Collection: Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster horizontalis, the wall cotoneaster, grows in flat sprays of branches in a herringbone pattern. It spreads as ground cover or fans out against a wall, and needs very little looking after.

It's fully hardy right across Britain, including cold, exposed and seaside gardens, and copes with summer drought once it's settled. It grows in sun or partial shade.

It's a good one for wildlife: the flowers are outstanding for bees and hoverflies, and the berries feed blackbirds and thrushes into winter. It drops its leaves in autumn. It's fine to grow in a garden, but by law it mustn't be planted out in the wild in England and Wales.

Sold in a 2 litre pot. Plant from March to May or September to November. Grown peat-free in Yorkshire.