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Pyracantha ‘Golden Charmer’ – Growing and Care Tips

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Pyracantha ‘Golden Charmer’ An outstanding, compact and bushy evergreen shrub that offers year-round interest. This hardy evergreen shrub with sharp spiky branches and small dark glossy green leaves produces clusters of the most beautiful white flowers throughout the summer. These are followed by bright orange berries in late Autumn and Winter. Quick Facts Other name: Firethorn ‘Golden Charmer’Grows in exposed and sheltered areasProduces clusters of white flowers in summer and orange berries in late autumn and…

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Mahonia aquifolium apollo flowers in spring
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Growing Mahonia aquifolium Apollo – Oregon-grape

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Mahonia Apollo This generally pest-free evergreen shrub is also known as the ‘Oregon Grape’ shrub. It is an excellent, vigorous, eye-catching shrub ideal for planting as a groundcover plant or in a small shrub border shrub as its forms a dome type shape. Relatively drought tolerant it is as at home in a woodland shaded setting just as much as it is in an open sunny area of the garden in more exposed areas. It will flourish in…

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Pruning berberis for a healthy plant or hedge
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Pruning Berberis – Evergreen and Deciduous Barberries

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Berberis Pruning Berberis is also commonly known as the Barberry plant and with over 500 different species it is found in nearly every country around the world. It can be seen to be used in many different ways, from forming both formal and informal hedges to border shrubs. This prickly shrub is available as both an evergreen and a deciduous shrub. The two types should be pruned in different ways. Their foliage colours range from the dark…

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Pruning Buddleia correctly in spring and when not to prune
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Pruning Buddleia – When and how to prune for a better flowering plant

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Buddleia Pruning There is no mistaking the fragrant, spiked flowers of Buddleia davidii shrubs. Often available in an array of colours, from the vibrant royal red flowers of ‘Royal Red’ to the white flowers of Buddleia ‘Marbled White’, they are highly attractive to a variety of beautiful butterflies, our much-loved bees and other beneficial insects that pollinate our plants. Most Buddleia shrubs originate from the rocky mountains of China and as such, they are very adaptable to living in…

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Leylandii guide, growing tips, propagation, plant hedge
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Leylandii – Your complete guide including growing tips, propagation and pruning

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Leylandii – Cupressocyparis Without a doubt, the most popular hedging plant available in the UK with over 55 million already planted in hedgerows and a staggering 300,000 trees sold every year. They are known for their fast growing habit and make suitable trees for forming a hedge or screening. They can also be grown as an individual conifer where space allows (they need a lot of space) and the evergreen foliage and conical shape makes them very attractive, large compact…

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