| Description | Ceratonia siliqua
The Carob Tree is known to be one of the world’s best natural sweeteners. The leathery pods are commonly used as a substitute for cocoa and have been cultivated throughout the Mediterranean as a staple food source for many many years. A tough drought-tolerant shade tree that also makes an ideal windbreak in our dry climate. It requires a male and female plant to produce the pods so plant a few to ensure good pollination. Plant in full sun with well drained soil. Mature growth 7m x 10m | Gaura lindheimeri "Butterfly Bush"
Butterfly Bush is a bushy, hardy perennial shrub with long graceful stems that bloom with pale pink flowers in spring-summer. These stems grow up to 1m long, but can be clipped back shorter, and sway gracefully in the breeze. The name of a popular variety, Whirling Butterflies, perfectly describes the way the plant resembles a cloud of butterflies when swaying in the breeze.
6" pot size. | Hybrid tea 'Papa Meilland'
Velvety crimson blooms with a high centre, highly fragrant. Vigorous and upright. Available as a bush rose and 3ft standard.
8" pot size.
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 two 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 | |
| botanical name |
Gaura lindheimeri
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| height x width |
1.2m x 1m
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| features |
Masses of sprays of beautiful white flowers opening from pink buds along the stems are borne from spring to autumn
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| conditions |
Full sun in light well-drained soil, cut back hard after flowering
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| landscape use |
Background planting, flower borders, color, general garden planting,
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