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One of the most beautiful hardy trees I have grown. Commonly called the 'Persian Silk' tree because of the delicate looking pink flowers that cover its canopy in summer. Albizia julibrissin also boasts beautiful ferny foliage that forms a broad canopy, perfect to provide a little dappled shade. The leaves close up at night. The seed pods can hang from the branches and look great throughout winter. Native to Eastern Asia.
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A deciduous tree growing to 15 metres in height. Originates from monsoonal forests in Asia. Large palmate papery leaves are held on spiny stems and branches. Can be grown as an attractive shrub for tropical and warm temperate climates.
A papaya variety popular in India with sweet, intensely colored fruits. Carica papaya is easily grown in the tropics and it makes a nice ornamental with a mostly unbranched trunk and large, dark green, deeply lobed palmate leaves.
Cyphomandra betacea, commonly known as tamarillo or tree tomato, is a semi-woody sub-tropical evergreen shrub with a treelike form that typically grows rapidly to 2.5 metres tall and features large edible tomato-like fruit on plants clothed with large ovate green leaves. It is native to South America. This shrub makes an excellent foliage plant with its impressively large leaves.
Very fast growing banana commonly called the 'Abyssiniun banana'. The underside of the leaf midrib is a vivid crimson red. The trunk can grow to reach several feet in width! Native to the highlands of Eastern Africa.
A very desirable species of the 'Giant Rhubarb'. Gunnera insignis is extremely architectural and has bright red flower spikes that emerge from the heart of the plant. Endemic to Costa Rica.
A hardy rhizomatous perennial with jungly silvery/green foliage and stunning blooms held on upright stems. Extremely exotic spikes of up to 50 pale orange flowers appear in late summer. Commonly called the 'Khali Ginger'.
The 'Sensitive Plant'! A sprawling plant with the amazing ability to fold its leaves closed after being touched. Very easy to grow from seed and kids love them.
A stunning banana with similar hardiness as Musa basjoo. Grows to over 4 metres tall and develops a thick pseudostem (trunk). Commonly called the 'Darjeeling banana' and native to montane forests of the Indian Himalayas. A small percentage of these plants can exhibit beautiful red streaks through their massive leaves.
Attractive shrub or small tree growing to 5m tall. Large palmate green leaves with an eye catching leaf undersides that are densely covered in golden hairs. Native to cloud forests in Columbia. Very little is known about this rarely available plant, feel free to experiment!
Puya alpestris is an evergreen terrestrial bromeliad that produces a rosette of spiky silvery-blue leaves. The spikes are reverse barbed to protect the plant from predation and it’s said that in the wild sheep can often get tangled into the spikes, earning this plant the nickname of ‘Sheep eater’.
Puya alpestris produces a stunning flower spike in warm summers that is a tower of sapphire blue flowers with bright orange anthers, there is almost nothing else like it!
Puya alpestris is a fantastic drought tolerant plant that will thrive with a warm microclimate and good drainage.
A striking and bizzare plant with unusual shaped leaves that are covered in bright orange spikes. Native to southern Madagascar. Solanum pyracanthos is grown as an exotic foliage annual in the same way as Ricinus.
A highly attractive plant that quickly grows into a shrubby specimen with beautiful foliage. Deep purple veins are covered in unusual purple spikes . Produce sweet and edible fruits. Solanum quitoense is grown as a striking foliage annual in the same way as Ricinus.
