With its pure white bark, shiny green leaves and yellow autumn colour, the Japanese White Birch is one of the most ornamental birch trees. There are many landscape uses for this beautiful specimen, including an excellent lawn tree, shade tree, specimen for showy bark or near a patio.

Ginkgo is a lovely tree. Once thought to be extinct; it has survived for millions of years and is one of the best known examples of a living fossil. Easy to propagate from seed, their beautifully structure together with their unique leaf shape makes them very attractive and much sought after specimens.

Magnolias are some of the most magnificent specimens in the garden. Magnolia kobus is a beautiful small tree which displays upright oval growth in youth, bearing flowers at an early age, it spreads and mounds with maturity. They can be used as specimens or as lovely backdrops for other plantings.

Murraya paniculata, also known as Orange Jasmine flowers at intervals throughout the year, producing clusters of beautiful, fragrant jasmine-scented flowers. Easy to care for, it makes an outstanding boxwood like hedge or decorative container plant.

Prized for their beauty, fragrance, novelty and adaptability, miniature roses are the queen of flowers. This diminutive Chinese native grow to about 12 to 18 inches high in containers and baskets and blooms just 3 to 5 months from sowing. Although hardy, it can be grown as an annual when started early.

The 'Japanese Lilac Tree' has neat compact heads of creamy buds that make a fine display of glistening white. It flowers profusely with a distinct honey fragrance. The leaves are dark green and have greyish undersides and yellow autumn colour. It also has a lovely cherry coloured bark.