My Climate Change Garden

Black Leaved Elder

10. April 2008

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Latin name: Sambucus nigra ‘Black Lace’ Description: Elder is a well known shrub in our hedge rows, but there are several highly garden worthy forms and Sambucus niger is certainly one of them. If pollarded (cut to the ground) yearly it will produce up to 2m of fresh growth. ‘Black Lace’ makes a striking plant […]

Golden Locust Tree

10. April 2008

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Latin name: Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’ Description: ‘Frisia’ is much more exotic looking than the plane green form. Its luxuriant leaves are composed of nineteen individual leaflets that are golden yellow when young 9 looking beautiful against a blue sky) turning greenish-yellow through summer and a glowing orange-yellow in the autumn. The whole tree has a […]

Pseudopanax

10. April 2008

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Latin name: Pseudopanax lessonii ‘Gold Splash’ Description: Exceedingly handsome ornamental shrub with an erect, dense, bushy habit. ‘Gold Splash’ has thick, leathery, usually five palmate mid-green leaves with a strong golden yellow central variegation, making this an excellent addition to our range of garden shrubs. ‘Purpureus’ is another beautiful form with glossy, leathery, toothed bronze […]

Canary Island Palm

10. April 2008

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Latin name: Phoenix canariensis Description: Very large palm hailing from the Canary Islands and probably one of the most well known palms in the world. Found to be much hardier than originally thought in this country. They are grown for their very architectural appearance with their graceful arching green fronds that can be up to […]

Empress Tree, Royal Paulonia

10. April 2008

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Latin name: Paulownia tomentosa Description: If you want big leaves this is the plant to have. It is a fast growing, deciduous, spreading tree with leaves from 15-30 cm across, but, if you want really big leaves, you have to pollard the tree to the ground in spring and only let one or two shots […]

Cotton / Scotch Thistle

10. April 2008

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Latin name: Onopodum acanthium Description: The statuesque proportions of this plant are a sight to behold. The stems of this native Scotch thistle are clothed in very spiny greyish silver foliage above which, large pale-purple or occasionally white, thistle-like flower-heads appear in July and August. It is best planted at the back of a border […]

Olive Tree

10. April 2008

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Latin name: Olea europa Description: Redolent of Mediterranean holidays, this is a tree that British gardeners thought would be to tender for or supposedly chilly climate, but, with climate change in mind, we should be able to collect our own olives in the decades to come. Olive trees are slow growing with narrowly oblong greyish […]

Japanese Root Hardy Banana, Japanese Fibre Banana

10. April 2008

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Latin name: Musa basjoo Description: Probably the hardiest of all the bananas and the most easily grown. This highly architectural banana has a pseudostem (trunk) that can reach up to 2.5m tall and from the top issue arching mid-green leaves up to 2m long and 50cm wide. With age this banana becomes multi-stemmed forming a […]

Honey Bush

10. April 2008

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Latin name: Melianthus major Description: Extremely attractive, fairly lax, sparsely branched evergreen shrub, grown for its attractive, deeply serrated silver-blue leaves which bring character to the garden. Melianthus comes from the Greek meli (honey) and anthos (flower), meaning that it has abundant nectar. Because it tends to flower during the winter months this is rarely […]

Mahonia

10. April 2008

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Latin name: Mahonia x media ‘Charity’ Description: Very tough architectural plants needing little maintenance. It is a vigorous evergreen upright shrub with dark green, spiky foliage on long fairly sparse, deeply fissured and very tactile, cork-like bark covered stems. One of the most wonderful things about this shrub is that it flowers when little else […]

Archive | April, 2008

Black Leaved Elder

Golden Locust Tree

Pseudopanax

Canary Island Palm

Empress Tree, Royal Paulonia

Cotton / Scotch Thistle

Olive Tree

Japanese Root Hardy Banana, Japanese Fibre Banana

Honey Bush

Mahonia

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