Japanese umbrella pine is an exquisite-looking conifer resembling pine thanks to its needles but botanically it has nothing in common with them. Did you fall in love with this gorgeous conifer but the species is too large for your small garden? Worries gone – there is a new dwarf selection from Germany called Sterschnuppe (falling star). Sterschnuppe Japanese umbrella pine is a VERY slow growing evergreen conifer with dark green, flattened, succulent needles. It forms a smal ...entire article

Silver van Tol is a gorgeous and hard to find variety of holly. It is a sport of JC van Tol but this new one has variegated foliage. Silver van Tol bears evergreen, leathery and very glossy leaves that are deep green in the centre and creamy to white along the margins. They are usually spineless, only the tip is a bit sharp-ish. It is a female variety producing red berries in autumn if a male pollinator is nearby. Variegated hollies are versatile in use. They can stand alone as attractive, medium-sized specimen shr ...entire article

Golden Celebration is my top favorite since it offers a selection of my most popular colours – golden yellow, honey orange with a very light tint of salmon pink inside. It has a strong, tea and fruity fragrance, actually it was awarded the best shrub and most fragrant variety at the 'Rose Awards Day 2000'. The blooms are large, rounded and full. It repeal flowering reliably. Planting instructions: Prepare a hole of size 30x30 cm. Put your rose in the way that the grafting point is 3 cm deep in the soil. Water it well. Roses tolerate wide rang ...entire article

Pretty rich pink, cup shaped buds gradually open to a deeply cupped flower; later developing into a broad, full-petalled, shallow cup of a soft pink which is paler at the outer edges - a most pleasing progression. The flowers are beautiful at all stages; this illustrates very well the great variety of form to be found in the Old Rose style. The Alnwick Rose has nice rounded, bushy growth and produces its bloom intermittently from early summer to the onset of frost. Plentiful green foliage ideally complements the flower. There is a good and strong Old R ...entire article

Lady of Shalott rose promises to be one of the most robust and hardy roses in our collection. It is also highly resistant to disease and it will bloom with unusual continuity throughout the season. Indeed, it is an ideal rose for the inexperienced gardener. The young buds are a rich orange-red. These open to form chalice-shaped blooms, filled with loosely-arranged petals. Each petal has a salmon pink upper side which contrasts beautifully with the attractive golden-yellow reverse. The chalice shape means that the undersides of the petals are clearly se ...entire article

The flowers of Spirit of Freedom rose commence as small, rounded buds which gradually open to form a cupped flower that is well filled with numerous petals - these are slightly ‘dished’ towards the centre. The colour is a soft glowing pink, which gradually turns to lilac-pink as the flower ages. As a shrub rose it will grow some 5 ft. tall and 4 ft. wide, whereas climber reach about 8 ft. It is highly disease-resistant. There is a pleasing fragrance with a hint of myrrh. An English rose by David Austin of ...entire article

Blue Diamond is a true jewel. This conifer is a variety of Colorado spruce with intensely blue coloured needles with silver overlay. They are quite prickly and evergreen. It grows about 15 cm per year, and only 10 cm upwards making about 1m tall plant in 10 years time. It is well branched from the base and forms a neat and quite regular pyramidal shape without any significant pruning. Trimming, however, is possible – best in early spring. Mature plants are expected to reach about 3m. Spruce is widely soil ada ...entire article

Leucothoe species is a relatively new group of plants in Central Europe which gain more and more attention and admirers, including me. They are low or prostrate evergreen shrubs with leathery leaves and sufficient hardiness. Twisting Red® is a Dutch selection by Ron van Opstal, introduced at Plantarium in 2011 with great success. It is protected by European Breeders Rights No. 20101687. Twisting Red® is an evergreen, compact shrub with beautifully twisted leaves. Th ...entire article

Franky Boy is an exquisite variety of oriental arborvitae from 1999. It is en evergreen conifer with charming, thread-like, linear branches covered with tiny scale-like leaves of bright yellow-green colour. They grow strictly upwards, and unless shaped or trimmed the side branches tend to weep slightly. In winter they gain bronze shades. Thanks to plentiful of gentle branches, the shrub looks like a tuft of an ornamental grass, yet keeping its compact shape that will look elegant in any garden composition. We sugge ...entire article

This is probably the earliest apple in our climate, of Russian origin from around 1800. Its name is different in every country, the English name is White Transparent. It produces good crops of medium-large to large fruit with greenish-yellow, soft skin and very juicy flesh that can be quite sharp for some but definitely sought after by children who thoroughly enjoy eating the very first apple off the tree in the season. It ripens from end July and cannot be stored. Another advantage besides being early is that it i ...entire article

Filip’s Happy Day is a chance seedling of Plumosa Compressa variety found in 2000. It is a dwarf, evergreen conifer with flat sprays of scale-like leaves which emerge fresh green with creamy white tips in spring. It grows very slowly and being quite new in the market – only since 2006 – it is difficult to estimate its ultimate size. Still, it is not expected to exceed 1m tall and wide. This small shrub will be beautiful in small gardens and front yards as well as in borders with dwarf conifers and small-leaved evergreens, c ...entire article

Tiny Tim is a dwarf arborvitae (white cedar) from 1955, similar to Golden Globe but with purely green leaves. It is a slow growing, evergreen conifer that keeps its globular shape even without pruning. In winter the leaves turn bronze. Completely care-free. Usual size is about half a meter, ultimate size in maturity is a little over 1 meter tall and wide. Thanks to slow growth it needs no or very little pruning that can be done at any time from early spring till early summer. It is soil tolerant but dislikes boggy ...entire article

Ken’s Red is a female variety of the so-called mini-kiwi (kiwiberry). It is a vine that is less vigorous that the species. Apart from tasty fruit it is a nice plant, too, with deep green leaves and scented flowers in June. Its fruit has smooth skin, and both skin and flesh have various shades of deep red or burgundy purple. Compared to normal kiwi fruit the taste is the same but sweeter, and the shape is kiwi-like, too, just smaller – like a large gooseberry i.e. 2-4 cm long. They are the sweetest when ...entire article

Pinova is a modern apple, bred in German town Dresden in 1986. It produces medium-large, red and orange flushed yellow fruit in October. Its flesh is yellow and crisp, the taste is well balanced between sweetness and typical apple acidity. It can be eaten fresh off the tree in late October but tastes best after 2-3 weeks of storing. Pinova apple is commercially successful because it offers good colour, excellent taste, good resistance to usual apple diseases, and also stores well – it can be kept in common s ...entire article

Nashi pear is a delicious fruit that is connected with Orient. This tree comes from Japan, hence Japanese pear. It is a merge between apple and pear: fruit taste, aroma, and habit like a pear tree, but fruit shape and growing requirements like an apple tree. Since this fruit can get quite expensive in supermarkets why don’t you grow your own tree? It is easy and you will be surprised how hardy it gets. Kosui is a nashi pearwith excellent taste. It produces rounded fruit wit ...entire article

Rhododendron Lagerfeuer is another successful hybrid bred by Hans Hachmann in 1960. It is a cross between Nova Zembla and Mars. Lagerfeuer bears large, deep red flowers with a hint of purple red shade, opening from end May until early June, and produces abundance of flowers regularly. It grows moderately, reaching only about 1m tall and wide in 10 years, though, adult plants are supposed to exceed 2m in both directions. We have experienced very good tolerance to full sun if grown in good soil. Evergreen leaves are widely elliptic, deep green and not ve ...entire article

Dagmar is a Czech rhododendron variety bred by Bohumil Kavka in 1965. It is a rather slow growing, compact, evergreen plant with gorgeous flowers. Each inflorescence bears up to 14 soft pink flowers with golden yellow throat in the second half of May. The petal margins are a little frilled. Leaves are beautiful as well – they are evergreen, ovate, thinner than on most hybrids, and make a handsome cover all over the plant. 10-year-old plants are about 1m tall and 1.3m wide. For richer flowering and growth ...entire article

Would you like a gnom for your garden? Not the one from plaster, a living one – a dwarf pine called the same name = Gnom. This one is very beautiful, slow and dense growing with short to medium sized, dark green needles. It is mound-forming when young, making a shrub about 60 cm tall and almost twice as wide when 10 years old. Later it slows down spreading, and makes more height, so in maturity its height and spread are equal – encyclopedia says it can reach up to 3m in 25 years which is hard to believe. ...entire article

Brigitte is a fantastic rhododendron, no wonder that its breeder Hans Hachmann gave it a girl’s name – I bet the girl was as charming as this piece. Brigitte is a compact and very bushy growing rhododendron that will attract your attention yet before it starts flowering. It bears handsome, evergreen, glossy, long and narrowly lanceolate leaves that persist for as long as 3 years before the plant drops them. Flowers are as beautiful as the leaves – they burst out late in the season from pink buds i ...entire article

August Lamken is a Williamsianum rhododendronwith bright pink, bell-shaped flowers with frilled margins produced mostly in late May. Its evergreen, rounded to ovate leaves are softer green than on hybrid rhododendrons. The shrub grows moderately and quite compact reaching about 1m high and 1.2-1.3m wide in 10 years. Introduced by D.G.Hobbie in 1971. For richer flowering and growth dead-head where possible. The roots are shallow, spreading to sides in search for nutrients. Never plant them too deep. The soil has to ...entire article

Sibirica is a Tatarian dogwood variety which offers the deepest colour of its twigs, especially in winter months. They are rich red or burgundy red and look best above a solid layer of fresh snow on a sunny day. In spring emerge 5-7 long, deciduous, irregularly ovate, mid green leaves that turn pale red in autumn. In late spring appear small, white flowers in red calyxes, composed in almost flat cymes, and are followed by white, spherical berries in late summer and autumn. It is a fast grower. This care-free shrub ...entire article

Maria is a compact barberry, sold in the USA as Sunjoy® Gold Pillar. It has small, bright golden-yellow, deciduous leaves that emerge red in spring and turn fiery orange in autumn. Like other barberries its branches have short spikes. It grows slowly, forming an upright shrub in the shape of letter V. Leaves are resistant to sunscorch. Thanks to its bright colour it is best used among dark-leaved plants as well as purple and red-leaved or flowering shrubs. Pruning is no ...entire article

Rosy Rocket® barberry produces soft pink leaves mottled burgundy red as they emerge, and changing to overall burgundy red as they mature, while new, variegated leaves keep coming up at the top of the shrub. They are deciduous. Another eye-catching feature is the coral pink-red colour of new twigs. Like other barberries its branches have short spikes. It grows strictly upright, slowly, forming a dense and compact shrub about 1m tall and 30-40 cm wide in 6-8 years. Thanks to its unique colour it will look great ...entire article

Golden Globe is a dwarf arborvitae (white cedar) with bright greenish-yellow or golden-yellow leaves. It is a slow growing, evergreen conifer that keeps its globular shape even without pruning. In winter the leaves turn bronze or honey orange a little. Completely care-free. Thanks to slow growth it needs no or very little pruning that can be done at any time from early spring till early summer. It is soil tolerant but dislikes boggy locations and long-standing water as well as long-lasting drought. Just keep the so ...entire article

If looking for a columnar apple variety with early fruting Suncats could be a winner. This apple bears rich red fruit already in late summer. The apples are medium sized to large, have a sweet and aromatic taste, and are best eaten freshly picked from the tree, they cannot be stored. As other „cats“ varieties this one is also resistant to scab, canker, and powdery mildew. Being self-sterile it needs another apple tree as a pollinator. The best ones are sister varieties of columnar apples such as Greenc ...entire article

Greencats is another columnar apple variety. It bears medium-sized or large apples with rich green, glossy skin similar to Granny Smith variety. The flesh is firm and crisp, juicy, sweet and sour. The fruit is resistant to scab, canker, and powdery mildew. Greencats a midseason variety can be picked from mid September onwards and stored until end February. Being self-sterile it needs another apple tree as a pollinator. The best ones are sister varieties of columnar apples ...entire article

Redcats is a columnar apple variety with deep red fruit of excellent flavour. It resembles Gala variety. It is medium-sized, rounded, the flesh is firm and crisp, juicy, with a good sweet/sour balance. The fruit is resistant to scab, canker, and powdery mildew. Redcats a midseason variety can be picked from mid September onwards and stored until end February. Being self-sterile it needs another apple tree as a pollinator. The best ones are sister varieties of columnar apples such as Suncats and Greencats. As a col ...entire article

Moonlight® is a Czech variety of columnar apple tree from 2010. It is a cross between Goldstar and Telamon, resulting in a columnar variety with excellent fruit resistant to scab and powdery mildew. Moonlight® has medium-sized fruit, similar to Golden Delicious in shape and colour – globose-conical or conical, greenish-yellow with light orange overlay. The flesh is yellow, firm and crisp, juicy, with a good sweet/sour balance. It is a late apple that can be p ...entire article

Wisley 2008 is a rose of exceptional delicacy and charm. The flowers are shallowly cupped and about 8 cm across; the petals arranged in a most perfect rosette formation – their colour being a very pure soft pink; the outer petals paling a little towards the edge. It bears some resemblance to an old Alba Rose such as ‘Queen of Denmark’. The growth is elegantly arching, producing its flowers along the stems and building up into a fine, vigorous shrub. This can reach up to 1.5m in height, although it ca ...entire article

Karel is a dwarf Serbian spruce with short, dark green needles. It is a very slow-growing, dense conifer that makes only about 5-7 cm per year. In 10 years you can expect height of 50-60 cm, and 60-70 cm width. Naturally it forms a cushion, similarly to another dwarf spruce called Nidiformis whose colour, however, is much lighter. Karel is always very dark green. Dwarf conifers are ideal for small gardens, rockeries, throws, and containers. They needn’t be pruned. They can take periods of drought but dislike ...entire article

White roses has never been out of fashion. That is why breeders keep coming up with new varieties with improved features. Innocencia® is a popular polyantha rose by Kordes. It bears small, single, moderately fragrant flowers from June until first frost. It is self-cleaning i.e. the flower petals fall down long before they begin to fade and turn brown. It is absolutely resistant to black spot and powdery mildew. Planting instructions: Prepare a hole of size 30x30 cm. Put your rose in the way that the grafting po ...entire article

Larisa® is a Kordes novelty from 2008. It is a compact, polyantha rose with medium-sized, soft pink, semi-double flowers. This rose is very healthy and does not need any treatment against usual rose diseases. Awarded ADR in 2008. It flowers from early summer until mid autumn. Planting instructions: Prepare a hole of size 30x30 cm. Put your rose in the way that the grafting point is 3 cm deep in the soil. Water well and cover new shoots with soil or bark mulch about 15 cm high. Roses tolerate wide range of soil ...entire article

Pine trees are superb trees which grow in a wide climate scale - from cold northern countries to hot coastal sites. They are probably most beautiful in their natural environment. Satellit is a narrowly columnar variety of Bosnian pine. Thanks to slow growth and limited size it is suitable for small gardens. In 10 years it can make about 3m in height and about half a meter wide. Needles are borne in two’s, they are deep green, glossy and hard, always vertical. Bark is very light, almost white. It needs a l ...entire article

Golden Tuffet is a gorgeous variety of white cedar (arborvitae). It is a cushion-forming, small, slow growing conifer with golden-orange leaves on top of the shrub, and bright green at the bottom. In winter it gains reddish-purple shade on insolated parts. It makes about 6cm per year and looks a little like cryptomeria Globosa Nana. Thanks to slow growth it needs no or very little pruning that can be done at any time from early spring till early summer. It is soil tolerant but dislikes boggy locations and long-stan ...entire article

Exalting the beauty of lavender is like carrying coals to Newcastle. So let us cut down the story to a few words about its habit and cultivation. This lavender is the main species from which other varieties come from. It is a fast growing subshrub, sometimes also classified as woody perennial, with 60-80 cm tall stems producing short, scented spikes of violet flowers from early until late summer. Evergreen, linear leaves are grey-green to blue-green in cold months and light green in warm months. It is best grown in mas ...entire article

This special holly was brought by Hillier Nurseries, UK, before 1955. Still, known mainly by horticulturists it was not recognized by general public and that was a pity because this plant has something new to offer. Luckily, it appears that with a new millennium this elegant variety is reborn since more and more nurseries started growing it again and we can enjoy its unique features. Amber holly is an evergreen shrub or a small tree valued for its apricot-orange to coral-orange berries in autumn in winter. They are ...entire article

Bristolcone pine is one of the most fantastic and luxury looking conifers ever. This species comes from North America and it is said to belong among the oldest and long-lived trees of our planet. They can grow for thousands of years - a tree in Colorado was dated as 2,435 years old in 1992. It has deep green, 2-4 cm long, evergreen needles with a silver stripe in the middle, covered with profusion of resin flecks. The unique feature of this pine which makes it different from all other pines is that the needles persist on the tree for 16 up to 20 years! Th ...entire article

Purple Pillow is a fantastic, dwarf variety of rhododendron. It makes profusion of lilac-pink to purple-violet small flowers in April and May. Once in full bloom the shrub is totally covered with flowers for 2-3 weeks. It often makes some flowers in early autumn again. Its evergreen leaves are dark green, narrowly elliptic. Purple Pillow grows very slowly into a cushion-like shrub, some 60 cm tall and twice as wide 15 years. Being a sun-tolerant species it can be placed in ...entire article

Growers and fans of lily-of-the-valley shrubs probably know Little Heath variety, but few of them know that there was a selection made some time ago with only green foliage. In my view it is much more elegant since there is no variegation to disturb its beautiful green colour. Little Heath Green pieris is a very slow grower with small, widely elliptic, evergreen leaves that emerge coppery red and orange. It grows slowly, forming an irregular mound with ere ...entire article

Kleopatra® is a recent successful introduction from Hungary, made by Dr.Jozsa Milkos in 2007. This cherry laurel is a compact, graceful shrub with somewhat arching branches and rich green, evergreen leaves that emerge coppery orange just like Etna® variety. On the contrary Kleopatra® bears elongated leaves. They are quite stiff and hold themselves nicely on the branches making this plant an utterly elegant shrub. Laurels need slightly deep and fertile, acidic, moist soil, and extra watering in frost-fr ...entire article

Favorite azalea is probably so favourite that it the American Azalea Society list of varieties it is entered 6 times, each time in a different group. And try google it. Poor chap will not find a single entry matching all words correctly. So let’s make this right. Favorite is a Japanese azalea with soft, salmon pink, medium-sized flowers that come out in mid May and last for 2-3 weeks. The are borne at tips of predominantly upright branches which can be ideal if you wi ...entire article

Gracilis is a dwarf variety of Caucasian spruce. It is one of the loveliest since it grows very slowly, making a neat and compact habit. It bears short, deep green needles that are four-angled and densely packed along the stem. Young growth is light green, soft and slightly arching, however, as the new branches mature in summer they straighten up again and the whole shrub regains its original upright habit. Spruce is widely soil adaptable provided the soil is well-drained. It likes neutral to slightly acidic so ...entire article

Caucasian spruce is an attractive conifer with an interesting habit. Lateral branches grow horizontally first, later they rise a bit upwards in an angle of about 45° while new growths are slightly drooping. Early Gold is a variety with one special feature – its new spring shoots are bright yellow and emerge 2 weeks earlier than similar variety Aureospicata. They last on the plants for as long as 6 weeks. For the rest of the year the needles are dee ...entire article

Skylands, also called Aurea Compacta, is a dwarf version of golden Caucasian spruce. It is an attractive conifer with golden yellow needles all year round, unlike varieties Aureospicata and Early Gold which make excellent colour of newly emerging shoots but then turn back green. Skylands holds is yellow shades from January till December. It grows very slowl ...entire article

Caucasian spruce is an attractive conifer with an interesting habit. Lateral branches grow horizontally first, later they rise a bit upwards in an angle of about 45° while new growths are slightly drooping. The needles are rather short and stiff, deep green and glossy. Caucasian spruce grows slowly when young making about 3m in 10 years. To keep it smaller it can be pruned and sheared. Grow it as a specimen plant in a place where it will have enough space around to show its beauty. Spruce is widely soil adaptable prov ...entire article

Brewer spruce is an evergreen conifer native to the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California where it is a rare plant owing to its sparse occurrence. It has a beautiful shape. The stem and inner branches are firm and upright whereas new branches are soft and pendulous which gives this tree almost a Himalayan cedar appearance. The needles are 2-3 cm long, thin, blue-green. New twigs are reddish-brown. The cones hang down and are 6-15 cm long. This spruce grows slowly: a 5m tall plant must be about 30 years old. In Central-European c ...entire article

Trilobata crabapple is a rare and unusual plant that is not difficult to grow butyet quite difficult to source. Its most specific feature is the leaf shape – it looks like a merge between maple and hawthorn. The leaves are not large but their prominent lobes are a good giveaway. They are deciduous, mid to deep green in summer, turning fantastic shades of fiery orange, salmon pink, and burgundy red in autumn. This colouration remains on the tree for quite some time before the leaves fall down. It flowers much later than other crabapples, usually in Ju ...entire article

Flamingo is a great name for an astilbe variety that with a little bit of imagination might have a lot in common with this gorgeous bird. This cultivar is a hybrid raised from a planned breeding programme led by Wim van Veen from the Netherlands, crossing astilbe x ardensii “Bressingham Ruby” and astilbe japonica “Vesuvius”. The result was born in 1992. A brand new plant was called Flamingo for the rich and yet elegant shade of its pink flowers and u ...entire article

Tiki Torch coneflower is a sensational success by a young Indian breeder Harini Korlipara from Terra Nova Nurseries in Oregon, USA. This new cultivar originated as a third generation seedling from a planned breeding program using the parents echinacea paradoxa as the seed parent and echinacea purpurea `Ruby Giant` as the pollen parent for the initial cross. The result is unique and was patented under PP18,839 in 2006. Tiki Torch is a robust and strong variety with 90-100 cm tall, sturdy stems that bear bri ...entire article

Peppermint Twist® is a perennial phlox found in the Netherlands in 2001 as a naturally occurring mutation of another pink-flowering phlox named Candy Floss. Its flowers were distinctly different – each petal had pink colour only in the middle surrounded by fat white stripes along the margins. That is why the flower looks like a fairground attraction. And since vegetative reproduction proved this variation to be stable the plant was patented under PP18,196 in 2006, and is now available in nurseries around th ...entire article

Meringue is a unique variety of coneflower from 2008, bred by Arie Blom in the Netherlands. It offers short, strong stems with tousled heads of creamy white to light yellow flowers. They come out in early July and last for along time, and if deadheaded properly they are followed by new flowers that appear along the stems. Coneflowers are maintenance-free perennials that have beautiful flowers in various colour shades from mid summer until early fall. They come out on sturdy stems ...entire article

Purpurea Pendula is a perfect example of a beautiful garden-origin eech. It is a slow growing small tree with a mushroom head of pendent branches, usually grafted from 1.5 to 2m tall. The deciduous leaves are rich purple-black (if grown in full sun) that create a fascinating waterfall of striking colour. In autumn the leaves turn coppery orange and honey yellow with conspicuous red veins. Though being a slow grower its pendent branches grow a little faster than branches of common beech. That is why bigger specimens ge ...entire article

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Professional substrate for general purpose is a versatile substrate for most plants except those which need exact soil pH for healthy life. This substrate consists of perfect ratio between peat and fibre which helps it remain evenly moist i.e. it does not stay wet and does not dry out quickly either. It is enriched with important microelements and quick-release fertilizers that will help the plants make new roots more quickly. This substrate is useful for most plants. You can use for ericaceous plants, too, if you add pure peat. And it can be used for lime-loving plants if you mix it with ...entire article

Professional substrate for ericaceous plants is an excellent mixture designed for plants that love or need acidic soil reaction. This substrate consists of exact ratio of peat, finely crushed bark, and fine-grained sand which imitates natural habitat of these plants in the wild. It is enriched with important microelements and quick-release fertilizers that will help the plants make new roots more quickly. This substrate is designated for plants such as rhododendron, azaleas, mountain laurels, cherry laurels, lily-of-the-valley shrubs, hollies, magnolias, Japanese maples, some acid-loving c ...entire article

Brouwer's Beauty is a mid-sized Lily-of-the-valley shrub with up to 12 cm long, purple-red, horizontal flower racemes. They consist of numerous yellow-green tiny buds that turn red before winter and open up into white, slightly scented, urn-shaped flowers early in the spring. Flowering raceme gets a little heavier and becomes arching. Evergreen leaves are lanceolate, 3-8 cm long, pointed and glossy. Their emerging colour is yellowish-green. This pieris grows slowly and keeps it rounded shape. Pieris does not requir ...entire article

Orientalia® is a hybrid maple from a very productive French nursery Minier. It is a cross between acer campestre and acer cappadocicum. Bred by Christian Peyron it was first introduced in 2010. Leaves of Orientalia® maple are shaped the same way as hedge maple but their colour and size is more ...entire article

Shoka (sometimes also misspelled as Sogha) is a hybrid Satsuki azaleawith large flowers. They are predominantly white with bright purple pink blotch, or they can come out lilac-pink with the same blotch, or they can be either colour with a stripe of the other colour. Quite picky this azalea, isn’t it? As if it did not know what to wear for each season. Blooming time is later than Japanese azaleas: end May till end June, and in Czech climate I often make photos of its flowers yet in early July. It is slow and den ...entire article

Common alder is a European native plant. There are varieties, however, that are very uncommon and I am not afraid to say exquisite. Such as this variety: Imperialis. Imperialis alder bears mid-green, deciduous, very deeply cut, 4-8 cm long, narrow leaves that look like tiny witches’ brooms. But I suppose they do not fly. It grows slowly into a large shrub or mid-sized tree which, thanks to horizontal layers of branches, resembles Himalayan cedar from a distance, and i ...entire article

Euratom is a Belgian Indica hybrid azalea with extraordinary deep red flowers. They are large and have conspicuous dots in the throat. Flowering begins a little later than on Japanese azaleas – in late spring. Sometimes it can produce a few odd flowers in autumn. Evergreen leaves are widely elliptic, almost flat, deep green and partly glossy. It grows slowly to medium fast which ensures dense habit, that is why it is popular for growing on short stems as a ministandard. Azaleas usually need no pruning but ca ...entire article

Sensation is a selection made by Warren Carnefix in 1980, Oregon, USA, and only recently has this tree been introduced to Europe where it is a sensation, too. This box elder is a deciduous tree with pinnate leaves that emerge coppery red and mature to rich green in summer. Still, top leaves of the crown or insolated shell of a shrub remain red all summer long like e.g. liquidambar acalycina until autumn when all leaves change to bright golden orange and red in autumn. Sensation maple grows f ...entire article

Blauer Pfiff is a dwarf variety of Korean fir from Germany, 1979. It has silvery blue or blue-green needles arranged radially around the shoots. It grows slowly, forming a slightly irregular, spreading shrub without any pruning, but we usually select plants for you that have been trained to grow with a central leader which gives the plant the same look as its mother species – Korean fir – dense, pyramidal habit. Thanks to reduced growth rate it is ideal for small gardens, front yards, and outdoor contai ...entire article

For the coming season 2012 we have prepared a collection of classy garden furniture made from synthetic fibre - wicker. This is a modern substitute for rattan which needs a lot of care. This fibre is almost care-free, it can stand out in the rain and sun all year round, just the cushions need to be protected from humidity. All sets and items are designed to provide the best comfort and feeling of luxury. The designs are not hyper-modern but timeleslly elegant and will suit the most demanded tastes. There will be quite a few sets available so keep coming back checking the section of Garden Furniture to see what´s new.