PLANT LIST 2017 - 2018 BY APPOINTMENT TO H.M. THE QUEEN NURSERYMEN AND SEEDSMEN 1 A Warm Welcome Welcome to the Hillier Plant List 2017/18, your guide to all the wonderful plants available to you from Hillier Nurseries. Contents At Hillier, our mission is ‘To inspire the creation of green living spaces for now and the future.’ Our love affair with plants and the natural world has been thriving for Click on the section you are interested in below over 150 years. We want to share that passion and knowledge with you, providing great products and service so you can inspire and hearten your customers. About Hillier 04 - 05 Ultimately, our aim is to help you sell more plants that your customers will cherish and enjoy. - Hillier Merchandising Calendar 06 67 In keeping with this mission, we have made some changes to our plant list this year to Hillier Essentials: 68 - 87 make it as informative, easy to navigate and inspiring as possible. There are two clear sections. At the front, you will find our Merchandising Calendar. This showcases the Perennials 68 - 73 most important and popular plants available to order each month. Following this are our Essentials pages. This is an A-Z of all our smaller volume or more unusual plant Shrubs 74 - 82 ranges beyond the Merchandising Calendar. We hope this simplified approach will Grasses 83 - 84 help you to easily order, plan your promotions and offer advice to your customers. We recently asked you how you would like to receive your plant list. It became Feature Plants 85 - 87 very clear that there is no one-size-fits-all answer. So, this year our plant list will be A-Z Plant Index 88 - 94 available digitally - on our website or on a USB stick to support the environment - or can also be requested as a printed version if preferred. The horticulture industry, like much of the world, is going through a digital revolution and we aim to keep at the cutting edge. On our new website, launched in late 2016, you can find our complete plant list plus our latest looking good and availability lists, which are updated weekly. This makes it even easier to stay up to date with the very best in current plant stock. One thing that hasn’t changed is the level of service and support on offer from our nursery, production, despatch and sales teams. We are always here to help and are looking forward to another fantastic year of growing together. Wholesale Sales Team www.hillier.co.uk/nurseries 2 3 About Hillier “We are proud our products are British grown on our nurseries” GREAT BRITISH NURSERY Robert Hillier, Chairman Hillier Nurseries Our Plants Growing Expertise Plants are at the heart of our business. Hillier Nurseries is known for Hillier has always been a pioneer within horticulture. We were growing an unbeatably wide range of trees and shrubs - a reputation one of the first nurseries to extensively use glasshouses instead of established by the late Sir Harold Hillier, whose private collection of polytunnels and one of the first to use Spanish tunnels to protect plants became the world-renowned Sir Harold Hillier Gardens. certain outdoor plants, like Mahonia, which benefit from the airflow provided. We grow across 60 acres of land over two production sites in Hampshire. We also work on an exclusive basis with one contract To help us produce consistently excellent plants, we create a blueprint grower in Dorset for specialist crops. for each plant’s lifecycle. This clearly sets out the desired growing requirements, including specifications, potting and spacing. Environmental Awareness Hillier pursues policies that are both commercially and environmentally beneficial. We aim to work innovatively, sustainably and with integrity, to secure our position as an industry leader and a leader of good environmental practice. One of our most successful projects has been to improve water management. In the late 1980’s, we realised using mains water was not an environmentally sound way to water our crops, so we constructed our own reservoir and water recycling treatment plant on site. We also manage our water use, with information from the Government’s Waterlink project. Irrigation on our nursery is controlled by evaposensors and our sprinkler systems ensure Innovation economic use of water. Over the years, Hillier has been responsible for numerous We have an integrated pest and disease management approach. plant introductions, many of which have become essentials in We use biological controls wherever possible. British gardens. We are working to reduce our use of peat, in line with government Our reenergised focus on Research & Development, through our requirements for the industry. Peat-free growing is more expensive, dedicated R&D team, means we continually test new plant varieties. but we can and do grow entirely peat-free for some customers Our sourcing of new materials and ideas extends all over the world. when requested. Our Team Ordering and Delivery Our Sales Team are based at our Head Office in Ampfield, Hampshire. Exciting plants added as Our aim is to make it as easy as possible for you to find and order NEW We pride ourselves on being hardworking and knowledgeable, TO RANGE promotions this year plants through us. Using our interactive plant list, you can easily ensuring you are stocking the correct range of plants at the right time reserve your stock for the next 12 months. Through our website and and in the correct quantities. digital communications, you can stay informed about the best-looking On our nurseries, we have a team of full-time workers, including stock at any time. our experienced nursery managers and section leaders dedicated to BEST Our Best Selling We now have a minimum order value of one full Danish trolley. SELLER plants this year particular plants. In spring, we employ and train additional staff from a This makes it simple to place top-up orders throughout the year, local agency. allowing you to be flexible enough to respond to customer demand Since 2014, we have been running our own ‘Hillier Core Skills’ training and seasonal changes. As featured at Chelsea programme to provide all nursery workers with essential horticultural AS FEATURED AT With our new transport partner in place, we now offer the CHELSEA plant selection knowledge. All Hillier nursery members are taught and tested on FLOWER SHOW opportunity for more frequent deliveries each week. essential skills like plant naming, irrigation and pests and diseases. This allows you to order more regular and smaller amounts to Our core skills programme can take individuals from beginner to ensure even fresher stock. management level. 4 5 Hillier Merchandising Calendar September ACER ACER CONTINUED... Japanese maple. Specially selected for their colour, shape and habit, many producing rich autumn and fresh spring colours and all at fantastic value-for-money prices. Ideal for garden and patio use. Acer palmatum ‘Sumi-nagashi’ Acer palmatum ‘Summer Gold’ Acer palmatum ‘Taylor’ Acer ‘Red Flamingo’ Acer palmatum ‘Beni-maiko’ Acer palmatum ‘Beni-schichihenge’ Attractive large shrub or small tree with divided Small and rounded in habit with bright yellow Elegant form of Japanese maple with deeply purple leaves, turning crimson in autumn. palmate leaves lasting all summer, turning golden divided, lobed pink leaves randomly patterned with A Snakebark maple with excellent year round ‘Beni’ from the Japanese for red. The young leaves Blue-green leaves margined pinkish-white, yellow in autumn. light lime-green variegation. Good autumn colour. interest. Deep red young shoots, white-striped bark are fiery-red. Summer foliage greenish-red. sometimes bright orange. and leaves streaked vivid red-pink. Shelf Shelf Shelf Shelf Shelf Shelf Size Available Quantity Cost Size Available Quantity Cost Size Available Quantity Cost Size Available Quantity Cost Size Available Quantity Cost Size Available Quantity Cost 3 Litre Sept 17 21 3 Litre Sept 17, March 18 21 3 Litre Sept 17, March 18 21 3 Litre Sept 17 21 3 Litre Sept 17 21 3 Litre Sept 17 21 ATHYRIUM AS FEATURED AT CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW Acer palmatum ‘Firecracker’ Acer palmatum ‘Jerre Schwartz’ Acer palmatum ‘Little Princess’ Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Emerald Lace’ Acer shirasawanum ‘Moonrise’ Athyrium niponicum var. pictum (Metallicum) Beautiful form with finely cut purple-red leaves A form with deeply incised new green leaves that Very pretty dwarf form with small, lobed green An extremely dissect form with bright green leaves. The rounded palmate leaves are fabulous bright Japanese painted fern. An attractive and elegant turning bright red in autumn. become bronze-green, turning orange-pink in leaves, yellow and red at the growing tips. Fiery autumn colours. cherry red in spring, wonderful chartreuse-green in deciduous fern with deeply cut, greyish-green autumn. Breathtaking golden-yellow autumn colour. summer colour. Reasonably vigorous in growth with fronds of pinnate leaves effused with silver and a lovely, open habit and increased sun tolerance. mauve. D. Shelf Shelf Shelf Shelf Shelf Shelf Size Available Quantity Cost Size Available Quantity Cost Size Available Quantity Cost Size Available Quantity Cost Size Available Quantity Cost Size Available Quantity Cost 3 Litre Sept 17 21 3 Litre Sept 17, March 18 21 3 Litre Sept 17, March 18 21 3 Litre Sept 17, March 18 21 3 Litre Sept 17 21 2 Litre Sept 17, Oct 17, Apr 18 30 7.5 Litre Sept 17, April 18 10 AUCUBA BRUNNERA CALLICARPA Spotted Laurel. Handsome evergreen shrubs forming dense, rounded bushes and tolerant of almost any soil type or situation. Invaluable garden plants for sun, shade or containers. Acer palmatum ‘Marlo’ Acer palmatum ‘Orange Dream’ Acer palmatum ‘Shaina’ Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ Callicarpa bodinieri ‘Profusion’ Dwarf shrub of rounded habit.