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This evergreen silverthorn is a hybrid of e.macrophylla and e.pungens. Its leathery leaves emerge beige-grey and mature to glossy dark green with lots of grey dots making it look like stardusted. Thanks to the foliage it is sometimes called Russian olive which is not correct as this name is already ...
VIII - X
2 - 4m
2 - 3m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Compacta is a recent selection of Evergreen (Ebbing's) silverthorn, very probably of Italian origin (not confirmed). Unlike its mother plant - the species of Ebbing's silverthorn - it makes a compact and well-behaved shrub without overgrown twigs in one season. In fact, this sport makes ...
IX - X
2 - 3m
1,5 - 2m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Evergreen silverthorn TANEO was selected in the French nursery Pépinières Ladan and seen from up close it looks as if dressed in a soft leather jacket – its young shoots have a warm brown shade reminiscent of natural hide, and the mature leaves glow in dark olive green with a copper undertone a ...
IX - X
2 - 3m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Limelight is my personal favourite among evergreen silverthorns. It has ovate, up to 10 cm long, leathery but thin leaves that are bright yellow in the middle and deep green at margins. The area between the centres and margins is light, soft green so the overall effect is 3-coloured. Newly ...
2 - 3m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
MARYLINE® is a trade name for a striking selection of evergreen silverthorn, found by Albert Breneliére in France. It is a very bushy, upright growing, evergreen shrub with irregularly variegated leaves. They are leathery, oval to ovate, partially undulated, and glossy. The centres are ver ...
VIII - IX
1,5 - 2m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
MARYLINE® is a trade name for a striking selection of evergreen silverthorn, found by Albert Brenelière in France. It is a very bushy, upright growing, evergreen shrub with irregularly variegated leaves. They are leathery, oval to ovate, partially undulated, and glossy. The centres ar ...
IX - X
2 - 4m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Viveleg silverthorn is a bushy, upright growing, evergreen shrub with irregularly variegated leaves. They are leathery, oval to ovate, partially undulated, and glossy. The centres are dark green, the margins are rich yellow, and the borderline between these two colours is light green but i ...
IX - X
2 - 3m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Viveleg silverthorn is a bushy, upright growing, evergreen shrub or small tree with irregularly variegated leaves. They are leathery, oval to ovate, partially undulated, and glossy. The centres are dark green, the margins are rich yellow, and the borderline between these two colours is lig ...
IX - X
2 - 4m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
In 2006, a miracle occurred that at first looked rather ominous – in a French nursery, all seedlings of this botanical species froze except for a single plant, even though everyone was convinced of its suitability for the French climate. One eucalyptus, one pot, survived an unusually severe winter t ...
5 - 10m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
In 2006, a miracle occurred that at first looked rather ominous – in a French nursery, all seedlings of this botanical species froze except for a single plant, even though everyone was convinced of its suitability for the French climate. One eucalyptus, one pot, survived an unusually severe winter t ...
5 - 10m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Canadale Gold is a sensational, fully hardy spindle variety with large, gently serrated, ovate to rounded leaves of mid green colour with bright yellow margins that turn pink in winter. It grows vigorously and bushy in sun or not too deep shade.
Wintercreepers are excellent, low shrubs that ...
0,5 - 1,5m
0,5 - 1,5m
full sun to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
As it happens with many other cultivars of the spindle, BLONDY®, too, was a matter of coincidence. It happened when gardener Gus Bolwijn found one branch on Sunspot variety showing distinctly different, very colourful leaves. This sport was then successfully cloned and we can now offer a very a ...
0,2 - 0,5m
0,5 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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SUMMER RUNNER is an Irish cultivar of Fortune's euonymus that was discovered in 1993 by Val Farrell in Rathmooney, near Dublin. It was a natural mutation of the Sunspot cultivar (from 1978) and Val originally named it after his wife, Mickaela. Later, it was given the trade name SUMME ...
0,2 - 0,5m
0,5 - 0,8m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
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Gold Queen is a cultivar of the Japanese spindle that produces compact, relatively narrow shrubs with strikingly bicoloured leaves. They have a dark green margin and a bright yellow centre, which immediately distinguishes it from the cultivar ‘Aureus’ with the opposite pattern. Young shoots are vivi ...
1 - 1,5m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
6b (down to -21°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
GREEN SPIRE is a Japanese spindle selection introduced to market around 2000. It exhibits a strictly upright habit with neatly erect branches, densely covered with 3 cm long, oval, deep green, highly glossy, evergreen leaves with gently serrated margins. One would even say that one of its parents mu ...
1 - 2m
0,5 - 0,8m
full sun to shade
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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