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London Plane Tree - Platanus x hispanica | 🇬🇧 UK Grown 40-60cm (Tall 9cm Pot)

London Plane Tree - Platanus x hispanica | 🇬🇧 UK Grown 40-60cm (Tall 9cm Pot)

The London Plane - Platanus x hispanica, is a large, resilient deciduous tree growing 20-35 metres tall. Famed for its distinctive mottled bark, large maple-like leaves, and tolerance of urban conditions, it's a popular choice for city streets and parks. This long-lived tree provides excellent shade, improves air quality, and offers year-round interest with its peeling bark and winter seed balls.

The London Plane – Platanus x hispanica, is a majestic hybrid tree renowned for its resilience in urban environments. This large deciduous tree can grow to impressive heights of 20-35 metres, developing a broad, domed crown that provides expansive shade. One of its most distinctive features is its bark, which peels away in large patches to reveal a mottled pattern of grey, green, and cream, giving the trunk a camouflage-like appearance. The large, maple-like leaves are palmate with 3-5 lobes, turning a warm yellow-brown in autumn before falling. In spring, the tree produces small, spherical flower heads which develop into spiky seed balls that hang from the branches well into winter, adding year-round interest.

London Planes are particularly valued for their ability to thrive in urban conditions. They are tolerant of air pollution, compacted soils, and pruning, making them a popular choice for street trees and city parks. Their large leaves are effective at trapping air pollutants, contributing to improved air quality in urban areas. The tree’s size and spreading canopy make it an excellent shade tree, helping to cool urban heat islands.

While not a native species, the London Plane has become an iconic part of many UK cityscapes, particularly in London where it lines many streets and squares. It’s a long-lived tree, with some specimens known to be over 300 years old. The London Plane also provides valuable habitat for urban wildlife, with its dense canopy offering nesting sites for birds and its bark crevices supporting various insects.

Plant your London Plane in full sun or partial shade in any well-drained soil. It’s adaptable to most soil types and pH levels. While established trees are drought-tolerant, young trees benefit from regular watering. Prune in late winter if necessary to maintain shape or size. Be aware that the tree’s large size means it needs ample space to grow.

🇬🇧 Grown here in the UK

Ultimate height
Higher than 12 metres

Time to ultimate height
20–50 years

Ultimate spread
Wider than 8 metres

Approx 40-60cm tall. Supplied in a tall 9cm pot

 

About Us

Please note: Decorative pots shown are for display purposes only. Your tree will be supplied in a standard plastic nursery pot shown in the other pictures.

Yarrow Gardens is a small family business based in Euxton, West Lancashire. We grow most of our own stock here on our nursery. We have young saplings, year old saplings through to much larger and older specimens for sale. Trees are seeds are available all year round for delivery and collection from our nursery.

We are DEFRA registered and our nursery is regularly inspected to confirm compliance with all current plant and plant health regulations.

We are actively working towards the Grown in Britain certification along with the Plant Healthy certification.

Plant Passport Registration Number: GB140010

Yarrow Gardens is part of Shaw Green Group Limited registered in the United Kingdom: 09869705

Postage

For most of our deliveries we use Royal Mail 2nd Class, Evri or APC for larger orders. We ask you to allow 4-5 working days for the items to arrive, perhaps slightly longer during peak times. Our postage is included in the price you pay. "Free delivery" isn't really free - it has a cost to us as the seller, so we are trusting couriers with your orders.

If you need an order for a specific date or need it fast, please select the APC option.

We dispatch Monday - Thursday. We don't dispatch on Friday or weekends to prevent your live plants potentially being stuck in a warehouse all weekend.

We try make all our packaging compostable at home, the tape, the box and the labels. Occasionally we'll use some non-compostable tape or bags to secure your items. We post all our trees safely and securely in a cardboard box, please note sometimes we'll reuse boxes or material to save our planet.

Please be aware that any postal service can be subject to unforeseen delays beyond our control, we are also bound by the postal service guidelines for declaring an item lost which ranges from 15-60 days depending the courier service we use. If your item is delayed, please contact us through eBay, so we can help you. Please contact us before leaving any feedback as will always resolve the issue for you.

Collection

Collection from Euxton is available on prior arrangement.

Please contact us if you have any questions.