such as a trellis.
The Banksia rose is an incredibly useful and versatile climber or groundcover as it is low maintenance, thornless and tolerates full sun and part shade.
6"/14cm pot size. | Camellia japonica
William Bull Camellia produces dense, evergreen foliage and double blooms of beautiful rose pink flowers. It is a hardy, long living plant that likes acidic soil. It looks great in a feature pot and also makes a wonderful hedge or espalier. Position in morning sun, part shade. Mature height: 3-4m | Cornus kousa var Chinensis, Kousa Dogwood, Chinese Dogwood
This is arguably the world's most beautiful dogwood, with a fabulous show of white flowers in spring, and magnificent autumn colour. A beautiful small (up to 4m) deciduous feature tree and is extremely beautiful when in bloom. Flowering season is late spring, weeks after the tree puts on foliage again.
8" pot size | Bright as a Button Rose
Bright as a Button?produces thick glossy green foliage, making this magnificent rose ideal for filling bare spots in garden borders. The scented blooms are ideal for indoor use and new pink flowers will just keep on coming, revealing vivid burgundy and gold centres as they open.
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| height x width |
Climber to 3-4m
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| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: 70cm
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| conditions |
Very hardy, likes full sun and well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
fences, screens, cover unattractive sheds, pergolas, arbors, rotundas, trellis
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| botanical name |
Cornus kousa
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| height x width |
4m x 3m
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| features |
Dense green foliage and tiered branches, the flower heads with large pure-white bracts appear, each bract ending in an acute point followed by red fruit
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| conditions |
Sun to part shade in rich well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Specimen, group planting, general garden planting
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