2021-04-12T16:32:51+01:00By Paramount Plants|Flowering Plants|
Camellias in Britain – an informal history Now that spring is in full flight and Camellias are in bloom all around us, it is natural to wonder how these exotic beauties first came to British shores. While in its native China and Japan, stories of the camellia [...]
2023-10-23T15:23:27+01:00By Paramount Plants|Evergreen Screening|
What Are Pleached Trees? Full Standard Trees that are frame trained as a flat rectangular shape are known as pleached trees. This is an extension of the age old art of espallier, literally taken to new heights. The tree is grown with a clear stem as a full standard, reaching [...]
2019-08-08T09:36:07+01:00By Paramount Plants|Garden Inspiration & Ideas|
Trending shrubs 2016 – Cryptomeria Japonica or Japanese Cedar, a plant for instant impact Now that the Easter weekend has been and gone, the gardening season begins in earnest, says Rachel de Thame in her BBC Gardeners World piece over the Easter weekend on what plants are [...]
2023-10-24T12:07:31+01:00By Paramount Plants|Gardening Tips|
For centuries, English Boxwood (Buxus Sempervirens) has been one of our favourite garden plants. Extremely versatile, Box has so many uses in the garden as a superb structural, evergreen plant. So much so, it is difficult to see how we can move on from the devastating development of this most [...]
2019-08-08T09:43:34+01:00By Paramount Plants|Garden Inspiration & Ideas|
Garden Inspiration Ideas – Evergreen Magnolia Grandiflora Bateman’s in East Sussex, now owned and managed by the National Trust, is renowned as the much beloved home of Rudyard Kipling. Looking for a secluded family home far from the glare of the public and the media, Kipling purchased [...]
2019-08-08T09:46:27+01:00By Paramount Plants|Flowering Plants|
Camellia Japonica Red Varieties – camellia hedge bursting with flower buds Britain has a long association with the Camellia Tree or The China Rose, as it was originally referred to in the late 1700s, when ambitious horticulturalists of the day first began to grow camellias in this [...]
