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| Merry Christmas
20.12.2009 Christmas is just a few days ahead and we all would like to wish you a peaceful Season, let this Christmas be the happiest holiday this year. |  |
| Christmas is nigh ...
12.12.2009 I told you so! The breeze was cold and it did bring heavy clouds full of snow which has been falling down and down ... and down again ... all day today and created a beautiful scenery just 12 days before Christmas. You just want to make yourself a nice cup of tea, have a sit down in front of a window and watch the silent night. |  |
| Christmas is nigh ...
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| Christmas is nigh ...
12.12.2009 See the footprints in the snow - back and forth? It was Santa Clause coming to pick up the wish list :-) Luckily many shopping centres are open longer hours before Christmas ... |  |
| Christmas is nigh ...
12.12.2009 True Christmas decoration? Holly of course! Do you remember Love actually, the movie? Watch hilarious Rowan Atkinson and his excellent gift-wrapping where a holly must not be missing. It won't take long as he is the flashest of flashes :-))) By the way awsome movie. One of the best Xmax movies ever - romantic but funny and intelligent at the same time. |  |
| Evergreen ... Ilex aquifolium "White Cream"®
10.12.2009 Well, winter is here. The breeze is much colder that the wind that stripped off the trees from the last remeaining leaves a couple of weeks ago. On the other hand, this is the perfect time for evergreen trees and shrubs to show off their beauty which not necessarily is only green. So the wintertime looks much more alive and joyful :-) |  |
| Evergreen ... Prunus laurocerasus "Etna"®
10.12.2009 My most favourite cherry laurel. It is dense, perfectly hardy and obviously beautiful! :-) |  |
| Evergreen ... Azalea japonica "Purple Splendor"
10.12.2009 Japanese azaleas are semi-evergreen or fully evergreen plants where the evergreen ones usually change their foliage colour in winter if grown in full or partial sun. For example this one show Monet-like mixture of bronze, fiery red and orange, green and yellow shades. |  |
| MAKE A PHOTO OF A SQUIRREL
09.12.2009 Have you ever managed to make a picture of a squirell? I have three naughties in my garden: black, brown and ginger. All of them so fast and quick that it is almost impossible to grab a camera and make a picture. This is the only one I made this week. If you do make a picture of a squirrel, send it to us. If you send it along with a picture of the same place without a squirrel as evidence that the picture is yours we will send you a gift token for 1000 Kè. Offer is valid for the quickest three of you. |  |
| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Lane Roberts"
09.12.2009 Lane Roberts is a sweet gum variety with vivid red or blackish red autumn foliage that remains on the tree for a considerable period of time, often until Christmas. |  |
| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Lane Roberts"
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| Evergreen ... Osmanthus aquifolium
09.12.2009 One of my TOP 10 favourite evergreen broadleved shrubs. |  |
| Flowers in winter ... Prunus subhirtella "Autumnalis Rosea"
06.12.2009 When the autumn and winter is warm you can see tender pink flowers on bare wood of this higan cherry. There are never too many of them but they are so pretty and unexpected on a tree in December that you just cannot resist coming closer to have a look. |  |
| Flowers in winter ... Mahonia x media "Winter Sun"
06.12.2009 Warm December and November are the months when this mahonia hybrid starts blooming. On the background of fern-line leathery leaves appear upright racemes of many deep yellow flowers that open continuously until the first days of deep frost. The picture shows just a beginning! |  |
| Flowers in winter ... Viburnum x bodnantense "Dawn"
06.12.2009 This viburnum usually starts flowering in February. Could it be that current weather is not usual which is why it is blooming already. Whatever reason there is, "Dawn" has plenty of other flower buds that will wait until early spring. |  |
| Could that be ... winter?
03.12.2009 If you happened to watch yesterdays forecast you may have heard that last night the temperature was supposed to drop to zero or a little below in the morning. Well, truth is that at half past four in the afternoon the Moon came out like a giant glowing sphere and made it clear that the frost would be substantial. So it was. Already at seven in the evening it was -1°C and when I woke up in the morning I could see -4°C on my outdoor thermometer. The garden seemed like sugar-coated and the swimming pool was nearly good enough for skating. |  |
| Could that be ... winter?
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| Landscaping a front yard
02.12.2009 Beautiful autumn weather has made a few more landscaping projects possible. See, it would be a pity to have a front garden empty the whole winter |  |
| Landscaping a front yard
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| Landscaping a front yard
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| Landscaping a front yard
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| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Slender Silhouette"
26.11.2009 About ten days ago when I last uploaded images to this page thanks to incredibly beautiful, sunny and warm weather I managed to make further photographs showing individual plants in their autumn glory. I was so eager to make loads of pictures, however, the fate turned out to be a real pain in the neck because only a couple of days later extremely strong wind came every night and defoliated almost complete garden, leaving only a few leaves on sweetgums which keep their coloured foliage longest of all deciduous trees. So the pictures here show reality about a week old, hope you don’t mind. And secondly, as if it was not enough, for some freaky caprice of the same fate the LCD display on my camera showed rather psychedelic colours in various shapes and sizes meaning it was totally broken. My only luck – against which all fate is as weak as a baby – are my devoted colleagues who brought their own cameras so I could continue making pictures of what you might like in our autumn garden while my own camera is being repaired. So sit down comfortably, today’s show is about to begin … |  |
| Autumn colours ... Fagus sylvatica "Aspleniifolia"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Berberis thunbergii "Admiration"®
26.11.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Quercus palustris "Swamp Pygmy"
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| Autumn colours ... Cornus florida "Cherokee Chief"
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| Autumn colours ... Quercus palustris "Green Dwarf"
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| Autumn colours ... Acer palmatum "Shaina"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Gum Ball"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Parrotia persica
26.11.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Worplesdon"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Cornus kousa "China Girl"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Chlumec garden
26.11.2009 |  |
| Chlumec garden
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| Evergreen ... Ilex aquifolium "Myrtifolia"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Evergreen ... Bergenia "Pink Dragonfly"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Evergreen ... Euonymus japonicus "Aureopictus"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Evergreen ... Photinia x fraseri "Red Robin"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Evergreen ... Photinia x fraseri "Red Robin"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Osmanthus armatus
26.11.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Fairy Dance"®
26.11.2009 |  |
| Evergreen ... Elaeagnus x ebbingei "Limelight"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Evergreen ... Ilex aquifolium "Rubricaulis Aurea"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Evergreen ... Trochodendron aralioides
26.11.2009 |  |
| Evergreen ... Cedrus libani
26.11.2009 |  |
| Evergreen ... Hedera colchica "Sulphur Heart"
26.11.2009 |  |
| Holiday
17.11.2009 Today was very nice in the south, a bit rainy in Prague. Still, it was a wonderful view of the autumn-coloured landscape. |  |
| Holiday
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| Holiday
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| Prague garden centre
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| Chlumec garden
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| Chlumec garden
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| Chlumec garden
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| Chlumec garden
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| Chlumec garden
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| Chlumec garden
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| Chlumec garden
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| Chlumec garden
17.11.2009 tree cherry laurel Novita, isn´t it beautiful? |  |
| Chlumec garden
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| November
07.11.2009 Go out! It is a lovely day today :-)) |  |
| Japanese maples ... Acer palmatum "Shishigashira"
06.11.2009 Today´s show is all about Japanese maples. Various colours, leaf shapes and sizes. Enjoy! |  |
| Japanese maples ... Acer palmatum "Dissectum Garnet"
06.11.2009 |  |
| Japanese maples ... Acer palmatum "Dissectum" (Viridis)
06.11.2009 |  |
| Japanese maples ... Acer shirasawanum "Aureum"
06.11.2009 |  |
| Japanese maples ... Acer palmatum
06.11.2009 |  |
| Japanese maples ... Acer palmatum "Atropurpureum"
06.11.2009 |  |
| Japanese maples ... Acer palmatum "Ornatum"
06.11.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Lane Roberts"
29.10.2009 The national holiday was a very nice day with some sun during the day and the pictures came out quite good :-) |  |
| Autumn colours ... Cotinus coggyria "Golden Spirit"®
29.10.2009 |  |
| Evergreen ... Prunus laurocerasus "Latifolia (Magnoliifolia)"
29.10.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Fagus sylvatica "Purpurea Pendula"
29.10.2009 Copper yellow is another fantastic colour among autumn shades. It looks great, doesn´t it? |  |
| Acer palmatum "Dissectum Garnet"
29.10.2009 |  |
| Colours by night ... Prunus laurocerasus "Marbled White"
24.10.2009 What makes our surroundings richer and more beautiful? Colours. From school we remember how colour "is made" - everything depends on the light and the angle etc. Well, but imagine you change the type of light. The colours change, or to be truthful our reception of what they look like changes. Not dramatically but they do. Now, say you make a walk through your garden at night without a torch or any source of light. Your only companion is black or deep grey, ocassionally pale green in the moonlight. But it only takes a few miliseconds for the camera flash and the colours appear. And since there is sun above our heads during the day, not flashes, the colours look a little different from what we know in the daylight - sometimes sharper, other times more subtle. Just have a look. |  |
| Colours by night ... Prunus laurocerasus "Marbled White"
24.10.2009 ... and this is in the daylight. |  |
| Coloures by night ... Acer x freemanii "Autumn Blaze"®
24.10.2009 |  |
| Colours by night ... Hibanobambusa tranquillans "Shiroshima"
24.10.2009 |  |
| Colours by night ... Prunus serrulata "Amanogawa"
24.10.2009 |  |
| Coloures by night ... Stranvaesia davidiana
24.10.2009 |  |
| Colours by night ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Worplesdon"
24.10.2009 |  |
| Colours by night ... Ilex x altaclarensis "Golden King"
24.10.2009 |  |
| Colours by night ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Golden Sun"
24.10.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Enkianthus campanulatus
23.10.2009 Eventually the sun was out today again!! After so many days of dreadful, cold weather we could enjoy temperatures over 10°C and can look forward to about 15°C during next week. It will help the nature gain deeper and more vivid autumn colours and everything will be just like it should be at this time of year (fingers crossed ...). |  |
| Coloured fruits ... Callicarpa bodinieri var.giraldii "Profusion"
23.10.2009 How about some purple-violet berries to your sunny garden in autumn? |  |
| Calocedrus decurrens "Aureovariegata"
23.10.2009 Or would you prefer vivid yellow? |  |
| Autumn colours ... Berberis thunbergii "Admiration"®
23.10.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Cotinus coggyria "Golden Spirit"®
23.10.2009 |  |
| Fruit ... Actinidia arguta "Issai"
22.10.2009 This is the best time for minikiwi to mature. The fruit is very sweet, small but tastes like real kiwi. |  |
| Autumn colours ... Cornus florida "Rainbow"
18.10.2009 Dogwood shrubs are the most attractive broadleaved shrubs in the autumn, next to Japanese maples and sweetgums. |  |
| Autumn colours ... Rhus typhina "Laciniata"
18.10.2009 Like a glowing fire. |  |
| Autumn colours ... Prunus serrulata "Royal Burgundy"
18.10.2009 This Japanese flowering cherry bears burgundy red foliage in summer that changes to vivid carmine red in the autumn. |  |
| Autumn colours ... Hamamelis x intermedia "Westerstede"
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| Autumn colours ... Hamamelis x intermedia "Jelena"
18.10.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Parrotia persica
18.10.2009 |  |
| Cold wave
15.10.2009 Not expecting that? Us neither. Not even half the garden trees have lost their leaves yet or even showed autumn colours. It does appear that global warming will show its way through these heavy swings of temperature. Remember October 2007 here? We had the same - snow in October, but there was one tiny little difference. It was on the 20th and lasted for JUST ONE DAY. |  |
| Where is the most accurate forecast?
15.10.2009 Do you know the forecast for the next days? I mean some accurate one. We have had the best results with RTL Wetter. It is in German but it is quite easy to follow - just click on the country on the map and then the town you are nearest to. So far they have been about 95% accurate! |  |
| Still blooming ... Liriope muscari "Ingversen"
14.10.2009 |  |
| Still blooming ... Magnolia grandiflora "Bracken´s Brown Beauty"
14.10.2009 Last month there was one last bud that opened slowly into a flower and we thought it was the last one this year. We were wrong. Even in this incredible weather (cold, wind, snow showers) there are yet two flowers. |  |
| Still blooming ... Hypericum "Hidcote"
14.10.2009 |  |
| Fruits ... Pyracantha "Navaho"
13.10.2009 Autumn is beautiful not only for the colour of leaves but also for colourful berries on many shrubs. Firethorn has plentiful of such, in glowing orange colour. They are not poisonous nor edible so choose some other frut for a preserve :-) In fact, some seeds contain small amount of hydrogen cyanide which in a large dose can cause severe health problems. |  |
| Fruit ... Cornus kousa "Milky Way"
13.10.2009 These pink spheres are not dangarous at all, they are even edible. Not as tasty as Teutonia variety, though. |  |
| Fruits ... Decaisnea fargesii
13.10.2009 This plant is called dead man´s fingers. Guess why (clue: look at the picture). And the fruit is edible. Looks like these two statements do not belong to the same sentence but it is true. Some sources even say that the taste is delicate and sweet. Wow. Can you imagine sunbathing on a beach somewhere south and the vendor, instead of his typical "ice-creeeeeeam", shouts something like "dead man´s fingeeeeers, sweeeeet and blueeee". I think in such case I would rather play dead ... |  |
| Fruits ... Decaisnea fargesii
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| Fruit ... Prunus persica "Rubira"
13.10.2009 The taste is much better in case of this ornamental peach. If the fruit is let soften on the tree one can say it is good if you do not mid the bitter skin. |  |
| Fruits ... Ilex x meserveae "Blue Princess"
13.10.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Golden Sun"
04.10.2009 Another tree offering attractive autumn foliage is this sweet gum named Golden Sun. Why? Because next to beautiful leaf colour it has golden yellow twigs and branches. Just have a look. |  |
| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Golden Sun"
04.10.2009 |  |
| Fruit ... Ficus carica "Brown Turkey"
04.10.2009 Excellent fruit. Firm but juicy and sweet. |  |
| Øímov dam
03.10.2009 This is a place near my parents house where we used to go swimming. This dam supplies drinking water to the area so logically swimming is banned there. Did any kids on hot summer days mind?? We just watched out for the local "baywatch" and packed it up before they got anyhere near us. Believe me, it was worth it. Especially at night. Today was a great and sunny day and autumn leaves looked spectacular on the trees. Maples regularly offer their breathtaking show changing colours from green to yellow, orange, red and even purple-red. |  |
| Autumn colours ... Acer platanoides
03.10.2009 |  |
| Podzimní barvy ... Acer saccharinum "Wieri"
03.10.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Fraxinus excelsior "Raywood"®
03.10.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Stared"
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| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Stared"
03.10.2009 |  |
| Still blooming ... Hibiscus syriacus "Lady Stanley"
29.09.2009 The colder weather, the more shades of pink appear in the flowers of this rose-of-sharon. |  |
| Still blooming ... Rosa "Falstaff"
29.09.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Leucanthemum maximum "Broadway Lights"®
29.09.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Hydrangea quercifolia
29.09.2009 Autumn is here and we are eagerly awaiting the battle among plants that want to offer the best colour-changing show. Some are proven winners before they even start the fight, others leave us surprised that they do change colours in the autumn, too. Such as this oak-leaved hydrangea which has just started to turn bronze-red. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus moscheutos "Mauvelous"®
25.09.2009 Extra large flowers of Mauvelous® swamp mallow in a quantity we have never experienced before. |  |
| Hibiscus moscheutos "Mauvelous"®
25.09.2009 We decided not to waste the beauty of huge flowers and invented super dooper fashionable head covers, which will be called Hib-Caps® :-) |  |
| Plumbago auricomus
25.09.2009 Summer at the Mediterranean Sea is closely connected with these prostrate shrubs bearing sky blue flowers in profusion. |  |
| Just blooming ... Ceratostigma willmottianum
25.09.2009 And if you ever wondered whether there is a hardy plant looking similar here is the answer: hardy plumbago with slighty darker blue flowers, blooming from early summer until early autumn. |  |
| Last summer day
22.09.2009 Did you realize that it was the last summer day today? It was so hot and sunny that it was hard to believe that tomorrow the first day of autumn was due. And just today I came across a great recording. I was a DJ when I was younger and I loved to play funky-house and happy-house i.e. dance music with feeling. Would you like to remember your this year´s holiday at seaside through lovely tunes of music that brings the irresistable feeling of eveyrthing covered in sunshine? Then just click PLAY!.The song is called Chanson du Soleil (Sun is Soming) and originated in Brasil. Whether you are 20 or 50, if you have a feeling for music it just makes you dance barefoot in hot beach sand of Ipanema ... |  |
| Still blooming ... Abelia x grandiflora
22.09.2009 |  |
| Fruits ... Castanea sativa
21.09.2009 Not everything that has edible fruit is beautiful. And the other way round: not all beautiful fruit can be eaten. Damn! Let´s go for maximalism: let it be beautiful and edible at the same time. Take this this sweet chestnut - it is a gorgeous looking tree whose fruit is hidden in these extremely prickly spherical capsules. Still, it is one of the top bestsellers. |  |
| Fruits ... Malus PERPETU®
21.09.2009 These apples are just for decoration, cannot be eated. What a shame, they look delicious! |  |
| Fruit ... Vitis "Bianca"
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| Autumn colours ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Stared"
20.09.2009 Our Stared sweetgum is showing autumn colours already. The reason is that it grows on quite a wet site so it thinks the autumn started in August ... We don´t complain because it is gorgeous! |  |
| Autumn colours ... Koelreuteria paniculata
20.09.2009 Another autumn shade brings this golden raintree - its leaves turn bright honey yellow. |  |
| Koelreuteria paniculata
20.09.2009 |  |
| Fruit ... Ficus carica "Brown Turkey"
20.09.2009 Finally this year, fruit of this fig tree are ripening. Well, actually it is my fault that it matures so late. I did not reduce the number of fruit when it set small ones in summer and the plant cannot feed all of them. Well, at least some - they taste fantastic! |  |
| Fruit ... Cornus kousa "Teutonia"
20.09.2009 Aother less known fruit is this Japanese dogwood variety Teutonia. Every Japanese dogwood has edible fruit but this one has delicious ones, indeed. The friut has pink skin and orange flesh with a few seeds. The taste can be compared with kaki (diospyros kaki). |  |
| Fruit ... Vitis "Isabella"
20.09.2009 |  |
| Autumn colours ... Nandina domestica "Firepower"
19.09.2009 Absolutely fantastic colours on this heavenly bamboo can make your garden shine throughout ALL WINTER. This evergreen shrub gets various shades of deep red and purple-red beginning of September and stays this way until new foliage emerges in mid spring. |  |
| Pictures from you ... Caryopteris x clandonensis "Blue Balloon"®
17.09.2009 |  |
| Still blooming ... Campsis grandiflora
17.09.2009 One of our promises is to offer plants flowering in summer and for as long as possible. Trumpet creepers perfectly suit this requirement. That is why every year we offer a quantity of them in different varieties that have proven ok in our climate. This is the Chinese one with huge flowers bringing an extraordinary colour that no other campsis can offer: salmon pink with large, clear yellow throat. It grows slower than the Northamerican species, starts blooming at the end of July and continues until the first frosts if it has flower buds (= given enough nutriens and plentiful of sunshine). We tested its hardiness down to -23°C in a sheltered position and the plant lives and flowers profusely. |  |
| Just blooming ... Pennisetum alopecuroides
17.09.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Molineux"
16.09.2009 Summer is ending and English roses continue blooming. Molineux shows a deeper shade of golden yellow as autumn is near. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Lichfield Angel"
16.09.2009 |  |
| Still blooming ... Campsis x tagliabuana "Madame Galen"
16.09.2009 New buds and flowers every day. This large-flowering beauty keeps on blooming. |  |
| Still blooming ... Campsis x tagliabuana "Madame Galen"
16.09.2009 Creeping on the patio table like a spy :-) |  |
| Just blooming ... Hydrangea arborescens "Annabelle"
16.09.2009 Incredible quantity of long-lasting flowers. |  |
| Still blooming ... Perovskia "Blue Spire"
16.09.2009 For the sixth consecutive week, profusion of deep violet flowers. |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Cornus florida "Rainbow"
16.09.2009 Not only flowers can offer colours to your garden. Many plants have leaves in a wide range of colours. |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Berberis thunbergii "Admiration"®
16.09.2009 Admiration® is a Czech variety of barberry with coral red leaves and yellow margins. |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Gleditsia triacanthos "Rubylace"
16.09.2009 |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Aucuba japonica "Crotonifolia"
16.09.2009 |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Rhus typhina "Tiger Eyes"®
16.09.2009 |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Acer conspicuum "Red Flamingo"
16.09.2009 |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Sorbaria sorbifolia "Sem"
16.09.2009 |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Rhododendron "Blattgold"
16.09.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Caryopteris x clandonensis "Grand Bleu"®
16.09.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Buddleja davidii "Royal Red"
09.09.2009 Butterfly bush is going crazy with flowers. If you deadhead regularly it will produce profusion of fresh, deeply coloured flowers until the autumn. |  |
| Prunus persica "Pink Peachy"
07.09.2009 These dwarf peaches are very attractive small trees. The stem is low but the crown is extremely dense and rich in foliage, same as with flowers in the spring. Now it lokks luxuriously green but if you hitch up the leaves like a skirt you will see ... |  |
| Fruit ... Prunus persica "Pink Peachy"
07.09.2009 ... plenty of colourful, small peaches which, if fully ripened, taste juicy and sweet. |  |
| Fruit ... Prunus persica "Red Peachy"
07.09.2009 This variety may look the same now but in the spring it makes deeper red flowers. |  |
| My garden
04.09.2009 When the gate closes after the last customer in the evening, shop assistans leave for their homes, the garden quietens down. It begins to soak it the evening dew and with the coming dusk everything breathes tranquility. Quite a few times already I heard this question from our customers: Can you still enjoy your garden if you work there all day and all week? Aren´t you fed up with it at times? Well, to be honest, there are times when all I want to do after we close is to have a lie down. Either at home or on a deckchair at the swimming pool in the garden. Because garden is just a great oasis for me, be it a part of the business or just a quiet shelter, one´s own privacy when you want to relax. And I am just so happy to hear from you when you come or write that you feel it the same way, that you appreciate your garden as well as we do. We are here just for you and continuously look for new plants that can make your garden even prettier. |  |
| My garden
04.09.2009 This time I made a few pictures from the house windows. I believe that it is necessary that your garden looks lovely when looking through the windows, it should extend the living area of the house just thanks to the view. |  |
| My garden
04.09.2009 |  |
| Visitors without a credit card
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| Visitors without a credit card
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| Visitors without a credit card
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| Visitors without a credit card
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| Just blooming ... Hibiscus moscheutos "Scarlet"
31.08.2009 Well, the time has eventually come for swamp mallows. They gathered enough strength to commence blooming so now they show us their magnificent, large flowers in bright colours every day. Scarlet is a Czech variety of compact habit. |  |
| Just blooming ... Caryopteris x clandinensis "Grand Bleu"®
31.08.2009 Like it or not as August ends the summer is slowly turning to its last phase. Along with that, late summer plants begin to show of just like this bluebeard. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus moscheutos "Little Carmine"
31.08.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus moscheutos "Mauvelous"®
31.08.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Campsis x tagliabuana "Madame Galen"
27.08.2009 This trumpet creeper decided to decorate my patio table this year. I agree, who wouldn´t? :-) |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhus typhina "Laciniata"
27.08.2009 Yes, these cones are in fact flowers of this staghorn sumac which you may know from common sumac. Lacinata variety however has a more attractive feature - deeply cut leaves. |  |
| Just blooming ... Clethra alnifolia "Pink Spire"
26.08.2009 Summer-sweet has been one of the top popular plants now. It flowers from mid summer with raceme-like panicles of white flowers that open from light pink buds. It has a lovely fragrance. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hydrangea paniculata "Pinky Winky"®
26.08.2009 Another blooming phaze of this hydrangea brings deeper pink. In about a month time the same flowers will be almost purple red. |  |
| Just blooming ... Abelia "Sherwood"
26.08.2009 Abelias are long-lasting beauties of even small gardens. Sherwood variety is quite compact, bears deep green, glossy leaves and snow white flowers from early summer until frost. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia liliiflora "Nigra"
26.08.2009 It is very common and not abnormal that lily-magnolias bloom again in summer. Not as profusely as in the spring but you can enjoy quite a few purple-pink flowers on the hot days of the second half of summer. |  |
| Just blooming ... Cephalanthus occidentalis
24.08.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus moscheutos "Little Carmine"
24.08.2009 Swamp malows are fantastic features in summer gardens. Little Carmine is shorter in height and compact, nevertheless its flowers are up to 20 cm across! |  |
| Fruit ... Prunus persica "Redhaven"
23.08.2009 And now something yummy :-) Summer is in its second half and thanks to recent hot and sunny weather some fruit are beggining to ripen. No supermarkets, but your own fruit trees from which you can harvest freshly picked up fruit, full of sun and sweet juice. Redhaven peach is a top favourite variety with large fruit and high yield. |  |
| Fruit ... Prunus nucipersica "Big Top"
23.08.2009 And if you dislike hairy skin of peaches try one of these nectarines with smooth, dark red skin with sweet and aromatic flesh. |  |
| Fruit ... Asimina triloba
23.08.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Campsis radicans "Stromboli"
22.08.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hydrangea aspera "Macrophylla"
16.08.2009 Rough-leaved hydrangea is a show-stopper. It bears flat panicles of lilac-violet flowers on the background of stiff, hairy leaves. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hemerocallis "Double River Wye"
16.08.2009 Day lilies are perfect and care-free perennials which, if selected well, keep on blooming from early summer until early autumn. "Double River Wye" flowers in August. |  |
| Still blooming ... Magnolia grandiflora "Victoria"
16.08.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Campsis grandiflora
16.08.2009 I am not afraid to use a superlatic for this trumpet creeper because its flowers really are MONSTROUS. Up to 10 cm across, lovely salmon pink or pinky-red in very hot areas and in South Europe. The plant in the picture lives on my house where it gets maximum 5 hours of direct sunlight a day so it turns deep, velvety orange-red. Gorgeous, too. |  |
| Still blooming ... Agapanthus "Blue Giant"
14.08.2009 African blue lily is an exotic perennial that offers quite a long blooming period. It starts in mid July and continues through mid August. Its sky-blue, bell-shaped flowers are formed in large corymbs on 1m long, sturdy stalks. Goes well with yellow and white flowers. |  |
| Still blooming ... Campsis radicans "Flava"
14.08.2009 It would go perfectly with this golden-yellow trumpet creeper. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hydrangea quercifolia
14.08.2009 While older flowers gain rich pink, newly emerged ones are yet snow white. This play on colours will last until end of August when the shrub will be covered with rosy-pink flowers that will soon be followed by autumn-coloured foliage. |  |
| Welcome to Chlumec
13.08.2009 Perennials are blooming heavily and some of them offer large flowers such as this Kissproof lily. |  |
| Welcome to Praha
13.08.2009 Currently, when enterring our Prague branch what you cannot miss are trumpet creepers and butterfly bush. |  |
| Just blooming ... campsis radicans "Serena"
09.08.2009 Today we are introducing a new trumpet-creeper variety. It belong to the north-american group of hardy vines. Its flowers are rather orange-red, trumpet-shaped, with conspicuous veins in the throat. It flowers later and lasts longer. Its name is Serena and will be available from summer 2010. |  |
| Trumpet creepers
09.08.2009 For those of you who want to find your own variety check this easy chart. You can download a larger image here. |  |
| Právì kvete ... Hydrangea paniculata "Pinky Winky"®
07.08.2009 I must admit I have never been a great admirer of hydrangeas until recently. Varieties such as Grandiflora or recent intruductions Limelight® and this one Pinky Winky® made a great hydrangea lover even of myself. They are strong plants with sturdy stems and variable colour of flowers that changes from white to pink or even burgundy red at the end of summer. I think they are a must in every summer-style garden. |  |
| Just blooming ... Abelia x grandiflora
07.08.2009 Abelias are great summer plants with long flowering time - they begin in early summer and end with first frosts. This one bears pure white, funnel-shaped flowers. Its leaves often change to burgundy red when the weather is too wet or the plant grows in not too well drained soil. |  |
| Just blooming ... achillea filipendulina "Golden Plate"
07.08.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Dark Red"
07.08.2009 |  |
| Summer
05.08.2009 When the weather turns really hot some complain but most of us are glad that the summer is what it should be - sunny and warm. We can´t help remembering the times of our teenage years when everything was alright, we lived our lives and especially in summer we let our souls fly and our bodies dive. Because the only worry was where to go swimming. How about right here :-) |  |
| Pinus nigra
05.08.2009 Pine trees are at the top of my top 10 trees. They bring me feeling of warmth and summer. Probably because they are the most frequent conifers at seaside. |  |
| Garden in summer
05.08.2009 Since summer is my most favourite season it is obvious that our garden in Chlumec - its rear part - is designed the way that it stirs up our senses by profusion of blooms in the holiday period: multiple colours of trumpet creepers, hibiscus, lilies and daylilies, bull bay magnolias, blue African lilies and hardy plumbago; and on top of everything an incredible softness of exotic beauty called ... |  |
| Albizia julibrissin "Ernest Wilson"
05.08.2009 ... acacia. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hydrangea paniculata "Limelight"®
05.08.2009 Awsome beauty. This hydrangea bears large trusses of long-lasting flowers every summer. We offer shrubs as well as half-standards with fat crowns where the number of flowers is breathtaking. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus syriacus "Pink Giant"
04.08.2009 Summer on full throttle, and the same for Rose-of-Sharon. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus syriacus "Red Heart"
04.08.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hemerocallis "Stella d´Oro"
04.08.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Lilium "Willeke Alberti"
01.08.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Lilium "Siberia"
01.08.2009 If you want to change your garden into a private perfumery get this lily. Its fragrance is so strong and sweet that you HAVE to turn your head towards it every time you pass by. |  |
| Just blooming ... Lilium "Kissproof"
31.07.2009 |  |
| Butterfly feast
30.07.2009 Ceratostigma willmottianum |  |
| Butterfly feast ... Buddleja davidii "Royal Red"
29.07.2009 |  |
| Butterfly feast ... Buddleja davidii "Black Knight"
29.07.2009 |  |
| Butterfly feast ... Buddleja davidii "Pink Delight"
29.07.2009 |  |
| Butterfly feast
29.07.2009 Ok, the butterfly was not invisible, that was a hoax. So here it is in its full beauty. |  |
| Exotic summer ... Magnolia grandiflora "Victoria"
28.07.2009 There has been a lot said and written about bull bay magnolias. So for today just one or two things = they are absolutely gorgeous and heavily fragrant. |  |
| Exotic summer ... Albizia julibrissin "Ombrella"®
28.07.2009 So far the deepest red flowers of albizia. hardy to -20°C. |  |
| Exotic summer ... Albizia julibrissin "Ernest Wilson"
28.07.2009 And this variety is the hardiest - proven -27°C. |  |
| Exotic summer ... Ceratostigma willmottianum
28.07.2009 Hardy plumbago. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus syriacus "Ardens"
26.07.2009 Rose-of-Sharon shrubs belùong to the most popular summer flowering plants. Range of colour combinations is quite wide so everyone can choose. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus syriacus "Red Heart"
26.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus syriacus "Oiseau Bleu"
26.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus syriacus "Lady Stanley"
26.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus syriacus "Duc de Brabant"
26.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus syriacus "White Chiffon"
26.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hibiscus syriacus "Lavender Chiffon"
26.07.2009 |  |
| Summer beauty - trumpet vines
25.07.2009 Trumpet vines / trumpet creepers are beautiful plants that need just one thing: easy spring pruning. And then you can expect profusion of summer flowers in various colours: yellow, orange, salmon red and deep red. This picture belongs to Flava variety in a climbing form, or trained as a tree. |  |
| Summer beauty - trumpet vines
25.07.2009 Campsis radicans |  |
| Summer beauty - trumpet vines
25.07.2009 Indian Summer variety is ideal for growing as a shrub. |  |
| Summer beauty - trumpet vines
25.07.2009 Madame Galen has largest possible flowers among all hardy varieties. They are soft apricot-red. |  |
| Just blooming ... Chitalpa tashkentensis "Summer Bells"®
22.07.2009 One of the most beautiful small trees or large shrubs flowering is summer has started blooming. Its name is chitalpa and bears trusses of pale pink catalpa-like flowers. |  |
| Just blooming ... Campsis radicans "Stromboli"
19.07.2009 |  |
| Rain ...
15.07.2009 I should have said nothing yesterday! Just as I glorified first few hot summer days we got a rainstorm and thunderstorm bringing so much water we can establish a rice field at our patio. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia grandiflora "Goliath"
15.07.2009 Incredible size are the flowers of this bull bay magnolia variety. And it has so many buds that we expect it to bloom ntil September. |  |
| Just blooming ... Tree form of trumpet creeper
15.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Campsis x tagliabuana "Indian Summer"
15.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hemerocallis "Blackberry Candy"
15.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hemerocallis "Strawberry Candy"
15.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hemerocallis "Joan Senior"
15.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hemerocallis "Stella d´Oro"
15.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hemerocallis "Double Dream"
15.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Catalpa x erubescens "Purpurea"
14.07.2009 Profusion of white, funnel-shaped flowers with purple veins on purple to burgundy-red background on new foliage. Another fantastic plant for summer. |  |
| Just blooming ... Clematis "Mrs.Cholmondeley"
14.07.2009 Summer is eventually here. The sun, hot air, swimming and sunbathing, and for us - of course - admiring summer-blooming trees and shrubs. Old man´s beard may sound too old-fashioned for some, but if placed sensitively in a spot where it will gain undivided attention when in full bloom it is just as gorgeous as magnolia grandiflora, for instance. This variety has beautiful, large flowers in a soft lavender colour. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hypericum "Hidcote"
14.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Campsis x tagliabuana "Madame Galen"
14.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hydrangea quercifolia
14.07.2009 |  |
| New leaves ... Osmanthus heterophyllus "Tricolor"
14.07.2009 |  |
| Fruit ... Amelanchier lamarckii
12.07.2009 One of the first woody plants in the season to produce edible fruit - berries. They are called juneberries or Indian blueberries. They taste quite sweet and delicious and last for a long time on the shrub. |  |
| Fruit ... Amelanchier lamarckii
12.07.2009 The fruit ripens continuously over as long as three weeks. The sweetest berries are deep blue but they are usually so mature to fall down when touched. Nevertheless, you can harvest the berries already when they turn purple. They are mature, too, and have a fantastic taste. Moreover, they are very heatlhy. They should work well as cancer prevention. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia grandiflora "Maryland"
12.07.2009 |  |
| New leaves ... Dryopteris erythrosora
12.07.2009 One of the most beautiful ferns of our climate. Its new fronds are bright salmon-bronze for a long time until they mature deep green. A glowing feature of darker corners in your garden. |  |
| Our garden
12.07.2009 Today looked very promising as far as weather forcast which says we are into a tropical heatwave in the next few days. Should it last for only a couple of days or a few weeks we will get ready to enjoy it :-) |  |
| Právì kvete ... Lilium "Tiger Play"
12.07.2009 |  |
| Decaisnea fargesii
12.07.2009 I need to admit that we sort of underestimated demand for this rarity. It turned sold out yet before it made new leaves in the spring. We apologize for that and promise that we will do our best to get a good stock of it for 2010. It is just fantastic. Ideal for exotic-style gardens. |  |
| salvia and tickseed
12.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Lilium "Netty´s Pride"
12.07.2009 |  |
| Magnolia grandiflora
12.07.2009 Not to tempt you with flowers only I made a picture of this bull bay magnolia when it had not flowers. Just introder to show you how beautiful this large shrub or a small tree is. The luxurious glossy foliage reamins on the plant all year round as it is evergreen. It is undoubtedly the queen of flowering trees and evergreen gardens, too. |  |
| Just blooming ... Liatris spicata
12.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Coreopsis verticillata "Zagreb"
11.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Agapanthus "Black Buddhist"
11.07.2009 This deep blue is just fascinating. Black Buddhist is a variety of African Lily that offers blackish stalks. |  |
| Just blooming ... Astilbe x ardensii "Burgundy Red"
11.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Lilium "Orange Art"
11.07.2009 Extra large flowers on sturdy stems and extended flowering period - these are the main features of this beautiful novelty. |  |
| Just blooming ... Astilbe japonica "Ellie"
11.07.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Ceratostigma willmottianum
11.07.2009 |  |
| Lilies Lilium "First Crown"
07.07.2009 Do you like lilies? We do. They open their showy flowers from early summer until August. |  |
| Lilies Lilium "African Queen"
07.07.2009 Incredible beauty. |  |
| Lilies Lilium "Netty´s Pride"
07.07.2009 |  |
| Lilies Lilium "Fata Morgana"
07.07.2009 |  |
| New leaves ... Pieris japonica "Passion"
27.06.2009 2-3 times a year lily-of-the-valley shrubs produce new foliage which usually has attractive colours. Passion variety makes crimson red to burgundy red leaves. |  |
| Is there water?
25.06.2009 They may look as if watering but who would believe them after 4 weeks of constant bl...y rain :-) |  |
| Rain again?
25.06.2009 Well it looked lovely in the morning and shortly after lunch. We even took off the coats and changed long trousers for shorts. What a mistake. It is raining again. Cats and dogs. They say that the recently errupted volcano caused this weather. Be it this or other, outside is raining, inside is wet. |  |
| New leaves ... Prunus laurocerasus "Latifolia"
24.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Lilium "Orange Pixie"
24.06.2009 Orange like an real orange wets your appetite :-) |  |
| New leaves ... Pieris japonica "Katsura"
23.06.2009 Now that the spring is definitely gone, berore summer blooming plants gather enough strength to amaze us there are fresh leaves of pieris plants which new usually have different shades than mature for the rest of the year. |  |
| Still blooming ... Kalmia latifolia "Minuet"
22.06.2009 This mountain laurel has been blooming for over 4 weeks now which is incredible! |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia grandiflora "Goliath"
20.06.2009 Summer begins with summer magnolias (bull bay magnolias). These evergreen beauties are queens among summer blooming plants as they flower continuously during summer months. Goliath has the largest flowers among all hardy varieties - up to 30 cm across! And the fragrance is just divine ... |  |
| Just blooming ... Styrax japonicus "Pink Chimes"
17.06.2009 Pink version of Japanese snowbell. This time the snow is pink :-) |  |
| Just blooming ... Styrax japonicus
16.06.2009 |  |
| Ulmus x hollandica "Wredei"
16.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Cotinus coggyria "Royal Purple"
16.06.2009 Smoke tree. Perfect . |  |
| Astilbe x ardensii "Burgundy Red"
13.06.2009 Just about a week to go and this astilbe will open it burgundy red, fluffy flowers. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Van"
12.06.2009 One of the latest blooming varieries of rhododendron is flowering now. It is bright pink with large flowers. |  |
| Jut blooming ... Cytisus nigricans
12.06.2009 This plant is supposed to flower heavily from mid until end of summer. So if you ask how come that it is blooming now I can give you an exact and honest answer: I HAVEN´T THE FAINTEST IDEA. One reason could be the awful weather we are currently experiencing. The plants may easily mistake it for autumn. |  |
| Just blooming ... Sambucus nigra "Black Lace"®
12.06.2009 On the other hadn, this elder IS supposed to flower now and is flowering beautifully. The flat panicles are pink and nicely contrast with the deep burgundy red, lace-like foliage. |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa x prestoniae "Redwine"
12.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Lilium "Tiger Play"®
12.06.2009 Absolutely fabulous. New lily line. |  |
| New leaves ... Corylus avellana "Red Majestic"®
12.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Molineux"
12.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Queen of Sweden"
12.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Charles Darwin"
12.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Christopher Marlowe"
12.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Cotinus coggyria "Golden Spirit"®
12.06.2009 Smoke tree. The name fits. The flowers look like coloured clouds of smoke. |  |
| New leaves ... Photinia x fraseri "Red Robin"
12.06.2009 |  |
| New leaves ... Ilex x altaclarensis "Lawsoniana"
12.06.2009 |  |
| Ligustrum ovalifolium "Aureum"
12.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Santolina chamaecyparissus
12.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hemerocallis "Anzac"
09.06.2009 Spring is slowly grading into summer while weather is sometimes falling behind. Still, first summer perennials are beginning to bloom. Day lilies are something we always offer in a wide range of varieties every year. Anzac is the firs to bloom. |  |
| Still blooming ... Magnolia "Daphne"
09.06.2009 Magnolia Daphne is a big surprise this year. It keeps on blooming since mid May. New buds keep popping up, opening into slightly smaller and paler flowers but nevertheless pretty. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Falstaff"
09.06.2009 June is obviously also a month when roses commence blooming. We mainly offer English roses by David Austin. Falstaff is on top of the list. |  |
| Just blooming ... Kalmia latifolia "Splendens"
08.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Kalmia latifolia "Richard Jaynes"
08.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Kalmia latifolia "Pinwheel"
08.06.2009 |  |
| Právì kvete ... Kalmia latifolia "Bridesmaid"
08.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Kalmia latifolia "Elf"
08.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Kalmia latifolia "Quinnipiac"
08.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Kalmia latifolia "Bull´s Eye"
06.06.2009 This is the right time for mountain laurels (kalmias). These low maintenance shrubs flower abundantly in this period when spring shrubs have finished blooming and summer shrubs have not started yet. |  |
| Just blooming ... Kalmia latifolia f.myrtifolia
06.06.2009 A proven winner among mountain laurels. Myrtifolia blooms so heavily that you can´t see the leaves. |  |
| Just blooming ... Kalmia latifolia "Kaleidoscope"
06.06.2009 This variety is truly a sensation. It is a novelty from Germany and as for every novelty there have not been too many in stock this spring. So it quickly turned sold out, unfortunately. However, if you can forgive that and wait until next spring we should have enough for the next season so cheer up, collectors! :-) |  |
| Quercus palustris "Green Dwarf"
06.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Coreopsis grandiflora "Illico"®
06.06.2009 Hard to say if it fell asleep or is just thinking whether to have another portion of the sweet tickseed nectar. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hydrangea macrophylla "Endless Summer"®
06.06.2009 If you like blue, how do you fancy this one? Forced a little from Italy, this one is definitely a show-stopper. |  |
| New leaves ... Rhododendron ponticum "Silver Edge"
06.06.2009 Silver Edge rhododendron has conspicuous, creamy-white margins on its elongated leaves which brighten up darker corners of your garden. |  |
| New leaves ... Pieris floribunda "Forest Flame"
06.06.2009 Lily-of-the-valley shrubs are great for not only being evergreen, they also flower early in the spring, and also make coloured new shoots which are produced several times during the season. Definitely a must have for an ericaceous border. |  |
| Just blooming ... Deutzia scabra "Pride of Rochester"
03.06.2009 Rich, double flowers of this white variety of deutzia are in full bloom now. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Anne Boleyn"
03.06.2009 Incredible sight is what this rose offers at the moment. Profusion of gentle pink flowers with a typical old rose perfume. |  |
| New leaves ... Catalpa bignonioides "Aurea"
03.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Kalmia latifolia "Nancy"
03.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia sieboldii
03.06.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Lilium "Orange Pixie"
03.06.2009 Being a dwarf variety, Orange Pixie begins flowering as the first among all lilies with its gorgeous, deep orange flowers. Numerous buds continue blooming for a considerable period of time. |  |
| Just blooming ... Incarvillea delevayi
03.06.2009 Another perennial to bear large, eye-catching flowers at this time of year is this hardy gloxinia. The species has pink flowers ... |  |
| Just blooming ... Incarvillea delevayi"Snowtop"
03.06.2009 ... where its variety "Snowtop" has pure white flowers with yeallow throat. |  |
| Just blooming ... Robinia x slavinii "Casque Rouge"
27.05.2009 |  |
| Robinia x slavinii "Casque Rouge"
27.05.2009 This is how stunning it looked yesterday ... |  |
| Robinia x slavinii "Casque Rouge"
27.05.2009 ... and this is what it looks like today, after yesterday´s windstorm. |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa x prestoniae "Miss Canada"
26.05.2009 Today we would like to introduce these Preston (Canadian) lilacs. They are not yet too well know which is a pity. They bloom later than common lilac, the flowers have different shapes and colours, and the plants are not so robust. My personal choise is this bright pink "Miss Canada" and ... |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa x prestoniae "Agnes Smith"
26.05.2009 ... and this pure white "Agnes Smith" variety. Isn´t it gorgeous? |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa x prestoniae "Royalty"
26.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa x prestoniae "Miss Japan"
26.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa x prestoniae "James McFarlane"
26.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa meyeri "Palibin"
26.05.2009 Dwarf lilac. Really cute. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Flava Lackblatt"
20.05.2009 Another novelty among this year´s rhododendrons is this German version of Flava called Flava Lackblatt with light yellow flowers and deep green, very glossy leaves. |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Gibraltar"
20.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia tripetala
20.05.2009 Umbrella magnolia is cultivated for its large leaves rather than creamy white flowers. |  |
| Just blooming ... Crataegus laevigata "Pauls Scarlet"
20.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Crataegus laevigata "Pauls Scarlet"
20.05.2009 |  |
| New leaves ... Gleditsia triacanthos f.inermis
20.05.2009 Soft and juicy green is new foliage of this version of honey locust. Fern-like leaves give this tree almost an exotic appearance. |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Fridoline"
20.05.2009 Fridoline is one of the few Japanese azaleas of warm red colour. |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Cannon´s Double"
20.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia liliiflora "Nigra"
19.05.2009 This a late variety of deciduous magnolia. It has probably the longest blooming period, burgundy red flowers that emerge continuously along with leaves. |  |
| Just blooming ... Cornus "Venus"®
19.05.2009 XXL flowers. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Queen Alice"
19.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Mount St.Helens"
19.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Wisteria floribunda "Violacea Plena"
19.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Dreamland"
19.05.2009 A yakushimanum variety of very elegant, low growing and abundantly flowering rhododendron. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Dreamland"
19.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Glowing Embers"
19.05.2009 Glowing embers. The name is perfect for what it represents. Stunning colour. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Erato"®
19.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Puccini"
19.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Goldtopas"
19.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Fantastica"
19.05.2009 Like a shining neon in a big city. |  |
| Deputation from the government :-)
18.05.2009 Well, that is exactly what it says in Czech. You never know what you can find in people´s gardens ... :-) |  |
| New leaves ... Cornus controversa "Variegata"
18.05.2009 One of the most awed shrubs in our garden. This dogwood has elegantly varigated foliage and strict Japanese-like habit with tiered branches. |  |
| Cornus controversa "Variegata"
18.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Golden Gate"
18.05.2009 A conversation issue seems to be the hardiness of new and unusually coloured rhododendrons in our country. For some unknown reason it is believed that what is beautiful is not hardy or cannot grow here. Wrong. It can and does well. The only issue might be that not many gardeners have tried them hence the worries. We did and are most happy about lots of those beautiful gems. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Goldprinz"
18.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Dolcemente"
18.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Northern Hi Lights"
18.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Mary Poppins"
18.05.2009 Have you ever seen a ball of fire? I would imagine it looks something like this ... |  |
| New leaves ... Acer cappadocicum "Aureum"
18.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Anouk"
18.05.2009 Interesting contrast - large flowers but tiny leaves. This is a dwarf variety of Japanese azalea. |  |
| New leaves ... Pieris japonica "STÖCKMANN"
18.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Pinguin"
18.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Rocket"
18.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Daphne"
08.05.2009 The most beautiful of the beautiful ones. And the yellowest. Simply gorgeous. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Daphne"
08.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Markeetas Prize"
08.05.2009 Vivid red, large flowers with frilled margins. |  |
| Just blooming ... Cytisus x praecox "Allgold"
08.05.2009 Tough and hardy. Profuse bloomer. |  |
| Just blooming ... Enkianthus campanulatus "Ruby Glow"
08.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Wisteria floribunda "Rosea"
08.05.2009 |  |
| New leaves ... Photinia x fraseri "Red Robin"
08.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Wisteria floribunda "Alba"
08.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Amoena"
08.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Cytisus scoparius "La Coquette"
08.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Wisteria sinensis
08.05.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron makinoi "Jens Jörgen Sörensen"
30.04.2009 Makinoi rhododendrons have narrow leaves and campanulate flowers. They look very unusual and attractive. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Cunningham´s White"
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| Rarities by Hachmanna ... Rhododendron wardii "Goldsprenkel"
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| Rarities by Hachmann ... Rhododendron "Lilofee"
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| Rarities by Hachmann ... Rhododendron "Dolcemente"
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| Rarities by Hachmann ... Rhododendron "Marylou"
30.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron makinoi "Rosa Perle"
30.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Arneson Gem"
30.04.2009 Looking at this flowering azalea one has to feel like a goldminer who just found the purest gold in his life. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Percy Wiseman"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron impeditum "Luisella"
30.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea luteum
30.04.2009 This azalea spreads its lovely sweet fragrance a few meters around. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Cosmopolitan"
28.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia loebneri "Merril"
27.04.2009 Very warm weather made a lot of magnolias flower - early ones almost at the same time as later ones. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Betty"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Halfdan Lem"
27.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Horizon Monarch"
27.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Susan"
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| Just blooming ... Pyrus calleryana "Chanticleer"
27.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia x soulangeana "Rustica Rubra"
27.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Stewartstonian"
27.04.2009 |  |
| Rhododendron "Macarena"
23.04.2009 One of this year´s novelties from H.Hachmann - rhododendron Macarena. This hybrid has large flowers of yellow/oranghe colour. |  |
| Rhododendron "Baden Baden"
23.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Amelanchier lamarckii
23.04.2009 Lovely flowers, amazing autumn leaf colour, and delicioud fruit. What else to wish for?! :-) |  |
| New branch in Prague
17.04.2009 So the big day is over. Our opening day of a new branch in Prague was April 15 and the day was as lovely and hot as the few days before. We enjoyed welcoming our first customers in a garden centre covered with spring sunshine. A part of it is still a building site and we thank you for your patience while it is being finished. But we definitely have so much goods ... |  |
| New branch in Prague
17.04.2009 ... that one would have doubted the evening before :-) |  |
| New branch in Prague
17.04.2009 But everyone worked very hard until late night to get everything ready for you. |  |
| New branch in Prague
17.04.2009 And what we would wish for most of all? That your gardens bloom so beautiful as his magnolia. We are looking forward to seeing you! |  |
| Beautiful spring ... Prunus kurilensis "Ruby"
13.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Prunus kurilensis "Ruby"
13.04.2009 Amazing show of profuse flowering of light pink colour makes this cherry one of the most sought after flowering trees of small size. |  |
| Evergreen ... Cryptomeria japonica "Cristata"
13.04.2009 As the cold days have gone these cryptomerias lost their rusty brown protective winter colour and changed to shining green in the garden. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron calophytum "Dominik"
13.04.2009 Dominik is the largest-leaved rhododendron we currently offer. Its flowers are truly unique. |  |
| Just blooming ... Pieris japonica "Prelude"
13.04.2009 This variety of dwarf pieris is the most profusely flowering lily-of-the-valley shrub. It has plentiful of flower racemes year after year. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia stellata
13.04.2009 Like a million of fragrant stars. Star-magnolia. Spring winner. |  |
| Easter
13.04.2009 According to the tradition on Easter Monday girls and women get "beaten" by the boys with fresh willow twigs to get younger and healthy. |  |
| Easter
13.04.2009 As you can see they are full with energy now and look as if ready to beat the boys back :-) |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia x soulangeana "Dorsopurpurea"
12.04.2009 I fell in love. This magnolia is my love at first sight. A beautiful and hot Easter weekend has brought an eye catching gorgeousness named Dorsopurpurea magnolia. Just awsome. |  |
| Happy Easter!
11.04.2009 The weather is great and Easter is here. As the snow is definitely gone for this spring (hopefully, never say never ...) we would like to invite you to Chlumec where we reconstructed our small office which used to be called the booth. Have look at a few pictures documenting its origin. |  |
| Reconstruction
11.04.2009 This how it began ... |  |
| Reconstruction
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| Reconstruction
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| Reconstruction
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| Reconstruction
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| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Jane"
11.04.2009 A week or so of lovely and really warm weather after long and cold winter has made some magnolias go crazy and start flowering nearly two weeks before their usual blooming time. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Wada´s Memory"
11.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Prunus subhirtella "Autumnalis Rosea"
05.04.2009 One of the first cherries to bloom. In the background yu can see the new face of our shop, more images to follow later :-) |  |
| Just blooming ... Corylopsis pauciflora
05.04.2009 |  |
| Just blooming ... Pieris japonica "Valley Valentine"
05.04.2009 My top favourite pieris = Valley Valentine with deep red flowers. |  |
| Evergreen ... Prunus laurocerasus "Ivory"®
05.04.2009 A hot new cherry laurel is this variety called "Ivory"® with irregulare white splashes. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hamamelis x intermedia "Westerstede"
05.04.2009 Witch hazels' blooming is on full throtle now and the shrubs are not just beautiful to look at but also very fragrant already from a couple of steps apart. |  |
| Just blooming ... Pieris japonica "Bonfire"
02.04.2009 Eventually!!! So the spring is definitely here and we hope that it will last for more than 1 day :-) Among the early flowering shrubs is pieris (lily-of-the-valley shrub). Bonfire is a new variety with erect racemes of flowers which differs it from the other ones. It flowers so abundantly that it looks like a lilac. |  |
| Spring cut ... Caryopteris x clandonensis "Grand Bleu"®
02.04.2009 Summer blooming trees and shrubs may need spring pruning to maintain shape and to increase flowering. This bluebeard needs it every year. Otherwise it would get leggy. Cut it to a thuird of last years branches. It will remain compact and will be much denser. |  |
| Spring cut ... Trumpet creepers
02.04.2009 Trumpet creepers need radical pruning every spring. Tree forms will avoid danger of breaking in strong wind and vines will grow denser. In either case the plant will flower more abundantly as it blooms at the ends of every branch. So the more new branches you have the more flowers you will get. Cut last year´s growths to 2-3 pairs of buds. |  |
| Just blooming ... Daphne mezereum "Rubra"
02.04.2009 I first came across mezereon when driving along the Vltava river to Lipno. It is many years back but I still remember that I had to return a few meters and park the car to have a look at the unsightly, grey slope that yet had not woken up after winter but this little shrub was already flowering. Small but very fragrant flowers are among the first to see in early spring. |  |
| Pictures from you
19.03.2009 Well, what is going on outside the window is really appalling. Fresh snow after an unbelievable snowstorm and light frost is not what we expect at the end of March, do we? And as I hear it is spread across the country, not just here. Everyone is looking forward to spring so I decided to ignore the white mess and to bring a bit of optimism showing you another beautiful set of pictures from one of you - our customers, evidencing much better weather. |  |
| Pictures from you
19.03.2009 These were taken by Mike in his garden in York, U.K., in summer. As you can see, Japanese maples are a passion of his and although they take up majority of the space they are located sensibly and in the way that you can never say "oh, another acer". You just must love them. |  |
| Pictures from you
19.03.2009 And when the space is totally used up there can always be a pair (or two) of elegant pots placed in free, paved corners :-) |  |
| Pictures from you
19.03.2009 English gardens are renowned for their evergreen hedges. They are dense and beautiful, often old and massive. They create a great feeling of privacy and offer an excellent background for any specimen plant grown in front of them. |  |
| Pictures from you
19.03.2009 Can you see the bench? I can´t wait to sit on one of them when the weather starts making more sense here. After all day´s work I will just sit and stare at the garden, watching it grow and bloom. Thanks a lot for the lovely pictures, Mike, we wish you many happy gardening days in future! |  |
| ... and we're open :-)
01.03.2009 The first customers of this year´s season were taken by surpise when my camera asked them for a pose. They did and the official opening was done. The weather was not too great but the smiles were wide :-) |  |
| Just blooming ... Hamamelis x intermedia "Arnold Promise"
01.03.2009 What is this beautiful smell? Just blooming witch hazels have a lovely, sweet but fresh perfume with a dash of citrus fruit. We offer 3 colour in 4 varieties. The most pupular yellow ones are Westerstede and this Arnold Promise which are supposed to have the most profuse flowering. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hamamelis x intermedia "Jelena"
01.03.2009 "Jelena" is the one with fiery orange flowers. Is is one of the earliest - some of our plants were in bloom in late January already. |  |
| Just blooming ... Hamamelis x intermedia "Diane"
01.03.2009 "Diane " has the deepest colour of all: dark red. |  |
| Evergreen ... Leucothoe axiliaris "Curly Red"®
01.03.2009 At this time of year leucothoes have the most attractive colours. "Curly Red"® has bright burgundy-red shades on its curled foliage. |  |
| Evergreen ... Ilex aquifolium "J.C. van Tol"
01.03.2009 One of the most luxurious hollies is "J.C.van Tol" variety with its deep green and glossy, spineless leaves, beautiful shape, and a reliable load of vivid red berries in winter. |  |
| Paeonia suffruticosa
28.02.2009 Well, tomorrow is THE day. 10 a.m. is the time we will open our garden centre this year. And the flower of tree paeony in the picture (forced from a green house) is just a fragment of the amount of beautiful trees and shrubs that are waiting here for you. |  |
| Opening soon ...
26.02.2009 Although our boys have been doing nothing but clearing mounts of snow off the garden centre area for the past few days the weather seems to have improved and we are happy to announce that this Sunday, March 1, we are opening this year´s season. The goods will be coming in constantly during March so if you chose a plant you want to come for before you set out on your way check our website if it is already in stock. We are open every day, 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. |  |
| Pictures from you
23.02.2009 Thank you for sharing your feelings about unceasing winter. Some of you even sent us a few pictures evidencing it. |  |
| Pictures from you
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| Pictures from you
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| City winter
20.02.2009 When I check the last picture update it has been nearly a month a new picture was uploaded. You, who have the gardening spirit like us, know very well why. It appears that this year´s winter decided to prolong it reign for as long as it can and in the last month there was hardly anything worth making pictures of. On the other hand, low temperatures and constant snowing brought faint-harted thought to our heads as if this year the winter should never end. And just when the situation seemed to have gotten worst the nature waved its magic wand and brought an awsome view of the "white rubbish" as we tend to call it these days. Do you feel like letting us guide you through ... |  |
| City winter 2
20.02.2009 ... Friday midnight when the snow started falling so heavily, that it would have been a sin not to get home for a camera. The orange light of city lamps conjured an amazing, quiet atmosphere in the empty streets. Just imagine you are there, right in the middle, feeling snowflakes on your cheeks and neck. |  |
| City winter 3
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| City winter 4
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| City winter 5
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| City winter 6
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| City winter 7
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| Eventually flowers in winter :-) Hamamelis x intermedia "Jelena"
25.01.2009 Here it is at last! The most severe frosts have passed, hopefully, but you never know here, and shrubs that can flower in winter time have been woken up by warm sunlight. The earliest of all is this orange witch hazel "Jelena" ... |  |
| Winter flowers ... Hamamelis x intermedia "Westerstede"
25.01.2009 ... and will be followed by yellow-flowering variety "Westerstede" which still has a bit more time. |  |
| Evergreen ... Aucuba japonica "Crotonifolia"
25.01.2009 Absolutely untouched by this year´s winter (-18°C) is this Japanese aucuba. |  |
| Evergreen ... Leucothoe keiskei "Royal Ruby"
25.01.2009 Leucothoe is one of the few plants to offer red leaves in winter. |  |
| Caryopteris x clandonensis "Grand Bleu®""
25.01.2009 This bluebeard does not flower in winter, or is not even evrgreen but makes a lovely performance with its dry flowers from previous season. |  |
| Evergreen ... Magnolia grandifora "Goliath"
25.01.2009 On the other hand, magnolia grandiflora "Goliath" is evergreen and thanks to its autumn transplanting to a spot with no winter sunlight it does not have ONE sunburnt leaf. |  |
| Evergreen ... Pinus nigra
25.01.2009 Not only leaves are the attractive features of evergreen plants. Cones on pines are none the less pretty. When I walked up to this pine today to take a picture against the clear blue sky, the sun was warming up my back and it was easy to imagine I was at a seaside. Simply because pines are very common trees of hot and dry climates an many of us remember them from our summer holidays. |  |
| Evergreen ... Pieris japonica "Prelude"
25.01.2009 Coloured flowers also bring an extra feature into gadens in winter. |  |
| Evergreen ... Ilex crenata "Convexa"
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| Moth Orchid
25.01.2009 Of course this moth orchid does not flower outside but in the conservatory. But it would be a pity not tshare its beauty with you, wouldn´t it? :-) |  |
| Winter wonderland
11.01.2009 Winter in the country could be a true fairy tale. This picture was taken by an experienced photographer, my friend Jan Moj¾í¹ in 2006 a clearly brings the feeling of a winter wonderland. As soon as you exit the main, salty road to Èeský Krumlov, you can see countryside winter at its best ... |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 We are enjoying white nights. Not those Scandinavian when the have day at night, but the sky is light at night and the overall snow cover reflect each other bringing so much light you can drive with your lights off. But don´t do it on busy roads :-) |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 The frost makes beatiful crispy creatures on leavea and bare branches. Sophora microphylla "SUN KING" at the front. |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 nandina domestica "FIRE POWER" |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 osmanthus aquifolium |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 cornus florida "Rubra" |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 cedrus libani |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 pieris japonica "Valley Valentine" |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 ceanothus thyrsiflorus "SKYLARK" |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 Summer garden with evergreens. |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 You may remember this part of thegarden from a slightly different angle from our recent competition :-) |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 Large lawn areas under compact snow cover are only disturbed by cat foot prints. |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 Front garden with flowering cherry KANZAN |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 Upper garden. |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 Summer garden. |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 Conifer kingdom. |  |
| Winter 2009
11.01.2009 Winter in the country. |  |
| Beautiful day ...
01.01.2009 The very first day in new year is just lovely. Beautiful blue sky and sun shining. Temperature about -4°C. Perfect day for a New Year´s resolution while wandering the countryside. |  |
| Deutzia x "Strawberry Fields"
01.01.2009 Not only evergreen plants can be interesting in winter. Many plants have attractive bark that shows at its best when the plant has no leaves. |  |
| Our garden (2)
01.01.2009 Her highness, magnolia grandiflora Bracken´s Brown Beauty, in the middle of the picture. It is so well established now that it eventually began making leaves and new branches on older wood at the bottom. |  |
| Flowers in winter ... Mahonia x media "Charity"
01.01.2009 Charity is a hybrid mahonia which is hardy enough for zone 6. It stats making flower buds in mid autumn that open into deep yellow flowers in December if the beginning of winter is warm or wait until later. They have a lovely scent. |  |
| Metasequoia glyptostroboides
01.01.2009 Dawn redwood is also peeling its bark in winter, showing off orange and brown coloured trunk. |  |
| Our garden (3)
01.01.2009 In the froni of this picture there is a newly introduced plant in Europe, eriobotrya "Coppertone"®. This loquat is not supposed to survive less than -10°C, so the southern nurseris say. We got in in autumn 2007 and planted it outdoors. As it did not have enough time to make extensive root system majority of leaves were burnt by winter sun and fell down. Anyway, the plant made plenty of new leaves in the spring of 2008 and performed greatly, as you can see. It survived temperature of -17°C so far. It is well established now so we are expecting how it will perform this winter and what will happen if the temperature drops even lower. Why all the fuss about a plant that is not meant to be hardy? Cause it´s beautiful! :-) |  |
| Flowers in winter ... Prunus subhirtella "Autumnalis"
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| Our garden (4)
01.01.2009 Another interesting feature, showy mostly in winter, could be seed pods. In case of this long-clustered wisteria "Macrobotrys" it is an eye-catcher. |  |
| Our garden (5)
01.01.2009 One of my favourite deciduous trees is sweet gum. Look at the right hand side of this picture - there is a half standard of "Gum Ball" variety which has not dropped its leaves so far. |  |
| Our garden (6)
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| Our garden (7)
01.01.2009 These two plants offer an interesting contrast when planted next to each other: euphorbia "Wulfenii" with silvery blue leaves and pieris "Valley Valentine" with racemes of burgundy red flower buds. |  |
| Ilex crenata "Convexa"
01.01.2009 Would you ever consider black fruits on ornamental plants pretty? |  |
| Pinus densiflora "Umbraculifera"
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