It's always good to see new plants arrive at a garden centre. That only means one thing - that plants have been selling. We have stocked up on all sorts of new plants, including a few alternatives to box plants that have been hit so badly by the box month caterpillar.
With box plants being ravaged by caterpillarsin the Dublin area this year more than ever, there are two alternatives. Give up on them and replace them with Ilex, Eunonymous, Pittosporum or Taxus / Yex. Or treat them at the correct time with XenTari, a bacteria-based spray that kills only the caterpillars and is harmless to everything else. With the correctect knowledge, this can be an easy, inexpensive and 100% effective way of saving your precious box plants. Good news, as reported by customers, is that birds seem to be getting a taste for these pesky caterpillars. Reports of magpies 'hanging around' box hedges are coming in, so finally people may find these birds useful to them.
Here is a list, in alphabeticaol order, of some of the new plants in stock in Airfield:
- Acer griseum / Paperbark maple, 100-120cm
- Acer palmatum' Atropurpureum', 70cm
- Acer palmatum 'Butterfly', 80cm
- Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea', 5 litre 100-120cm
- Acacia dealbata, 5 litre, 120-140cm
- Acacia retinoides, 3 litre c100cm
- Amelanchier 'Obelisk', 20 litre 150-150cm
- Apple 'Beauty of Bath', 10 litres
- Apple 'Cox's Orange Pippin'', 10 iltre
- Apple James Grieve', 10 litre
- Apple 'Katja', 10 litre
- Astelia' Red Shadow', 3 litre
- Astelia 'Silver Shadow', 2.5 litre
- Betula 'Jacquemontii' / Himalayan birch, 50 litre, 200-250cm multistem
- Calicarpa 'Profusion, 10 litre 80-100cm
- Camellia 'Lady Campbell', 10 litre 80-100cm
- Camelia 'Nobelissima', 10 litre, 80-100cm
- Cherry 'Morello' 10 litre
- Choisya 'Greenfingers', 5 litre
- Coronilla glauca 'Greenfingers', 3 litre, 50-60cm
- Cotoneaster horizontalis, 3 litre, 40-50cm
- Cyathea 'Highland Lace' / Tree fern, 1.5 litre, 40-45cm
- Daphne 'Eternal Fragrance', 15-20cm
- Daphne odora 'Jacqueline Postil' 3.5 litre, 40-50cm
- Dicksonia antractica / Tree fern, 5 litre
- Diosmia 'Pink Fountain' 3 litre
- Echium candicans, 3 litre
- Echium pinaniana, 3 litre
- Fasicularia bicolor, 3 litre
- Ficus caricaLittle Miss Figgy', 3 litre
- Ficus carica 'Ronde de Bordeaux', 3 litre, 60-70cm
- Geranium 'Rozanne', 2.5 litre
- Hebe 'Green Globe', 3 litre
- Hebe 'Celine', 2.5 litre
- Helleborus 'Winter Sunshine', 3 litre
- Hydrangea anomala petiolarius (climbing), 75cm
- Hydrangea 'Strong Annabelle', 3 litre
- Hydrangea 'Runaway Bride', 7.5 litre, 40-50cm
- Hydrangea seemanii (climbing), 3 litre
- Ilex crenata 'Jenny', pyramid 80cm
- Ilex crenata 'Jenny', ball 20cm
- Ilex crenata 'Jenny', hedging 10cm pot
- Lophomyrtus 'Pixie', 3 litre
- Mahonia 'Soft Caress,' 3 litre
- Mahonia 'Winter Sun', 55cm
- Magnolia 'Leonard Messel', 18 litre, 80-100cm
- Magnolia 'Star Wars', 12 litre
- Musa basjoo / Banana, 5 litre, 70-80cm
- Myrtus molinae 'Flambeau', 3 litre
- Parthenocissus quinquefolia / Virginia creeper, 75cm
- Philadelphus 'Pearls of Perfume', 3 litre
- Pittosporum 'Golf Ball', 3 litre
- Plum 'Damson', 10 litre
- Plum 'Victoria', 10 litre
- Robinia pseudoacacia 'Frisia', 10 litre, half standard
- Sarcocca 'Winter Gem', 3 litre
- Senecia 'Angel Wings', 3 litre
- Taxus / Yew, 75cm pyramid
- Taxus / Yew , 35cm ball
- Tetrapanax 'Rex', 3 litre
- Viburnum 'Lisa Rose', 40cm
- Vinca minor 'Gertude Jekyll', 2 litre
- Wisteria floribunda 'Ikoyama Fuji', 10 litre 200-225cm
- Wisteria frutescens' Amethyst Falls', 3 litre
- Wisteria sinensis 'Prolific', 115cm