Cell Grown Plants
Every year our nursery in the Scottish Borders produces millions of cell grown broadleaves, conifers, shrubs, hedging plants and a range of other species for environmental planting. Our species range is extensive and we have species to suit all planting objectives.
Cell grown plants can be planted almost all year round and offer excellent survivability as they are supplied with a complete and intact fibrous root system.
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Abies alba - European Silver Fir
£1.98from £0.88Abies alba - Silver fir is a long-living conifer upright-growing evergreen conifer with dark green needles that are silver underneath. The yellow-green cones which appear in late spring are cylindrical in shape and ripen to brown.
The strong, lightweight timber is mainly used for construction, furniture, plywood and pulpwood. Young trees are also popular as Christmas trees. Ecologically, the tree is important for maintaining high biodiversity in forested areas. The tree’s deep taproots offering stability, alongside its easily biodegradable needle litter, are key in the establishment and management of silvicultural systems.
Silver fir is shade-tolerant and able to act as a “seedling bank” under the canopy of older dominant trees for decades.
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Tsuga heterophylla - Western Hemlock
£1.52from £0.67A dense and graceful conifer that is conical in habit but with a narrow crown, Tsuga heterophylla - Western Hemlock is fast growing and will ultimately reach a very large size.
Mainly grown for timber although it makes an impressive parkland or arboretum tree.
It is one of several north west American species discovered by the well known plant hunter, David Douglas who sent seeds back to the UK in 1831.
Evergreen with small green needles and pendulous cones that start green and turn to grey brown.
