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Japanese Maple Seed (purple leaved)
Acer palmatum atropurpureumPrice range: £5.00 through £12.00 inc. VATPurple Japanese Maple is the most popularly grown of the Japanese Maples. Leaves are a bronze-crimson throughout the summer before turning brilliant red in the autumn. It makes an elegant large deciduous shrub, often multi-stemmed and is quite slow-growing. Because the shade it casts is quite light, under-planting is usually successful, especially with spring bulbs.
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Japanese Maple var. dissectum Seed
Acer palmatum (dissectum)Price range: £5.00 through £9.00 inc. VATThe Dissect Japanese Maple is a small deciduous tree or shrub with delicate, ferny 5 or 7 lobed bright green leaves. They turn beautiful vibrant red orange and yellow colour in autumn. It usually produces a mushroom-shaped tree which can be under-planted with bulbs effectively. Planted in semi-shade and in shelter, this is a fine garden plant with long season of interest.
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Japanese Pagoda Tree Seed
Sophora japonicaPrice range: £5.00 through £8.00 inc. VATThe Japanese Pagoda Tree is a medium sized round headed deciduous tree with large 30cm leaves made up of 9 to 15 leaflets. It casts only a light shade. On mature trees the creamy pea-like flowers form in large terminal clusters in late summer and autumn. Bee friendly. The long seed pods are persistent.
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Japanese Quince Seed
Chaenomeles japonica£5.00 inc. VATJapanese Quince, also known as Japonica, is a small, low growing, thorny shrub with bright orange red flowers, appearing very early in spring. These develop into rounded yellow fruits in the autumn. This deciduous shrub has small oval mid green leaves. Pruning can be done in the spring after flowering, or carefully in winter whilst making sure that the flower spurs are not being chopped off. Although Chaenomeles doesn’t flower as well in a shady spot, it makes a useful shrub for a north wall.
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Japanese Stone Pine Seed
Pinus pumila£5.00 inc. VATJapanese Stone Pine is a beautiful low growing, sometimes prostrate, hardy shrub-like tree native to north-east Asia including Japan. The female cones are purplish when young turning to a red-brown at maturity. Needles are dense and in bundles of 5. In the wild it grows at high elevations, above the forest line and often with willow and alder scrub. Very tolerant of extreme climates – a tough specimen!
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Japanese Walnut Seed
Juglans sieboldiana / ailanthifoliaPrice range: £10.00 through £18.50 inc. VATTh Japanese Walnut grows into an impressive medium sized tree with incredible leaves that may be up to 1m long. It fruits with long pendulous strings of nuts which are known as Heart Nuts, because of the shape. They are sweet and tasty. New growth may be tender to late frosts, so shelter is appreciated.
Pic is a young tree in a Cheshire Churchyard
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Japanese Zelkova Seed
Zelkova serrataPrice range: £5.00 through £11.00 inc. VATZelkova is a medium sized graceful wide spreading tree with a round crown and smooth grey bark. The slender oval leaves are up to 12cm long and have narrow pointed teeth. In autumn they turn a bronze red. It is related to Elm (Ulmus) but has proven to be resistant to Dutch Elm disease and so is suggested as a substitute. Pollution tolerant so can be used as a street tree. In Japan it is used as a valuable timber tree.
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Judas Tree Seed
Cercis siliquastrum£5.00 inc. VATThe Judas tree is a medium sized deciduous tree or large shrub which becomes wreathed in lilac flowers in late spring, sprouting even directly from the main trunk, before the heart- shaped leaves emerge. Purple tinted seed pods develop in autumn.
pic By Kousvet – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia
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Juniper Seed
Juniperus communisPrice range: £2.50 through £12.00 inc. VATJuniper produces the berry to flavour gin and is used to make a beer in Scandinavian countries! Dried berries are used sparingly in cooking to flavour meat and game. A medium to large sized evergreen shrub with silver backed leaves/needles and black berries. It can grow tall or low and spreading, and anything in-between! It is being used increasingly to plant the sides of northern motorways. Very prickly.
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Katsura Seed
Cercidiphyllum japonicumPrice range: £5.00 through £20.00 inc. VATKatsura is a small deciduous tree with attractive heart shaped leaves, pink when new, fresh green sometimes tinged purple in summer and then bright yellows, oranges, reds and pinks in autumn. Autumn leaves have a caramel/burnt sugar scent and male trees have a stronger scent than female trees. Rarely flowers. Often multi-stemmed.
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Kerria Seed
Kerria japonicaPrice range: £2.00 through £8.25 inc. VATKerria or Japanese Rose is a graceful suckering shrub that produces rich butter yellow flowers in mid spring. Although it is deciduous its green stems provide winter colour. The shrub mainly seen in gardens is the double-flowered variety, but there are also white flowered ones and varieties with variegated leaves. Kerria from seed will produce quite large single flowers early in the summer.
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Killarney Strawberry Tree
Arbutus unedoPrice range: £5.00 through £11.00 inc. VATThe Strawberry Tree is a small evergreen tree or bushy shrub, with deep brown bark which peels off in shreds. Its red fruits and white flowers are produced simultaneously in the autumn. Lime tolerant and hardy, this little tree can withstand gales and the most inhospitable coastal conditions.
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Korean Fir Seed
Abies koreanaPrice range: £5.00 through £8.00 inc. VATThe Korean Fir is a small, very neat tree with needles that are 1 to 2 cm long, dark glossy green on top, white underneath. It produces prominent, decorative violet or purple cones about 5 to 8 cm long, which disintegrate when about 6mths old.
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Korean Pine Seed
Pinus koraiensis£8.50 inc. VATKorean Pine is an ornamental Pine with long blue needles arranged in groups of 5. When young it grows in a pyramidal shape, but branches become more horizontal with age. Large cones are produced towards the end of branches, ripening to 11cm long. The seeds contained in the cones are large and used in cooking, like Pinus pinea.
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Laburnum Seed
Laburnum anagyroides£5.00 inc. VATThe Laburnum is a small deciduous, fast growing tree producing masses of drooping yellow flowers in May and June in a spectacular display. All parts of this plant are poisonous if eaten. Pruned and trained into the famous tunnel at Bodnant Gardens, North Wales
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Laurustinus Seed
Viburnum tinus£5.00 inc. VATAn extremely popular evergreen, medium sized shrub with masses of glossy green leaves. The white-pink budded flowers are borne from late autumn to early spring. The egg shaped fruits are initially metallic blue but ripen to black. It makes an attractive hedge.
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Lavender “Hidcote” Seed
Lavandula angustifolia "Hidcote"Price range: £6.00 through £30.00 inc. VATLavender ‘Hidcote’ is a compact lavender growing to just over 0.5m with grey green leaves and stems. It is the classic ‘Old English Lavender’ used in cottage gardens. The highly scented violet flowers are borne in dense spikes in mid summer. Great for bees. After flowering, a light trim over with shears keeps the shrubs neat.
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Lavender “Munstead” Seed
Lavandula angustifolia "Munstead"Price range: £6.00 through £30.00 inc. VATLavender ‘Munstead’ is a compact form of lavender with narrow grey green stems. The aromatic flowers are a deeper blue than in some other cultivars and appear in mid summer. Use as an informal, low hedge as a border for paths and lawns. It is an Old English Lavender similar to ‘Hidcote’ and is frequently used in cottage gardens. Lightly trim with shears after flowering to keep neat. Full of bees in the summer and a less acid scent than French Lavender.
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Lawson Cypress Seed
Chamaecyparis lawsonianaPrice range: £5.00 through £20.00 inc. VATA large conical tree which is a useful ornamental and makes an excellent evergreen hedge or screen even in exposed situations. Looks like Leylandii, but is slightly slower growing.
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Leatherleaf Viburnum Seed
Viburnum rhytidophyllum£5.00 inc. VATViburnum rhytidophyllum is a large handsome evergreen shrub with large elliptic corrugated and wrinkled leaves which are dark green above and grey felted beneath. The cream or pink flowers are borne in clusters in spring. The fruits are red, turning black and shiny as they ripen. A superb foliage plant especially on chalk soils. Maintenance-free, but a little light trimming can be done after flowering has finished, if the shrub is getting too big.
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Lemon Scented Gum Seed
Corymbia/Eucalyptus citriodoraPrice range: £5.00 through £19.00 inc. VATLemon Scented gum or Eucalyptus is grown as a shrub for its lemon scented, evergreen leaves, but in northern climes it is not hardy out of doors and is best used as a conservatory plant. In warm climates it is often planted outdoors. Can be coppiced successfully.
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Lilac Seed
Syringa vulgarisPrice range: £5.00 through £10.00 inc. VATLilac makes a vigorous, deciduous, suckering shrub. Its scented light purple flowers are borne in dense panicles in late spring with the seeds ripening in August. It makes a pleasant informal hedge or a multi-stemmed tree. Moderately hard pruning after flowering can keep the plant in check.
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Ling Heather Seed
Calluna vulgarisPrice range: £5.00 through £15.00 inc. VATLing Heather or Calluna vulgaris is a dwarf twiggy shrub that is often abundant on mountains and moorland. The petals are concealed by the familiar purple sepals from July into early autumn. Common in Europe and Asia Minor.
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Lingonberry Seed
Vaccinium vitis-idaeaPrice range: £5.00 through £10.00 inc. VATLingonberry is a small evergreen shrub which flowers pink in May and June and the tiny berries ripen from August through to October. The plant is well known for attracting wildlife. When not in berry, it can be mistaken for Bilberry because of the similar foliage. It is the berry made popular by IKEA in their cafes – served with their famous meatballs.
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