Kenwith Nursery - Our Catalogue

All the items for sale listed below have a key as to their type in brackets next to their name, i.e. alba Kings Dwarf (D) This means that the plant is a Dwarf, and under 3ft/90cms high in ten years. The rest of the key is:

• (M) Miniature plants which are suitable for troughs and rockeries and not likely to outgrow the situation.

• (D) Dwarf, and under 3ft/90cms high in ten years.

• (SG) Slow growing being over 3ft/90cms high in ten years but not vigorous.

• (P) Prostrate or ground spreading.

• (T) Larger and eventually a small to large tree.

• (N/A) Not available this year.

alba Kings Dwarf (D)

Dwarf pillar shaped plant with mid to light green leaves. Very hardy and a good grower.

£15.00

alba Munsterland (D)

Low spreading globose bush, bright green leaves, probably the most attractive of the dwarf alba forms.

£15.00

balsamea Bear Swamp (M/D)

Small cushion shaped plant with dark green leaves eventually growing into a pyramid shape.

£17.50

balsamea Hudsonia (D)

A rare dwarf plant with dark green leaves which have a distinct parting on the branches. Grows into an attractive cushion shaped plant wider than high.

£5.00

balsamea Nana (D)

Another attractive dwarf which is more globe shaped with the top of the plant covered with upright shoots. Leaves often yellow variegated in summer.

£5.00

balsamea Piccolo (D)

This plant forms a very interesting globose bush with all the strong growing main shoots protruding from the top, the leaves on these branches being recurved and often pressed close to the stem. Very
dark green leaves.

£5.00

balsamea Renswoude (M)

A new plant which occurred as a mutation on Abies balsamea Nana in Holland making a small miniature form of Nana with much shorter leaves.

£17.50

balsamea Tundra (D)

A cushion shaped plant, with dark green leaves. We have not grown this plant for very long but it may well be a miniature form.

£6.00

balsamea Verkades Prostrate (D/P)

Very slow growing dwarf prostrate plant from the U.S.A. New leaves light green later turning to dark green.

£15.00

cephalonica Gregs Broom (M/D)

Small cushion shaped plant with long dark green leaves sharp pointed at the ends and noticeable red/brown buds. A very interesting little plant.

£17.50

concolor Archers Dwarf (D)

Makes a regular shaped cone. The leaves tend to curl under the branchlets. A most distinct and attractive plant with grey/blue foliage.

£15.00

concolor Birthday Broom (M)

Very dwarf hummock shaped plant with short light blue leaves. A collectors item.

£20.00

concolor Compacta (D)

An old variety which still has not been surpassed for colour. Normally a multi-branched plant as wide as high with long powder blue sickle shaped leaves.

£15.00

concolor Fagerhult (Pendula Fagerhult) (P)

A good prostrate plant with powder blue leaves for growing downwards in rockeries or cascading down a slope maybe beside your pond. Can also be trained upright to produce a
small weeping tree.

£17.50

concolor Husky Pup (D)

Although the original plant is apparently conical, propagations here have made dwarf flat topped little plants with pale grey/green leaves. Very interesting.

£15.00

concolor Mike Stern (M/D)

Globose plant with short light blue leaves.

£17.50

concolor Ostrov nad Ohri (D)

Small globose plant with pale blue foliage.

£ 17.50

concolor Piggelmee (D)

Very desirable dwarf and rare variety tending to spread. Leaves 1.5 cms. curved. pale powder blue.

£17.50

concolor Violacea Prostrate (P)

Beautiful slow and low growing spreading plant with long pale blue curved leaves. Always admired here.

£ 15.00

concolor Wattezii (P)

A prostrate spreading plant with new foliage cream fading to grey green/cream variegated leaves.

£17.50

concolor Winter Gold (D/SG)

Green in summer, turning to a pale
yellow/gold during the winter months.

£ 15.00

delavayi Forrestii (SG/T)

An interesting slow growing species with dark green leaves and very silver reverse.

£17.50

delavayi Nana (D)

Slow growing plant with dark green leaves with bright silver reverse. Originally found at the Hillier Nursery.

£ 15.00

fraseri Blue Bonnet (D)

In it's early years it is a small mound shaped plant of short powder blue leaves but later it will develop a leader and become a conical plant.

£17.50

fraseri Le Feber (D)

Low spreading plant which mounds attractively in the middle. We find this a good grower in our collection.

£17.50

grandis Van Dedems Dwarf (D)

Globose bush with very dark green leaves and bright silver reverse. As an older plant maybe conical.

£17.50

koreana (SG)

Slow growing small tree which can cone from 90cms high. Cones are rich purple or blue. The tree will be more likely to cone early if planted on poor stony ground.

£7.50

koreana Blinsham Gold (D)

Grown here as a seedling from Abies koreana Aurea. The plant is a small flat topped spreading bush of yellow/gold leaves which may eventually be conical.

£17.50

koreana Blue Emporer (SG)

A slow compact plant with blue leaves considered to be the best blue foliaged larger koreana.

£17.50

koreana Blue Eskimo (M/D)

A very nice cushion shaped plant with light blue leaves.

£ 17.50

koreana Blue Magic (D)

A pyramid shaped plant with good light blue foliage.

£17.50

koreana Cis (M)

Attractive little cushion of very short dark green leaves.

£6.00

koreana Crystal Globe (M)

A slightly faster growing and more robust plant than other miniature koreanas and excellent for people who want to see a reasonable sized plant in a shorter time.

£ 17.50

koreana Gait (D)

Globular but leader forming with the shape of a miniature koreana. Nice fresh green new leaves, well covered with cones.

£ 15.00

koreana Golden Dream (D)

Young plants vase shaped but will eventually be a conical bush turning yellow in winter.

£15.00

koreana Kohout (M)

A small hummock with many leaves recurved showing the silver reverse. Considered to be one of the best.

£17.50

koreana Lippetal (D)

Upright but irregular growing with several sub-leaders. Long mid green pointed leaves. An interesting plant which looks like a cross with delavayi.

£15.00

 koreana Luminetta (SG)

Upright growing plant with a single leader with pale yellow foliage quite striking as an older plant.
Very similar to Aurea.

£15.00

koreana Nadelkissen (M/D)

A cushion shaped bush rather like a mushroom with fresh light green leaves. Not the smallest of the miniature koreanas hut one of my favourites in this group.

£ 17.50

koreana Oberon (D)

Very interesting small globose koreana with short black/green leaves and conspicuously white winter buds. Eventually conical.

£15.00

koreana Orange Glow (D/SG)

 A low spreading plant with interesting dark gold leases in winter.

£17.50

koreana Piccolo (D)

 Small dwarf form making a prostrate little mat or a dwarf tree with pendulous branches if stem trained.

£15.00

koreana Pinocchio (D)

A nice round shaped to globular bush from the Carsten Nursery in Germany. Excellent rockery or scree plant.

£15.00

koreana Silberlocke (D)

Small tree with leaves curled over to show silver undersides. We offer plants on their own roots which
keep their colour much better as older plants.

£7.50

koreana Silver Mavers (M)

This plant forms a little globe with a
neat natural shape and has short but wide dark green leaves.

£17.50

koreana Silver Kugel (Silver Globe) (M)

Small globular plant very suitable for troughs or rockeries. Very attractive.

£17.50

koreana Silverperl (M)

Low growing plant. with short dark green leaves, wider than high. some leaves turned over showing the silver reverse. A very choice miniature plant which eventually becomes conical forming a tight neat pyramid.

£17.50

lasiocarpa var Arizonica Compacta (D)

A deservedly popular plant,upright growing with silver blue leaves and thick corky creamy white branches.

£15.00

lasiocarpa var Arizonica Kenwith Blue (SG)

A plant with pale blue leaves and white corky bark. It has a very full appearance due to the leaves being retained until obscured by light.

£15.00

lasiocarpa Day Creek (formerly Witches Broom) (D)

A cushion shaped plant from Vancouver which makes a squat globe with dark blue/green leaves, eventually may become conical. Own roots.

£7.50

lasiocarpa Duflon (M)

Certainly a very miniature bun shaped plant with dark green leaves. Never likely to outgrow it's situation. Some own roots plants also available. Please enquire.

£20.00

lasiocarpa Elaine (D/SG)

Irregular growing bush in its early years but soon becomes conical making it an attractive slow growing plant with long blue sometimes recurving leaves.

£17.50

lasiocarpa Logan Pass (M)

Very interesting miniature form with blue leaves, in effect a miniature form of lasiocarpa Compacta.

£ 17.50

lasiocarpa Prickly Pete (D)

Small mound shaped plant with grey green leaves, the leaves being a bit longer than you would expect for a plant this size.

£17.50

lasiocarpa Toenisvorst (D)

Small slow growing upright plant with dark green leaves.

£17.50

lowiana Creamy (D)

Initially a small globose bush which becomes a pyramid with age. All new spring growth is cream fading to variegated leaves by autumn.

£ 15.00

magnifica Nana (P/D)

When young often grown as a small prostrate plant with grey/green leaves but it will eventually put up a leading shoot and become a small upright bush. Remove leader if a prostrate plant is required.

£17.50

magnifica Shastensis W.B. (M)

Tight little cushion of silver green leaves. A very interesting miniature.

£17.50

nordmanniana Barabit's Spreader (D)

A low growing plant making a dense plate-like mass of light green foliage turning dark green in autumn.

£15.00

nordmanniana Golden Spreader (D)

A low spreading plant with golden foliage. Needs full sun for best colour which it keeps throughout the year.

£17.50

nordmanniana Jacobsen (M)

Quite a congested low spreading plant with very dark green leaves.

£17.50

numidica Glauca (SG)

Small tree with leaves a very good blue colour. Also has large barrel shaped cones early in life.

£17.50

numidica Schwarzwald (D)

Small mound shaped plant with very dark green leaves. the leases are assurgent (at an angle back to the base of the branch) giving it a distinctive appearance.

£15.00

 pinsapo Aurea (SG)

A slow starter but in good soil quite an eye catching plant with thick waxy yellow leaves.

£15.00

pinsapo Glauca (SG/T)

A blue form of the Spanish Fir with typical waxy thick needles of the species. Eventually a small tree.

 £15.00

pinsapo Hammondii (P)

Spreading prostrate form with blue/green leaves. One of the few conifers I know which will hang down a wall.

£15.00

pinsapo Horstmann (D)

 A low spreading attractive plant with light blue thick leaves.

£15.00

pinsapo Quicksilver (D/SG)

 Bushy plant with striking silver blue foliage.

£15.00

pinsapo x cephalonica Rosemoor Form (D/SG)

A plant which appeared in the collection at Rosemoor Gardens, Torrington marked Pinsapo Aurea Nana. Yellow leaves as Pinsapo Aurea with pointed apex as Cephalonica forming a very slow growing spreading bush. Eventually leader forming.

£15.00

procera Blue Hexe (D)

Small flat topped plant with powder blue leaves. The plant seems to grow at an average of 3 to 5 cms per year and may eventually be conical.

£17.50

procera Glauca Prostrata (P)

A prostrate creeping plant with very good light blue foliage. Will put up a leader. This should be removed when it occurs unless a blue tree is required.

£15.00

procera Sherwoodii (P/SG)

A good yellow form which can be grown in a similar manner to Glauca Prostrata or will form a leader and become a handsome pale gold small tree.

£15.00

procera Windsor (D)

Upright single leadered plant with tiered branches and blue/grey leaves.

£17.50

veitchii Hedergott (D)

Flat topped plant with curved leaves often showing the silver underside,. Initially a little open as a young plant but fills out due to buds from older branches producing many small upright shoots. Ten years 35 cm wide by 25 cms high.

£15.00

veitchii Rumburg (M/D)

Small cushion shaped spreading plant with very nice light blue leaves. The plant is tight and completely covered by foliage.

£17.50

cupressoides (SG)

Upright plant with threadlike branches and branchlets - the leases being completely appressed to the stems.

£7.50

laxifolia (SG)

An unusual conifer from Tasmania with stringy or whipcord type foliage. New seasons growth is buttercup yellow.

£6.00

Intricata (D)

Dwarf of the Incense Cedar. Upright small bush often with several leading shoots. Makes a graceful dwarf plant.

N/A

CEDRUS - Cedar

brevifolia Kenwith (M)

By far the smallest form of Brevifolia I have comeacross making a very small conical bush filled out with foliage. Leaves up to 0.5 cms with rings of smaller leaves around the tiny buds.

£20.00

deodara Blue Dwarf (D)

Eventually globose plant more loose and open than Pygmy.

£15.00

deodara Blue Mountain Broom (D)

This Australian plant is a low growing
and ground hugging plant mounding up at it's centre with light blue/green leaves. Plant in sheltered position to avoid frost damage.

£17.50

deodara Blue Snake (D/SG)

Upright but irregular in shape, branches twisted and pendulous with blue grey leaves.

£17.50

deodara Feelin' Blue (D)

A low growing blue cedar which could well be planted as a prostrate plant. It's blue colour is eye catching. At ten years it should be approaching one metre across by 30 cms. high.

£15.00

deodara Golden Horizon (D)

A low growing and spreading conifer with gracefully arching branches and good golden colour. Plant in full sun.

£15.00

libani Home Park (D)

A low spreading plant with green leaves and pendulous branch ends. Propagated from a witch's broom found in Windsor Great Park.

£17.50

CEPHALOTAXUS harringtonia Korean Gold (SG)

Upright fastigiate plant with long golden yellow leaves. The plant needs siting against a wall facing south for best results as it needs warmth and a hit of wind shelter.

£6.00

CHAMAECYPARIS lawsoniana

Aurea Densa (D)

A beautiful globular bush becoming conical with age. Colour is a pale gold.

£5.00

Blom (D)

Powder blue colour plant which grows in the shape of a candle flame.

£5.00

Blue Nantais (D)

A very slow growing and striking silver blue conical bush unlikely to outgrow it's situation.

£5.00

Blue Surprise (D)

A good blue juvenile columnar form which turns mauve in winter. Likes a well drained and dry position.

£5.00

Bregeon (D)

Dwarf plant with light green foliage forming a tight globose bush.

£5.50

Cream Glow (D)

A very neat conical 'Ellwoodii' type plant with pale cream foliage. The plant is most noticeable in summer when the colour becomes bright.

£5.00

Ellwoods Nymph (M)

Very small globular to squat conical plant with juvenile foliage in tightly packed upright sprays. Dark blue/green colour.

£5.50

Golden Pot (SG)

Slow growing conical form with foliage growing in an upright plane and in summer this is possibly the best bright golden yellow of all conifers.

£5.00

Green Globe (M)

A small bun shaped plant of tight dark green foliage. A deservedly popular miniature form.

£6.00

Imbricata Pendula (SG)

An upright pendulous form with long branchlets of hanging threadlike foliage.

£17.50

Little Spire (SG)

Upright small tree with pleasing bright green foliage. An attractive plant in the Spring when covered with red flowers.

£5.00

Minima Aurea (D)

Like Aurea Densa but slower growing. A deservedly popular plant.

£5.00

Pelt's Blue (SG)

An upright small multi-stemmed plant which is a much deeper blue with tints of violet from the stems, than any of the other columnar forms. It deserves it's popularity.

£5.00

Pygmaea Argentea (D)

A small flat topped bush with outer foliage creamy white.

£5.00

Wisselii Nana (D)

Small dark green globular bush which later becomes upright but growing very slowly.

£5.00

CHAMAECYPARIS nootkatensis

Green Arrow (SG)

A narrow upright strongly pendulous plant with rich green foliage and long weeping branches hanging down the trunk. Needs stem training when young to gain height until established.

£17.50

Pendula (SG)

A slow growing tree with horizontal branches with the side branches/branchlets hanging vertically down. A very graceful form with dark green foliage.

£ 17.50

Strict Weeper (SG)

Extremely narrow weeping form with weeping branches against the trunk, again needs staking when young.

£17.50

CHAMAECYPARIS obtusa

Andorra (M)

Globose to squat conical very slow growing plant with bright golden foliage. New and very attractive (Available June 2004).

£7.50

Arnesons Compact (M/D)

Very small tight conical plant with dark green foliage.

£7.50

Aurora (D)

In shape and speed of growth similar to Nana Gracilis. It is light green inside the plant but yellow on it's outer foliage.

£5.00

Bambi (M)

A low growing flat topped cushion shaped plant which will be something of the order of 12 cms across by 9 cms high in ten years. The colour is fairly dark green.

£7.50

Bartley (D)

Unusual dwarf Obtusa which when well grown in some shade has a bluish bloom to the foliage in the growing season. A flat topped or even conical plant but with no regular growth pattern which is maybe it's main attraction.

£6.00

Bassett (M)

A rare globose hush with dark green foliage.

£7.50

Caespitosa (M)

One of the smallest of all conifers. Caespitosa is a tight little mound of mid green foliage which expands sideways rather than putting on much height. It is ideal for a trough but to keep it looking it's best it should be planted in a sheltered site.

£7.50

Chilworth (D)

Spreading little plant with small recurving branchlets, which with age will become conical. Very slow growing and one of the best for rockeries and troughs.

£5.00

Chirimen (D)

A curious plant which many people find very attractive. An upright dwarf with very dark green congested foliage.

£7.50

Dainty Doll (D)

A slow growing pyramid of coarse dark green foliage.

£5.00

Elf (M)

Small cushion shaped plant with bright green foliage which originated in New York.

£7.50

Ellie B (M)

A low growing plant tightly packed with recurved sprays of bright green foliage but eventually upright. This plant is very slow growing being no more than 22 cms high in 12 years. In my opinion one of the best and individual dwarf Obtusas.

£7.50

Fernspray Gold

See Gold Fern

Flabelliformis (M)

Small low growing spreading plant which is ideal for troughs and rockeries.

£5.00

Gnome (M)

Very small globe shaped plant with dark green sprays of foliage.

£7.50

Gold Fern (D)

Reminiscent in the way of Fernspray Gold but with juvenile foliage mixed in with the typical foliage and the colour a lighter cream yellow. This is a slower but more branched plant than Fernspray Gold.

£7.50

Golden Sprite (M)

A very attractive small cushion of golden recurved sprays. Will not outgrow a rockery situation. One of the best small
golden forms.

£6.00

Hage (D)

A very slow growing mound shaped cushion of dark green foliage.

£6.00

Intermedia (M)

Low growing slightly loose to the touch spreading flat topped plant introduced by Red Lodge Nursery around 1939. A ten year old plant would be 10 cms high by 15 cms across.

£6.00

Ivan's Column (D)

Upright growing bush with juvenile foliage. The leaves are sage green but if planted in a little shade the leaves are grey/blue.

£6.00

Junior (JR) (M)

Miniature cushion plant with dark green sprays of foliage originally from the U.S.A.

£7.50

Juniperoides (M)

Small, spreading plant with recurved sprays of mid green foliage. Ideal for rockeries and troughs.

£6.00

Juniperoides Compacta (M)

Dwarf globose bush with pale green foliage - needs a sheltered site to go through the winter without damage.
Otherwise. plant pct outside in the growing season and lift and keep
frost free during the winter

£6.00

Kamarachiba (D)

This could really be described as a golden form of Pygmaea making a small low spreading plant with good golden colour.

£5.00

Little Marky (D)

A pale yellow cone shaped plant with very small flat sprays of foliage. Alongside it, Nana Lutea could be termed slow growing.

£6.00

Marian (D)

Upright conical large cupped sprays of yellow foliage.

£6.00

Nana (D)

Very slow growing plant wider than high with very dark green foliage held in cupped sprays. An excellent rockery or trough plant, at ten years 7 cms high by 15 cms across.

£5.00

Nana Aurea (D)

Upright growing loose pyramid shaped bush with very good golden cupped foliage.

£5.00

Nana Lutea (SG)

Starts off as a flat top to roundish bush but eventually becomes an upright cone which is golden yellow throughout the year. One of the best yellow forms.

£7.50

Snowkist (D)

An upright growing American selection with white variegations on dark green foliage. Needs full sun to look it's best.

£6.00

Stoneham (M)

Flat topped little plant with mid green foliage in flattened tiers.
 

£5.00