Green Mile Trees grow a wide range of shrubs & multi-stems, which are a very popular choice with landscape designers and discerning gardeners. Many multi-stemmed specimens we supply are between 2 – 4 meters tall, giving instant impact. These mature plants are available both container grown and field grown, the latter being root-balled.
Multi-stems are a particularly good choice for trees with attractive bark, and we have many superb specimens of birch, cherry, and snakebark maples, for example. It’s a great way of providing year round interest, instantly brightening up a winter garden, or making a stunning backdrop for other dramatic garden plants or features.
We also supply native or amenity plants as multi-stems. These are much sought after by gardeners and designers who want to create a natural effect. Walk through a native wood and you will see many trees of great character and charm, rather than symmetry and formality. We supply a wide range of trees ideal for creating just this effect. So for instance, to create a copse or glade from scratch a landscape designer might use a few-semi mature multi-stems, and a few smaller ones, and some sapling trees, in a range of species, giving an instant and naturalistic woodland.
To buy shrubs or multi-stems or to check availability and sizes, please call 01777 702422 or email the team at enquiries@greenmiletrees.co.uk
Acer griseum: Paperbark maple. A small tree, easy to grow. The bark is a beautiful peeling cinnamon brown, very characteristic and attractive. The typical small maple leaves turn good autumn colours.
Acer palmatum: Japanese maple. A small tree or large dome-shaped shrub. Tolerates most fertile soils. The leaves are bold, lobed, very attractive, fresh bright green, with excellent autumn colours. Appreciates some protection from the coldest winds.
Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’: A medium sized deciduous Japanese maple. Deeply lobed orange/yellow leaves which turn yellow in autumn. It has striking red stems in winter.
Acer palmatum Bloodgood: A medium to large shrub. The leaves are dark red to purple, turning fiery red in autumn. Spectacular.
Acer palm Osakazuki: Sensational autumn colour. Attractive fine lush green maple leaves.
Agapanthus: Summer-flowering perennial plants, grown for their showy flowers, commonly in shades of blue and purple, but also white and pink.
Amelanchier lamarckii: Snowy mespilus. A fabulous small deciduous tree, surprisingly tough. The young leaves are copper red, then green and finally a rich orange in autumn. Masses of racemes of white flowers in spring, with black fruits later.
Betula albosinensis Fascination multi-stem: A medium-sized tree of pyramidal habit with stiffly ascending branches and green leaves that turn yellow in autumn. Peeling, deep orange bark turns a pale pink-white and in spring, yellow-brown male catkins up to 10cm long also appear in spring
Betula utilis jacquemontii multi-stem: A vigorous deciduous tree to 18m tall, with brilliant white bark on the trunk and larger branches; ovate leaves turn yellow in autumn; yellow-brown male catkins to 12cm long open in early spring
Cornus alba ‘Sibirica’: This deciduous shrub has oval, dark green leaves and produces small, creamy-white flowers in May and June. But it’s really grown for the bright, coral-red stems that are revealed when the leaves fall. This lovely dogwood looks stunning planted in groups, beside water, or in a winter border. Best in full sun, it works particularly well with orange or purple-stemmed varieties of dogwood.
Cornus Kesselringii: A deciduous shrub with deep red shoots that darken and turn a blackish-purple colour in winter
Cornus controversa variegata: ‘Wedding cake’. Very attractive in its own right, with beautiful pale bunches of flowers in spring, excellent variegated leaves, with good autumn colour and small dark fruits.
Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’: Extremely floriferous and sets a very heavy crop of fruit. When in bloom, the bracts can conceal the foliage.
Cornus kousa ‘Miss Satomi’: A spreading medium sized deciduous shrub. It has elegant green foliage which turns yellow/orange in autumn. It produces large pink flower bracts in June.
Cornus kousa chinensis: A large graceful shrub. Lots of white flowers are carried in bunches in early summer. Pointed red fruits follow. Good red and orange autumn colour.
Corylus maxima Purpurea: Purple filbert. A large shrub or small tree, with conspicuous cordate purple leaves. The colour lasts throughout the summer. Filberts carried in autumn, plentifully in a good year and location.
Evergreen shrub with silvery green leaves, not fussy about aspect or soil type. Small scented flowers later in the year. Makes an excellent broad informal hedge, it can reach 2 metres or more.
Euonymus alatus: A large, spreading, deciduous shrub, the branchlets often developing conspicuous corky wings. Leaves oval, turning rosy-crimson in autumn. Flowers small, greenish, followed by purplish-red fruits splitting to reveal orange seeds
Hydrangea Annabelle: A small, bushy deciduous shrub with broadly oval leaves and very large, spherical heads of white sterile flowers to 25cm across in summer .
Magnolia grandiflora: A breathtaking evergreen, a large shrub or medium sized tree. Succeeds on most soils. Glossy leaves make a foil for the huge creamy-coloured flowers in summer. Best planted against a wall or in full sun. We can supply as a tree or as a bush.