Plants Flowering in April

Small red-tinted yellow flowers with green bracts later becoming red.

A totally hardy species with creamy-yellow flowers and elongated blue fruits which are edible

Small, glossy, neat foliage good for hedging

Bright golden yellow form

Spreading habit with lemon-gold and dark green leaves

Reddish-purple new growth

Quick growing sport with distinct silver variegation

A useful hedging or edging plant with tiny leaves and a rounded habit

Semi-prostrate form with violet-blue berries, excellent ground cover

(syn. Persea yunnanensis) - a very rare tree with glabrous ovate leave. Flowers pale to yellowish-green

Soft canary-yellow blooms which open as the leaf appears in spring. Its neat pyramidal habit and restricted overall size makes it very suitable for suburban gardens

Light yellow fragrant flowers open just before or alongside the leaves

A hybrid bred by Vance Hooper in New Zealand. Clear lilac-purple goblet-shaped blooms on this hybrid between M. soulangeana 'Burgundy' and M. 'Vulcan'

Purple

A striking dark purple variety which is a cross between M. 'Deep Purple Dream' and M. 'Black Tulip'

Deep red.

Reddish-purple

Rich violet-purple flowers at first turning purple-rosy-violet later. Highly scented

Jury hybrid with white flowers shading to pink at the base

Jury hybrid with soft pink petals which are white inside. A sister seedling to Iolanthe

Petals purplish-red, white inside, suitable for smaller gardens

Huge flowers which are reddish-purple outside and white inside fading rose-pink and white