Deciduous Trees and Shrubs

The Santa Rosa Plum is a fantastic choice for the backyard, combining a lovely shade canopy with an abundance of delicious fruit. A prolific bearer, it produces medium-sized plums with wonderfully sweet, juicy red flesh—perfect for eating fresh, stewing, preserving, jams and desserts. Growing to around 3–5m, it makes a productive yet manageable fruit tree, and best of all, Santa Rosa is self-fertile, so you only need one tree to enjoy a bumper crop!

Soil: Well-drained soil
Conditions: Thrives in full sun. Frost tolerant
Size: Height 2-5m x width 4.5-6m

Acer Shaina is a vibrantly-coloured, japanese maple with upright branches covered in bright red leaves in spring, and dark maroon-red foliage in summer. This is a dense and compact cultivar with a nice globe shape. When grafted as a standard, it makes a colourful and elegant showpiece in the garden, courtyard or patio pot. It is necessary to lightly prune to keep the topiary form. For best leaf colour, it is advised to plant in partial shade.

Soil: Thrives in moist but well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun or part shade. Frost tolerant
Size: Height 1.5-2m x width 1-1.5m

Tasty Zee Peach is a large, upright deciduous fruit tree that delivers one of spring’s most spectacular floral displays. In early spring, the branches are covered in masses of pink, white and red blossoms, creating a beautiful ornamental feature before the foliage appears. By autumn, the tree produces medium-sized, juicy peaches with attractive dark red skin highlighted by lighter red and cream undertones, making them excellent for fresh eating and home harvests. Tasty Zee makes a lovely feature tree for lawns, orchards or productive gardens, combining ornamental beauty with reliable fruit production. Annual pruning in winter, after the leaves have dropped, helps maintain shape, encourage new growth and ensure good fruiting in the following season.

Soil: Well-draining, humus-rich soil
Conditions: Full sun. Shelter from strong wind. Frost and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 2.5-4m x width 2.5-4m

Magnolia Star Wars is one of our more precocious flowering magnolias. This darling will flower from a young age and once mature, will delight you with enormous, highly perfumed blooms up to 30cm across. These large goblet-shaped blooms are borne in profusion on bare branches from late winter to early spring, followed by large chartreuse green leaves that turn shades of gold in the autumn. A frost-hardy deciduous tree, this cultivar makes an ideal choice for a small garden or courtyard. Spectacular in a mass planting along a driveway.

Soil: Moist, fertile, well-drained soil.
Conditions: Best planted in full sun or partial shade. Frost hardy.
Size: Height 5m x width 3m

A revolutionary new Crepe Myrtle, Diamonds in the Dark Blush features magnificent near-black foliage that emerges in early spring, followed by masses of soft, baby pink blooms from summer until the first frost. The leaves provide excellent contrast with magnificent orange and red tonings as the foliage dies off in autumn. Its compact growth habit makes it attractive as a flowering hedge or plant en masse for a stand-out show-stopping visual display. It is perfect for a beautiful tree to line the driveway planting and in decorative pots on the deck, porch or balcony.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun. Drought, frost and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 3m x width 2.5m