Much loved by gardeners in Victorian times who made a feature of this palm planting it in the centre of the lawn. They will fit well into a mixed planting as well of course. A palm from the hot dry areas of southern Europe and North Africa it is both drought tolerant and, more...

“Chimonanthus, that most heavenly scented of all heaven-scented flowers” Reginald Farrar. Blooming in the depths of winter the flowers, cream coloured and tightly huddled against leafless stems, will fill the whole garden with a delicious spicy fragrance. As it flowers on, more...

A hybrid between Catalpa bignoniodes and Chilepsis linearis this rare, deciduous small tree is ideally suited to our dry inland gardens as well as coastal areas which aren’t humid during summer. For several months, from early summer until autumn, heads of large gloxinia-like, more...

Cotinus are amongst the best of all drought tolerant, frost hardy, long lived trees and shrubs available for the garden. I grow about twenty plants of five varieties of Cotinus at Lambley and this year I will be planting more. Velvet Cloak is an upright growing selection with, more...