Exotic varieties

The Eucalyptus offered have a great variety of evergreen leaf form and colour. In fact the juvenile and adult foliage are often completely different. Both types appearing on the same tree. They have delicate clusters of white or cream flowers and often highly patterned and multi-coloured bark. The various species offer silver-blue, blue-white, glaucous, silver-grey, scarlet or purple-pink juvenile or immature leaves.

Eucalyptus are amongst the finest sources of cut ornamental foliage for the floral artist. For this purpose, they should be coppiced (see coppicing). The resulting young growths are very suitable for cutting between October and April, and will last a long time in winter.