Aesculus

Known as Buckeye and Chestnut. A wide range of plants, many are large trees but some are superb flowering specimen shrubs. They all have "horse-chestnut" compound leaves, are suitable for most good soils and tolerant of chalk.

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Aesculus hippocastanum 'Laciniata'

BlueBell Nursery

£48.00

(Cut-leaf Horse Chestnut) An unusual form of our native horse chestnut with interesting, exceptionally deeply cut leaves. These leaves are dark green in spring and summer and can turn butter yellow in a good, crisp autumn. Upright panicles of attractive white flowers appear on the branches of established plants in late spring. A very handsome, slow...

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Aesculus indica 'Sidney Pearce'

BlueBell Nursery

£48.00

(Indian Chestnut) Particularly desirable flowering selection of Aesculus indica which was first selected by Sidney Pearce, the Assistant Curator at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in 1935. Masses of very upright panicles of long, white, suffused-pink flowers with yellow markings in midsummer. Large dark green deeply lobed leaves. Aesculus indica 'Sidney...

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Aesculus pavia 'Koehnei'

BlueBell Nursery

£48.00

(Dwarf Buckeye) Charming, rare and very slow growing cultivar which is covered with upright panicles of rose-pink flowers in early summer. The leaves are bronze coloured when they first emerge in spring, turning light green in late spring and summer. Once established Aesculus pavia 'Koehnei' has quite an architectural appeal, looking a little like a...

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Aesculus pavia 'Splendens'

BlueBell Nursery

£48.00

(Scarlet Buckeye) Perhaps the most handsome of the flowering Buckeyes, this is an unusual plant which has impressive, long (10 - 20 cm) panicles of scarlet flowers in late spring / early summer. The vivid flower colour contrasts well against the dark green foliage. A spectacular flowering Aesculus which is shrub-like when young eventually forming a very...

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Aesculus pavia 'Spring Purple'

BlueBell Nursery

£48.00

(Red Buckeye) A new introduction which is similar to Aesculus pavia 'Koehnei' in size and habit, growing as a large, rounded shrub in time with excellent, long lasting purple and bronze young leaves in spring. The colourful foliage display is followed by upright panicles of pale pink flowers in late Spring. Leaves gradually turn purple-green in summer....

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Aesculus wangii

BlueBell Nursery

£75.00

(Buckeye) A very rare small tree with large, dark green leaves and impressive fruit once mature. Somewhat hardy, this requires a warm and sheltered position in many parts of the UK. Not suitable for cold, exposed gardens.

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Aesculus x mutabilis 'Penduliflora'

BlueBell Nursery

£48.00

(Horse chestnut) A rare and slow growing small tree with eye-catching pendulous branches once established and spikes of red and yellow flowers in late spring or early summer. Dark green summer leaves with yellow and orange tints before they fall in autumn. Not for instant gratification, this is best suited for a position in sun or dappled shade with some...

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