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Sweet Box Seed
Sarcococca confusaPrice range: £15.00 through £25.00 inc. VATSarcococca or Sweet Box is a fantastically useful small evergreen shrub. It has a neat growth habit and produces small, feathery creamy white flowers in the depths of winter. These are highly sweetly scented. The black shiny berries that follow remain on the shrub until the following spring. Thrives in poorish dry soil and shade. Germination is sporadic, so patience is needed!
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Sweet Chestnut Seed
Castanea sativaPrice range: £10.00 through £15.00 inc. VATSweet Chestnut is a large, beautiful, quick growing tree. It is often found in parkland as a specimen tree with a smooth grey bark and long dark green toothed leaves which contrast with the long, yellowish spring catkins. Sweet Chestnut produces nuts in warm summers. Eventually, the bark becomes ridged and twisted, giving a spiral pattern up the trunk.
Not for forestry purposes.
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Sweet Gum Seed
Liquidambar styracifluaPrice range: £5.00 through £12.00 inc. VATSweet Gum is a large deciduous tree which has shining green, leathery, maple like leaves. They turn a fantastic orange, red and purple in autumn. Young shoots have distinctive corky ridges and the sap is fragrant. Although it rarely flowers in this country, the flower heads look similar to those of Rhus and the resulting seed heads look like Plane tree seed balls; it is actually related to Witch Hazels! A fine specimen or woodland tree.
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Sycamore Seed
Acer pseudoplatanus£5.00 inc. VATSycamore is a large well known deciduous tree. It is well suited to exposed situations on all soil types. It has dark green leaves and mustard yellow, insect friendly flowers which develop into double winged seeds in autumn. Having lost Elm and now possibly Ash, the Sycamore is a notable tree in the landscape, offering shelter from all weathers. Thumbnail pic is the famous Sycamore in the middle of Hadrian’s Wall, near Hexham, from the film ‘Robin Hood Prince of Thieves’
Not for forestry purposes.
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Tamarack Seed
Larix laricinaPrice range: £5.00 through £18.00 inc. VATThis American Larch is deciduous, like others and grows to be a tall columnar tree. It has pinkish orange to dark red bark becoming scaly when old. Needles are spirally arranged on long shoots. Before needle drop in autumn they turn orange. It’s widely distributed in North America, in swampy boreal forests and is very hardy and tolerant.
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Tasmanian Snow Gum Seed
Eucalyptus cocciferaPrice range: £5.00 through £15.00 inc. VATA fast growing medium sized tree which can survive some winter frost. It has strikingly bloomy leaves and stems as it begins to mature.
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Thornless Rose Seed
Rosa inermis£5.00 inc. VATThe Thornless Rose makes a medium sized climbing or lax-growing shrub. An easy to grow rose with lightly fragranced, simple, pink-red flowers 5cm in diameter in summer. It is a thornless selection of the Dog Rose, often used for rootstock work or for informal hedging. Some red hips are produced in the late summer and autumn.
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Tingiringi Gum Seed
Eucalyptus glaucescensPrice range: £5.00 through £14.00 inc. VATTingiringi Gum is a fast growing evergreen with round, even, silver juvenile foliage used in floristry. It coppices well and is good for screening. Adult foliage is elongated, blue-green-silver and aromatic and this develops if the stems aren’t cut back. Like many Eucalyptus, the bark on mature trees shreds off revealing orange, grey, copper, white and grey streaks. Creamy flowers in autumn. Mallee form, which is more shrub-like and multistem
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Tree of Life or Chinese Arborvitae Seed
Thuja orientalis£6.50 inc. VATThe Tree of Life or Chinese Arborvitae is a small slow growing conifer that is often grown as an ornamental. It makes a close, even, broad conical shape. In its native China it is associated with long life and vitality – hence its name of Chinese Arborvitae or Tree of Life. It is often planted in cemeteries and graveyards in UK. Foliage fronds are made up of flat scale-like leaves which are citrus aromatic when crushed and in a hard winter turn brownish green. The timber is quite pale and easy to work, being soft.
Pic by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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Tulip Tree Seed
Liriodendron tulipiferaPrice range: £5.00 through £16.00 inc. VATTulip Tree is a fast growing beautiful large deciduous tree. Leaves are shaped like cartoon tulips and turn yellow in autumn. The flowers appear from early summer onwards resembling short stemmed tulips or Magnolia. They are a yellow green colour and banded at the base of the petals with orange. Very tolerant of pollution, so where there is space, this is useful as an urban tree.
seed sold is de-winged
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Tupelo, Black Gum Seed
Nyssa sylvaticaPrice range: £2.00 through £4.50 inc. VATTupelo or Nyssa sylvatica is a neat deciduous tree forming a symmetrical pyramid shape, later spreading. Insignificant flowers are a source of nectar for insects. The autumn colour is spectacular turning purple, orange, yellow and red.
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Turkey Oak Seed
Quercus cerrisPrice range: £8.00 through £24.00 inc. VATTurkey Oak is a large deciduous tree and one of the fastest growing oaks. It thrives on chalky soils and near the sea. The leaves are coarsely toothed and slightly rough to the touch and the acorns are bristly/hairy, looking like bad-hair-day hedgehogs. Mature trees have fissured and plated bark.
cup pic courtesy of Javier martin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
leaf and acorn Javier Martin, Public Domain
Not for forestry purposes.
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Turkish Hazel Seed
Corylus colurnaPrice range: £5.00 through £10.00 inc. VATTurkish Hazel is a remarkable deciduous tree with a striking symmetrical, pyramidal form. The corky, deeply fissured bark is also an attractive feature. It is the only hazel with a single straight trunk rather than being multi-stemmed. It doesn’t coppice like the European Hazel.
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Urn Gum/ Urn Pod Gum Seed
Eucalyptus urnigera£10.00 inc. VATEucalyptus urnigera, Urn Gum or Urn Pod Gum, is considered to be more decorative than E. gunnii. It makes a good specimen tree with silver-blue round juvenile and strap-like silver/grey-green adult leaves. Silver white bark matures to green-grey-white-gold-pink, mottled and peeling. Flowers are white in September from urn shaped buds and the seed cases are urn shaped too. The largest UK specimens grow in the warm damp weather of the Western Scottish Coast.
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Vine Maple Seed
Acer circinatumPrice range: £7.00 through £30.00 inc. VATVine Maple is a fine, medium sized deciduous tree with elegant and graceful habit. It can also be grown as a large, multi-stemmed shrub. The small, lime green flowers in tassels in spring are followed by red, winged, sycamore -like seeds. The fresh green leaves are rounded but lobed and turn fantastically bright in autumn – reds, oranges and yellows. It is perfect species for bonsai.
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Virginia Creeper Seed
Parthenocissus quinquefolia£5.00 inc. VATVirginia Creeper is a large growing, self-clinging vine ideal for high walls. The deciduous leaves are made up of 5 leaflets, mid veins of which are greyish. They turn a brilliant orange or scarlet in autumn. The fruits are a blue / black colour. It needs very little maintenance.
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Virginian Witch Hazel Seed
Hamamelis virginianaPrice range: £7.00 through £18.00 inc. VATVirginian Witch Hazel is the commercial source of Witch Hazel and can range from a large multi-stemmed shrub to a small tree. The flowers have a soft sweet perfume when they appear in the late autumn, with narrow pale yellow crumpled petals. They are a useful food source for late insects. The large simple leaves colour well in the autumn. Witch Hazel ointment is an extraction from the bark in alcohol and can be used to calm skin irritations and reduce inflammation.
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Wayfaring Tree Seed
Viburnum lantana£7.00 inc. VATThe Wayfaring Tree is a large native, deciduous shrub often seen in hedgerows. The ovate leaves and young shoots are covered with a dense tomentum or down. Leaves sometimes turn a dark crimson in autumn. The cream flowers appear in late spring and are followed by oblong fruits that mature from red to black.
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Wedding Cake Tree Seed
Cornus controversa£9.00 inc. VATThe Wedding Cake Tree when grown in the right conditions, semi-shade and dampish, can grow into quite a large shrub. It makes a wonderful architectural shape with tiered and layered branches. The cream flower heads in summer are flat too, adding to the layered effect. Good purple autumn colour. Slow growing and needs space to develop the right shape.
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Wellingtonia Seed
Sequoiadendron giganteumPrice range: £5.00 through £15.00 inc. VATWellingtonia is a Californian giant, not as tall, but with a wider girth than the Californian Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) Young specimens are conical and densely branched producing a large elegant evergreen tree. The leaves are similar to Leyland cypress, being shortish hard scales. Thick rusty coloured fibrous bark, fissured and ridged when mature, but very soft.
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Western Hemlock Seed
Tsuga heterophyllaPrice range: £5.00 through £18.00 inc. VATWestern Hemlock is a large fast growing conifer with spreading branches. It produces an outstandingly beautiful single specimen tree with an elegant spire-like crown. The leaves are marked with two white bands underneath, soft and a bit like Yew but are aromatic(grapefruit or citrus) when crushed. Associated with Douglas Firs and Sitka Spruce on the Pacific coast of America, growing in the shade of other trees. When young, growth is slow, but picks up after 2 or 3 years.
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Western Red Cedar Seed
Thuja plicataPrice range: £5.00 through £16.50 inc. VATWestern Red Cedar is a large fast growing tree with shredding bark and spreading branches. The leaves are bright glossy green forming an excellent hedge which clips well. Foliage is aromatic. Trees are grown commercially for cutting into planks for cladding and fencing and shingles. The timber is very resinous so doesn’t rot.
pic courtesy of Baummapper, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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Western Yellow Pine Seed
Pinus ponderosaPrice range: £7.00 through £18.00 inc. VATWestern Yellow Pine is a large striking conifer with a scaly cinnamon bark and drooping branches. Planted as an ornamental tree in large gardens as well as for timber production in its native western North America. Needles grow in threes and even when old the crown is narrowly conical. The bark is said to smell of turpentine, but not as strongly as Pinus jeffreyii.
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White / Weymouth Pine Seed
Pinus strobusPrice range: £5.00 through £14.00 inc. VATWhite or Weymouth Pine is usually planted in gardens and parks as a specimen tree. It has very short dark green needles, in bundles of 5 and the cones are slender and brown up to 15cm long. It is fast growing and ornamental. In the past it has been used as a timber tree, and still is in America. It was used for the masts of sailing ships and was the cause of The Pine Riots in the American Civil War, because the colonists objected to the export of the finest trees to England! (early trade wars?!) Called the Weymouth Pine after Captain Weymouth who first brought the seed back the England, not because of where it grows!
pic courtesy of Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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