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Sherwood is a new variety of abelia with snow white, funnel-shaped flowers with a nice scent. They come out in early summer and continue until the first frost. Its glossy leaves are soft green, ovate and pointed. Unlike its parent plant – abelia x grandiflora – this ...
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Abelia Confetti® can be the true dwarf jewel, for instance, in the evergreen group of your front yard. It has 2-3 cm long, pointed, glossy, semi-evergreen, variegated leaves with white margins and green centres. It blooms from July until October with pale pink, funnel-shaped, tiny flowers. This ...
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Engler abelia is quite a different looking shrub compared to other abelias. There are several differences: it is deciduous, it has larger flowers and is very hardy.
The funnel-shaped flowers are wider, about 2 cm long, solid pink on the outside and light pink inside with a conspicuous gol ...
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Abelias belong to the most popular flowering shrubs of dwarf to small sizes, mainly thanks to its long flowering period: June-October. Variety Edward Goucher was introduced by a botanist of the same name in the USA in 1911 as a cross between abelia x grandiflora and abelia schum ...
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Looking for the most spectacular trees and shrubs with eye-catching flowering one tends to forget the smaller ones, which are not less diligent or beautiful. For instance abelias. This small, elegant shrub has 2-3 cm long, pointed, very glossy, semi-evergreen, dark green leaves that turn bur ...
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Kaleidoscope® is another novelty of the turn of the century. It drags attention thanks to its multicoloured foliage, but not only that. This abelia was found as a naturally occurring mutation of abelia x grandiflora “Little Richard” by nurseryman Randall Dale Lin ...
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White fir is a popular conifer of Czech and Slovak gardens and parks. It is demanded for its glaucous foliage colour. Nurseries take good care to select only the seedlings that have the most attractive colour because this fir occurs naturally in the range of dark green where only the young sh ...
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Archer’s Dwarf is a compact and slow growing variety of this beautiful conifer. Silvery-blue needles are soft, borne erect on almost horizontal to slightly ascending branches. The tree shape is conical, very symmetrical. This variety grows slowly, making about 6-8 cm per year. It ...
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One of the most popular conifers is this Korean fir. It has short, glossy dark green needles that are silver on the reverse. Even young plants have very attractive bluish cones. The shape is very regular, pyramidal, no need for clipping. It does best in full sun and slightly acidic, moist soil, it d ...
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We always love presenting unusual and rare plants. Among those we only select the ones that are not just rare but also beautiful and can enrich your garden with a new feature. This time we have a real jewel for conifer lovers.
It is a dwarf Korean fir named “Brillant”. It is a compact ...
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Dwarf subalpine fir is another jewel among silver-blue conifers. It grows slowly and is suitable for even the smallest of gardens, for rockeries or as a complement of any evergreen arrangement. The needles are about 2cm long, stiff, flattened, bright blue with a white stripe on top. The older it get ...
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Caucasian fir is perhaps the most beautiful conifer of our climate. No wonder that it is also a commercial bestseller as a Christmas tree. Its short needles densely cover the branches; they are deep green and very glossy, with silvery undersides. Fresh growths are intensely bright green.
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Algerian blue fir is a show-stopper. This fir comes from Alger and Morocco and the original species is a large tree. This variety, however, is blue and dwarf.
The needles are short and stiff, and densely cover the branches. Their colour is deep green with rich, silvery blue stripes making ...
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Spanish fir is one of the most popular conifers with blue needles. It is also called hedgehog fir as the needles are short and stiff, regularly composed around its branches. The shape is broadly conical, very neat and regular.
“Glauca” has striking silvery-blue needles which make it e ...
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Firs belong to the most beautiful and spectacular conifers thanks to density of needles and in many cases large sizes. Noble fir, however, and its variety “Glauca” is a slow grower, propagated by grafting which makes it suitable even for small gardens. It has striking silvery blue needle ...
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Bear’s breeches is a unique perennial with large, architectural leaves. They are deep green and extremely glossy. Strong plants make long, erect stems with pinkish flowers at the end of summer. It is evergreen in milder parts of Europe.
Acanthus is popular in the Mediterranean where ...
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Trident maple is an attractive medium-sized tree with unusual leaves. They are three-lobed and their size, depth of lobing as well as autumn colour may vary greatly with location,
The deciduous leaves are deep green and glossy, turning yellow, orange and bright red in autumn. They change c ...
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Nanum is a dwarf variety of hedge maple, suitable for small gardens and town avenues with limited space. It grows slowly into a small tree some 2.5m tall and wide. The leaves are deep green, with 3-5 rounded lobes, turning yellow in autumn.
The crown is naturally rounded and ...
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Among maples that do not belong to the Japanese group you can also find jewels that offer something a little more extraordinary than the common species. Aureum variety of Cappadocian maple is one example.
This mid-sized tree from Asia has interesting palmate leaves with 5 or ...
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Even among a hundred trees you will notice this one first. Such a colourful small tree must have been brought direct from Mars! Moreover, it is so unique and special that the botanists cannot decide whether to list as acer conspicuum or acer rubescens.
Red Flamingo is a stunning var ...
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Aconitifolium is a perfect example of a tree of a highly ornamental value. Its leaves stole the beauty from snowflakes, they are bright green and turn to vivid yellow, orange and pinky-red in the autumn. It is a slow grower so do not expect more than some 3-4 m in limited garden space. It requires s ...
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Shapes and colours - these are the main attributes of maples, not only the Japanese ones, which grow quite slowly. Compared to them, boxelder is a racer: it can make branches of 1 meter within one season. And to be honest, not always in the direction you want to see so the easy thing is to pr ...
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Shapes and colours – these are the man attributes of maples, not only the Japanese ones, which grow quite slowly. Compared to them, this one is a racer: it can make branches of 1 meter within one season. And to be honest, not always in the direction you want to see so the easy thing is to prun ...
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The species of Japanese maple is a green-leaved tree or rather a large shrub. End even though among landscapers and general green-finger-public the red-leaved versions tend to be more popular I suppose this is the most beautiful and elegant tree of our climate. With its naturally green leaves it pla ...
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Atropurpureum is a famous and commonly used variety with deeply lobed, red-purple leaves that turn bright red and orange in autumn. They have 5 tips. It forms a multi-stemmed shrub with widely spread branches. It grows slowly and is suitable as a specimen in any garden, not just a Japa ...
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This Japanese maple is an item for collectors. It was first delivered from Japan in 1967 and offer multicoloured leaves. They are deeply lobed, mid green with creamy white, slightly serrated margins that turn pink. It resembles another variety called Butterfly but has larger leaves and smalle ...
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Bloodgood is an extremely commercially successful variety with deep burgundy leaves. They have 7 lobes and hold the colour reliably. The leaves turn bright scarlet red in the autumn. The bark is blackish-red.
It forms a small tree or a large shrub with compact, rounded crown with p ...
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Butterfly is a variety with 3-coloured foliage. Its deeply cut, palmate leaves are pale green with creamy white margins that turn pink when they emerge and when the weather turns colder. It grows into a V-shaped shrub with dense foliage, especially at the tops of the branches.
It g ...
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“Dissectum Garnet” is one of the top selling Japanese maples ever. It has been popular around the world for many decades. Its filigree leaves are deeply cut = dissected, hence its name. They look like giant snowflakes cut in pieces and densely cover even young plants. The colour s ...
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Dissectum Viridis has deeply cut leaves with 7 or 9 lobes, light green. To maintain its colour we recommend growing it in location with filtered sunlight or semi-shade as the leaves may show signs of sunburn in hot sun, or even change its colour.
The growth form is strongly cascadi ...
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The less usual colour the more attractive it is for garden lovers. Orange Dream is a perfect example of Japanese maple to offer an almost exotic colour of spring foliage that is orange and salmon pink at margins with yellowish-green centres. This colouring decorates the plant un ...
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Ornatum is a cut-leaf Japanese maple, cultivated mainly for its deeply lobed leaves of rich reddish brown, almost bronze colour in summer, and bright orange with red tones in autumn. The sgrub grows very slowly, forming a dense, mushroom-head crown.
Japanese maples prefer aci ...
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Among Japanese maples next to dissectum group there is another group called linearilobum, which consists of plants with very narrow and long, and sometimes almost thread-like leaves which give the plant almost a bamboo effect. Scolopendrifolium is a variety that be ...
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If you google red-leaved Japanese maples I am sure that, amongst the oldest varieties such as Bloodgood and Atropurpureum, you will find this nice piece: Shaina. Unlike the previously mentioned cultivars Shaina is everyone’s love as it offers advantages that come in handy for gar ...
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Shindeshojo is a classic variety of Japanese maple that offers exactly what these plants are popular for: bright colours of spring and autumn foliage. Shindeshojo has palmate, 5- or 7-lobed deciduous leaves which emerge fire engine red in spring, turn olive green with pink and w ...
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Taylor is a novelty from Dutch nursery town Boskoop. Its leaves are deeply lobed, though it is not a dissectum type. The whole leaf emerges overall soft pink in the spring, turning to light green in the centre. From early summer it gains prominent white margins which contain a certain ...
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Sango-kaku is a Japanese maple that has so many colours that we are lost for words. Its main attraction is the colour of bark which is orangey-red in summer and bright coral red in winter. The palmate leaves have 5 lobes and emerge orangey-yellow with salmon pink shades, changin ...
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This maple received a name Lion´s Head. Its leaves are small, deeply cut and curled, forming dense tufts along twisted branches. The foliage is bright green or yellow-green in spring and summer, turning orange and rust-red very late in autumn or early winter. In a good year when the weather hits it ...
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Shishio is a Japanese maple with surprisingly regular habit. Its branches grow upright in the angle of about 45 degrees forming a compact shrub. It looks great on a stem. The deciduous leaves are palmate, red when young, changing to medium green in summer and red again in autumn ...
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It is hard to believe that only a few bare branches, which you can see in winter, can develop into such a stunning thing. Foliage of this shrub almost looks like a fluffy hairdo of a red-haired lady. The leaves are deeply cut and when young they are glossy and brownish-red, in summer they turn to de ...
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Dissectum Nigrum has the deepest burgundy leaves which are deeply cut and have silvery hairs when young. The growth is rather irregular – long, drooping branches spread to sides. It does not need much maintenance. It requires slightly acidic, semi-fertile, moist soil to establish extensive roo ...
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Tamukeyama is another outstanding red-leaved variety. The shrub has muscular branches with blackish-red, deeply cut leaves in the spring, which turn to deep burgundy, and bright orange or bright cerise in the autumn. They do not droop as much as on other dissectums so the plant has an airy feeling. ...
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Crimson King is a majestic looking maple tree for large gardens, parks, and city avenues. Its palmate leaves are dark crimson red, almost black, and glossy, turning orange-red in autumn. In the spring, just as leaves emerge, it flowers profusely with many small yellow flowers, t ...
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Crimson Sentry is most certainly a key feature of many mid-sized and small gardens. Its yearly growths are short so it will easily fit even in a front yard.
It is an eye-catching variety of Norway maple owing to the foliage. The leaves are bright purple-burgundy when young, ...
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Drummondii is a variegated form of Norway maple, only some 100 years old. The decades from its birth proved its popularity which is still very high. The leaves are beautifully creamy white variegated at the margins, with bright green centres.
Apart from pruning at the end of ...
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Another website I came across calls this Norway maple a meat-ball-on-a-stick. Quite funny, actually, but in fat it truthfully describes the shape of this small tree. Well, that only in case the author meant a good housewife who made proper, perfectly spherical meat balls.
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Have you got a small, really small garden? We have something extraordinary for you. This plant was first introduced in Germany only in 1999. It is a unique dwarf maple, slow-growing but not a Japanese type. So if Japanese maples were ever too much trouble for you and you gave up, try this lit ...
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Royal Red is a majestic looking Norway maple for large gardens, parks, and city avenues. Its palmate leaves are dark crimson red, almost black, and glossy, turning orange-red in autumn. In the spring, just as leaves emerge, it flowers profusely with many small yellow flowers, ty ...
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Men usually get mad when women describe colours with expressions like salmon pink, peachy red etc. Well, men, get ready for another hit below the belt: we have a tree whose leaves are SHRIMP pink. Not familiar with that colour? Go to the nearest restaurant and have a prawn-cocktail to see what the f ...
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Sycamore trees are our native plants and their various cultivars find their use perhaps in all types and sizes of gardens. If your garden is not very big and you would still like a maple of this kind try this one. It was first introduced at the end of 19th century and has been a sought after ...
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Red maple is one of the most spectacular big-sized trees suitable for large gardens, parks or city avenues. It has mid-sized leaves that are green in summer, changing to yellow, orange and predominantly red in autumn. Seedling vary with autumn shades.
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Red maple is one of the most spectacular big-sized trees suitable for large gardens, parks or city avenues. October Glory is a variety cultivated for its smaller size and fantastic autumn foliage colour. It has mid-sized leaves that are glossy and green in summer, changing to or ...
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This silver maple will draw your attention to the deeply cut leaves which resemble Japanese dissectum maples. The name silver describes the underneath of the leaves which are silvery gray and glitter in the wind.
In too fertile soil the branches can grow as much as 1 meter within one year ...
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“Aureum” is variety that differs from others by its more or less erect growth with horizontal lateral branches. The fan-shaped leaves are fresh yellow-green to golden yellow, sometimes with pinkish margins. The other difference is fruit: Acer shirasawanum holds its samaras above the foli ...
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A beautiful hybrid maple between acer saccharinum and acer rubrum was bred in the USA and is called Autumn Blaze®. It has the best of both the parents. Deciduous leaves are deeply lobed, deep green in summer and orange to bright red in autumn. The stalks are re ...
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Yarrow is a maintenance-free perennial suitable for standard flower beds as well as dry locations. Fern-like leaves are fine and deep green, basal leaves are larger than stem leaves. Flowers come out in flat corymbs in early summer. They are bright pink with tiny yellowish-white centres. It t ...
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Yarrow is a maintenance-free perennial suitable for standard flower beds as well as dry locations. Fern-like leaves are fine and deep green, basal leaves are larger than stem leaves. Flowers come out in flat corymbs in early summer. They are vivid red with tiny yellow centres. It tolerates wi ...
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Monkshood is a showy perennial flowering in summer. The flowers are indigo blue, formed in erect racemes on stems that can be 1.5 tall. Individual flowers open up from July and continue as the stems grow taller until end August. Leaves are deeply lobed, almost dissected, mid green, very ornam ...
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Issai is a self-fertile variety of the so-called mini-kiwi. This means that unlike the species it does not need a male and a female plant to produce fruit. Apart from tasty fruit it is a nice plant, too, with deep green leaves and scented flowers in June.
It is a vine that is ...
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Jenny is another self-fertile variety of kiwi. This means that it does not need a male and a female plant to produce fruit. Apart from tasty fruit it is a nice plant, too, with deep green leaves and scented flowers in June.
It is a vine that bears hairy, brown fruit of the sa ...
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If you like big trees for their leaves but own only a small plot have a look at this dwarf red buckeye.
Koehnei is a fantastic variety with attractive both foliage and flowers, and moreover, slow growth.
The flowers are upright, conical panicles composed of orange-pink, t ...
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Red horse chestnut is a fantastic tree which is usually planted in large gardens and parks, and as a street tree. Although, this hybrid grows a little slower (30 cm a year) making some 6x4m when 20 years old.
Briotti is a popular variety with big, upright panicles of deep pin ...
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Black Buddhist is another fantastic variety of African blue lily. It is a perennial which produces umbels of sky blue to deep blue funnel-shaped flowers. Its outstanding feature are deep blue, almost black stalks on which the flowers appear. The sturdy stems gain the same colour ...
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We are offering an agapanthus variety that tells everything in the name: Blue Giant. It makes upto 1m tall stalks with rounded umbels of sky-blue flowers. The individual flowers are trumpet-shaped and have deep blue stripes. When fully opened they look like blue stars. Strap-lik ...
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Navy Blue is another hardy variety of African blue lily. This beautiful perennial has umbels of dark blue flowers. They come out on 60 cm long, sturdy stems in mid summer. Individual flowers are trumpet-shaped and have deep blue stripes. When fully opened they look like blue sta ...
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Tree of heaven is a beautiful name for an extraordinary plant. It comes from China but is completely hardy in our climate.
It is a tall tree suitable for large garden, parks or as a street tree. It is grown for unusually big leaves that can be half a meter long. The are compound of upto 30 ...
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Ernest Wilson is a selection found in Korea in early 1900´s. It grew in a colder zone which predestined it to be ideal for testing in colder climates of the USA as well as Europe later on.
Exotic looking flowers are pink, hairy spheres with yellowish centres, 3-5 cm large and with ...
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A spectacular new variety of silk tree comes from Japan and is called Summer Chocolate®. It was discovered in 1990 as a seedling in a controlled planting of Albizia julibrissin in 1990. It was patented in the USA under PP 13,822 in 2003. It is considered a rarity for lovers ...
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Ombrella® belongs to the hardy group. It was a chance selection from France which was observed and cultivated, and later on patented under the name Boubri. It differs from the species by darker leaves and deeply coloured flowers.
Exotic looking flowers are pinky-red, hairy spheres with ...
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Juneberry is a large shrub cultivated mostly for its delicious and healthy fruit. It is a large deciduous shrub or a small tree.
Flowers are star-shaped, white and scented and appear in mid spring. Oval leaves are up to 8 cm long, emerge bronze and mature to green colour, turning scarlet r ...
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Blue Ice is a variety of bog rosemary with bright silvery blue leaves. They are linear-lance-shaped, 2-3 cm long. Urn-shaped flowers appear from mid spring until early summer and are light pink. It is a slow grower, mound-forming or ground-covering.
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Nikko is my favourite bog rosemary with green foliage and profusion of flowers. Leaves are rosemary-like, linear-lance-shaped, 2-3 cm long. Urn-shaped, pink flowers appear in abundance from end April until early summer. It is a slow, mound-forming groundcover.
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"Andrea Atkinson" is a later variety of anemone. It has 60-80 cm long stalks with snow-white camellia-like flowers with distinct yellow stamens. It starts blooming at the end of summer and continues until October. 3-palmate basal leaves are mid to dark green, sharply toothed, sparsely hairy beneath. ...
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"Praecox" is earlier than other summer blooming anemones. It often starts flowering already in early August and continues until end September. It has 40-60 cm long stalks with up to 15 flowers of deep pink colour, 4-6 cm wide. The outter petals are slightly darker which makes another interesting dim ...
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"Bressingham Glow" is a later variety of anemone. It is true to its name because anemos (from Greek) means wind - probably because this type flowers in the season of autumn winds. It has 60-80 cm long stalks with ox-daisy-like deep pink semi-double flowers with bright yellow centres. It starts bloom ...
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Aralia’s bi-pinnate leaves are up to 1 meter long, compound of 3-5 cm long, mid green, ovate leaflets, pale or silvery green on the reverse. The leaves grow horizontally from a single stem (usually), making nearly flat layers of foliage. They fall down early in the season but before the ...
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Japanese angelica tree is a must have for those who love tropical looking gardens. Its compound leaves grow up to 1.5m when mature and give this plant an extraordinary, very architectural look. Moreover, this variety has golden-yellow margins or varigation. It has much less thorns than its cl ...
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Variegata is an attractive version of angelica tree with creamy-white variegated leaf margins. Its bi-pinnate leaves are up to 1 meter long, compound of 3-5 cm long, ovate leaflets, pale or silvery green on the reverse. The leaves grow horizontally from a single stem (usually ...
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Just one simple look at the trunk and short lateral twigs is a perfect give away to understand why it received the name devil’s walking stick. The stem (trunk) as well as the branches and the leaves, too, are covered with both small and larger spines and prickles that no intruder will e ...
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Among the most spectacular conifers this monkey puzzle tree is the hardiest. The scale-like leaves are dark green, sharp-pointed. This species is said to be 60 million years old.
It dislikes atmospheric pollution and hot and dry soil. It does surprisingly well in our climate, too, if you provide ...
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Monkey puzzle tree is a conifer that originates from Chile but we have a special selection for you which comes from Italy and is hardier and more reliable in our continental climate.
It is called Robusta Gheri and is the only one that survived winter of 1985 in Tuscany when t ...
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Brilliant is one of the latest varieties of purple chokeberry which is a hybrid between red and black chokeberry. So far you can find it listed under three names: a.melanocarpa, a.arbutifolia, and a. x prunifolia which is probably the most correct name. It is cultivated for seve ...
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Recently, less known fruit trees and shrubs are becoming more and more popular mainly thanks to their original taste as well as positive impact on our health. Black chokeberry is one of them. It is in the same rosaceae family as the service tree and its fruit is similar, too. The lustrous fruits are ...
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Recently, less known fruit trees and shrubs are becoming more and more popular mainly thanks to their original taste as well as positive impact on our health. Black chokeberry is one of them. It is in the same rosaceae family as the service tree and its fruit is similar, too. The lustrous fruits are ...
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Lords-and-ladies is an old favourite among tuberous plants. And as you can tell by the Latin name, it does not come from Bangladesh though it looks rather exotic.
The arrow-shaped leaves are very attractive, marbled green with conspicuous creamy white or yellowish veins. They are popular f ...
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Hart’s tongue fern is the only hardy fern with entire edge. There are not individual leaflets as on other species but one wide, bright green and glossy leaf. They respond well to fertilizing: the more nutrients – the bigger leaves. Though they are very hardy and can withstand heav ...
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Angustifolia is a variety of hart’s tongue fern. It is a hardy fern with entire edge. In fact, the edges on this variety are serrated or curled and the leaves are narrower compared to the species. There are not individual leaflets as on other ferns but one wide, bright gre ...
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Hart’s tongue is not a delicacy on a plate in the middle of a hunting season. It is a beautiful and hardy fern with very attractive foliage. This fern has entire leaves which make it stand apart from all other hardy ferns. Cristatum is a variety which looks even more inter ...
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Astilbe is a popular perennial with charming, plume-like flowers in summer. Vision is a strong variety with dense panicles of rose-pink flowers in mid-summer. Lace-like leaves are not mid green, very attractive, too.
Grow astilbe in humus-rich soil. If planted in boggy or reg ...
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Astilbe is a popular perennial with charming, plume-like flowers in summer. Ellie has cream white flowers that fade to green, not brown. Stems are 40-60 cm tall. Leaves are mid green.
Grow astilbe in humus-rich soil. If planted in boggy or regularly watered bed they can sit i ...
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Astilbe is a popular perennial with charming, plume-like flowers in summer. Variety Burgundy Red has 30-50 cm tall spikes of deep burgundy red colour. Leaves are dark green with burgundy stalks.
Grow astilbe in humus-rich soil. If planted in boggy or regularly watered bed the ...
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Masterwort is an elegant perennial with 40-50 cm long stems with purple-pink flowers. They come out from the end of spring until mid-summer. Deadheading will prevent from self-seeding. Palmate leaves are 5-lobed, mid-green, and attractive. It likes moist and humus rich soil but once establish ...
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Lady fern is an elegant and beautiful fern, one of the most popular. It has bright green fronds of lacy leaves. The plant is clump forming, growing into a dense perennial with profusion of leaves from one centre. If desired, divide in March-April, after frosts, before leaves emerge.
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This variety of Japanese painted fern is a spectacular plant. Its leaves are silvery grey, almost metallic. The stems and midribs are dark maroon-purple. Such fantastic combination makes it a must have for every fern collector.
It needs light and preferably acidic soil that is constantly ...
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This variety of Japanese painted fern got its name after a waterfall in Oregon. Painted ferns are popular for their metallic colours. Silver Falls offers striking silvery-white or silvery grey fronds with deep maroon-purple midribs and green stems. The colour of the leaves actua ...
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Crotonifolia Gold is a spotted laurel variety selected from Crotonifolia. Its leaves are distinctly yellow spotted, new and top leaves are yellower than bottom and older leaves. They are extremely large for a hardy everg ...
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This evergreen shrub of Japanese aucuba is a commonly known favourite especially in Britain and in milder parts of humid regions of Germany and Benelux. The first specimen was brought from Japan to Europe in 1783, and has been sought after ever since for its beautifully varigated/golden-spott ...
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Goldtopas is an excellent variety of deciduous azalea with golden yellow flowers. Their colour is like glowing afternoon sun. Flower heads are up to 13 cm large, while individual flowers are 7-9 cm wide. It grows quite compact, forming a shrub 1.1m tall and 1.4m wide when 15 yea ...
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“Mandarin Lights” comes from the Northern Lights line. This one has bright orange flowers with shades of red and yellow and frilled edges. Excellent hardiness to -35°C.
Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with always moist soil. During temporary summer dry ...
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If you are looking for red blooms “Red Sunset” is a perfect pick. Its shade has a slight orange tint, flower tepals are gently frilled.
Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with always moist soil. During temporary summer dry spells in certain areas their le ...
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Gibraltar is undoubtedly the bestseller among orange varieties as this orange is deep and glowing. It has frilled margins and blooms reliably every year. Bred by Rotschild in 1947, GB.
Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with constantly moist soil. Duri ...
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Golden Eagle blooms from mid May till early June with vivid, deep orange flowers with a golden throat. Very striking. It has dense foliage turning bronzy red in autumn.
Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with constantly moist soil. During temporary sum ...
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Mary Poppins has magical bi-coloured, funnel shaped flowers of yellow centres and deep coral orange towards the frilled margins. Large trusses are rounded and can bear up to 30 flowers. Leaves turn lovely purple colour in autumn. Disease resistant.
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“Satan” variety definitely sticks to its name. Large trusses of rich red funnel shaped flowers appear in mid May. This shrub is slightly larger than others, growing 2m tall and wide.
Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with always moist soil. During tempor ...
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Stewartstonian is becoming the most sought-after evergreen azalea with red flowers. The red is soft, almost orangey red, as far as we can talk about orange in Japanese azaleas. It grows slowly and forms a fairly compact shrub that does not need to be pruned.
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“Jolie Madame” has rather distinct tips of tepals making a star-shape look. Flowers are candy pink with orange-apricot flare and a lovely fragrance. This variety grows about 2m tall and wide.
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Cannon´s Double is proud of its multi-layered tepals and a great scale of colour within one flower: carmine buds open to salmon pink, orange and creamy beige. What a show! Dark green leaves have bronzy shades.
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Northern Hi-Lights is a slow-grower with creamy white flowers that grade to pale or bright yellow on top petals. Buds are light pink. Leaves are dark green and turn brilliant carmine and burgundy red in autumn.
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Arneson Gem is a true jewel. Its reddish buds open to soft golden-yellow flowers with apricot orange tips and petal margins. It is fragrant and the leaves are disease resistant. Prolific bloomer.
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Chetco brightens up your garden even in cloudy weather. The flowers are bright yellow, with golden flare and flower buds. Green leaves gain bronze shades during summer and turn bright burgundy red in autumn.
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Glowing Embers is my top favourite. It is true to its name: as if you were watching the very centre of fire, the petals are vivid orange with golden flashes. Very fragrant. Mid green leaves have bronze highlight from spring already.
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Homebush forms rounded, almost spherical trusses of bright pink to salmon pink, semi-double flowers in late spring. The truss shape resembles flowering snowball viburnum. The tepals are distinctly pointed. Bred by Waterer in 1925, GB.
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Mount St.Helens is a naughty variety, changing its colour by mood. From deep coral orange-red to rich or pale salmon with an apricot blotch on the upper petal. Autumns leaves are bright purple.
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Klondyke is a deciduous azalea with charming, deep golden-orange flowers. Their colour is dark and warm and looks fascinating combined with purple-blue or dark violet. Inflorescence are composed of 7-9 flowers, each is about 7 cm wide. It grows nearly as tall as wide, expect som ...
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Conversation Piece is definitely something to talk about. This azalea has extremely large flowers of two colours: light pink and white. The varigation differs from plant to plant, some blooms may be just pink, others mottled white or be entirely white with pink stripes and so on ...
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Dorothy Hayden has medium to large, open flowers of white colour with light green blotch. It has quite compact, slow growth and does not need to be pruned.
Slightly glossy leaves are dark green, ovate, small. In semi-shade and shade they are evergreen, but still less sensitive to s ...
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“Harvest Moon” is less common, but very beautiful and demanded variety with neon yellow flowers with golden flare. Leaves vary from bright to dark green and bronzy during throughout the season. It forms a wide shrub – about 1.5m.
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Rose Greeley is a hybrid with white flowers with light green blotching. It grows moderately to slowly and forms a fairly compact shrub that does not need to be pruned.
Slightly glossy leaves are ovate, small, and dark green. Its winter leave persistence is excellent not only in sem ...
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Japanese azaleas enhance every flowering spring garden. They are an ideal choice for evergreen compositions; they can be easily pruned to reach a shape you like. We offer shrubby forms, cones and half standards. There are plenty of colours to choose from – shades of red, pink, purple or violet ...
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Amoena is a Japanese azalea with small to mid-sized, bright, deep fuchsia pink flowers, hose in hose, that totall cover the plant when in full bloom. They come out in mid May and continue until early June. Thanks to their bright colour it will light up the daker corners of your ...
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Anouk is an extraordinary variety of dwarf habit but with large flowers. It grows slowly into a ground-covering shriu with less conspicuous horizontal layers. The flowers are pink and rather wide, when in full bloom they look as if someone dropped a basket of freshly cut rhododendron f ...
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Blaauw’s Pink has attractive, salmon pink small flowers with slightly darker throat. It has irregular growth and belongs to mid-sized azalea.
Leaves are mid to dark green, ovate, only about 2-3 cm long. In semi-shade and shade they remain on the shrub throughout winter, if pla ...
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Eisprinzessin® is a mound-forming Japanese azalea with pure white, double flowers. They are extra large for an azalea, almost 6 cm across. They come out in abundance from end May until mid June. When the shrub is in full bloom the plant looks like a mound of fresh snow with ...
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Another red flowering Japanese azalea from Hans Hachmann was bred in 1987 and was named Fridoline. It has medium-sized flowers: 4-4,5 cm wide of bright red colour. It blooms in late spring, from end May until mid June. Slow grower, mound-forming.
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Hot Shot Variegated is a Japanese azalea with small, elliptic, dark green leaves with white margins. They are evergreen in zone 7 and semi-evergreen in zone 6 when temperature drops below -18°C. The plant will always make new leaves in spring again even it loses foliage complete ...
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Johanna is extremely popular for its deep red flowers anddark leaves. It flowers so abundantly that leaves almost disappear under the cloud of flowers. It is a slow grower forming a nice, mounding, compact shrub.
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Kermesina Rose is a must have for everyone who likes varigated or multi-cloloured flowers. These are pink with a clear white margin. It is a slow grower forming an irregular, mounding, compact shrub. It may happen to this variety that a certain amount of flowers comes out without white ...
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Königstein is an old fortress near Frankfurt, Germany, as well as a name for this Japanese azalea. Surprisingly it was bred nearly 500 km away at Pillnitzer castle gardens, near Dresden. It is a slow and dense growing plant with profusion of large, 3-4 cm across, widely open, pu ...
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Marinja® is another jewel among Japanese azaleas with double flowers. Its flowers are pure pink, 4-5.5 cm wide and each flower bears 17-21 flower petals. They come out from end May until mid June. It was bred by Hans Hachmann in 2004. It grows slowly, 10-year old plant is ab ...
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Maruschka® is a lovely name for a lovely azalea. Who knows which Maruschka made the breeder Hans Hachmann give this gorgeous plant an East-European name in 1988. This Japanese azalea is a low growing plant with profusion of mid-sized bright red flowers in May. Wen in full bl ...
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Melina is a stunning variety of Japanese azalea. Its double or even triple flowers are bright pink and appear in rounded inflorescens late in the spring – end May/early June. It grows slowly and compact, spreading.
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Palestrina is a Japanese azalea with snow white, medium-sized flowers with tiny green dots in the throat. It has irregular growth and belongs to mid-sized azaleas. Flowering begins in early May and continues for about one month.
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If you like Japanese azaleas try this one. Peppina® is a lovely variety with extremely large flowers, up to 5.5 cm wide which is a size of a small rhododendron flower. Another feature similar to rhododendrons is the conspicuous blotch, which is deep pink in a light pink colo ...
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Purple Splendor is an old favourite with medium-sized, bright purple flowers with burgundy blotching and wavy margins of the petals. It grows moderately fast into an irregular, dense shrub.
Small leaves are mid green, elongated with a tip and are quite reliable as far as winter pers ...
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Rosinetta® is another unique Japanese azalea bred by Hans Hachmann. It has pure pink, double or tripple flowers that are 4-6 cm wide and come out late in May, and continue blooming until mid June. It grows slowly, 10-year old plant is about 60 cm high and 80 cm wide.
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Schneeperle® is a gorgeous, pure white Japanese azalea from Hans Hachmann. Its double flowers are snow white and abundant. Individual flowers are abou 4-5 cm wide and come out from mid May until early June. It grows slowly, 10-year old plant is about 35 cm high and 55 cm wid ...
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Sometimes variety names do tell what the plant looks like. Silver Sword is a Japanese azalea with narrow, elliptic leaves that are green in the cetre and almost white at the margins and with a little bit of imagination they may look like tiny swords. Pink flowers are mid-sized a ...
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Silvester is a Kurume hybrid of Japanese azalea. It has small, pale purple-pink fowers. These hybrids are renowned for their hardines and soil adaptibility. It flowers early, from end April until mid May. Slow grower, mound-forming.
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Snow is a pure white variety with large, scented flowers. It grows moderately fast into an irregular-shaped shrub.
Leaves are mid to dark green, ovate, only about 2-3 cm long. In semi-shade and shade they remain on the shrub throughout winter, if placed in full sun it might lose a g ...
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This is original, non-hybridized species of Turkey origin. Its heavily scented flowers are lemon to bright yellow with narrower tepals. They open fully into a shape of a star. Grows medium fast to 3m tall and wide.
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Azaleodendron is a rare hybrid between deciduous azaleas and evergreen rhododendrons. This unusual plant has very attractive flowers of mauve colour and narrow petals, and narrow, bright green, semi-deciduous leaves. Flowers are sweetly fragrant and come out in late spring or early summer whi ...
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