This is a list of garden plant varieties listed by Latin name and common name. Inclusion here is by plants that I am familiar with as a landscaper. It is not a complete or exhaustive list. The title "Landscapers palette" comes from the fact that these are the plants that for 95% of the time I would choose from when planning a planting scheme.

Exclusion doesn't always mean that a plant doesn't deserve a place here on merit, it may be because it's uncommon, difficult to get hold of, that I haven't yet got around to including it yet - or of course that it doesn't deserve a place here on merit.

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unmarked links go to somewhere to buy that plant online

Medium / Small Trees

Name	habit	colour	difficult	scent	seasons	height	spread	flower	everg	shd	sshd
Abies koreana	conical	purple cones	shade		all	30ft	20ft		Y	Y	Y
Acer palmatum  Japanese Maples Acer Garnet	rounded		containers / need shelter		Sp-Aut	30ft v. slowly	30ft v. slowly				Y
Acer platanoides Norway Maple, esp. Drummondii | Crimson King	upright / spreading	variegated / purple	clay		Sp-Aut	30ft	30ft
Alnus incana esp. "aurea"	upright	yellow lvs	v. wet, v. dry, cold exposed		Sp-Aut	25ft	15ft
Amelanchier - shadbush esp.  canadensis | lamarckii	upright then arching	sp and aut leaf colour	clay		Sp-Aut	20ft	10ft				Y
Catalpa bignonoides - Indian Bean Tree Catalpa bignoides | aurea | purpurea	rounded	white	needs shelter, good pollarded every 3rd yr.		Sp-Aut	30ft	30ft
Cercis siliquastrum Judas tree	spreading	pink flws Sp.			Sp-Aut	30ft	30ft
Corylus avellana Contorta Corkscrew Hazel	rounded		chalk		Winter	15ft	15ft				Y
Name	habit	colour	difficult	scent	seasons	height	spread	flower	everg	shd	sshd
Crataegus Hawthorn, esp. "Paul's Scarlet"	upright	scarlet	tolerant, cold, clay		Sp-Aut	20ft	15ft				Y
Cupressus sempervivens "stricta" Italian Cypress	v. narrow upright		sun, dry		all	70ft slowly!	3-20ft		Y
Eucalyptus gunnii Cider Gum	upright	grey / green	cold, exposed		all	30-80ft good pollarded	20-50ft		Y
Juniperus scopulurum "Skyrocket"	narrow upright	glaucous green	sun, dry		all	20ft	5ft		Y
Magnolia esp. stellata	rounded	white / pink		Y	Sp-Aut	20ft	20ft				Y
Malus Crab Apple, esp. "John Downie" | "Golden Hornet"	upright or domed	coloured fruit	clay		Sp-Aut	30ft	20ft
Parrotia persica Persian Ironwood	spreading	Sp flws, aut lvs			Sp-Aut	25ft	30ft
Picea glauca "Albertina Conica"	conical	green	cold, exposed, wet, moist		all	20ft	8ft		Y
Name	habit	colour	difficult	scent	seasons	height	spread	flower	everg	shd	sshd
Picea pungens esp. "Kosteri" | "Hoopsii"	conical	great blue / green			all	50ft	15ft		Y
Prunus, Flowering Cherries esp. Amanagawa | Kanzan | Tai Haku	upright / spreading	pink flws, aut lvs			Sp-Aut	20ft	20ft				Y
Robinia pseudoacacia # esp. "Frisia"	upright	bright green / yellow	NOT exposed		Sp-Aut	50ft	25ft
Rhus typhina "laciniata" Stags Horn Sumarch	spreading	Aut lvs			Sp-Aut	12ft	12ft
Sequoia sempervivens "Adpressa"	conical	white shoots	pollution, exposed		all	25ft	20ft		Y
Sorbus Aria "Lutescens" Whitebeam	rounded	pale green	cold, exposed		Sp-Aut	30ft	25ft
Sorbus, Rowan esp. commixta | huphensis	upright	red / yellow berries	cold, exposed		Sp-Aut	20ft	20ft
Syringa Lilac, esp. "Katherine  Havermayer" - lilac, "Charles Joly" - dark purple, "Mme. Lemoine" - white.	upright / spreading	white to deep purple		Y	Sp-Aut	20ft	20ft

Large Specimen Trees

Name	habit	colour	difficult	scent	seasons	height	spread	flower	everg	shd	sshd
Betula utilis  Himalayan Birch	upright	white trunk	cold, exposed		all	60ft	30ft
Silver Birch Betula pendula esp.  "Dalecarlica"	upright	white trunk, Aut lvs	cold, exposed		all	50ft	30ft
Cedrus atlantica glauca	conical	glaucous blue / green	dry		all	50ft	15ft		Y
Cedrus libani Cedar of Lebanon	spreading	green	chalk, everybody should have one		all	100ft	100ft		Y
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana #  Lawson cypress	columnar	green	many varied cultivars		all	20 - 130ft	6 - 15ft		Y		Y
Fagus sylvatica Beech esp. "Dawyck"	"flame" shaped		wet, moist, exposed		Sp-Aut	40ft+	10ft+				Y
Gleditsia triacanthos "Sunburst" Honey locust	spreading	yellow in aut			Sp-Aut	100ft	70ft
Ilex  Holly	conical to rounded	many variegated - red / yellow berries	cold, exposed		all	20ft+	20ft+		Y	Y	Y
Name	habit	colour	difficult	scent	seasons	height	spread	flower	everg	shd	sshd
Juglans Walnut	spreading				Sp-Aut	100ft	50ft
Liquidambar styraciflua Sweet Gum esp. "Worplesdon"	broadly conical	esp. aut lvs			Sp-Aut	80ft	40ft
Liriodendron tulipifera Tulip Tree	broadly columnar				Sp-Aut	100ft	50ft
Picea omorika Serbian spruce	narrow, spire		cold, exposed, wet, moist		all	70ft	10ft		Y
Quercus Oak esp. Holm Oak | Common Oak	upright then spreading		tolerant - everybody should have one		Sp-Aut	70ft+	50ft+		some
Sequoiadendron giganteum, giant redwood, Wellingtonia	conical		everybody should have one		all	100ft+	30ft+		Y
Taxus baccata # Yew	upright	red berries	NOT wet, moist		all	50ft+	25ft		Y	Y	Y
Name	habit	colour	difficult	scent	seasons	height	spread	flower	everg	shd	sshd