Plants Flowering in April

Variegated form

Bright orange flowers

Dense evergreen with spiny prickles and scented yellow flowers. A good hedging plant

Yellow flowers, purple foliage, strong grower

Green leaves changing to orange-red in autumn. Suitable for hedges

Best purple foliage berberis

Dwarf purple berberis

Bright gold foliage

Deep reddish purple leaves on bright red stems

Leaves of young shoots purple, mottled silvery pink and bright rose, becoming purple later

Leaves are dark green on top and grey-white underneath. Golden yellow flowers in late spring.

('Evening Glow') - dark red semi-double flowers

White flowers with a hint of pink

Dark lilac red flowers

Pink.

White flowers with slight pink tinge from deep pink calyces

('Morning Red') - dark, purple red

Magenta-red flowers on scarlet stems in spring. Evergreen leaves

('Silver Light') - white flowers changing to soft pink

Shaggy bark which is red when young

Peeling deep orange bark. Pyramidal shape. Leaves turn yellow in autumn

Purplish orange bark in more mature trees

White papery bark and yellow autumn foliage

(syn. 'Dalecarlica') - daintily cut leaves and very pendulous branchlets although branches are not weeping

tall tree with pendulous branches

Small weeping tree with pendulous branches and usually no leading stem

Pointed and coarsely-toothed leaves. A North American shrub with an upright habit

White stem, reddish leaves at first turning to a dramatic yellow in autumn

(B.albosinensis var. septentrionalis) - a rare species but one of the most attractive of all birches. The paperlike bark is pink & red and peels off in rings from around the trunk each season when mature