Key Features of the Avocado Latin name Persea Americana Other common names Alligator Pear or Avacado Pear Height up to 60 feet 18m Type of tree – Evergreen Leaves – Glossy dark green elliptical shaped Flowers Fragrant racemes in yellow-green. Three petal like lobes with nine stamen Fruit – Green to black containing a large [...]

Japanese maples provide autumn colour and beautiful foliage in a spectrum of colour shape and heights – well worth growing in a garden

Read your Norway Spruce that was grown for paper pulp and became a newspaper or admire your Christmas tree all spruced up

Olives are extremely long lived trees in Mediterranean climates but you may struggle a bit in the UK

Key features, uses, species and comments on the English Oak -Latin name Quercus robur,