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Description

This Hardy Shrub Collection will provide your garden with year-round interest. With vibrant colours, textures, heights, and shapes, we have brought together simply fabulous varieties, which are garden staples! Whether filling beds or borders gaps or planting as a standalone pot specimen, they grow rapidly and provide the garden with spectacular displays years after year.

In this collection:

Berberis thunbergii 'Atropurpurea': A great hedging plant with spiked branches. Yellow flowers appear in late spring, while purple foliage offers perfect autumn colour. Grows up to H150cm x W150cm
Syringa vulgaris: The common Lilac produces fragrant, lavender-purple to light blue blooms from May. Hardy, and deciduous. Grows up to H800cm x W800cm
Hypericum Hidcote: Masses of saucer-shaped, buttery yellow flowers from early to late autumn contrast against this compact and bushy semi-evergreen foliage. Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Grows up to H150cm x W150cm
Deutzia scabra: The 'Fuzzy Deutzia' is a native of Japan and China. Smothers itself in pure white fragrant flowers in June. Grows up to H400cm x W250cm
Potentilla Yellow: A tall, upright shrub with rich green foliage, smothered in yellow flowers from late spring to autumn. Robust and drought-tolerant even in exposed conditions. Grows up to H150cm x W100cm
Spirea douglasii: Part of the rose family, often know as 'Rose Spirea'. Easy to grow with pink flowers in early summer, ideal for small spaces. Grows up to H250cm x W250cm
Weigela rosea: A garden shrub with fabulous pink flowers in May, June, and July. Grows up to H250cm x W250cm
Forsythia intermedia 'Spectabilis': A spectacular early season shrub with bright yellow blooms. Easy to grow and can be trimmed into a small hedge. Grows up to H300cm x W180cm
Tamarix tetandra: The 'Tamarisk' or 'Salt Cedar' is an upright, deciduous shrub that arches gracefully with dark branches and needle-like foliage. A superb focal point that produces masses of feathery plumes of tiny pink blossom from April to May. Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Grows up to H800cm x W800cm
Philadelphus coronarius: The 'Mock Orange' will be clothed in a profusion of creamy white, fabulously fragrant flowers through June and July. Grows up to H250cm x W150cm
Cornus alba: The 'Red-Barked Dogwood' provides autumn colour with bright red vertical branches. In summer it leafs up and has soft pink flowers in the middle of summer. Grows up to H250cm x W250cm
Symphoricarpos albus: The 'Common Snowberry' has berries that provide much-needed winter food for wildlife. Grows up to H150cm x W150cm

Top Tips

On receipt, soak the roots in water for at least 2 hours (overnight is better). If you can't plant straight away, they should be fine for up to a week if left in a cool, dark, frost-free place - keep the bag around the roots with some water inside. Don't worry if the roots have been cut quite harshly � this is done to encourage the plant to grow.
Bare root plants are dormant, with no leaves, and with the roots out of the soil.
The season runs from November to April, depending on the weather. Some larger or slower-growing plants will already be a few years old on supply, and ready to thrive straight away in your garden.

Care Information

Select an appropriate spot for your plants, making sure that you give them enough space to grow to their full size.
Dig a hole twice the width of the roots, forking over the bottom to loosen the soil, and add some good quality fertiliser such as Blood, Fish and Bone.
Aim to plant at the same depth as the soil mark on the trunk.
Holding the tree or plant upright in position with one hand, slowly backfill the hole with soil, and gently shake the plant, so the soil falls back around the roots.
Use your heel to compact the soil around the plant to ensure good contact around the roots.
If you are planting into pots, place some old rocks, stones or gravel in the bottom of the pot for drainage and ballast. Use the best compost you can buy.
When the soil and air warm up from late March onwards, you should see the plant burst into life.
Do not allow plants to dry out in the first four months after planting. Once established for one season, they will become much more tolerant to a lack of water, as the root system develops.
There is no real need to prune for the first 2 years, then prune to the shape and size you want. Remove any broken, diseased or crossing branches in late autumn or winter to control size.
Prune established trees in summer using good-quality secateurs, removing weak shoots, and cutting out those that cross over each other, to create an evenly spaced bowl shape.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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