Rarely offered
Six O’Clock
Chaenomeles japonica
Fourteen centimetres, and it flowers like a shrub
Informal upright · 14 cm · c. 35 yrs
£2,400
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Winter Jasmine
Jasminum nudiflorum · Winter jasmine
Sold in March 2026
A semi-cascade that flowers on bare wood in the worst month of the year, which is the entire argument for growing it. Sold, and kept here because the record matters.
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Sold
No tree leaves here on the strength of a photograph. Come and walk round it first — we will hold anything for a fortnight while you decide. Delivery is by hand, in our own van, anywhere in the British Isles.
Every tree goes with a year of aftercare: repotting when it wants it, winter cover, and a standing invitation to bring it back if it sulks. Most people use it. Nobody has ever been charged for it.
This one has gone. It stays in the catalogue because the record is part of the nursery.
Through the year
- WinterYellow flowers on bare green wood
- SpringLeaves arrive late and apologetically
- SummerWants cutting back constantly
- AutumnNothing much, and that is fine
The tree
- Style
- Semi-cascade · han-kengai
- Age
- About 22 years old
- Training
- In training since 2009 · 17 years
- Height
- 17 cm
- Spread
- 31 cm
- Pot
- Glazed cascade pot, celadon
- Keeping it
- Cut it back to two buds the moment flowering finishes. Left alone it turns into a hedge inside two seasons.
Where it came from
Layered off a plant growing against the nursery office in 2009. Sold to a customer in Norwich who had been asking for something that does its work in January.
Alongside it
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Little Black Pine
Pinus thunbergii
Shohin, with bark that has no business on a tree this size
Slanting · 19 cm · c. 40 yrs
£4,200