(Snow Pear) This form has a lovely silvery green sheen due to its slightly glaucous foliage. Great feature tree.

Origin: South East Europe to Western Asia

A semi-weeping pear that does well as a feature in small gardens. Distinctive silver-grey foliage. Forms a dense rounded tree with narrow foliage. Fruit is green, insignificant and inedible. Effective when used as screen against buildings and other garden structures.

Origin: Europe and Asia

(Manchurian Flowering Pear) An ornamental variety that has become very popular due to its brilliant autumn red colour. White flowers appear during spring followed by green fruits with brown spots. Well used for hedging, screening and feature plantings. 

Origin: Asia

Medium-sized, free growing tree with narrowly oblong, chestnut-like, polished, bright green leaves margined with bristle-tipped teeth. They are downy at fisrt, becoming glabrous above, glossy green and glabrate beneath, with axillary tufts of hairs, and they persist into winter.

A small, rounded-head, evergreen tree or large shrub, occasionally reaching 12m, with smooth, black bark becoming rough and squared with age. Leaves rounded or oval, short stalked,2.5-5cm long, hard and usually convex, armed with spine-tipped, marginal teeth; smooth shiny green above, glabrous except for axillary tufts of hair beneath.

White oak. In the British Isles., generally a medium-sized tree with obovate, deeply and irregularly lobed, soft green leaves, reddish when unfolding, turning purple-crimson in autumn. Lobing of the leaves very variable, from shallow to very deep.

Golden oak of cyprus. A rare and interesting, slow-growing, medium to large shrub in cultivation. Leaves rounded or broad obovate, hard in texture, hooded at apex, dark glossy green above and ywllow-felted beneath.