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AESCULUS
Commonly known as Buckeye, Horse chestnut
The horse chestnut, or buckeye, is a genus of about 15 species of deciduous trees and shrubs from southeastern Europe, the Himalayas, eatern Asia and North America.
Striking for their large flower spikes in candles most are too large for average gardens and are popular street and park trees.
The common "hippocastanum" was brought into the UK from Turkey in the late 16th century.
They provide nectar and pollen for insects, particularly bees, and the fruit "conker" is eaten by mammals.
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Deciduous
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Tall Shrub
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Tree
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Toxic - Category C
Harmful if eatenPeople and pets, i.e. cats, dogs, rabbits, rodents, notably dogs -
Wildlife
Bee friendly
- Growing Aesculus
- Four horse chestnuts from Caerhays - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Aesculus wilsonii - Video Tip ondemand_video
- How to plant/move a shrub
- How to plant/move a shrub - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Fertisiling shrubs - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Mulching - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pruning a shrub - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Summer propagation - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Taking semi-ripe cuttings -Video Tip ondemand_video
- Self-sown seedlings - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Trimming a shrub - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Weed spraying - Video Tip ondemand_video
Buy Varieties of AESCULUS
AESCULUS x arnoldiana 'Autumn Splendour'
pale yellow flowers with yellow to pink throats. Deep green, glossy palmate leaves turning red in autumn
AESCULUS chinensis
small white flowers in long racemes on this slow growing and rare species
Gift-wrapping available
AESCULUS 'Chocolate Autumn'
white flowers. Leaves turn chocolate-brown in autumn
AESCULUS flava
yellow flowers and good autumn tints
AESCULUS flava f.vestita
large, upright panicles of pale-yellow flowers, good autumn tints
AESCULUS glabra 'April Wine'
young leaves a deep wine-red. Pale yellow flowers. A small growing from suitable for smaller gardens
AESCULUS glabra 'October Red'
pale, cream flowers in spring. New leaves have coppery tint. Bright red in autumn
AESCULUS hippocastanum
white flowers, spiky 'horse chestnuts' (conkers)
Gift-wrapping available
AESCULUS indica 'Sydney Pearce'
large panicles of white flowers which are marked with yellow and suffused with pink to make an attractive display
Gift-wrapping available
AESCULUS x neglecta 'Autumn Fire'
coppery young foliage and orange-red autumn colour
AESCULUS x neglecta 'Erythroblastos'
red leaf stalks and leaves that unfold a spectacular cream and bright pink. They then become yellow and turn green by midsummer
AESCULUS parviflora
rare spreading shrub growing up to 2.5 metres high & forming thickets from suckering. Good autumn colour
Gift-wrapping available
AESCULUS pavia 'Atrosanguinea'
new leaves tinted bronze. Upright panicles of pink-red flowers
Gift-wrapping available
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