| Description | Ulmus procera
English Elm is an iconic tree that has adapted well into South Eastern Australia. It is usually used as a park, specimen, street or shade tree. Its beautiful yellow Autumn foliage is its notable feature. This tree is best used as a feature tree in a large space. It can also be used as a screen or avenue tree. | Rosa Hybrid Tea
Double Delight has bushy growth and large masses of double blooms. They stand out with their creamy white petals centered with yellow, featuring a red trim! Repeat flowering and fragrant. Requires little maitenance when established. | Betula pendula
An elegant deciduous tree with soft, white bark.
• Small green leaves that turn vibrant yellow in autumn
• Beautiful feature tree, planted in groups or used along driveways, fence lines or avenues
• Low maintenance, tolerating frost, snow and drought once established. |
| 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 twu centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | Silver birches are a small growing tree with an inoffensive root system that’s beautiful all year round. They will make your property looks a million dollars because although Silver Birch are inexpensive, nothing else looks as classic in the garden.
In winter Silver Birch Trees have a lovely naked tree with a fabulous white trunk! To enhance that feature, you can plant them in clumps of 2 or 3 silver birch trees and together the white trunks look more beautiful. In spring and summer you have beautiful fine lacy green foliage, giving fabulous dappled shade. These trees are beautiful where you want some shade but you don’t want total shade or darkness.
The silver birch looks great with an old fashioned house and silver birches look absolutely fabulous with modern buildings as well. Either in a modern setting or an old fashioned setting, classic garden or a modern garden, silver birches look amazing!
Over the years they’ve probably become the most popular tree in Melbourne, measured over time, and look great just about anywhere. Check out our fact sheet page for more information on silver birch trees. |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Ulmus procera
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| height x width |
20m x 10m
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| features |
Dark green roughly textured leaves with serrated edges, changes to yellow in autumn
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| conditions |
Very hardy, prefers full sun in well-drained soil, tolerant to dry conditions and wind tolerant
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| landscape use |
Street planting, avenues, specimen, group planting, avenues, large properties, parks
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| botanical-name |
Betula alba "Pendula"
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| height-x-width |
8m x 4m
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| features |
Trunk develops into a white color, upright open and spreading pyramidal tree with pendulous branches, very attractive
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well drained soil
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| landscape-use |
Specimen, group planting, street tree, avenues, great for small gardens
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