OLIVE TREES, PALM TREES
& Mediterranean Plants
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COMMON NAME |
DESCRIPTION |
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Glossy Abelia |
A semi-evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves and fragrant white flowers tinged with pink. |
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Acacia Dealbata
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Mimosa |
Pretty long feathery leaves with attractive fluffy heads of fragrant flowers |
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Agapanthus Umbellatus Albus
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African Lily |
A beautiful late summer flowering plant with large round heads of pure white flowers |
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Agapanthus Umbellatus Ovatus
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African Blue Lily |
A beautiful late summer flowering plant with large round heads of deep blue flowers |
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Agave Americana
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Century Plant |
An impressive succulent with spiny lance shaped leaves with large panicles on very tall flower stems of greenish-yellow flowers |
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Aloe Vera
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Medicinal Aloe |
An attractive tree-like succulent with long, bright green toothed leaves. |
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Mexican Blue Palm |
A dramatic architectural plant, with blue-green fan shaped leaves which are edged with sharp teeth |
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Butia Capitata
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Pindo Palm |
Single trunk cold-hardy palm with curved fronds, producing a yellow inflorescent flowering structure |
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Crimson Bottlebrush |
An attractive shrub, arching pink-red young stems, with dark green leaves, lemon scented when crushed. Crimson bottlebrush-like flowers |
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Camellia Japonica
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Camellia |
Classic spring flowering evergreen shrub with colourful waxy flowers and fine glossy foliage |
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Chamaerops Humilis
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European Fan Palm |
A hardy clump forming palm with trangular fan-shaped leaves producing yellow flowers in summer |
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Chamaerops Humilis Cerifera
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Dwarf Blue Fan Palm |
One of the hardies of blue palms. Pale blue waxy leaves with multiple trunks |
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Cordyline
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New Zealand Cabbage Plant |
Erect palm-like tree with arching, narrow light green leaves. Mature trees bear tiny white flowers followed by blue or blue-tinted berries |
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Cortaderia Selloana
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Pampas Grass |
Densely tufted, clump forming perennial grass with arching mid green leaves and tall stems of silky, silvery plumes |
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Cycas Revoluta
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Sago Palm |
An architectural plant with stiff, palm-like glossy arching leaves which grow out from a fat bulbous stem |
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Dasylirion Wheeleri
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Blue Desert Spoon |
A dramatic round ball of long spiky looking leaves that ray out from the trunk. It is especially magical at night when against the light |
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Dicksonia Antartica
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Woolly Tree Fern |
A tree-like evergreen fern with delicate fronds, pale green at first then darkening with age |
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Diospyros Kaki
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Persimmon |
A deciduous shrub or tree with handsome polished leaves and producing bright orange edible fruits |
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Loquat |
A vigorous spreading tree with bold, pointed dark green glossy leaves. Large panicles of fragrant white flowers followed by orange coloured fruits |
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Euonymus Japonicus
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Japanese Spindle |
A large shrub with evergreen glossy, dark green leaves narrowly margined creamy white |
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Pineapple Guava |
A bushy shrub with grey-green leaves, silvery white underneath. Flowers hae long red stamens with purple red petals |
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Ficus Carica
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Common Fig |
A deciduous shrub with handsome foliage of large, deeply lobed leaves. Minute petal-less flowers are contained in a hollowed out receptacle which enlarges to form edible fruit |
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Grevillea |
A wild flower of Australia, with attractive needle-like foliage with distinctive spidery flowers. |
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Common Holly |
An evergreen shrub with spiny glossy wavy margined, dark green leaves. Insignificant flowers in summer producing long lasting red berries in autumn |
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Bay Tree |
An excellent foliage plant with lends itself to topiary. Long dark green leaves that are aromatic with a dense habit |
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Ligustrum Jonandrum
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Privet |
A bushy shrub with dark green leaves and creamy white flowers, followed by black berries |
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Magnolia |
A broadly conical evergreen tree with glossy dark green leaves, large showy cup-shaped creamy white flowers produced from late summer to early autumn |
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Heavenly Bamboo |
An evergreen shrub with elegant green foliage and pretty white flowers with large yellow anthers in mid-summer followed by bright red fruit |
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Nerium Oleander
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Rose Bay |
A tender Mediterranean evergreen shrub, very free flowering with large clusters of beautiful flowers. |
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Olive Tree |
An evergreen rounded tree with silvery green leather leaves and tiny fragrant white flowers which are followed by edible green fruits, ripening to black |
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Canary Island Date Palm |
An impressive foliage plant with a stout trunk and deep green, arching pinnate leaves |
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Phormium Tenax Purpureum
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New Zealand Flax |
A clump forming perennial with striking sword shaped purplish-bronze leaves. Atrractive tubular flowers |
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Phormium Tenax Variegatum
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New Zealand Flax |
The tallest variety of Phormiums with sword shape lime coloured leaves margined cream, producing tubular orange to red flowers |
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Photinia Serrulata
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Christmas Berry |
A spreading evergreen shrub with glossy dark green leaves, red when young. Smal white flowers are followed by bright red fruit |
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Phyllostachys Aurea
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Golden Bamboo |
A clump forming erect bamboo with grooved bright mid-green canes becoming yellow-brown. Narrow yellowish to golden green leaves |
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Pittosporum Tobira
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Japanese Mock Orange |
A very attractive foliage plant with lustrous green leaves and clusters of sweetly scented small bell-shaped flowers |
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Star Jasmine |
A twining climber with glossy dark green leaves, turning bronze -red in winter. Pure white flowers from mid to late summer |
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Puerto Rican Hat Palm |
A solitary fan palm with stout stems and inflorescences of creamy white flowers producing oval-shaped black fruit |
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Sabal Minor |
Dwarf Palmetto |
A trunkless, slow growing palm with blue-grey pinnate fronds and renowned as one of the hardiest of all palms |
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Sabal Palmetto
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Cabbage Palm |
A single-trunked, slow growing palm with pinnate green fronds producing yellowish-white flowers |
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Chusan/Windmill Palm |
A single stemmed palm with large fan-shaped dark green leaves. Small yellow flowers emerge close to the leaf bases in early summer. The hardiest palm in Britain |
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Grape Vine |
A deciduous climbing shrub with a twisted stem and long, flexible branches which support themselves when near walls, fences or other structures, producing edible fruits (grapes) |
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Desert Fan Palm |
A beautiful architectural plant with hanging filaments from the segmented fan shaped leaves. |
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Washingtonia Robusta
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Thread Palm |
A tall, tender, fast-growing palm with a slender tapering trunk and sharply toothed leaf stalks bearing bright-green leaf blades |
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Wollemi Pine
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Wollemia Nobilis |
A fast growing, tall, coniferous tree with multiple trunks, bubbled dark brown bark and pendulous branches bearing needle-like leaves |
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Spanish Bayonet |
An excellent architectural shaped plant with lance shaped stiff, leathery leaves each ending with a sharp point |
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Yucca Filamentosa
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Adams Needle |
A clump forming shrub with rosettes of rigid, dark green leaves, margined with curly white hairs. Upright spikes of nodding, bell-shaped white flowers in mid and late summer |
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Yucca Rostrata
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Beaked Yucca |
An exceptionally distinctive single trunked species with a magnificent, almost spherical head of very narrow, flexible, powder blue leaves |














































