| Description | Pyrus pyrifolia Nashi Nijisseik
Nijisseiki or 20th Century Asian Pear is an upright, spreading tree that produces juicy, medium-sized fruit with yellowish green skin. The fruit are fantastic for eating and have a pleasantly sharp taste. This tree reaches a height of 4m and a similar width.
Nijisseiki likes a position of full sunlight. It is self-fertile, although Williams or Beurre Bosc increase pollination. | 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. | Hybrid tea rosa 'Fragrant Plum Rose'
Medium sized bush, highly fragrant with lilac coloured, high centered blooms. Available as a 3ft standard, 2ft standard and bush rose.
8" pot size, approximately 2ft in height.
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 | |
| 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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