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Silver Wattle Seed
Acacia dealbataPrice range: £7.00 through £22.00 inc. VATSilver Wattle or Mimosa is a loose growing, small open evergreen tree or large shrub. It has ferny grey green leaves and scented yellow pompom flowers, in the winter and early spring. It is often used by florists for winter colour and scent. Mimosa is also a Champagne cocktail – champagne and chilled citrus juice, with or without Drambuie. Good for breakfast(so I’m told!) Mimosa can be grown outside in the southwest and on the south coast, but still really needs shelter.
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Sitka Spruce Seed
Picea sitchensisPrice range: £5.00 through £15.00 inc. VATSitka Spruce is probably one of the most important species of conifer from an economic viewpoint. It thrives on damp sites and poor soils. Used extensively for timber and pulp production, but also can be used for Christmas trees. Picture shows an enormous tree in the Benmore Botanic Gardens, near Dunoon(www.rbge.org.uk/visit/benmore-botanic-garden). Sitka can be used as a relaxed hedge – just chop out the leader and it will bush out to make a prickly barrier.
Not for forestry purposes.
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Small Leaved Gum Seed
Eucalyptus parvula£15.00 inc. VATAn exceptionally hardy medium sized tree with an attractive peeling grey bark and willowy foliage. It produces small narrow blue-green leaves and its foliage is commonly used for flower arranging. This species makes an excellent specimen tree although it can be coppiced to good effect.
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Small Leaved Lime Seed
Tilia cordataPrice range: £5.00 through £13.50 inc. VATSmall Leaved Lime is a medium sized deciduous tree with heart shaped 5 to 8cm glossy dark green long leaves which are pale on the underside. The sweetly scented, ivory flower clusters appear in the latter half of the summer and are usually covered in bees. The trees can quite often be smelt and heard before being seen!
Not for forestry purposes.
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Smoke Bush / Venetian Sumach Seed
Cotinus coggygria£5.00 inc. VATCotinus or Smoke bush is a deciduous multi branched shrub with rounded green leaves that colour well in the autumn. Pinky-fawn coloured plume like inflorescences are borne in early summer turning an attractive smokey grey colour by autumn.They give the effect of a haze of smoke, hence the name.
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Snow Gum Seed
Eucalyptus niphophilaPrice range: £7.00 through £40.00 inc. VATA very hardy Eucalyptus. The stem of the tree is almost white through to green with a flaking bark. It has large leathery grey green lance shaped leaves. It is a relatively small tree (up to 15m tall) and so is ideal for gardens.
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Snow Gum Seed
Eucalyptus pauciflora£6.00 inc. VATSimilar to Eucalyptus niphophila (which is often thought of as a subspecies) having a characteristic peeling green-grey and white bark. It has attractive white flowers, and aromatic evergreen foliage. Can be coppiced to form a multistem tree/shrub.
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Snowbell Tree Seed
Styrax japonica£5.00 inc. VATSnowbell Tree or Styrax is a beautiful deciduous shrub or small tree with wide spreading almost horizontal fanning branches. The leaves are narrow and pointed and the white bell shaped flowers have yellow stamens. They hang along the undersides of branches in the early summer, so plant where you can walk underneath the branches.
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Snowberry Seed
Symphoricarpos albus / albaPrice range: £5.00 through £10.00 inc. VATThe Snowberry is a strong growing deciduous shrub which can form dense thickets especially in hedgerows. The leaves are elliptical and up to 8cm long. Tiny pink flowers appear in the early summer followed by snowberries in the autumn that look like glistening white marbles on the branches. Is happy to be left alone or it can be trimmed/pruned heavily if necessary. Tough and tolerant. Poisonous if ingested
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Sourwood Seed
Oxydendrum arboreumPrice range: £5.00 through £10.00 inc. VATSourwood is a decorative, hardy, small deciduous tree/shrub with glossy green leaves. It develops very brilliant autumn colour. Long panicles of white ericaceous-type bell-flowers appear in July to Sept. Fragrant and bee-friendly.
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Southern Beech/Raoul Seed
Nothofagus procera/alpinaPrice range: £5.00 through £8.00 inc. VATThe Southern Beech is a fast growing deciduous tree with small beech-like leaves, a straight, grey trunk and broadly conic crown when mature. It is a native of Chile and although it is perfectly hardy, young trees can suffer in very harsh winters, especially in cold winds. Prefers moist soils and high rainfall. Autumn colour is red, yellow and orange. Work is ongoing to see whether Nothofagus is suitable for timber production in the UK as it is in Chile, but seed is not forthcoming every year so propagation is not easy or cheap.
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Southern Nettle Tree Seed
Celtis australis£5.00 inc. VATSouthern Nettle Tree or Celtis is a small to medium sized deciduous tree with lance shaped leaves. They are rough to the touch on their upper surfaces. Its bark is smooth and similar to that of Beech. Autumn colour is yellow.
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Spanish Broom Seed
Spartium junceum£5.00 inc. VATSpanish Broom is a strongly growing shrub with erect green rush like stems and small, scale-like leaves. It has large, perfumed, yellow, pea-like flowers in loose terminal clusters from late summer through to autumn. Spanish Broom likes a sunny position and is an excellent seaside shrub. Can be pruned after flowering, but can also be carefree. Sometimes confused with normal Broom (Cytisus)
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Spanish Fir Seed
Abies pinsapoPrice range: £5.00 through £12.00 inc. VATSpanish Fir is the National Tree of Andalucia and is now endangered. Narrowly conical in shape with stubby, evergreen grey-green needles giving an ornamental blue-ish appearance from afar. The smaller picture shows one of the few remaining Pinsapo ‘forests’ in the mountains of southern Spain nature reserve area(Grazalema). The trees grow in pockets of soil on the mountainsides. In the valleys are nurseries which are growing trees for replanting into the wild. The nature reserve also holds wild Narcissus and Crocus species.
Not for forestry purposes.
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Spindle Tree Seed
Euonymus europaeus£6.50 inc. VATSpindle is a vigorous deciduous shrub or small multi-stemmed tree. It gives an outstandingly brilliant autumn display of red seed capsules. The capsules open to reveal spectacular bright orange seeds. It grows especially well on chalky soils and its wood was used for making spindles for spinning and tool handles. The berries are poisonous and incredibly bitter tasting.
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Spinning Gum Seed
Eucalyptus perrinianaPrice range: £8.00 through £18.00 inc. VATA small hardy tree that has silvery leaves and a white, black blotched, stem. Bark on mature trees is shed in long strips. The leaves in young plants are round, encircling the stem, but become longer and thinner as the tree grows, developing their distinct glaucous bloom. Can be coppiced to encourage the young foliage which is used in flower arranging.
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Spreading Cotoneaster Seed
Cotoneaster divaricatus£5.00 inc. VATThis Spreading Cotoneaster is rangey medium sized deciduous shrub with a most reliable foliage and fruiting habit. The berries which arise from rosy red flowers are themselves a deep ruby red colour. Makes a low informal hedge and can be pruned.
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St Lucie Cherry Seed
Prunus mahaleb£5.00 inc. VATThe Mahaleb or St Lucie Cherry is a small deciduous tree covered in fragrant white flowers in spring followed by dark coloured fruit in early summer. The seed inside the hard cherry stone has the flavour of bitter almonds and has medicinal qualities apparently. The wood has an outstanding grain which is used for pipes and walking sticks. Records of the tree date back as far as 900 AD in the middle east.
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St. Julien Plum Seed
Prunus domestic instititaPrice range: £7.00 through £15.00 inc. VATThe St Julien plum is mostly used as a dwarfing rootstock for other varieties of plum. White flowers very early in spring, variable plum fruit in late summer. Flowers are good for pollinating insects and the fruit is eaten by birds (and wasps). Makes a useful and productive addition to a wild hedgerow since it can be trimmed lightly.
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Stag’s Horn Sumach Seed
Rhus typhina£5.00 inc. VATStag’s Horn Sumach is a wide, spreading, sparsely branched large shrub or small tree that has a flat topped appearance in winter. The large pinnate leaves turn orange, red, yellow or purple in autumn giving an impressive display. The conical clusters of crimson hairy fruits are very decorative late in the year. It doesn’t cast a dense shade so can be underplanted successfully.
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Stone Pine Seed
Pinus pineaPrice range: £7.00 through £11.00 inc. VATStone Pine is the conifer that is exploited for its edible pine nut/seed(think Pesto and Italian Cuisine), It has a short trunk and an umbrella-like growth habit, giving mature trees a flat crown. It has attractive glaucous blue-green leaves in younger specimens and is sometimes sold as a pot grown mini Christmas tree. It is the classic flat-topped pine tree of Italy.
Not for forestry purposes.
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Striped Maple seed
Acer pensylvanicum£7.00 inc. VATStriped Maple is a small to medium size deciduous tree. It is one of the best snakebark maples with wavy white striations on an olive green bark. Leaves are three lobed and coloured golden-yellow in early autumn. The seeds are characteristically dimpled.
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Sugar Maple Seed
Acer saccharumPrice range: £6.00 through £10.00 inc. VATSugar Maple is the tree in North America that produces Maple Syrup and it is one of the continents most colourful trees in autumn. Vibrant orange, gold and crimson tints light up ‘ The Fall’. Sugar Maple makes an excellent stand alone specimen tree, with neat habit and few problems.
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Sundial Lupin / Wild Lupin Seed
Lupinus perennis (polyphyllus)£5.00 inc. VATThe Sundial or Wild Lupin is a short-lived perennial plant about 0.5m high with pea like flowers up tall spikes in summer. The colour can range from blue to pink or white. Its leaves are palmately divided into 7 to 11 leaflets and die down in the autumn. Dead heading the spent flowers often gives a second flower flush. It ‘fixes’ nitrogen from the air into the soil so is good for soil fertility.
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