Not often a new plant species just blows me and all my colleagues away, but this one has.
This image of beauty is called a Codieum Tamara.
Apart from being a lovely white and green variegated shrubby plant in its own right, what has got this plant such attention is how different it is from the rest of the Codieum (or as we tend to refer to them, Croton) family.
All the rest of the Codieums are red, yellow and green, like the image below, so this is a remarkable difference. We like plants that don't look like their relations, there will be another like this as next month's feature plant.
I intend to take this and plant it in one of my own maintenance jobs in Gillingham, North Dorset, so I can see how it performs.
I'd like to say we'll be getting more in, but my Dutch grower tells me they are one of those plants that comes to the market in batches, then disappears for a while. When I can't regularly get plants I can't use them in quotes for new contracts, but I can get the odd one in and let my maintenance staff use it in their clients' sites.
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Jonathan