| Description | Betula pendula youngii 'Weeping Silver Birch'
Weeping Silver Birch is a beautiful tree that is medium sized. Grows best in a position of full sun to partial shade. Silver Birch is great for larger gardens and parks etc. It's bark remains white at the base.
This tree is easy to grow and will thrive in most types of soil. This Weeping Silver Birch is deciduous and bears lovely small green leaves.
12" pot size, approximately 6ft tall. | Cupressocyparis leylandii, Leyland Cypress
Leighton Green Conifer is the fastest hedge for total visual, noise, dust & dirt protection.
• Grow a 3-meter hedge in only 2 years
• Classy Rich Green Foliage
• Easy To Maintain | Escallonia Iveyi
Escallonia Iveyi is a quick growing, evergreen plant with fragrant white flowers in summer. Ideal for hedges, borders or screening.
It is particulary hardy and will cope with coastal conditions as well as a hot, dry location, but does not cope with humidity. Frost hardy and drought tolerant once established. Plant 70cm apart for hedges and borders.
6" pot size, approximately 15-25cm in height. |
| Content | | Why buy Leighton Green conifers?
When it comes to finding the world’s fastest-growing and most effective screen for giving you complete privacy, protection from noise and dust, and creating the perfect windbreak, it easily comes down to our Conifer Leighton Green.
Leylandii conifers have beautiful dense, fine green foliage compared to any broadleaf Pittosporum, Lilly Pilly, Ornamental Pear, or Photinia. It grows faster than any other conifer or cypress. Conifer leylandii is also capable of growing up to 3 meters in the first 18 months when planted from a small-sized plant. For the best results, trim your Leighton Green Conifer hedge 2-4 times a year.
Leighton Green hedging conifers are best suited to large or rural properties, though can be grown in the suburban block providing they are trimmed and maintained to the appropriate size regularly.
Buy 1 Leighton Green conifer per metre to create a hedge, or one per 1.5 metres for a windbreak.
Click here to view our Leighton Green Hedging Conifer factsheet for more information on this fantastic plant. | |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Betula pendula ?Youngii?
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| height x width |
Height of the standard x 3m at 20 years
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| features |
Silver/white peeling bark, bright green small leaves, graceful long weeping branches
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| conditions |
Plant in full sun to part shade in well drained mulched soil
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| landscape use |
An excellent specimen for any garden, may be trimmed into more of an umbrella shape or left to weep to the ground
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| Botanical Name |
Cupressocyparis leylandii
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| Sunshine |
Full Sun
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| Planting Distance |
1-2m apart
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| botanical name |
Escallonia ?Iveyi?
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| height x width |
2m x 2m
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| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: 1m
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| features |
Very rich dark-green wavy edged leaves and long panicles up to 15cm of slightly fragrant pure white flowers in late summer
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Hedging, background planting, general garden plant
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