New And Unusual Plants – Poplar Nurseries – Garden Centre – Marks Tey, Colchester, Essex

Each year from our plant suppliers we offer plants still in their trial stage, pre commercial release.

Only ever available in limited quantities, we provide both ours and our customers feedback to the grower in order to help determine the commercial viability of some new plant releases. We are also frequently offered one-off batches of plants together with new varieties of plants pre their launch at Chelsea or Hampton Court plant show.

Not available to purchase online. Please contact us before making your journey to check stock availability.

<h2>Magnolia Black Tulip</h2>Port wine goblet shaped flowers, very floriferous and a neat upright habit. <ul>
<li>Overall height is 20ft.</li>
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<h2>Magnolia Caerhays Belle</h2>Caerphays Belle is a small to medium-sized tree that produces large salmon-pink cup-shaped flowers to 30cm wide in great profusion in March.

The 12 heavily textured broad tepals are spoon-shaped, the tips of the inner ones are curved upwards, thus highlighting the deeper colour of the outside of the tepal. This cultivator fruits freely, producing decorative pink-coloured seed cones up to 20cm long.

This is a deliberate cross carried out by Charles Michael, the head gardener of Caerhays Castle in Cornwall in 1951. It flowered for the first time in 1965.<ul>
<li>Medium tree size after 10 years.</li>
<li>Flowering month – March.</li>
<li>Clay tolerant.</li>
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<h2>Magnolia Daphne</h2>The best of the deep yellows. Their flowers appear not to fade and are not buried in the foliage.

<h2>Magnolia Daybreak</h2>Of neat upright habit this tree is potentially one of the best garden magnolia's.

Large fragrant splayed rose pink flowers. From an early age it is very floriferous.<ul>
<li>Medium tree size after 10 years.</li>
<li>Flowering month – April.</li>
<li>Scented flowers.</li>
<li>Clay tolerant.</li>
<li>Needs well draining and sheltered site.</li>
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<h2>Magnolia Honey tulip</h2>A rounded cup shaped,honey yellow flower, Grows up to 5m in height.<ul>
<li>Flowers in March.</li>
<li>Requires a sheltered site.</li>
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<h2>Magnolia Joe Macdaniel</h2>One of the best and darkest of the ‘Gresham Hybrids’ with a good compact habit.

Very profuse in its flowering with rich purple-red shapely flowers appearing on very young plants.<ul>
<li>Small tree size after 10 years.</li>
<li>Flowering month – May.</li>
<li>Clay tolerant.</li>
<li>Needs well draining site.</li>
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<h2>Magnolia Peachy</h2>Magnolia Peachy is a fast growing medium-sized tree, initially uprigh in habit but spreading with age. The fragrant orange-pink flowers, creamy white on the inside, are quite larg, initially tulip shaped but having nine rather floppy tepals that open to 20cm wide as the first leaves are starting to unfurl in late April or early May.

The three outer tepals are a distinctive peach colour.<ul>
<li>Small tree size after 10 years.</li>
<li>Flowering month – March.</li>
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<h2>Magnolia Rebecca's Perfume</h2>A light pink soulangeana hybrid, well scented and flowering over a long period.

<h2>Magnolia Sayonara</h2>Large goblet-shaped flowers with a pink flush at the base. Vigorous when young.<ul>
<li>Medium tree size after 10 years.</li>
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<h2>Magnolia Sentinel</h2>This variety has a narrow habit with narrowish pink flowers over a long period, opening to a lighter pink.

<h2>Magnolia Spectrum</h2>A sister seedling of Magnolia 'Galaxy', this is perhaps superior with larger and deeper pink flowers.<ul>
<li>Small tree size after 10 years.</li>
<li>Flowering month – April.</li>
<li>Clay tolerant.</li>
<li>Needs well draining, sheltered site.</li>
</ul>

<h2>New for 2018! Big Hibiskiss</h2>Very large, beautiful, eye-catching blossoms with a diameter of approximately 18cm. <ul>
<li>Free flowering even on young plants.</li>
<li>Rose pink flowers with red markings at the centres.</li>
<li>Flowering time: June to August.</li>
<li>Long flowering season.</li>
<li>Robust, upright and bushy habit.</li>
<li>Handsome deep green foliage.</li>
<li>Height when mature: 3m.</li>
<li>Spread when mature: 1.8m.</li>
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<h2>New Lucky Berry</h2>Ideal for growing in containers and tolerates pruning! <ul>
<li>Small berries with a great effect.</li>
<li>Delicious fruit all summer long.</li>
<li>Picking time: July to October.</li>
<li>Blueberries not only taste really delicious, they also contain many healthy ingredients – and the special thing about the Lucky Berry blueberries (Vaccinium) is that they can be picked fresh directly from your own garden for four months.</li>
<li>Location: Sunny to partial shade.</li>
<li>Height: 80 – 100cms.</li>
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<h2>Pyracantha Golden Paradise</h2>The first golden leafed Pyracantha in the world!
LIMITED AVAILABILITY, WHILE STOCKS LAST! <ul>
<li>A thorny evergreen shrub of golden foliage, producing flushes of attractive copper-red new growth.</li>
<li>Clusters of dainty, cream coloured flowers appear during early summer, followed by dark orange berries during autumn.</li>
<li>Flowers June to July. Attracts bees and hoverflies.</li>
<li>Fruits August/September. Attracts birds.</li>
<li>Plant in full sun/partial shade.</li>
<li>Hardy.</li>
<li>Max height: 1.5m.</li>
<li>Max spread: 1m.</li>
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