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for the 75 different species of plant named after him, including an entire genus, the banksias. These are evergreen shrubs, found mostly in Australia, with wonderful conical flowerheads. Banks is also commemorated by Rosa banksiae  (named after his wife

...wondering if there are Cornuses with purple leaves... Other option is moving the Acer to gain even more space and sticking a Fuji cherry  in there which grows to may 2.5m but the soil isn't ericaceous... Or a sword-shaped leafed plant?  Any ideas on good shrubs, not too slow

weeds. Thank you. I am no longer 25035431917PeeT. I have never had to do this before and I just need confidence in using the product. Thanks once again.  I am looking for a medium sized evergreen flowering shrub to replace my Choisya which I have had

Hi! I'm developing a small woodland area at the bottom of our garden which backs onto woodland. It's much lighter now we've removed a couple of huge evergreens, though our neighbour's evergreens continue to cast some shade. However there is dappled

I agree with you.Most of my shrubs survived the cold fine and are flowering better than ever, with the exception of the ceonothus which seems to have lost a lot of growth and leaves(it is an evergreen type).Sadly my garden is too small for any trees

's all a bit daunting not knowing what goes with what to get a good visual effect. How about some shrubs? Potentillas give plenty of colour throughout the summer as will hypericums. Evergreen shrubs like olearias, choisyas, hebes, etc. will give some

of a large bed with other shrubs close by and they all seem pretty happy. I think a fatsia might be a bit tight in that space, but maybe you could consider sarcocca confusa, a slow growing evergreen shrub with small glossy dark green leaves. It looks

......sort of orangey/vanilla. But.....it flowers only for a short time and,out of flower is not very attractive. There is another similarly-fragrant shrub called choisya....known as Mexican,orange blossom.....that is evergreen, easily pruned to shape, long flowering

to describe the effect. So box and yew are definitely off the menu as are laurels and pretty much every evergreen shrub apart from some conifers.Hmm, further thought is called for but, in the meantime, I don’t want to hear any of you complaining about snow

are 'creative, colourful and convenient'. In other words, they'd like us all to buy and plant more of these valuable evergreen shrubs.I find it surprising that while most of us love seasonal colour in our gardens, and invest a great deal of time and money in pot