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Enchanting Pink Elsa is a perennial peony from a Dutch series Fabulous Flowers®. It produces large, bowl-shaped, semi-double, fragrant flowers with pastel pink petals and numerous creamy white to light butter yellow dwarf sepals in the centre. Flowers appear from late May, atop 70-80 cm tall st ...
V - VI
0,7 - 0,8m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Tree peonies are beautiful, woody shrubs. Unlike the perennial type, these make woody branches that slowly form a low, mounding shrub.
Flowers are large, often double or full, of all possible colours – white, cream, yellow, orange, various shades of pink, purple and red, even violet. Leaves a ...
V - VI
0,5 - 1m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Heavy Metal is an upright variety of switch grass with pale green leaves with steel blue hues. In late summer appear fine, tan inflorescences which never overgrow the foliage level completely, and dance in the wind with the leaf tips. Young plants are columnar and the older and thicker the clump get ...
VIII - X
1 - 1,5m
0,8 - 1m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Chinese fountain grass is an elegant feature to every garden. It has mid to dark green linear leaves growing in a thick cluster forming a shape of a fountain. From midsummer it produces yellow-green spike-like flowers which look like bottlebrushes. They are beige with some purple red overlay. Hameln ...
VIII - IX
0,5 - 0,6m
0,6 - 0,8m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Blue Spire is a hybrid between two types of perovskia. It was first introduced to RHS in 1961 and since late 80´s it has been in cultivation in most of the world with mild climate. It is a very hardy plant originally found in Central Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan) but is successfully grown even furthe ...
VII - IX
0,6 - 1,2m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Lemoine’s mock orange is most striking for its fragrance – sweet and jasmine‑like, filling the whole garden, though not as overpowering as that of P. coronarius. The flowers have four white petals, 2–3 cm across, arranged in terminal clusters of three to seven. Flowering begins in the first te ...
VI - VII
1,5 - 2m
1,5 - 2m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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IV - V
0,1 - 0,1m
0,5 - 0,8m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
PINK CRISPY photinia is a drama at first glance. Exceedingly showy foliage reveals creamy white variegation on dark green, slightly undulated, gently serrated, and broadly oval to obovate, evergreen leaves. And the real extravaganza show kicks off when new leaves emerge. They are so intensely pink y ...
2 - 4m
1,5 - 3m
full to partial sun
6b (down to -21°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Red Robin is the very first and, it must be said, still a remarkably successful cultivar of Fraser's photinia. Twenty years after its introduction it received the AGM (Award of Garden Merit) from the Royal Horticultural Society for its resilience, beauty and reliability. It is a New Zealand selecti ...
V
2 - 5m
1 - 4m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Red Robin is the very first and, it must be said, still a remarkably successful cultivar of Fraser's photinia. Twenty years after its introduction it received the AGM (Award of Garden Merit) from the Royal Horticultural Society for its resilience, beauty and reliability. It is a New Zealand selecti ...
V
2 - 6m
2 - 5m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This photinia was originally named Cassini, a very charming name, but the commercial world insisted on a new designation: PINK MARBLE®. It must be said that it is fits – this evergreen shrub bears ovate leaves intricately threaded with white and silvery tones that turn distinctly pink towards the en ...
2 - 4m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This photinia was originally named Cassini, a very charming name, but the commercial world insisted on a new designation: PINK MARBLE®. It must be said that it is fits – this evergreen shrub bears ovate leaves intricately threaded with white and silvery tones that turn distinctly pink towards the en ...
V
2 - 4m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SWEET CHERRY TEA™ belongs among compact to dwarf ninebark varieties with one extra trait: it re-blooms in summer. Its deciduous leaves are small, conspicuously serrated (notched) at margins, and three-lobed like, for example, fire maple leaves. In early spring they emerge bright red with orang ...
VI - VIII
1 - 1,5m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
RASPBERRY LEMONADE™ belongs among compact ninebark varieties with a fine texture of small leaves. They are deciduous, about haf the size of the species, conspicuously serrated (notched) at margins, and three-lobed like, for example, fire maple leaves. In early spring they emerge almost yellow ...
VI
1 - 1,5m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Caucasian spruce is an attractive conifer with an interesting habit. Lateral branches grow horizontally first, later they rise a bit upwards in an angle of about 45° while new growths are slightly drooping. Aureospicata is a variety with bright yellow new foliage that lasts for as long as 6 weeks.
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8 - 15m
4 - 6m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Blue Diamond is a true jewel. This conifer is a variety of Colorado spruce with intensely blue coloured needles with silver overlay. They are quite prickly and evergreen. It grows about 15 cm per year, and only 10 cm upwards making about 1m tall plant in 10 years time. It is well branched from the b ...
4 - 7m
1 - 3m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Forest Flame is a variety that belongs to floribunda group. It has deep green, elliptic, pointed, glossy leaves that emerge orange-bronze to fiery-orange coloured. Flowers are small, vase-shaped, compound in 10-15 cm long, hanging racemes. Buds are orange-red. We recommend dead-heading spent flowers ...
IV - V
0,8 - 1,5m
0,8 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Growers and fans of lily-of-the-valley shrubs probably know Little Heath variety, but few of them know that there was a selection made some time ago with only green foliage. In my view it is much more elegant since there is no variegation to disturb its beautiful green colour.
Little Heath Green pi ...
0,3 - 1m
0,3 - 1,3m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Compacta Glauca is an arolla pine variety of reduced size. It was selected by C.Frets & Son nursery in Boskoop, the Netherlands, around 1930, in a field of older variety called Glauca which had been known since 1860's. It exhibits much denser and congested growth, and produces about 10 cm long needl ...
3 - 5m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
BAMBINO® is another beautiful dwarf hybrid pine, following success of its forerunners Marie Brégeon and BREPO®. It has medium to dark green, 3-4 cm long needles that recall those of pinus mugo. The plant naturally forms symmetrical, mounding shrubs which need no trimming whatsoever, and gr ...
0,5 - 0,8m
0,8 - 1,3m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Bosnian pine is one of the posh pines with a typical, almost perfect conical shape. Compact Gem is an excellent choice for even the smallest of gardens as it grows slowly and does not exceed 3m when fully mature.
Needles are born in two’s, they are deep green, glossy and hard, always vertica ...
1 - 3m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Carsten’s Wintergold is a selection of very popular Wintergold with stunning winter colour. The needles are deep green from mid spring until early autumn. Then they begin turning yellow and from end autumn until the last cold days of spring they are vivid yellow. This colour is unbeatable so f ...
0,3 - 0,6m
0,3 - 0,6m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
If you are looking for a variety of dwarf mountain pine that grows wide but remains compact and not very tall go for this subspecies called pumilio. It is a beautiful mound-forming shrub with short, deep green needles with a touch of grass green shade. It makes uneven lengths of new growth which mak ...
0,5 - 1,5m
0,8 - 2m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
After a huge success with BREPO® variety, a breeder of pines from Switzerland Henri Bregeon comes up with another dwarf pine variety, this time called Marie Bregeon. It is a result of a controlled crossbreeding of pinus nigra and pinus densiflora, both of which were H.Bregeon’s own select ...
0,5 - 1m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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You don’t need to be an expert or collector to fall in love at first sight with the Negishi cultivar of Japanese White Pine, although it’s true that bonsai enthusiasts seek this one out deliberately – it is a true aristocrat among dwarf forms. It bears silvery blue-green needles in bundles of five, ...
1,5 - 2,5m
1,5 - 2,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Italian stone pine, often called just umbrella pine, is a long-lived conifer with fresh green, evergreen, and relatively soft needles 10-20 cm long, which grow in pairs and densely cover the branches creating an impenetrable screen. Young plants grown from seeds till the age of about ten years first ...
10 - 20m
8 - 15m
full sun
7 (down to -18°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Tiny Curls is a picturesque selection of white pine with twisted needles and straight trunk and branches. The needles are mid green with a silver stripe. It is very similar to another variety with twisted needles called Torulosa but Tiny Curls show much more symmetrical growth, forming a compact, co ...
1 - 3m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
If you like pines with soft needles, white pines are the best choice. Radiata is an old variety from 1923 which is a slow grower with silvery blue-green needles decorated with green underneath. The appearance is fluffy and you feel like touching it everytime you pass it.
Radiata forms a mounding h ...
1,5 - 4m
1,5 - 2,5m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Watereri is a small, slow-growing pine which is also commercially known under the name “Nana” – a typical name for many dwarf plants. Its needles are borne in pairs, dark green with only a hint of blue-green in summer, and more bluish in cold months of autumn and winter. It is very ...
2 - 4m
1 - 4m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Uncinata is a subspecies of mountain pine. Its main difference from dwarf mountain pine is a central leader which helps it make a tree character. Also, this pine is much taller in full maturity as opposed to common mountain pine, forming a widely pyramidal habit, slightly irregular. Uncinata is comm ...
10 - 20m
3 - 6m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Aurea Nana is a dwarf conifer with golden-yellow, scale-like leaves. It belongs to cypress family and is known under its other name – oriental thuja. It grows slowly, keeps it compact shape and dense habit and is suitable for cultivation on short stems.
Platycladus is a trouble-free conifer w ...
1 - 2m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Japanese tassel fern belongs to the evergreen group. Its leaves are hardy to about -20°C if sheltered from sun and wind. In any case the plant is fully hardy to about -30°C. Upright growing leaves are long fronds made of dark green, glossy, leathery leaflets, often with hairy indumentum on the rever ...
0,4 - 0,6m
0,5 - 0,8m
semi-shade to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Cherry laurel Novita became a sensation the very moment it hit the market – a true horticultural blockbuster. Its dark, intensely glossy leaves looked luxurious and were impossible not to fall in love with. On top of that, it grew strongly and vigorously, quickly finding its place wherever a den ...
V
3 - 6m
2 - 5m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Otto Luyken is one of the hardiest and now truly classic low‑growing cultivars of cherry laurel. It is perhaps the only one to have reliably survived temperatures as low as –29 °C without a single leaf showing frost damage. Growth is slow and compact, with narrow, elongated, lance‑sh ...
IV - V
1,5 - 3m
2 - 3m
full sun to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The Northern Irish cherry laurel selection known as ‘Castlewellan’, marketed elsewhere in Europe as Marbled White, is a true treat for lovers of variegated foliage. And by reliably variegated, we really mean it: the marbled pattern that defines the plant and captivates at first glance is stable and ...
IV - V
3 - 5m
2 - 3m
full sun to shade
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Cherry laurel ETNA® is a small miracle of the early 1990s. It was noticed by grower Adrian Straver because, among countless others, it stood out through the shape and colour of its leaves. The leaves are unusually formed – ovate at the base, widening towards the tip and ending almost flat ...
IV - V
1,5 - 3m
2 - 4m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
BONAPARTE® is a beautiful cherry laurel cultivar with striking copper‑coloured new growth, once again personally discovered by nurseryman Adrian Straver as a continuation of his work with cherry laurels. It thus follows the highly successful cultivar ETNA®, his first major discovery from a ...
IV
2 - 4m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
GENOLIA® cherry laurel originates from Switzerland, where it was selected in 2002 at the nursery Pépinières de Genolier. It is a selection of a chance seedling that not only offered a distinct appearance but also demonstrated high hardiness following an unusually severe winter. The cultivar ...
IV - V
2 - 3m
0,5 - 1m
full sun to shade
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Angustifolia is a popular cultivar of Portuguese laurel, valued for its more compact growth and narrower leaves. The foliage is evergreen, leathery and firmer than that of the species, slightly incurved, narrowly elliptic, 6–10 cm long and 1.5–3 cm wide, with a striking glossy surface. The leaves de ...
V - VI
2 - 6m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Angustifolia is a popular cultivar of Portuguese laurel, valued for its more compact growth and narrower leaves. The foliage is evergreen, leathery and firmer than that of the species, slightly incurved, narrowly elliptic, 6–10 cm long and 1.5–3 cm wide, with a striking glossy surface. The leaves de ...
V - VI
4 - 8m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Brenelia is a modern and attractive cultivar of Portuguese laurel from France, selected by Yves Brenelière in the early 21st century. It is distinguished by its larger, distinctly undulated leaves with a higher gloss. The foliage is evergreen, narrowly elliptic, typically 8–12 cm long and 2–4 c ...
V - VI
4 - 6m
3 - 4m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Variegata is a collective name for variegated forms of Portuguese laurel, and it must be acknowledged that, although they remain relatively scarce, they are more than precious collectibles. Their principal ornamental feature lies in the evergreen, leathery leaves with creamy to whitish variegation, ...
V - VI
2 - 4m
2 - 3m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
TICO® Portugal laurel is exceptional. It is a vigorously growing, large‑leaved form of this evergreen species, which I fell in love with the very first moment I encountered its luxurious foliage – one of the most distinctive features of this selection. The leaves are conspicuously large, thick ...
VI
2 - 6m
3 - 4m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Pluot® Flavor Supreme® has truly earned its name – and wears it with pride, as its flavour ranks among the most intense of all pluots. The fruit features a velvety dark red to burgundy skin with a soft bloom, resembling a plum dressed for a gala. Its flesh is deep red, exceptionally juicy, with ...
2 - 3m
1 - 2m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Pluot® Purple Candy® looks as if in the middle of the night it secretly escaped from a tree of purple plums and caught stardust on its skin. Its fruits have a rich purple skin with a gentle sheen, reminiscent of a candy wrapped in fruit syrup. The flesh is bright carmine red, exceptionally juicy, wi ...
2 - 3m
1 - 2m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Just like many beautifully flowering trees or shrubs, this flowering cherry too comes from China. It even bears a name of an ancient tendai buddhist temple.
Kanzanu is a mid sized tree with double pink to magenta flowers which come out in early April and follow throughout the spring. It is probabl ...
IV - V
5 - 8m
4 - 5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
A beautiful ornamental plum tree with deep purple leaves. Flowers appear in May, after the leaves have started to wrap out, and they are pale, nearly white with light purple tint. They do not flower as richly as the flowering cherries, however, this small tree is exquisite for its foliage. The small ...
V - V
2 - 3m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Fukubana is another beautiful flowering Higan cherry for spring display. It produces masses of unique, almost star-shaped, semi-double, rich pink flowers in early spring. The flowers look like those on deutzias and even though they do not last over a long time they make a stunning show with its colo ...
IV - IV
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Scarlet firethorn has been a favourite plant for a long time because it presents a low-maintenance plant that can grow almost anywhere. Golden Charmer is one of the modern varieties bred not only for berry colour but mostly for disease resistance to common firethorn diseases, mostly scab.
Golden C ...
VI - VI
2 - 3m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Callery pear is a flowering (ornamental) pear tree which is cultivated for its profuse flowering in April. The tree produces a huge quantity of snow white flowers followed by small, almost spherical fruit that is edible but not too tasty.
Chanticleer is a famous variety of narrowly conical habit. I ...
IV - V
8 - 13m
4 - 6m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Williams is probably the most known and spread out pear in the world. Its complete name is Williams bon Chretien and comes from the UK, 18th century.
It is an early variety bearing mid-sized or large fruit with light green or yellow skin. The flesh is very juicy, aromatic, and sweet, it quickly sof ...
IV - V
3 - 5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
