Description
Six trees to plant as a family, for a garden that changes face with the seasons!
This collection brings together one of each variety in the selection: three trees for flowers and fruit, three trees with remarkable foliage. A living gift for those who dream of a garden or terrace that changes colour from one season to the next, young and old alike.
A calendar of colours, flowers and fruit
As winter ends, the ‘Kojo-no-mai’ flowering cherry opens the show with its pinkish-white flowers, from late February to late March. The ‘Chico’ dwarf pomegranate takes over with bright orange double flowers all summer, while the ‘Brown Turkey’ fig tree offers its figs from summer to autumn. The ‘Atropurpureum’ Japanese maple, purple in spring then bronze in summer, turns bright red in autumn. The holm oak and the cider gum, both evergreen, keep their foliage all year, one dark green, the other silvery-blue and scented.
Plant, water, observe: an adventure to share
Digging the holes, setting the six trees, watering them, spreading the mulch: every step is easy to share with children, who discover how trees grow. It is then up to them to watch for the cherry’s buds, count the pomegranate’s flowers, taste the first figs, measure the fast-growing cider gum and note the maple’s colours. Six trees, six appointments in the year, and the pride of saying “we planted them ourselves”.
It arrives with:
- An ‘Atropurpureum’ Japanese maple in a 9 cm nursery pot, about 40 cm tall including the pot
- A ‘Kojo-no-mai’ flowering cherry in a 9 cm nursery pot, about 42 cm tall including the pot
- A ‘Chico’ dwarf pomegranate in a nursery pot, about 32 cm tall including the pot
- A ‘Brown Turkey’ fig tree in a 9 cm nursery pot, about 80 cm tall including the pot
- A holm oak in a nursery pot, about 45 cm tall including the pot
- A cider gum in a nursery pot, about 75 cm tall including the pot
- A care leaflet so you know what to do at each stage
- An optional message card to go with your gift
Good to know:
- Light: full sun for the fig tree and the pomegranate, sun or partial shade for the cherry, sun or shade for the holm oak, sun to partial shade for the cider gum, partial shade for the maple
- Soil: well-drained for all six, preferably moist and acidic for the maple
- Hardiness: down to -15 °C for all except the pomegranate (about -10 °C), the cider gum down to -18 °C once mature
- Adult size in the ground: over 5 m for the maple, 2 to 3 m for the cherry, 1 to 1.5 m for the pomegranate, 3 to 5 m for the fig tree, 10 to 20 m for the holm oak, 20 to 30 m for the cider gum, so allow room for the largest
- Flowering and harvest: cherry from late February to late March, pomegranate all summer, figs from summer to autumn
- Pomegranate: variety grown for its flowers, rarely fruits
- In a pot: possible for the maple, the cherry, the pomegranate, the fig tree and the cider gum, for a few years only for the holm oak
- Planting: all year round, except in hard frost or heatwaves, spring and autumn being the most favourable times
A gift for:
- Celebrating a birth with trees that grow as the child does
- Celebrating a wedding with six trees that mark every season
- Marking a housewarming with a complete garden to plant
- Paying tribute and leaving a living memory
Delivered on the date of your choice, in a box suited to transport, so the adventure begins as soon as it arrives.
