Sorbus Americana (American Mountain Ash)
A Small to medium sized tree very popular for all year interest, oval shape, smooth greyish bark and beautiful leaves, flowers and fruit. In Spring, the Mountain Ash displays pink or white flowers, but in Autumn, its leaves change to shades of orange, red and purple. Its shiny berries attract many birds including thrushes and more. Ideal screening tree, suitable for the smaller garden.
Ultimate height 5m (18ft), Spread 3m (10ft).
Sorbus Apricot Queen
A rounded tree with greyish downy winter buds that open to dark green leaves. turning red or yellow in autumn. Clusters of white flowers in late spring are followed by apricot yellow berries in large bunches.
Ultimate height 7m (24ft), Spread 4m (12ft).
Sorbus aria (Whitebeam)
A compact and domed small growing tree The bark and twigs are smooth and grey, and the shoots are brick red in sunlight, but greyish green in shade. The leaves are green on the top surface with the underneath covered in white, felt-like hair. When the leaves first unfold they look like magnolia flowers, sometimes called the poor man’s magnolia, they fade to a rich russet colour before falling in autumn. The five-petalled flowers appear in clusters in May, Followed by scarlet berries in autumn.
Ultimate height 5m (18ft), Spread 4m (12ft).
Sorbus aria Aurea
Slow growing variety with soft yellow leaves, ultimately smaller than type.
Ultimate height 4m (12ft), Spread 3m (10ft).
Sorbus aria Lutescens
Ornamental variety of the common whitebeam forming a uniform upright tree, which spreads with age, Leaves appear in spring looking like small magnolia flowers bursting, leaves are silvery on the upper and lower surfaces making it attractive an attractive addition to the spring garden, Flowers are white in April followed by red fruit in the autumn.
Ultimate height 6m (24ft), Spread 5m (16ft).
Sorbus aria Magnifica
More upright form, with larger leaves than the other varieties in the aria group, leaves are green on the upper surface and silvery underneath staying on well into autumn.
Ultimate height 8m (34ft), Spread 5m (16ft).
Sorbus aria majestica
Medium sized tree, symmetrical head, quite compact. The leaves are green on the upper surface and silvery underneath, staying in good condition throughout the season. In late spring heads of white flowers are born in bunches. These give way to small green berries which fill out as the year goes on, turning deep red with the autumn. The leaves take on russet and yellow autumn tints. It tolerates a wide range of soils including shallow chalk.
Ultimate height 6m (19ft), Spread 5m (16ft).
Sorbus arnoldiana Salmon Queen
Tree of the Mountain ash group with green pinnate leaves made up of 12-15 leaflets. A more upright habit, scented white flowers in April followed by bunches of salmon coloured berries in autumn. Not suitable as with most Mountain ash for dry soils, particularly over chalk.
Ultimate height 7m (24ft), Spread 5m (16ft).
Sorbus aucuparia (Mountain Ash)
Common Mountain Ash, a native of the British Isles, small to medium sized tree with a rounded loose habit. Green pinnate leaves made up of 12-15 leaflets which turn to yellow – bronze autumn colours. Flowers are white in April followed by bright red fruit in the autumn which are sought after by wild birds, an excellent tree for the wildlife garden.
Ultimate height 7m (24ft), Spread 6m (19ft).
Sorbus Cardinal Royal
A vigorous grower with symmetrical, upright, narrow-oval form, leaves dark green above and silvery beneath, showy white flowers in spring, and with brilliant red fruit in August and September. The bark is shiny dark brown and smooth until later age. On this variety, the limbs are well attached, but strongly ascending and appearing quite narrow, especially when young.
Ultimate height 8m (35ft), Spread 6m (19ft).
Sorbus Chinese Lace
A small tree with deeply cut green feather-like leaves that turn red-purple in autumn. The tree produces delicate white flowers in late spring and red-orange berries in autumn.
Ultimate height 6m (19ft), Spread 4m (12ft).
Sorbus commixta (Japanese Rowan)
A small erect tree. The mid-green, pinnate foliage turns vivid red in the autumn and orangey red berries are produced in large clusters. These berries are popular with birds throughout the winter and provide an additional element of seasonal interest. Corymbs of fluffy white flowers appear in May-June and are very popular with bees and other pollinating insects.
Ultimate height 6m (19ft), Spread 4m (12ft).
Sorbus commixta Embley
This variety is covered in clusters of bright red fruit, deepening to ruby red the crown is ablaze of scarlet foliage in the autumn. More upright in habit than the species, this is a slender branching, conical tree, which is ideal for a small garden.
Ultimate height 8m (35ft), Spread 6m (19ft).
Sorbus Coral Beauty
Upright growing form, green leaves with white flowers in spring followed by coral coloured berries, very showy when fully laden with fruit.
Ultimate height 7m (24ft), Spread 5m (16ft).
Sorbus domestica (Service Tree)
A medium tree from Europe. Bears large crops of large (25 mm, 1 inch) fruits which are edible when bletted or cooked, with a an excellent rich flavour when fully ripe. The fruits are commercially used as a source of fruit juice. The timber makes good fuel and the bark is used for tanning. Likes sun or part shade. Suitable for all types of soil that have a moisture content.
Ultimate height 7m (24ft), Spread 5m (16ft).
Sorbus x hostii
Slow growing small tree or shrub, leaves similar to Sorbus intermedia, green above, silvery below. Flowers are pale pink in flat corymbs with bright red fruit. ideal where space is limited.
Ultimate height 3m (10ft), Spread 2m (6ft).
Sorbus hupehensis
Strong growing upright tree with thick ascending branches. Leaves are large pinnate with 8-10 leafletsand have a bluish green appearance. Flowers are white, scented followed by white fruit tinged with pink which are persistent into the winter. Leaves give some autumn colour. good tree for the small garden.
Ultimate height 6m (19ft), Spread 3m (10ft).
Sorbus hupehensis Obtusa Rosea
This variety is similar to hupehensis with blue-green, pinnate leaves made up of blunt leaflets that turn purple and red in autumn. In spring, it bears clusters of creamy-white flowers, followed by pink, shiny berries in autumn.
Ultimate height 6m (19ft), Spread 3m (10ft).
Sorbus intermedia (Swedish Whitebeam)
Small to medium sized tree with a dense rounded head. Leaves dark green and glossy above and grey tormentose below. Flowers are white in early spring followed by fruit 12mm across orange-red in bunches in the autumn.
Ultimate height 12m (26ft), Spread 10m (31ft).
Sorbus intermedia Brouwers
Clonal variation of the Swedish Whitebeam which, produces a uniform wine goblet head which is regular and pyramidal in shape and offers little variation between individual trees.This tree will tolerate the harshest conditions; including wind exposure, coastal environments and calcareous soils. In general it will tolerate most soil conditions and thus is a very versatile tree. The creamy white flowers appear in May and are followed by small orange-red fruit in the autumn.
Ultimate height 7m (24ft), Spread 5m (16ft).
Sorbus Joseph Rock
This variety has brighter coloured leaves than most other Rowans, giving the tree a more open look. The flowers come in plain clumps of creamy white.
This tree really stands out in autumn, when its leaves take turns to flush with reds, coppers and purple-brown tones. Amongst the leaves are the maturing fruit, which are much showier than the flowers that produced them. They change from milky yellow to a rich amber colour and continue to decorate the tree well after the last leaves have fallen.
Ultimate height 6m (19ft), Spread 3m (10ft).
Sorbus x Kewensis
A Hardy free fruiting Mountain Ash. Leaves green with white scented blossom in spring followed by bright red berries in bunches, in the autumn, causing the branches to bend with the weight. A round headed tree suitable for a wildlife garden.
Ultimate height 6m (19ft), Spread 4m (12ft).
Sorbus Koeheneana
Medium sized tree or small shrub. leaves narrow and small, white flowers followed by porcelain white berries with pink tinge, hanging in drooping bunches.
Ultimate height 3m (10ft), Spread 2m (6ft).
Sorbus monbeigii
Very similar to Koeheneana but with pinky white berries.
Ultimate height 3m (10ft), Spread 2m (6ft).
Sorbus sargentiana
Very slow growing small to medium sized tree, one of the most striking Sorbus for autumn colour. Buds are sticky like the Horse chestnut, leaves green pinnate with 8-10 broad leaflets, turning striking shades of orange in autumn. Flowers are white followed by erect large bunches of orange-red berries.
Ultimate height 4m (13ft), Spread 2m (6ft).
Sorbus thibetica John Mitchell
A Handsome medium to large tree, with a broad rounded head. The leaves are large rounded about 15cm long and almost as wide, green above silvery on underside. Flowers are white in loose bunches followed by apple shaped russet-brown fruit.
Ultimate height 8m (35ft), Spread 6m (25ft).
Sorbus thuringiaca Fastigiata (Bastard Service Tree)
Very formal lollipop shaped head. A cultivar of Sorbus thuringiaca which itself is a hybrid between Sorbus aria and Sorbus aucuparia. This tree has the best features of its parents, the leaves are like Sorbus aria, green with white beneath, but the leaves are narrower and lobed at the base. The habit is compact and upright with white flowers followed by glossy red berries. Good street tree.
Ultimate height 6m (19ft), Spread 4m (12ft).
Sorbus torminalis (Wild Service Tree)
A native, deciduous tree, the Wild Service Tree is a relatively rare sight in Britain, despite its attractiveness, and is primarily found in pockets of ancient woodland and occasionally within hedgerows. Lobed leaves, similar to that of the Maple, which turn a rich, purply-red colour prior to falling in autumn. The white flowers develop into green/brown oval fruits, sometimes referred to as ‘chequers’, which have a diameter of between 10-15mm and are patterned with small, pale spots when mature.
Ultimate height 6m (19ft), Spread 4m (12ft).
Sorbus vilmorinii
A small elegant spreading tree. Pinnate leaves made up of lots of small leaflets 11-21, almost fern like. White flowers held in drooping bunches followed by small pink fruit which hang daintily along the branches.
Ultimate height 4m (13ft), Spread 2m (6ft).
Sorbus wardii
A Rare species of Sorbus, its branches are stiff and erect. Young leaves are very grey and showy when young becoming green on upper surface and silvery underneath. Ideal for a limited space.
Ultimate height 5m (18ft), Spread 2m (6ft).
Sorbus wilsoniana
Very similar and closely related to the well-known and popular S. sargentiana, differing only in being quicker growing and slightly smaller in all parts. It is an equally good garden tree, sharing its characteristic strong autumn colours and big orange clusters of fruits.
Ultimate height 6m (24ft), Spread 2m (6ft).
Planting Guide
For further details and pricing, please download our .PDF catalogue using the link below:-
Landford Catalogue 2018.pdf (.PDF file, 259 KB)
