| Description | Malus domestica
Golden Delicious apples are yellow and very sweet. The fruit features a fairly thin skin that makes it easy to eat. Golden Delicious apple trees have white blooms and dark green foliage. They polinate many other apple varieties, so are a good apple tree to include in your collection.
Remember that apple trees need to be planted near other apple trees so that they can polinate eachother and produce fruit. Ideal companions for Golden Delicious apple trees are Fuji, Red Delicious and Pink Lady. This is because they all flower at a similar time. | Acer palmatum 'Chishio'
Chishio Improved is a dense, bushy small tree, or medium to large rounded shrub. Small leaves, up to 5cm long, emerge a brilliant pinky-red in Spring, becoming green in Summer before turning orange-red in Autumn. Young stems have red bark and small, reddish flowers are borne in clusters during Spring.
Chichi Improved grows to approximately 2.5-4m in height and a similar width.Thrives in moist but well draining soil and a full sun to part shade position. This deciduous tree has a bushy habit.
13"/33cm pot size. | Mandevilla diamantina (Dipladenia)
Mandevilla is perfect for baskets, pots, garden plantings, and areas where it may climb up a lattice or wall. It is a compact plant with trumpet-shaped, fuchsia pink flowers with yellow centres. It can bloom all summer long and eventually grow into a large, shrubby climber. They will withstand high heat and will benefit from organically enriched soils.
8"/20cm pot |
