Shop – Wykeham Mature Plants

Apple Laxton’s Suberb

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:39:01 +0000

The ‘Laxton’s Superb’ is a classic, late-season English dessert apple variety renowned for its sweet, aromatic, and firm-textured flesh, with a flavour profile similar to its parent, the ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’

The tree is vigorous and partially self-fertile, though it yields a heavier crop with a suitable pollination partner. It has good resistance to canker and mildew.

Crab apple Butterball

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:19:12 +0000

Crab apple Butterball (Malus Butterball) is a popular, compact crab apple tree known for its beautiful spring white blossoms from pink buds, attracting pollinators, and its heavy, long-lasting display of large, golden-yellow fruits in autumn, perfect for making jelly and feeding wildlife. It offers multi-season interest, has a graceful, spreading habit, and is an excellent choice for small gardens,

A compact, spreading tree, reaching around 5meters tall and wide.

Escallonia Gold Ellen

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:16:23 +0000

An excellent evergreen shrub with very attractive, vibrant gold young growth in spring and a dark green central splash. Flowers are pink-red and are borne throughout July and August.

Crab apple Neville Copeman

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:13:10 +0000

Crab apple Neville Copeman (Malus Neville Copeman) In the spring the tree is covered in pink/purple blossom with a faint white stripe and last for a particularly long time. The young leaves in the spring also have a hint of purple which fades during the summer. The fruit are some of the largest red crabs available and hang like prominent Christmas decorations which are also popular with the birds.

An attractive spreading tree that will reach 4 metres by 4 metres after 20 years which is best in full sun on a good soil.

Red/Golden Twisted Willow

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:09:15 +0000

An unusual plant which has bright orange-yellow twisted branches which give the appearance of flames are twisted. In the summer the leaves are typical willow lance-shaped green leaves which turn yellow in the autumn to reveal the contorted skeleton. A great architectural plant which will bring burst of life to your winter garden.

A small tree or large shrub, to 5m tall best grown as an annual pollard.

Sambucus ‘Golden Tower’

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:05:26 +0000

Upright golden cut leaf elder (Sambucus ‘Golden Tower’) is a striking, columnar shrub prized for its bright golden-yellow, deeply cut foliage, white summer flowers, and edible berries, offering architectural height and colour for gardens, containers, borders, or as a focal point, thriving in full sun in most well-drained soils, and known for its low maintenance and tolerance to urban conditions.

Sweet Chestnut

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:12:29 +0000

Fast growing tree that makes a splendid specimen. Warm summers produce the Chestnuts. The glossy leaves are strongly toothed: long pale yellow catkins in July.

Considered a large tree, it can reach heights and widths of 35m x 8m with a 2m girth and records exist of 1000-year-old trees.

Best in full sun in dry warm soil.

Common Birch or Silver Birch

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:58:50 +0000

Common birch or Silver Birch (Betula pendula) is a popular native tree with silver bark and graceful weeping branches. The silver bark develops contrasting dark fissures and cracks with age and is a favourite with wildlife. The bright green almost triangular leaves with a serrated edge appear early in spring and produce a nice light dappled shade through the summer. In the autumn they turn buttery yellow. Brown catkins develop over winter, with the seeds of which are enjoyed by a number of small birds.

Our native Birch will grow in even the toughest conditions and thrives in full sun to partial shade and will tolerate moist soils. The tree has a conical shape and will grow to around 7 metres height and 4 metres spread in 20 years.

Flowering cherry Sunset Boulevard

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:22:26 +0000

A narrow, conical form of of flowering cherry with large, pale pink / white flowersin mid-spring. Growing to a height and spread of 6 x 3 metres in 20 years, it is an ideal Flowering Cherry tree for urban settings or when space is limited. For the best blossom display, plant in full sun.

Camellia in variety

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:12:53 +0000

An attractive shrub with dark green, glossy leaves and flowers in shades of pink, white and red. Compact, upright growth which will make a small tree in 50 years. Avoid a planting position exposed to early morning sun as this can damage the flower buds.