Availability List time

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Labels

We have been hoarding (since 2000) some stick-in labels that were mis-supplied for our TEC B452 printer. They are 25 x 140 mm, 4up, narrow edge leading, in rolls of 1000 and we have 20 rolls. They don’t work in our machine because ours recognizes a black line to know where each sheet of four starts but these have a hole instead, which our machine doesn’t believe in. Free if you can use them.

Embothrium lanceolatum

Embothrium lanceolatum appears again on the list. Do not bother with this unless you are prepared to give them a compost they can survive in – which means one with very little fertiliser, particularly phosphate. We have more information (www.jackdawsfield.co.uk).

Availability List

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Abutilon

Abutilon x suntense (from cuttings) is lilac-flowered while the Abutilon vitifolium ex-white is, as it suggests, from seed and will mostly flower white, although some may be lilac. Both are medium-sized shrubs, which flower from early summer until there is frost, with felted leaves. The flowers are widely open, trumpet shaped, about 10cm across, (not the bell-type of many abutilons).

Links!

Our website brings us in a number of enquiries that we are unable (or unwilling) to fulfil. Therefore we are inviting you to have links on our site that will enable web-surfers to find a supplier for the lines we supply to you. If you want to be linked please let us have your details with a brief (even pithy) description of what you do e.g ‘retail sales by mail order and from nursery’ or ‘ wholesale only – cash and carry available’ or ‘……..’ (I was going to write something rude about ladies-that-lunch-and-do-design but I won’t).

Dianella caerulea

Dianella caerulea (picture on www.jackdawsfield.co.uk) has glossy strap-like leaves making a clump to about 90cm. Its flowers are blue with prominent yellow anthers, borne in erect panicles, and these can be followed by blue berries. Again it is Z9, but experience in this country suggests that it thrives in sheltered places – e.g. the base of a wall. This species is smaller in ultimate size than the similar D. tasmanica but seems equally vigorous as a young plant.

Surplus stock plants

We have a few surplus stock plants to clear:
Lonicera tragophylla (picture on www.jackdawsfield.co.uk), substantial plants in 7.5 litres. Will flower on the ends of the new growth, £5.00 each.
Trachelospermum asiaticum, 15 litre pots - very bushy but cut back so not immediately impressive, but caned in a larger pot they will make some good specimens by the autumn. £4.00 each, 20 available.
Solanum rantonetti 20 litres - not much structure but big plants. £4.00 each, 3 available

Furcraea longaeva & Arundos

Furcraea longaeva is a yucca-like plant which, on tall stems (up to 12m in the wild, but 2m here),
bears white flowers that turn into bulbils and develop into plantlets. It is a fascinating plant with a good story to sell it but it has two drawbacks; it isn’t really hardy (Z9, H3) and it doesn’t flower readily – in fact if anybody can tell me what it needs to induce flowering I would be grateful. There is a picture on www.jackdawsfield.co.uk , taken at Wisley last year, growing in containers.
In the same garden at Wisley there were Arundos in pots which is probably the best way of growing them in the garden. The species is green, Variegata is white variegated and Versicolor (as we call it) is cream variegated. All are vigorous, water-loving, grasses growing to 3m or more with broad leaves, but not generally flowering in this country. The species is a weed of waterways even in northern France so they should survive here. If the roots are under water it will of course protect them from frost.

Euphorbia characias

We have both sub-species of Euphorbia characias available, i.e. ssp. wulfenii and ssp. characias. There are many named varieties of both subspecies, which should be (but aren’t always) grown from cuttings, but with many of them this is not easy to do on any scale. Consequently we offer these two from seed and although there will be a little variation all will produce strong upright plants which will flower early next spring. The main difference between the subspecies is in the colour of the nectaries; ssp wulfenii has yellow, long-horned nectaries while ssp. characias has red or dark nectaries with short horns. If you don’t know which bits are the nectaries in a Euphorbia flower it doesn’t matter – the difference is whether the flower is all yellow or yellow with darker bits. This particular batch of ssp. characias has red stems whereas ssp wulfenii has green.

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New Data sheet for Embothriums

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New Pic's

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